The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-19

The last issue OF the Hansboro Pho
neer has the following set off in prom
inent black type: mo Train-No Fuel
No Provisions-No Mail" Editor
Browne relieves us on the inside sheet
with the information that North Da-
kota booze would make jack-rabbit
fight bulldog"
The Yeomen of Grand Forks. are
very much against some Of the insur-
ance bills now. before the legislature
so far as they affect fraternal COM
panies and fguratively speaking de-
clare that if the proposed legislation
is passed lit will place the hay SO
high that the lambs will not be able
to reach it."-Bismarck Tribune.
Appended to a reproduction of the
famous articles of agreement of the
state printing combine, in the Bis
marck Palladium, are the following
verses entitled THE Taxpayers Re-
cessional," with sympathy for Kipling:
o! We who meet and make our laws,
Pray note above that rotten pact,
And save from out their hungry maws
Our common right, the state contract.
In legislative session met,
Do not forget! do not forget!
Sample of dishonesty: Nels Kettle
son, Milford, Ia, has taken the Globe
since Jan. 8, 1901. Postmaster sends
little blue card marked refused"
Nels is on the open highway to hell
in company with many other dead
beats.-Wahpeton Globe.
The Leeds News says that the Bis
marck correspondent to the Grand
Forks Times is sending his paper the
biggest bunch of slush that was ever
sent from the state capitol, which in
dicates the wide difference of view
point between the Bismarck CORE
spondent and Alphabetical Voigt Of
the Leeds News.-Bismarck Tribune
The many beautiful creatures OF
North Dakota's gentle sex should take
heed to the following advice doled out
by the Crystal Call:
The young men whose pockets are
filled with cigarette wrappers, mus
fash combs, finger nail cleaners miniat-
ure curling irons, looking glasses. etc.,
and have their mothers crease their
pants every day, are not the ones who
will make promising husbands. The
pockets of those who are helping to
make the country bloom and causing
two blades of grass to grow where
God planted but one, will be found
filled with barbed wire staples, and
different sizes of nails and screws.
They are the boys the girls had better
look after.
We do not wish to falsify or cover
up regarding conditions in this Sec
ton, but it is only just to North Da-
kota that the press of the east cease
giving our state black eye. In just
ice let eastern papers turn their at
tention and scare head lines to the
exceptionally severe weather and acci-
dents therefrom all over the country;
to 40 below weather in the New Eng
land states; the hurricanes in Buffalo;
the floods in the south; loss of stock
in Canada and Montana. fuel short
age in California and Washington with
coal SIG to $40 ton; lack of cars
everywhere, and let North Dakota pur-
sue the even tenor of her way until
she surpasses all in wealth and pros
perity.-Dickinson Press.
Speaking of the recent condition
In connection with the fuel shortage
and blockade, the Mandan Independent
furnishes new phase for the reason
why eastern papers continue to give
North Dakota black eye with their
scare-head details and descriptions.
In part the Independent says: We are
handicapped by the fact that there
must be frontier and that frontier
must supply narrowing tales of suf-
fering and privation. North Dakota
conditions are no worse than they
were in New York few years ago
when snow fell to an unusual depth
and transportation of all sorts was
difficult and slow. The difference is
that these older states are states of
little distances while North Dakota is
a state of great distances, and an in
terruption of regular railroad traffic
is matter of more moment than in
eastern states.
An exchange says that the merri-
ment which goes with the modern mar
rage ceremony should be frowned up
on and stamped out like any outrage
against public decency and good order.
Such occurrences as an effort to kid
nap the bride and groom after a
church wedding, while on her way
to a reception to be rendered them, or
compelling bridal party to march to
the depot at the head of brass band
with red fire accompaniment have be-
come 80 common that little is thought
of them. Not hand Is raised to stay
these outrages on society and the d.
rect attacks upon the sacredness of
wedlock. At this moment. when the
true marriage calls for the spirit OF
solemnity. humility and high resolve
the ceremony is turned into q farce
and the merry-making is indicative OF
the lightness with which marriage OBJ.
legations are regarded.