The Bismarck Tribune from Bismarck, North Dakota • Page 7

Sunday, ocToftfift 26, ECKELSON By "Scoop." a llttlo town on the main line of the Northern Pacific railway, between Sanborn on the east and Urbana on the west, is rated on maps of the state as having a population of 12. And yet there is a deal of liveliness and business to this tle town which mOat will be inclined to underestimate. Many Trains. To begin with, Gckelaon, being on the main line of the Northern Pacific, just as many trains passing through as pass through the larger cities of the state. Its stores get their freight every day.

Passengers may leave or stop several times a day. Cars for, shipping grain are more plentiful on the main line than they are on the branches. So Eskelson, being on a main railway oughfare of the country, is in a good position to handle its grain business with expedition. All Wheat Territory. As ttf the nature of Eckelson's all wheat.

It has been for years given over to the raising of shial 'grains and the shipments from the elevators and by cars have ed high every fal. Corn and the ory of diversified farming, however, are coming into their own in the try, tributary to Eckelson and the acreage usually given over to wheat has decreased. Fine for Farming. Eckelson is in the heart of a derful farming territory. The soil is not to be beaten anywhere else in the state.

It is adaptable to farming and farming is capable of being broupht to a fine art in that territory with its rich soil. Population Small. Eckelson is only a town with a ulation of 12, but it is a good, some commun'ty, with good churches, schools and other social organizations. Moreover it is a town with a bit 6f history back of it. There is an old eckelson and a new Eckelson.

The present town was cated about two miles east of the present site, near where Lake son is. The old town was started in the eighties, and enjoyed a boom in the days when government troops were for a time stationed near the lake. In 1897 there was but one store at the present site. Early the same year the first elevator was moved to the new site, and the old depot was also moved up to the site of the new town on'a flat car. At nresent tiime Eckelson three elevators, a town hall, a hotel, a lodge hall, meat market, machinery and implement store, confectionery store, a pool ItmH, a hardware store.

A farmers' elevator company was or 'Bfid two years, ttaet Tbe Eckelson hotel, Ray proprietor, is Ideal host to the travelers, Mr. Turner has been in business in Eckelson since April of nrpsent but alrnvdr hp hns worked up a fine trade. The Eckelson hotel has made a reputation with the commercial travelers as a first-rate place. E. T.

Phelps is one of the old-tiers of the country. Until three years ago he lived on a farm several miles out in the country, -but recently he came to town and became engaercd in the hotel business. he severed his cnnection with the hotel and went to the hardware trade, and has been making good sine. His store is ern. and full of a good stock.

ing everything for which his ers can have desire in hardware, be enjoys a wide trade among the ers. The Eckelson country is a good ducer of cream. From the Carhill Elevator company, which ships cream, there were sent out last year everf month 59 cans of cream. The Powers Elevator company shipped 98 cans. The amount of cream checks paid out every onth, passing through the son.

State bank, amount to $200 per month. The Eckelson State bank has a ital of StO.ftftO. It is a stromr hnnk. has good backmg an dthe confidence of its depositors. It is amply able to lend any aid necessary to the ers in its terrltoy.

E. A. Engerbertson is president, E. C. Thompson, vice president Louja Malm, cashier, and H.

C. assistant cashier. Only two of the men are vine president and asistant cashier. The president Is of Fargo and the cashier is from bank has posits of more than $42,000. Eckelson is a good location for a doctor and a drug store, according- to the officials of the bank.

J. E. Jansen, local manager of the L. R. Lumber company, has been for nearly a year in Eckelson.

The company bas operated in Eckelson for three years. O. M. John-on has carried a line of general merchandise including ceries, produce, ladies' and gents' furnishings, since last autumn. Mr.

Johnson run. a standard store, and the standard is unusually high in a town of so few' requirements. He carries the Royal Tailor clothes and the Gotiian snoe. company snipped- dmpbt grain last season, 270,000 buehels. Th? cornyny handles coal, feed and fuel HtBZlffes The Farmers' Elevatpr company has proved a paying proposition.

The gross 'profit for an average year wafi 18,500. The expense for the same time were over $3,700. The actual profit for the jrear was close to $5,000. For the best In meats for the tiHS the Eckelson meat market must not be Sir. Xtihel is the own.

er, and he takes pride in the fabt that he handles only'the bMtiE! fresh and salt meats. He has been In business for a year, and bas the field all to himself. Kellogg Sl6sn, general merchants, came to Eckelson In 1908 their gtnerai store. Mr. Sloan has been the postmasler at Eckelson sines.

Thsis is one mall route from the postoffice D. C. Wilcox, dealer in the tionery and fruits, has been In ness for over a year. He reports that business with him has been very fair. Mr.

Wilcox has a half section of land northeast of town and is quite closely connected with the farming Industry. Eckelson has just completed a new church of the Congregational faith and the people are very proud of it. When the building was completed, tho members of the Ladies' Aid gavo a big supper in celebiation of the orable event. The tholic church of that place has an equally large lowing. Eckelson has a two-room grade school with one year of high school work offered.

The facuty Is adequate and the training thorough. The schools are the bi object of pride for the citizens of Eckelson. As to secret organizations, son is adequately supplied. There is Yeomen lodge, the Woodmen and the L. K.

of latter being fc. loca' order. All have pood memb rships and have regular meetings well a.tended by city memebrs and country members. The Real Eckelson. Eckelson, with its total population of 12, ig only the superficial Eckelson that the hasty mapperuser sees.

The real town is tp be seen only on a personal visit, when the immensity of the wealth produced annually In its territory breaks with all its force, ihc great wheat and cream shipments, cattle and hog shipments, are the source of the wealth that through Eckelson and inpassin? enriches the town. The 12 are men gatekeepers, opening and shutting the gathes for the produce of Eckelson's territory. FULLERTON By "Scoop." Fullertou is one of the livest little towns on the ffhnkipson-Bismarck branch of the Soo. It lies in fertile Dickey county, between Clement and Boynton, and just a few northeast of the exact center of Dickey county. It has a population of about 40, but ita importance lies more in the productivity of its soil than in its population or number of business places.

The elevators are the correct tag on the town. They show the real wealth of Fullerton. Each elevator is jammed to ful capacity every fall, and the road can't supply enough cars for the farmers who shap their grain pendently. Good Farm Land. Fullerton is in as good a farming territory as there ilr''to' state.

Dickey county is famous for the tility of its its large yields and for its immunity against crop failures. The 'farmers of the county are realizing at last the result of years of labor. Very few of them are dependent. Most of the mare well off, own their farms unencumbered by debt, have improvements ing 1 the farm into as convenient a place of residence as any home in the smaller so, in have money in the bank. Fullerton.

belne in Dickey county and In the heart of the best farming territory raises heavy crops every year without hardly an exception In a dozen years. The town is as old as the railroad, and the road came through in 1887. Through the pioneer days of the county and the state, the country has been sealing up and the land has been farmed better, and as a result Fullerton has grown steadily but unostentatiously a little every year. Now it is a small town with a few busines places, elevators, churches, schoolhouses, stores and a few residences. Own Their Own Cars.

A large percentage of the farmers of the county own their own im mmaoK WSOM biles, and It Is nothing nsw to aet a farmer after a day's worka miles away from the homo farm, at some larjer city of the county or ot seme other county. You will seo his come out a store, load his family into the machine and start swiftly out into the dark for his home, many miles Into the country. It's an everyday sight. As to Fullertori's roll of business men, they are the necessary The farming territory takes Just cer tain kinds of business men to act its mediums between the farms the outside country. There are the tors, the lumber and coal yards, the livery stable and the blacksmith shop, tho machinery shed and the tomobile garage.

Livery and Feed Stable. F. Van Middlesworth, livery and feed stable man, is a pioneer, lie came to this section in '83, and took over his present business in 1905. He is a servant of the government in that he drives one of the mail routes out of the Fullerton postofice. The erton postoffice has been getting two malls a day since 1903.

Mr. Van Middlesworth Is also the village blacksmith and bean estly serving tho community in both capacities to the satisfaction of eryone who has ever given him a chance to show his skill. F. E. Manning owns the meat market in town, but as the farmers are independent to the extent of ing to go anywhero in their cars, Manning doesn't take advantage of the lack competition.

He estnb lished hitpsolf here In The town is one of the best "possible locations for a meat market because of the mense trade fie can do wit hthresliing crews in threshing and in harvest time. Caldwell Elevator. Mark Johnson, manager of ihc well Elevator company, does a mendous business every fall. Last fall he shipped of even though the crops were somewhat damaged by hot winds. The Caldwell company is a branch of the firm ed by W.

A. 3aldwell of Monango. at which plane the main elevator is cated. Charles W. Anderson, who runs tho pool hall and restaurant, has been in the busines In Fullerton for two years.

He carries ice cream and soft drinks, cigars and confectionery and tobacco. Mr. Anderson is a native of Dickey county and was born and raised clusively in the county. M. Anderson, of the ful farmers in the vicinity, has ed 640 acres annually with a steam outfit for some time and has great success with this method.

He is phatically of the opinion £iat fication of crops is the only way out. C. L. Paulson is the local manager for the elevator of the Cartney company of Oakes. Grain, seeds and feed Is the lino dealt in.

This firm shipped .15,000 bushels of rom 'Furterto'n liutf Mlnnetonka Buyer. L. L. Brlechten is tho buyer for the Minnetonke Elevator company, which last fall shipped 150,000 bushels of grain from its Fullerton elevator. Three years ago the firm of Klein Lee put in a store handling a line of general merchandise, and has met with great succes in the community.

A. F. Klein, senior partner, is chief owner of a' general sfore at Oafre? the same county, and has met with nccess in that instance alno In ing to country trade. C. Lawler.

of the Cash Store, came here from Illinois In Three jifo he built the building in "ii'di he is now located, and the increased space wh'ch this move the increased space which this move gave him he haB been able to set his goods to more advantage. 1-Ie gets a large percentage of the country, as well as town trade. Mr. Lawler is now the Fullerton postmaster. A Barber Shop.

Joe Lawrence is Fullerion's barber. Three years came, and his business has been so profitable and associations so congenial that he has decided once and for all to stick. His patrons appreciate his determination Heat is a Good Servant But a Poor Master If you have been a slave to the heating of your home you will preciate the big difference in having 11 at your command night and day. You are the master when your house is heated the GRAMB PEET way. The Heater is like a good because it does the work or will not cost you a cent Competent, because it delivers the heat, night and day, in any wind and weather Economical, cause It never wastes fuel, labor or time.

The Burnham Heater I has the advantage of guaranteed normal humidity by hygrometer test. Air always warm and as delicious as a June day. With a Burnham Boiler there is no deterioration it the same efficiency after twenty-five years'use as when new. The fire travels back and forth three times on both sides iof the water qolls, ing maximum Heat with little fuel. With a Burnham Boiler your floors are sure to De warm enough for children to crawl about in the coldest weather.

When our experts do your work, it's right: No tearing out repairs or freeze-ups. Talk it over with us. Grambs Peet Co. Heating, Plumbing, Ventilating Contraetors and Engineers 304 Main St. Phone 461 to stay with thsm and give him their without reserve.

The Fullerton State bank ic a safe, strbnjt bank-eminently capable to andle the business of the community. W. A. Dickinson the local man of the bank, Is cashier. T.

F. Marshall ot Oakes is president, and H. Clay Cartney of the same place, is vice pn siflenr. Mark Johnson is assistant cashier. The bank was established in 1906.

and is capitalized at $10,000. E. Paulson came from Oakes six years ago to beeomo tho Fullerton blacksmith. He Is an able smith with the help of his sons, has given the town reason to complain. Lumber Company.

Tho Fullerton Lumber company, dealing in' lumber, building material hardware and furniture. E. as is manager, an.l James Sehee and J. S. Webster are eonneeto-' with tho the ownership Of the firm.

A. C. manufacturer of lifcrLt and heary harness and saddlery, makes repairing a specialty. Mr. Vcrnlund has ber.ti business, for four Fullerton is ttye shipping point for much of the creatu producod for miles around in the counrry.

Dairying is taking a stronghold on the country and the cream pussing through the are getting larger almost even' motitli. The cream Is shipped to St. IJauI. Flls Definite hieed. For the territory in which it is placcil, Fullerton fills a defnite need.

It is a close distributing nearbv shipping point. Farmers ship out their grain, stock ticles produced ou the farm and buy supplies at tho A certain few business places ex is I for (lie noaoHsary users- of tho farmers and anything thnt did hot-fill'the tost of usefulness would foil. So Fullerton, with its few residences and business mid Its population of 5S may be called a fine little town sliro ii fills a sary role in the dramn of American agricultural progress. GIALCHUTT By ''Scoop." I flaleliult was star-led in ISfiO. It is a small town on Great Northern main line as it gr.es up to Cassclton from Wahpeton.

Tli town is located I Exhibition and Sale Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 eastern central part of Richland ty. It has a population of 5. No town in the county has a ter territory.

For wheat, corn and just north of Dwight, and is in the vegetables the soil cannot be beaten in tho county or the state. Tho ers in the vicinity have begun to take up diversification of crops and have realized much bigger yields from every acre of their land so treated. Corn Is Soon to Be King. Corn, too has taken a good hold on the land. The farms that were once entirely devoted to wheat, year after year, are now broken up by short patches of wheat, corn, potatoes and smal grains.

The community is more prosperous and more wealth lias conio through the town as a result. Einer Wold, the enterprising eral merchandise dealer of the town, came two years after the station was established. The Wold store is the pioneer store at this place, and one of the oldest in -the county. He does a business and his customers are always treated fairly and above board. Morover his completo stock prevents the fanners from being comoelled to drive wne more distant town to get their necessary trticles.

Named After Ffirmer. The town was named after Hans Galchutt, who was filming on a tion, part of which is now tho ent townsite. The town lias mi excellent school house. It is of two rooms, graded school, and run on the plan of a solidated school. 'PUp rural children aro furnished ition every day to and from the town school.

In this way the expense of maintaining rural school for scarcely no pupils is obviated and more nonoy can he paid to get the best of teachers in town school. Established in 1OOS, ilie Galchutt State bank is one of tho most up-todate banks in the county. Its talization of enables it to be of real servicc to the community. O. XT.

Hatlie is president, Ren Twoio, vice president and M. O. Twoto, cashier. This bank has deposits, its last report, of over $36,000. Cattle, Hogs an dCream.

According to the officials of tho bank, there are large shipments of cattle and hogs from this town every fall, which is still another source of prosperity. Dairying is not a new venture here. Cream checks pasintj through the Gaiclnut Stale bank monthly average $500. There is siderable corn and alafalia raised In the country. The firm of Olson ft Johnson, dealers in general clothing, boots, shoes and hard ware.

The firm is "a long resident in the county nnd enjoys a wide ac quaintance as well as a good trado. To their patrons they aro known to he up-to-date and square In treating their customers. The Farmers Are Organized. .0. Tweto is secretary and urer of the Galchutt Fanners' tor company, dealers in grain, feed, flour and fuel.

K. It. Wilson is the an a el at or re 'ors are: lians Rnsmussen, president Ingebredt Flaa, vice president Frank Herman, E. Peterson J. M.

Kilgore, Henry Quammo and Olaf Pi Johnson. The average grain output from the town of Galchutt yearly is 250,000 bushels, according to the Farmers Elevator company. The Farmers' Fur Exhibit Extraordinary is our good fortune to be able to offer for spection and sale the richest and most exclusive collection, of fine furs ever brought together. Precious and Semi-precious Fur Creations of the Well-know Makers ot GORDON 5 FURS Clever interpretations of present-day style ideas, developed by master designers and executed by the most expert furriers Protects You Every Gordon Fur Bears a label stating the name of the fur and what may be expected of it as regards wear. When you buy a Gordon Fur you know what you buv and get what you pay for Special Fur Expert in Charge Mr.

Olson, from the house of Gordon and Ferguson, will be in attendance and will be glad to give you the benefit of'his ence and advice or any information desired relative to special orders. A. W. Lucas Co, AUTO LIVERY-Phone 490 Call for Service New cars, careful drivers. Much better sei vice at pricesame as hacks THOMPSON RHODES, ONice with Lahr Motor Sal ft Co.

212 4th Street Phone 490 BIV1M vator company of Galchutt is one firm that is organised to merlt ness success. Shares in the concern for $1 each, and ch holder is limited to three. The organlzat'on at present has holders. Ten per cent of ye receipts of the company are reserved, and idends are paid out of this at the rate of a cer'ain per cent. The remainder is not necessary to the use of the com pany, is returned to 'he farmers the rate a addition in price per bushel.

This sVsti'm has been tried in various places and found to work. It is very successful at chutt. Bi'tcher Shop Needed. There is a butcher shop at Galch- HOTEL RADISSON MINNEAPOLIS Offers a cordial welcome and courteous service to all. RATES Rooms with Running Water $1.50 per 4af Rooms with Toilet and Running Water $2.00 per day it at an $2.50, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00 per but a butcher is needed.

The she is lying Idle until the arrival of a man competent to handle the work. The citizens of the town have expressed themselves as being ous of having a barber shop localcd there. day Remember the date Oct. 31 'and Nov. 1 T'l'l.