Emmons County record. [volume], June 24, 1909, Image 1

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We have just opened a SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
for the benefit of those wishing to have something laid
up for the rainy day.
Ask for one of our Steel Savings-Banks. It will en
able you to save systematically, and system is the foun
dation of all successful undertakings.
We pay four per cent interest, compounded ,|uar
terly, on Savings Accounts.
GERMAN AMERICAN STATE BANK.
-LINTON, N OUT
11 DAKOTA.
IDEAL DUPLEX PLASTER
BOARD
RED AND BLUE
A Board of Unequaled Merit
Highest in Price and Quality
For Sale Solely by
PHOENIX LUMBER GO., LINTON, N. 0.
Screen Doors and Window Screens.
Phoenix Brand of Roofing at $1.75.
A Safe Bank Tor You.
It is important thai you make a wise choice
when you select a Hank to which you will give
your business. Your connection with a Hank is
not only for the present, but also for the future.
We can give you every assurance that your
business needs will be well supplied now and,
as for the future, our past experience and
growth are strong indications that each year
we will be able to give our patrons increased
advantages.
In investigating for a Hauls connection, we
you to look into our past record, our
present satisfactory service, and consider the
facts we present for future good service.
FIRST BANK OF LINTON
Liuton, North uko: a.
Want to Build?
For your own uoorl, do not f.iil to come t.o I'.rofy
»nd figure with TKMI'KL ISIK iTIIKliS. We have
both Eastern Wliite I'ineand Western I,mn:tml will
continue to save you money and ^iv.• you the best
lumber your money can buy. No hill is loo larne and
no bill too stnall but what we will t-'ive you the hest end
—ail the time. Keinetnher. we saved builders money
last year, arid we a re tfoing to it his year. Ask
those that bought of us. (iet noud lumber when you
build, and this yard is the place to H'-L 'I'
Yours Tor business,
Brofy,
TEMPEL BROTHERS
HEVKL J. ("MAIN,
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THE GOSPEL OF THE PLOW.
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During these first nine years of
the twentieth century the public
mind has had its attention called,
more particularly than ever before,
to the subject of agriculture.
Farming is no longer looked upon as
a lowly occupation one to lu des
pised and avoided. Its former
drudgery, that seemed to be its
chief characteristic, has developed
under twentieth century methods
into a real science,so broad ami deep
and beautiful that the greatest
thinkers of our land and time have
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alien in love with it. The farmer
himself is no longer called "hay
seed, but he is regarded by men of
all other professions as one of the
most important factors in the world's
industry and economy, and he is
rapidly becoming an object of envy
on account of his independence. The
world has learned to appreciate him.
In this great age of commercial
ism men realize as never before that
this is a bread-and-butter-and beef
steak world, and that we are living
right in the midst of the pork-and
beans age of it.
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Modern civilization has created
many wants in the human mind
but Dame Nature created one in the
human stomach long before civiliza
tion was born, and it was the neces
sity of filling that want likewise
the stomach -that gave civilization
its birth.
The demands of the natural body,
which include the need of food,
clothing and shelter, must, be satis
lied if we would be altogether happy
and contented.
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Primarily our food, clothing and
shelter must come from the soil
therefore, the supplying of our
greatest needs depends upon the
care and tillage of the soil,and sure
ly the men who by their diligence
and effort make the soil yield the
crops that satisfy all human needs
have lent to agriculture the dignity
of the world's greatest and noblest
profession, making it worthy of the
attention of men and women of the
greatest culture and reiineineiii.
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North Dakota.
Cement Blocks and Cnrhiiif?.
E. D. FOCLE,
Contracting and Building
Of All Kinds.
Prepared to Take Contracts or Jol.s of Any ^'ill Give Uun.l.
If Required, for Faithful Performam. cut (tie Work.
The need of good food and cloth
ing is an ever-present one and,
as the population of our country
continues to increase, so must our
needs increase in equal ratio. Hut
necessity is the mother of invention,
and she has given birth to many
wonderful creations to help supply
the wants and needs "f a rapidly
growing and highly-cultured popu
lation, and surely her creations in
the field of agriculture are no less
wonderful than those in the field of
mechanics.
In the early history of America it
was possible for people to live in a
from-hand-to-mouth sort of way.
Manners were simple and rustic,
and a barter trade answered the
purpose of the time. Therefore, the
people were willing to hunt and fish
and dress in homespun but during
that period the advancement was
very slow, particularly in the field
of agriculture, owing to the easy,
shiftless contentment of the public
mind. Hut to-day we are living un
der altogether new conditions, vi
The eastern portion of the United
States has become so densely popu
lated that it can 110 longer feed and
clothe tts millions, and the con
stanly growing needs of the day are
causing men to turn their attention
to the great problem of producing
the means of food and clothing, and
the solution of that problem must
be found in the future agricultural
development of the west.
In past years it was the practice
of home-seekers to try to find a loca
tion'in some part of the country well
favored by nature in the supply of
timber, grass and water. That slow
caution which marked those people
made backwoodsmen of them. It
prevented all real advancement.
Men have learned in more recent
years that our settlements have got
to extend to all parts of the country,
and, as our populatior continues to
increase, every acre if available
land must be brought under cultiva
tion, and it is to that end that the
national agricultural department
has bent its energies during the
past few years.
We have as much land now as we
wiii ever have so it is our duty as a
nation to utilize it to the best of our
ability. The swamps must be
drained anil the plains irrigated
where it i. possible, and, where it is
not possible to irrigate, a system of
dry fanning must be employed.
The early settlers in all the prairie
states had much to contend with in
the way of general hardships but
from year to year the conditions
grew belter, and the settlers pushed
EMMONS COUNTY RECORD.
LINTON, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, .IHN E I.
(in and on to the west,until to-day all
the region east of the Kocky moun
tains is fairly well settled.
We well remember the hardships
that were endured by the hardy
pioneers who first tried their for
tunes in western Kansas and Ne
braska, eastern Colorado and the
Dakotas, and we know that the pri
vations which they suffered have
given those states black eyes that
have required years in which to
heal, and many people in the east
ern states have come to the conclu
sion that hardship and privation will
forever prove to be stoek in trade
in those states, and as a result of
these false notions the development
of this region has been retarded.
It has been an accepted theory for
many years that farming west of
the hundredth meridian must al
ways prove a failure unless irriga
tion can be employed. But men
who are informed concerning past
and present conditions in this semi
arid region know that the western
limit of successful farming has ad
vanced year by year, and to-day
much of this region, which was once
considered worthless, is producing
fairly good crops without irrigation
and the prospect for still better
crops in years to come is favorable.
The secret of this great change in
the productiveness of this vast re
gion lies in the fact that men have
continued to farm until the soil has
been brought into a condition where
it will respond to their tillage.
During the first years of settle
ment in this semi-arid belt, which
was an experimental period, the
drought was the great drawback,
and many people came to, the con
clusion that it would always bean
annual occurrence. Hut it has been
proven that conditions have changed,
inasmuch as the country is now able
to produce crops where a few years
ago it utterly failed. At the pres
ent day we have many theories re
garding the cause of this change.
Some men argue that cultivating
the soil has induced an increase of
rainfall. That theory is positively
wrong. The rainfall of any coun
uy depending entirely upon natural
climatic conditions which involve al
titude, latitude and prevailing
winds, cannot be influenced by the
cultivation of the soil. So it is seen
at once that this change in condi
tion in the semi-arid belt is not due
to a change of climate altogether.
In all the semi-arid parts of our
western states the wild sod is very
firm and solid, and in its unbroken
state it is almost impossible for
water to penetrate it, in case of
rain, before it runs off. Therefore,
nearly all the moisture that falls in
•those prairie regions is wasted by
rapid drainage, and, when we add
to this the fact of a high altitude in
which we are sure to encounter
bright sunshine and some wind, we
realize that complete evaporation
during the warmer months is cer
tain under the circumstances.
The breaking of the sod and the
cultivation of the soil has not
changed the climate. We get just
as much moisture after bringing a
region under cultivaiton as before,
and no more. Hut the breaking of
the wild sod is like lifting the cover
from a great reservoir. It simply
gives the soil a chance to absorb the
water that would otherwise be
wasted.
Upon these facts it is safe to con
clude that when all the land in this
region that is fit for cultivation is
broken up, so as to store the larger
percentage of water that falls upon
it, the danger of drought will be
largely eliminated.
Primarily speaking, cultivation of
the soil does not change the virgin
climate of any country. It does not
induce an increase of rainfall but
it does enable the earth to absorb the
moisture that falls upon it, conserv
ing it for future needs and in that
way it modifies the climate to the
extent of causing slower evapora
tion than would otherwise ensue.
And, when men succeed in conserv
ing the moisture of a region in that
way, it will be possibe to make it
profitabe for agricutural pursuits.
It is not to be presumed that the
semi-arid portions of the country
will ever become as productive as
the more humid parts, unless irri
gation can be employed, and that is
not yet possible in all parts. But it
is a fact that thorough plowing and
continuous cultivation of the soil
will enable it to absorb and retain
enough moisture to produce fairly
good crops of corn and wheat in
what was a few years ago consid
ered a worthless wilderness. And
when we stop to think of the natur
al adaptability of plants to new con
ditions of soil and climate, and the
progress that is being made in the
discovery and development of new
plants naturally adapted to the semi
arid regions, and the advancement
that is being made in irrigation, it
is hardly possible to overestimate
the ultimate result that will be ob
tained in the agricultural develop
ment of this great prairie region.
Agriculture is the great funda
mental upon which depends all hu
man comfort, civilization and
wealth. Therefore, if we are to
reach the superlative degree of
greatness, we must bring every acre
of available land under cultivation
and make it yield the golden grain.
This great, prairie region is yet so
new that the magnitude of its re
sources is not fully appreciated.
But men are aware of the fact that
under themost scientific arts of agri
culture it has a wonderful future.
Its soil is rich, its water excellent
and its climate superbly beautiful
and in the years to come the farm
ers of the east shall many of them
tind homes within its vast domain,
where they shall make its hills and
valleys rejoice and blossom like the
rose, under the magic influence of
"The fiospel of the Plow."
Woultl Make a .Strong Candidate.
A writer in the Wahpeton (Ilobe
(Jazette nominates John Worst for
governor, and makes a strong state
ment as to the availahilit) of that
gentleman as a candidate. He tells
of his many sterling qualities state
ments which can be indorsed by
every one in this county, wherein
the president of the agricultural
college spent many of the years af
ter he settled in North Dakota. The
editor met a well-known Ransom
county citizen in Dawson, recently,
and he said there was a strong senti
ment in favor of Worst in the east
ern part of the state and down his
way. We doubt very much whether
Mr. Worst would lie willing to
give up the presidency of the agri
cultural college for the purpose of
running for governor but, should
he do so, there is no doubt that
he would be the strongest can
didate that the republicans of the
state could put before the people.
He lived in Emmons county from
1884 to 18'JO. The only state oflice
for which he was a candidate was
that of lieutenant governor, in 1KH-I.
He ran on the ticket with Roger
Allin, who was a strong candidate
all over the stale. And in this
county, where Mr. Worst had resid
ed more than ten years, there were
but 09 votes against him in the en
tire county. His majority was IKX,
while that of Mr. Allin was but ISI.
He is popular in the western part of
the state, where ho is well known to
the early settlers, who will be only
too glad to inform their neighbors
who came later as to his many
qualifications for the position. The
more than a dozen years of his resi
dence on the eastern border have
made him acquainted with the peo
ple of that section. An able orator,
his services have been in demand at
all sorts of public functions in all
parts of the state. Furthermore,
for years he has had under his
charge the sons and daughters of
the farmers of the commonwealth.
He is heartily liked by all of those
who have attended the agricultural
college. Many of the boys ire now
voters, and many of the girls have
husbands who are voters. It would
be a very pleasing happening in the
view of the people of Emmons coun
ty should it come to pass that Mr.
Worst is made the republican
candidate for governor at the elec
tion next year. He has every per
sonal and political qualification for
the place. He would make an ideal
governor.
Bids Wanted.
The Hoard of County Conuiiis-j
sioners of Kmmons county, N. D.,:
invite sealed bids until p. m. .July
•J. 1909, for the furnishing and use
of a portable engine, by the day,
equipped with engineer, coal and
water, suitable to haul and work the
county elevating road-grader.
Bids will state price pt-r day of
ten hours.
J. PITTS,
County Auditor.
Linton, N. D., June ]/.,
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Surplus, $7,500.00
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At the present time we have a
vast empire of uncivilized acres
awaiting the advent of the plow,
with its redeeming influence and
quickening power, ready to be re
deemed from a wild stale to a state
of agricultural civilization. It will
only lie a few years until all this
great, untamed prairie must be
made into farms and homes. New
railroads will traverse this region
from north to south and from east
to west and new towns and cities
will spring up, as if by magic,where
to-day is a treeless wilderness.
Linton Bakery Confectionery
FRESH BREAD, PIES and CAKES
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FRUIT, CIGARS AND TOBACCO
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Extensive Stock of Candies—The Best
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Livery, Feed and Sale Stable
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Give Us a Call When You Want Anything in the
Livery Line.
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dooks
WINDOWS
OF ALL SIZES.
GOODRIDGE CALL LUMBER COMPANY,
DACOTAH LUMBER COMPANY. Agents.
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R. C. BURLINCAME,
l.arvik, .N.,rtli Dakota. Agent.