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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-02-04
FUNERAL. OF r. C. SANBORN

l.. J. Palda, Jr., the Exalted RULER OF
the Elks lodge, of which Mr.. Sanborn
was also a member. The Minot
Commercian club of which Mr.. San
born was director, passed resolu-
tions of sympathy, and voted $25 for
flowers lat a recent meeting, and
these were sent to Northfield. There
were numerous floral tokens sent by
others i'm this city. We lhave been
unable to ascertain more Regarding
the funeral at thhs writing, butt sup
pose THAT the services we're under the
auspices Of the Masonic lodge.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-02-04
Lost His Turkeys.

iH. A. Monigan was In the city Mon
day TRYING to find some trace OF tur'
KEY Feathers, and you may believe
.e had. blood in his eye. The night
before someone took foalr turkeys
from the rost, which included a
choice gpbbler weighing 80 pounds.
Mott dong ago sixty bushels of oats
and Is hl,shels of barley We're stolen
from his g1anary. Last summer he
eaa1shH a MAN right in the act OF
stealing a can of OIL, but made the
FELLOW pay llim two dollars i'm set.
tlement.
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c. P. Lee Opens Store att Berthold

The people Of Berthold
are ito be congratulated upon securing
two such live merchants to locate
in that city.
MIR. Lee will spend a portion of
his time at the Berthold store. Lee
E. Iisterud are also interested in a
large general store at Tioga which
is in charge of Mr. Ldsterud. Mr..
lee will still, continue with the
N1auot Grocery Co. as city salesman.
Mr.. Lee is one of the Old timers,
having been resident Of Ward
county for more than twenty years.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-02-04

Hotel, has sufficiently recovered to be
up and around but has BEEN advised
by his phyysician to be extremely
careful. He will ;arohabEy be able to-
be present when the senate assem-
bles ON Feb. l.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-02-04

1t is perhaps fact THAT many
grain growers do mot really know
what it costs to raise bushel of
wheat. Every successful business
MAN knows to al fraction Of cent
what his goods cost, how much it
costs to sen them, he figures a1fs in.
suusance and taxes, the interest on his
fnvestment and also Ia fair salary for
his own services, aal these items are
properly figured as a part of the
cost of his goods to t[his he adds any
where from 20 per cent to 100 per
cent as "a profit to compensate him for
his business risk, and as just re-
turn on his capital invested.
The following figures as to the cost
of production of wheat on section
OF Land In the Red Ri '.ey;-, we're
compiled from the book of a success
full farmer, who has kept track of
his farm expenses much the same as
a man engaged I'm selling goods.
Cost of production of wheat ON
farm of GAO acres in North Dakota
cost of farm:
64Q acres at $40 per acre. $25,6OO0O
Cost of Farm Implements.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-02-04

should, be retained i'm thIe Office as
long as he cares to remain.
Senatou Purcell of Wahpeton who
has bene suffering with "a very
severe case of LaGuippe, being con
fined to his room at tine Northwestern
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500
Charge Off the Wear and Loss
Farm Animals.

Farm Animals.
Working Fife of horse is IA years,
therefore, there lis am average loss Of
ONE horse per year $3.50, total expense
$S,C6700.
All manufacturers figure to make
at least 20 per cent on their business;
and after figuring the absolute cost of
of production, add 20 per cent to that
cost and figure their selling price,
from 'that figure 90 per cent of
$S,G7.40 the cost Of production for
a profit to the wheat planter
s1,613.4S. total $9,GS0SS.
Total ccst OF production on GAO
acre wiheat farm yie!t1ing y j. BUSH
els to uhe acre 500 bushels, showing
that the producer should receive $1.19
80 per bushel in order to receive
fat, compensation On his Investment,
business trials and risks.
1lh'ese figures have been carefully
compared by the best wheat experts
of the American Society of Equity
and have been approved by them.
One of the most expert accountants
of the Northwest has gone over AN
or the figures and certifes thai thev
are correct. The Society of Eouitv
by its board of directors thereby off
ctaRly declares that: THE farmer is
entitled to as much profit on his busi.
ness aus the manu- Eacturer, or the
Merdhant and THAT the minimum price
for wheat ON THE falim Should be
$1.25 per bMshe1
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Good Points About Farming
Some Notes Jotted Down By The independents Represen
alive at The Farmers Institute
Interest and Taxes.

Interest and Taxes.
Taxes. .. .. 80. :. :. :. 10000
Int. on cost of farm SIS, 800 at
lat per cent. .. :. :. $50 90
Int on cost OF implements
$1,615 at per cent :. =. :. 96.96
Int. on cost of animals $4,000
at per cent. =. =. .... :. 144. 90
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FOR sA14E-Hrg grade piano, a
$500 instrument for $3.50. Cash or
payments. Address BOX No. 957
Minot, N. D. 24-tf
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Death from Scarlet Fever

The ten year OLD SON of Mr.. and
Mrs. M. E. Williams died from scarlet
fever, and the remains were inferred
in Rose Hell cemetery.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-02-04

Alrs. Fahey, mother OF Attorney
John Faaey, is reported precariousay
i'll I'm this city.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-02-04

. DloWs at $9o.... .. ..$195.O
2 drags at SIS :. $500
2 cultivators at $25.. :. .. .. SO. 90
2 drills .at $120 =. :. :. :. ..240. .0N
2 binders at $3.50 :. :. :. 300. 90
l mower at $50 .. .. :. so. 90
rake at $50 -. :. :. :. :. 80. 90
corn planter at $45 :. 45. 90
4 wagons at 800 :. :. =. $3.50. 90
7 sets of harness at $50 :. ..21O. 90
puSS!'. ..l0O. 90
........ $1,616OO
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$47s0. 90
Cost OF Harvesting.
'Ehresffng S,100 bu. at 11c. 1891 90
Binding twine at 2 1-2 b1s. to
the acre at 25c. >. ... :. 100 90
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1,S76.96
$7,707.9e


ALI machinery wears out and manu-
Aacturers figure THAT machinery de-
preciates at the rate of 10 per cent
per year, and they charge off that
amount every year, on their books
and they also figure that it cost 8
per cent per year ito make Repairs.
Repairs and Allowances for Deprecia-
tion.
Repairs and implements v1alu-
atiom $1616 at per cent. As. 4S
Depreciation of implements at
10 per cent yearly On Valu-
ation of $1616 at 10 per cent 161. 90
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Farm Animals.
10 horses at $780,. >. :. ..$2,4OO. 90
Total cost of farm implements
and animals. -. 80. ....29, ,1G1 90
Cost of Seed and Labor.
500 bushels of seed wheat (5
pecks to the acre at SOc.. GAO 90
3 men including board at $45
per month each :. :. ..162 90
Wages Of owner of farm at
$15 per MONTH. :. 900 90
Wages OF Wife of owner with
board at S35 :. . . :. 42O 90
Feeding 16 ,lorses for one YEAR 200 90
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by Independents representative Thomas
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$1,o51.oo. $1.25 per bmshe1
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-26
HANDSPRING OF DEMOCRACY.
Boys In Their Teens should n
Taught NV Men

Boys In Their Teens should he
Taught by Men.
The August American Magazine contains
an article entitled. The Schools-The Main
spring OF Democracy" by William Allen
White. which deals with the question OF our
system Of public school education and its
Importance to national progress. Mr.. White
thinks that one Of the grave faults with
our public schools is that they haven't bet
ter teachers. He says:
The boy goes to the pool room and the
saloon primarily because there he finds
men. At school he is surfeited with fem.
Unity. Given men teachers for the boy after
he gets into his teens, and the boy will not
be so ready to leave school as he is. But
teaching is a profession that men use as a
s~tepplns-stone to something better. 1t Is
not = mans profession, and wages OF teach.
ers are so low that men cannot afford 10
a teaching a career. And IL the stalls.
tics Of the census bureau are correct No
extravaganza Of our people is so disastrous
to us as the economy we are practicine In
our schools in the seventh and eighth
grades. For there the boys fall out by the
millions. And the fact that their sisters
who can earn as much at that age as their
brothers, remain on an average a few years
longer, indicates that the boys leave school
because they are boys, and because the
schools are designed for the girls. In some
hazy, indefinite way we seem to be really
Ing this as a peoplei for in ten states
Massachusetts,, Utah, Indiana, Virginia,
New Jersey, Illinois Connecticut, Mary
land, Ohio, California n Mlohigan-we
have passed laws Of more or less value
providing for pensioninR school teachers.
Given a pension, and a man can afford to
make teaching a profession, and the man
teacher will appear in the seventh and
eighth grades, and the boy will be saved
to good citizenship. II the laws permitting
school districts to set aside pension funds
spread over the states as the laws author
izlng manual training schools nave spread
since 1900, by 1920 the million pupils who
reach the high school every year will be
greatly increased II there is any ground
for prophecy in statistics. '"
"As conditions now exist there comes into
the life OF the average boy or girl four or
five waste years-the years between 10 and
IS. These waste years hold In them the
real dangers OF our democracy.
Ten millions OF 14-year-old boys and
their slsters-who are really worth some
~thing-are out of school in America today.
Partly they are out for economic reasons;
the family needs their support; but the
state needs a clear mind in the ballot booth
seven years later, worse than the family
needs support, and might we'll afford to pay
the family the errand boys meager wages.
But apart from economic forces which KEEP
the boy out OF school during the waste
years Of his life, there are social reasons
why he is not In school. And those social
reasons are his studies and his teachers.
and at the bottom Of all, the selfishness of
the taxpayers"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-26

lunch OF stale peanuts and aniline-dyed ice
cream.
Pretty soon. however. the Central Cryptic
Conclave Of the national organization OF
Mu Mu Mu establishes a local chapter IN
the school, and the new Mu MI Mus come
tagging along and endenvor to hobnob. A
farther remove becomes necessary. This
time IL is half a mile down the street to
Kelly's stew store, well known as The
Blink" where one can vlbrate quite ia.
miliarly for a few minutes around the free
lunch counter. What now is the dletetic,
hygienic, etc. dairy lunch served at cost
in the school lunch room by the local wo.
mans club? What, even, are Greek pea.
nuts and ice cream7 a tub of arsenicated
suds for us, and a couple Of condemned
meat wiener-wurstsl Life is on the wing!
1t is curious how exclusiveness runs e
sportiness, when one is very young. But
1t always has done so, and 1t always will.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-26
CoLUMBIA's SUMMER SCHOOL.
Record-Breaking Attendance from Al
Parts of the Country,


RecOrd-BreakinR Attendance from All
Parts of the Country.
Nearly 1000 student are taking part in
the summer session of Columbia university,
a record breaking number for universities
in this country. OF these 1880 are up on
Morningside Heights and twenty-one are at
the College Of Physicians and Surgeons.
The students nave come from nearly every
state and territory in the union, from
Canada and Nova Scotia, and from many
foreign countries. Almost all professions
are represented and a larger number thar
usual have matriculated in the university
The increase over last year-about 400
is due to several causes. One is that under
the new regulations 1t is possible for mer
and women to get the university degree In
a shorter time. -Four summer sessions. or
two summer sessions and one regular term
being all that is necessary to accomplish
the result, and hundreds are taking ad.
vantage of the opportunity. Another Is
the arrangement OF the courses. The dlrec.
tor OF the session has made a careful
study of the applications in the last few
years and, having worked along the line
Of the greatest demand. has made oppor-
tunities for all to make progress along the
line they have been studying. Then the
teaching staff has been greatly improved
and those at the head of the various de-
partments are the best in the country,
other universities having been drawn upon
for their best teachers.
one of the features OF the session In
the past has been the large numbers OF
school superintendents, and each year has
seen an Increase in their umbers This
year many have brought their teachers
with them to benefit by the instruction in
modern methods. Even the superintendent
Of schools Of Panama has brought teachers
with him, and there Is such a large delega-
ton of superintendents and teachers from
Indiana that they have formed an asso-
citation of students at the session from
that state which is for mutual advantage.
and they take their outings together.
There is an especially large delegation from
Nova Scotia and from Canada there are
many. There is also a large increase in
the number coming from the southern
states, the representation from these points
having been light in the past. Ohio and
West Virginia ave many representatives
while not a few are regular students OF
the university who are taking the oppor.
tunity to advance themselves.
Among the new courses offered this veal
are those in theology and public speaking
and both have fully justified their estab-
lishment. In the latter course there are
fifty who are in charge Of Prof. Winter OF
Harvard. The graduate work being done
exceeds anything in other years by a large
percentage.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-26
WENTWORTH MILITARY ACADEMY
Made n Post of the National Guard
of Missouri,

The superintendent Of the academy has
recently received a letter from Adjutant
General Rumbold, stating that the Went
worth Military Academy had been made a
post OF the National Guard OF Missouri
under the new law passed at the last ses-
sion OF the legislature. Wentworth has
Tor many years been a post of the National
Guard OF Missouri, In fact II was the first
military academy In the state to be made
a post of the National Guard and have It's
faculty and graduates to receive commits
sions In the state militia. The recent act
OF the legislature, however, made 1t neees-
sary for all military academies 10 be re-
appointed posts OF the National Guard.
and the requirements of the law were so
strict that only a very few schools could
fulfill their requirements; there was never
any doubt about Wentworth fulfilling every
requirement of the law, since 1t is the
Oldest and by far the largest military
school in the state and generally recoR-
nized by the United States government
Inspectors as one OF the first military
schools In the United States.
Captain II. NJ. Peck, a member of the
Wentworth faculty for two years, is spend
ing his vacation at the academy. He is
practicing law at Oklahoma City and is
recognized as one Of the most prominent
lawyers Of the city.
Messrs Madison Welsh and Irving Chan
man. both Of Kansas City, spent the night
at the academy on their way to st. Louis
from Kansas City. They went by way
OF the Missouri River in a canoe and made
the trip In six days.
The new Wentworth catalogues are iust
out and are even handsomer than those
gotten out last year. The requests for
catalogues are coming in in large numbers
ana the academy expects an unusually
large attendance next fail.
One OF the many things that makes
Wentworth so attractive to it's cadets is the
unique system OF athletics which the school
has had in force for several years-a sys-
TEN so arranged as to have every cadet
take an active part in games OF all kinds.
This system develops all the cadets and
enabled Wentworth to turn out a foot ball
team last year that scored 216 points and
was never scored upon.
The academy has just enlarged its
cavalry equipment by purchase OF fourteen
additional horses. These horses are well
adapted to cavalry use. They are OF uni
form color and an exceptionally fine lot.
The Wentworth troop will be unsurpa ssed
by any troop In the middle west.
Captain g. B. Prtchard. IT,, professor OF
military science and tactics at wentworth
Military academy. Is spending the week at
Camp Hadley. Nevada, No. at the request
OF General Rumbold. II will be OF interest
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-26
BOY LEAVES THE HOSPITAL
Julius GaEini, Who Had Skull Frac-
tured July 10, Has Entirely
Recovered.

Julius Gagini, the s-year-old boy who wa.
hurt on the night of July 16 by being struck
on the head by a rock which one mar
threw at another, is so much improved tina
he was allowed to go from st. Joseph.
hospital to his home Saturday afternoon
and his recovery seems assured.
Julius was standing inside his home wher
two men engaged in a fight in front of the
house. One Of them threw a rock, which
missed its mark, crashed through a screen
door and struck the boy.
He was operated on the same night by
Police Surgeon Harris, who found a bad
fracture Of the skull, and It was necessary
to remove a quantity OF bone, but the
operation proved to be entirely successful
and the boy is apparently almost as well
as ever.
The men who were responsible for the
accident have not been identified.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-26
HIGH SCHOOL FRATERNITIEs.
story Of Their Development and the
sporty Instinct.

sporty Instinct.
Discussing the absurdities of high school
fraternities in Everybody's Magazine, VIII
liam Hand draws this picture of their de-
~velopment:
A couple OF western boys go cast for.
vacation. They meet some other boys and
learn that there is such a thing, really,
for practical purposes, as the Greek alpha.
bet. They also learn that their new friends
organized into a company, own three Of
the letters, which are certainly good 10
look at-much resembling chewing gum
trademarks, The new friends offer tn lend
them the letters, teach them how 10 shake
hands in a complicated way, write the
TRANSACTIONS Of the letters down on a slip
of paper so that they won't mislay them
In their minds, and send them back west
to found a chapter of Pi Phi Psi.
Returning home. the boys pick out n few
agreeable associates OF their own social
species. hold an initiation, teach the new
members the principles OF Pi-Phi-Psi-ism
by dropping oysters at the end of strings
down their throats and then Jerking the
strings and pulling the oysters up again,
devise a few new complications In the art
OF nhnu-snbklnN, nave tnelr coats cut I'VE
inches lower in the 'front.' than at the back,
have buttons sewed on the flaps Of their
pockets, turn up ten inches OF their trouseI
legs, take a pair OF scissors and clip Oft
the whole breadth of the rims OF their
soft felt hats all the way around, slit holes
In the remaining fragments Of the hats
and Irvine their fraternity ribbons through
the holes, invest some of fathers money
In an enamel, gold and diamond Pi Phi Psi
label, hook the label to their waistcoats,
and paraly1e the high school corridors be
tween classes with a burlesque OF a stage
sanitation Of a college boys imitation Of a
human walk.
Those Pi Phi Psi boys, for instance Ito
take the history OF a certain fraternity in
one Of the Chicago high schools for an
nlustration), soon observe that Utmost
everybody eats lunch in the school lunch
room. And many OF the persons there have
brought their lunch with them from home
In paper bags and old shoe boxes. Such
persons are not interesting associates. The
members Of Pr Phi Psi, all OF whom used
to eat in the lunch room. now go down the
street at the noon hour to G-ianakopepopou.
los fruit store and purchase an exclusive
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-26
YOUNG MAN KILLS HIMSELF
George RiebOIt, Who ROOmed Mt 100
North Sixteenth street, Takes
Big Dose of StrychnIne.

George Riebolt, who has been rooming al
700 North Sixteenth street, committed sui
eide about u O'Clock last night by taking
a large amount OF strychnine.
Riebolt, who was single, had been drink
ing for three or four days, and early las.
night made threats to end his life, but his
friends thought nothing of It.
He was 80 years OF age and had beer
working for the Stevenson Roofing com,
pany. He had lived in omaha for many
years Neither w. II. Moody, sol North
Sixteenth street, who formerly roomed with
Riebolt, nor Mrs. W. II. Mills. who con.
ducts the place where he was rooming
were able to assign any reason for his
desire to die other than the fact OF his
excessive drinking. The body was taken
In charge by the coroner.
His father. Fred Riebolt, who lives at
Laurel, Mont, has been notified.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-26
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE WORK
Gratifying Exhibit of Progress in the
Common Schools.
ARGUMENT FOR MEN TEACHERS
How High school FraternIties stimu-
late the sporty Instinct-Mid-
summer Activities OF vari-
Gus Schools.

Work Is progressing steadily on the new
Nebraska Military academy building in Lin
soln. BY the opening day next September
the building will be finished and fully
equipped for the housing and schooling OF
the boys. Anxious Inquiries are coming In
from former cadets regarding the location
of their rooms, while frequent trips are
made to. the building by cadets who live
in Lincoln and vicinity.
A handsome illustrated catalogue will
soon be ready for distribution. From the
pictures alone one can gain an idea Of the
varied activities of the academy, of the
senior and Junior teams in foot ball, base
ball and basket ball, Of the debating squads,
of the military band and the several other
organization which vary the routine OF
academic work and aid in both mental and
physical development OF cadets. Nothing
Is done at random in the Nebraska Mill.
tary academy. Membership on athletic
teams Is conditioned on excellence in
scholarship, and all athletics are under the
direct supervision Of faculty members
During the last year the academic work OF
the academy has been honored by nccredit-
ment in the University of Nebraska and In
the North Central Association of Colleges
and Secondary Scholastic highest marks
% approval a preparatory school can win.
The manual training department won high
favor With both Junior and senior cadets.
Something made by themselves which car
j. ha.,ltd and seen and exhibited to
utcJds appeals to the peculiar constructive
{ tug, If a growing boy. This impulse
, "a wisely directed develops the quail
ties ot accuracy. patience and attention to
uetall.
Cadets who work well during the week
are rewarded by some healthful diversion
on Friday evening, and to this end a series
Of musical, literary and social entertain
mon;s have been planned for the coming
yCar.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-26
A RIoodr Affnir

is lung hemorrage. Stop It, and cure veal
lungs. coughs and colds with Dr. KIng'i
New Discovery. zoe and s1o. Sold by
Beaten Drug co.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-26
EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS.

steady Expansion of the Common
school System.
One OF the most gratifying features In
American progress is the extension of the
common school as shown In Volume II,
just issued, Of the 1905 report Of Dr.. Elmer
Ellsworth Brown, United States commits
sloner Of education The comparative fig
ures are.