TUESDAY, MAY 31, 19?1
end Mrs. Dickey live all alone, as their
children are all married and gone.
They are operating a small dairy and
do no farming, having the farm into
grass. They own one hundred and
sixty acres one mile south of town.
Mike BanjofT came to this county
fifteen years ago and is operating a
market garden and is dolne well. He
ups and downs of thfc new country.
He has had his fences cut and cattle
run off as well as all the small trou
bles the farmer had to contend with
in an early day, but now he has re
tired Brill i liinnir In tnum hu. i
says he never saw a year yet that a
man could not matte a living fni a
you want to go and his phone is 5061.
M. J. Beal, who is a mechanic for
the Miller White Truck company, .is
having a tussle with the measles at
this time, but will soon be as good as
new. He came from Missouri two
years ago but would not go back as
he thinks this country better as there
are greater opportunities for a young
man.
family and have some over if rightly
managed.
G. H. Simpson has been here for
thirty-three years, farmed for fifteen
and has lived in t
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lots and a comfortable Vinns nA
taking it easy.
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F. R, Allen came to this country
has twelve acres and cultivates it all
when Valentine was the nearest rail
way and they freighted their roods
uusinej.i. ueorge came ncre
the same year that Alliance did, but
the Cl'tV haa n own fnctr than Via Vir. a
for small garden truck. Mike has two
acres of onions that are ready to use
now nd finds ready sale for every
One dollar is not much to 'help the
Campfire Girls. Do it.
with ox teams from that town. Frank
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George will haul anything any placej
thing he can raise.
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Friday morning, after the great rain
of Wednesday night, we continued our
exploration of thin great and glorious
country. As we sped north we came
vpon C M. Harigle, whom we had
place, but this morninjr we found C. M.
t work alone the road and had a
nice visit with him. Mr. Harigle came
from Ohio thia spring and likes this
country very much better than Ohio
where, he says, it rains too much and
the mud is too deep. In our conversa
tion he told us about one field of corn
that he raised last year in Ohio that
he hired cut and partly husked that
cost him 2.&0 more than he got out
of it, besides all the work done by him
self, and there was a good crop raised,
too. Mr. Harigle is farming thirty
acres to oats, thirty to spuds and 110
acres in alfalfa. He also raised spuds
there, getting sixty bushels per acre of
poor spud. Mr. Harigle is not as
new to this country as he might be
for he used to ride the range when
this country was new and went west
a few years ago and did not like what
he found, so had to come back to a
ood. country.
time and it made us think of the days
many years ago. There was Ice cream
and cake and everything that was good
to eat. The two teachers did every
thing to have everyone have a good
missed on pur previous trip past his I time and everyone thinks that they
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tus ucm it-ucuers mere 18 10 oe
had, and we agree with them. Miss
Nation Is starting Tuesday for Des
Moines for her summer vacation and
Miss Swanson Is going to Chadron to
summer school, but we understand
they both are coming back to teach
this fall.
M.. Russell, who lives one mile
west and two miles north of town is
one of the ol imers, having come
thirty-one years ago from York coun
ty. He pre-empted a one hundred and
sixty acre farm and lives on it today,
the first man that we have found who
W83 living on the original homestead.
We have found several who still own
the old homestead, but have moved
off. Mr. Russell owns three hundred
and twenty acres, has good improve
ments and plenty of thia world's goods
but is thinking of quitting farming. He
is the father of our couuty superin
tendent of -schools.
F. l Westlake came to this county
six years ago from Cass county and
likes it very much better here; in fact,
don't think you could drive Fred
away now, for he does not have to
batch any more.' We went to see him
last week and he was away getting
married, but Friday we found him at
home and it is safe to say he will be
found sticking around from now on.
From Mr. Westlake's we drove to
Berea and the first place to stop was
at the new home of T. A. Hawkins,
who came out from Iowa four years
ago ami bought the land where now
stands the city of Berea. He owns
one hundred and six acres that he did
not sel! for lots to build on. Tom tells
us that he has farmed in Iowa, Okla
homa, North Dakota and South Da
kota, and says that thia is the best
and easiest place to farm he ever saw
and that he would not trade the land
he owns here for any land he knows
of in Iowa. He is farming one hun
dred and thirty acres to wheat and
it Is in fine shape fifteen to cats and
twenty-five to spuds.
Lew Lawer came to Berea two years
ago and bought one hundred and sixty
acres of good soil and has it nicely
fixed up. He paid seventy-five dollars
and could have sold for one hundred,
but it is not for sale at any price. Last
year his wheat made twenty-six bush
els per acre and sold for two dollars.
He raised fifteen hundred and sixty
bushels. Lew says he would not trade
his farm here for the same size farm
in the best part of Iowa. His spuds
last year made from one hundred and
thirty to one hundred and forty bush
els per acre.
Harvey Cass ' came to Berea two
years ago from Iowa and bought five
lots and has a nice house and every
thing fixed up fine. Harvey ia a plas
terer and a brick mason and works al
his trade all the time and says that he
can do better here than he could in
Iowa, and he would not go back, for
this country just suits him.
C. H. Cass came here from Iowa
four years ago and started the first
store in Berea and is doing well. He
has about a three thousand dollar
stock of general merchandise. He also
runs the postoffice and is well satis
fied here. ,
Edwin "Whitaker is another mcr
chant in Berea. He has been in Berea
about a year and likes it fine. Mrs.
Whitaker was raised In this county,
They like the business very well end
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Just north of Berea is the home of
William Mabin, one of th) old timer
in this country, who built the first
house that was built by settlers in Box
Butte county. This was in 1884. He
owns one hundred and sixty noes half
a mile iorth of Berea and is farming
twenty acres to wheat, forty to corn,
tei ti oj'ts ami ten to nxrit.
Ma bit. lias been hero longer than any
o'her mun we hae sten mi fav and
says that crops will grow with the
least rain here of any place he knows
or.
Saturday morning we started out
south of town to see what we could
find and who we could see, and the
first place we came to was that of H.
and E. Beal, just south of town. We
found Mr. Beal just starting his Case
tractor to go to work. The Beals own
nil if tVia XnntVi Alli'miA uAt;Hrn o-nA
We have been unfortunate most all uno Vmn.iroa nn.i twv 0.- r
our life, but .today we were in luck iey-land, eighty of which they are
we have been asked the question sev
eral times: "Have you been out to
Schills?M and so Saturday we made a
special trip out to see what we could
find of interest there, and we were
surely well paid for our trip. We
found Mr. Schill at home and he had
time to show us around. It was quite
a job to see all the things of interest
on the farm of nine hundred and sixty
acres. In the first place we had a
nice visit and we learned that L. J.
came, to this country thirty-three
years ago and thct he was a poor man
when he came here. We also learned,
but not from L. J., that he is one of
the substantial men of this county.
Here we found the best dairy farm
we have ever inspected. It is forty
feet wide and eighty feet long and
is built for twenty-four cows, equipped
with the best stanchions and every
thing up-to-date. On the other -side
is arranged for seventeen horses and
the loft is large enough to hold seventy-five
tons of hay. The house is
new and modem from cellar to garret
and is one of the most convenient
houses we have seen for many moons.
The front room and dining room are
finished in oak and the staircase is
solid oak. They have a mantel and a
fireplace in the front rom and he also
has a mantle in the basement, where
he has a den fixed up for himself. It
is nice enough for a front room in
anyone's house. The water supply is
the best we have ever seen in any
farm house. He has his own electric
lighting plant and also an automatic
electric pump that is so arranged that
if you, draw a pail of water it will
start the pump and it will pump the
same amount ,and Mr. Schill tells us
that it has never failed to work. Mr.
Schill is farming one hundred acres
to-.orn, sixty to oats, and has fifty
acres in alfalfa, and he can use ail
the hay, for he has thirty-five cows
and is milking twenty-eight at the
present time. He sells all the mill
and cream to the Alliance creamery.
Take this place as a whole, it js one
of the best we have inspected in
years.
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Monday morning early, but not
bright we started out to see what we
could find in the city, as we did not
care to go too far from town the way
the mist was coming down, so we con
fined our labors to close in. The first
man we interviewed was Mr. Wol.
Freamuth, who came to this county
thirty-two years ago and owns twelve
hundred and eighty acres of land ten
miles east of Hemingford and a nice
property in the city. They are Ret
ting ready to move out to the ranch
as they do after school each year, Mr.
Freamuth is farming one hundred
and fifty acres to wheat, fifty to
oats, ninety to corn, thirty to rye and
twenty to spuds, ami has sixty acres
in alfalfa, from which he cut three
good crops last year. Mr. Freamuth
tells us that he homeateaded a part
of this land in 1SS!) and still liver
on the homestead. Wolf came to this
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country wunoui anyuung dui nu
htnds and a good determination, a .d
has made good, for he has the b:g
farm well stocked and it is not for
sale.
for once. While we were talking with
Mr. Hawkins he and Mrs. Hawkins in
vited us to go and have dinner with
the school as they were having a pic
nic dinner, as it was the last day of
school. There were some men there
we wished to see and we had some
excuse for going, so we went and oh,
what a dinner we did have. To tell
putting in to Bliss Triumph potatoes
for the southern trade. They are car-
dening in addition to potato planting
and have fifteen acres in sweet corn,
one in strawberries, and cabbages and
tomatoes. Mr. Beal was at one time
a druggist, but says he likes the farm
better and thinks this the best coun-
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aiier as oeiore mnner ami cam
Mundt, Tom Hawkins and Robert
Mundt and some others we might men-
James Dickey came to this country
before there was . anv Box Butte
tion will not want anything to eat for county, as it was Dawes county then,
wme time. Well, everyone had a good and has lived here ever since. Mr.
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Dependable Qu
In Your Motor Oils
You can't afford to experiment with Tractor and
Automobile Oils now. Get only those that have stood the
test. We have a full line, and are selling them at attractive
prices: (
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ZP Gal. Lot 1 Bbl. Lot
Extra Heavy Polarine, gallon 90c 83c
Polarine Transmission Oil, gallon 83c '
Summer Black Gear Oil, gallon 33c . J-1 30c
auto oil . -ry
Medium Heavy Polarine 80c 73c
Light Polarine, gallon 73c
Polarine Cup Grease, 10 lb. pail $1.93; 3 lb. pail 73c
Graphite Harvester Oil, gallon 73c
Farmer's Union
R. J. TRABERT, Manager
Just outside of the city to the north
is the home of E. P. Woods, who owns
eighteen acres where he lives and 640
acres northeast of town. Mr. Woods
came here when the city was one year
old and nas seen it grow from a few
shanties to the city that it is today.
and says that this is the best country
for a poor man to get a start in that
he knows anything about.
James Austin has. been here only
one year, but long enough to like the
country better than Indiana, where
he came from and where he was
reared. James is a machinist and
works in the shops from 4 p. m. and is
off at 12. and then he has time to
farm. He is farming to potatoes and
garden and has ten acres of alfalfa.
He also is breeding Belgian hares and
tells us that he can sell them as fa.t
as he can produce them at 75 cents
each, and it seems to us that they are
cheap, for they ere fine.
E. E. SIcCool came here twenty-
, uuee" yeA"6 ag6 and likes this country
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lived, and he came from ft Very good
country, too. Buffalo is hard to beat.
Mr. McCool Is operating two hundred
rnd thirty acres of good soil and has
forty acres in wheat, sixty-five in
oats, fifty-five in com and seventy
five in Dotatoes. R. E. says that
spuds are the best crop to raise here,
as he raised one hundred and sixty
five bushels per acre last year and
sold for one dollar per bushel, and we
think that is some money for one
crop.
B. F. Frederick is another one of
the Burlington employes. He is a
clerk in the yard otfice and is rais
ing Belgian hares. Mr. Frederick
came here from St. Joe, Mo., three
years ago and likes this country fine.
He says that it beats Missouri all
hollow. Anyone- wanting Belgian
hares can get them of him for 75e
each.
Harry Smith, who lives lust north
of the fair grounds, came here from
Indiana two years ago and says this
beats any country for a young man
to get a start in that he ever saw, for
wages have always been better here
than most any other place and that
he would not go back east to live,
R. C. Athey came here from Cedar
county nine years ago and likes this
country fine. He Is a traveling man
fs Ka Woi-mii T?fininor Phmirfil
company, but thinks this is the place
for a young man to get a start.
Joseph wismiller came here when
this country was new and has seen the
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The high standing of the Business
Car is due to the fact that it
actually does all that is claimed for it
It is a steady, dependable, sturdy
means of delivery, keeping operating
cost down to a very low figure.
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The Principles Of
SUCGE
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Governor Frederick D. Gard
ner says "My advice to a
young man is to adopt the fol
lowing four principles as his
guide in life:
"Affiliate with some church.
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"As soon as he can support
a wife, marry a good girl,
have a home and rear a
family.
"Star a bank account, save
something and stick to
one bank if well treated.
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"Protect your family and
creditors by carrying am
ple insurance; take it out
wnue yuuag.
The First State Bank
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