Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1905 — FROM NORTH DAKOTA. [ARTICLE]

FROM NORTH DAKOTA.

In a letter to The Democrat under date of May 17, Miss Candace Brown, a former compositor on this paper, now of Lisbon, No. Dakota, says, among other things: We are faring a little better than our Indiana friends, for the crops here are doing fine, the wheat and oats fields will be a sight worth seeing in another week. Although we were about a week behind with our crop it is looking as nice as our neighbors. There was very little fall plowing done on this farm, consequently it was all tp do this spring, putting them behind with the planting, but have bad fair growing weather ever since. Qt course we have had some bad weather mixed in with the good. Here are a few days of the worst weather we have had .-May 3 and 4, rain; 5, cold and windy; 6, fair; 7, cold, cloudy and windy; 8, fair; 9, hard rain and hail; also the 10, 11, rain and 2 in. of snow fell in afternoon and laid until noon of 12th; have had pretty fair weather since. The roads are good at all times; it will be muddy during a hard rain but dry by the next day. The weeks are all days and no nights, or that is the way it seems. The days are so long I sometimes think they will never pass, and the nights so short I can not get enough sleep It is go to bed, turn over and get up. It is not dark until about 8 o’clock in the evening and is daylight at 4. The boys are putting in a crop on our own land, this week will finish it. The Democrat reaches ns every Monday and is pretty well worn by the time we are all through with it.T don’t we leave an item unread. Best regards to the family and all of my friends.