Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1911 — BUD HAMMOND HERE. [ARTICLE]

BUD HAMMOND HERE.

North Dakotain Visiting Relaatives and Friends in Jasper County. W. M. (Bud) Hammond of near Lisbon, No. Dak., came Monday for a couple of weeks visit with relatives and friends here. He says they have had plenty of rain there this season and crops never looked better. He thinks Ransom county is the banner county of North Dakota, arid farm lands have advapced greatly since ‘he located there a few years ago. George Yeoman of Benton county, a son of the late Ira W. Yeoman of Remington, was out there a few days ago and bought a section of land east of Lisbon, not very well improved, for which he paid $45 per acre. Bud has made good since going to Ransom county, we are glad to note, and now owns, with ‘his son, two good sections of land. He is in debt on tjie land, he says, but he and hfs son. who are farming together, own two good threshing outfits worth several thousand dollars, 75 head of horses and a great amount of farm implements on which they do not owe a dollar. They are warming this year four sections of land, all but less than 200 acres of pasture, etc., of which is in wheat, oats, corn and flax. With the prospects before them this year they will make a nice bunch of money off this season's crop. Bud’s sister-in-law, Mrs. Ellen Goble, came from Lisbon about a week ago with Mrs. A. J. Charles, who is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe of southeast of town, and Bud will take her to Royal Center to visit her sister there. Miss Goljle is totally blind. .