We wish to call the attention of the reader to the hundreds of "cheap land" propositions open to the public in every conceivable way. You also have before you a country that stands squarely upon its merits. We all know what North Dakota has accomplished in the past, and what it is doing today.
It is, strictly speaking, a grain and grass country in every sense of the word. It is a country where thousands coming here poor, are now wealthy, where no one is in want, and the state that will supply the world's future demands for bread.
Taken as a whole the state of North Dakota is the place for any ambitious person who desires to better themselves.
Write any of the Glenfield advertisers for particulars regarding business opportunities.
Long before the railroad was completed Glenfield was offering the community first-class service by merchants who had taken advantage of the new town by locating early, seeing ahead of them a great future. One would be very much surprised to step in any of these stores and see the stock that is carried in the various business houses there at the present time. While this is not as yet a city, still you can get city service in any line. Accommodation is found in every store, and the mail order houses are doing a very small business in the Glenfield territory, for the prices that prevail here are such that the people can buy just as cheap at home, which is a convincing spirit the merchants have in them for the up-building of the community.
Glenfield contains good, moral citizens, law abiding at all times. The people in this wide range of territory is like one large family, and the strangers who locates here are taken in at once and made to feel welcome.
Those who have the grow-bigger spirit in them are at all times willing to give the newcomer all the information possible regarding the good business opening available there. Write any of advertisers in Glenfield.
Listed next is some of the first Glenfield news in Independent in 1912.
Otto Olson of Glenfield, was in town Wednesday. Mr. Olson has purchased a site in Glenfield and will start a restaurant there.
In McHenry items - the Great Northern has finished a well 38 feet deep at Juanita to supply their engines in the near future.
Foster Co. Independent April 11, 1912
Features a Serial Story
"No Man's Land" A Romance by Louise Joseph Vance. They were continued stories.
Last Friday on the way home from Glenfield Township with a span of mules, J. H. Bell indulged in a lively runaway. After being dragged for some distance the mules broke loose and ran away. Damage done: Broken pole, wiffle tree, loss of overcoat, badly sprained hand. Moral: Beware of mules.
The above picture shows one of the Foster County towns that is rapidly coming to the front. Glenfield has every opportunity of becoming one of the leading towns on the Great Northern cut-off line, and in the past year the town has made wonderful progress, branching out from a spot on the prairie of a couple of buildings to a town of 14 business concerns at the present writing. There are several more places going up this fall.
Glenfield is 17 miles due north of Courtenay, being situated in one of the best grain producing sections of the state.
Generally speaking the land in Foster County is uniformly level, but not too flat to drain nor rolling enough to permit the soil to wash and waste.
The roads in the Glenfield vicinity are peculiarly adapted for natural road making, having just the right mixture of loam and clay.
Less than a year ago Glenfield had but two business places, and now it can call itself a town - a town in every sense of the word, and is in a fair way to become one of the leading trading centers for the farmers in that section. It has wonderful possibilities, being situated in an excellent farming country.
The business men of Glenfield, realizing that the town would become a permanent trading center have installed an excellent line of merchandise that would be a credit to a much larger place, and their confidence in the town has not been misplaced, judging from the amount of business that has been transacted there in the past few months.
The people of Glenfield are ready and willing, at all times, to encourage and boost any move that would be for the betterment of their community, and the opportunities offered by that town have been seen by many through the efforts of the "boosting" committee.
The growth of Glenfield in the past 10 months has been little less than phenomenal, and the people individually or collectively, are always on the job when it comes to promoting a good thing.
The writer had the pleasure of visiting Glenfield shortly after the Fourth and the town presented scene of activity seldom witnessed in a town of size.
At the present writing Glenfield has the following business places, and all doing a good healthy business.
Two general stores,
One hardware store,
One lumber yard,
One implement house,
Two grain elevators,
One bank,
One confectionery,
Two restaurants,
One pool hall,
One blacksmith shop,
One livery barn,
One dray line.
In addition to the above there is a large business block now under construction, and several more be erected in the near future.
Crop conditions in the Glenfield vicinity this year are about the average, in fact that section is very seldom alarmed over the prospects of a crop, as judging from the commodious, up-to-date farm buildings around Glenfield, goes to prove that the soil is of the productive kind.
Glenfield wants several more business places among which is a hotel, drug store and newspaper. We understand that a meat market is now being installed. Any enterprise of this kind would be a safe investment, and those who get on the ground floor may consider themselves fortunate.
1895: "Billy " Sunday plays baseball with the Foster County nine. Ed Sunday, a brother, resident of the county is team manager. Fire breaks out in Sheyenne River Valley, threatening town of Sutton. Loaded wheat wagons in plowed field are consumed near McHenry
Source: Glenfield History 1886 – 1987 Page 45