The evening times. [volume], March 08, 1907, Image 3

About The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914

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FRIDAY, MABOH 8,1907
Towner, the county seat of McHen
ry county, 1b probably one of the most
progressive cities In the entire state
of North Dakota. Nowhere, perhaps,
are the citizens more proud of their
town, and nowhere can there be found
business men who are more interested
In advancing the interests of their
home town and county.
Towner is a beautiful city, located
on the .banks of the Mouse river, one
of the|prettlest streams of water In
North Dakota. Winding in and out of
the hUlg, with dense woods along the
way, many pretty drives can be made
City Hall.
along its .banks. The business blocks
in Towner are substantially construct
ed, showing that the people located
there have every faith in the future of
that growing city. The river, wrhich
runs near it, gives an abundance of
fresh water for use in the city, and the
dense woods along its banks will pro
vide fuel for a long time to come.
Less than a quarter of a century
ago the site where Towner is now lo
cated was nothing but bleak prairie
land, utilized by the ranchmen in that
vicinity for grazing purposes. Twenty
one years ago the town was started.
During the years following it has con
tinually forged to the front until to-
Hay Meadow in the Mouse River Valley near Towner, N. D.
day it stands twentieth in the list of
North Dakota cities in the way of pop
ulation, there being 1,500 inhabitants.
The surrounding landscape is hilly.
The land is of the best, Is highly pro
ductive and the fanners are prosper
ous. Along the banks of the Mouse
river to the north are found some of
the best cattle ranches in the state,
while to .the south there are also some
fine ranches.
It was only within the last few years
that the country has been used for
farming purposes, but as a wheat pro
ducing region it is one of the richest
in the entire state. The country is be
coming thickly settled and each year
sees more Immigration to It from other
states. Last year the immigration into
McHenry county was exceptionally
large, and this year It will no doubt be
just as large. Being the gateway to
McHenry county, all of the immigrants
are obliged to go through Towner.
Many of them stop in that city, and
during the summer there will be a
continual stream of settlers through
there.
That the future of Towner will be
continued prosperity is certain. It is
indeed the "City of Promise" and it
will not take long before the promise
will be realized. With land values in
creasing and with the country becom
ing more thickly populated, which
means a larger acreage, Towner is
sure to benefit
Towner is located on the main line
of the Great Northern railroad. A
branch of that road extends northward
to Maxbass, and the country along that
line is also of the very best.
As a retail center Towner also ex
cels. With the excellent country trib
utary to it, and also, commanding the
trade along the Maxbass extension, the
retail business houses of Towner are
certain to .be of the best. In the years
to come they will be even better, and
at no great distant date Towner will
be looked upon as the retail center of
the middle northwest North Dakota, a
reputation it Is rapidly securing.
Towner has some of the best public
buildings in the state. Last fall the
people of McHenry county voted to
bond the county tor $50,000 with which
to construct court house. Plans for
this court house have alreiady been
drawn, the 'bonds sold, and work on
the beautiful structure will begin ^this
summer. The court house will be one
of the finest in North Dakota, almost
exactly the same as the one recently
constructed in Traill county.
The post office building and the city
hall of Towner are both modern and
up-to-date buildings. This is especial
ly true in regard to the city hall, which
Is one of thebest buildings of the kind
in that part of North Dakota, and
which Is the pride of every Townerite.
The public schools of Towner are
second to none. A handsome two
story building on a high basement
takes care of the scholars, and the
corps of teachers lncludethe best it is
possible to secure. The'school house
is another monument to the progress
lveness of Towner people, and is one
that any city would be proud of own
ing. The Interior finishings of the
building are excellent, and the heat
ing and ventilation plans are of the
latest and up-to-date patterns.
The homes of the various churches
in Towner are also beautiful, and the
architectural designs of the edifices in
which the people worship are of the
very prettiest
There is nothing that makes a town
more .than its residences, and in this
matter Towner is one of the best in
North Dakota. The homes of the cltl-
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zens are of the very best, and Indicate
that prosperity is everywhere at hand.
The County.
McHenry county, of which Towner
is the judicial seat, located in the fa
mous valley of the Mouse river, Is the
central county in the state, being mid
way between the eastern and western
boundaries of North Dakota. It is ex
ceptionally fertile and prolific for farm
ing, while stock raising opportunities
are unexcelled. The Great Northern
railway's main line traverses the coun
ty from east to west, while two
branches emerge from Towner and
Granville. Along these branches towns
have been established, and also on the
Soo railway, which penetrates the
county at the southeast.
Anamoose is on the main line of the
Soo. It has three banks, a lumber
yard, several machinery warehouses,
hotel and well equipped general stores.
Anew school house was erected a year
ago at a cost of 114,000.
Balfour is also on the Soo, fifteen
miles west of Anamoose. It has two
banks and several general stores, two
churches and'a spacious brick ^school
house. A successful creamery is !n
operation there.*
Velva is one of the best towns on the
Soo, with splendid tributary country.
It Is well supplied with, business
houses and has a graded and high
school. The population is about 600.
Granville is on the main line and
west of Towner. A branch line di
verges from this town and runs to
The Public School Building.
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Upham is a new and prosperous
town on the Towner-Maxbass branch.
It has a population of about 200. A
good baseball team always represents
the town. Upham is rapidly advancing
and has a good school and two
churches.
These small towns are fastly gaining
prominence through the efforts of their
newspapers, the Bantry Advocate, Den
bigh Promoter and the Berwick Post.
Denbigh, especially, is booming at this
particular time.
The other towns in the county are
Drake, Deering, Oakland, Voltaire,
Amy, Saline, Norwich, Riga, Star, Vil
lard, Linusvllle, Sedan, Leine and Ber
gen.
AROUND THE WORLD POSTALS.
The Latest Pest In the Souvenir Post
al-Card Fad.
The around-the-world postal card is
the latest thing in the souvenir postal
card fad, and although It is a joy to
the recipient, the postal clerks call
it only another pest, for its faee is so
covered with addresses that it takes
a valuable minute to figure out what
it means.
It is sent out in the first place by
the person who is to be its final recip
ient, and it travels widely before it
comes 'back. An ordinary plain postal
card is used. Across the back, run
ning the short way of the card, the
directions are written.
They simply request the person
whose name appears at the top of the
card to send It along to a second
name, and so on, in a sort of chain
letter style. In addition, each recip
ient puts the date when she received
the postal opposite her name .on the
back of the card.
As the card travels along its face
is covered with lines where one ad
dress has been crossed off and a new
one written on, and it. is also covered1
with cancelling marks and stamped,
for tills card must go all the way
around the world to 'be a success.
When the original sender receives
it back it is torn with travel. One
that started from Scotland went first
io Montreal, then :to Worcester, Mass.,
next to Buenos Ayres, and before It
reaches Scotland again it will travel
to Melbourne, Austrailla Rangoon,
Burmah Kirakully, South India Cape
Town, South Africa.
If the girl who longs for an around
the-world postal card has no friends
or relatives In places to which she
wishes It to tnivel, she addresses it
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THE EVBNIMO TIMES, GRAND FORKS, N. D.
Towner, N. Dakota, is a Prosperous City—Favorably
Located. Its Future Will be a Steady March Forward
Though But Twenty-One Years Old It Has a Popu
lation of 1,500. Business Institutions «nil Public
Buildings Are the Best Throughout the Entire State
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Court House of McHenry County Will Be Erected in Towner, N. D., at Cost of $50,000.
Sherwood in Ward county. Almost ev
ery line of mercantile and professional
business is carried on. There is a lo
cal and long distance telephone.
to her country's consul at that place
or to some missionary stationed there.
A Cripple Factory.
In no other city of the world will
you see more 'helpless cripples than
in Constantinople.
Sitting all along the parapets that
shield the edges of the Galata bridge
from the waters of the Golden Horn
are beggars—men, women and child
ren—most of them the victim of some,
dreadful malady, all of them wining
out their piteous cry for alms.
There sits a little girl with wide
open, sightless eyes, crooning cease
lessly her unintelligible plaint, close
to her squats the figure of a man with
out legs farther on another, the vic
tim to some dreadful disease that
brings a shudder the frame of the
western passer-by.
And look at that man there. His
right shoulder is 'bared, so that all
may see' he has no arm. Yet from
the shoulder there protrudes three
fingers—a ghastly freak indeed yet
somehow it is not the ghastliness of
the distortion that strikes you so much
as wonder that such a thing could pos
sibly be.
And as you pass along the bridge,
as you notice the various forms of
mutilation and disease that are flaunt-
Mouse River Bank Building. Hotel Metropole.
ed before your eyes so blatantly, you
will be bound to ask yourself the ques
tion Whence comes this dreadful
army of the maimed, the halt, the 'blind
the lame? How can it be that here are
so many "freaks?" For that is the
only word that sums up the lament
able regiment.
Neither is it easy to learn the truth
of things in Constantinople. Your
traveller in Turkey a little while ago
discovered quite by chance'a fact that
made his blood run cold, that has
opened the eyes of philanthropists to
the existence of horrors that seemed
at first blush beyond credence.
It was this: Outside Constantinople
hidden away in one of those beautiful
gorges that few Britishers penetrate,
there exists a cripple factory, a. place
where freaks are manufactured—if the
word will pass—where cripples are
created that they inay be sent forth
into the streets of Constantinople to
beg, to acquire money for the enrich
ment of the vile directors of the 'hidden
scheme.
These fingers protruding from the
shoulder of the deformed ibeggar on
the bridge, the sightless eyes of the
little girl, the legless man who whines
up Into your face, that being who was
apparently burnt in a dreadful manner
—are all fakes or rather—for their
deformities are genuine enough, poor
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sculs!—all owe their ailments to the
fiendish ingenuity of the cripple man
ufacturers. Suggest such a thing as
this to anyone in authority in Con
stantinople and you will probably be
laughed at. Yet there can be little
doubt as to the reality of the dread
ful truth.
AUTO EVOLVED FROM THEIR IDEA.
Racing Cyclists Credited with Starting
Use of Motive Power.
"Did you know .that the Jellu broth
ers, the cyclists, really started the idea
of the modern automobile?" remarked
Tom Eck, the veteran trainer here to
day. "Americans always called them
the 'Jelly' brothers, and the Chicagoans
who followed cycling well remember
the triplet team and the powerful im
pression they made at the dedication
of the track at Garfield park.
"They say 30,000 people saw that
meeting and I believe it. At that time
there was a call for faster pace and
the Jellu brothers 'had a triplet ma
chine fitted up with electric power in
Paris. When they tried it out it only
went in something like 1:40, which
was not much better that human pace
could do it. They left an order with
the firm of machinists in Paris, asking
them to follow their plans and give
them a machine to go in 1:20. When
the Jellu brothers got back to Paris
they wouldn't let them Into the fac
tory. The French machinists took the
Jellu brothers' ideas bodily and out of
that grew the automobile.
"At that west side track Johnny
Johnson put the world's mark down
to 1:40 and it was regarded as mar
velous work. Then Jimmy Michaels
broke a fiw records from fifteen miles
up and the Jellu brothers did a few
stunt*.
"I remember, too, that a couple of
little girls used to come over to the
track and ride one of my tandems
arcund the cement course. One of
them afterward married Tom Butler,
the cyclist, and is now doing the dip
of death for Bnrnum & Bailey in the
automobile which loops the loop. She
is also a champion woman skater."
Eck then retold the story of his
grandfather, who was the best skater
in the neighborhood of Scugog lake,
up 'in Canada, where he had raced
with the Indians, who lived on a res
ervation next to his farm.
"Sly grandfather raced them over
seven hurdles on the Ice and when he
got through he had all their blankets
and ponies," said Eck. "It was pretty
cold then and he offered to give the
blankets back, but the chief said no,
that they had been won 'fair and
square' and had to go. The next day
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it turned 'bitter cold' and my grand
father took all the blankets and furs
he had won, drove over to the reser
vation and dumped ithem down In front
or the chief's door, telling him to dis
tribute them."
Eck says John S. Johnson was the
fastest skater that ever stepped on the
Ice in his day.
"He could beat them all," declared
Eck.
"In the quarter, you mean?" inter
rupted Alan Blanchard.
"Any distance," said Eck. "He had
such a tremendous fast sprint. I mean
he could beat them in an even start.
On opposite sides of the track I don't
know how the races would have come
out, because Johnson might have got
careless. But racing up ithe stretch
with his man Johnson had that finish
ing sprint that would win for him ev
ery time."
WINS RACE WITH DEATH.
Speed of Battleship Connecticut Saves
Lives of Crew.
Virtually racing with death, the bat
tleship Connecticut put into the port of
$.*ew York bearing her company of
typhoid stricken sailors and won a
victory after a thrilling run up the
coast from Cuba. The men who were
in the battleship's hospital were hasti
ly transferred in ambulances that were
waiting at the Brooklyn navy yard,
and the marine surgeons declared later
that the timejy arrival of the battle
ship had probably saved the lives of
all the invalided sailors of Rear Ad
miral Evans' fleet.
Captain William Swift of the Con
necticut declare that he had thirty
two cases of typhoid on his vessel,
the names of sick men being with
held because they had been trans
mitted by wireless to the navy de
partment at Washington when the
battleship was off Cape Henry.
Members of the Connecticut's crew,
however, emphatically declared that
there were many more than thirty-two
cases on the battleship and that the
number of stricken sailors was nearer
seventy-five than the figure given by
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Captain Swift.
Rear Admiral Evans, according to
Captain Swift, is in the very best of
health and has no thought of retiring.
The navy hospital reported that none
of the men are in a serious condition.
The admiral was asked to assigne a
cause for so many cases on one ship,
and replied that this was impossible
as it might have been due to any one
of a number of things. He declared
that so far as he knew there would
be no iboard of inquiry into the ship's
condition, that she would proceed to
Tompkinsville tomorrow, where she
would coal, and that then she would
immediately rejoin Admiral Evans'
fleet at Guantanamo.
The Elevator Boy.
The elevator boy is from 14 to 65
years of age and he probably has
more ups and downs in life than any
one else. (We use this joke with
apologies to the author, Rameses I.)
You get in his car and he starts It
up before your person has completely
transferred itself from the solid floor
to that of the lift And he very much
dislikes to let you off again. Usually,
he carries you boyond your floor.
If you complain to him, when he
growls that you called out your floor
to him in plenty of time, he will give
you a look of contempt that makes you
feel very much humiliated. You dis
like being so rebuked before the other
passengers.
But you must not say anything
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cross to the elevator .boy. If you do,
he won't stop his car for you at all,
when you want to get on, and If he
can't lick you himself he'll call in the
janitor and they'll both accomplish it.
Do not pity the elevator boy. He
does not need it. Pity yourself.
We once pitied an elevator lad of
some thirty-five summers because he
had fo stand on his feet all day and
push the lever back and forth. After
wards, we learned that he made $10,
000 on North Butte and that his wife
was spending the winter In California.
This, in view of the fact that we
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were suffering from a ready money
famine, made us very angry and we
resolved never to pity anyone again,
except ourselves.
INSISTS ON BEING BILKED.
Chicago Youth Off to Spain with 95,000
to Spend on Castle Game.
The French liner La Provence has
sailed with $5,000 of "easy" money
from Chicago, bound for Spain. De
tectives tried in vain to open the
eyes of the gullible youth who is tak
ing it over.
The detectives learned from a cable
agent that the youth had ibltten on the
old moss-grown game of a rich noble
man in prison, who was willing to give
half his estate to the person who
would advance enough money to get
him out of prison.
"Say, don't you know that is an
old bunko game?" they asked the
youth.
"It isn't anything of the sort," said
the Chicagoan. "This nobleman is In
a prison in Grenada, Spain, and it only
takes $5,000 to get him out. He has a
castle and vast estates and I get half
of his wealth when he is freed. I've
got the money with me, and I am go
ing through with the deal."
Ate $30 Worth of Lace.
Returning home at midnight and
laboring under the stress of heavy
weather, a man asked hla wife where
she had put the cold cabbage.
"On the second shelf in the pantry,"
she replied.
The husband found the "cabbage,"
got the oil, mustard and vinegar, cut
up the "cabbage" dressed it to his
taste and eat it all.
In the morning the wife noticed the
cabbage where she had put It and
innocently asked: "Dear George, Why
didn't you eat the calbbage?"
"I did." he responded.
On further investigation George's
wife discovered that a bowl which con
tained lace valued at $20 which she
had put in starch was missing.
Times Want Ads get results.
Office Building of the McHenry County Abstract Company.