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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-04-22
Agri. College-Short Talks No. 2.

Typhoid fever is one of the most
common serious diseases of North
Dakota. 1t is carried by water. 80
every spring and we'll and creek ID
a possible bearer OF the disease
Water known to be infected with ty-
phoid germs may be made harmless
by boiling several minutes. Water
that one is in doubt about should be
boiled, and no water is safe that
gets the seepage from vaults OF
barnyards. Open wells should be
thoroly banked up and covered, SC
that all surface drainage is shut of
All excreta from typhoid patients
should be thoroly disinfected by the
free application Of chloride of lime
to the vaults.
Shallow wells usually receive
their water from some nearby
source. From where does your we'll
get it's water?
Fumigation after disease is a safe
guard that should not be neglected
After any infectious or contagious d.
sease, for every 1000 cubic feet OF
space take 1 pint Of commercial
formaldehyde and 1-5 pound Of pot
assium per-manganate obtained in
bulk at the druggtst's) Put the pot
assium per-manganate in an empty
pail. pour over it the formaldehyde
and run. Have all doors and win
dows tightly closed. Leave the room
closed for at least half day. The
beneficial results OF this fumigation
are largely increased if the room
is thoroly steamed just before you
fumlgate.
The amount of damage to farm
crops by these little pests is very
great. It is estimated that in 1901
the damage to the alfalfa-growers Of
Kansas from the ravages Of the
pocket gopher was 100000. Grass,
small grains, corn, vegetables. ETC.,
suffer largely from gophers. Their
damage Is of twofold character In
that they not only destroy the grow
ing grain but throw up little mounds
of dirt in the fields to interfere with
cutting the crops. The gophers also
tramp down and destroy each season
a large amount of grain and 1t may
be safely said that In North Dakota
the damage to farm crops in the az
gregate is greater than the estimated
damage to the alfalfa-growers of
Kansas.
The early spring is the breeding
season and gophers are very Prolific,
sometimes producing as many as ten
or eleven young in single litter;
therefore, the destruction Of one
female gopher, at this season, means
as much as many killed later in the
season.
Many complaints are made that
strychnine does not seem to destroy
many of gophers in some instances
where it has been employed. There
may be two reasons for this. The
strychnin is not soluble to any great
extent even in hoe water and 60
piers eat but little food at one time.
To successfully destroy these pests
the poison should be present in the
food in considerable quantity and the
strychnin should be soluble and in
a form or mass acceptable to the
animal to be poisoned.
Strychnin is readily soluble in hot
aciduated water and we recommend
the following:
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Twenty or thirty Souris farmers
have pledged himself to sow clover
this year, to the extent of several
hundred acres. The Souris Repub-
f1icau says that some farmers have
been growing clover with success.
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SEED Grain

For saIo:-ssilvsii' Mine oats and Two
4, Geo,l ]. Nichols, n
Phoae ;sls.B Ronts !, Minot, ~ =
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Col. Shaw is dark brown Ham
bletouian, weight 100" ms. enoo
style and disposition, and sure
foal getter. VIII make the sea
son ., my tara. 11S Ramstad ST.
A1iu.r. n. o. ". 8. Shaw. owner. Il
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Two years ago the North Dakota
Experiment Station began establish
ing laying records of hens by means
of trap nests. For some years the
station has kept good laying strain
OF sn,rred Plymouth Rocks. The re-
suit obtained the first years were
very striking in the great variation
in egg yields among the birds In a
flock Of forty pullets Of the same
breeding the poorest layers had II
eggs The poorest laying bird re-
ceiyed exactly the same care and
food as the best layer and laid only
one third as many eggs. The hens
Vlolding the highest records were
not the largest nor yet the smallest
in the flock but were of medium
build and carried no superfuous
flesh. They were invariably vigor
Gus and alert in appearance witt
every evidence of strong constltu
t;ou. The second year of trap nest
in. INCLUDED greater number
birds and much wider variation
in records was found The leading
hen mad a record Of 229 eggs.
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and veterinary author in the country.
You can pet his book practical Home Veterinarian cloth
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You can get high class live stock paper FREE for whole
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means 210,OOO.O0s pounds Of dockage
for the wheat crop if it were all
sold, as it is not, we will not con-
slider the fax and other crops.
In many parts of the state they
now have good market for screen
lings, and in some places have been
told that they sell for as high as
$1,000 per ton. Taking the average
value as $500 the dockage and
screenings would have an actual
market yaaue Of $1,575,00o. Now as
the farmer has to pay the freight
we can add that to the loss also
/ think that 10 cents per bushel o1
sixty pounds would be fair aver.
age for the state. 210,000,O00 pounds
at 10 cents for every sixty pounds
would be $350,0OO. $350,O00 for thu
privilege of giving the screenings t.
1.-The terminal buyers, Gentlemen THU
being true North Dakota should hav,
aworld wide reputation for thei
unparalleled generosity!
! During the month Of December
l spent my vacation period studyini
this proposition in Minneapolis, NIL
! waukee and Chicago. ! saw man,
things and am sorry "a, STATE tia
isome az them rensctal strongly Q.
8 to fasrnsrs busila1 aAilxy. I ~
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1909-12-08
SOUTH HANCOCK.

s. E. Gould and wife have moved home
from Hancock Point.
IRA Colwell and George Merchant went
to Lake View Friday, for employment.
l.. w. Bunker, OF East brook, has been in
town few days, calling on friends.
George Merchant recently shot q wild
goose on the wing with Winchester rife.
c. Y. Wooster and II. NJ. Hodekins are
catching founders for Boston and New
York markets.
A. c. McCrellis and wife, OF Norway,
who have spent two weeks with their
daughter, Mrs. c. s. Colwell, will return
home Tuesday.
The following officers OF Leonard
Wooster lodge, l. 0. G. T., were installed
Nov. % by L. S. Jordon, d. G. G. T.: H. NJ.
Hodgkins, G. t.; Leach Scammon, V. +. !;
Emma Hodgkins, secretary; Martha
Walker, assistant secretary; Ora Jordan,
F. s.; Frank Foss, treasurer; Amy STRAIT
ton, chaplain; George Merchant, NJ;
Celia Grass, d. M; Bertha Merchant,
guard; Pay Moon, sentinel; j. p. Walker,
p. c. T.; Susie Mitchell, s. J. T.
Dec. 8. w.
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SULLIVAN aARBoR.

Charles Allen is home for few weeks.
Lower school commenced to-day, Miss
Goodwin teaching.
Rae Carleton is teaching at Brigham
hill, East Sullivan.
Mrs. Frank Carleton and daughter Bessie
have returned from Boston.
District Superintendent Fl. B. Haskell
preached an interesting sermon Sunday
afternoon.
Ruth Allen has finished teaching in
Steuben and left to-day for Pennington
to attend normal school, in company with
Vera Smith.
This community extends sympathy to
Walter Esterbrook in the loss OF bis home
by fire Thursday night. Mr.. Esterbrook
and family are ct George Patterns for the
present.
Funeral services were held for Mrs.
Francis X. Corr ct the home of her mother,
Mrs. White, Wednesday afternoon, con-
Quoted by Rev. J. d. O'Brien, OF Bar
Harbor.
Dec. 6. II.
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LAMoINE.

Miss Mary Convey has employment at
Partridge Cove.
Miss Lena King returns to Castine
normal school Tuesday.
Horace I. Salisbury aud wife, OF Brewer,
visited his brother, W. X. Salisbury, last
week.
Mrs. w. R. King, who has been visiting
relatives in Massachusetts,, returned home
last week.
Chester Norris and wife spent last week
with Mrs. Norris parents, Louis Ander-
son and wife.
l.. o. Collins and wife went to franklin
Sunday to visit Mrs. Collins sister, Mrs.
Horatio Hardison.
Wesley Smith, who is working at Bay
side, spent Sunday at home. He was ac-
companied by Miss Eunice Milliken.
The pig raised at the coaiing
station was recently killed, and dressed
$50 pounds. Who can beat this record!
There will be an entertainment in the
schoolhouse Friday, Dec 10, given by the
pupils Of the Jordan river school. Candy
will be on sale.
The drama, tsTommy's Wife, was pre-
scented in the grange hall Thursday even
ing. The parts were well taken. A nice
supper was served.
The Forest Hill cemetery corporation
Will hold business meeting in the Chris
tian Endeayor hall Saturday evening, Dec.
interested in the improvement of the
cemetery are requested to be present.
Dec. 9. B.
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COUNTY NEWS,
FRANKLIN.

Mrs. L. T. Bunker visited Bar HArbor
last week.
Mrs. J. w. Blaisdell will visit in Bangor
this week.
W. NJ. Hendee, OF Augusta, was in town
Wednesday on business.
Ellery M. Doyle, who has taught at Lex
ington, spent . few days there recently.
Friends here OF Mrs. Harriet White
Corr were sadly surprised to learn OF her
death recently.
Jasper Bragdon LETT last week for the
hospital in Bangor, where he will be OPP
Grated upon for appendicitis.
Mrs. E. e. Pickett and young sons Har-
vey and Follett, Of Ellsworth, are spend
ing few days At their old home here.
Mrs. Nina Young, Of Hancock, who
spent week with her mother, Mrs. Eu-
nice Blaisdell, returned home Thursday.
The many friends OF William Lowrie are
glad to know he is able to leave his room,
though he will be confined to the use OF
crutches for some time.
Principal Foss, of the high school, and
Miss Written are doing good work this
term in the new school building. The at
tendance is large and constant.
Four candidates were adopted into
Snyctic tribe, No. los, Tuesday evening.
This tribe will work the chiefs degree at
the annual pow-wow to be held at Sulli
van Friday evening, Dec. 10. New officers
are to be nominated at the next regular
council, early in January.
Dec g. g.
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EAsT FRANKLIN.

Lester Wentworth has employment in
Bangor.
Enoch Slower has moved to John Went
worth's farm.
Mrs. T. n. Blaisdell has been visiting
relatives in Sullivan the past week.
Percy w. Donnell, who has been quite
i'll during the past summer, 10 now quite
well.
Chauncey Wentworth has gone to
Waltham, Mass, to work in the watch
factory.
Jere Wentworth 10 in poor health.
His daughter, Mrs. Julia Reed, was home
from Hancock few days last week.
Miss Marcia Springer has gone to
Castine to attend normal school. Her
sister Eva accompanied her ~ Tar as
Bangor.
Dec, 8. r.
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Qu'ck csims,tc changes try strong consti-
buttons and cause, among other evils, nasal
cstarrh, troublesome and offensive disease
s1eezing and snufiling. coughing and difficult
breathing. and the drip, drip Of the foul dis
charge into the throat-aii are ended by Eiy's
Cream Balm. This honest remedy contains
NO cocaine. mercury, or other harmful in
gredient. The worst cases yield to treatment
in short time. All druggists. 5oc., or mailed
by Ely Bros, 50 Warren Street, New York.
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SOUTH PENoBsCoT

Edward Beal and family are keeping
house in Lou Bridges house.
r. s. Beal is i'll.
Bertha Perkins has returned from Provi-
dence, where she has been for an opera
ton.
School began Monday, taught by Mrs.
Fink.
Dec. 8. u.
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FREMONT.

Capt. John p. Dix, formerly OF fremont,
died at his home in Philadelphia Friday,
Nov. %, aged seventy six years, Of Brights
disease. Capt. Dix retired ten years ago
after an experience OF half century as
captain in the merchant service. He is
survive by widow, two sons and three
daughters. Capt. Dix moved from Tre-
mont with his family, some thirty years
ago, to Philadelphia, where he had since
resided. He was q brother OF the late
Capt. c. B. Dix, OF Brooklyn, N. ", who
was the builder of the Peary Arctic
steamer Roosevelt.
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Dec 8.
HANCOCK.

School in this district began Monday;
Harry Rollins, teacher.
E. E. Mcfarland and wife were guests of
Il. w. johnson and wife Saturday.
Miss Hazel Merchant is home from Cas-
tine normal school for the Thanksgiving
recess.
Mrs. c. II. Abbott and son Theodore
were the guests of friends here last week.
James c. Worthen and wife, OF Melrose,
Mass, were recent guests Of 0. w. Foss
and wife.
Mrs. Ellen Crabtree is at Bar Har Dor,
the guest OF her daughter, Mrs. Alma
Eldridge.
The ladies' aid society will hold a Christ
mas sale ct the town hall Monday, Dec. 20.
The ladies will serve 4 clam stew, and
homemade candy will be for sale.
pleasing program will be presented in the
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FREMONT.

Mrs. Rosanna Rich has returned to Bear
Island light station after . weeks visit
with friends here.
Charlie Rich, while with three others on
q hunting trip to swans Island Thursday,
brought down fine buck weighing about
200. Charlie, though q lad OF only eighteen,
can compete with many Of our old hunt
ers.
Dec 4. KIN.
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EST FREMONT.

Myra Kent, OF Swans Island, il visiting
relatives here.
Herbert and Dalton Reed, firemen on
tug +. ID. Haley, of Bangor, are home, the
tug being hauled up.
Charles Carver, OF Owls Head, spent
Thanksgiving week in this vicinity with
relatives and friends.
Nov. y. IHELMA.
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COUNTY NEWS.



two weeks.
Mrs. Austin Richardson left here to-day
for North Jay, in the hope Of building up
her health In the bracing atmosphere OF
that locality.
The sewing circle met last week with
Mrs.. l.. n. Somes. Although II WAS
stormy and but few were present, all re-
port an enjoyable time and flne supper.
John w. Somes IL building . substan-
tial wharf upon which It 10 thought . coal
shed may be erected later. r. would be ,
great convenience to tbs people here -
our coal now has TO be hauled seven miles.
One Of our smart four-year-old boys,
while At church with his father, seemed
very much Interested in . bald head just
in front Of him. After looking awhile he
whispered to his father: "PApa, won't you
cut my hair like hisf"
Dec. 6. J. &.
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MARLBORO.

Elmer Hodgkins last Friday caught
$500 pounds OF cod and paddock.
George Treadweli and wife, who have
been visiting in Boston, are home.
Mrs. George King, of Lamoine, spent
Saturday and Sunday with her sister,
Mrs. Clara Ford, who is i'll.
Dec. 8. ARE.
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OAK POINT.

Myra Walls is in Seal Harbor for few
weeks.
Fred Murch. no has been i'll some time,
is improving slowly.
Aubrey Alley and wife, OF Seal Harbor,
are visiting Mrs. Alma Alley.
Mrs. Gustie Dyer and J. H. Galley, OF
Bangor, have returned home.
Edgar Gordon and wife entertained a
party OF friends Friday evening.
Dec 6. T..
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NORTH oRLAND.

A. J. Saunders shot deer Friday.
Leslie Johnson shot . buck last Tues
day which weighed 25 pounds.
Mrs. Nina Colby is taking care OF Mrs.
Addie Clair, Of Santiago, who 10 quite ILL.,.
Walter Douglass, who has been working
in the woods in Shirley, has returned
home with an abscess on his hand.
Dee. g. b.
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pARTRIDGE COVE.

Miss Mary Corr is employed at James
Grants.
William Kellen picked . strawberry
blossom Sunday, Dec. s.
Lee Smith, who is employed at Bar Har-
Dor, spent few days last week at home.
r. Z. Mcfarland and wife attended the
county grange ut East Sullivan last Fri
day.
Dec. 6. A.
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oCEANvILLE.

Frank Gross is painting his house.
Mrs. r. NJ. Stinson has gone to Boston
to visit friends.
solomon Gross is having house built
on Main street.
School has closed for two weeks. Miss
Bartlett will return for the winter term.
Nov. "a. A.
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Mrs. s. Joyce, Claremont. N. H., writes.
~About year ago / bought two bottles Of
Foley's Kidney Remedy It cured me Of . Sc
we're case Of kidney trouble OF several years
standing. It certainly is grand, good
medicine, and heartily recommend it." =.
A PARcHER
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This !. worth R~m~mb ring

Whenever you have a cough or cold, just re-
member that Foiey's Honey and Tar viii cure
il. Remenb der the name, Foiey's Honey and
Tar, and refuse substitutes. q. A. PAscHER.
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OBITUARY.

The death on Thursday, Dec. 2, OF
Leila, daughter OF J. W. Cole and wife,
after q long illness, though not unex-
pected, brought sorrow to large family
connection and = host of friends. The
loss OF this winsome young lady will be
felt in the village, and her death will
touch its activities, especially every
gathering OF young people, where she was
a favorite. After finishing school in the
village she attended Coburn classical i'm
stitute, Waterville, until failing health
caused her to leave.
Funeral services were held Sunday after
noon from Union church. Rev. q. W. NJ.
Reyes officisted, and the choir sang three
selections.
Had the deceased lived until February,
she would have been twenty years old.
As she lay in her white casKet, covered
with flowers, no one who knew Of her
suffering, could wish her back. Winnetka
council, Degree of Pocahontas, attended
the services in body.
The family has the sympathy OF all, and
especially the mother who has been UNI
firing in her devotion and who buried her
eldest daughter less than two years ago.
Dec. o. c.
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PROSPECT HARBoR.

Lula Bunker has gone to Winter Harboz
where her school opens this morning.
Guy Cole arrived from Berwick Setur-
day, called here BY the death Of his sister
c. G. Baker and wife, Of 0rindstone,
have spent few days with their mother,
Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton.
George Albert Perry has moved bis
family into the Buck house-,he rooms
vacated by Capt. F. n. Seavy.
Miss Lethia Temple has been quite iii
of appendicitis. As soon as she has re-
covered sufficiently her parents will take
her to the hospital in Bangor,
Ernest Hamilton Cole, of Waterville,
who is recuperating from an attack Of
typhoid fever, il spending few weeks
with relstives here and ut Winter Harbor.
winnetka Council, d. of p, had . merry
time at its last meeting, in celebrating the
birthday of two of its members. The date
Of the meeting fell upon Capt. Overs natal
day, and Mrs. L. 8. Rays coming the
following day, the order celebrated both in
appropriate manner. Capt. Over was given
q tutti- frutti shower, which created much
mirth, and with the entertainment pro-
vided. together with 4 nice treat, the even
ing left nothing to be desired.
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may later be necessary for me to bring
this subject. to the attention OF the
congress in a special message.
In the Far East.
In the far east this government pre-
serves unchanged its policy of support
Ing the principle Of equality Of oppor-
tunity and scrupulous respect for the
integrity OF the Chinese empire. to
which policy are pledged the interest
ed powers Of both east and west
BY the treaty Of 1908 China has I'm
dertaken the abolition Of likin with a
moderate and proportionate raising of
the customs tariff along with currency
reform These reforms being q mani
fest advantage to foreign commerce rs
well as to the interests Of China, this
government IL endeavoring to facili-
tate these measures and the needful
acquiescence of the treaty powers.
When II appeared that Chinese likin
revenues were to be hypothecated to
foreign bankers In connection with q
great railway project It was obvious
that the governments whose nationals
held this loan would have a certain
direct interest In the question of the
carrying ont by China Of the reforms
In question. The administration deem
ed American participation to be Of
great national interest. Happily, when
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In order to avoid deficit TOT uo o
ensuing fiscal year directed 'n'
heads Of departments In the prepaaa
ton Of their estimates to make .nem
as low as possible consistent witn III
perative governmental necessity. ns
result has been. as l am advised W
The Prescott daily news., 1909-01-12

general offices of the company in St. Louis the Cotton Belt pro- posed to spend a million dollars in rock ballasting it's tracks and rebuilding it's bridges and a large part of this amount was to be expended on the lines in Ar kansas. The fact of the matter is that practically none of this money will be expended n Ar kansas, but will be used !n i'm proving the Texas end of the road will require an expenditure Of SS.0OO.OOO before it is brought up to the standard set by that portion of the road running through Arkansas.
 The Cotton Belt has let a half ml!on dollar contract for new equ pment, a large part of which is to be used exclusively on the Arkansas lines. It is also propos- ed to reballast the Altheimer branch of the road, extending from Little Rock to Altheimer, Dul llO DGth made for this work, and 1t ist possible that it may not be done during the coming year.
 c. S. Clark, vice-pres.dent and general manager of the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain system, when asked whether any plans had been made for improvements on the Iron Mountain lines in Ar kansas during the coming year stated that it is too early to ex- pect an announcement of plans for improvement work as such plans are generally formulated only a few weeks before the working season opens, and that is not until April or May. He in- dicated however, that no improve ments of any magnitude are con- templated at this time. The lack of any such plans he attributed to the continued unsettled finan- cial conditions as well as to the decrease in revenues on the Iron Mountain during the past two years.
 sIt is simply an impossibility
The Prescott daily news., 1909-01-12
RAILROAD IMPROVE
 MENTS FOR 1909.
Something of What the Arkansas Trunk
 Lines Will Do the Coming Year.

St. Louis, Jan. 1O.-No eXten- sive Improvements are contem- plated during the year 1909 on either the Iron Mountain or the Cotton Belt Railroads in Arkan- sas, according to the operating officials of the two systems. Im- provements on the Iron, Mountain so far as the present plans are concerned. will consist chiefly of a continuation of the reball- lasting work on the Valley divi- sion and the completion of the new Union depot at Little Rock.
 Some improvement work is contemplated by the Cotton Belt in Arkansas but this work will not be nearly as extensive as was reported few days ago. Ac- cording to this report which was supposed to emanate from the