Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1909 — FROM NORTH DAKOTA. [ARTICLE]

FROM NORTH DAKOTA.

Milnor, N. Dak., Jan. 4. Mr. F. E. Babcock: lam enclosing with this communication a money order to the amount of $1.50 for a year's subscription to The Democrat, to begin with the next issue, as we cannot get along without the home paper. If you should care to publish this you may say to the old friends in Jasper that we like the country fine and are doing well, much better than could be expected under the conditions in which we started in, as- we came here in March, 1907. Landed here without a cent. We worked out by the month all that summer and started in for ourselves in the spring of 1908. We paid out over $1,300 this fall. I call that doing pretty well. In fact I think it is only place for a poor man to get a start if he is not afraid of a little work. We have rented three quarter sections for the coming year. I have 5 head of good work horses, all paid for, and machinery. This is a fine place for garden truck. We raised all kinds of vegetables, cabbage, tomatoes, squashes, and my father, Henry Snow, had quite a few watermelons and muskraelons, too. As to the climate, that is not so severe as you might think. The air is a little brisk now but it is certainly healthy, as we have had good health since we have been here. We expected to see some awful winter weather but with the exception of one small blizzard we had a beautiful winter, I never saw one in Indiana to equal it. This winter we have more snow and better sleighing. We had no sleighing Last winter. The thermometer has registered colder this winter but we do not mind it so much. I have hauled wheat all winter so far and still have 800 bushels to haul. Some of the young couples out there are missing the chance of a lifetime, as a man and wife can a start, as a man and wife can make good wages here by working for some old bachelor who needs a hand and housekeeper, and there is all kinds of work ana good wages too, through the threshing season. Yours respectfully, ALVA SNOW.

Everybody should visit the Poultry Show. Come to the Great Embroidery Sale, at the 99 Cent Racket Store, Jan. 15, 1909. Sale starts at 1:30 p. m. All the new 1909 patterns to select from, lots of them worth double what we ask. Also see the fine Val Lace, worth as high as 12 and 15 cents per yard; all go for 3c and 5c per yard. At no other pi hce only The 99 Cent Racket Store, the leader of low prices. See the Grand Exhibition of thoroughbred fowls at the Armory (next week. , At this season of the year potatoes constitute one third of the average food consumption. To get the best one should see that the potatoes are neither scabby or sunburnt as such . potatoes are not healthy. If you want tho best try our fancy Wisconsin sand grown potatoes. Free from scab and sunburn. At 20 cents a peck. JOHN EGER. - m ! You CM stay all day at the Poultry Show for 10c.