Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1903 — Likes North Dakota. [ARTICLE]

Likes North Dakota.

Charles 0. Brown is now visiting his mother, Mrs. A. E. Brown here, while his wife is visiting her her relatives at Monticello. Charley is now located near Rugby, near the extreme northwest part of North Dakota, and the oouuty he is in joins the Canada line on the north- Sinoe moving from Pulaski county he has also tried South Dakota and Washington’ but thinks his part of North Dakota the best of any. He got in there about the Ist of October and took up a claim on the very edge of the settlement Now so immense is the immigration, that the laud is all enterad for 20 miles beyond him- Tbe soil is abouLtbe best in the world and all kinds of crops are raised exoept corn, Charley’s land butts up against the. sohool section and by a lucky chance he rented the entire seotiou for five years for $25, or only $5 a year.