The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 24, 1916, Page 9

S All Hoople Pleased That Real Ablllty is Recogmzed ; OOPLE, North Dakota, has no doubt about who’s going to be the next governor of the state. Neither is there any dissent-~ ing opinion that can be discovered in Hoople as to who deserves to be the next governor. Ask anybody in Hoople to name the greatest man in North Dakota today and ten chances to one he will say: “Why Lynn Frazier, of course!” . Hoople is unanimously for Frazier, and yet people still say that “a prophet is not without honor but in his own country.” That is some compliment to a man when you consider that Frazier has no secrets from Hoople. He is no newcomer putting up a “front” and getting a rep- utation for ability he does not possess. The grown men and women in Hoople all call Frazier “Lynn,” unless, perhaps, they want to be respectful before strangers and put on style by speaking of him as “Mr. Frazier.” THE NEXT GOVERNOR IS “LYNN” TO HOOPLE The old men and women, pioneers of the community, regard him as yet a boy, for they have known him since he was a little fellow. “A fine lad, that Lymn Frazier,” they say of him. A white-haired old lady was 8t the station when the little branch line train from Grafton came rattling into Hoople bearing, among others, a Nonpartisan Leader representative and another news- paper correspondent. Frazier had come to meet the mnewspaper men but he stopped to greet an old friend. “Well, how are you Lynn?” she said, and then added proudly: “I heard you speak the other day down at Grand Forks., 1 was right down there at the right, near the platforh, but I don’t think you saw me.” 4 “No, I didn’t,” said Frazier, with real - regret in his voice, and they exchanged questions and answers about “the folks.” The next governor had dashed into town in his shiny Ford direct from work on the farm. Since he finished his pre-harvest campaign tour a week before he had been busy getting in his own crops. He dropped work for half a duy to extend hospitality to his mltors Hoople is a neat and prosperous vil- lage like many in North Dakota. Its streets are clean and shaded. Its stores are modern and well stocked. It has - a tree-filled park along the banks of the North Park river and a number of sub- stantial homes™ that ‘would do credit to a city. : OLD FRAZIER HOMESTEAD 18 ON COUNTY LINE The Frazier place is only two mxles » out, a brief ride in a buzzing motor car; first ‘a spin to the north to the Pembina’ county line, Hoople being in' Walsh- county, only a mile frm the border, and,. Your next governor driving the binder. For the “inside stuff” about this picture see below. then a turn along another section to the right. Frazier’s place lies on the road that separates the two ecounties. It includes what was originally a tree claim taken up by one of the Frazier family and there are ten acres of stocky trees thirty-five years old that were set out by Lynn Frazier’s father and brother. There are no complicated abstracts to the section of ground that Lynn Frazier farms, Tt all came to one or another of. the Frazier family by patent direct from the government. It has been Lymn Frazier’s home for thirty-five years— since he was six years old. ; The house is screened from the road until the machine turns into the private road and after a hundred yards’ run comes abruptly upon it, surrounded by trees which form a complete windbreak on north, west and south. The yard is - open to the east toward the barn, about four-hundred feet away. The whole place shows plainly for what it is, the home of a thrifty, indus- trious farmer, but not a rich one. The yard is clean and the buildings well*kept. Recent paint hides the age of -the com- fortable old farmhouse, around two sides of which run a screened porch. MRS. FRAZIER, THE BOYS AND THE PERPLEXING TWINS Mrs. Frazier came out to welcome the two strangers who had nnposed them- selves on her hospitality. = She is rather under medium height, has a fair com- plexion and a figure tending towatd stoutness. She is quiet and reserved in manner and speaks softly and in low tones. - Her attitude toward the prospect that she will soon be the mistress of the governor’s mansion is one of quiet amusement rather ~ than pride. - She appears only slightly perturbed at the thought of having to take part in state social functions. that she. will perform whateyer social duties are required of her with the same quiet efficiency with which she runs her -~household. Some people have a habxt of Judgmg : mothers by = their children and Mrs. Frazier has no need to fear the test. She has four. First ‘come the twins, Unie and Versie; who are 11; then comes Vernon, 9, and last of all Wllhs, Wi Mothers who haye twins usually per- plex visitors by dressing them just alike, and the Frazier twins were no exception, There wasn’t an item from hair ribbon to shoe buckle to distingnish the two. Their freshly 1aundered dresses appeared to be “as ‘alike as’two ‘peas, and, to strangets, S0 weére their faces: The ~ visitor ‘noticed when they stood together before him that Versie—or was it Ume-—~fi was a little taller than the other, “Uni or was 1t Versxe" _One can well imagine benefit of company. He asked their mother which was the taller and she said Versie—but he’s not sure; itt may have been Unie. COMPETENT GUIDES CONDUCT FRAZIER FARM VISITORS Unie and Versie were first-class guides to the Frazier domain. There were two pigeons that came to their call and they perched one on the hand of each girl to have their pictures taken. The girls told how many young turkeys there were about the place—something like forty— and how many pigs—60—and how many guinea fowl. There had been five, but . there was one for the dinner that was served to the visitors, and that made “Versie drove that once,” said Unie, pointing to a huge wheeled vehicle that the town visitors kmew nothing. about and said so. “Ho! Don’t you know ‘what that is?” said the children in chorus. “That’s a side-delivery hay rake.” And then the future governor explained the philosophy of the side-delivery rake'and -the hay-‘ loader, besides other things about the mystenes of farming. ' The - visitors looked wise and tried to absorb as much as possz'ble. The party went out to. the fields north‘ of the house where the binders lay, to get a picture of Mr. Frazier driving a binder. The picture was for the Leader and also, for a news assocxatmn represented by the other newspaper man, who is.a meme berofthestafloltheSt.PanlDaily News. HUSH! DON'T TELL ANYBODY; THIS PICTURE IS A FAKE Now the fact is this picture is some< thing of a fraud. If a farmer looks at it closely he will see that there is no standing field of-grain but nothing but stubble ' around the binder.. But don’t get the idea that Frazier doesn’t drive a binder. He had been driving one just the day before, and so had the hired man, whose 'first name is Reuben. But on tbedaythlswastakenthegramhadall beancutandthreshmgwastostartthe day following. But Reuben brought out the horses, anyway—four horses with two colts following the two mares. They were hitched -to the machine and Frazier slipped on his overalls and his straw hat and mounted the binder seat with: his Iong whip in his hand, drove the machine around into position and the camera clicked with the result shown herewith. Frazier’s crops this year are like- all: the rest; they have been hard hit by the “rust. He showed the visitors.a field of velvet chaff wheat. “This wheat should have gone about 30 bushels to the acre, judging from the quantity of it in the shock,” said Frazier. “But I can see that it’s not going to make more than about 10 bushels.” ~ He rubbed out a few grains in his hand and ‘it was badly shriveled. There was not a good fat grain in the lot. F “What we get out of this depends on whether we have a windy day for threshing,” he continued. “If the wmd blows strong we may lose most of it in the straw.” £ “ORN AND POTATOES HELP TO “DIVERSIFY” ___There was 20 acres or so of corn which 3 seemed in excellent shape, and which Frazier plans to cut for fodder -for his own animals. He explained that he did not pick or husk “any corn but that it was @ll cut with a corn binder and stowed away in bundles to be fed in that shape, One crop that seemed to be in good condition - was - 24 acres of potatoes. With the prospects for a price better than”the average-on potatoes Frazier is figuring ‘on getting a substantial sum from " this' to. help meet his - year’s expenses, though he figures that because of the approximate failure of the small grains he will ‘scarcely ‘make expenses- on the year’s operations, = Some of his late planted grain”’ he will plow in as' there is-not encugh in it to pay.for the cutting and- threshing, in_his opinion. : The Frazier boys have a pony and in our Next Governor at Home | Some Observations on a Tour to the Frazier Farm;