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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-10-15
called az rurn.

What's the old lady doing nowY,
asked the old stocking IN the work
basket. 81
SHE'S getting out her needle and
yarn. Z replied the scissors.
Well. well, + exclaimed the stocking
TN be darned Philadelphia Press.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-10-15
unrumsd.

Masser- Mary, wish you weuld be
more careful. I'm sorry to hear my
wife has 70 scold you 80 often. Mary--
oh. It's all right, sir. seldom takes,
amy notice Of her.. london Telegraph. I
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-10-15
4,z5azasIhsszls.
DETERMINATIONS OF GoPHERs.

The governments department of ag-
riculture has issued a little bulletin deal
ing with the damage done by gophers,
and the best means of DISCRIMINATING
them as approved by the government
experts who have been making study
of the pest. Poisoning with strych-
nine is the best means Of destroying
gophers, according to the bulletin, al
though trapping is resorted to in many
instances, and carbon disulphide fumes
are effective, but this means is not
recommended because of the expense
attached Grain saturated with solu-
ton of strychnine, water and suguar
syrup and scattered about gopher holes
is the method recommended by THE
government experts for poisoning go
pliers, although care should be taken
not to scatter the grain so that wild
fowl, or even tame fowl will meet the
fate intended for the gophers. = Of the
damage done by gophers, the bulletin
says:
Throughout their range pocket gopt-
ers are very destructive to crops. They
eat the roots of trees and sometimes
will ruin a whole orchard. They eat the
roots and tops of alfalfa, clover, grain,
grasses and numerous other crops Be-
sides this they throw up innumerable
mounds of earth in meadows, pastures
and grain fields which cover and des-
troy far more Of the crop than is eaten
by the animals by having the roots
cut off. These mounds also prevent
moving and much of the hay crop is
lost, and the pebbles they contain often
break or injure machinery. The loss
due to gopher mounds in the clover and
alfalfa fields in some of the western
states has been conservalitvely estimat-
ed at one-terth of the entire crop. In
some of the fertile valleys where they
abound the animals are far the most
formidable of the farmers mammalian
enemies In addition to all this, in the
far west they burrow in the irrigation
bitches and thus cause extensive and
expensive breaks. the repair of which
results in the expenditure Of much time
and money. s.t.5ss
Any farmer can readily rid his pre-
misses of gophers by the use of poison Q,
traps. Unless, however, the entire com
munity urites in active and intelligent
cooperation in the destruction Of the
animals, the cleared area will be sooner
or later invaded from neighboring pre-.
misses, and the work of destruction mus
soon be repeated. Coop only will
effect radical cure.
When cooperation for the extermi
nation of gopilers over large area ART
attempted, careful attention must bs
given to the waste lands along thu
fences, public highways and railroads
Such places are favorable haunts o
the animals, because in them are fount
loose sandy soil, moisture and suceu
lent roots for food. 1t is from suc1
resorts that the surrounding premise
are often restocked with gophers.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-10-15

The cooks kettle and temper are apt
to boil over simultaneously.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-10-15

Why not borrow your neighbor's
spectacles and have look at your own
faults? \ {.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-10-15

Black care sits behind the rich saau
on horseback Horace.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-04-10

veloped naturally and logically, and
every step OF the way has been &C
complished by hard work and honest
efforts, and taking advantage of the
various opportunities as they present
ed themselves. To Mr.. Chas F. Halb-
kat is due, to a great extent, the
credit for suggesting the idea which
afterwards developed into the "Satur-
day News" Mr. Barker explains the
origin of the Saturday Shopper" as
follows:
1T will no doubt be interesting to
a good many to know just how we
happened to start the old Saturday
Shopper This is how it came about:
For several months when we first
started in business we did nothing
but commercial printing. l took a
notion one day that it would be
good scheme to do a little advertis-
ing to stimulate business in our line
| | prepared an ad and went to the
Daily Public Opinion to have it in
serted. The proprietors refused to
accept the ad on the ground that it
would conflict with their business. l
went back to the Office, sat down and
lit my pipe, and INDUCED in a sort
of a pipe dream. l had a vision l
got up from the chair and made up
a little four page dummy" one that
we could print on our job press, and
started out to ascertain if I could not
get enough advertising contracted in
it to permit us to print it every week
and deliver it free. The idea seemed
to take we'll with the merchants
The first issue contained nothing
but ads-no reading matter whatever
One day when l was passing by Halb-
kats jewelry store he called me in
and said:
Say, why don't you make those
ads little smaller and put a column
ads"
| The roint was we'll taken and l
acted on Mr.. Halbkat's suggestion,
and it was not long before the Sat
urday Shopper" was the most widely
read paper in the city. Elsewhere
in this issue will be found facsim-
lie of the old Saturday Shopper
the only and original"
From the little room in the Mellette
block, Mr. Barker moved in the year
1904 to the basement room under the
Golden Eagle clothing store, which
gave him more room, which was alb
solutely necessary, as the business
had grown to such proportions that
the little room in the Mellette block
would not accommodate it. In the
Mellette block the invitation staring
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-04-10

A little over five years ago r. M.
Barker and A. d. Granger determined
to venture into the printing business
in this city, rented a small room in
the Mellette block, and made arrange
ments to purchase their outfit Mr..
Barker had a capital OF $3S cash and
a good supply Of nerve, and Mr. Gran
ger was possessed of about the same
assets, only lie was somewhat lacking
in nerve The partnership continued
for a few months, when Mr.. Barker
bot out his partners share in the
enterprise, and from that time on has
been sole proprietor of the business.
His partnership experiences were not
of the pleasantest, for Mr.. Granger
was not possessed of that spirit of
go which was SO characteristic of his
energetic partner, and the two did
not pull equally in harness.
Mr.. Barker tells the story of these
early days in his own way:
1--WE started about five years ago
in a little room upstairs in the rear
of the Mellette block. The room was
so small that we had to go into the
hall to turn around. When our friends
first came to look for us they had to
strike match before they could dis
cover our whereabouts. But once
they struck us, they stuck thru thick
and thin, and even now the
floor is worn from the constant track
age from the top of the stairs to the
little door behind which was the press
rooms, job printing department and
editorial rooms of the Saturday
Shopper
81 shall never forget the day we
ordered our outfit We had written
to Chicago to type foundry to send
a man out to Watertown as we want
in a few days and hunted us up. We
did not spend much time in ordering
the necessary paraphernalia. After
the type foundry man had the order
all booked he said, Now, what terms
do you want?
We said we wanted to purchase the
plant On long, lean and easy pay
ments.
"'You will have to pay at least half
cash. said tie foundryman.
Well said I, with far-away look
In my eye, that settles the business
between us;. We have just money
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-04-10
From the Little Acorn the Sturdy Oak Grows

with unanimously agreed and that is
that you are the best hustler for busi-
ness that ever struck the state, and
upon these reports l am going to tele-
graph the house and see if l can get
them to break their iron-clad rule in
your case
The telegram came back reading,
%. X. We will try it once
IN a week or SO the outfit arrived.
We paid the freight and stood off the
drayman
The press and other material in
all amounted to nearly $500. The
notes and mortgages were sent to the
Citizens National bank for our sig
natures | shall never forget that
sunny September morning as we
marched bravely into the bank to sign
those notes and mortgages. We both
felt as tho we We're signing our death
warrants. nut a pleasant smile and a
few cherry words from Cashier Herb
Sheldon had a tendency to tighten cur
hearts and we went away determined
10 do or die The noes were for
$50 each and came due every sixty
days.
AS the notes came due we were
there 'Johnny-at-therat-hole. and paid
them promptly"
Everything went on swimmingly for
4 time The business was not enor
mcus, but it was enuf 10 pay all eX
penses, the notes were paid promptly
IS they fell due, and the prospects
locked very bright for the new enter
prise. Then something happened. one
Of those happenings which if met in
he right way, help to build character
and create success. Let Mr.. Barker
tell it in his own way for it concerns
him most nearly:
"Everything went well for about
four months, when my wife was taken
seriously i'll and had to be taken to
the Watertown hospital. After a
careful diagnosis of her case the at
tending physician quietly told me that
she was in very serious condition
and that the doctors could do nothing
for her, and that there was only one
hope to save her life, and that was
to have specialist come from Min
neapolis and perform a surgical op-
Grafton. asked how much it
would cost and the physician said it
would cost $3.50, and that l must
have the money ready before he tele-
eraphed for the specialist.
| My heart sank and l was daZed,
as | thOt of the almost certainty of
losing my best friend on earth. But
where could l get the money to try
and save the woman who was near
and dear to me-. I did not have the
| slightest idea-I had nothing-no
money-no property-what would
do?
But God seems to provide.
walked into the First National bank
and told my little story to President
H. D. Walrath. He said:
Never mind, my boy, come in and
get what money you need"
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-04-10

a mortgage on the material for the
balance
Now, l will tell you what l will
do with YOU said l. You take a
little walk around town and inquire
at the banks and stores about me
and come back, as | want to see how
many friends l have in Watertown'
He went out and after making sew
eral inquiries at the banks and var
ious other places, he returned. He
said:
"'They all speak we'll of you Bar
ker They told me at the banks that
you were a poor devil and did not
have anything, but that they thot you
were honest and would make good if
you were given chance. There is
one thing both the banks and all of
the business men with whom | talked
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-04-10

In 1876 Mr. Barker moved to Yank-
ton, and bot an interest in the "Yank-
ton Press and Dakotan." He lived
here about four years.
Fargo, N. d., was his next field of
operation, and here he again entered
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-04-10

They were rushing the can,
alley a little further and found
several other bocs accumulating a
Fourth of July jag. He told
them to "hit-the.road "a. whelt"
They said they didn't need the
exercise" and showed fight The
officer knocked them down like
"ten pin" and when he got thru
his old hickory caneswas only
few inches long. .
Look here, sir" said "Abc" to
the Shopper man the other day.
a! can stand to be called most any
thing. but when you. cay In your
msssley old hand bill tpatI look
like "a baboon. you Will have to
apologize. Yes, sir; you will have
to spalogize-" The Shopper man
"All right we will apologize"
Abe - "When?" Shopper man
"Justas soon ae the Ringling's get
here and we get a chance to tee O
o babooh."
The lapa have made another de-
posit in the Ruesian sinking fund.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-04-10

organ tu trade for pihanna or if yn
want tu trade horse fer hired gurl
or If yure baby wants Castoria or if
yurc kat diddeni kom back or If yu
got cat-bote fer sail or II uneeda
b:skct or if yu want mail help or if
yu want yob or If yu laik tu rent
furnished fiat or furnish rented fat
or fiat furnished rent or II yu lost
yure kow or If yure kow kant find
yu or if yu want tu dye or If yu want
tu gat married or if yu got sum-
tang yu want tu xchange fer frute
stand or flower stand or If yu wood
lnik tn invest $50 10000 or if yu want
general housework or bisickle or
soing masheen or il yu want bat
and gas sitty waite. and seucr or II
yu want poultry " lay eggs or hors
tu pull yure autobemule or teacher
fer pianols or il yu want hands on
waist or guide strong skirt-hand or
onest upright pianno or If yu got
laying hens tu sell or want to hire
bricklayer or II yu want female sit.
| uation or oil stove or want sumbody
TO work fer yu or want yureself tu
work surnbody els or II yu want
hunting dog to shoot checkens vii
or If yu want woman tu wash OIL
borders tu eat yust put ct in d.
Saturday Shopper en- by de yump
ing yimIniny ef yu don't get vet yu
Tant tck ct out OF
| OLE OLSON.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-04-10

The specialist came, and her life
was spared, and in due time the bor-
rowed money at the bank was paid
| want to state right here that
| shall always retain a warm spot
in my heart for the kind-hearted
president of the First National bank"
In way the starting of the Sat
urday Shopper" was just a happen
stance, and like all big things had
small beginnings. When Mr.. Barker
started business, he had no idea of
running a paper in connection with
it. When he started the Saturday
Shopper" ne had no idea of it's ever
developing into a newspaper. But
the idea once started, grew, and de-
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-04-10

you in the face as you toiled up the
long flight of steps was, Drop up"
When the change was made to the
Golden Eagle basement, the legend
was altered to Drop down."
Here the business grew wonderful
ly. Business dropped down" in large
chunks. New machinery was added,
and the new quarters became as
crowded as the old ones.
About this time Mr.. Barker bot out
the "Hill News" bright little paper
published by jamie Thomas, a bright
and enterprising youngster, a son of
our former townsman, W. R. Thomas.
jamie got out very creditable lit
tie paper, having good circulation,
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-04-10

herewith will give our readers an
idea Of the completeness and up-to-
date-ness of the plant.
The plant includes a two-revolution
Scott press. Eclipse folder, power
sutcher, cutter, job presses, and all
the usual adjuncts of an up-to-date
print-shop. We have ordered a Sim
plex typesetting machine, which will
be installed by May /, and this will
make the snop one of the best equip
ped in the state. ~
We will conclude this write.up with
short history sketch of the main
spring" of the enterprise.
e. NJ. Barker, or Gene" as his
friends call him, was born at Owa-
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-04-10

F:mball Graphic: The Pierre
Capital Journal in sr+aking Of the
arriving of party Of homeeteaders
says: Dozens Of them are filing
at the land Office without going out
to see the land as they were met by
friends who had been out and
made the selections for them" This
indicates very clearly the character
Of the people who ere fling on
land west Of Pierre Actual home
steadcrs do not depend On having
afriendsr select land for them.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-04-10
OLE ON ADVERTISING
He Advises Everybody to Try
the Saturday Shopper for
Good Results.
Dere Mes,er Udgiver Shopper


II dar ben anytang yu laik tu hav
VA, yu haven't got or anytang yu
got vat yu dom want or sometang
yu cant get redy Of or so;netang yu
cant find or il yu iaik tn cell cvri.
tang yu got or buy evritang yu
haven, got or trade sumtang fer
notang or il }. -aui In get vat cum.
body els don't want or want sum one
clp to hav vat yu got or If yu lost
vat yu did hav OF found snmtang
vat yu don't want or want sumtang
wi kant find or # yu tank bot ann.
tang yu iaik tn forget Wy for yu
dop, need ct or ef yu got rooms to
let up stares or if VI won't surnbody
tu eat yure bord or If yu want tn get
a bord tu eat yureself or If yu laik
tn tax in Washing Ell SO out or tax
out vashing en go in or If yu got
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-04-10

enough between us TO pay one month S
rent Of $500 and the freight on the
outfit. and YOU will have to do better
than that
Our rules, said the typeman, will
not permit us to sell any one just
starting in business any material un-
less we can get half cash down and
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-04-10
CIRCULATION LEO

Tom Dunn met a fellow going
thru the alley LAST Saturday with
under his coat which
bulGed out quite prominently
1What's that-a tumorr" said the
officer as he gently topped /; with
cane. mo. sir-it's O can-sir." .f.,I
the hoboe. Tom investigated the
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-04-10
The Wonderful Growth of Business Estab-
lished Little Over Five Years ago by a
Man with Nothing but his Two Hands
and an Abundant Amount of Nerve as
his only Assets. 1t is now one of the
Best and Most Modern Equipped Printing
Plants in the state. No Man has Ever
Backed the Proprietor of this Paper for
One Penny Directly or Indirectly.

(By A. E. Piercy, Associate Editor)
class printing shop and a weekly
newspaper with as large circulation
as any in the state, in five years
That's Barker's story. 1t reads like
a romance, but it is true, every word
of it,
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-04-10

and duly admitted to the malls Al
ter this transaction the name CT the
paper was changed to Shopper
News" as a result of the consolida-
tion with the Hill News"
The paper was now a fully fledged
newspaper, and after lots of red tape
was duly admitted to the mails. A
subscription price of SO cents per year
was charged, which later was raised
to 81, and the form of the paper
changed to seven column quarto
Last fall the name Of the paper was
again changed to Saturday News"
which name it will probably retain
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-04-10

for years to come. The history of
the business has been one of con-
stant progress.
Today Mr.. Barker is located on Mid
way, the main artery" Of Water
town, which has the distinction of be-
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-04-10

tonna, Mimi, on Sept 30, 1866, his
father being engaged In business at
that point.
The family moved to this country
when E. M. was about five months
old, coming in the slow and good
old-fashioned way, in a prairie schoon-
er drawn by an OK team. They To-
Gated at Vermillion, Mr.. Barker, sen-
ior, taking up a claim about mile
from that place. Here Mr.. E. D,
Barker established the "Vermillion
Republican" which paper is still run
ming today, and, by the way, is one
of the best weekly papers in the state.
The bee., 1908-09-03
Terse kilograms

A furore was created in Lincoln by
the news that the engagement of VIII
liam ]. Bryan Jry son Of the Demo
cratic presidential candidate, to Miss
Helen Berger OF Milwaukee had been
announced in the latter city.
The Countess szechenyi who was
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, is very seri-
ously III. Her condition is now criti-
cal, although Vienna physicians in at
tendance hope to save her life. The
arrival of the stork was not expected
for two months.
Hypnotism was injected into the
testimony being taken by the commits
sion in lunacy appointed by Judge
Foster of the general sessions to de-
termine whether Mrs. Charlotte Hitch
cock of New York is sane or insane.
Rev. DR.. Fainsford. former rector Of
st. Georges, who is now on trip
through Africa, will join the Roosevelt
African hunting expedition. DIR. Rains
ford and the president are warm
friends. The rector's plans were made
known by Rev. Hugh Birckhead, who
has been in communication with DR..
Rainsfords friends.
The Brooklyn FIRE department had a
bad scare when flames. which origi-
mated in a pile of waste paper, threat
ened to destroy Paine's fireworks
scenery at Brighton Beach and came
within a few feet of the building where
explosives of all kinds are stored. The
fire was kept under control, however
and did less than $1,000 damage.
A strike of all unlonized coal miners
of Wyoming began Monday when the
night shifts in every camp of the state
in which the United Mine Workers OF
America is organized refused to go 20
work. Ten thousand miners are in.
volved in the strike. which is the re-
suit OF the action of the Mine Owners
association in reducing wages 10 TO
IS cents per day.
A deed of trust was filed Tuesday
with the St. Louis Recorder of Deeds
whereby the Missouri Electric Rail
, road Company transferred for 10 years
to the Mercantile Trust Company for
hondholders all its lines and other
property in st. Louis and st. Charles
county for $1,000,0O0.
Plans for the new Grand Central
Railroad station in New York are com
pleted The buildings will cost $40,
100000 The station will set back AZ
feet from Forty-second street and ~
feet from Vanderbilt Avenue.
The bee., 1908-09-03
HITCHCOCK FINDS PROBLEM.
Political Split in illinois Causes Him
Much Worry.

Chicago, Sept chairman H.
Hitchcock of the Republican National
committee has found a political prob
lem in Illinois, that is causing him
about as much worry as the Hughes
situation in New York state.
The recent primaries engendered so
much bitterness between the Deneen
and Yates factions in the governorship
and tho Hopkins and Foss factions
over the senatorship, that the party
leaders in the state who are held re-
sponsibIe for the success or failure of
the national ticket have found 1t nee
essary to direct their attention toward
the formation of harmony program.
II It Ia possible to do so, these state
leaders will draw Mr. Hitchcock into
the case as an arbitrator.
The bee., 1908-09-03
DAHLMAN CARRIES OWN COUNTY
omaha's Mayor Leads In Democratic
Gubernatorial Race.

Omaha, Neb., Sept. with the
polls not closing until o'clock in the
principal cities and towns OF the state,
few returns had been received from
the Nebraska Statewide primaries
election up to midnight.
The few counties which sent in re-
turns left the result considerably In
doubt Governor Sheldon and several
ether nigh State officials had no OPP
position on the Republican ticket, and
viii therefore be renominated.
Mayor Dahlman, of Omaha, who,
with former Congressman Shallshberg-
or, and @. w. Berge, OF Lincoln, we're
candidtes for the Democratic nomina-
tion for governor, are running close in
many Of the counties out in the state.
Returns received from Douglas
ComGha) county however, indicate
chat Dahlman will have a large major
fly In his home county over both Shah
lenberger and Berge.
The bee., 1908-09-03
LEFT WITH wIrE's SISTER.
Young Michigan Minister lie Arrested
on a Non-support Warrant.

Saulte st. Marie, Mich, Sept. L.
Rev. VIM. Cummings, q young min
lister who has been officiating for the
summer at Elk Rapids. Michigan, was
arrested here Monday night on a non
support warrant issued in lonia county
where his wife's parents and promi-
nent residents at GAINESVILLE. The
pastor disappeared August G and the
same gay his wife's sister, Miss velma
Taylor, 20 years old was reported miss
ing. Miss Taylor was located in a
boarding house here Monday and
through her Rev Cummings was dis
covered working in a local laundry.
When the minister left Monday night
for Ionia in charge of an officer Miss
Taylor went with him. The couple
had been living here two weeks.