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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1907-08-02
WILLOW CITY
by the C0urant's Special Cor
respondent.
INTERESTING LETTER

Yelling of the Daily Happenings in
Our NeighbOring City.--AD the
News from that Town.
i am the key that shuts the gates of fame,
lam the cloak that covers covering shame
i am the final goal of every race.
I am the storm tossed spirits res ting
place.
The messenger of swift and sure relief,
Welcomed with wailing and reproachful
grief;
The friend of those who have no friend but
break all bonds and set the captive free.
i am the cloud, THAT when earth's day is
An instant wells an unextinguishable sun,
I am the brooding hush that follows after
The waking from the dream that man
calls life.
Mrs. Martin Houg and child
rem left on Tuesday for. points
in Minnesota where they will
spend the rest of the summer.
J. H. Cooke spent several
days last week at the Grand
Forks fair.
! Mrs. Frank Perrin was an
Overly visitor one day last
week.
!. Amos Nabseth was a visitor
in Willow City from Saturday
until Tuesday, when he return
ed to his home at Adams.
Il Attorney Thorson of Rugby
was transacting business here
last Saturday.
i Tom Armstrong of Pleasant
Lake is visiting relatives here
this week. ..... .....
Mr.. Will Gordon accompanied
by his mother and Mrs. Phil
Halls drove to the farm of Miss
j. l.. Romanson on Friday last
and spent the day. They re-
port Miss Romanson as enjoy
ing good health.
The household goods of J. E.
Stewart were sold at auction
on Saturday last.
Ed. Cooke of Overly spent
Sunday among his Willow City
friends of whom he has a host.
The Misses Moylan who have
been visiting their aunt, Mrs.
!. E. Stewart, for the past
month returned to their home
at Cando on Tuesday. They
were accompanied by Miss
Helen Dahl who will visit with
them until about the 1st of
September.
Deputy Sheriff Vaughn of
Bottineau was in Willow City
on Monday.
Mrs. Holt and daughters, ac-
scompanied by her sister Mrs.
Sunberg, left the latter part of
last week for Hastings, Mimi.
the home of Mrs. Holt. Mrs.
Sunberg will spend some time
visiting relatives and friends
before returning and in the
\ meantime Cashier Sunberg is
trying to look cheerful-but he
don't.
w. J. Armstrong spent sew
eral days last week in Rugby
having some defective molars
attended to.
S. B. Mahaney was attend
ing to business in Bottineau
the first of the week. 4a.
Misses Muriel Armstrong and
Marie Rose entertained a NUM-
Der of their young friends at
a lawn party Tuesday night at
the home of Miss Muriel and
every one reports a good time.
i Mr.. and Mrs. ]. HI. Cooke
and family left on Tuesday for
Lake Metigoshe where Mrs.
Cooke and the children will
spend several weeks camping.
Miss Fennell, who is nursing
Mrs. Anton Svensrud and the
,Svensrud heiress, will when
her services are no longer need
ed there, spend her vacation at
Lake Metigoshe with the Cooke
family.
Many prominent Masons
from here were present at the
Masonic gathering at Lake
Metig oshe. We are unable to
obtain the names of all but
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09

A Parliamentary candidate was
being heckled. One of the questions
had reference to the religious de.
nominations to which he belonged.
Well" he said, you have asked
me an honest question, and you shall
have straightforward answer. My
grandmother was Scotswoman "a
rigid Presbyterian"
disappointment was shown on the
faces of the audience. so the candi-
date proceeded.
My grandfather was English, and
therefore member of the Church OF
England"
Still no enthusiasm. but rather
the reserve.
My father, on the other hand
was a good Baptist" went on the
desperate candidate, who was still
unrewarded by applause. He grew
anxions, SO hurriedly added: But
my dear old mother, long since dead.
was a Methodist"
Instantly all faces were radiant.
SO he concluded:
And, gentlemen, follow the pre-
cepts OF my dear old mother. I'm
a Methodist and I don't care who
knows itl'-London Daily News.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09
Brought Out BY Kansas Crop Report
Caused Wheat Prices to Ad-
vance Nearly Cent.

| Chicago, June WHEAT. The
market opened easier on cold weather
conditions in the west. Later a com
plete reversal of sentiment was
| caused by the Kansas state crop re.
port. It was rumored yesterday that
the report would show percentage
| Of 52.3 on June /. II showed per.
centage Of 50 which was les than 6
| points higher than yesterdays pre-.
| dction. The difference was not suffi-
cient to strongly affect the arket but
the report declared that 81 per cent
OF the wheat area had been plowed
up This would indicate crop OF Az.
100000 bushels on the popular method
lof figuring. Dispatches also were re.
|ceiyed from Kansa declaring that
wheat was being cut for hay and that
further blowing Is stllT In progress.
These reports caused an urgent buy
ing demand and from 95M cents July
advanced steadily until it touched
OH cents Profit taking caused d
slight reaction but the close was
strong with July up sol cent.
CORN-0pened firm with a fair de,
mand. Crop reports generally were
unsatisfactory, it being declared that
the weather in he corn belt Is too
cloudy, wet and cold From some
points in Iowa and Illinois came re-
ports that the crop viii be seriously
retarded unless warmer weather ar
rives. July closed Il cent higher,
OATS-Slightly easier at the open,
ms but later rallied and was strong
the remainder of the day. Many
traders were of the opinion that the
selling yesterday was oyerdone and |
that the present conditions did not /
warrant the closing of prices last |
light The market was strong all day
md there was a good demand July I
closed up "a cent.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09
A Tip ON Botany.

William C. Whitney, Jr.. who has
spent year In Indian Territory
earning practical mining at Qua
paw, described at a dinner party in
New York a Quapaw restaurant,
says the New York Tribune
at this restaurant one evening, .
he said at his descriptions end. two
miners near me got into a botanical
argument about the pineapple, one
claiming that IL was fruit and the
other that 1t was vegetable.
I'm the midst OF their argument
the waiter entered in his shirt
sleeves and looked about to see what
was the cause of the loud talking.
1.-The miners decided to let the
waiter settle their argument. and ac-
cordingly one of them said:
=" Pete. what is a pineapple? is
II fruit or vegetable?'
''The walter. fiicking the ash from
his cigar, smiled at the two men with
pity.
Its neither. gents he said. It's
an extra
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09
Stocks = Bonds = Cereals
MODERATE POLICY BUYING DEMAND
Is Believed to BE the Decision OF Con
ference and Wall Street Sits Up
and Takes Notice.

| New York, June S.-The stock mar
ket community was inclined to draw
wide deductions from the conference
at the White Mouse last night to dis
cuss the affairs of various corporatins
and railroad combinations. The com
| mon ASSUMPTION in the financial dis
trict was that moderation of the
policy OF corporations was to be in,
ferred as in contemplation. The re-
Spouse Of prices indicated that the
Hartman group was regarded as most
Immediately involved in this decision.
The feeling Is very general In the
financial community. however, that a
large portion of the difficulties of
securing capital for railroad extern
sions and general Improvements has
been directly due to discredit thrown
upon corporations in general by the
attitude of the administration towards
these bodies. There Is a deep seated
sentiment in Wall street that modera-
ton of governmental seventies to-
wards corporations would operate ma
terially to facilitate the raising Of
needed capital. The poor bank state
ment was temporary offs t to the in
fluence of the Washington reports
The known movements Of money dur
ing the week account for only about
half the loss of over $9,000,000 IN
cash holdings, as $3,600,000 gold which
goes out today is not supposed 70
figure in this weeks statement but
to be reserved for appearance in next
weeks return. The loan increase, |
although slight, helped to swell the
deposit item and reserve requirement |
with the net result of cutting down |
The surplus reserve more than half !
Prices recovered after the situation |
caused by the bank showing and the |
market closed firm but rather below
he best prices.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

Chicago, H., June SEATTLE
NominalIy steady, there being prac
tically no fresh receipts. Steers sold
during the week at the highest price
of the year.
HOGS-The demand was active
early at an advance of cents but to-
wards he close a weaker feeling pre-
vailed and most of the gain was lost.
SHEEP-Steady but lambs weak
Prices are Is to 20 cents lower than
the best of the week although at a
higher level than a week ago.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09
uNKNowNINGLY TOOK TURN.
Were Treated by Their Generous
Host az One Of the Family.

'N~-> --"''t'>@ ~ A's's 0sAn
Host as One OF the Family.
A group OF American commercial
travellers were telling yarns on the
subject Of hospitality, when one OF
them took up his parable thus. says
the Queenslander:
II was down in Louisiana trav-
elm cross country, when we kinder
got lost in lonesome sort OF road
Just about dark. and when we saw a
light ahead | tell you It looked first
ratio. We drove M to the light, find
In twas a house, and when | hol-
Tered the man came out. and we
asked him to take us In for the
night He looked at us mighty hard,
then said. Wall. Ireckon kin stand
It II YOU kim
So we unhitched, went in, and
found twas only two-room shanty,
and Just swarmin' with children. He
had six from four to leven years old,
and as there didn't seem to be but
one bed. me an Stony was wonder
in what in thunder would become OF
us.
They gave us supper. and then
the old woman put the two Youngest
kids to bed. They went straight to
sleep. Then she took those out, laid
them over in the corner put the next
two to bed, and so on. After all the
children We're asleep on the floor, the
old folk went In to the other room
and told us we could go to bed IL we
wanted to, and. bein' powerful tired
out. we did.
Well, SIR, the next morning when
we woke up we We're lying over in
the corner with the kids and the old |
man and the old woman had the
bed!"
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09
A Testimonial.

There is a clever and gallant
young fellow attached to the British
Embassy at Washington, who since
his advent into the official set at the
National capital has achieved quite a
reputation as a wit
One afternoon the clever attache
was receiving the finishing touches
at the hands OF a pretty manicurist
when, with limpid eyes, she looked
at him and said:
We are so grateful for any teeth
monials from our patrons. Do you
mind?"
ON the contrary, I should be de-
lighted" responded the Briton.
Then. taking card. he wrote there
on the following and handed IL to
her.
There's a divinity that shapes
our ends"
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09
GOVERNMENT BONDS.
The Money Market.

New York, June S.-Money on cal
nominal Time loans dull and slight
ly firmer; sixty days 81 per cent;
ninety days S% to per cent; six
months AZ Prime paper TO 51a pei
cent Exchange steady. demand 81
sos to 10; sixty days si.S3.6O to 20
Bar silver coz.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09
The Best Ace.

Every age is the best age. Every
land is holy land Every epoch is
great and divine. Either God is living
and working to-day, or there is no God.
Either the interests of His kingdom
are as dear to His heart as they were
ages ago. or God is a dream and a de-
lusion.-Dr. NJ. ID. Shutter.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09
Best Cure For sl-epleSzness.

Brain workers are particularly liable
to sleeplessness. Their occupation
brings overstrain of tie nervous sys-
TEN and when they go u bed they
toss upon restless pillows. The cure
is ozone, and not drugs.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09

Al Atchison paper asks, What has
become OF the oid.fashioned boy who
fought aaginst wearing his Sunday
clothes' He's In Wall street fie~cing
the lambs, using the same methods
that he employed to organize corner
In marbles In the good old dsyA
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09
Furniture Movers Advice.

A lady. who is a furniture remover,
carrying on business at Maxwell. has
on her vans the following appeal to
the public: Don't worfy-get mar
ried-and keep on moving. London
Eyeaing STANDARD.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09
Trained Nurses for DOGS.

Some Of the rich people in London
now employ trained nurses for their
lapdogs. These nurses are paid better
wages than the women who take care
of the children Of these same rich peo-
pie
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09

A Phil7deiphia girl who was mar
ried the other day admits size was at
tracted b. the, yCang mans baseball
pitching Good combination. lie vas
the pitcher. she tbs catcher
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09

Results is what the advertiser wants
and that L. what he gets when be
PLACES Biz advertising in the Bul-
ie4in-
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09
Receipts and Shipments.

Chicago, June S.-The following car
load lots represent he days receipts
and shipments:
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09

Ciergynan's Claim to Fame.
The savings bank was invented by
a clergyman
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09
ILLINOIS CENTRAL
Corrected to June list, 1907,
THE FAST MAIL ROuTh
Shortest asd osfsksss Routes
St. Louis & Chicago

wrntns iesvs Csirsi
: 1i3 q .. m. Daily Chicago vestibule Limited
arriving In Chicago At II 30 .. m, connectfnt
with afternoon trains for al points east spc
north.
2i23 o. m. Daily 81. Losis Might L,.itsr
| arriving In st. Louis 81 7;es .. m, connectfn,
at Onion station for all points welt. sisspi.i
500 q. M, Chicago Daylight Erpress
| ercert Sunday, makes all stops betwssn uair
nd Chicago, arriving in Chicago 81 s:5e p. N
except Sunday, arriving in -. Louis 81 tic
ing in 50. Louis Il IS .. m:
1913 a. m. Chicago Midday specia
arriving in chicago, SO p. m.
2i35p. m. Daily st. Louis Limited. ar
irving in st. Louis ats z. M
2!36 p. IN. Afteru.-os vi f,s. ',,ii.
Hhnrhs ~. nsth,on ro,~u-. s",.. -
siio p. N. -ssDs. ss,...-s. 49,.
7'i6 an. ts''ss" sn' t-.'-.
spols : "a Cir ss.i -. I.e.,. ~
.: M. E.- rors 1859 8. o. s---'~. ---i
Passengers s,ss. 80. an. e.. 80 .ss s-."
that the Illinois ceutrHI Is the qssssess al
BY many honr,. leaving Cairo At 7iis p. - .
SOUTHERN DIVISION
rHH oEIy DIRBCr rdrs 10 upsra,
HAsHfiLLb, CHss1 .NOo1t. AT
LANA, ytCkeDn sfILE "a.
y.hefH. vfCErprpe
sod 1ACRscS va
ASA .. ~. The Oist. flfss, as-sst
Hsshrflls .sd ssctsoasfb..
8stb = ga. k~mPhis sod See lriss.. rs-ss
81 via hssn~hisi arfiriAs 10 -s.@... -
.. N, snd kss OrieAha s.is ,. ~
500 .. N. Ptdsess and -oais,frs.
1sAi p. n, daily, sesapkfs I'D OrIss.
rtst NAL arriving IN ktnphis a. 49, -.sst
ses Oriesus 81 s:lo q. -.
ii4f ,. o. DAILY Sssfsqi- Gs...--~. ssns
a tlants.
4s30 p m Fulton Accommodsfion-
o. , - ss.-Esis sssa Sc tssss.st resiI
srEIfe a nszpsis o. "a &c ,. ~, sss n1isss
is $ O. g.
SOP - Fsfsssb .sfisssvfis
<8fe5 tsEu1ss sls<ss-, tlsstixs sal e1rcr
1o1kIfens snn farther ittotie<tios sFFlJ q /
ilfiRois Osnt<sl Passenger stslftz. -rx83. m
q ~. tosER riskr< 49, |
s. A. HATCH, @. p. a.
A. y. HANSON, Pass. Traffic nsr.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09
Alexander
National
Bank
Commercial Avenue and Eighth Street
CAIRO, ILLINOIS.
OFFICERS

Accounts OF corporations and Individ-
uals especially solicited. Exchange
furnished to any part OF the world.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09
Alexander County
Savings Bank
STRICTLY q SAVINGS BANK.
CAIRO, ILLINOIS.

Capital. ... -. -. $4,000
Surplus and Undivided Profits $4,000
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09
OFFICERS
DIRECTORS

Chas. Feuchter. Jr., N. b. Thistiewood
ID. s. Lansden George Parsons
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-09

interest Paid on Time Deposits.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16

are possibly going to step too far in
the matter of revolutionizing the land
scape. There are a few of them who
would deprive Broadway of it's beauti-
full electric signs. Think of the great
white way without it's electric lights!
The thousands of incandescent lights
marvelously illuminate the thorough
fare and in artistically beautiful de-
vices bark" during the dark hours
for everything from the newest design
of hatpin to champagne and corsets.
The lights should not be forgotten, be-
cause they are the whole of Broad
way. Take them off the street and it
would resemble "Main' street in big
country town. 1t is Riverside drive,
not far from the luxurious palace of
Charles M. Schwab, and certain parts
of Fifth avenue, where dwell some of
the wealthiest families in the world,
that improvements are needed. The
asphalt is in deplorable condition in
long stretches, making it dangerous
for traffic. Plans for paving the street
have been made and will soon be
executed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16

drawing blanks" to cause them to re.
main from duty. In the government
printing Office, where there are about
1000 men and women employed, there
are only occasional absences on &C.
count of sickness, while in the treas
ury department, with about the Same
number of employees, the sick list each
day is simply amazing. The same is
true of other departments in which
the employees are entitled to sick
leave.
So badly abused has. been the sick
leave privilege that at the last session
OF congress what appeared to he a
determined effort was made to repeal
the law, but the matter was permitted
to go over, giving the Keep commits
sion and other reformers an opportun-
ity to make further investigation and
secure facts and figures. If one is to
judge by the policy of retrenchment
by the present administration, it is
entirely safe to assert that sick leave
will not be one of the pickups now en-
joyed by government workers after
the next session of congress.
There are in Washington about 3d.
900 employees of Uncle Sam. The sal
airy and wages paid will aver $1,000
each, male and female. This gives to
each individual employee 500 leave
money, and is ready on call for Off
Gals and clerks any time during the
calendar year, but employees of the
class stated are not entitled to leave
until the beginning of the fiscal year
July I.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16
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road to the same place. Even the
fast through expresses do not make
the time it does But that is not it's
central point of interest.
Leaving Hoboken at LOS p. M, it
carries daily but three cars, that are,
as rule, absolutely empty in the
passenger sense, and, as it makes no
stops to take up others, it is, of
course. g losing train, making no
money for it's operating company, but
preserving in peculiar way the de-
mand of an interested clientele. A
casual and lonely traveller upon it,
noting its quality, asked it's equally
lonely conductor why it was main
tanned. He said it was right enough
while the McCurdys lived at Morris
Plains, but since they had left there
was no reason for it's continuance, ex-
cept that it carried train crew up to
Morris Plains to return on an accom-
mediation. 1t is the peculiar illustra-
ton of what scientists call the reten-
ton of the original principle.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16
WILSON BARS WOMEN AS
PRIVATE SECRETARIES

take dictation from the chiefs of bu-
reaus, but he will not allow them to
be detailed to fill positions the duties
Of which might require them to re-
main after the working hours or to go
to the homes of the chiefs to finish
work outside of Office hours.
Two years ago, when there was a
scandal in the department, the woman
who performed the duties of private
secretary for bureau chief for sew
eral years, was brought into a noto-
riety altogether displeasing to the
secretary. Although he knew that
there was no foundation for the in
situations against the woman, he had
to keep quiet and merely hope that
the notoriety would not spread.
A majority of the men chiefs do not
want women in such positions, but
occasionally one comes along who is
so we'll pleased with the work done by
a particular clerk that he asks to have
her promoted and made private secre-
tary. Requests of that kind are being
refused.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16
ETHEL ROOSEVELT WILL
; HAVE GAY COMING OUT

given for Miss Ethel next January
She will not have finished her school
Ing, but will leave the National Cathe-
dral school after the Christmas holi-
days.
1t had been intended that Miss
Ethel should go through the entire
course, but in the pas: few months
she has been having such a good time
in an informal way that tae President
and Mrs. Roosevelt hare decided to
give her season in the White House.
Miss Ethel is very anxious to make
her debut while her f1tner is presi-
dent. The debut ball will be given
in The east room and vial be planned
on an even more elaborate scale than
the one which the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt gave for Miss Alice. It
Will bring together the 1nost exclusive
young people in New York, Boston.
Philadelphia and Washington, and
will mark the opening of the gayest
season the White House has known
since President Roosevelt assumed
the re1ns of Office.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16

Of the walls of the hall of history,
where it can be plainly viewed by the
visitors to the building.
According to J. B. Taylor, of the
United States coast and geodetic sur
vey, Col. Armstead, who commanded
Fort McHenry during the lombard
ment by the British fleet, took the
flag after the rain of shot and shell
had erased and had it conveyed to
his headquarters. He later gave it
to his mother, who was sister of
Mr. T*ylor's neutrality-suspicious..
Col. Armstead's mother some years
afterword, it is said, presented the
flag to her granddaughter. who mar
ried one of the Appletons of New
York and Boston. Later Mr.. Eben
Appleton came into possession of the
flag. In his letter to DR.. Walcott Mr..
Appleton says that he Ia pleased to
loan The flag to the Smithsonian, so
as to enable so many Of his country
men 30 see the ensign that caused
1.-The Star-Spangled Banner to be
written.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16
TEDDY BEARS UNDER BAN
OF SCHOOL TEACHERS

, tie girls" said Miss Jane G. Close, 4
supervisory teacher of sewing in the
New York schools. 1.-THE bear is
keeping the children from the pleas
wear pretty frocks and dainty under
wear, and the little girl who has him
for a pet gets no incentive to make
these things. Hence she loses the
education involved in dainty gar
ments. The Teddy bear is all right
for boys, but not for girls
Teachers furthermore point out that
they have other troubles in teaching
children to do things for themselves,
because of the modern ready-made
sort of existence. People do not darn
and mend old clothes; they throw
them away. But the teachers are try
ing to revive the interest in domestic
art among children, and the local uni
versity summer school is devoting
much attention to this
Meanwhile the fate of the Teddy
bear hangs in the balance, while the
teachers decide whether he is a men
ace to childhood. And from thousands
of nursery shelves the great legion Of
forsaken dolls, from the great flaxen-
haired wax creations, with blue eyes
that open and close and cherry lips
that say papa" and mamma" to the
raggedest rag dolls, watch the contro-
versy with keen citation, for perhaps
it may result in their coming into
their own again.