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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-11-30

ed, they chatted of Napoleon's superhuman
difficulties in getting 10000 men, cannon and
camp baggage over that historic sticking pot
in the same month of May, the year 1900.
They were doing 1t beautifully in a light three
horse sleigh without baggage; but the modern
road, hewn in the rock, avoids the old steep,
slippery route, scarcely marked by jagged
stones sticking out of the ice. 1t must have
been a % per cent. incline.
They had struck nothing worse than 7 per
cent; and through the forest beyond it was
often almost level, the snow well packed, A
favorable moments Beautiful sleighing! Ex-
hilarating adventure! Up! up! Five per cent.
sir. They jingled through a long defile and
up into vast boulder-strewn pastures shrouded
in white, like great ghosts. How different from
a common diligence trip in August, with hur-
raining tourists! They still affirm that a three
horse sleigh can take three estaurant-fattened
Parfsians and a beer-swelled driver up incllnes
of Z and 8 per cent. with strength and beauty,
had not a blizzard struck them just before the
Cantine de PROF..
Five more miles to climb" they said
there, better hurry! We shall telephone the
c%anons." This is where they always telephone
for help to come low from the Hospice, in
bad weather; but their fat sleigh man had
swigged his Observation-Disclosures placidly, re-
fused an extra morse ana man, ana started
them off with confidence. This Is why they
were soon foundering in a blizzard that dark.
ened the sun like night, at the entrance to a
black defle, past "precipices" that turned
their stomachs." With a jolt, the sleigh
stopped.
Must wait" said the fat sleigh man, blanket
ing his horses.
Where are WEI"
"At the Pas de Marengo, three miles below
the Hospice."
Drive on!"
Go backi"
Armand, he'll take us over a precipice. |
can't see two yards ahead" Z
To all Of which the driver, lifting the falling
top, covered them with rugs, and lighting his
pipe, answered briefly: They'll come"
Never will | forget that half-hour while the
sleigh was being showed under in the black
twilight Of that blizzard says the mother-in-
law Of the world-famed rue Royale concern.
And never was | SO glad to see human be-
ings as those three splendid big dogs that
advanced to US formally, gravely out of the
twilight. / cannot think of them as dogs. They
were more than persons. They seemed super
natural creatures come to save us, perfectly
safely, perfectly easy! Our confidence was
complete. We understood their meaning, when
they ranged themselves three abreast, just far
enough apart for US two women to walk be.
tween. leaning on their backs! Armand took
an outer edge. The driver showed him.
Up they advanced, dragged, sustained and
cheerfully encouraged by the dogs alone. as
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-11-30

just ought to know my sister, Jane, or
nay daughter, Marcel"
Although her name seldom is writ
ten in connection with that of her sis
ter, Mrs. Haldeman has done a great
deal of work at Hull House.
Il usually spend about three months
of every year there" she said, "just
to be with Jane and the girls she is
helping through life; I have learned
to love them all, and / look upon Hull
House as my home. Home, that is,
since my daughter has gone"
Mrs. Trademarks daughter has been
on the stage for several years. She
won't play in any cast in which work
must be done on Sunday, and wherev-
err it is possible she goes to Sunday
school and teaches a class.
do I find life here in Girard te-
dious? No things move fast enough
for me, with my club work and bank
and letters and reading"
The walls of Mrs. Trademarks house
are lined with shelves and on these
are crowded hundreds of books. Above
the shelves are pictures, drawings
and paintings; of these last there is a
life-size oil painting of her sister,
Jane. Marble busts are set on ped
estals and the grand piano is Uttered
with books Of classical music.
On the center table there was a
book of photographs and Mrs. Halde-
man leafed through it slowly while
she talked. They were old pictures Of
the old days, most Of them showing
scenes of the Adams home at Cedar
vile, Ill.
AT one Of the pictures Mrs. Halde-
man paused.
That's the old mill at home,'' she
said. and added after a moment,
"Jane and | used to play hide-and-go-
seek in that 'musty old place. Jane
was the greatest little bunch of en-
thusiasm you ever saw, and she al
ways was asking people to forgive her
for the naughty things she fancied she
had done"
And as she turned the pages Of the
book and saw once more the faces and
scenes Of the past her eyes became
moist.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-11-30

death, and, on the bare hope Of hand
or foot treaspassing within its reach,
the Echis throws its body into a fig
ure-of-eight coil. Then it attracts at
tention by rubbing It's loops together,
which, from the roughness Of the
scales, make a rustling, kissing sound,
erects its head In the center. and
awaits attack.
It Is said that no one, having once
encountered this terrible reptile. can
ever forget its horrifying aspect when
thus aroused, its eagerly aggressive
air, its restless coils, which. in con
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-11-30

riat, but keeps the path against its
human assailant, and, pitting It's own
eighteen inches Of length against its
enemy's bulk. challenges and provokes
conflict.
A stroke with a whip will cut 1t in
two, or a clod Of earth disable it; but
such 10 Its malignity that 1t will invite
attack by every device at Its com
mand, stalking Its own life on the mere
ssance Of its adversary coming within
the little circle Of its power. AT most,
the radius Of this circle is IL inches.
Within It, at any point. lies certain
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-11-30
WOMAN BANK
Sister of lane Adams Heads
Kansas Institution.
Located in Glrard Twenty Years Ago
and on the Death of Her Hus-
band Became the Banks
President

Girard, Kan.-The morning sunlight
filtered through the little window in
the back office of the State Bank of
Girard, and the bars across the window
cast a network of shadows on the
floor. The woman who sat in the
heavy Office chair behind the desk
was ifty-eight years old, but her face
showed scarcely a wrinkle, and the
white in her hair glinted now and
then by way of proof that it once
was gold. The woman was Mrs. s.
Alice Haldeman, and she is the banks
president. Mrs. Haldeman has anoth-
er claim to distinction. for she is the
sister of Miss Jane Adams of Hull
House, Chicago.
well, yes, I'm the president" she
admitted to a visitor, "only l don't run
the bank myself; we all run it to.
gether-the two men and t.
1t was 20 years ago that DR.. and
Mrs. Haldeman came to Girard. The
physicians health was poor, and the
move was made on this account from
the home of their childhood in Illinois.
my husband became interested in
the banking business shortly after we
came here" Mrs. Haldeman said, "and
he founded a bank of his own. We
are the Oldest bank in the county and
have w%eathered three panics.
"Dr. Haldeman died five years ago.
she added, "and-and with the last
words he ever spoke he asked me not to.
leave the bank. So l took charge, and
I'm very glad that l, did, for l love
the work. But, pshaw, it's not inter-
esting to tell you about myself--you
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-11-30
No Favoriteism.

els your town doing anything in the
uplift way?"
ooh, yes! We have a committee ap-
pointed to see all shows suspected of
being immoral, and report on them"
Good"
YES, a committee Of one thousand"
Indeed! Isn't that a-er-rather
large committee?"
"Well, you see, we can't afford to
create any hard feeling, and so we
made it large enough to include about
Observation-Disclosures.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-11-30
DOGS save Their Master.

Winsted, Conn.-Tony Fabiano, a
hunter, was imprisoned all night In a
well rs feet deep in the woods at the
south end Of Highland lake, and but
for his two dogs he would undoubted-
" have perished either from cold or
starvation, as the locality Is seldom
trod at this season. He was coming
down the hillside through the woods
and in the dark did not Q the we'll.
His two dogs found him. He called
for help and his dogs barked loudly
until q party Of hunters heard them.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-11-30
Edisonian Epiarame.

II expect to live 1850 years with my
system OF living.
Proper eating, sleeping and clcth-
Ing make up my system.
4 stay in bed six hours, and It's
solid sleep and quite enough.
4 never intend to retire. Work
made the earth a paradise for me, and
i don't believe there is any paradise
UP above.
my body and ! are still keeping at
u for about Is hours a day, and | sell
dom get tired.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-11-30
II <W<
GWA5REARD no

they affirm, for a mile and
a half, the driver leading
his horses behind, and
keeping mighty close. He
left the sleigh and valises
it was no moment for
fancy work. When the
good canon and his two
brown brothers, with rein
forcements of four more
dogs, came hurrying after
the canine first aid, it was
possibly a little earlier
than they remember. The
two miles or more of 10
per cent. climb up the
long windings, over the
dreary Comb of the Dead
and through the ava
lanche gallery, seems to
them a fantastic dream OF
blizzard and darkness. The
two men held the mother
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-11-30
Natural Mistake.

rs Mrs. Walsingham at homer"
mo, ! believe she has gone out FOR
the day
Are you Mr.. Walsingham?"
mo; I've just got out Of a hospital,
50 your mistake is perhaps no more
than natural
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-11-30
Most Deadly Of All Snakes

The Echis carinata is tblerably com
nor in India, being found In nearly
every part Of the peninsula.
Fortunately, however, for man, It is
not, like the cobra. a house-frequent-
ing snake; for Its aggressive habits
would make It infinitely more fatal to
life than Its dreaded relative.
This king Of the asps does not turn
to escape from man as the cobra will,
or flash into concealment like the ko.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-11-30

slant motion n over the other and
rrstling ominously all the while.
stealthily but surely bring 1t nearer
and carer to the object Of it's fury
Harper's Weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-11-30
Fulton phones 10 Consolidate.

Fulton Phones to Consolidate.
Fulton.-The Bell and the Buffum
telephone exchanges will be CONSOLE
dated when the new $4,000 plant Of
the latter company is completed.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1911-11-10
EVERYBODY SHOULD help
Basket Social Next Wednesday Fo,
Benefit OF Needy Families

It was discovered this week
that there are a couple of fami-
lies in town who are in very
poor circumstances and poorly
equipped to face the cold
weather. Something must be
done to help them, was the
immediate conclusion reached.
The newspapers agreed to give
of their space and to print such
posters as may be necessary,
Mr.. Ohmart gave the free use
of his hall and Mr.. Berthiaurne
his services as auctioneer and
it was determined to hold a
basket social next Wednesday
evening at 8: 80 o'clock. The
ladies are invited to prepare
baskets to assist in this good
work and the gentlemen to be
present and buy said baskets.
All the money paid in will be
turned over to a committee of
ladies to expend for the benefit
of the needy ones. Remember
the time and place, Ohmart's 8
h |, Wednesday evening,
November 15.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1911-11-10
PRAISED BY McvEY
Head Of University Speaks Well Of
School OF Forestry
HAS ADOPTED the RIGHT COURSE
President Mevey ls Opposed to
Duplication Of Courses
of instruction

Three representatives from
this county attended the meet
ing of the State Educational
association at Fargo and report
a splendid meeting. The three
were: County Superintendent
H. E. Layne, CitySuperintend-
ent &. l.. Cole and Mrs. Kate
f. Whitco1nb, principal of the
Maxbass schools. The enroll
ment at the state meeting was
very large this year, the num-
Der being 1,O01.
Among the prominent speak
ers were DR.. Winship of Boston
and the famous naturalist,
ErnestThompson- Seton. Presi-
dent McVey of the state univer-
sity and the presidents of other
institutions of learning in the
state made short talks. Presi-
dent McVey's speech was espe-
cially notable in that he scored
several state institutions for
duplicating work given in and
belonging to others and also
from the fact that he paid high
compliment to the School of
Forestry. 1t is the opinion of
this eminent educator that the
School of Forestry under the
present management is taking
the right course in emphasizing
forestry. He believes there is
a great field of usefulness for
the institution and that the
course now pursued will place
the school in a position to be
of immense value to the people
of the state.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1911-11-10
Teachers Examination

The regular examination for
teachers began at the court
house here yesterday and con-
tinues today. The following
are taking the test: Thora G..
Myhr, Marie Myhr, Johanna
Botten and r. D. Bartlett of
Souris; Lillian G. Cook, Hazel
NJ. Cameron and Allen F. Gale
OF Willow City; w. F. Make
stad of Omemee; Clara Erick-
son of Landa; Chris Hansen of
Carbury: Gerald Bergeron of
Kuroki; Mayme NJ. Wooley of
Antler; Zella Stover, Helnna
Jelleberg, Gusta Sveen, Velma
Solseth, Minerva A. Olsen,.
Mabel Andrus and John Erick-
son of this city.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1911-11-10
BARGAINS OFFERED
Hundreds Taking Advantage Of the
Special Sales This Week
BUYERS FROM OTHER TOWNS
Pulling Power Of Judiclous Adver-
tislng Proven by Resulting
Heavy Trade

The past three days have
given ample proof that care
fully prepared advertising mat
ters which sets forth attractive
prices will bring customers to
town and greatly increase busi-
ness. During this time teams
have been tied in every vacant
lot, the stables have been full
and. besides large number of
people have come in by train
to take advantages of the bar
gains offered by Bottineau
merchants.
Close on the heels Of Il. F.
Woods announcement | a
week the Ertresvaag company
had full page sale bill printed
by The Courant's job depart
ment. On Tuesday Greengard
declared war" on prices and
Wednesday morning the Pa
trans Exchange hung out a big
sale banner. The people real
ize that they have now a big,
money-saving opportunity and
they are quick to profit by it.
The merchants mentioned are
convinced that there is wonder
full pulling power in printers
ink and all of them have inter-
esting advertisement this week.
Every reader of The Courant
should read carefully the ads
which appear in these pages.
They constitute the mercantile
news of the week and are of
great value to every discrimin-
ating purchaser. -.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1911-11-10
BEATS BURR TO IT
Overly Druggist Surrendered His Per.
nit In Advance Of Order
!DoDeED the FIVE YEAR CLAUSE
Both Surrender and Court Order
Were Filed with the Clerk
Of Court

Judge A. G. Burr and Steno-
grapher Nelson came up from
Rugby on Monday evening to
hear the action brought against
Druggist JayO. Smith of Over
ly for cancellation of a drug
gist's permit. However, it was
not necessary to open court for
the reason that Druggist Smith
surrendered his permit before
making an appearance in court.
Judge Burr issued an order
cancelling the permit and it
was filed a half hour after the
voluntary surrender. The main
reason was that if the order
holds Smith would be estopped
from applying for permit
within five years.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1911-11-10

ganize a German missionary
society to meet once a month.
First meeting will be held at
the parsonage November 16.
Franz Pohle is building a
barn on the rear of his lot.
Mrs. Hanson an d little
daughter, mother and sister of
Mrs. Schaffer, left on Thursday
after visiting here ten days.
Rev. c. F. Blume, district
superintendent, left for his
home in Minneapolis Monday
morning.
Little Evelyn Riebe is visit
ing her aunt and uncle, Mr..
and Mrs. w. G. Riebie.
Henry Keller went west on
Saturdays train to Russell(?).
He returned Monday morning
having visited with friends.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1911-11-10
ARNT NOUN ANSWERS CALL
Well Known Resident OF Mouse River
Country Died Last Friday

Arnt Noun, an aged a n
highly respected citizen of the
Mouse River country, died late
last Friday night at the home
of his son-in-law, Otto Finstad,
eleven miles south of Landa.
He was eighty-six years of age
and his decease was due to
infirnities incident to his long
span of life.
Deceased was born in Nor
way on June II, 1925, came to
America in 1880 and to Bottin-
eau county in June 1887. He
first settled in the Turtle Noun
tains but in 1891 took up land
near the Mouse river and has
since resided there.
Mr.. Noun was married twice
and his second wife and seven
children survive him. Three
sons, Anton and Chris Noun,
well-to-do farmers, and Eric
Noun, of the firm of Weeks,
Murphy & Noun of this city,
and three daughters, Mesdames
Eric Sem, Eli Albertson and
Otto Finstad, reside in this
county and another daughter,
Mrs. L. P. Brovold, at Estevan
Sask.
The funeral was held We'd
nesday afternoon from the Fin.
stad home and interment was
made in the Lutheran cemetery
eight miles south of Landa.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1911-11-10
as it did in the antitrust law,
ought not the people to know
of the influences debating ap-
pOintments?


Grand Forks, Nov. 8.-Jacob
Wolfe of Cleveland township
in Ramsey county has set
record for farm sales. He has
just closed a deal whereby
Jacksonville, ILL.,. man becomes
the owner of his farm, the
price being paid being $50, ,OOO,-
90. North Dakota land is
constantly and rapidly increas-
ing in value.' says a Grand
Forks real estate man we'll
known all over the northwest,
and why shouldn't it, he
adds, when it will grow the
finest qualities of almost any
crop and in large quantities,
per acre.
+. Ray who owns a farm i'm
Ramsey county, is prepared to
make affidavit to the fact, and
prove to the entire satisfaction
of any fair minded man, that
he raised twelve rows Of pota-
toes which yielded at the rate
of 66O bushels per acre. He
says that a large number of
them weighed over three
pounds each, and has a few
which weighedover four pounds
each. One of the larger pota-
toes makes mess larger than
the ordinary family will eat.
Oscar Gibson, formerly of
the state of Indiana, but now
farming on section of Cass
county land at Myra station,
had in this year 100 acres of
Northwestern dent corn. This
corn is of fine quality and was
fully matured. 1t is so fine, in
fact, that several of the Chicago
banks asked for samples of it
mounted on a board for display
in their banks as they believe
in the future of North Dakota
as a successful corn growing
state. This corn on Mr.. Glib
sons farm has been estimated
by him to return close to 40
bushels per acre and it is quite
possible that it will exceed that
fiOure
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1911-11-10
Around the County

A small blaze was soon ex-
tinguished in a barn at Souris.
The Maxbass Monitor refers
to Ole Bjorgo as Taft's double.
The Willow City post office
will also have postal savings
department.
The Lansford Journal sport
ed two double page ads in it's
last issue.
Joe Harris of Westhope is
mourning the loss of bull
pup. He departed via the
poison route.
Judson LaMoure, Jr., chief
inspector of customs of North
Dakota made Bottineau coun-
ty a brief visit.
TheSouris Messenger mourns
the departure of it's printer,
Alex Matheson, who went to
Alberta to live on homestead.
Eleven pounds is the weight
of a new boy who arrived at
the home Of Editor and Mrs.
Drake of Westhope.
The children of the Newburg
public school presented the
Hiawatha Pantomine to a we'll
pleased audience.
The mail clerk has been re-
moved from the Towner-Max-
bass branch of the Great North
ern.
Sam Seiffert and family and
Gus Seiffert, pioneers of West
hope, have decided to make
Canada their future abode, hav-
ing purchased a coal mine near
Lethbridge, Alberta.
A Bottineau county clothing
man was showing a friend over
his premises one day and finally
adjourned to the office. Here
the visitor observed an apple
enshrined in a crystal casket.
What do you keep this for?"
he asked. For sentimental
reasons, replied the proprietor,
1t signifies so to speak, my
business and the wealth I have
made from it." WE'LL" said
the visitor after much thinking,
i fail to see the connection. !"
Why, man, don't you realize
that if Eve hadn't eaten the
apple, til e clothing business
wouldn't have been of much
account today?"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1911-11-10
State Teachers Meeting

Grand Forks, Nov. 8.--The
annual meeting of one of the
largest and most important of
North Dakota organizations,
the State Educational associa-
ton, was held at Fargo last
week. Matters of vital interest
to the state at large were dis
cussed and plans laid for im-
provement.
A most important subject
was that of rural schools. North
Dakota's proudest boast is it's
school fund. The smaller
schools are to profit in the fu-
ture to greater degree through
this great asset. In a few
more years North Dakota
should lead all states in the ex-
cellence of it's rural school
system.
: One proposed feature is of
great promise. 1t is planned
to make the schools the center
of civic and social life in the
country districts and make
them of interest to the grown
ups as we'll as to the youth.
The possibilities of this plan
are so great that even the most
enthusiastic can scarcely over
=
ages.
The association officers for
the ensuing year are S. Henry
Wolfe, president, and Clyde
X. Travis, secretary. The 1912
convention will be held in
Grand Forks. Nearly 1000
teachers are expected to attend
next years important meeting.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1911-11-10
N AND AROUND aAapEnA
News Items Of Interest From Thriving
Lille ToWa On The 500.

The NJ. e. church was filled
to overhowing Sunday. All
enjoyed the sermon preached
by Rev. Blume.
Junior League at 2p. m.
Sunday, preaching at 8p m.
by Rev. G. Bruins.
Mrs. Becker of Willow City
was the guest of Mrs. VIM.
Kurth several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Becker
and children were west bound
passengers Saturday. They
will make their home in
Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Whiting
report a visit from the stork
last week. We congratulate
the proud parents.
Mrs. Vim. Guillaume enter
tains the Come and Bring Your
Work Circle Thursday after
noon.
The N. 3, church will or
I ha 49,