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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-05-26


credit and the purchaser using
his money to buy similar articles
in a distant market for cash? !? Un-
less we can stand together and
refuse to build up aud develop
this cormorant which preys upon
US we Go not deserve to have thriv-
ing towns for markets or the adj
which always come from
being surrounded by a business
community.
We have it in our power to help
ourselves or to help the other
fellow. So far the other fellow
seems to have the advantage while
we emulate the role of chumps
with brilliant success.
THOMAS HORRIGAN. 4.
Jan. Z, 1911. New, Brighton Minp.
To our mind the above article i
worthy the attention not only Of
our farmer friends but people liv-
ing in the smaller towns as we'll!
There is no town the size Of Wash.
burn anywhere but has it's con-
tingent Of vacant stores, rooms to
rent and young men and women
out Of employment. If people
spent their. monsy at home in
stead of sending il away to cats.;-
logue houses and purchasing their
goods in rival towns, there would
be less vacant stores, rooms and
houses and, more 'employm ent for
our yonng men and women at
satisfsctory prices at home, in
stead Of at present, many Of them
being compelled to seek employ
ment in distant cities, where often
times they are brought into con.
tract with bad influences and
temptations to which they would
not be subject in their own town
under parental roofs. Besides
with more encouragement mer-
chants would carry better stocks
and be able to serve customers
wants with more satisfaction.
Moreover merchantsgare not the
only ones to suffer. Every real
estate man, banker, hotel man and
honseho older who owns property,
suffers, only more so. N country
towns 50 TO- ruin merchants can
move their stocks Of goods to the
larger cities and sell them, but
men who own houses and .lots
can't put them on the cars and
ssnd them elsewhere to be sold;
they oan9 only stand around and
ses. than fall into decay because
there are none who scan use them.
This i . matter 1for careful study
81 the part of business men, COM
merciaI olnbs and anyone living in
the smaller towns and cities all
over Americ sblnrn s no
sxosptio tn,ths ruls bnt we can
~ NJ nv. little less pride and
jsalo ~ onr neig ghbor, s bettsr
toward saoh othsr md
loya ality tosnnr town wonld Moik
Il llsionde lay 4 not tIy it tors :
Nhile q S &.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-05-26
New Commissioner
Took NIiller's Place
The Next Regular Session Of the
Commissioners Win X Held
on June Fifth
Washburn, N. Oak.
May. 18th. 1911.

sloner, Louis Bergqulst.
Frank L. Mackey presented his
certificate Of appointment as Com
missioner of the Second District,
and after taking the oath of Office
took his seat.
In response to advertisement
for bids on steel culverts, the fol-
lowing bids were received.
Minneapolis Steel and
Machinery Co.,. SLIP go
North Star Lumber Co.,. 1857 90
Mandan Mercantile Co.. 100 90
L F Mahowald, ........ l45s 90
Wilton Nero. Co.. .... 1885 90
North Star Company. 1857 90
Butler Mfg. Company 1896 SO
o F McGray, 1873 %
Duluth Corrugating and
Roofing co........... 1000 90
Mortified Iron Go ...... $50 90
The Salzer Lumber Co.. 1427 10
Berger Mfg. Company. 1850 90
North Dakota Metal and
Culvert Co.. 1887 %
North Dakota Metal and
Culvert Co.. 1869 95
| Moved and seconded that the
bid of Duluth Corrugating Co. be
accepted. Motion carried. q,
Moved and seconded that the
motion whereby the Duluth Cor
rugating and Roofing Co.'s bid for
culverts was accepted be rs,opn-
sidered. Motion carried. at'ss
Moved and seconded that the
bid Of Minneapolis Steel and Ma
ohinery, Company be accepted.
Motion carried.
Upon motion the board of Com
missioners adjourned to meet at
$50 o'clock A. NJ, May 18th. 1911.
May 18th. 1911.
The Board met pursuant to ad-
journment. Members present: D.
10. Wright, Chairman and Louis
Bergquist, Commissioners. F. L.
Mackey being absent.
The following bills were allowed
and warrants ordered drawn in
payment of same.
Louis Bergquist, looking. E.
over roads, mileage, diem $l7 go
D. G. Wright, looking
over roads, Mileage, 26 so
Upon motion the Board adjourn
ed to meet on the 5th. of June
1911 at 2:30 o'clock P. NJ.
D. G. Wright,
Chairman.
Attest:
T. E. Thompson,
County Auditor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01

The report of the subcommittee was submitted to it's full committee and every member of the full committee agreed to it's findings (sx republicans and four dem ocrats) except Senator Frazier and Sen ator Beveridge, the latter stating that he was not prepared to either assent or dis sent not having had time to examine the evidence and arguments in the case.
 "The report was presented by the chair man, who asked that 1t be printed and He on the table; no attempt was made what ever to press the present consideration of the report and the only suggestion looking to fixing a time for consldera- ton was from Senator Beveridge that II be set for January g. so that the criticism in regard to this matter and as to its being rushed seems to have no founda- ton.
 ''It is rather curious that six repub- licans and four democrats should concur in this report; one democrat douottully assenting and one republican declaring that he was not prepared either to assent or dissent, and yet an attempt seems 10 have been made to create the impression that the report was not warranted or an attempt made to rush through white wash.
 "The democratic members of the com mittee were Bailey of Texas, Paynter of Kentucky, Johnston of Alabama, Fletcher of Florida, Frazier of Tennessee. Repup- lcans, Burrows. Depew, Dillingham; Gam ble, Heyburn, Beveridge and BulKiey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01

the general fund show their strength after the six months strain, but the ordi- nary deficit for the fiscal year has been actually reduced.
 The close of the first month of the fiscal year found the cash drawer out some 5000, 900 on ordinary accounts. The first half of the year closes with that reduced to s6,O0O,00O, although 1t had been as high as $l4,00O,00O during the six months.
 Close check on expenditures with add ed receipts in some quarters, which, how ever, probably have been offset by de- creases in others having gradually worn 1t down.
 The working balance is now s40OO, 900 better than the close of the first month's S business found it. and when it is con- sidered that several times since the fs- cal year began the ready cash has sunk as low as s26,000.0oo, and the general fund as low as $s4.00o,0 900, the present condition gives satisfaction to those treasury of ficials who have been predicting that the governments finances would right them selves in the face of an abnormal drain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01
ENHANCES OF UNITED 1 I. STATES IMPROVED Jn Condition of Treasury Is Good ,u for Last of Year Ia ,tl "a MACVEAGH'S NEW PLAN AL
 h'
 An I,sue of Panama Bonds Is Consid-
 W cred Which Will Produce Large ie Enough Sum to Meet Al
 , Expenses
MACVEAGH'S NEW PLAN

su washington, December 31.-The coming |. ', Of a new year finds the finances of the
 Limited States treasury far improved over rathe condition in which the business of Un1910 was begun.
 ent when 1909 tolled out the treasury had emspent some $26o0o,o00 more than 1t had yeataken in. That sum took no account of sibthes extraordinary expenses for the Pan staama canal.
 obh The beginning of 1911 finds that deficit ereduced to $6.000,000 and the total deficit, y,o,including Panama expenditures, reduced valto almost s2600O,000 on all accounts, prac- watcally half of what it was year ago. a frhe year closes with about $s6,OO000O in .ethe general fund and working balance
 sAs34, ,00oOo0 in the treasury offices, both
 Considerably lywer than year ago. This ''Ols considered by treasury officials as 8
 Remarkable showing in the face of the Tact that more than s190,00O,0oo has been advanced out of ordinary fG1dsf for the
 "A anal construction. The. shelving seems to chsustain Secretary MaGVeaghs declaration Brshat .tfe treasHfy would be able to keep s.lx,,, Al len keel until Congress passes leg Wi2 Ton to allow an issue of securities Th z; he plans which MT. MacVeagh has Methx out fr
 mon ch plan as MT MacVeagh and Sen- bany Aldrich have so far worked out con-
 plates the issue of $50,000,000 or s100,-
 WN of Panama bonds, not to be avail
 HEN for national bank circulation, and at Unit &ate of interest high enough to make aulthdn attractive to investors Such of plah promises to develop into legislation 4 4whtn Congress settled down to work. ,' a The beginning of the new calendar year .p'vsalso marks the opening of the second e'lalf of the current fiscal year 1910, which
 oe8un July l.
 ', Not only do the working balances and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01
CASES OF INTEREST
 COME UP TOMORROW
Railroad Commission to Decide
 Questions
COLBERT BOOKS SHORT
to City PoOr-AlIeged Resigna- ton of Rice Causes Much
 Legal Interest

Montgomery, December 31-(SpecialD Three of the five causes which will be considered by the Alabama rail- road commission at its session of Mon day are among the most interesting of the cases which have come to the at tention of the commissioners this year. Each one of the important causes, moreover, Is an old one, from the san itation on railroads, through the crat, ing of stoves in less than car load lots, to the question of reasonableness of coal rates to Jacksonville, Ala.
 In regard to the last named cause, George P. Ide ct als are complaining that the city of Jacksonville is being discriminated against by the Birming- ham coal district. in that other cities are allowed materially cheaper rate The dispute was waged diligently be- fore the commission at its December session and will be finally ended on Monday if possible.
 . Petition of the Southern Railway company that the commission approve the rule requiring the crating of stoves in less than car load lots is one of the live wires which will occupy much of the commissioners time. At several of the recent meetings the question was broach ed, but not acted upon.
 pr. W. M. Sanders, state health of- ficer, and sanitary officials of the vari- ous railroads doing business in Ala bama will come together on Monday on some kind of an agreement rela- tive to the sanitation on coaches and at depots. Evidence will be adduced at the meeting and order will be pro- mulgated.
 Of lesser interest at the meeting of Monday will be consideration of peti- tion of the Hunicutt Lumber company vs. Mobile and Ohio railroad for side track near Mile Post 92, and of the petition of the Attalla Commercial Club vs. Alabama Great Southern Railroad company in which complaint is made of inadequate passenger depot facil- ities at Attalla.
 Chairman Charles Henderson and As sociate Railroad Commissioners John A. I4usk and w. D. Nesbitt will be on hand at the January session, which will be the last regular meeting of the present commission.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01
HARDWARE BUSINESS GooI
St. Louis House Makes Big Gain for
 the Year 1910

St. Louis. Mo. December 31, 191O.-The Norvell-Shapleigh Hardware company, St. Louis, Mo, report gain in sales for 1910 over 1909 of $1,45o,000. In 1909 they gained more than s1.5O0,00O over 1908. In two years they have therefore gained over s3,0O0.000 in sales.
 The company stated their gain in 1910 was made by the same number of sales men, and without opening any new ter ritories. or making any changes in their lines Of goods
 There was no speculative buying of hardware in 1910, and merchants only bought goods as they needed them.
 The company attribute their remarkable gains to Good Service'-their house motto--and the quality of their ''DIA- MOND EDGE line of tools and cutlery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01
Notice


 bill will be introduced into tbe next legislature of the state 0f Al, bama for passage to create a juveni court for Jefferson country, Alabam4 to establish and declare the jurisdik ton thereof to create the offices & judge, probation officer and clerk & said court; to define their powers ans duties and fix their salaries and prd vide for the payment of same; to prdhA vide generally for the procedure of saiVl court; to provide for appeals from thM judgments of said court; to confer upoN the judge of said court Jurisdiction to enM tortain writs of habeas corpus in cases oB juvenile delinquents under the age oH 16 years in said county; to provide fo4I the custody, support and protection oN all delinquents and neglected childrelH under 16 years of age; pending final determination of their cases, and tdl provide for the custody. conttol and sup-I port of said children after said cases havss been finally adjudicated by said court. BOYS CLUB AND CHILDRENs AID SOCIETY,
 Mrs. James weatherly. President. Mrs. w. L. Murdoch, Secretary. 1-1-3t-su
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01
LAWRENCE AND
 ROBSON LECTURE

Eufaula. December 31.-(Special)- Richmond Pearson Hobson, accompan- fed by Rev. Brooks Lawrence, reached the city yesterday morning from BIT mingham and was met at the depot by several representative citizens, m cluding Rev. J. Az French, pastor of the First Baptist church here. He was escorted to the Bluff City Inn, where he was entertained during his stay in the city Last night at o'clock he delivered his lecture, "The Destroyer" in the auditorium of the Carnegie library, and was greeted by a large and enthusiastic audience including a large number of ladies.
 The stage was occupied by Rev. J. A. French, D. J. Blackwell, J. E. Me- Cam, Col, G. l.. Conner and R. D. Tn omas. Dr. French made short announcement, saying that Colonel Co., mer would introduce the distinguished speaker when that gentleman arose and. in eloquent terms, presented MT. Hobson to the audience. MT. Hobson consumed nearly two hours in deliver ing his lecture, which was lucid and forcible explanation of the evil effects of alcoholism. 1,uring his remarks MT. Hobson stated that only about 700,- 900 men were killed in all the wars during the last 2300 years and yet dou- ble that number were now being killed yearly by the deadly poison of alco- hol He predicted that the day would enventually come when prohibition would be written in indelible letters in the constitution of the United States MT. Hobson was followed by Brooks Lawrence, who spoke briefly along the same line.
 MT. and Mrs. J. D. Burts reached home yesterday afternoon from Lump kin, Ga., where they were called by the critical illness of their brother N. R. Burts, who died at his home in that city early Thursday morning. De- cea sed was we'll known here, where hs had wide circle of friends, and is survived by wife and two children The funeral occurred from his late res idence in that city yesterday afternoon and his remains were inferred in the cemetery there.
 The local lodge of the Woodmen oi the World, numbering about 30 mem- bers, enjoyed an oyster supper at their lodge rooms in that village last night A few invited guests shared their hos pitality and che occasion was greatly enjoyed
 A deal was consummated here yes terday whNeby the Interstate Grocery company of this city purchased the Ross building on Eufaula street, which they will greatly improve and utilize for their own purposes some time in the near future. The building is a large four-story brick structure that occupies a conspicuous site on the public thor oughfare.
 Taylor Moore. a well known farmer who resides near Hatcher's Station, 10 miles on the Georgia side, lost his barn, together with It's contents and three bales of cotton that was stored therein. by fire Thursday night. MT Moore held no Insurance. Origin o! the fire could not be learned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01

l ed as it peers into the distand
 Browning's tongue What's a E | two?" Seen from the unbrokA
 either side, when, to bring
 philosophy, the breaks themses
 turn out to be the most coit
 strategem to train mans eye-tI | what is faith. MY | Tt is this tendency toward goocae4E I that makes the good man powerful. Im- perfections will always appear in any process of development They have been conspicuous in all the great characters | of time, but this tendency toward the good strikes the light line so that as men
 move among their fellow men they re- veal God. The imperfections in the orbit
 of life is nothing more than the swing of the earth in her own orbit, she may swing a thousand leagues, but she always re-
 mains true to the pull of the north star. It is pathetic to watch the endeavor of
 the creature to express his appreciation
 of the immortal in his kind, when death strikes down the mortal part-but while
 pathetic, yet 'tis noble. The profusion of flowers that light this casket is the
 mute testimony to goodness, and if we had sall of the flowers in the garden ofS | the sun, we might we'll scatter the * about this bier. It is ever thus. V& 1 know that goodness is immorta1-all wis f to pay tribute to it. Baalam, the badN man, leaves a great word to the memory | of the good man: Let me die the death of i the righteous. and let my last end be | like his
 "The soldiers tent is folded; the patriot l is no more; the citizen ceases from his
 activities; the man of God rests from his
 labors. Is this all? I heard a great
 preacher once say that good man, at his dying time, is like the sun at his
 setting time, when he wraps himself in his
 curtains and retires for the night, long after the horizon has hidden his face | from view, his glory may be seen writ
 ten in furnished gold upon the skies. | There is a seat Vacant in Israel today. 1 No mean man can fill it-only he of cour- | age. devotion. sacrifice. faith.n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01
Light Company President

Legal circles of Montgomery are mildly interested in the recent annual session of the directors of the Citizens Light, Heat and Power company, in which Alex Rice is declared to have resigned as presi- dent of the company, giving way to Richard Tillis, his successor. Perplexity was caused by the current opinion that MT. Rice had resigned as president of the company on June 30 last. when litiga- ton arose as to who was the owner of the company-the Doherty Operating com pany of New York or Richard Tillis of this city. Understanding in Montgomery was that Mir Rice resigned at that time, thus formally transferring all of his hold ings to MT. Tillis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01
IS MY PAPA
NOTHING BUT A
 COMMON DRUNKARD?
kslKED A LITTLE BOY OF HIS
 MOTHER
His Father Had Promised Him Fine Rifle, But the Boy Was Told His Father Was a Common Drunkard" and Would Not Keep His Promise

" The following Is taken from the ad- lsress of a celebrated evangelist: ,0 "Adamma, is my papa drunkard? Ind won't I ever get my rifie?"
 "Oh my babyH-and for a moment the mother sat dumb, with white and frightened face. Then with rush of tears: Baby! baby! What on earth do you mean? Who has been saying such things to your"
 Tt was Gerald" (his little neighbor). 'TIe showed me his shotgun. It's just a single barrel, and I told him papa was going to get me a Marlin rifle. You know papa promised me one the other night. And just awhile ago Gerald was psassing by the gate, and he says, Hello, kid; got that rife? and I says, -A<o, papa hasn't got it for me yet. And he says, No, and he never will get 1t. My papa says you papa is just coni- mon drunkard and can't give you nothing.' Mamma, is Gerald telling the truth about my papa? And won't l get my riffe?'i
 It was the loss of the rifle that darkened the sky of the minimizing child The mother faced in dumb mis-
 ry an infinitely greater tragedy
 Not one word of the above Is fiction. is all the hideous truth! And yet not uNen miles from that mans home is the Flames Sanatorium, for the cure of such Us he Three weeks treatment would
 end him back to his home a new nan, and bring light from heaven once i, nore to all it's darkened windows
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
TripIed Memories

To the Editor of The Age-Herald, and comrades of the press, young and old, greeting: At the threshold of this tripled year, rich in reminiscence, richer in mem- ory of past achiement and richest in promise.
 Even though Mobile has made no move to honor the fact, 1911 is the year of tripled centenaries.
 Just POO years ago Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Seigneur de Bienville, and by grace of Louis le Grand King of France, Governor of Louisiana. collected the shat tered remnants of his fort at Twenty seven-Mile Bluff, on Mobile river and set them up at what is today the port of three distinct sovereign states. Thus 1911 is the bicentennial year of the New France and the west that was the Louis- jana purchase.
 This year, 1911, sees the centennial of water traffic between the south and the west. In it's autumn, the reproduced steamer 'Orleans' will make the jubilee trip from Pittsburg to New Orleans, a replica of the first steamer that covered that trade-route, in 1s11 The Ohio Val
 
 10O-year revival of a great link in the bonds of the west and south.
 Precisely one-half century ago Alabama opened wide her gates to the sovereign ties trooping to her from the east and west.
 The year just dawning for us is the semi-centennial of the young, vibrant Confederacy that was born hope; that was for four years an exemplar for all time, and is now a memory
 Ho! Dweller on the mountain top;
 IIo, tiller of the vale!
 this is the year of years that you should come focking as the survivors, and as the sons and the daughters of those who fiocked from every section, to band to- gether and to strive for the truth as they saw it-even to the death! On this especial New Years morning, standing on their thresholds, past and present hear echoes ring back across the welkin, in louder acclams it reaches the line between a statehood, venerable yet juvenile; wise. yet substile-once dissev- cred, now cemented foreverl This reminiscent year, 1911, means to the southland through the south to all America-more than any past year, or any year possible to come. And what this year means should be graven on our DOT tals, and written in our books, and spoken in our speech, to remotest Time; this year as in the year of it's happening. This, the two hundredth anniversary of Bienville's first permanent capital of is now the great wide west This year, 1911, is the centennial of the wedding of the south and west in trade bonds.
 This, 1911, is the semi-centennial of the Southern Confederacy, the birth of new nation. sired by wrongs, fecund with new rights and to bear results inestimablel Shall the world forget this? Shall the press forget it? Shall the youths in the primary school and the universities for get it?
 Forbid it, patriotism, memory, pride and interest,"
 Let us all combine in one good and great purpo4f, to revive and embalm the memories of yesterday and graft them insperarably upon the life of tomorrow. Press comrades. great or little as you be, keep the eyes of all the world upon this year of years, that 1t may shine and be glorious in the sunshine. T. c. De LEON. Mobile, December 30, 1910.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01

We have $500,000 to loan on centrally located business or residence property in Birming- ham at 511a and 6 per cent. We have $250, 900 to loan on local securities for six months at 6 per cent.
 OTTO MARK 6 CO.,,
 8rown-Marx Building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01
w. of A. Hearing

Taking of testimony in the rate cases against the Western Railroad of Alabama will begin on January 12, probably in At lanta. The hearing will be had before Special Master Judge w. s. Thorington. Major R. E. Steiner of Montgomery, rep resents the railroad, while Attorney Gen. eral A. M. Garber and Judge s. D. Weak ley represent the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01
Found Dead in a Tree

Gainesville, Ga. December S1.-Hanging by the neck from the fork of a tree the body of Gid O'Kelley. aged 25. was found in the woods in the northern part cutters. O'Kelley disappeared from his home Thursday night. A coroners in- quest this afternoon failed to throw any light on the crime.