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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-29
Card Of Thanr.

In this public way we desire to
express and offer our profound
gratitude for the kindly help given,
the words of sympathy spoken,
and the assistance rendered US by
our neighbors and friends during
the recent illness, death and
burial of our beloved son and
brother Carl.
Martin Hanson and family.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-29

There is considerable speculat-
ion as to whom Governor Burke
will appoint as a successor to the
late United States Senator Nj. n.
johnson. The successor will
serve the State until March 4,
l91l.
Bids will be received by the
Government for mail carriers on
the three routes between Wash.
burn and Basto, Painted Woods
and Center, for a term of four
years, from July l, 1910 to June
30, 1914.
/ Foss s. Funk arrived from Los
Angeles this week to spend the
winter with his brother F. E. He
was not in good health at home
and the change to a North Dakota
brisk winter will no doubt be
what he needs.
An offer will be made to all new
subscribers where they can get the
Leader for two month free. By
paying $3.50 now any new sub
scriber will get the. Leader until
January l, 1911. This offer will
be good from nov on to the first
Of the year.
Nels Ahlberg came up from
Henning, MINI, this week to
meet his old friends. He was
formerly one Of our progressive
farmers, who owned one of tie
prettiest farms in this county; the
trees were plentiful and all build
|ings good and substantial. He
will remain in Washburn only Il
few days.
John A. Linder was down from
his farm near Underwood Thurs.
day on legal business. Mr.. Lind4r
is one Of the prosperous farmers
in that neighborhood who worked
hard to get rural route number
one established and now enjoys
the good mail service, He re-
turned to HE home Thursday eve
ming.
W. N. Cickley sold SCI sec. BIZ
|136-s76 to Fred Bender some
time ago for $22 per acre That
land is rapidly. advancing in value
is proven by the fact that q quar-
ter section joining this sold for
10 per acre and this year ut Was
sold for $1,000. The rapid adj
vancement 81 the price on land is.
not .laud boom but by the crops
harvested every year makes its
own value. -Meclusky Indepen-
dent.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-29

The body of the late United
States Senator Martin Nelson
johnson was laid in its last rest
ing place in the little cemetery
hall a mile from the village of
Petersburg last Sunday. All day
Saturday. and Sunday friends
vieRed the remains. Aspecial train
was run from Grand. Forks to
carry friends to the funeral.
Many prominent men Of the state
were in attendance.
It is lucky for the visitors of
W3shburn that. the, moon is a
friend of theirs or they would
ha1e to feel their way around town
when going from store to store
or bank to transact their business
after the SUI has set. We are
gladsto say that one new light has
been placed this week making a
total of three now in Washburn
the only city in the county. Sin!
Don't wake the aldermen.
On Thursday October 18th. &C.
CURED the marriage of Miss
Minnie Tank to Ed. F. Hodges of
Blackwater. Judge Olgeirson of
thia scity oficiated in the presence
of only a few friends. After the
ceremony they returned home
when the announcement of their
matriage was made known to the
surprise of their many friends.
Mr. Hodges is we'll known in this
neigllhorhood having made his
home with the Jennings family
for a number of years. They are
receiving congratulations at their
home on Mr.. Hodges farm at
-BIackwater.
August johnson was down from
Underwood on Thursday to at
tend court. While in the city he
at the Leader Office and
again became a subscriber to the
largest paper in the county. Mr..
johnson had been a subscriber
from 1894 until last year when he
thought he was getting more
papers than he could read. He
now thinks he will always have
time 20 read the Leader and we
are glad 70 again place him upon
our l9llslist. Mr.Johnson is serv-
ing as juryman during this term
Of court. Mi. johnson is one Of
the wealthy farmers inthis county.
Thisyear be had in 1000 acres Of
grain,and the yield was good.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-29
Men Wanted.

We want every man who has
not a watch to get one of our SO.
guaranteed II jeweled Adjusted
Elgin or Waltham watches at
Persey's, Washburn.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-29
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LOCAL NEWS :

3 LOCAL NEWS .
Observation-Disclosures
Read locals en- page two and
eight.
For Sale-Screenings, at the
Farmers Elevator.
Mrs. Walfred Anderson spent
several days in Bismarck this
week.
Will Go on Your BOND, Frank E.
Funk, LIST Natl Bank, Washbnrn.
North Dakota,
Aug 3. johnson. was in Nc
Clusky this week looking over the
telephone lines.
FOR SALE-25 head Of mich
COWS, coming fresh in short time.
Aug. E. johnson, Washburn, ND.
Last year the river froze up on
November II, and five years ago
it did not freeze until November
q.
A complete line Of asbestos sad
irons. An iron for any purpose
at the Thompson Hdw. Store.
Mrs. Flora Richards came down
from douglas to attend court.
/ Her case is being heard to-day.
Fred Ramsey was among the
prominent citizens of Turtle Lake
seen in Washburn this week.
Emil Jassmann was down from
Goodrich as a witness in a civil
case to be heard during this term
of court.
See the Simmons with their
snappys sYaudeville between acts at
the Opera House Friday Novem-
Der 5th.s
Mrs. AL Richards returned to|
her home at Baldwin yesterday
after a pleasant visit of a. week at
the Will Richards home.
G.. w. McGray aud Kfist
Kjelstrup were down from I'm
derwood Thursday as witnesses,
in a case to be heard this week.
A moving picture show was in
Washburn Tuesday evening and
showed some very interesting
views to a crowded house.
Representative John A. john
son of Dogden was called as jury
man for this term Of court and
served two days and was released.
Mrs. J. 0. Jenness, ex-superin-
tendent Of Oliver county. is at
tending institute in Washburn
this week. She is Que of the
regular attendants every year.
Now iss the time to give The
Thompson Hardware Company
your order for the rifle amn,uni-
ton that you will be needing dur
ing the deer hunting season.
j. M. Devine came down from
Minot Wednesday and gave q
lecture in the evening on Lincoln.
After the lecture he left for Me-
Clusky by auto and gave the same
lecture there Thursday evening.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-29
Market Report.
500 Time Card,

WeBC BOunu Trains.
No. 257.passenger departs 9:2Oa m
No. 6~5-fleight departs 9:25 a m
East Bound Trains.
No. 265-passenger departs 2:lOpm
Nc. 64-freight departs 3:20 p M
All trains daily except Sunday,
effective Aug. 10Th 1909.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-14
Growing Good Crops Of Wheat.

The present good price for wheat
and the apparent prospect for it's
continuance, is exciting interest in
wheat raising in the South, and I am
getting letters from many farmers
who have not been growing wheat,
asking for the best methods for it's
cultivation. While wheat can be
grown in the coastal plain of the South
Atlantic region. it is hardly probable
that uniformly good crops will be
made there. because as a rule the
soils are rather too light and the cli-
mate too humid for the best results
in wht' though in certain unusually
favorable seasons good crops may
sometimes be made.
The best wheat soils are the me-
dunn heavy clay loans, and a lime
stone soil is highly esteemed for
wheat Good drainage is, of course.
essential to a crop that must pass
through the winter, and only well
drained soils can be expected to make
good wheat crops.
Formerly, it was thought that the
ideal preparation for wheat was a.
clover sod broken early in the sum-
mer and narrowed and tramped till
well settled. And there is no doubt
that a we'll prepared fallow is stfn
excellent for the wheat crop. But
cultivators have long since learned
that this sort of preparation for the
wheat crop is too expensive, as It
takes the labor Of the farm through
most OF the summer without any
crop on the land, and the exposure
to the sun is also a bad thing for
the soil. In my boyhood I can we'll
remember that farmer would apol-
ogize for the appearance of a certain
field by saying that was "cornIand"
wheat, and could not be expected TO
be equal to fallow wheat.
But these same farmers who FORM
erly thought that they were doing
we'll to get fifteen bushels of wheat
per acre, have long since found out
that fifteen bushels is a very small!
crop. and that there is no better
preparation for wheat than corn
field deeply broken in the spring and
cultivated shallowly all summer, so
as to bring about the same ideal con-
ditions that an early-broken fallow
gives. They have found, too,
that after the hoed crop.
whether wheat or tobacco, there
is no need for re-plowing the
land. In fact, there is good reason
for not doing so. for the shallow and
level culture Of the corn has brought
ABOUT the very best conditions for
wheat, a we'll compacted soil and a
fine surface.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-14
New England's Danger.

There is noticeable feeling of ap-
prehension throughout the northeast.
especially up in New England, that
the manufacturing and commercial
supremacy so long enjoyed by that
section is seriously threatened. and
that the danger Is from the west.
There is no question of the fact that
New England has been having vel
vety times in manufacturing lines
for several generations, and there
is no question of the fact either. that
the west Is great and growing
country; but while we have tremen-
dous respect for the business perspi-
cacity of the New Englanders, we are
inclined to think that they are q lit
tie in the dark just now as to the
quarter from which they are most
threatened. The great south has be-
gun to feel herself again and it will
not be a great while until she beg, is
to make herself felt by others. This
is the coming part of the country;
and If our friends of New England
ever lose their industrial supremacy.
we are inclined to believe that it is
the south which will next loom up in
the lead.-Yorkville Enquirer.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-14
SPECIFY.

"It is reported that some whiskey
houses have sent In punches OF mon
ey to be used In purchasing votes for
the dispensary In Sumter County and
other counties. The anti-dispensary-
ties are ON the lookout for anyone
using money and are prepared to pro-
secute them"
The above paragraph Is taken from
the Sumter correspondence In the
Columbia state. IL Is statement
that should be substantiated and
proof Of It's correctness furnished or
promptly and explicitly with
drawn. IL Is possible that
the whiskey men may have
sent money To this city to he
used ~ Influencing the election To be
held In the 18th. but we regard II as
improbable. Who IL taking an active
interest and devoting his time and
energies To influencing voters To vote
for the retention OF the dispensary
Who Is suspected OF being
So greatly interested i'm the
retention of the dispensary as
Co undertake To- distribute this
Hypothetical corruption fund where
Il will 40 the most good? We do
not believe that any money has been
sent to Sumter To- dcbauch the cleo
torate In the interest of the dspen-
sary. We do not believe that a suiIi-
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-14
the lower soil compacted t he state
the wheat prefers.
Time and Manner of Seeding.

Then as to sowing Too early
must be avoided on account of the
Hesslan fly. There is less danger Of
the fly after we have had one good
white frost, and l would always defer
the sowing to this time. This
VIII usually make the sowing
in all the warmer parts OF the
State of North Carolina about the
last of October or first of November,
and somewhat earlier in the upper
sections. Mr.. Dauthridge, n Edgo-
combe County, made some years ago
fine crop of wheat sown in Decem-
Der, but in any Of the upper parts OF
the State that would be entirely TOO
late to give the wheat a fair chance.
while it might do in lower Georgia
and Alabama.
AS to the amount of seed to be u.s.
ed, I would SOW more on thin land
than on strong land, for it will tiller
less. On the best wheat soil five to
six pecks per acre, will be none too
much. Get seed wheat, if practicable
south of you rather than north. for
south wheat is sown later and ripens
earlier, and hence earliness is pro-
noted by going south for seed. Tn
the days of the old Blue Stem White
wheat it was common for Maryland
farmers to get seed from North Car
olina, and they found this to be an
advantage in earliness.
Where one has a manured clover
sod turned for corn, the only fertilizer
that will be needed on red clay soil
will be about 400 pounds of acid
phosphate per acre. and on sandy OF
grey soil an addition of 25 pounds OF
muriate Of potash will be an advan-
tage. Always drill the seed with a
wheat drill. and never follow the old
practice of sowing broadcast and har-
rowing 1t, see that the seed is clean
plump and heavy, for a great deal de.
pends on the vfgor of the plants. and
you cannot expect strong plants from
shrivelled seed.
You will have no cheat unless YOU
sow the seed with the wheat or have
land already infested with cheat seed
Cheat is more common among oat.
in the South than among wheat. TO,
the cheat seed is very much like q
small oat, and farmers SOW them will
the oats without suspecting thei,
presence. Then the winter NAV bt
hard and the oats get killed. but the
hardy cheat grows, and the farmer
seeing green leaves, imagines that Il
Is oats till it heads out, and then he
thinks his oats have turned to cheat
NO man ever had any cheat but what
came from cheat seed which was il
the ground or was sown with tn,
grain.-Prof. Massey, in Progressive
Farmer.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-14
Have the Soil Fine and Firm.


Thereforf. after a crop OF corn or
tobacco isioff the land, a light disk
ing kept up both ways till the surface
soil is made very fine, will be all that
is needed. If peas have been sown
among the corn or tobacco, they
should be mOwn off, for the turning
under OF such a growth would pre-
vent the compacting of the soil that
wheat demands. and more wheat will
be made with the peas cut off than
II they were turned under But one
thing Is certain, and that is. that the
surface soil can not be made too fine.
The best wheat soils in Virginia and
North Carolina are the red uplands
OF the Piedmont section. Lands like
the farm Of Mr.. Lambeth in Radolph
County near Thomasville, in David
son, where a crop Of over thirty bush-
els is reported this season, should
be made to average that much. or
more, every season. The farm of the
late Governor Holt, in Davidson, has
made over forty-five bushels per
acre. and these crops show that these
req lands are ideal wheat soils, and
VIII make more wheat today under
good farming than the famous spring
wheat lands Of the Dakotas But
good farming demands that crops
shall be grown economically, and it
has been found, as have said. that
the fallowng system is not an eco
nomical way to raise wheat. Our
clover sod. while it will make fine
wheat. can he more economicaUv
used for the corn crop. The farm
manure spread on this clover sod as
made during the winter. and plowed
under in the spring, makes the best
OF all preparation for the wheat crop
II the corn is cultivated shallow and
level during the summer. thus pro-
ducing the same conditions that
would be made on summer falloN
! while making a valuable crop
/ The same may be said Of the to-
hacco crop as preparation for
wheat. The leading idea is to make
the breaking early and then devote
the whole season to the preparation
OF the surface soil to get it fine, and
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-14

put the land in wheat, and the silos
that stood by their barns showed
where the corn stalks went, and the
fine cattle on the pastures showed
too. the final place where the corn
went to pay the farmer. They had
no pine boughs to cut, and did not
piddle with corn stalks in the fur
row, but they had a sod to turn un-
der on the whole land for corn after
the manure had been spread over the
field.
c. p. p. has discovered that rotten
corn stalks are good. Now, let him
try rotten corn stalks full of manure
Prof. Massey in Progressive Farm
err.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-14
SOMETHING NEW IN POLITICS
Greenville Candidates Whose Votes
Are Equal Will Stake All on
Chance,


Greenville, Aug. 1.-THE city
Democratic committee found today
that G. H. Webb and w. T. Bull, cam
didates for aldermen from the first
ward, had each received 71S votes.
The committee will meet again Sat-
urday morning and take up the mat
ter of the challeged voters. If the
result is not changed, the names of
the two candidates will be plaed in a
hat and a boy not over ten years of
age will draw out one who is to rep
resent the ward in the council. 1t is
a state of affairs never seen here be-
fore.
The committees finding today did
not change the mayoralty result in
any material way. A banquet will be
rendered Mayor-elect Marshall at the
Ottaray Hotel tonight.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-14
Farmers Union News
AND
Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers
County,
Conducted by f. w. Dabbs, Pl

watchman
publish
to
be appreciated and
Trusting all
EDITOR
Department W. Dabbs
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-14
THE VALUE OF A MAN.
The Economic Aspect of the Prohi-
bitiOn Issue
Mr.. Editor:

Mr. Editor:
To the man who justifies his vote
for the dispensary by the money that
is made out of it / wish to direct at
tendon to the letter of Mr.. d. James
Winn in Mondays item. He men
tons tWenty-four men who have fall
en- under the drink habit. Students
OF political economy rate the value
OF sound working man, not profes-
Slonal men mind you. but plain
working man, at $4,000. Ten thou
sand dollars. Therefore the twenty
Tour whom Mr.. Winn mentions rep
resent a capitalization of $4,000.
Just as we'll throw s24O. 600 into the
hre. Nay, better, for then the con-
sequent pauperization and degrada-
tion OF these men and their innocent
wives and children would NOT boya
aooeo It's burden to the loss. VEN
ture to assert without fear of con-
tradiction, that in the past thirty
years, the life of a generation. enough
men of Sumter county have perished
through the drink habit, to be equal
to a capitalization of s3.o00 0oo
Three million dollars worse than
burned up. That is ten men a wear.
is it worth the price? Even az this
low estimate, who would continue
hn
light?
Take the sixty thousand dollars
(s6O,0O0) Or about that, that YOU saw
was divided among Sumter, county
and city, and the school fund last
year. Is it not fact that some
thing like s150,OO0 was sent out of
the county and State for the LIQUOR
to make this profit?
But some one says, Money was
sent out for corn and hay and oats
and meat and lard" Granted. and
1t is not to our credit as farmers that
1t Is so. Eut this "corn and hay and
| oats and meat and lard" were used
to sustain life, not to degrade it; was
| used to enable man and beast to
! make more crops to bring more mon
! ey into the channels of trade. While
the whiskey brought forth no har-
vest of grain and cotton and tobacco
out was rich in a harvest of crime.
| degeneracy, pauperism and imbecil-
lty, and what is of more consequence,
generations yet unborn will suffer.
And the sober and industrious who
think they are saving something from
their tax bills, have to pay the bills
out of their hard earned money. for
a people are no richer than the av-
reage wealth of all the people.
To those who say they are prohibi-
tionists, if it will prohibit, will
say, in conclusion, no reform ever
was accomplished in a day. There
will be violations Of the law, as there
are violations Of every other law on
the statute books, but these viola
tions will be less and less as the peo-
pie are educated to true economy
that men are more valuable than dol
lars, and sober men are more valua-
BILE simply as scash asset than
drunkards.
| E. w. Dabbs.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-14

N the theoretical prohibltionists
will tell US how they purpose to en-
force prohibition. many of us who
sincerely believe that the country
would be better off without liquor
might have more faith in the plan to
make people temperate and sober by
Law.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-14

cient number Of voters could he
bought In this county to change the
result Of the e ,ctlon. and il is damag-
ing to- the good name of Sumter coun-
~ and Sumter people for such n re-
port To he circulated. 1t Is up to the
sumter correspondent OF tho Colum-
bla state To specify the source Of the
report which he has given such wide
publicity, and let the people Of sum
ter know who charges them with be-
ing susceptible to- the influence Of
money I'm SO important a matter as
the approaching election.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-14
Some Random Thoughts.

Preparatory to DR.. Goodrich's IL
Illustrated lecture next week at Mayes-
vile we have Prof. Massey on the
Wrong Way of Doing the Right
Thing" Just here I will express my
opinion, based on observation and
some little experience. on the cut
ting and shocking of corn. That
method was adopted and is kept up
at the North because the corn is liza.
BILE to frost-bite II left standing as it
grows to dry out. In the big shocks it
Is protected from the cold. All North
ern writer's on the subject of seed
corn selection lay great stress upon
testing the terminating qualities Of
the seed corn. showing that they have
a great deal of damaged corn in their
crops. Those of us who were so un-
fortunate as to have to buy north
ern corn a few years ago remember
what mouady. sticky stun 1t was, not
even fit for hog feed. The late Mr..
W. d. Gamble told me that when a
lot of his neighbors adopted this
method Of saving corn some Of 1t
was sold at his store. and one could
tell the shocked corn In the dark just
by the sticky. musty feeling. I have
always contended that 1t is a poor
way to save our March and April
in ho ~ xx,tt a
danger of heavy rains to intensity
the tendency to mould. The better
| way Is to have our fields fenced so
| stock may CLEAN behind the corn
harvest In October and November.
| and then turn under the residue to
| supply the usual needed humus. We
can with cow pea hay. sorghum hay.
oat straw and wheat straw. to say
nothing Of the many other legumes
and forage crops that are exploited
by the agricultural department and
| experimental stations. and more pro-
gressive farmers all over the country,
| supply an abundance Of "roughness''
for thousands more stock than we
now feed--and do II great deal
cheaper than to save corn stover-
and without any of the damage to the
grain that follows either fodder pull
ing or cutting and shocking.
The other article for this issue,
Growing Good Crops of Wheat,
should be studied carefully. am
sure my mistakes in growing wheat
have been too deep breaking. and
too much nitrogen. With Sc seral
gasoline threshers in the county. and
a splendid roller mill at Trinity.
Sumter. Clarendon and Lee farmers
should arrange to stop paying tribute
to such spectators as Patten, and
the very probable adulteration of
flour that abnormally high prices
promote.
The Colleton Press and Standard
Is on my desk. The county is to be
congratulated on having an editor
like Bro. Smoak. who devotes so
much space to the farmers interests,
| and who like Bro. Poe Of the Pro-
gressive Farmer, Is not afraid to
work for prohibition in the columns
of his paper editorially.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-14
SATURDAY. AUGUST "a, 1909.

The Sumter watchman was found
a tn 1850 and the True southron In
1ees. The watchman and Southron
uow has the combined circulation and
influence Of both OF the old papers.
and is manifestly the best advertising
medium In Sumter.