Another successful year for the Farwell creamery

From the Pope County Tribune, Thursday, Jan. 29, 1925

Another successful year for the Farwell Cooperative Creamery has just closed and the writer is glad to state that 1924 showed great progress over former years. The business increased nearly 30 percent over the previous year and the quality of cream received enabled us to manufacture a very good grade of butter. All our print butter is put out in “Land O’ Lakes” cartons which in themselves indicate a greater percentage of sweet cream received than ever before. At the creamery we pasteurize all cream received so that we know the finished product can be sold under an honest guarantee of purity.

School For Telephone Men. Mr. Bartell, local manager of the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company in this city, plans on holding a school of instruction for rural telephone repairmen of the surrounding territory in the local exchange building on Feb. 7.  Repairmen from the following rural telephone companies are planning on attending this school: Lowry, Villard, Sedan, Central Rolling Forks, Short Line, Marloo, Lake Ben, Lake Minnewaska, Lake Amelia, Lake View and Terrace Telephone Companies. Mr. Bartell states that the purpose of this meeting is to establish a more uniform basis regarding the location of trouble and the proper maintenance of lines and equipment. He also plans on acquainting the rural repairmen with some of the standard methods now used in the installation of telephones.

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From the Glenwood Herald, Thursday, Jan. 29, 1925

J.F. McCutcheon, superintendent of the St. Cloud division of the Northern States Power Co., and J.L. Lawrence, traveling engineer of the same company were in Glenwood Tuesday and inspected the local plant. They stated while here that the connection being made between Villard and Osakis will be completed by Feb. 15. When this connection is made much of the trouble we have had in that our lights go out for shorter or longer periods will be removed.

Dr. J. Jeffers is a good talker, but he is a good worker too. He generally does both of these things simultaneously. Now however he is lonesome. He can only talk. Last Saturday morning he stepped on a slippery spot on the sidewalk and fell. He was so unfortunate that he struck the sidewalk on his shoulder and bruised his shoulder blade to such an extent that he will be laid up for some time. He is able to go to the office, but suffers pain at times. His friends are all sorry for him, but congratulate themselves in that they now can hear him talk more. We all hope that Mr. Jeffers may improve very rapidly.

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From the Starbuck Times, Friday, Jan. 30, 1925

Scarlet fever is a very contagious disease. It is easy to catch but not easy to cure. Like all contagious disease, it is one that no person should get. Don’t try to give it to all your children when one has it. Children are not the only ones who are attacked by scarlet fever. Per-Scarlet fever is called by many medical men as the “neighborly disease.”

A serious drop in the butter market during the past ten days, amounting to as much as six cents a pound on fine dairy butter, has brought out new conditions that have grown up the past few years. In an interview with H.F. Meyer, sales manager, he declared that with butter selling for 38 or 39 cents at this season, farmers are losing money in producing it, considering the high cost of feed.

Claude Lysen, son of Mr. and Mrs. P.O. Lysen of Langhei, died Wednesday evening. He suffered for about a year with tuberculosis. Mr. Lysen was about 30 years of age.

The members of Indherred congregation held a special meeting last Friday and decided in favort of building a basement under the Indherred church. The estimated cost is about $7,000. It is planned to start the work early this spring. O.E. Larson is busy preparing plans and specifications. The building committee appointed is as follows: Casper Gorder, Hans Gorder, M. B. Stoen, Ole Lorvig and John Dyrstad. A soliciting committee was appointed as follows: Andrew Ranum, Tom Lee and Conrad Brors.

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Other news from the Glenwood Herald

M.O. Hall died at San Diego, California. He was a brother of Mrs. Nels N. Barsness and therefore an uncle of Dr. Nellie Barsness of Minneapolis and Martin J. Barsness and Ole N. Barsness. He was born in Norway October 30, 1853 and came to America when three years old and settled first in Dane County Wisconsin. He was admitted to the bar and practiced law for a time in Granite Falls, MN. He then went to Washington, D.C., where he worked in the pension bureau. From there he removed to Duluth, Minn., where he was engaged in the banking business. In 1890 he was appointed a member of the board of managers of the Minnesota state prison and it was he who discovered the idea of having the inmates of the prison manufacture binder twine. This reduced the cost of twine at that time from 16 to 6 cents. In 1901 he went to North Dakota and filed on a homestead where Mohall, ND is now located. The name of the town as can be seen is M.O. Hall, except that it is written as one word. He was for a number of years member of the North Dakota Grain Commission and was interested in the Society of Equity of the state until it was wrecked by Townley and the non-partisan league. It was he mainly who was instrumental in getting congress to appropriate $2,000,000 which was loaned to farmers for the purpose of buying seed grain. During the last 14 years he has spent the winters in San Diego, California, meanwhile retaining his citizenship in North Dakota. He died at his winter home in California.