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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1910-03-04

gagements prevent me from be-
ing with you at this meeting Of
farmers and business men OF
North Dakota, and / wish to
send them a word of encourage
ment and congratulation. You
are right in getting together
for counsel and to plan for your
common future. 1t is the meth
cd of all successful business to-
day. There never was a time
when a man was less able to
live to himself than now; and
there is no man to whom the
necessity and value of cooper
ative effort should be more ap-
parent than to the farmer. #
You have state of great
possibilities. Last year you
were second only to Minnesota
in the production Of wheat, and
came withinsa little over three
million bushels of overtaking
her. Your soil and climate are
suited to every kind of agri-
cultural product grown in the
temperate zone. You have
taken front rank among the
states of the union after but a
few years of existence as a state.
Less than a generation covers
the growth of this great com
monwealth whose possibili-
ties are even yet but half under
stood.
For what you have done is
only beginning. You are now
entering upon the second
period of development that
marks the time of highest
prosperity. The soil has been
broken to use, markets have
been established, all the mach
inery for the industrial and the
social organization .s4of your
people has been installed, and
the next ten or twenty years
should see great changes and
rapid progress. If you look at
the statistics of growth of the
older states to the east, in
population, wealth, production
and value of farm property
within the last twenty years,
you can, by applying the same
ratio to your present condition,
compute the good fortune that
awaits you. North Dakota is
going to pay a great profit to
every man who has a stake
there.
To make sure of this you
have to do just what this oc-
casion calls for, You must
get together" A stout heart
and united effort make up
the secret of success in all
communities. DO not spread
yourselves out too thin. The
yield of wheat per acre in North
Dakota in 1909 was below what
it ought to be. This means
that there is more wealth per
acre waiting better cultivation;
and it is part Of the value of
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1910-03-04

such gatherings as this that
can take counsel together how
it may be done.
You can help one another
with advice and experience.
There is not farmer who does
not at some time learn some
thing from his own work that
would be of service to every
|other farmer. The exchange
of ideas alone will give to the
country the one advantage
which the city now has in a
greater measure. It is good
thing for the tillers of the soil
and the merchants, bankers
and other business men of the
centers where they deal to get
together also and compare
notes. For their future is one;
and the big lesson which every
body has to learn is that the
success Of one part of a COM
munity is always conditioned
upon and limited by the success
of every other part.
There is really no limit to
what you may do. Your state
is one of the best in the union.
Your people are alert, hard
working and progressive. You
are connected with all the
great markets of the country
and the world. Your future is
in your own hands. DO not be
afraid of it. Study your soil
and how to make the most
from it. Stand the outlay nee
essary to preserve it in the best
condition and assure a full
crop. Cultivate and fertilize it
with jealous care, according to
the modern ideas taught in
your ownsand other agricultur-
Eal schools. Courage, hard
work and economy,are guaran-
tees against failure.
Cooperation is the watch
word in all material develop
ment today and it should be
yours. Farmers and business
men, country and town, capital
and labor have to help each
other. But the future belongs
to the man on the farm. With
the prices now prevailing and
Likely to rule for some years to
come, your prosperity is so sure
that it is worth the hard work
and the planning and the
anxiety which may discourage
you at times but are only the
common lot of all those who
carry any enterprise that is
worth while to success.
A good state, a good people,
a good opportunity; these are
your materials to work with.
A good spirit. too, has always
distinguished North Dakota in
the past. Avoid false prophets
and self-seeking demagogues.
Acting on these lines, North
Dakota is going to give good
account of herself in the near
future.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1910-03-04

Mr.. McConville arrived Satur-
day and assumed charge of the
work Monday morning.
The basket ball team played
with the Towner high school
team Wednesday evening.
Score, 18 to 20 in favor Of the
School of Forestry.
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OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS.

0t the Board Of County Commissioners
Botflnsau County, North Dakota.
Bottineau, North Dakota, Feb
rnary 3d. 1910.
The board met pursuant to
adjournment. Present: Com
nissioners Glomseth and Lar
son. A quorum not being pres
ent, an adjournment was TAX
en- until 2 o'clock this after
noon. +.
2 p. m. February %, 1910.
The board met pursuant to.
the forenoon adjournment.
Present: Chairman George
Sidener, Commissioners Glom-
seth and Larson.
The minutes Of the previous
meeting were read and upon
motion Of Com missioner Lar
son, duly seconded by Comrnis-
sioner Glomseth, approved as
read.
]. E. Holman of the firm of
Inman. Holman & comany of.
Antler, North Dakota, appear
ed before the board and asked
for an abatement of the assess
ment OH their stock of merch-
andise. Mr.. Holman was in
formed that the matter would
be taken up later.
Upon motion the board ad-
journed until 7:3O this evening,
7:3O p. m. February %, 1910.
The board met pursuant to
adjournment. Present: Chair
man George Sidener, Commits
sioners Glomseth and Larson.
On motion the board opened
and considered all bids for met
al and steel culverts. After due
consideration the board upon
motion accepted the bids of
the following companies with
the understanding that each
commissioner may order from
any of the companies all. or.
any part, of the amount of met
culverts needed in their dis 1
trict: North Dakota Metal
Calvert compatl tly. Fargo. North
Dakota; Hennepin Bridge com
pany, Minneapolis, Minnesota;
Butler Manufacturing com
pany Minneapolis. Minnesota;
Klauer manufacturing com-
pany, Grand Forks, North
Dakota; Berger Manufacturing
company, Minneapolis, Mime
sofa; The Beach Manufacturing
company, Grand Forks, North
Dakota. Contracts were en-
tered into between the above
named companies and Botti-
neau county for culverts that
may be orded by the county
commissioners during the year
1910.
Upon motion the board ad-
journed until 9 o'clock a. m.
February "A, 1910.
pa. m. February "a, 1910.
The board met pursuant to
adjournment. Present: Chair
man George Sidener, Commits
sioners Glomseth and Larson.
On motion the board proceed
ed to open the bids on steel
vault fixtures. The forenoon
was employed in considering.
these bids.
On motion the board adjourn
ed until 1:3O p. m. February
"a, 1910.
1::33O p. m. February a, 1910,
The board met pursuant to
adjournment. Present: Chair
man George Sidener, Commits
sioners Glomseth and Larson.
The matter Of vault fixtures
was again taken up, and upon
motion Of Commissioners Glom-
seth, duly seconded by Com
missioner Larson, the action Of
the board during the January,
1916, meeting, at which time.
case number two to be install
ed ia the clerk Of courts vault
yt,sac rf.incfnd uuaa rncnnaidnred
and the bids on said case
accepted for the county COM
nnissio coasid ation at this
time. Three bids were sub
naitted, to-wit: The Herald
Printing company Walker
Bros. s. Hardy. and The Gen
seral Fire Froo fling company,
Z oungstown Ohio. After due
conside deration the bid of The
Herald Printing company of
Grand Forks wns found to De
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1910-03-04
DoINGs OVER THE COUNTY

Items Of Interest TO Courant Readers
CuIIed from Our Exchanges.
Lane Nelson of Souris is
preparing to move to Dunkirk,
Montana.
NJ. ]. Simon of Westhope is
moving to his claim near Con-
rad, Montana.
VIM. Larson of Crookston,
Minnesota, will open a jewelry
store at Souris.
The Peoples State bank at
Westhope has been made a
state depository.
w. ]. Mcconnell has sold his
hardware store at Eckman to
G. ID. Gilbreath of St. Paul.
! w. Il. Coleman of Lansford
was married at Window, Min
nesota, to Miss Nettie Parsons.
/ Henry Bowers, clerk in a
Russell store, injured his arm
taking groceries from the eel
lar.
! DIR. w. H. Godfrey of Rus
sell has returned from Chicago
where he took postgraduate
work.
Will Rafter of Russell has
sold his meat market at Upham
and is preparing to move to
Montana.
The Lansford Journal hears
it rumored that l.. n. Mitchell
has leased the opera house in
that town.
Mrs. VIM. Hair of Antler
was called to Chicago by tele-
gram stating that her mother
! was dying. ...
Frank Sims, postmaster at
Willow City, will file on land
in Montana, as will also his
daughter Maude.
H. G. Sorgenfrey of Minden,
Nebraska, is the new assistant
cashier of the. First National
bank of Omemee.
The farmers store at Russell
declared dividend of 80 per
cent after being in business
nine and one half months.
Neil E. Anderson and Miss
| Helga N. Heide of Antler were
married at the home of the
brides mother at Durand, Illi-
nois, February 22.
Mrs. Urquet Hawn died at
Omemee after a brief illness.
She leaves. besides her hus-
band, seven children, five girls
and two boys; the eldest being
only about twelve years old.
Walter T. Sullivan, who has
been operating a confectionery
and pool hall in Maxbass, has
flown the coop, leaving large
number of creditors to mourn
his loss. He is supposed to be
at Kingston, Ontario.
The train orr the Maxbass
line was stalled out on the
prairie between Maxbass and
Dunning one night last week,
the tie-up being caused by a
broken eccentric. Some of the
passengers were badly frozen
when taken to town in sleighs
and other conveyances.
T.. Stack of Westhope has
returned from Illinois where
he had been called by a mes
sage stating that his brother
had been killed in a train
wreck. When he arrived he
found his brother alive but he
had been under the tender of
the engine FIVE hours and sus-
tanned severe injuries, but will
recover.
T. w. Fotherin CHAM, form
erly of Westhope, was married
at st. Paul to Miss Minnie
Adamson, a sister to Mrs. w.
FL. Lackey. The couple will
make their home at Armour,
South Dakota, where Mr.. Foth
eringham is in business.
/ Timothy Daley of Russell
fell between the depot plat
form and the 500 tracks while
i the freight train was switching
land was badly injured. His
| right arm was crushed and was
amputated above the elbow and
one heel was injured. The in
Il a. u ~
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1910-03-04

To the patrons of the Peer
less Steam Laundry: We deem
it absolutely necessary to col
.lect cash on delivery for laundry
work after March lst, 1910. We
cannot afford to carry hundreds
of dollars on our books contin-
ually. Please remember that
our driver is instructed to
bring the money or return the
goods. Coupon books can be
used convene ently, and will be
cash in advance.
Yours respec ectfully,
Peerless Steam Laundry.
27.2t.
Judge John H. Kirk has
granted a license to sell 100
acres of land belonging to the
A. j. Fulwiler estate Il
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1910-03-04

The Courant tor fine job
printing. s4s
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1910-03-04

Com ti|nEe!slll { 81, pgal
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-26
The Biggest Advertisement.

The largest advertisement eve,
published in a newspaper of Louisi
ana or Mississippi was that of the
Leon Godchaux Co., of New Orlean us
marking the SEVENTEEN anniversary
OF this celebrated house, which has
been conducted through four gene
rations Of the family. 1t was pub
iished in the New Orlean Item, and
has attracted wide comment
throughout the entire south, by rea-
son OF the high quality OF the adver-
Using and the exceedingly interest
ing articles which were spread over
twenty pages of that progressive
paper. 1t marks an awakening on
the subject of advertising of which
all business men should take note.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-26

Corn smut gets into the corn
from the smutty stalks going into
the manure and ont on the land,
and it gets into the plant only in
the terminating stage. You can
put smut into the cup of a corn
stalk knee-high and fill il with
smut, and it will not affect the
plant 1t is never carried by the
seed, aud the way to get rid of it
is to cut and burn every smutted
plant and not let it go to the barn
yard at all. Starkville (Miss. J
Progressive Farmer and Gazette.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-26
Jared, the Jumbo BIunderer.
Has Gov. Sanders blundere,

| Has Gov. Sanders blunderedi
asks several of our State contemp.
oraries. Yea, verify; he has done
that very thing. And the likeli.
hood is he will keep on doing 1t to
the end. If he has blundered in
calling the Legislature together
this time, he will founder through
the quagmire of criticism good
naturally, as he usually does, and
will carry his point by main
strength, as a kind of Jumbo in
the field of politics. He can be
depended on to do something, and
his critics can always count on
having something to criticise.
We feel perfectly at liberty to
criticise Jared. We did so in the
late campaign, and he beat the
stuffing out of US; but we amt GO
ing around doing any bowling
about it, just because we lost out
in a little family fight. He has
been big enough to forget it," anG
we have got sense enough to know
we were licked in fair fight. We
may fight him again some time in
the future, but not just now; al
though he seems to have blunder-
ed two or three times of late. He
is a good. deal like the big rollick-
ing boy, that daddy will lick occa-
sionally because he is too strenu-
uous, but paternal pride is only
enhanced by such little interviews. |
We are living in strenuous
times, and it takes our strenuous |
Governor to meet the situation. |
We have a big, rich State, and she
Is plenty able to pay expenses.
So let her rip. Jared is oIr friend,
now; and we enjoy the lively times
ne is creating. His friends are
mostly our friends for the past
generation, and we believe he
wants to do right. He certainly
nit the nail on the head when he
named Thornton for the Senate
md we most sincerely hope the
Legislature will confirm his Sc
ection.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-26

1t may not be Intentional, bul
most business men seem to forget
that the newspaper Of their. commu
nifty reflects their own business,spirit,
and that if they want it in einergen.
cies, and to be always advocating the
best tor u community. they must do
business with it in a business way
as it they appreciated its effort and
influence, and not by negntiving the
same by their business methods with
It. The newspaper business is a pure
business proposition, not a chafi-
table one. Publishers want business.
but not upon a charity basis. They
give yalue,received. American Press
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-26

How to Supply the Soil With Humus.
The blowing under and mixing
with the top 6 to 8. inches Of the
soil of a crop of vegetable matte,
will do more to improve the fer
tility of any properly drained soil
than any other thing that can be
done except the application of a
large amount of stable manure. In
the-absence of sufficient live stock.
with a large area of poor or I'M
productive soils, and the rapid
loss of organic matter, due to eli
matte conditions above-referred to,
we must adopt special and ener-
getic measures for increasing soil
fertility, or consume long years OF
valuable time in our operations.
Crop rotations which tend to sup
ply a large amount of humus-form-
ing materials, and the keeping of,
live stock are very much to be de-
sired, but iP the depletion of our
soils and tn, rapidity with which
humus disappears from them,
some energetic measures are nee
essary. In view of these facts, the
up of crops grown entire
" for supplying organic matter to |
the soil will frequently prove
good investment. -Starkville Miss. |
Progressive Farmer and Gazette.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-26
Lost All Night in I.tt Lake.

A purity of six duck hunters went
into Iatt Lake on Friday evening o
last week, and the hunt proved to bt
n most serious affair to two of them
The party consisted of A.. B. Hood
Of Alexandria, district manager fol
the Cumberland Telephone Co.. Ar.
thur Sheppard, the Coliax manager
for the same company, Joel NJ. Dur
ham, Ed. Wallace, Joe LeSage and
Walter LaCroix. all OF Colfax.
1t began to rain as dark came ON
and Mrssrs. Hood and Sheppard got
lost from the balance Of the party
They wandered out into the lake, iD-
stead of coming TO the shore, and
try as hard as they would they could
not find the way out. The conse-
quence was they had to stand in wa
ter from 3 to 4 feet deep all night
and it ruined OH them the whole time.
Hood became exhausted aud coulu
go no further, and Sheppard staid
by to help him. They were rescued.
the next morning about 10 O'Clock
by searching party, and it took
about twenty-four hours to recover
from their exhaustion.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-26

W. s. Woods, son of MIR. and Mrs
b. E. Woods, who was horn neal
Montgomery, La. Jan. 10, 1880
died IN Jena, La, Nov. 13, 1910, af
ter having been i'll with pneumonia
ten days. All that could be done by
physicians and loving hands was
done. His remains were brought to
Mt. Zion cemetery, near Montgom.
cry. and laid to rest. The services I
the grave were conducted by the Ma.
sons and by Rev. Teddlie, of the Bap.
list church, OF which Mr.. Woods had
been member since childhood.
MIR. Woods was married Oct. IL,
1904, to Miss Helen Ethridge. OF
this union two children were born,
the eldest littlegirl. whom God saw
lit to take at birth, and a little boy,
Wesley Wayne, age 10 months, who
two days after his fathers death,
followed him into the great beyond
Besides a heart broken vile, Mr..
Woods leaves father, mother, two
brothers, anda host of relatives and
friends. He told his wife in the be-
ginning of his illness, that he felt
the Lord had called him. He pissed
through Gethsemane, gained the VIC
tory, and said: Thy will and not
niue be DONE" Comforting thought.
He felt the hand of the Savior as he
lead him through the valley OF the
shadow of DEATH" Will, we would
have kept you here, would have held
you to this earth OF tears. sin and
trials. where shadows darken every
but greater love than ours
hns spared you all these years and
called you up higher. While we deep
~ mourn for you yet can we sny:
Thy day has come not gone.
Thy sun has risen not set.
Thy life 10 now beyond
The reach Of death or change.
Not ended, but begun
Xxx
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-26
Pleased Over the School Amendments


State Supt. Thomas is great,
pleased at the adoption of the
amendment relat tive to public schools
ne says this amendment gill give
the public schools of the State nm nd.
ditIoual half million OF dollats. which
will give employment to seven hun.
dred FIRST grade teachers, and it win
mean that $4,000 white school child.
rem can be given nine months echool
u year. A great many OF the karisb-
es' urnnt being among the Number,
are doing more than the 3-nhll ap-
preparation which the amendment
requires, but even should special
taxes not be voted, helgreat beuefit
10 the white school children ca,, easi.
ly be seen.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-26
Bully for Judge Thornton

Judge j. r. Thornton, having for
maily announced his candidacy FL,
senator before the Legislature to
meet next week. the sugar planters
and other interests want to know
how he stands on the Interests, in
question. Hon. H. H. White, chair.
man Of Thornton's campaign CON-
mittee, replies for him as follows:
Judge Thornton'sposit is that
ne does not, aud will not ask for
votes that might be given him. ON
any conditions whatever, whether
those conditions should be sought
to be imposed either by friends or
enemies of the administrat ton,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-26

The managers of the late Stat.
Fair at Shreveport are in high gles
over the success Of their lair Just
closed. On all former fairs they hnd
to put up money to help pay running
expenses, but the treasurer now re-
ports they have on hand cash bal
nnce OF s., 440 after paying the ex-
penses Of the last show.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-26

| -Four customers had called that
morning. The dealer reflected that
the order by mail would necessarily
take time; SO, going to the long dis
lance telephone, he got his favorite
jobber on the wire. This conyersa-
ton ensued:
"Hellol Is this the Retailers Sup.
ply Company"
Yes
"Who's talking?"
"Watt.v
What is your amer"
Watt is my name"
Eyes. What is your manner"
my name is Watt-Charles Watt"
"Oh! Charles Watt. Well, Watt.
send me this order on this Moons ex-
press" Here hereads order.}
"All right. Are you Schott?''
mo. Pm Knott
swell, then, what is your namei,
"Will Knott"
why won't your"
"Uhl My name is William Knott
OF Knoxville, | want that order sent
out on today's noon express, sure. .
certainly, Knott. Goodbye"
And Knott went back to the couu-
ter, wondering whether Watt said he |
would or not. or what.
But he got the goods. Fran
cisco Star.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-26

''The Boy Scouts" is an interna.
tional organization that has had
most wonderful spread. 1t started
in England only a few yearsago, and
and a couple of years ago crossed
over to America, where its phenome-
nal spread has attracted wide utten
ton. 1t now has u foothold in near-
ly all of the States, and Louisiana
has quite a numerous orgnniza ton.