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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-20
The ROLLER TOWELS
Hotel Keepers Kick on the New Law
Kansas Has Passed az a Big
Sanitary Measure.

Following is a new dispatch from
Topeka, Kan, as regards the ruling
which makes 1t compulsory for the
hotel men to substitute individual for
roller towels:
kansas hotel keepers are obtecting
to the individual roller towel order Of
the state board Of health because their
guests keep stealing the towels. The
general use of paper towels is being
forced on the hotel keepers of the state
by the thefts of the patrons Of the ho-
tells.
THE old fashioned roller towel had
one distinct advantage besides being
a fine collector of germs and dirt. The
roller towel always stayed where it
was put and the hotel keeper could al
ways rely on getting full value for the
money he spent for the roller towel.
But the individual towel is fast disap-
pearing from the racks above the
washstands In the hotel Mushrooms,
An individual towel will not wear out
as fast as the old roller towel, but the
hotel men assert that they have been
forced to spend hundreds of dollars
for towels, in addition to the expense
of washing and ironing. One old roll
er towel made four and sometimes six
individual towels.
"One hotel keeper at Wichita. in a
protest to the state board of health.
asserted that in six months S per cent
Of his towels had been stolen. AS
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-20
new MISSISSIPPI Law
Provides for a Fine of 500 for Asking
for or Giving a Tip on a Rail-
road Train.

An influential western newspaper
makes the following comment on the
new Mississippi anti-tipping law,
which goes into effect within a short
tine:
Mississippi has passed a law i'm
posing a fine Of 800 for asking or
giving a tip in a hotel, sleeping car or
dining car. That is a pretty severe jab
at the tipping business. We wouldn't
wonder that such a law will be enact
ed in other states gradually until all
have similar laws, for there is no
doubt In the minds Of the people that
the tipping habit is oppressive, and
is really a discrimination in favor Of
people who have money to give away.
1T is some surprise that the inter-
state commerce commission has o
interfered and prevented the rich par
lor a n dining car companies from
levying tribute on the passengers; for
that is what 1t means. It is as bad
as a rebate. 1t compels the passen-
gers to pay just wages that the a
companies should pay. They make a
great deal more one than the pas
senger and should pay their own x
penses. They certainly make enough
OF their meals to do It"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-20
WITH THE TRAVELLERS

their furnishings bonds could be is
sued If necessary, but without a doubt
investment companies would erect
hotel buildings at a guaranteed rent
al based upon q percentage or Dulsa-
ing cost Commercial men are oblg-
ed to Edo things" for their houses;
'Sdodng Things is entirely In their line
so why not operate for their own
profit and convenience q chain OF
tipless hotels2 Each subscriber to the
capital stock to be entitled to q dis
count from regular rates, which would
mean O saving annually of several
times the original investment.
Before issuing a list of rooning
houses, time should be given to permit
the hotel prqprietors to think 9
these suggestions-later publish a list
of rooming houses for transients IN
connection with the names and loca-
tions of the tipless hotels, emitting
the rooming houses in cities and towns
where there are tipless hotels.
lowe statutes contain a law against
tipping, Missouri has just passed an
multiplying law and other states will
pass similar laws. A Chicago Judge
has recently decided that tipping is
un- American and illegal.
Public sentiment is crystallizing
against tipping and sooner or later 1t
will compel its abandonment.
Several tipless barber shops recently
established are coming money, indt-
cative Of the u~npopularity of the up-
ping system. The enforced custom OF
tips by BARRIERS has indirectly influence
ed the sale OF millions Of azo to OBJ
jecting victims.
For really tipless commercial ho-
tells a great possibility for success is
evident, II the proprietors have the
business sense to get in line In time.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-20
Is II WORTH WHlLE2


When I think of the work I've done,
From early morn till set of sun;
When / think of the miles I've walked
From store to store and tobacco
talked,
The grips I've packed,
The signs I have tackled
OF both cloth and tin
Then / think what a fool I've been.
/ have worked hard and travelled late,
After asking lodging at a farm gate,
When weary, worn and tired of life
To hear him say, Il have a sick wife
Mr.. Jones, who lives three miles away
Always helps the drummer, they say"
Then my soul to rebel will begin,
Again 1 say, What a fool I've been
Then when I think OF wife and chill
dren dear,
For whom 1 work and strive to give
good cheer,
Their sunny smiles and precious kiss
OF welcome, little short of heavenly
bliss,
/ take new heart and again push on
With renewed vigor and happy song
Then, oh, then, I am forced to say
There r bigger fools than I all
along the way"
Frank l.. Montgomery.
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Bids Cor Furnlshlng guppliea.

Sealed WIN pc received by
the Board Of Trstuees Of the North
Dakota Agricultural College, at the Of
grounds. up to IL O'Clock, noon. July
%, 1912, for the furnishing of the fol-
lowing supplies, sample to be furnish
cd on all Items after which the word
sample appears. Said supplies to be
delivered r. O. B. Fargo as called for
between Sept. /, 1919 and June /, 1913.
Contract and bond governing quality:
the SUCCESSFUL bidder.
All bids TO be sealed and marked
plainly, Bids for Supplies"
The board of Trustees reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
10 dozen No. 10 Elk. std Syrup "
Apricots.
dozen Nc. 10 Elk. Fancy Apple
) dozen No. u Elk. Fancy Apple But
ter (Eastern).
6 dozen No. 10 Asparagus. esamplal
4 dozen No. 10 std. Loggie blueber-
2 dozen No. 10 Elk. Fancy b-lueberries
8 dozen No. 10 Ex. Fancy Lawton
) dozen No. 10 sta. b-lackberries.
10 dozen No. 10 Red Baby beets.
8 dozen No. 10 Tx. std Stringless
s dozen No. 10 Ex. std. White wax
8 dozen No. 10 French Red Kidney
~.
Z dozsn No ~ Nv rannv Ssn.n
5o-an NJ IN GoalsaS Sarrots
% dozen No. 10 Fancy Michigan Corn.
49, NJ ~ u,u
uo1Sn no ~ E1uAAeu corn or Lye
31ny. "a
Iozyn No. ~ Sai1hOFnLa Whole
biack Snerrless tx sto
2 nozSh NO. ~ SaIi1ornta whole
"nltS SneEIles TX. So
Io ~ M ~ n S11SSIeSs CnLni sauce
dozen No. 10 Red stemmed Cur
rants IN s1Ear. go
: SSozen No. N SE A. "a rerrles.
uoAosl NO. ~ - STU So~osenerrless
uvvSen ~ muS srapess Elk
st9
oo1en NO. ~ 5Fesh Saroen Fars-
nlps AZ IL
uo10n w. ~ AppAs Anu Currant
1e1Ay AZ. %
susaL. a. r. 49,
9 dozen NO. ~ Elk fancy Mincemeat
tSampae.1 ~ ~ paw
~ dozen No; ~ Sarretr Ptece Pears
SEaslsrnl. 1Sam1IpE r.
10 dozen NO. ~ Sals E1 sta. Sliced
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-20

State OF North Dakota County Of
Gass In County Court before Hon. Al.
9. Hanson, Judge.
In the Matter Of the Estate of Prfs-
ella p. Taylor, Deceased.
Peter 3. G~rosscup and Wade A. Tay-
lor, Petitioners, VS.. HoyIand Martin,
John Taylor, Irene Taylor, kathryn
Grosscup Jordan, Urania Mayors Shell
don, Rebecca Mayors, Arthur Rowe,
Paul Rowe, and II. ]. Rowe, as Guard
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and Citation, Hear
Estate.
The state Of North Dakota to the
Above Named Respondents:
You, the said Hoyland Martin,
Charles M. Taylor, Bertha T. Lowell,
John Taylor, Irene Taylor, Kathryn
Grosscup Jordan, Urania Mayors Shell
Paul Rowe, and III, J. Rowe, as Guard
ian of said Paul Rowe, are hereby no.
tined that the final account of Peter
8. Grosscup and Wade A Taylor, exc
ment of Priscilla p. Taylor, late of the
City of Toledo. in the County of Lucas
and State OF Ohio, deceased, has been
rendered ia this Court therein how
ing that the estate of said deceased is
ready for final settlement and dis
tribution, and p~etitioning that their
account be allowed, the residue of said
estate be distributed to the persons
thereunto entitled, their administration
closed, and that they be discharged,
and that Monday, the 18th day of Au-
gust, 1912, at the hour Of ten o'clock
in the forenoon Of that day. at the
Court Hous in the City of Fargo, in
the County of cass and State of North
Dakota has been duly appointed by
this Court for the settlement thereof,
and the hearing of such petition, at
which time and place any persons in
terested in said estate may appear and
file their exceptions in writing to the
said account and petition, and contest
the same. And you, the above named
respondents, and each of you, are
hereby cited and required then and
there to be and appear before this
Court and show cause, il any you
have, why said account shall not be
allowed, the residue of said estate dis
tributed, the administration of said
estate closed and the said Peter S.
Grosscup and Wade A. Taylor, as exc
cutors as aforesaid, be discharged.
Dated, Fargo, North Dakota this 18th
day OF July, 1912.
BY the Court: Al. G.. HANSON,
Judge Of the County Court.
(July is, 90, 81, Aug. 81
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-20
PrnnnaaIa Tor aeprer.

The City Auditor of the City of Far
go, North Dakota, will receive, until
the hour Of five o'clock, p. NJ. the 9Th
day of August, 1912, Sealed Proposals,
upon the basis of cash payment, for
the furnishing of all materials for, and
the construction of, a 12-inch Lateral
Sewer on College Street, extending
from Seventh to Ninth Avenues, in
Sewer District No. 1 of said City, ac-
cording to the plans and specifications
therefor Of file in the office of the
City Auditor.
The successful bidder will be requir-
ed to begin the construction Of said
Sewer within Ten days after signing
contract and to complete the same
within Thirty $500 days thereafter.
Each bid must be accompanied by a
certified check as required by law and
In accordance with the specifications,
Each bid shall be securely sealed and
rave endorsed upon the outside
thereof q statement OF the work such
proposal is for.
The City Council reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
Dated. Fargo, n, D., July 10, 1912.
A. r.. WATKINS,
City Auditor.
Gully 20-2T, 1922
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TWENTY YEARS AGO

and went on the road as travelling
salesman for j. H. SINNERS & Co.. of
Duluth. Mr.. Wells is now the pro-
prietor Of the Northern hotel at Grand
Forks.
July 20-J. y. Bowers e. Son obtained
the contract for the new Third ward
~schoolhouse.
Conductor Sloan had a novel ex-
nertence while running a passenger
train from Valley City to Oriska.
Some trarnps got on top of the train,
cut the wire netting over the transom
of the sleepers and distracted much
wearing apparel. Their work was dis
covered, the train stopped at Criska
and w of the three men captured.
The janitor of the National bank
OF North Dakota was missing and $500
of h banks funds could not be found.
1t was thought he had gone east.
Ed. Johnson of Grandtn said that he
understood that Johnny Haas was
worrying the boys in regard to his
horses n he had one that he would
like to make a match for.
The state lodge OF knights Of Pythi-
as elected O.. N. Dahl of Bismarck as
grand chancellor and w. M. Coch-
rane Of Mimic vice chancellor.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-20
UMPIRE tom Dunn
QUITS The GAME
BELIEVES WHEN THE PLAYER
"sTEALs" A BASE AND THE
PITCHER @DEcEivEs" THE BAT
TER THEY ARE NOT LIVING
THE GOLDEN RULE,

The secret Is finally ont az to why
Tom Dunn, secretary and official UNI
pire for the u. g. Il. In their baseball
games made such a dismal failure
when he attempted the task. He is a
church member and he has decided
that he won't have anything to do with
the baseball players.
II have found out that a baseball
player is a dishonest person, because
he is always endeayoring to steal a
base end that the pitcher isn't true
either to himself or any n else for
he is always trying to deceive the
man who is a batsman, and / don't like
dishonesty or deception.
Then you see the players are sup
posed to take a foul which / suppose
means fowl whether it belongs to them
or not. Then I like to please my fell
lowmen, too" Mr.. Dunn continued. Il
have been surrounded by a bowling
mass Of men who were wearing base
ball uniforms and have been called a
bonehead, and advised to go back On
the farm, and some have even ex-
pressed a desire to see me murdered.
I intended to do my duty down at
Red Wing in the games there, but
when ! got to thinking of all these
things, / made up my mind unless
they played the old fashioned game
I'd not umpire and you bet I'm not go
ing to.
you see I have heard the people
call the umpire robber n thief, and
have heard them advise him to put on
his glasses so he could see, and 1
can't stand that kind of work. / didn't
get fired by Manager McGrann, I quit.
Perhaps he would have fired me, but
he didn't / didn't give him the chance.
They're welcome to get all the umpires
they want for the next season, for
they can't have my valuable services
in the future
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-20
The TIP NUISANCE
BEING AGITATED
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS Ma
TIoNAL LEAGUE SENDS OUT
CIRCULAR LETTER URGING ALL
KNIGHTS OF THE GRIP TO As
SYST IN WORK.


President Dove, Of the Commercial
Travellers National league has send
out circular letters to every newspa-
per in the country as well as to every
travelling mans union asking them to
assist ia the work Of putting an end
to the tipping nuisance. Here Is
what he says:
Commercial travellers individually and
through their associations, purpose 10
continue the fight against tipping un-
Til the system is broken up, even II
it-requires a to accomplish. Ihey
sentiment against g~ratuities for serv-
ice, in the system of enforced pre-
miums upon contract rates or COM
modify price agreements.
whipping Is regarded as both a moral
and economic issue, and the American
public has won always where a moral
question was involved, for In every
clash between selfish interests and
public rights the spirit of American
ism has ultimately prevailed.
The Commercial Travellers National
league, the fighting Organization for
travelling men, is composed of the Off
GERS of their various associations
throughout the United States and Cam
ada, and the officers of about 200 do
nestle chambers of commerce, Manu-
facturers' clubs and other commercial
bodies and nearly 100 foreign CONNER
clal associations.
sAt a recent meeting of the officers
Of this organization, w. E. Adams Of
Philadelphia, Pa, it's vice president,
offered the following: while the trav-
cling men of the United States are
striving to act upon the suggestion OF
their organization officers to discon-
tinue tip giving, they report that the
walters, porters, bell boys and pull
man porters, with the consent and
announcement of those who placed
them in a position to work the public),
still persist in the various methods
and devices to squeeze from patrons,
10 to 20 per cent premiums upon fixed
charges.
Ii is evident that the avaricious-
ness Of the proprietors of hotels and
restaurants, with their remarkable
lack Of appreciation of the depth OF
the general sentiment against tipping.
induces them to ignore the demand for
it's abatement; consequently the issue
Is squarely up to the proprietors.
The cure Of the tipping evil at
hotels is within the possibilities Of the
travelling men,; If preference is given
by them to such public houses as
agree to eliminate tipping. They can
all push for these hotels and against
Others, and 1t will bring bankruptcy
to them that persist in operating
under the obnoxious tipping system.
The Commercial Travellers league
could issue a list Of hotels agreeing
torun upon the tipless plan, and
every commercial traveller would be
an active agent for these hosteIries.
and their success thereby assured.
If each travelling man would invest
$40 and every house employing COM
mercial travellers, 800. it would pro-
vide a capital stock of $40, 600, 900.
which would be sufficient to control
and operate more than 100 hotels in
leading cities. For new buildings and
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-20

Sealed proposals wrYr pc received by
the Board of Trustees of the North
Dakota AGRICULTURAL College, at the
ONCE OF Secretary on the College
Grounds, up to IL O'clock, noon, July
23, 1912, for the furnishing of 1000
less coal; also 500 TONS more or less. OF
screened native lignite-price to be bass
ed at so much per ton OF 1000 pounds,
railroad weights to govern. Said coal
railroad spur at the College heating
plant as called for between the dates
Of Aug. 1, 1912 and May /, 1913.
Contract and bond governing quail
ity, quantity and price OF coal will be
required OF the successful bidder.
All bids to be sealed and marked
plainly on outside OF envelope, Bids
for coal"
The board reserves the right to re-
1ect any or all bids.
BY order OF the Board OF Trustees.
w. "A. YODER, Secretary.
July Observation-Disclosures
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County, North Dakota, according To
the certified plat thereof IN file and
of record in the Office Of the Register
Of Deeds of said Cass county.
The sale will be made N Or after
the 9Th day Of August A. D., 1912.
All bids must be in writing, and
may be left at the office Of w. j..
C1app, in the First National Bank
Building, in the City of Fargo, North
Dakota, or filed with the Judge OF
said County Court, or delivered to
the undersigned personally.
J. p. EDWARDS,
Executor Under the viii of Eliza
beth r.. Edwards, deceased.
Dated July 18th, "A. ID, 1912.
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Sale Of Land.

authority OF an Order OF Sale granted
by the Hon. "a. q. Hanson, Judge Of
the County Court of the County of
Cass. In the State OF North Dakota,
dated the 18th day of July Al. d. 1912,
the undersigned, the executor under
the viii OF Elizabeth r.. Edwards. late
of the City Of Fargo in the County Of
sCass and State Of North Dakota, De-
the highest bidder. for cash subject
to confirmation BY the Judge of said
County Court, the following described
land. to-wit:
Lots number eight (8l. nine (91,
Ten (10), eleven (119. and twelve (121.
In Block wv. Of Chas. A. Roberts
Addition to the city Of Fargo Ia Cass
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-20

many as twenty have been taken In
one day. One Topeka hotel was fore
ed TO remove it's cloth individual tow
els from Its Mushrooms entirely end
to install the paper towels because OF
the thefts OF the cloth towels by pa
irons and others. Some Of the hotels
have traded towels involuntarily. THE
manager Of a hotel at Hutchinson re-
Gently found himself the owner OF a
towel that belonged at Wichita, one
that belonged at Pittsburg, Kan, one
that belonged at Winfield, one that be-
ionged at Salfna and one that came
from q hotel at Leavenworth and two
that belonged 10 the Pullman om
pany.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-20
HOTEL CLERKS POET
A Matrimonial Frenzy Seems to Have
Hit the Waldorf, Gardner and
the Prescott.

The poet muse was working strong
in Robert Mcintyre, he who presides
over the destiny of the desk at the
Waldorf, when the Traveller reporter
came in and asked If there was any
thing new. Robert was looking sad,
as though one Of his uncles had died
in Ireland and had failed to remember
him in his will. But it wasn't thar
which was b%othering him. for he hand
ed out the following, which will ex-
plain. He has been accepted:
II asked Marie 10 marry me,
My heart stopped beating then;
She did not answer, yes but gee
How quick she gurgled 'When?'"
1t would seem from a visit to the
Gardner hat Bill Laimer had been
popping too, for when William was
shown the touching epistle of Mr.. Me-
Intyre, he sat down and without a
moments thought dashed off the fol-
lowing:
II spoke the fateful words to Grace,
In accents quite unsteady.
She turned to me her sweet young face
And chirped: Two years have !
been ready"
You know Frank Promo is a French
man at least by descent and 1t might
be expected that he would be looking
UP a French young lady to tie to.
Here's what he said about it:
"I asked Toinette to be my bride;
/ did not hope to win her;
But she, dear girl. straightway replied,
Right now, or after dinner?'"
Axel Akeson is the sedate gentleman
whom Manager Letford has behind
the desk at the Prescott, and when it
comes to poeting he is there. He, too,
has been looking ahead some and he
wrote out the following with a lead
pencil In less than two minutes:
when I asked Maud to be my wife
l simply had not reckoned
That she would answer big as life:
Sure, Mike, in half a second"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-20
A HARD BUSINESS.
TWO Advertising Men Compare Notes
on q Fargo Street Car.

TWO Advertising Men Compare Notes
on . Fargo Street Car.
An advertising man of Fargo was
going home one night in a street car.
1t was late and the man who Eat next
to him began to talk:
what business are you inT' he
asked.
THE advertising business"
lis that so? I used to be In the
advertising business myself. Quit it,
though, and went into the rag and old
bottle business; got a horse and clean
VI my silky every month"
There seemed to be nothing for the
advertising nan to say, so he said 1t.
EYES," continued the laxative man.
II was in the advertising business
was a sandwich man for a clothing
store for six months! Say" and he
leaned over confidently, 'ain't it hard
work when the wind blows2'
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Proposals for sunday Tabernacle.

Sealed bus VIII be received by
Ralph r. Wolf, secretary at the Y. M.
@. A. building, july 20, 1912, at 1880
p. NJ, for the purchase and remove
of the building known as the Billy
Sunday tabernacle.
The successful bidder must remove
the building. remove all rubbish, etc.
from the site by Aug. i, 1912.
The electric wiring and fixtures are
not included in. this bid, but will be
removed by a separate contractor.
Any member of the board Of direct-
ors Of the Y. M. C. A. bidding on this
work will not take part in the opening
or awarding Of the contract.
Al certified check for SIS to accomp-
any each bid as evidence of good
faith on the part of the bidder.
BY order of the board of directors.
THE YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN
ASSOCIATION.
Gully 1~7-1S-19-20.1
The farmers welcome no nights, az
wen as hot days. and also steamy
showers.
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Paris has q new ballet which has
shocked some of the critics that
they refuse to review II. The azl~
-nouncement OF their refusal has, of
course, led to Overlooking audiences.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-20
ON ROAD AND AT HOME.

w. p. Mccormick. the sedate indi-
vidual who sell plaster which he says
is harder than the conscience of a
pawnbroker, has been circulating
his friends in the city for the
past few days, and Thursday enter
tanned a party of his friends at dinner
at the Waldorf. He says he will
bring Mrs. Mccormick along with him
the next time he appears here.
Al. C. Anderson, s. M. Shaffer and
Clarence Hunter, ali representing diff
ferent stove companies were all circu-
lating at time through the lobby of
the waldorf this week and there was
no unpleasantness. They sing How
Sweet a Thing At Is for Brethren Here
to Dwell"
William aBillv Way won't circulate
down this way with his tobacco for
ON time. as he seems to be anchored
up at Minot, where he Is inducing ev-
erybody to smoke. He sends the fol-
loving verse just to show that hA has
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-20

DIR. Pearsons died poor, but he de-
prived the lawyers Of q great deal of
profitable ana1saeaArA