The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 26, 1930, Page 2

2 One County in THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1930 CORN BELT TILLERS [SIDE GLANCES - = - By George Clark | TURN TO BUSINESS SYSTEM 0 PROSPER Now Have per Capita Wealth That Places Them in Lead of Nation’s Rural Arcas CLAYTON IS COOPERATIVE Ali Mortgages Held at Home; Never Had Bank Failure; Oppose Crop Bounty BY BRUCE CATTON ikader, Iowa, Feb. that their voices are all husky. has one county chat cares no more sbout farm relief than it cares about the Einstein theory. This is Clayton county, ‘ounty in which everybody is prosper- ous. Prosperous? Clayton coupty, as tar as per capita wealth is concerned, is said to be the ricaest county in tic United States. tants and they are all making moncy Its automobiles average better than one to a family. The citizens have opposed the McNary-Haugen bill be- | cause they don’t need relief. Considering the fact that Clayton county is planxked down in the mid- dle region where agriculture has been reaning under a seven-year depres- sion, this sounds almost unbelieveable. But the fact remains that the farm- ers of this section have found cut how to make agriculture pay. Crops Are Diversified Cc. F. Murphy, a leading attorney, explains it easily. “In the fi place.” he says, “we have a very fine soil here—a produ tive clay loam, well watered and wel! drained. “But our success is primarily due to the fact that our agriculture is di- versified. Our farmers raise all the kinds of crops that can be raised in the north temperate zone, and they know how to rotate their crops so as to get the most out of the land. They raise poultry, swine, beef and dairy cattle and sheep—and everything that is raised here is fed here. The stock feed is grown right on Clayton county farms.” ‘The average Clayton county farm is about 160 acres in size. A farmer will lay aside a 40-acre patch for pas- ture land for his stock. acre patch will be devoted to raising hay. A third patch of the same size will be sowed with small grain—oats, barley, wheat or rye—and a fourth 40-acre pach will be planted with! corn. At the end of the year the farmer simply moves part way around this square. The field that was planted to grain lies fallow and serves as a pasture lot. The field that was a pasture lot will be planted with corn. The former cornfield will be planted with hay. The former hay field will be sown with grain. So it goes, year after year—and the soil keeps its pro- ductivity undiminished. Farm Bureau Aids Clayton county farmers also take full advantage of the state farm bu- reau here in Elkader, the county seat. Roy Combs, county agent, has taught the farmers here the value of co- operatives, and has helped them to use scientific crop methods. He has organized a great number of cow-testing associations. A tester visits each farm once a month, test- ing each cow's milk for its butterfat content. He advises the farmer on the kind of feed that is needed and helps him to make his dairy herd as productive as possible. There are 15 co-operative cream- eries in the county, and 19 co-opera- tive livestock shipping associations, which handle 90 per cent of the county's livestock sales—some 3,500 cars of stock a year. There are co- operative feed-grinding mills in every town. The result of all of this is that the agricultural depression has bothered this county very little. Hold Own Mortgages To begin with, 75 per cent of all mortgages on Clayton county farms are held within the county. Thus, when the depression came, and the eastern investment houses began to call their farm paper. Clayton coun- ty escaped such a sudden demand on its resources. Its banks gave exten- sions, fully confident that they would get their money. “Our farmers get a continuous in- come,” says Murphy. “And they're mighty good business people. A lot of them have regular accounting sys- tems, just like city business houses. There are plenty of farms here with $50,000 worth of buildings on them. Practically every family owns an au- tomobile, and lots of them have two or three, and a truck besides. There hasn't been a bankruptcy in Elkader in 30 years, and mighty few anywhere in the county. We've never had a bank failure—and we're in the middle of the corn belt, if you please.” Clayton county has only $1,600,000 in bonded indebtedncss—a bond is- sue floated not long ago to provide paved roads, but this bond issue is not costing Clayton county anything. Each year the county gets a certain sum from the state highway commis- sion for road construction. This money is sufficient to pay the interest on the county's bonds and retire them in 20 years. Incidentally, $500000 of this bond issue f held by Clayton county farmers. 3 “The average estate left by a Clay- ton county farmer at death is $30,000.” says Murphy. “There's hardly a one that will be as low as $10,000. There 26.—(NEA)— | ‘The great Iowa corn belt, where the} farmers have been crying for help so! a rarity | It has 22,000 inhabi- j Another 40-| i ‘The young lady who took a job because she didn’t like housework MISFORTUNE AND ORPHANAGES, | FAMILY BIBLES AND HERMITS, ENTWINED IN CLAIM TO RICHES most non-existent. The value of! butter produced in the county in 1926: jWas $2,467,000. The average monthly income of the farmers as a group is! upwards of $205,000. Two years ago) the county's farm lands were given jan assessed value of more than $28,000,000. | | So there's Clayton county for you— a strictly agricultural community where the average of Individual pros- erity is higher than in any other ‘county in the land. |Forks Man Represents | | Anti-Vivisection Body) | In North Dakota Work | Grand Forks, N. D., Feb. 26.—Dr. | M. O. Hunter, Grand Forks dentist, | and president of the North Dakota| Anii-Vivisection and Humane Society, | has been elected a member of the ad- | visory board of the National Anti-Vi- visection Society. headquarters of | which are in Chicago. Dr. Hunter, will have jurisdiction over all the na-! tional society's activities in North Da- | kota. The National Anti-Vivisection So- | ciety is carrying on a country le | campaign against the use of live ani- | mals and living human beings for| experimental purposes, _ working | through local societies in various | states. “It is a privilege.” Dr. Hunter said, | | “to be associated in this work, which has the endorsement of many of the world's foremost scientists, as well as of many leading humanitarians in all walks of life.” —-——-. EEE) | AT THE MOVIES | PARAMOUNT THEATRE Gay co-eds frolic in “So This is College.” New faces, songs, pep and humor in all-talking singing, comedy- drama of college life. Metro Goldwyn Mayers, all talking singing picture, “So This is College” is now showing at the Paramount Theatre. Sam Wood, who directed the co- authored this sparkling collegiate pic- ture has caught the spirit of youth and flung it into the microphone ard cameras with a deft aim. He scores @ perfect touchdown and has set up a \goal difficult for others to attain in this particular field. The catchy tunes of “So This is College” alone makes this film stand head and shoulders above any similar Stage theme and the swiftly moving plot, climaxing in a dramatic and tense football game, could never be even remotely suggested by a theatre Presentation. The M-G-M college comedy brings to the screen a number of new faces —Robert Montgomery and Elliott Nu- gent of Broadway juvenile fame. Sally Starr, a new screen find, Cliff (Ukelele Ike) Edwards and a group of real college girls who cut capers all over the place. The original story and dialogue, credited to Wood, Al Boasberg and Delmer Daves, has as its chief moti- vation the comradery of the two star | football players on the U. 8. C. team. | The campus vamp, wrecking their friendship, almost ruins their game. Much of the picture was filmed and recorded out of doors and the abund- ance of moving shots, heretofore un- attempted in talking pictures. are handled with skill and effectiveness. CAPITOL THEATRE ‘That any goal can be attained if one doesn’t lose hope—is the belief of Polly Walker, beautiful leading woman in Radio Pictures’ big musical show “Hit the Deck,” now a‘ the Capitol theatre. “For a long time I had wanted the song, ‘Sometimes I'm Happy;’ as a special number for my work,” said Miss Walker, “and after three possible chances at last I get to sing it! “While with a show called ‘The Night Out’ the number was all set for me but before the show opened the prima donna decided she would like to sing it so I had to give it up. The show failed before it reached New York and the sonc didn't go over. “When ‘Hit the Deck’ was being prepared for the New York stage, I was considered for the leading role but plans went awry and I lost out again. This time the show went over een ae became a tremendous Montana Homestead Shack Is; Scene of Reunion of Two Aged Orphaned Brothers HEIRS TO $200,000 ESTATE Marriage in Ireland, 78 Years Ago, Source of Story More Strange Than Fiction Chicago, Feb. 26.—(P}—In 1852, back in Granard, Ireland, John Flynn, a sergeant in the revenue serv- ice in Dublin whom George IV had commended for bravery, married Hen- rietta Goodiff, daughter of a captain of royal fusileers. The capitain. enraged. objected to the marriage; the bridal couple fled to America. Yesterday, in a Montana homestead shack, two aging orphaned brothers, John and James Butler, reunited jafter 32 years, discussed coming to Chicago to claim the $200,000 estate left by the two sons of the Flynns who fled from Ireland 78 years ago. The years between are entwined with misfortune and orphanges, fam- ily Bibles and hermits, searches and success. Two years after the Flynns came to America and Chicago, Mrs. Fynn’s sister, Charlotte, married to Alfred Butler, in Ireland, emigrated west- ward, across the ocean. Both Settled in Mlinois The Flynns settled on a farm near Park Ridge, a Chicago suburb; the Butlers went downstate to Tuscola. ‘Three sons and a daughter were born to the Flynns. The girl died and the brothers inherited the farm. Edward Flynn died in 1920; James and John, the two brothers lived on. In December, 1926, John died of pneumonia at the age of 72; James, 70, waited until the physician had signed the death certificate and then shot himself to death. A fortune in currency was hidden about the house, the whole estate amounting to around $200,000. Several sets of distant cousins have claimed the estate; their family Bibles all attested the marriage of Charlotte to Alfred Butler, but in- sisted there was no issue. Butlers Reared Four But in Tuscola, the- Butlers had reared four children. The mother died in 1864; the father placed the four children in a Cl 5 Two died after adoption; James left when a small boy, wandered for sev- eral years, settled in Bird City, Kan. married and fathered four children. John was adopted and taken west; he came at last to a Montana home- stead. John C. Vanek, who traces ances- tors and clears up estates, was em- ployed to settle up the Flynn estate. He went to Tuscola; there, in the tree -dotted little cemetery on the east, edge of the small city, he found an Aged man at the grave of Char- lotte Butler; it was James, who had come back to his mother after 65 years. They found traces of James’ broth- er, John; to Montana they went; and there the two brothers were reunited. They informed Vanek today they would come here soon to claim the estate, Farmers Turn Host To Soo Train Caught In Prairie Drifts Grand Forks, N. D., Feb. 26—(#)— Their train stalled three miles north- west of Fairdale, Walsh county, the crew and about 25 passengers on the 800 Line local ito. 203, traveling be- tween Thief River Falls, Minn. and Kenmare, were held prisoners over ,night wiaile the worst storm in years raged over the rolling prairie about them. While preparations were being made at divisional offices at Thief River Falls, 60 miles away, to send a snow plow to free the engine, farmers in the Fairdale vicinity received the women and children on the train as temporary guests. & MOUNTRAIL 10 CUT WHEAT AND RAISE | ITS REED ACREAGE {Snow Almost Disrupts Economic Conference Which Start- ed With 450 | Stanléy, N. D., Feb. 26.—(4)—With several inches of snow already on the ground, the weather man, Tuesday. japparently had been successful in putting a crimp in the Mountrail county farm business conference which opened here Monday with an attendance of more than 450 persons. The heavy snow of Monday night, however, failed to entirely disrupt the meeting and when the last session of the conference was resumed, Tues- day afternoon, there was an attend- | ance of about 100. Mountrail county has been one of the most consistent in decreasing its wheat acreage and indications are that 1930 will see further decreases, according to Dr. &. G. Booth, state agronomist. Summer-fallowing is a popular practice, according to the farmers and indications are that there will be more wheat land summer-fallowed this year, In line with the plans of other counties, the conference pro- posed increases in acreage of feed crops. “The increase in feed crops is not due to any general plan for increas- ing livestock production, but rather to plan for better feeding of live- stock already on Mountrail farms,” County Agent C. A. Fiske, declared. A slight increase in the number of poultry kept on farms was proposed in a@ recommendation by the poultry committee. ~ The horiticulture committee agreed in that the “planting of shelter belts jis one of the biggest improvements Mountrail farmers can put on their places.” Emphasis was laid on the importance of securing the right va- rieties of trees for this section of the state and the need for proper care and cultivation. A permanent county agricultural committee of 13 men and women was appointed, Tuesday afternoon, at the general session of the conference. | Three Slope Students | At U Are Entrants in Forensic Day Contest Grand Forks, N. D., Feb. 26—The King extemporaneous speaking con- test for which cash prizes are offered under the provisions of the will of the late Dr. Frank King, St. Thomas, will feature the third annual Forensic Day at the University of North Dako- ta Thursday, William Schrier of the department of public speaking an- nounced today. Entrants in the contest, which in- clude John Hennessy, Reynolds; Richard Heaton, Dickinson; Carroll | Day, Bowman; Meyer Muus, Grand Forks, and Durward Balch, Dickinson, | will each speak on three topics, one | abstract, a second campus, and the last state, national, or international. Drawings for these speeches will be made at 8 a. m. and the contest will | be held at the regular convocation hour, 11 a, m. Innovation of the Oxford parlia- mentary method of debate has been announced for the contest between the University of Manitoba and North Dakota university which will be held Thursday evening. John Hennessy the Nodaks and present the affirma- tive side of the question “Resolved: That modern advertising as practic- ed by wholesalers, retailers, and man- ufacturers is more harmful than beneficial to society.” On the nega- tive will be Miss Gerda Hiebert and Alfred Berman, of Manitoba. C. J. Carter, Flaxton, and Patrick Milloy, Omemee, will go to Winnipeg Thursday where they will meet two other members of the Manitoba squad = the negative side of the same ques- mn. Plans for the women’s declamation contest which is a. part of the King contest have not yet been completed, Mr. Schrier stated. DROWNS IN PUDDLE Grove City, Minn, Feb. 26.—(?}— Tulsma, seven years old, who came here with her mother from Sioux City, Iowa, to visit at the farm of William Nygard, seven miles north of here, drowned in a puddle of water while playing. RESTFUL EASE AFTER COUGR- ING and Richard Heaton will represent be Quiet Marks Taft’s Home as Jurist Battles Illness Behind the wide windows of his bedroom (upper left) Ex-President Taft is fighting his greatest battle. Sometimes Mrs. Taft meets a sympathetic friend on the sidewalk, as she did Mrs. Horace H. Lurton, Jr. (at left). Washington, Feb. 26.—(?)—Serene in the sharp winter sunshine, and still —too still—a comfortable colonial home on a quiet street of Washington gives little hint that William Howard ‘Taft is fighting there the greatest battle of his life. There is little traffic in the street. An occasional passerby gazes curious- ly or sympathetically at the white curtained upstairs windows. Behind them nurses and doctors move softly about. A pathetic little figure emerges from the door. Mrs. Taft is starting out for some much neded exercise. Faithful Anne McNamara accom- panies her mistress solicitously to the door, blinks back tears as she watches Mrs. Taft turn the corner. “It was such @ shock to us to see Mr. Taft come back so changed,” she said wiping her eyes.. I've liked it |80 much here. I won't want to get another job. He was always so jolly and friendly-like. 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