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k1 ni"» '.^ •ijp .'i & .,4 j^Trf7^^^ 4, Ml il. if cW %mk 1 LltohvllU's Fav«rlt« Son HON. A. P, HANSON •M«k«r of the Houm of Utehvlllt, North Oak. T. Ml. STIXRUD, M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Utolivllta, Narth Dak. & C. HAMMERliD Veterinary Physician & Surgeon LITCHVILLB, N. D. J. H. LUBBEHU8EN AUCTIONEER LITCHVILLE, N. 0. OLE BENSON PHOTOGRAPHER LHehvllla North Dakota HANS HANSON MERCHANT TAILOR LHehvllla, North Dak. One mileefast of Litchville for ale at a bargain. No waste land, best of soil, 620 acres under culti vation. Good drinking water, fair improvements. Write owner. R. J. GODFREY Osi|«, Iowa The Litchville Bulletin A weekly, 7 column, 8 page paper, published every Friday at LitchvMle, N. D. ." "v*v*N 4 -l 1 *•'.: ~w,,\'i^i? ..' I Sl«v & *»to«, «. !&IHSMIM. !, HE imt.ultt IU»r«MiitatlvM S'More Spuds Litcbville Bulletin: John Thorson the other day brought us a pumpkin big as—no, beg pardon, John insists it's a potato and not a pumpkin at all anyway it weighs two pounds and eight ounces and is some Irishman. Thus John Larson lost his laurels as champion spud raiser and John Thor son wears the belt. Professional Cards: W. C. AYLEN, M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON UtehvHto, NmHi Dak. H. T. Perry, D. D. 8. RESIDENT DENTIST 1 was built in 1900 and Litchville dates' cents a bushel was paid to those who had marketed grain there. We are shipping out a hundred cars of stock this year. Litchville is the greatest cream ship ping station on the Cesselton branch. We beat every town on the branch in poultry shipments. We have more churches than any town of the size in North Dakota. The following denominations have church edifices inside the village limits: Ro man Catholic, Congregational, Dutch Reformed, Swedish Lutheran, Hauge Norwegian Lutheran and Norwegian Free church. Litchville has five grain elevators, a state aqd national bank, four general stores, two automobile agencies, three hardware and implement stores, feed stores, jewelry store, photographer, pantorium, moving picture theater, shoe store, two lumber yards, two blacksmith shops, hotel and restau- The farming population is a mixture of the four best elements to be found anywhere, namely, German, Scandinav ian, Dutch and native American. The soil is a deep black loam with a clay subsoil. Anybody interested in our soil can get a copy of the soil sur vey made here two years ago by writ ing to the department of agriculture, Washington, D. C. This survey shows the kind of soil on every quarter sec- 1 1 Unexc lied as an advertising medium in Southern Barnes. '.•V.'*. it Advertising rates on application Subscription $1.50 per year I We print weather and crop news regularly. No'son jongewam P-bllshars It. 7^ Litchville, N. ••?*4 rant, third class post office with a sal- 24 bushels per acre. ary of $1,400, four rural routes, three I P- F. Satterlee reports 17 bushels of of them being dailies. tlon, ravines, sloughs, pre-hlstoric bushels of wheat on his farm in Black river beds, etc. According to this sur- Loam township. vey our soil ranks with the best in the Alfred Dibbern had 30 acres of state. Farm lands are still dirt cheap flax which yielded 18 bushels per acre, here, running from $40 to $65 per acre. It was raised on old ground, which had according to improvements and dis-been in timothy for three years and tance to market. was broken last fall. Lastly, Litchville-prides itself on be- Peter Roorda, of Meadow Lake, ing the home of A. P. Hanson, speak- threshed 60 bushels of barley per acre er of the last house of representatives, by weight and 55 by machine measure, and one of the state leaders of the re- Oats also went 60 bushels per acre, publican party. Mr. Hanson has been Christ Larson, who is farming the in the North Dakota legislature three LITCHVILLE. NORTH DAKOTA Litchville, the metropolis of south- man in the state today. His friends em Barnes county, has a population of are urging him to run for lieutenant 500 people. It is located on the Cassel- governor next year but thus far he ton branch of the Northern Pacific, 28 has made no decision. miles southwest of Valley City and 72 miles southwest of Fargo. This branch |ft|. its history from the fall of that year. Following are some 1915 crop yields, This town is one of the largest pri- good, bad and indifferent, as told to us mary wheat markets in the state. In! by the man who actually raised the 1912, 700 carloads of grain were ship-' grain. All these farmers receive their ped from here, beating every town on mail at the Litchville post office and this division of the N. P. This fall we we are sure that any letters of inquiry have averaged better than a hundred will be cheerfully answered. cars a month. We have a Farmers' John Oien, of Litchville township, Cooperative elevator with 200 stock threshed 8,000 bushels of grain from holders which is a great success. Last 300 acres. year after the regular seven per cent john Lar8on brought to our office a dividend was paid a' rebate of three potato ounces the other day. Unless some body can bring us something bigger we are ready to proclaim him the champion spud raiser. Henry Neevel, of Greenland town ship, raised 37 bushels of Marquis wheat per acre from summer fallow land. Henry Rietman on the A. C. Kuyper farm, threshed 27 bushels of durum per acre and the Sandin brothers re port 8,500 bushels of oats from 150 acres. S. J. Cortland, of Svea, threshed 50 acres of marquis wheat which yielded 29 bushels to the acre. His barley ran 35. Dennis Kelley, of Spring Creek threshed 20 bushels of bearded wheat from hail struck land. John Sather, on the Otto Hanson farm south of town, planted a bushel and a half of potatoes last spring and in the fall dug 32 bushels from the same patch. His blue stem returned Marquis wheat per acre which suffer ed a 90 per cent hail loss, and his oats ran 34 bushels in spite of a 50 per cent hail loss. Valley City Times-Record Appreciation Week Number, Nov.18, 1015 •vu Some 1915 Crop Yields weighing two pounds and two Mads Larson, of Skandia township, had a quarter section in marquis wheat which threshed 28 bushels to1 the acre. On the Hildahl farm in Gladstone, durum ran 24 bushels and oats 50. Hailstruck barley in Prairie ran 35 bushels. Gilbert C. Bjone threshed 10,000' Joe Schall farm, southeast of town, terms and has voted for as many has no complaint to make about the sanely progressive measures as any 1915 crop. As a consequence of the $7*000 Farm Home of Hon. S. J. Aandahl il!WV '•H.'M 'hi ul.l ^Jienry Qleoink J. E. Nelson Mrs. L. C. Bordwell H. J. Hanson hail storm in June he got $1,300 hail insurance from the half section, it be ing appraised a total loss. Afterwards he threshed 15 bushels of wheat per acre. Svea Consolidated School Svea township, six miles north of Litchville, this year voted to consoli date its schools by a big majority. At present this township is building a new $10,000 school house which will be modern in every respect. It will contain four class rooms, gymnasium, rooms for manual training and domes tic science. A hot air plant and mod ern plumbing provide for the comfort of teachers and pupils. Sam Tells About the Indians Editor Times-Record: I came to Barnes county with my parents at the age of 12, on April 19, 1881. Have resided here with the ex ception of a short time in California ever since. My father located on a homestead in Sec. 24, in Svea town ship the same spring. There were only two houses between our place and Sanborn and nobody lived farther south than we in this part of the coun ty. Rosebud township, just south of us, had not seen the plow and there was not even a claim shanty in the whole township. One morning I saw many hundred antelope two miles north of where Litchville is now lo cated. We had a hard row to hoe as father had no money to even purchase the most necessary supplies for his family, and the first winter we sub sisted on bread, black coffee, pota toes and the meat from an old worn out work ox which we had to kill. Our only cow went dry^so we had no but ter or milk. Our house was cold and we could not keep warm with the poor wood we hauled from the river. My most cherished place was to embrace the old sheet iron stove pipe, which at no time got hot .enough to burn me. Father said, when things looked the gloomiest, "That it was best to give the country back to the Indians." As soon as I became of age I homestead ed in Sec. 26, in Svea township, and have prospered. I have a 960 acre farm, well improved, and right here will say that in my opinion there is no better country in the world for a poor man, and, better still, for a man of means to make a home than here in Svea township and Barnes county. Yours truly, S. J. AANDAHL, Litchville, N. D. x' x- 4 Thoroughbred Public HOG SALE At the Rosebud Duroc Farm, three miles west and four miles north of Litchville, N. Dak. on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30th Description of hogs to be sold: One tried Boar, Grundell, Prize 2 N. 146995. 4 tried Brood sows, 5 fall Boars, i5*Spring Boars, 4 Fall Gilts, 6 Spring Gilts. One Pure Bred Percheron Stallion, Nelson No. 43431. TERMS GASH BANKALE NOTES Free Lunch at Noon Sale Commences at 1 p. m. R. A. JONGEWAARD Litchville, North Dakota I S & D., No. SP N I The First National Bank Litchville, North Dakota A. P. HANSON, Pres. J. R. GAMIN, Vice-Pres. S. J. SUNDET, Cashier Dennis Kelley Tom S if W j£" 7 S "VS"" ss "S