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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1904-09-09

r. n. Ink made a business
trip to Fairmout, Monday.
Don't forget the Sunday din.
ners at The Ward from 1 to 8.
Chas. Vchulek came up from
his Fairmount farm, Monday.
We have ice cream on hand
at all times. The Ward.
Furnished rooms for rent.
lnquisHe of Mrs. NJ. Newman.
We make speciality of ice.
cream for family trade at Ward
& Walkers.
Aspinwall Bros. have just re-
ceived a fine line of school
tablets and supplies.
If you want fresh oysters for
your Sunday.sdinner get them
at the Crescent, Saturday.
Houses and lots for sale. IF
you are looking for city proper
ty see o. C. Farnsworth.
Albert Chezick offers his
Sixth street property for sale
cheap, also a lot on Fourth.
street.
If your old machine don't
work, trade it in and get a new
Drop Head Singer, the best in
the world.
Fresh milch COW for sale. In
quire of Otto Doffert on Chas.
Zimmerman farm Z miles south
of Breckenridge.
This office has been crowded
with law brief work this week
which accounts for the scarcity
of news in our columns.
D. d. Sullivan, optical speci-
alist of Fargo, at Merchants
Hotel, Wahpeton, the 18th, 18th
and 10th of each month.
bThe Crescent will receive the
first fresh canned oysters Of the
season, Saturday, and will con-
tinue to have them on sale at
all times during the season. C|
See c. E. Peters for Singer
sewing machines. Have some
snaps on second hand machines
in good repair guaranteed. Re-
pairing on machines and gas
engines a speciality.
A. Stern's show windows
have been attracting a good
deal of attention this week.
He has displayed a number of
relics, some being an hundred
and fifty years old. The win
dow is very attractively ar
ranged with a fine display of
shoes in the background. It
is we'll worth your time to see
the display. Don't forget to
note the names on the shoes in
the background as they repre-
sent the best on the market.
Martin Lerch, father of Mrs.
Boil, died at the home of his
daughter on Island Park, Sun
day. Deceased was born in
Austria, Sept. 20, 1924, and
came to this county some
seventeen years ago. He leaves
to mourn his loss a wife, twoI
daughters, Mrs. Frank Boil
and Mrs. Teresa Nenich, and
one son, Michael. Funeral
services were held from St.
Johns church, Tuesday, and
the remains were laid at rest
in the Catholic cemetery.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1904-09-09

BRIEF CITY NEWS.
Pure ice cream at The Cres-
cent.
Sanford Dodge at the opera
house this evening.
For a good dish of ice cream
go to The Ward.
Go to The Ward for a good
dish of ice cream and cake.
Geo. e. Wallace returned
from his Iowa visit, Mohday.
B. F. Lounsbury returned
Wednesday from his twin city
trip.
Mrs. Geo. E. Wallace return
ed from her visit to Edmonton,
Saturday.
Get your tablets for Monday
at Aspinwall Bros. Stationery
Department.
Mrs. H. H. Bader will furnish
room and board to two respect
able gentlemen.
Prof. J.C. Scott has been en-
gagged as principal of the
Dwight Schools.
Will Giles and Will Braun
departed Monday fof the st.
Louis exposition.
Mrs. VIM. Hess returned the
latter part of last week from
her New York visit.
Chas. Hartwick of Lidger-
wood was transacting business
in this city, Wednesday.
Only the very best of ice
cream can be found in any
quantity at The Crescent.
See c. r. Peters for anything
in sewing machines or repairs.
Office at Farmers Supply.
IF you want choice wood see
S. ]. Stanley & Co., yard near
G. N. Depot. Phone No. 55.
Mrs. Frank Lambert is enjoy
ing a visit this week from her
sister, Mrs. Chas. Mclaughlin.
Hon. w. E. Purcell and c. D.
Rittenhouse are spending the
week on their Logan county
ranch.
A bright little baby girl ar
rived at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. W..B. Aspinwall, Wednes-
day afternoon.
The Sewing Circle will meet
with Mrs. ]. Bauer on Second
street, Tuesday afternoon, Sept.
18th, at 2 o'clock.
Miss Lenore Kyle of Lidger-
wood has accepted a position
as stenographer in the Office of
Purcell, Bradley & Dive1.
J. NJ. Ness, Optical Specialist,
will be found every Saturday
in the office of DR.. r. H. Devine,
Wahpeton. Eyes examined
free and glasses fitted if neces-
sary.
Midshipman. John Shea ar
rived home Sunday from An
apolis where he has been at
tending the naval school. He
will spend month here before
returning to his studies.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Eberly
returned Saturday morning
from Chicago, where they ac-
companied Mrs. Eberley's faith
er, Mr.. Whorlwend of Lidger-
wood, who is there for treat
1nent of cancer which he has
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1904-09-09

A PRECIPITATION ORDINANCE.-An or
- dlnance making the annual appropriation
for the City of Wahpeton. North Dakota, for
Appropriation Bill"
y, Re It ordained by the CITY Council of the
city OF Wahpeton. North Dakota In session
Section l.. That there is hereby appropri.
ated by the City Council of the City of Wahpe.
ION. ION. Nortn DAKOTA. according to law for the
fiscal year commencing September LIST, 1904.
the following sums of money for the purposes
named specifically:
For annual payment on water works q 500 %
For interest on waite. works bonds 1870 40
For interest on general fund warrants 1900 90
For Mayors salary ary...........,., l00 %
For Auditor 6 salary ..............,.. a0O "a
For Attorney 5 salary. n I'd
for Ireasurers salary. 3s0 ID
Eor three pOllcemans Salary...,..,. lsOO %
tOr special police e..........,,..... 1ak n
For assessors salary .... .....,,.,.. 900 Do
ror teamsters saary..............,, 2l0 DO
For salary chief of 6re department.. iO0 %
For salary health officer ...... 50 a.
For lighting city under exiting cont $50 90
For telephone under existing cont, - %
For sinking fund ......... ........... 100 90
For salary Of aldermen. n............... 80 %
FOr sewer tax. ....................,. . a.
For labor on streets, crossings. ETC.. 1890 Do
For For merchand;s; .....'''.... so GO
For insurance on public property. 20 00
tor printing. ......................... 900 ID
For dre department. nt..............,... an 0O
For election expenses. ...... 96 %
or miscellaneous. observation-disclosures. 1880 %
Section .: This ordinance shall take e6ect
end oe IN force from and after its passage.
approval and publication.
Dated at Wahpeton North Dakota this 9th
day of August. 1904 ~ 81
THEO. J. HiNGrGEH.
President of City Council. y
F. B SCHSELLER
.'Ery Auditor $50
''rrnvc,! this 9Th day of S"n.enher 1914 l7s
h'I cas- u
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1904-09-09

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Fresh, can oysters at the
Crescent. :;
For rent.-My house on Sixth
Street. Albert Chezick.
Nicely furnished front room
for rent. Mrs. NJ. Otis O'Brien.
Prof. Skinner of the Scien-
tific school will arrive with his
family next Monday.
May Schuler returned from a
three months vacation spent in
Minnesota and the Dakotas.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1904-09-09

If the average legislator had
any regard for the wishes of his
constituents. there is no doubt
whatever but that a primary
election law would be enacted
at the next session. However,
the bosses have always con-
trolled the Legislature just as
they do the state conventions,
and they will head off any at
tempted legislation along this
line.-Hankinson News.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1904-09-09

D. D. Sullivan. optical speci-
alist of Fargo, at Merchants
Hotel, Wahpeton, the 18th, 18th
and 10th of each month.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1904-09-09

Mrs. Frank Lambert is enjoy
ing a visit this week from her
sister, Mrs. Chas. Mclaughlin.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1904-09-09

IF you want choice wood see
S. J. Stanley & Co., yard near
G. N. Depot. Phone No. 55.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1904-09-09

J. Richter was over from
Wahpeton Tuesday figuring
with the Board of Education
on furnishing a larger boiler
for the high school heating
plant.-Hankinson News.
1t John Slattery consents to
be a candidate for nomination
for states attorney we predict
that he will have little trouble
in landing the plum.-Havana
Herald.
Trinity Episcopal church
services Sunday, Sept. 11th,
HOO a. m., morning prayer and
sermon; 500 p. NJ, evening
prayer and sermon. Sermons
by Chas. S. Nook. Every one
is cordially invited.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1904-09-09

B. w. Brokaw eye sight
specialist and optomelist,. Has
optical parlor at Rittenhouse's
Drug Store, Wahpeton, n. Oak.
See him for your eyes. For
the convenince of those that
are busy during the day. He
can be consulted in the even
ing as the tests are made by
artificial lights. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Prices lowest
Office hours 8 a. m. to 10 p m.
the 18th and 18th Of each month
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1904-09-09

This office has been crowded
with law brief work this week
which accounts for the scarcity
of news in our columns.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1904-09-09

See G. r. Peters for anything
in sewing machines or repairs.
Office at Farmers Supply.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1904-09-09

Mrs. VIM. Hess returned the
latter part of last week from
her New York visit.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1904-09-09

1.-THE Crescent will receive the
first fresh canned oysters Of the
season, Saturday, and will con-
tinue to have them on sale at
all times during the season. n
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-05-10
How Education Revolutionized Bleak Scotland.

Far the most important event of this short ses-
sion was the passing of the act for the settling
of schools. By this memorable law it was in the
Scotch phrase, statuted and ordained that every
parish in the realm should provide a commodious
school house and pay a moderate stipend to a
schoolmaster The effect could not be Immediate
ly felt. But before one generation had passed
away it began to be evident that the common peo-
pie of Scotland were superior in intelligence to
the common people of any other country in Eu-
rope. To whatever land the Scotchman might
wander, to whatever calling he might betake him
self, in America or in India, in trade or in war,
the advantage. which he derived from his early
training raised him above his competitors. If he
was taken into a warehouse as a porter he soon
became foreman. If he enlisted in the army he
soon became a sergeant. Scotland, meanwhile, in
spite of the barrenness of her soil and severity
of her climate, made such progress in agriculture,
in manufactures, in commerce, in letters, in
science, in all that constitutes civilization, as the
old world had never seen equalled, and as even the
new world has scarcely seen surpassed. This won
derful change is to be attributed, not indeed sole
ly, but principally, to the national system of edu-
cation.-Lord Macaulay.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-05-10
The Late General Gordon on s~ectionalism.

my own well-considered and long-entertained
opinion, my settled and profound conviction, the
correctness of which the future will indicate, is
this that the one thing which is wholly and etern-
ally wrong is the effort of so-called statesmen to
inject one-sided and jaundiced sentiments into the
youth of the country in either section. Such SEN
timents are neither consistent with the truth of
history nor conducive to the future welfare and
unity of the republic. The assumption on either
side of all the righteousness and all the truth
would produce a belittling arrogance and an Of
fensive intolerance of the opposite section; or,
if either section could be persuaded that it was
wholly and eternally wrong, it would inevitably
destroy the self-respect and manhood of it's peo-
pie 49,. Truth, justice, and patriotism unite in
proclaiming that both sides fought and suffered
for liberty as bequeathed by their fathers-the one
for liberty in the union of the States, the other for
liberty in the independence of the States"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-05-10
Rural Mail Delivery.

The rural mail delivery has been a very great
blessing to the farmers of the West, bringing them
into closer touch with each other and the out
side world, to say nothing of the saving of time
heretofore largely wasted in going to the post
Office for their mail. 1t has, however, its draw
backs, which are represented, possibly in an aggra-
waited form, in the following letter from an Iowa
correspondent:
IT am beginning to think that rural mail de-
livery is a nuisance. Our boxes are being stuffed
with so much trash; daily papers by the dozens
which contain accounts of murders, suicides, rob-
berries, and crimes of every description, and hun
dreds of advertisements and all kinds of schemes.
They are marked sample COPY but it is the
hardest part of the farmers chores to get them
stopped. A great many farmers will bite, and if
the people would tell how they have been let
down on the advertisements you would be sur
prised. It is no wonder that it is sometimes hard
to get a farmer to pay a dollar for an honest
paper for the reason that he looks upon all of
them with suspicion"
This, however, will regulate itself by and by.
Farmers will learn to discriminate and select only
the best daily and agricultural papers. If the
farmer has any regard for the welfare of his
family he will exclude from his daily mail the
yellow journals dealing mainly in sensations with
out regard to whether the statements are true or
false, and often filed with advertisements which
are immoral, and if not immoral, then deceptive,
all sorts of get-rich-quick schemes, promising
to give something for nothing or a great deal for
a very little. They will discover also that they are
not in need of reading to while away the time SO
much as suggestions with regard to the best meth
cd of making the farm pay such as can be found
only in frst-class agricultural journals carrying
clean Observation-Disclosures Farmer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-05-10
The Purpose of Tillage.

How shall we save the moisture? Let us think
about it for a moment. The earth is like a
sponge; it holds moisture. When spring opens,
the soil is saturated. 1t is usually more than full,
for some of the water stands in puddles or runs
away in rills. The roily water of early spring is
the overflow of the saturated lands, carrying some
of the soil with it as mud. The overflow is soon
evaporated. Then the soil dries out from the top,
the dry layer ever becoming deeper.
Around every little particle of soil is a film or
covering of water, so ~indistinguishable that we
usually speak of it as "moisture." The water
films make the soil "moist." AS the upper parti.
cles lose their films by evaporation into the air,
they call on those beneath them for a new supply.
Thus there arises an upward movement of water
in the soil, and as fast as it comes into free con-
tact with the atmosphere it is lost. So the soil
becomes dry.
If we place a board on the soil the water does
not pass off freely. The earth is moist under
meath the board, or under any other dense cover
ing. A covering or mulch of sawdust or of ashes
also saves the moisture. So does a covering of
earth; and this covering is secured by loosening
the surface of the soil by means of shallow-work-
ing cultivators and harrows.
This is the object of tilling the land after the
crop is planted-to save the moisture by spreading
a mulch of loose earth between the atmosphere and
the moist soil. The mulch itself may be dry, but it
protects the soil beneath.
In the old days it was supposed that the object
of surface tillage was to kill weeds, and in fact
many people have this idea now; but the best
way to treat weeds is not to have them, and this
frequent stirring of the soil prevents them from
growing, at the same time that it saves the all
important moisture. 1t is better to save water
that falls to us than to apply it artifcially. No
one should think of irrigating until he saves what
he has. The good farmer first ~irrigates- his land
with a harrow.-Dr. Liberty III. Bailey, in Youths
Companion.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-05-10

interested in the education of the blacks, but they
declared with equal candor that white education
is by far the more pressing and imperative duty.
Now will any thoughtful man believe that DR.. Al
derman, DR.. McIver and others whom the people
of North Carolina know, would remain on the
Southern Education Board if this fact were ig-
nored in the manner the Observer suggests.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-05-10
Robert Loveman.

Part of to-day belongs to tomorrow, as the seed
belongs to the shoot, as the foundation belongs to
the building. So to-day owes it's best to to-mor-
row, for not to do right to-day may ruin to-
morrow. But the reverse is not true. Tomorrow
cannot ruin to-day. Times wheel does not run
backward. Danish, then, foreboding and anxious
forecast, and fill to-day with faithful work. with
kindness and courage and hope; and so you will
keep tomorrow from being a marplot, and make
it a good, honest day when it comes.-Maltbl u.
Babcock.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-05-10
CHOW THE SOUTH MAY REGAIN LEADERSHIP"

CHOW THE SOUTH MAY REGAIN
OF all the addresses delivered at the recent Con-
ference for Education in the South in Birming-
ham the ablest and most suggestive was that of
DIR. Walter H.. Page, born in North Carolina and
now editor of the Worlds Work. DIR Page called
his address "The Profit of Good Training" but
we are printing it in this issue under the more
accurate title GLOW the South May Regain
Leadership in Industry and Politics." It ought
to be studied by every man in the South, and es-
pecially by every young Southerner. Himself a
Southern man by birth and training, DR.. Page
speaks of our problems not only from fulness of
knowledge but from fulness of sympathy. And
whether or not one agree with him in all his con-
illusions, it must be clear to all that the South has
been held back by it's failure to train it's laborers,
by its mistaken confidence in the saving power of
trained leadership of unframed masses. Cheap
labor has been a curse because it has been un-
skilled labor. The employer to-day does not want
a 50-cent workman who does SIS cents worth of
work; he wants a So workman who does 81 worth
of work. The better the training, the greater is
the margin of profit.
And every man, white or black, who is economi-
cally inefficient pulls down the level of our life"
as DIR. Page says-is a burden on the community.
But too many of us here in the South have believ-
ed that to train these lower classes would leave
less for the upper classes to do-a doctrine which
Mr.. Edgar Gardner Murphy has effectually ex-
ploded in the paragraph which we have once be-
fore quoted but think it worth while to reprint
again in this connections:
Zone mans work does not reduce the volume of
the work open to other men. Every mans work
produces work for all. Every laborer who is really
a producer, represents a force which is charging
the market for labor. The man who makes a
table, broadens the opportunities of industry be-
hind him and before him. He helps to make work
for the man who fells the trees, for the man who
hauls the trees to the saw-mill, for those in the
mills who dress the timber for his use, for those
who dig and shape the iron which goes into the
nails he drives; he makes work for the man who
provides the glue, the stains and the varnish, for
the man who owns the table at the shop, for the
drummer who tells about it, for the men who sell
food and apparel to those who handle it and who
,rofit by its repeated sales from factory to whole
saler, and from the wholesaler to the retailer, and
from the retailer to the final purchaser. The man
who makes a table makes business. The man who
makes shoes or harness or tools or crops, makes
business. The work of the skilled producer does
not restrict the market of labor. 1t enlarges that
market"
But after all we have the old question as to the
for economic efficiency. And the great problem
for our educators is how to lessen that difference
between education" and "training" to which DIR.
Page refers in his speech.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-05-10

The Charlotte Observer of the End says: "The
idea seems to be gaining ground that the Ogden
educational scheme is solely to aid in educating
the negroes of the South. If so, all well and good
but why not be candid about it|
If the Observer Editor should attend one meet
ing of the Southern Educational Conference, he
might get a clearer idea of the purposes of the
"Ogden educational scheme" At Birmingham, as
at Richmond and Salem, the members of the Og-
den party very candidly declared that they were
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-05-10

The beautiful little poem, "The Children" pub
lished in last weeks Progressive Farmer, should
have been credited to Prof. Benjamin Sledd, of
Wake Forest. We greatly regret that the error
in credit was not corrected in the proof.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-05-10
A Singer in The Rain.

cit isn't raining rain to me
But fields of clover bloom,
Where any buccaneering bee
May find his board and room.
Here's health unto the happy!
A fig for him who frets,
It isn't raining rain to me
It's raining violets."
Robert T
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-02-17
Irainmen's Passes.

Many of the railroads having then
general offices in Chicago have had
their attention called by their en-
ployes to the recent action Of the
general manager of the Southern rail
way, who proposes to furnish engi
neers and conductors with annual
passes Of the road on the basis Of
service. Those who have been five
years in the service are to be given
ANIMALS good oyer the division on
which they are employed; those hay
ing ten years to their credit are to re.
ceiye ANIMALS good over the entire
line, and for those who have served
fifteen years their wives will be IN
cluded in the privilege.
The general manager of the South
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-02-17
a NIGHT Alarm.

Worse than an alarm Of fire at night
is the brassy cough of Group, which
sounds like the children's death knell
and it means death unless something
Is done quickly. Foley's Honey ana
Tar never fails to give instant relief
and quickly cures the worst forms of
Group. Mrs. p. L. Cordier Of Manning
ton, KY, says: my three year old
girl had q severe case Of Group; the
doctor said she could not live. | got
a bottle Of Foley's Honey and Tar, the
first dose gave quick relief and saved
her life." Foley's Honey and Tar is
best for Group and whooping cough,
contains no opiates, and cures quick
ly. Careful mothers keep 1t In the
house. Refuse substitutes. For sale
by Depot drug store.