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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-08-23
MINOT WELCOMES GRAND
FORKS BUSINESS MEN
Enjoyable Reception Held at Club
Rooms This Afternoon==In=
teresting Speeche.

Forks is growing rapidly and
wonderfully.
That city is but on the eve Of
great things. Grand Forks is
growing along material lines and
will be a great help in the gen.
eral growth Of the state. So
does Minot wish to grow to help
the development of this great
state. AS you succeed in Grand
Forks, just so will we succeed
here. Each unit must work out
it's mission on the highest pos
sible ethics to make North Da-
kota the best, most progressive
and most rapidly growing state
in the United States. North d.
kota is the state for young men.
We have the best school system
in the United States. No state
in the Union can show as high
an educational standard as North
Dakota. There are 120, 900 school
children in the state. The per
cent Of illiteracy is but four per
cent. Our schools are run at a
cost of two millions of dollars a
year. We have the largest and
best agricultural college in the
United States. Our university is
bigger than that of Virginia
which was started more than
100 years ago.
No man can send his son out
of the United States for a better
education than can be secured
right in our state unless he wants
a special course.
This part Of the state is made
J up Of the 100 acres population
and in time it may be considered
a 800 acres population, but the
farms will never be larger. This
fact will make this section the
most verile, dominent portion Of
the United States.
This part of the state is the
home Of the young man full Of
hope, life and courage:
The governor made a plea for
the citizens of this state to keep
close to the shore and said that
any square and fair, honest and
just business man can succeed in
North Dakota.
E. j. Lander, one Of the best
business men of Grand Forks,
gave a good sound talk. He said
he has been acquainted for a
long time with the spirit of the
Minot business men. He knows
of the local and state patriotism
that the business men possess.
He advised the business men to
join their commercial clubs. They
should have more confidence in
their towns. He said he was
from Illinois and was we'll &C.
quainted with the conditions Of
Iowa.
Iowa with three and a half
millions of people has 10000
square miles less Of land than
North Dakota. In Iowa there
are forty people to the square
mile on the average while in
North Dakota there are but
eight. We have but $50, 900 peo-
pie, but some day we will rival
Iowa in population.
Trade all you can in Minot, he
advised the club members, but
also he advised the business men
to secure just as good a line of
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-08-23
The Society Butterfly.

That maligned creature the society
butterfly" is as hard working in its
way as Solomon's ant and goes about
its duties with steady application
and determined disregard Of fatigue
and boredom which not q few indus
trial and other workers might initiate
with advantage. Take, for instance,
the charity bazaars and festivals.-Lon-
don World.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-08-23

The farmer who scratched up
the ground this year got paid
nightly poorly for his trouble.
The good farmer never got bet
ter crops.
Have your horses the mango?
Ii so buy a battle OF creoline at
any drug store, make a solution
OF three tablespoonful OF creoline
to three pints Of writer and every
ten days give your horses a
thorough scrubbing.,
@ VIM. NJ. Loney, the Granville
merchant, called on friends in the
city Sunday evening.
Judge Murray returned from
the big Eagle meeting at Mil
waukee where he says the boys
were not quite successful in drink
ing the town dry. The Eagles
had a splendid time.
Found on the North Side-A
gold lodge emblem. The owner
can have the same by describing
ing and proving property and
paying charges.
Simon w. Fawcett and wife of
London, Ontario, are the guests
of their neice, Mrs. E. B. Nc
SCutcheon, Fifth street east.
Mrs. Amy, who has been Wis
iting in Minnesota for the past
month has returned home
accompanying by her niece Miss
Benson, of Cr0oks.on, Mimi.
Attorney Nestos, OF the firm OF
johnson & Nestos returned on
Tuesday from a visit thru the
West and reports having had an
excellent trip.
Stone, Ordean, Wells & Co.
wholesalers, are about to erect
a three story cement block or
brick building along the Great
Northern where their present
building stands.
Velva has fitted up a beautiful
park of twelve acres and invites
the country people to bring their
Sunday dinners and enjoy them
selves. Let us see. how many
parks are there in Minot? The
city should secure one before the
lots are too high.
The recent hot spell caused
some OF the wheat to shell out
some. The damage is not
believed to average half a bushel
to the acre at the worst and in
many places the damage is but
slight. The farmers will get the
biggest crop in the history OF the
county at that.
The Mohall News urges the
business men to use their lnflue-
nee in building telephone lines
thru the adjacentco Sher-
wood has invaded the Mohall,
country with a line almost to
Nc Kinney. How easy 1t is for a
farmer to order goods over the
phone no be delivered by a neigh
Dor who is going to town. The
time has come in any community
when the early bird catches the
worm.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-05-25
Keen Alive Love for Flag.

AS each year rolls around some patri-
otto city is asked to welcome the g. A.
r. In a grand runeion, striving to out
do some other city, which with out
stretched arms has welcomed the @. A.
r. in a grand reunion, striving to out
to life dormant spirit of devotion to
the old flag and resolve that this
union of states will never be dissolved.
without the G. A. r. to refresh the
memory of the people Of this country
they would be apt to forget the great
sacrifice this nation suffered that this
union should not be dissolved.
Again there is another wing to the
@. A. R., the Sons of Veterans, organ
lied to go hand in hand with the O.
A. r. to perpetuate their memory for
generations to come. to keep alive the
love for the old flag, as the strength
of the nation depends on the love ofFs
people to defend It in time Of danger
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-05-25
To the Nations Dead.

Long have they lain meath the grass and
sod,
Those noble sons that in battle trod.
No more the sound of the bugle call
Shall quicken their steps to duty's call.
They only wait for the trumpet sound,
When the great and good shall at last be
crowned,
And the battle and strife of yesterday
Shall be lost alike to the Blue and Gray.
Ye who march on this day in May,
To scatter garlands of flow'rets gay
over the mounds of soft green sward,
Where sleep the brave in battle gored;
Know that to these we owe your land,
So scatter the buds with willing hand,
With thoughts of love while lips do pray
For the peace and rest Of the Blue and
Gray.
And let the flag on each grave rest,
or him whose struggle made 1t best
Those Stars and Stripes let proudly wave
Above each soldier honored grave.
For these are they who held them high,
Caring not that they should die.
So let the Union feel to-day
Thoughts of love for the Blue and Gray.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-05-25

Americans ALL" can those now Nv
ing ever forget them, or will future
generations ever cease to read OF those
times from the pages OF history!
Two Memorial days-one for the
north, one for the south, and again.
"All Americans" No other nation has
concern in these memorial times but
our own. 1t was war between broth
ers; the war has passed, the brother
hood remains. Or, if there still are
those whose hearts are fermentlng
rooms for sectional hatred, we pity
that man or woman; surely there Is
a time to put aside-if not forget-a
time to regard the best of the pres
ent, not the worst of the past; time
to cultivate amenities and loves, not
antagonisms and base passions. Yes,
there are two Memorial days; may
the sun shine clear in the heavens on
the days that commemorate the valor
and the losses of both the north and
the south; nor let either section fail
in thought at least, to pay its due
NY Cquoi oAAtSSAAsS
and valor to the other. These days,
as is eventually the case with all me-
mortal days, have measurably lost
their early characteristic-tha which
clusters around the affectional nature
and recalls the father or the son who
fell in that great struggle. 1t is not
in man always to mourn; and now
that which was born of the affections
becomes monumental and historic, and
it is well that it is so. In recent
years graves of the northern dead
have been decorated by the brethren
of the south, and the blue have loved
to lay their floral tributes upon the
graves of the gray. So may it con-
tinue to be, as in future years our
two Memorial days come around with
each recurring spring. Pass few
tardy years and monuments to a Lee
or a Johnston or a Gordon shall find
resting place at the north as well
as at the south, and so the oneness OF
the people and the forgetfulness OF
old antagonisms shall find expression
in bronze or in marble as it already
dwells in the hearts of those who are
both broadly patriotic and strong.
Festina Decentralization Work.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-05-25
MEMORIES OF THE PAST.
The Day Intended for Appropriate
Commemoration Of the Deeds
of Heroes.

Memorial day was founded that
there might be few hours in each
year set aside for the appropriate
commemoration of the deeds of men
who had been killed while serving the
country in the army or navy or who
had died since having so served. For
number Of years 1t was generally
and suitably observed. Then In some
places it ceased to be observed at all.
In, many it was given up to bicycle
and horse racing and other sports and
festivities.
Diversions Of this kind have been
widely and properly protested against
as dissertations Of the day The pro-
tests seem to have had some effect.
for observance of the occasion prom
ises to be not only more general this
year than usual but also more appro-
pirate. Graves will be decorated, and
in many cities, towns and rural neigh
borhoods there will be solemn process
sions to cemeteries, and sermons will
be preached and addresses delivered
recalling the brave deeds of the ma
TONS heroes and the great princi-
pies for which they fought and for
which many died.
Holidays devoted to recreation and
sport are good thing, but it does not
necessarily follow that all holidays
should be given up to them. Me-
mortal day ought to be devoted large
ly to recalling what past generations
did.
Contemplation of the courageous and
self-sacrificing patriotism exhibited by
past generations is to little purpose
if it do not Undue their successors
with a purpose to emulate them.
The men Of to-day have confronting
them questions almost as difficult as
any which have yet been dealt with,
and the best way the sons can show
their appreciation Of what the fathers
accomplished is by resolving to go
about their work as citizens with the
same courage and in the same spirit
as their fathers went about theirs
Chicago Tribune.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-05-25
FRATERNITY, Charity and Loyalty.

The greatest service the Grand Army
of the Republic has rendered is the
beautiful way in which it gives life to
the principles of the organization-fra-
ternity, charity and loyalty.
That millions of men of every degree
of life and station should for 40 years
be bound together by this common bond
of brotherhood is not only worthy OF
admiration, but also of imitation by the
members of this republic.
Charity, or love, is the greatest thing
in the world, and love is the key to
every department Of life, the founda-
ton of patriotic teaching, the safety OF
the country, the home and the individ-
ual.
Loyalty to their comrades, their or.
ganization, their country and their God
has been fittingly illustrated in the
lives of these boys In blue.
This trinity of principles, If copied
by our S0,0O0,000 citizens, would make
us the greatest nation on earth.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-05-25
MruEm ma Jawyer

Unless early and correct treatment is
applied the patient seldom survives
when once the disease is fastened upon
her. We believe Lydia z. Pin3Sham's
Vegetable Compound is the most efti-
Gent treatment for chronic kidney
troubles of women, and is the only med
icine especially prepared for this
purpose.
When a woman is troubled with pain
or weight in loins, baclache, frequent.
painful or scalding urination, swelling
of limbs or feet, swelling under the
ewes, an uneasy, tired feeling in the
region of the kidneys or notices a
sediment in the urine, she should
lose no time in commencing treatment
with lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. as it may be the means of
saving her life.
For proof. read what Lydia z. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound did for Mrs.
Sawyer.
"I cannot express the terrible suffering
had to endure. A arrangement Of the female
organs developed nervous prostration and a
serious kidney trouble The doctor attended
me for year, but kept getting worse, until
was unable to do anything, and made up
my mind could not live. / finally decided
TO try Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound as a last resort, and l am to-day well
woman Icannot praise 1t too highly, and i
tell every suffering woman about my case
Mrs. Emma Sawyer, Conyers Ga
Mrs. Pinlham gives free advice to
women address in confidence, Lynn,
Mass.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-05-25
DEBT OWED GRAND ARMY.
Highest Principles of Patriotism and
Citizenship Inculcated by
the Order.

The old soldier, veteran of the civil
war, is Giving epistle, known and
read of all men," His presence among
us is a reminder of the war, an in
spiration to duty, living exponent
and illustration of patriotism.
The Grand Army of the Republic is
made up of the honorably discharged
union soldiers. None others are ELI
gible to membership in it. 1t is
nonsectarian and nonpartisan, politi
cally, organization, and yet it's funda-
mental principle is loyalty to the gov
eminent. 1t is a bulwark against trea-
son, and everything else that men.
aces the welfare, prosperity and safety
of the nation.
To the children and young people
the old soldier is ever an object of in.
terest, and his relation of his expert
ence in the struggle for the preserva-
ton of the union and the government
is more interesting and impressive
than the printed page.
The creation of an intelligent citi.
zenship and the establishment of in.
] situations necessary to the preserva.
ton and perpetuation of our repub
lican form of government lie in the
development and extension of our pub
lie schools.
Social order, exalted views of life
and appreciation of our privileges. and
the promise of our future as a nation
are secured by an intelligent and care
full use Of our opportunities.
These things the Grand Army of tbs
Republic seeks to secure and foster
No greater service can be rendered t.
our country than to promote and estab
lish her interests in the welfare, in
telligance and high moral quality o.
her people. The veterans Of the CHI
war see all this. and for them T. s.
stsnd.-Rev. J. ]. Woolley.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-05-25

The Grand Army of the Republic.
Day by day their ranks are thinning one
by one they disappear.
And at each succeeding roll call, fewer
voices answer: ''Herew
Still their regiments are marching-many
march with noiseless tread,
And no bugles sound assembly IN the
bivouac of the dead.
Hats are reverently lifted to the heroes
lying here;
Lift them to the living heroes-hail them
all with cheer on cheer.
Not for long will they be with us; soon
each regiment will be
Tented here beneath the blossoms OF tne
land it helped to free.
But to-day the drums are muffied ana the
flag at half-mast waves,
Keeping green dead heroes memories as
the grass above their graves.
Still another weary winter shrouded IN the
snow they lay;
Now we bring them crowns ana sariahus
of the lovelest blooms of May.
Let them rest in honored slumber, whiie
their praise, from shore to shore,
Eighty millions threats are sweliing-"e
are free forevermore!
Elsie Florence Fay, in Success Maya
zine.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-05-25
THE POINT OF THE PRovERB

An old proverb advises the shoe
maker to stick to. his last 1t means
that a man always succeeds best at
the business he knows. To the farmer
it means, stick to your pillow; to the
blacksmith, stick to your forge; to
the painter, stick to your brush.
When we make experiments out OF our
line they are likely to prove expen-
sive failures.
It is amusing, however, to remark
how every one of us secretly thinks
he could do some other fellows work
better than the other fellow himself.
The painter imagines he can make
paint better than the paint manufac-
turer; the farmer thinks he can do
a lob of painting better, or at least
cheaper than the painter, and so on.
A farm hand in one of Octave
Thanets stories tells the Walking
Delegate of the Painters Union, ANY
body can slather paint" and the old
line painter tells the paint salesman,
"None of your ready made mixtures
for me; reckon l ought to know
how to mix paint"
The farm hand is wrong and the
painter is wrong: Shoemaker, stick
to your last" The fancy farmer"
can farm, of course, but it is an ex-
pensive amusement. If it strikes him
as pleasant to grow Strawberries at
fifty cents apiece, or to produce eggs
that cost him five dollars a dozen, 1t
is a form of amusement, to be sure,
If he can afford it, but it's not farm
ing. If the farmer likes to slosh
around with a paint brush and can ar
ford the time and the expense of hav-
ing a practical painter do the job
right pretty soon afterward, it's
harmless form of amusement If the
painters customers can AFFORD TO
stand for paint that comes off in hall
the time it should, they have perfect
right to indulge his harmless vanity
about his skill in paint making. But
in none of these cases does the shoe
maker stick to his last.
There is just one class Of men IN
the WOTlu ludJ hiOWo nv" " iAN
paint properly and have the facilities
for doing it right; and that is the
naint manufacturers-the makers OF
the standard brands of ready-prepared
paints. The painter miTes paints;
the paint manufacturer grinds then,
tooether. In a good ready-prepared
paint every particle of one kind OF
pigment is forced to join hands with
a particle of another kind and every
bit of solid matter is forced, as 1t
were, to open its mouth and drink in
its share of linseed oil. That Is the
only way good paint can be made, and
if the painter knew how to do 1t he
has nothing at hand to do it with. A
paint pot and a paddle are a poor
substitute for power-mixers, buhr-mills
and roller-mills.
The man who owns a building and
neglects to paint it as often as 1t
needs paint is only a degree more
than the one who tries
to do his own painting or allows the
painter to mix his paint for him.
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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-05-25
Sleeping, Not Dead.

Ye silent men, who to your country gave
The last full measure of devotion-life-
Ye fell asleep while the tumultuous
strife
Around yeu swelIed in fury, like the wave
Which breaks upon the rocks which prove
its grave.
To-day, around you all the air is rife
With wailing cries from bugle and from
fife
The voice of that dear land you died to
save,
Nay, we have never died-ye live to-day
In every soul which joys that it is free;
In that fair flag with which the breezes
play,
With every flashing star undimmed. un-
lost;
In all our hearts, which clay like yours
shall be
Before our land forgets what freedom
cost
-Ninette M. Lowater. in N. Y. Sun
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-05-25
"A LAND OF OPPORTUNITIES.
Inducements Held Out by Western
Canada Are Powerful.

A recent number of the Winnipeg
| (Manitoba) Free Press contains an
excellent article on the prospects id
Western Canada, portion of whichN
we are pleased to reproduce.
The agents Of the Canadian Gov
eminent, located at different centres
in the States, will be pleased to give
any further information as to rates,
and how to reach these lands.
"Just now there is keener inter-
est than ever before on the part Of
1.-THE outside world, in regard to the
claims Of the Canadian West as field
Of settlement. At no previous time
has there been such a rush of immi-
grafton, and the amount of informa-
ton distributed broadcast is unprece-
dentedly great.
"In the majority Of the States Of
the Union and in Great Britain the
opportunities for home-making and
achieving of even a modest compe-
tence are at the best limited More
over, according to the social and IN
dustrial conditions prevalent in those
communities, the future holds out no
promise of better things. 1t is not
strange, then, that energetic young
men should turn their eyes to Can.
ada's great wheat belt where every
man can pursue fortune without the
hindrance of any discouraging handi'
cap.
1.-THE inducements held out by West
ern Canada are powerful and made
manifest by the great movement now
in progress. That the prospects are
considerably more than reasonably
certain is borne out by the history of
the country and its residents. The(
promise Of gain Is powerful, but when )
added to it there is the prospect OF
corresponding social and civil eleva-
ton, it should prove irresistible to
young men of particularly desirable
class for any new country.
1.-THE Canadian West is alive with
opportunities for the young man who
aims at becoming more than a mere
atom in the civil and national fabric.
Some Of the eager young fellows who
arrive on the prairies daily are des'
tined to become more than merely
prosperous farmers. In. the near flu
ture great municipal and provincial
development will be in the hands OF
the people The stepping stone to
both financial prosperity and civil
prominence is. and will be, the farm.
For every professional opening there
are hundreds of agricultural openings.
The Canadian prairies are teeming
with opportunities for the honest and
Industrious of all classes, but they
are specially inviting to the ambitious
young man who seeks field for the
energy and ability which he feels in
herent within him. The familiar cry
of Back to the soil!" is more than
vain sounding phrase when applied
to Western Canada"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-05-25
cLoTEEs AND CONDUCT.

Addison could not write his best UNI
H,ss he was well dressed.
Every man and every woman feels
the influence of clothes and appearance
upon conduct.
Indeed, in a millennium of free
clothes Of the latest fashion we shall
al be archangels.
You have heard c. the lonely man in
the Australian push who always put
on evening dress for dinner. so that
he mlgat remember he WAS a gentle
mao.
Put a naughty girl into her bcs;
Sunday clothes, and she will behave
quite nicely. Put q BLACKBOARD INTO
khaki ana he will be a hero. Pu.
an omnibus conductor into uniform
and he will live up to his clothes
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-05-25
MANY Smokers Prefer Them to Zoe
Cigars. Annual Sales Eight
Million 5000, OOO.)

The popularity of Lewis Single Binder
ftraight sc cigar is largely due to the fact
that this factory always uses thoroughly ripe
and perfectly cured tobacco, thus giving the
smoker a rich, mellow tasting cigar. The
tobacco is from crops showing the best quail
ity and is graded fancy selected. Smokers
have found that they can always depend on
the same high standard of quality in the
Lewis Single Binder. The Lewis Single
Binder Factory is one of the largest holders
of fancy graded tobacco in the United
States. Lewis Single Binder cigar gives the
smoker what he wants and at the right price.