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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-11-14

thwestern North Dakota, according to
A. A. Robinson of this city, who has a
string of elevators in the north
western part of the state.
Mr.. Robinson presents facts and fig
ures to prove his contention. The
market price of flax yesterday based
on the mail report for the eleventh,
was 1.1S IA The elevators in Mi
not paid 100 for flax. The fixed
charges of handling, flax are 1901
cents bushel, making the margin on
which the elevators are doing bust
ness about IA cents. The fixed
charges are as follows: Interest on
wheat for sixty days from the time it
is shipped until the returns are
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-11-14

vators today are paying 1.02. This
leaves margin of "a cents. The
elevators are obliged to use the mail
report, not being able to depend on
the wires. If the market goes up dur
ing the day they gain; if it falls, they
lose.
We wish our readers to consider that
Mr.. Robinson's deductions in the above
article are on the basis IT Wednesdays
market. This morning wheat in Minot
has advanced four cents bushel, and
fax two cents, altho in Minneapolis and
Duluth, the advance on wheat was one
and three cents and fax one and three
fourths cents. making the margin Of
buying still less.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-11-14

There are many things that peo
pie do not take into consideration in
sizing up the elevator situation. I
have mentioned some of them. We
are handling flax practically on Ia
cent margin, and If any one can do
business on a smaller margin, I have
not yet met the gentleman
The figures from today's market
show an even smaller margin than 3
cents. The price of wheat based On
yesterdays mail report is 1903. The
elevators are paying today 81 cents.
Deducting the Is cents fixed charges,
the margin left is only one cent The
market on flax based on yesterdays
mail report, is 1.19 "a. The ele'
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-11-14

Hans Mortenson OF Plaza, has
a horse so notorious that the
animal ought to be knocked in
the head and it's body mounted.
The brute ran away twice last
week, once breaking a little girls
arm and another time throwing
the driver out and cutting his
head badly.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-11-14
THE MORE YOU SMOKE
THE MORE YOU WANT
GROW MUST PAY HIS BILLS

The Grow Clothing Co., OF Mi
not, starts a money raising sale
this week. MIR. Grow informs
the Independent that it is not
his habit 10 slaughter the prices
on seasonabIe goods, but he is
compelled TODD so in order to
raise money to pay past due
accounts. The recent fnan-
cial condition has cramped
many a business man, and while
Mr.. Grow will make not one cent
from the sale OF his stock, and in
many cases, he is selling at much
less than the wholesale price,
the cash must be realized and it's
3 splendid time for the public to
buy. The sale lasts fifteen days.
Grows sales are always bona
hde.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-11-14

United States Senator Hans
brough has been making polit-
ical speeches in various parts OF
the county. His dates are fixed
generally by Register McGahan
of the Minot Land Office, who
sees that a committee Of bust
ness men in the towns where he
is to speak, provides a good
time for the old boy.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-11-14
FARMERS GET SQUARE DEAL
REPORTS THAT ELEVATORS ARE
ROBBING THE FARMERS ARE =.
REFUTED
A. A. ROBINSON EXPLAINS HOW
ELEVATORS ARE WORKING
ON CENT MARGIN

Reports emanating from the Red
River valley that North Dakota ele-
vators are forcing farmers who have
stored their grain to accept twenty
cents a bushel less than the market
price, do not apply to Minot and Nor
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-11-14

Nov. 10, the deer season
opened and local sports are en-.
ioying the sport in the south
western part of the county.
The season lasts twenty days
but the hunter is restricted by
law from shooting more than
one antlered moose. but under
no circumstances dare the deer
be shipped from the state.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-11-14

The new Russell-Miller Mill is
now running full blast, five or
six cars of flour being made each
day. The mill runs day and
night. Considerable flour is
shipped east, tho in time it is
hoped by the manufacturers that
western points will consume the
output of this mill. Mr.. Miller,
one Of the owners Of the mill, in
forms the Independent that Of all
the mills, this company owns, the
Minot Mill is the finest.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-11-14

II there is anything
in the hardware
line We haven't got
we'll get It for you.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-12-26

The custom of visiting and sending
presents and cards on New Years day
is recorded almost as far back as his.
tory goes. The practice of using visit
ing cards can be traced back for thou
sands of years by the Chinese. Their
New Years visiting cards are curiosi
ties. Each one sets forth not only the
name, but all the titles of its owner,
and, as all Cinnamon who have any
social position at all have about a
dozen, it makes the list quite appall-
ing. These cards are made OF silk or
else of fine paper backed with silk and
are SO large that they have to be roll
ed up to be carried conveniently. They
are. indeed, so valuable that they are
returned to their owners.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-12-26
THE NEW
YEAR WHAT WE
MAKE 1T
By Ada c. Sweet

The only consistent pessimist is a
dead pessimist," but unfortunately
there are Il good many Of these hap
less brethren Of ours alive. Never are
they more active, and happily unhap-
py, than toward New Years day, when
all the rest of the world is looking
hopefully and chcerfully forward, i'll
expectation of good luck and kind for
tune during the next 365.
The pessimist delights in derision
of the good resolutions which mark
the celebration of New Year in the
minds of many people. Shame upon
the man or woman who would dull the
bright ambitions and desires for the
better Of any human being! But
there is little time to give to habitual
mOurners and augurs of evil. The
new year will be what we make it,
so far as our individual lives are con-
resolves TO be happy in a healthfuI,
unseliish way, is taking the first road
toward happiness.
We are all after happiness, in one
way or another Even the recluse,
even the martyrs of old, were on the
endless search for happiness, though
the JOY of heaven rather than that
of earth was the goal fixed upon in
the eyes of those who sacrificed the
present for the future. Eternal hap
piness was what they desired.
Unselfish happiness is always wait.
ing, right around the corner, if we will
only take our eyes off the far distance
and look nearer home The resolve
to make next year a happy one for
those nearest us will bring good deal
Of real joy end satisfaction to the
maker of the resolution, If he holds
out well.
Silent resolve is good thing, too
Sometimes ones enthusiasm evapo.
rates when 1t is much spoken of. But
don't let us allow the enemies of the
race of man to discourage us in MAX
ing good resolutions; and then don't
let us fail to keep those that we make
to the best of our ability.
There is room for Improvement in
all Of us, and when we have acknowl-
edged that, and set ourselves to i'm
prove. why, we are on the nearest
road to success and happiness.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-12-26
When
The Year q
Begins
Newton Mac T avish

Ono of the queerest features of the
| first day of the year is the fact that it
has been celebrated en- many different
| dates. With lis the year begins on
| January l, according to the calen-
dar prepared by order of Julius Cae-
sar, and later revised from time to
time as necessity. seemed to require.
Hardly month in the year but what
has been regarded at some time, by
some people, as the first of the II,
and consequently the beginning Of the
new year. Sometimes the date was
! logical, determined by the position of
the sun in the heavens.
Sometimes it was fixed by agricultu-
raj or industrial conditions, sometimes
| by a great historical event, and occa-
| sionally it was merely arbitrary, de-
| termined without any special reason
being assigned. At one time the
| Greeks began their year September l;
the beginning of the Olympian games.
In what is called the Alexandrian era
the year began on August 20. One
Jewish chronology assigns October l
as the date on which the creation of
the world began, and consequently
adopts that New Years day. At one
time the Romans began their year on
April "a, at another on March l, and
| finally as we do now.
According to the meteoric cycle, the
year began on July Is. During the Pc
| riod of AleXander's empire the COM
mencement of the year was on Sep
| tember L. the era of the Maccabees
was dated from November "a. The
people OF Tyre began their year on
October 10, while the so-called Sido-
| nian era commenced on October /.
and the Augustan era made February
IA the first day of the new year. Tho
ancient Egyptians began their yeax
with the overflow of the Nile, when.
ever that might occur, while In India
the annual flood Of the Ganges fur
nished a date for popular chronology,
| and the Mexicans, although they had
complicated system of calculating
time, popularity reckoned their year
to begin with the spring planting.
The jewish rabbis had four begin
nings of the year, the first of the
month Nissan, supposed to be the date
of the Exodus; the first of Tishri.
which began the agricultural year;
the first of Elu, the day on which the
cattle were numbered, and the first
of Shebat, which was called the new
year for trees. Christmas day, East
er, the beginning of each solstice and
many other dates have been observed
ut different times by various nations;
even now in Russia the day of the
new year is u days behind that of
our calendar, the Russians having
never adopted the Gregorian calendar.
which, indeed. did not come into gem
eral use until about the middle of the
eighteenth century.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-12-26
BUILD UP LOCAL ENTERPRISES.
Individual Effort a Factor in the Prog
ress of Cities and Towns.

A well known eastern financier, who
for some time was the president of a
large trust company, recently re-
signed, giving as his reason that a
man, according to his belief, can do
better working for himself, and that
no man can really earn a salary equal
to what he can make in business for
himself One Of the conservative
financial papers in commenting upon
the move of the financier here referred
to says that in these days, when all
kinds of business are being convergsd
into stock companies, the number Of
trades in which man may engage in
business for himself have become so
few that for great bulk of men, even
those having the mental equipment
which in other years would have been
sufficient to make them their own
masters, there is now no other opening
than that of service for some corpora
ton. For the bulk Of the people, out
side of those in agricultural pursuits,
it is service for the corporation or no
work at all. This truth is becoming
more evident day by day. Even the
farmers are feeling the grasp of cor
porate methods. It is true that mil
lions must have the products Of his
lands and his hands, but the corpora
tions are the mediums he must work
through, and from him they exact
their tithingS II is to the interest of
the farmer as we'll as the laborer in
every walk and sphere to prevent as
far as possible further encroachment
of organized capital, and this can be
done by as far as possible keeping the
dollars that you earn in circulation in
the community where earned and thus
prevent the further concentration Of
money and of business in the great
cities
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-12-26
Is There Not Dancer?

Is it poor policy for the farmers and
the laborers of the land to help build
up less than dozen large stores stu
ated in great cities to do business of
thousands of dollars in country towns
One Chicago concern does business
through the mails of $60,000,O0O q
year. Twenty thousand dollars In
business is about the average for the
country town store. Here we have
an example of one concern doing the
business of 5000 small stores Is there
no. danger that should these great con-
Germs through their immense business
drive the local dealers out of trade
that they would become like other
great combines, oppressors of the peo.
Dla2
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-12-26
A Christmas PRAYER.

Oh God my Father, looking up at
the shining stars OF the cold Decem-
Der sky remember the patient moth
er and the rock-hewn manger in lowly
Bethlehem where lay Graded Thy
Love for the world. In the shadows
of the silent stall stand beside the
Child. Speak to my soul as wait
pray Thee. Lot the trusting, loving
spirit of the Child steal into my life
until it calms all anxious fears and
soothes all bitterness and pain.
In willing surrender and passionate
longing let ME take the Christ Child
to my heart. that henceforth / may
live as He lived. love as He loved and
following in His footsteps bring Help
to the needy, Courage to the weak.
Comfort to the sorrowing and Hope to
the lost. Amen.-Congregationalist.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-12-26
Fools and Wise Men,

Some one said that fools, women
and children need be protected" The
aAthor of the phrase seemed to not
take into consideration that it is some.
times hard to distinguish between the
fool and the wise man. He is wise
indeed who does not nibble at the
baits on the hooks held out to catch
him. How many people, time and time
again, find themselves caught on some
contract deal find that some sleek
agent has sold them lot of inferior
groceries for twice the amount that
they could buy the same quantity of
goods from u local dealer, and get a
far better quality? Be careful when
dealing with strangers. Remember
the biggest frauds present the most
plausible appearance. Don't sign any
kind of 4 contract or order without
the most careful investigation.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-12-26
EaNors Soon Eornotten.

Not many years ago the majority
OF farmers in newly settled sections
were dependent upon the business
men and the merchants of the towns
to carry them through between crops.
There are farmers whoacan look back
few years ago and see where tAey
were favored when in want of supplies
and had not the money to pay for the
same. Prosperity changes many, and
his may be the cause why those who
a dozen years ago were so anxious to
see the country develop, now send
much Of their money to outside places
for goods needed, instead OF keeping
their dollars at home to further en-.
rich their community; and how soon
are favors forgotten. The merchants
who assisted in making success pos.
,sible for many by quite a few are
passed by. Is this Christian graft.
tude?
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-12-26
Christianlty's Teachings.

To picture the change in the race
wrought through the birth of Jesus is
beyond the limits of an artist of either
pen or brush. Christianity created
painting. The sculptor's art was
known and rracticed to some extent
before the birth of Christ. Sculpture
could portray that beauty and
strength of limb which was the Greek
ideal of human perfection, but the
Christian ideals were spiritual and
could not he interpreted in cold, CHS
eIed marble. The babe of the manger
taught that mans glory was not in
physical. but III spiritual triumphs. A
recent History OF our Lord as exem-
plified in works of art" has shown
how the story Of Jesus from nativity
to resurrection was told by artists.
Each picture was a sermon, Under
the light of the babe of Bethlehem,
motherhood, childhood, youth, man
hood were inspired to new purpose.
Through these sermons in pictures,
men were moved with pity for the
ignorant, the sick. the suffering. They
were inspired with new hope in sor-
row, new strength in temptation, q
new JOY in social fellowship.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-12-26
Example of Modern Enuineerino.

A remarkable example of the scru
pulous eXactness with which modern
engineering work is accomplished is
found in the new piece of the Suevic
which has been placed to within one
sixteenth of an inch of the position it
must occupy to allow of the two parts
of the vessel to be joined. When the
tubes Of London, working from either
end, were about to be united it was
found that they were only an inch or
two out of line. The ordnance survey
Of England, when the various sections
were brought together, showed dis
crepancy of less than five inches, and
the construction of the Forth bridge,
the greatest feat of all, was more re-
markable still. When the king came
to drive the last bolt the hole through
the various plates was so near that
the heat from flaming paper was suf-
ficient to expand the metal and allow
of the rod being thrust through. Pail
Mall Gazette.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-12-26
NEW YEARS DAY IN CHINA.
The Breakfast Is a Poetic and Re.
ligous Rite.

Except at the Chinese New Year
which comes in February, it is very
hard to catch glimpse of children
in China. Little beggars will run be.
side you for miles to earn one cash,
copper coin with square hole in
the middle of it, worth the twentieth
part of cent; but children who have
parents to care for them seem to be
kept indoors all the time. or only al.
lowed to play in walled yards and gar.
dens, writes Bertha Runkle in st.
Nicholas We used to say to each
other: why, where are the chill.
dren? Haven't they got any?" But
at New Years we found out that they
had.
This is the great holiday of all the
year in China, when everybody hangs
out flags and colored lanterns and sets
off firecrackers. 1--WE borrowed our
custom of firecrackers for the Fourth
of July from Chinese New Years }
All the people put on their very best
clotneS, ana the children the best OF
all, jackets and trousers of bright blue
or green or yellow or purple, the boys
and girls so much alike that you can
only toll them apart by their hair.
The boys, of course, is braided in a
pigtail, and the girls is done up on
her head with silve: pins, or, if she's
a very grand little girl, with gold or
jade. Thus decked out, the children
go walking with their proud papas and
nammas, and often so to the theater,
which is rare treat for them.
Perhaps Chinese children have romp.
ing plays together, but they al
ways look as If they were born
grown up.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-12-26

pledge, serve him wine with eVeTy
course. If you want him to hate q
woman, invite her to meet him every
time he calls, and tell him how 'suita.
ble' she would be-"
And if you want him to love you,"
finished the bachelor, don't ask him
to swear it, but tell him that he really
ought not to. The best way to man.
age donkey-human or otherwise
is to turn his head in the wrong di.
rection and he'll back in the right
one"
Then" said the widow decisively,
we ought to begin the New Year by
making some irresolutions."
Somewhat"
Vows that we won't stop doing the
things we ought not to do" explained
the widow.
"All right" agreed the bachelor
thoughtfully, "I'n make an irresolu.
ton to go on making love to you as
much as like"
You mean, as much as like, Mr..
Travcrs." corrected the widow Sc
verely.
How much do you like?" asked the
bachelor. leaning over to look into
the widows eyes.
The widow kicked the corner of the
rug tentatively.
Il like-all but the proposing" she
said slowly. You really ought to
stop that"
I'm going to stop it-to-night."
The widow looked up in alarm.
"Oh, You don't have to commence
keeping your resolutions until to.
morrow morning." she said quickly.
And are you going to stop refusing
me-to-night," continued the bachelor
firmly.
The widow studied the corner Of
the rug with great concern.
And" went on the bachelor, TAX
ing something from his pocket and
toying with it thoughtfully, you are
going to put on this ring"-he leaned
over, caught the widows hand and
slipped the glittering thing on her
third finger. Now" he began, you
are going to say that you will"
The widow sprang up suddenly.
"Oh. don't, don't, DON'T" she cried.
In moment we'll me making prom.
ises!"
I'VE don't need to-" said the bache.
lor, leaning back nonchalantly, I'VE
can begin by making-arrangem
Would you prefer to live in town or
at Tuxedo? And do you think Europe
or Bermuda the best place for the"
Bermuda, by all MEANS" broke in
the widow, "and ] wish you'd have
that hideous portico taken off your
town house, Billy, and" But the
rest of her words were smothered in
the bachelors coat lapel-and some
thing else.
Then you do mean to marry me
after ALL" cried the bachelor tri
The widow gasped fer breath and
patted her hair anXiously.
IllSullG W mail SOu OH lAlS
time!" she cried, but never thought
you were really in earnest and"
"Methinks," quoted the bachelor
happily, that neither Of US did pro-
test too much We haven't made any
promises, you know"
Not one" rejoined the widow
promptly, "as to my flirting"
Nor as to my clubs"
Nor as to my relatives
Nor my cigars
And we won't make any VOWS"
cried the widow, except marriage
vows"
And New Years irresolutions,"
added the bachelor.
"Listen." cried the widow softly,
with her fingers on her lips.
A peal of thousand silver bells
rang out on the midnight air
The chimes!" exclaimed the wild
ow. They're full of promises"
Il thought it sounded like a we'd
ding bell" said the bachelor, disap-
pointedly.
Maybe said the widow, 1T was
only Love-ringing ff."-Los Angeles
Times.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-12-26
Need of Good Schools,

Intelligence is the distinguishing
mark between the savage and civil
lied man. Education is one of the
greatest of Gods blessings, and ig-
norance a curse. In America there ex-
lists no valid reason why every mag,
woman and child of normal BRAIN
should not have an education. There
is no phase of life where knowledge is
not necessary. In the most progress
sive communities is where the superior
schools are found. Help along your
town and help along education in gen
eral. By affording your children q
chance Sor good education, you Of
fer them riches that cannot be meas
ured by dollars. Because education is
capital that cannot be destroyed; it is
ready cash in hand, assets that one
cannot be robbed of only by an act Of
Providence.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-12-26
Wondrous influence!

The comforts we enjoy in material
things from the influence OF the babe
OF the nlanger might be approximate
computed with our present almost
Iimitless powers in mathematics, but
how vain are the figures in an attempt
to compute the influence and uplift of
the babe of Bethlehem ON the life of
the world. The enlargement of life,
the development Of character, the
inspiration OF lofty ideals, the ever
widening influence that is building for
eternity.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-12-26
The World,s lndebtedness.

If you would take from literature
the writings of Christian people you
would take away nearly all the writ
ings Of classic poets, historians, scien-
lists. journalists and scarcely any
thing would be left worthy of read.
ing. The great productions of mans
intellect bespeak our Indebtedness to
the sun of righteousness who came to
illuminate the mind as weQl as to
regulate the heart