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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-09-16

This is the season OF the year. Mr. Subscriber
when you ought to hand the editor dollar on sub
scrpton. You probably think that it doesn't mat
ter much to him whether you pay this fall or next
winter or the next fall, but let tell you that it
does fellows heart good to get the money n
promptly, the sooner the quicker A few thousand
dollars on the subscription book is likely to repre-
sent considerably more than the years earnings Of
the plantso that il all felt disncned paythe
.ge newspaper man would have to suspend business
So again we say, don't be neglectful, but bring It,
send it, wire it in. II you think that is likely to
be any delay we'll not object If you send it by spe-
cial delivery. If happen to be out, and the
dior locked, throw it over the transom
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-09-16

The government has stopped the first issue of the
new Lincoln penny in order to take the initials of
the designer, "V. B. D." from the die. The issue
with the initials consisted of 20,00O00O pennies,
which we put into circulation. Those now APP
pearing are without the initials. those who have
one of the pennies with the initials, should keep
siderable monetary value.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-09-16

In this issue OF the Independent as an innovation
appears NUMBER OF excellent views from the
Mouse River Valley farm of Ex-Gov. j. M DavI,e ~,
S'not together with description of the farm md
an interesting interview with tho souo.no.
10 inc manner in which he tills the soil Tho or
pcie is well worth reading. All wuo can co,uo-
1ently DO so should send this weeks COW =,
'"S'efn ir'eno' The pictures accompanying the ar
t'ce tell better than words the prosperity th.+ ..
careful North Dakota farmer is enjoying
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-09-16

The newspapers of the Williston land district are
boosting Geo. W. Wilson for governor Mr.. Wilson
final proofs, and naturally one would expect the
newspapers of that district to say a. good word The
Wilston State will probably not support the can
didate. -=r-~>. s5.sg -
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-09-16

The market wheat advanced three or -four
cars and cars of grain into the market centers is
an excellent indication The farmers have dispos-
ed of but very small percentage or the grain they
have hauled to the elevators, and many have erect
ed granaries and prepared to hold their pro-
duct for still greater advance, which is almost
tain to come. When the farmer becomes fixed fin
ancialy so that most OF the grain be stored in
the granaries. instead of at the elevators. can
then look for more rapid advance in prices. The
corning his crop that should be kept from the pub
lic He should SAY nothing and saw wood II
he makes statement at all, it should be most
sentative. The price of grain is usually fixed in the
fall the basis OF the average crop At one time
it appeared tho the average Tor wheat would
be close to twenty bushels. The early threshing
returns showed that the average had been cut down
to sixteen bushels and at the present time it looks
as tho twenlve bushels would be nearer right.
Gov. Burke, in interview out west said that the
Republican parry would have much to answer for,
ON account OF the attitude certain Republican Sen
ators took, tariff bill The same may be said
OF tne Democratic party. McEnery, the Democratic
senator from Louisiana supported Adrich right
along Bailey and Tillman voted with him when
their votes were needed. The Democratic party
out of the fight with some bad blemishes. The
Republicans need to do some purifying all right,
but this will be done. .n ~f"
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-09-16

- recent drive through the country we notic-
"a pnat farmer who had erected fine large harn
lsneo 10 store lis machinery in it, altho there vas
rsn'' o. room. new top buggy had been left ont
."e' ana tne wind had blown it down to the edea
o. slough: This may appear like an unimportant
.ns, and YET the damage done to his property dur
many dollars eu
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-09-16

Attic an American has been the first to discover
the North Pole 1t is said that England wants to
claim the territory discovered. Vino cares? If King
Edward wants to nail the bare to the pole he can do
SO as far as the Independent is concerned. North
Dakota is in just the right latitude and we don't
care to perambulate into more northern realm.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-09-16

The startling report that peonage exists in tho
state has been simered down to Just one case =
was reported that the employment agencies induced
men to come to North Dakota to work, and if thew
were not satisfied and quit they were intimdated nv
arrest the result being that they usually 90 tn uorr
lne report was untruthful, and did the state m
small amount of harm
The exchanges contain the following truthful de-
ductlon which might we'll be considered BY a few
OF the thotless business men who still persist in
letting some concern furnish their stationery:
The merchant who uses stationery decorated
with gargling oil, axle grease or other cheap adj
verdsing matter, is to the home printer what the
mail order house is to the home merchant"
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-09-16

Post Master General Hitchcock has de-
cided to increase the registry fee for let
tiers and packages to twelve cents in the.
near future, which will hello some in maxi
ing up that deficiency which exists in the
department. .-rr.,.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-09-16

representative Of tho Independent passed prai
rie home last week that looked the picture Of DESC
latton Altho the proverbial horseshoe had been
nailed over the door, the farmers wife had eloped
with a neighbor and the fellow away earning
some money at threshing. The horseshoe evidently
doesn't ward of all ones ills
1t is reported that Senator M. N. Johnson in
speech at the DEBORAH, Iowa, home gathering re-
Gently said that the water was bad North Da-
kota that horses drinking it, lost their hoofs This
may be about as the story OF the Senator and
his IS cent wheat.
Explorer Cook is likely to get about as much hon
or out of discovering the North Pole, neighbor
does for interfering i'll family row.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

it. Before l had taken one bottle l
was better, and now l am completely
cured. LENA V. HENRY, Route No,
8, Adrian, GA.
Why will women take chances with
an operation or drag out a sickly,
half-hearted existence, missing three
fourths Of the Joy of living, when they
can find health in Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compounds
For thirty years it has been the
standard remedy for female ills, and
has cured thousands of women who
have been troubled with such all
ments as displacements Inflammation,
liberation, fbroid tumors,. Irregular
ties, periodic pains, backache, indiges-
ton, and nervous prostration.
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia IT.. Pinkham's Vege-
table Core nd Will help you,
write to NJ ;nkhaIn at Lynn,
Mass, fOl -, vice.. Your letter
will be absolutely confidential,
and the advice frees
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
HATE TO QUIT LEPER COLONY
Persons Ordered Away for Exami-
nation Want to Return,
Even II Well.

One of the curious phases of life at
the Molokai leper settlement was
illustrated when seven persons from
the settlement were taken to Homo
lulu, in Hawaii, few days ago to
be re-examined to determine whether
they are now afflicted with leprosy
or not.
They are all persons who have
been at the settlement a considerable
time, most of them several years.
They are to be re-examined because
when the members of the legislature
visited the settlement some weeks
ago these individuals showed no out
ward sign of the disease, and their
re-eXamination was asked for by
some of the Legislators.
But when these seven were direct
ed by the superintendent of the set
tlement to get ready to go to Homo
lulu to be re-examined they all de-
INJURED. They declared they did not
want to leave the settlement, even if
it should be proved that they were
free from the terrible disease. They
asked that assurances be given them
that if they were found free from
leprosy they would be permitted to
return to the settlement as kokuas
or helpers to lepers.
This is not at all an unusual ex-
perience. Though the dread of be-
ing sent to the settlement is so great
among the Hawaiians that they hide
their afflicted until hiding is no
longer possible, once they live at the
settlement the life there is so care
free, so well provided in material
comforts, that seldom is there any
desire to leave.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
EASY MONEY.
Feminine Element Has Entered Into
the Scramble for 1t.

Feminine Element Has Entered Into
the Scramble for 1t.
The feminine element has entered
into the scramble for 'easy money"
which has accompanied the present
sensational advance in prices of grain
due to the spectacular operations of
James A. Patten in his so-called
deal in May wheat Hundreds of
women in Chicago and nearby towns
have profited by following discreetly
the trades" of the wheat king,
according to guarded admissions of
La Sale street brokers. Many of
the women have quit with much
money in the bank"
THE luck of the fair sex is pro-
verbal" one broker said, as he led
the inquisitor beyond the range of
hearing of the room traders in a
busy office in La Sale street sky
scraper. also, they place blind
faith in a successful plunger. You
know how it is on the race track
Of course we don't call this gamb-
ling. Nevertheless, what would you
call it when a woman with a few
hundred dollars telephones me to
buy May wheat when Patten does
and sell it when he disposed of it?
The average woman doesn't know.
wheat when she sees it-nOt that
men do either, for that matter
Il venture to say that this faith
in Patten has bought many spring
gowns, paid dressmaker's bills, pro-
duced theater tickets, luncheons, fur
niture for the house, clothes and
shoes for little Johnny and Mary, and
rent money. Women don't, as a rule,
risk big money. They quit quickly
when luck is against them, and take
profits that would look pikerish' to
a man.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
HOW HE GOT RID OF NUT GRASS.
Hogs Made the Dirt Fly and the
Nuts Disappear.

Editor Southern Cultivator: l
have seen from time to time inquiry
as to how to destroy nut grass 1
will tell you just what I have seen,
and made an investigation for my
own benefit.
l bought a piece of land covered
with nut grass, but did not know it
at the time, but soon found out.
Now | began to look around to see
how to rid this land of nut grass
An old citizen said to me that | had
a good thing if l would manage it
right, and the right way was to go
in the hog business; so l began to
go from nut grass field to nut grass
field to see for myself if hogs really
would root and eat nut grass, and l
found that a hog would go right
down after this nut grass. | went
to one field three different times in
June, July and August, and really
counted the sprigs of nut grass and
did not find but seven sprigs left
alive. These hogs were doing better
work than any twO-horse pillow could
do, so l am perfectly satisfied that
the hog is the best way TO get rid
of nut grass. I sold this farm to a
man who said he would raise hogs
and did not care straw for the
grass.
l have seen hogs root holes so
deep and wide after this nut that you
could bury a good-sized COW in these
places.
If you think this of any benefit to
your readers you can condense and
publish. ]. T.
DOuplaS Ga
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
GORE STARTLED THE SENATE
Sarcastic in Sinister Speech About
Large Earnings of Cotton and
Wooden Manufacturers.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Astonish-
ing the senate by the citation of a
long list of cotton and wooden man
ufacturing companies and giving
their earnings, capital stock, surplus,
ETC., Senator Gore again, at the be-
ginning Of today's session, undertook
the task of showing that corpora
lions engaged in the cotton and
wooden industries are making very
large earnings.
The speech was one that no other
senator would have attempted with
out constant reference to notes, but
the blind statesman from the south
west found no difficulty in giving
offhand the greatest variety of de-
tails without the ability to assist his
memory in any way. The senate
had promptly begun the days bust
ness by resuming consideration of
the cotton schedule of the tariff bill,
and Mr.. Gore was the first speaker.
Grew Very Sarcastic.
Referring to the cotton and
wooden manufacturers, and with a
rasping and sinister tone, the Okla
homa senator referred in sarcastic
language to the statement made yes
terday by Senator Lodge that some
of those large earnings resulted from
sales of real estate fortunately ac-
CURED many years ago and said that
the stock of Troy Cotton and Wool
en- Co., of Massachusetts had been
advertised as earning 81 per cent. in
1907 without reference to profits
from real estates sales. He sus-
pected, he said, that the good.
natured philanthropic manufacturers
did not divide their earnings on the
square with their labOrers."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
BOSTON WOMEN LIKE SNAKES
Now the Fad in Bean City to Be
Photographed With Reptiles.

Now the Fad in Bean City to Be
Photographed With Reptiles.
A Boston dispatch to the New
York Times says: Boston women
are taking kindly to the fad of be-
ing photographed with snakes, which
Miss Marguerite Banks has imported
from Europe.
when | first saw the thing in
Rome" said Miss Banks, Il was hor-
rified. l couldn't believe that all
those beautiful Roman women were
taking such an interest in those hor-
rible creatures. But they didn't
seem to mind it at all. Later, when
| reached London, l found the fad
had already preceded me, and Ouch
esses, countesses and the fairest and
most noble ladies in the capital had
their drawing rooms filled with por-
traits of themselves with their pets. !"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
Administrators Sale.

Georgia, Terrell County-By vir.
tue of an order of the Court of Or.
binary of Dougherty county, granted
May 3, 1909, there will be sold al
public cutlery on the first Tuesday in
July, 1909, at the court house in
said Terrell county, between the u.s.
ual hours of sale, the following real
property belonging to the estate of
George Finley, late of Dougherty
county, deceased, situate in said Ter
rell county, to-wit:
All of the west half of a certain
tract of land or town lot situate in
the northeast portion of the city linn
its of Dawson, Terrell County, Geor-
gia, in the Twelfth district of said
county; bounded on the south by the
Dawson and Bronwood public road,
and on the west by an alley running
north from the Baptist church, being
the west part of the lot at one time
owned by Simon Conyers and his
wife, and bought by said Conyers
from j. B. Grim, except a small tract
sold to one Britt Cooper; said prop
erty being the same conveyed and
more fully described in a deed from
one j. d. Laing to one William
Wooten, dated March 10, 1885, and
recorded on the record of deeds in
the office of the clerk of the superior
court of Terrell County, Georgia, in
Book NJ, Pages 613-614.
The sale will continue from day to
day, between the usual hours of sale
until said property is sold. Terms
cash. This the LIST day of June,
1909. R. P. HALL,
Administrator upon the Estate OF
George Finley, Deceased.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
Facts About the Fly Which Ev-
cry One Should Know.

The common house fly is car
rier of disease. Typhoid fever,
diarrhoea, dysentery and tubercu-
losis are carried by flies.
Flies feed on food and also on
filth. They go from the one to
the other. In this way they carry
disease germs to the table. One
fly may convey 100000 bacte-
ria.
Flies breed in manure heaps,
out-houses, refuse, ash pits, and
all decomposing animal or vege-
table matter, and unclean places.
Do not allow decaying material
of any sort to accumulate on or
near your premises. If such eX-
list cover with lime or kerosene
oil, and remove as early as posi-
BILE.
See that your sewerage system
is in good order.
Screen all food; cover food
after a meal; burn all scraps and
refuse.
Screen all windows and doors.
Burn pyrethrum powder in the
house if flies should gain en-
trance.
If there is no filth there will
be no flies.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

examined at the agricultural expert
ment station at Storrs, Conn, last
year was 100000 bacteria apiece.
This represents about the number of
bacteria that enter the human sys-
TEN when one swallows a glass of
liquid into which some fly has per-
haps fallen, to be removed by a
slovenly waiter without the LIQUID
being thrown away.
By screening and quickly dispOs-
ing of all refuse, and disinfecting
such as cannot be removed rapidly
with crude oil or atOXyl, Paris green
or chloride of lime, flies can be pre-
vented from breeding and thus elimi-
mated from any locality. In further
effort windows and doors should be
screened, food covered up, and py-
rethrum powder burned wherever
flies congregate.
Even if the typhoid or house fly
were a creature difficult to destroy
the general failure on the part of
communities to make any effort
whatever to reduce it's number could
be termed criminal neg
lect," writes DR.. l.. o. Howard, chief
of the bureau of entomology at
Washington. But since it is COM
paratively an easy matter to do away
with the plague of flies this neglect
becomes an evidence of ignorance or
of a carelesSness in regard to dis
ease producing filth which to the in
formed mind constitutes a serious
blot on civilized methods of life"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

Quick lunch is one of the COM
monest of city signs. The sign
doesn't say "a healthy lunch of good
food character of the food ap-
parently is not considered. It's Just
a quick lunch-eat and get away. Is
it any wonder that the stomach
breaks down? Food is thrown at it.,
sloppy, indigestible and innutritious
food, very often, and the stomach
has to do the best it can. Normally
| there should be no need for medical
assistance for the stomach. But the
average method of life is abnormal,
and while this continues there will
always be a demand for DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. 1t is the
one medicine which can be relied on
to cure diseases of the stomach and
other organs of digestion and nutri-
ton. 1t is not a cure-all. It is a
medicine designed for the stomach,
and to cure through the stomach re-
mote diseases which have their cause
I in the weakness and arrangement of
the stomach and digestive and nu-
tritive system. 1t cures when all
else fails. Ingredients printed on
!et ch bottle wrapper.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
Trouble Makers Onsted.

When a sufferer from stomach
trouble takes DR.. Kings New Life
Pms he's mighty glad to see his dys-
pepeia and indigestion fly, but more,
he's ti"kled over his new, fine appe-
tite, ong nerves, healthy vigor, all
becaYs stomach, liver and kidneys
now work right. 25c at Dawson
Drug Cos.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
AN ODD DECORATION DAY.
Rich Hobo Put Flowers on Graves
of Suicides.

An odd sort of Decoration Day.
was observed in New York on Mon
day under the auspices of a society
headed by Eads How, the million
aire tramp" who is a grandson of
James B. Eads, the famous engineer,
and whose money the young man is
spending How and his followers
decorated the graves of suicides who
had killed themselves because of
failure to get work" How and his
crowd would have done much better
if they had spent the money the
flowers cost in buying bread and
meat for hungry men out of work
The dead can get along with mighty
little, but the living need to eat.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09

than a minute at a
time. My doctor
said an operation
was t h e Onl y
chance l had, and
Threaded it almost
as much as death.
One day l was
reading how other
women had been
cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound,
and decided to try
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
TO CLOUDS AND RETURN $50.
The New England Aero Club Issues
Price List of Ascension.

A price list of ascensions for the
1909 season has recently been issued
by the directors of the Aero Club of
New England. To go up in the bal
loon Boston, the smaller of the two
balloons owned by the club, will cost
500 for one passenger with a pilot.
For one passenger to make an ascen-
sion with the pilot in the balloon
Massachusetts, will cost Sis. The
club notice says that these fees in
clude all expenses, except those to
the place of ascension and home from
whatever place the balloon may hap
pen to land. The club furnishes a
pilot without extra charge.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
EXCURSION RATES.
Via Central of Georgia Railway
Company.

Via Central of Georgia Railway
Company.
TO MONTEAGLE AND SEWANEE,
TENN, and return, account Mis-
sion Week (Willetts and Gilbert
Lectures), to be held July lie,
1909; Monteagle Bible School,
to be held July 1929, 1909;
Monteagle Sunday School Insti-
tute and Musical Festival, to be
held July 80 to August Is, 1909.
TO NASHVILLE, TENN, and return,
account Peabody College Sum
mer School for Teachers and
Vanderbilt Biblical Institute, to
be held June 9 to August 4,
1909.
TO MACON, GA, and return, account
General State Baptist Conven-
ton, to be held June 1921,
1909. Tickets on sale from all
points in Georgia.
TO NASHVILLE, TENN, and re-
turn, account Peabody College
Summer School for Teachers
and Vanderbilt Biblical Insti-
tute, to be held June to Au-
gust 4, 1909.
TO ATHENS, GA, and return, &C
count summer school University
of Georgia, to be held June &c
to July II, 1909.
| TO KNOXVILLE, TENN, and re-
turn, account Summer School OF
the South, to be held June 22
to July 80, 1909.
TO ASHVILLE, N. c., and return
| account Dramatic order knights
! of Khorassan, biennial meeting
to be held July 1920, 1909.
TO ATLANTA, GA, account Ameri.
can Association of Opticians, tc
be held June 21-24, 1909.
/ TO ASHEVILLE, N. c., and return
account International Conven-
ton Baraca and Philathea, to be
held June 1928, 1909.
TO CUMBERLAND ISLAND. GA.
and return, account Georgia
Educational Association, to be
held June 1926, 1909. Excur.
sion fares apply from agency
stations in Georgia.
For full information in regard tC
rates, dates of sale, limits, SEIZED
ules, ETC., apply to nearest ticket
agent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
OPERATION
HER ONLY
CHANCE
WasCured by ydiaE Pink
ham, Vegetable Compound

Adrian, Ga.-"I suffered untold
misery from a female weakness and
disease. and I could not stand more
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1909-01-08
Masks of Night Riders.

Telling Of the Night Riders in
Tennessee. Don Marquis. in Uucle
Remus 's-The Home Magazine for
January says:
The. are both a military and
civil organization The head is
known "A the General; counties are
presided over 10y colnnels; magiSter-
ial districts 10y captains, and 50
forth. 1t IS the policy to allow the
younger men-mostly fellows-to
do the actual raiding; while the
older heads and the steadier hands
are reserved for jury duty, witness
ses. and 50 forth, in case any of the
raids lead 10 trouble iu the courts
The masks used are constructed
Of almost any dark material. with
slits cut for the eyes and mouth
the leaders wear, in addition To
these. "a band of white across the
shoulders Each man has his num-
Der, and answers tn it instead of 10y
name: while on an actual raid only
the commander officer speaks IN
the Rcelfoot Lake district the Night
Riders usually added to the mask a
kind of loose blouse, or gown; and
some of the masks were made al
most like hoods; hut the practice
in the tobacco districts is I'm favor
of simplicity