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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-24
BETTER FARMING.

When the Better Farming movement
was started-like all new endeavors-
1t had it's critics. There were those
quite ready to predict that it would
be a fizzle. The me behind the plan
to increase the yield of the crops of
this state, to increase the value Of
the lands by adding to their fertility
and attractiveness-were not discour-
aged by either the forebodings or
CRITICISMS with which the plan met.
After several months of effort on the
part Of he Better Farming movement,
Director Cooper and his assistants
the plan can be pronounced an I'M
qualified success. Provisions were
made for carrying on this movement
Tor three years. The Forum predicts
that by the end Of that period North
Dakota farmers will have added mil
lions to the wealth of the state
Through their adoption Of the ideas
promulgated by the organization and
put into practical application by the
men selected by Mr.. Cooper 10 sue
coed him in the work.
One Of the most gratifying features
OF the movement is the eagerness
with which the farmers have general
~ adopted the plan and the cooper
alton they are giving the men engag-
ed in the work. The conditions were
right. For years the members of the
"A c. faculty, the lecturers of the
Farmers Institute board, the individ-
nal EFFORT Of enterprising farmers in
each community and the persistent
and tenacious agitation OF the news
papers of the state had prepared the
public for the new work. The Better
Farming movement vas launched at
the psychological moment and could
but succeed.
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Crocun News Iternn.

Crocus. N. b., July 2l.-To The Fo-
rum: Born, to Mr.. n Mrs. Fred H.
Markwardt on Tuesday, a son.
John Schumacher and Olaf johnson
Were Bisbee visitors last Monday.
J. c. Martin made a trip to Devils
Lake on business last Friday.
Nels w. Hawkinson Is building a new
store in this village.
Crocus township will petition the
county dads to declare all section lines
public roads.
Otto Sukut left last Friday for Far
go where he expects to take in the
state fair n the Ringing Bros CIR
Gus. He will also look over the lands
there and If 1t suits him he will move
there.
Tom Oakland was in candor last sat
urday attended by his wife.
O. M. Hendricks and Frank Sand are
owners of new autos.
Our team had a match with the Rock
Lake reds but were licked.
William Tuebner of Bisbee went to
Egeland Saturday with his family and
stayed at the Bernard Hammer home
over Sunday.
A baby was born to a member of a
theatrical company which played in
Crocus n the kid was presented with
a deed to a lot in h village golden
spoon as 1t were. :
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Rossau left for
Culbertson, Mont, last Tuesday. They
viii visit at the home of their daugh-
ter, Mrs: Frank Wheeler.
A slight frost was reported by some
last Sunday night
Ernest Martin is here from Montana
for a few weeks.
A soaking rain fell last night. This
practically assures a good crop for
1S1z. o g.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-24
ANTI-NoIsE CRUSADE.

Fargoans have to submit to torture
because of the useless noises in this
city. ShriekinE whistles of switch
engines, sirens on automobiles, shriIl
clangs of street car bells, fendish con,
trapttons on bicycIes-and the annoy
ing racket OF motorcycles are soms
Of the things that makes life a hades
on earth for nervous people. The
worst part OF the thing is that some
OF the idiots who produce the most
noise imagine they are smart.
Some Fargo woman can win the
eternal gratitude Of the rest Of the
citizens by emulating the example of
Mrs. Rice Of New York city. When
she began her campaign for the sup
preston Of unnecessary noises, noise
makers laughed at her.
But the persistent woman wasn't
daunted, and in a few months she had
silenced ali the unnecessary whistling
and footing of tugs and ferries in the
busy rivers which hem In Manhattan
island.
Recruits Joined the Rice anti-noise
crusade and vendors We're forbidden
70 shout through the streets. Dray-
men and auto drivers were then haul
ed up short and forced to operate
with the slightest possible noise.
Fargo needs a Mrs. Rice. There is
certainly room for a great deal of i'm
proVement. The people of Fargo
shout for safe and sane Fourths.
There should also be a little sanity
shown on the other days of the year.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-24
Press Comment

Northwestern AgricuIturalist: IL Is
popular now to rave about the high
cost of living" But at whose expense
wlIL mat reduction come? VIII It not
the farmers? IL will not lessen the
snare or h commission houses nor of
the transportation companies; 1t will
come out OF the farm profits.
our farmers are prospecting now.
But is 1t deplorable tina farmers should
prosper? While the cities of Minnesota
Tor example, rave grown from 26 to 2S
per cent in population in the past de-
cade, and the farm population Of the
state only z per cent, in spite of the
great agricultural richness of our soil
climate, who shall say that our
s s4nsS are groWing too rich at the
ries never were so high as they are to-
Gay, Undoubtedly there are classes OF
workmen not yet receiving their right
L9I wage; but who outside of the study
OF q college theorist will argue that
the way to increase American wages Is
10 let down the bars to the entry into
american markets Of goods made in
foreign lands n produced by the
wages OF European and Asiatic stan.
dards? Nowhere else In the world are
worklngmen on the whole, paid any,
thing like American wages.
OF what avail will it ne to reduce
the cost OF foods Cat farmers 6x-
pense,) to supply families whose sup
port Is cut OF or reduced by idle or
crippled factories?
Governor Wilson mas always been a
sa!aried man, q student OF theory, not
rubbing against the ~aetualities of
markets and the probabilities of life.
He a never felt the rough edge of
me struggle of the producer. He could
not feel the heart-throb of a miner,
nor the pulse Of the cowboy, the pio-
neer or the factory worker. BY instinct
and training he stands aloof-the stu
the superior.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-24
ENTERTAINING
The SHUT-INS
WHILE BEING AMUSED THEY
GAIN WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE
THAT is OF VALUE FOREVER
AFTER FROM THE FORUM
BIBLE.

Did you eve hear Of the Sunshine
society?
Such an organization exists and its
object is to incite its members to the
performance Of kind and helpful deeds,
They also bring the sunshine of hap
piness to the hearts of homes of shut
ms" or those who through some un-
fortunate circumstance are shut UP in
the home.
Did you ever notice how the face
of a child lights up when you smile
at 1t as you pass on the street? Your
smile as a ray OF sunshine for the lit
tie one.
There are nan kind and helpful
deeds that bring sunshine and hapri-
ness to others and usually cost less
effort that the gloomy look.
A member OF the Sunshine society
recently got several copies If the Illus
trated Bible which the Forum s. Re-
publican offers to its readers. She said
she wanted to present them to some
little 'shut-ins" who would be amused
by the beautiful pictures distributed
throughout the volume.
While thus being amused n also
acquires a wealth OF Bible lore that
viii be OF rare value. For indeed the
Bible is an educational work. Abra-
am Lincoln said that hardly q quo
tation was used that did not have it's
origin in this great book of books.
II you want to brighten the path of
some poor unfortunate present him
with this magnificent copy Of the BIZ
BILE. 1t will be a "a Of sunshine not
soon to be forgotten.
You may find out all about the plan
in the educational certificate printed
on another page Of this issue. Either
Catholic or Protestant editions are
OF binding. Clip that certificate to-
day and difEuse q little sunshine.
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a CLEVER MOVE.

The yankees claim special wisdom
in Q things-but they have no cor
ner on it. Some people are inclined
to regard the Germans as phlegmatic,
rather deep and thorough-but by no
means brilliant. Right here is where
they have fallen down. The Germans
can give the people Of this country
caEds and spades in c~leverness. This
can be easily proven.
In order to get rid of their hornely
old maids, they have developed a
plan of awarding prizes annually in
each district TO the man who, during
the year has married the most Grip
pied o. the homeliest woman II she
be the homeliest and a cripple, also,
the prize Is increased. Isn't that cIev-
er enough for any country? Even the
'effervescent French can't put any.
thing over that idea
But the smooth Germans are not
going to stop at that-more money is
needed to run the government. Some
OF the usual forms OF taxation have
about reached the limit. New plans
must be devised. AS ever the case,
the German Is equal to the emergen-
cy, 1t is proposed that each beautiful
woman in Germany shall pay a tax OF
4S cents a year. Isn't that perfectly
cute? Can you imagine any girl in
Germany who wouldn't fall for that
scheme? No assessors. no tax col
lectors will be necessary. The beau
THUR women will march right up to
their local treasures and deposit the
45 cents. With 20 900, 900 women IN
Germany, there would be raised from
this method alone, 8 700, 900.
There is only one drawback-no
hornely women would be left for
which matrimonial prizes could be Of
fered.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-24
Crystal News.

Crystal, N. D., July 22.-To The Fo-
rum: Mr.. and Mrs. jas. Massey took In
the fair at Winnipeg last week.
Mrs. Waldo and daughters Marie and
Beatrice visited friends in Forest River
the past week
Mrs. Hahn, ST, and Mr.. and Mrs.
kreitzweiser, who have been visiting at
Nm " Hans 2 2 short time left for
Miss Tina Johnson of Zealandia,
Saskatchewan, was q guest at Andrew
Gilbert's the past week. She returned
to her home on Monday, July %. accom-
MI, and Mrs.6P. J.. Finnegan OF st.
Paul are visiting with their daughter,
Mrs. Bernard Thiegs Of this place.
They expect to remain a couple of
Miss Ruth Martin, a one-time resi-
dent of Crystal died at her home in
Caldwell, Ida, on Tune 20 at the age of
II years and 8 months. Her death re-
suited from tuberculosis. She leaves
to mourn her death a father, mother
S. o. soper and family have return
ed to Crystal and are now living in
ton in the spring but lived there only
a short time. The people of Crystal are
glad to welcome them home.
Miss Ruby Hahn visited friends in
Winnipeg last week and also took in
the fair While there.
Jack Corbit and family and Mrs.
Elizabeth Corbit returned from Ashley,
Mimi, last week after a visit of a week
or two with friends.
Warren Hill and son Fern returned
last week fonn Elm Creek, Manitoba,
where Fern has spent most of the win
ter with his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
s. Canfieid.
Miss Helen Mcneil is visiting friends
and relatives In Crystal at present.
Miss Mcneil is taking a course OF
training in a hospital in Regina, Sas-
katcheWan, and expects to finish in an
other year.
little or no sunny weather. Not long
ago the people of this vicinity were
complaining OF the hot dry weather.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-24
WILL soon plsAPPEAR.
Secretary Wolf euperintsndlng Re

Secretary Wolf experimenting Tear
ing Down Of Sunday Tabernacle.
Ralph r. Wolf, secretary of the Y.
M. c. A. has a large force OF men at
work tearing down the Billy Sunday
tabernacle, and by next Saturday
evening it is expected that the build
ing viii have disappeared. 1t is be-
lieyed that after the building is down
and the lumber piled up that a better
price can be had for 1t than was Of
fored for the building standing. 1t is
stated by carpenters that the lumber
which has been seasoned is really
worth more than green lumber right
out of the lumber yards. Il will be
sold in lump or in small lots. The Y.
M. Q. A. owns the lumber and desires
to dispose of it to the one who will
pay the most for lit.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-24

Homestead. N. D., July z2.-To The
Forum: Theodore Htrbranson, OLAF
Fatland and Arthur Larson have ali
been on the sick list but have recoy
cred and are at work again.
Henry @. Gulland, who has been un-
der h care of DIR. o. J. Hazen of
Moorhead for the last two weeks. will
still remain in the hospital a week be.
fore returning home.
Martin Hanson and family, who took
up q homestead claim near Duton,
Mont. three years ago, returned ia
their farm home In Sheyenne over q
week g n will again be among us.
Gilbert Kjos, formerly OF Kindred,
but now in Saskatchewan, Canada,
came down on the 500 last week.
Mrs. /. @. Bjrogan was appointeS
school clerk Of Sheyenne in place al
ole A. Nelson, who refused it for an
other year on account Of too much
business. Cor. ii.
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vocate protested vigorously IN his
affidavit, as follows:
'"This afiant regards such act as
about as corrupt as its name implies,
and believes that IL is q wiiful at
tempt upon the part of a bunch Of
narrow minded politicians to muzzle
the press and that Ii should be repeal
ed at the next regular session and in
its stead a law based upon principles
OF ordinary business ana horse sense
should be enacted; that he regards the
n as a disgrace to the state of
Minnesota and TO the men who sup
ported 1t in the legislature"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-24
MUzzLEs III {

Minnesota has recently enacted a
corrupt practices act. II Is somewhat
similar to the n that is now a law
I'M North Dakota-the measure that
was so generously disregarded dur
ing the recent primaries. The new
measure doesn't receive a unanimous
welcome in Minnesota. HI. w. HAS
lett publisher Of The Butterdeld Al.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-24
Utterly Wretched

Before Remedy was Found.
Miss Minerva Ren1ingers Upper Bern,
Pa, writes: For several years / had
prostration, and was utterly
wretched. I lived on bread and beef
tea because my stomach would not re-
tain anything else. i took many rem
edies. but obtained no relief until I
took Hoods Sarsaparilla, when I began
to gain at once Am now cured"
Pure, rich blood makes good, strong
nerves, and this is why Hoods Earsa-
parilla. which puriaes and enriches the
blood, cures so many nervous diseases.
Get it today IA usual LIQUID form or
chocoiated tablets called 3aFS@tnb9s
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-24
Inaidioua seorn.

Washington star: Are you really
looking for an honest man?'' asked the
suspicious citizen.
NO." replied Diogenes. "Conhden-
tally, ] am merely taking this method
of letting my neighbors know what /
think OF them"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-24
Nickel P,a,e road

Sells tickets. chicago to New York ana
return, $27. Boston and return, see,
Reduced rates to other eastern points.
Also variable routes. Liberal stop
overs. Inquire of local agent, or adj
dress John Y. Callahan, A. q, p, A.
Sc West Adams street Chicago.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-24

Learn to box. 1t will make your
husband respect you,'' says a lady who
has been married for a short time. A
better way is to learn to cook.
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Now they are complaining OF the damp
rainy weather. It's one extreme or
the other. Cor, @,
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WEDNESDAY, JULY "a. 1919.

New York and Chicago Representa-
tives: Payne q Young. New York Of
fice: 1904 Fifth Avenue Building.
4Chicago Office: 74S Marquette Building.
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Wanted at This Office.
A few copies Of The Daily Forum OF
July IL.
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VOLUME X x NO. as.

Th@ Fargo Forum ana Republican IL
pnbliehed every evening except Sunday In
The Forum Building, corner OF First ave-
nRe aud Fifth street north, Fargo, n -.
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Republican, by carrier, 16c pee wzek, or
40c per month, In advance; 50 per rear.
The Fargo Forum and Weekly Republican,
k1 per year. The Fargo Forum and Sat
uFday Republican, So per year. Single
copies, &c. Subscribers Will md the DATE
20 which they have paid, printed opposite
their names on the address slips.
Address ali communications to The
Forum Printing Co, Fargo, N. ID.
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Noisy Work.

Tit-Bits: What is that noisef'
asked the presiding judge. when a witt
ness voice was nearly drowned by =
rasping uproar outside the court.
MY lord" said the oun for the
defendant. Il think it is the plaintifr
fling afidavits.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-24

DRs. BARROW & WEIRLE. deT,TNn-
recis Block Office hours from 8 to 6
p. m.
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DRs WILLIAM g NICHOLS a
Surgeons. sos Front Street. AAu
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-24

One advantage about the renomina-
tion by both Chaplin and Watkins by
the prohibitionists is that the cuts
used by the newspapers four years
ago are still good.
600
Editor MacKinnon OF The Denhcfg
Voice was elected chairman OF the
republican central committee in SHEER
nate the steam roller.
North Dakotans who were recently
granted patents were y. e. Erbe OF
Ryder on an attachment for d disc
harrow and r.. j. Thody of Grand
Forks On a stove pipe drum.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1912-02-23

the prisoner of his
IN Kiosk at Consantnople
concerning himost of appoacnins
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marvels better. In principle, the ice auto
mobile is not very different from the ordinary
commercial motors which employed for
delivery work in every city. However, the self
propelled adjunct Of winter logging is provided
with sharp teeth which it sinks into the
ice it progresses, thus insuring steady prog
ress with no slipping or sliding the smooth
surfaces
But because the winter finds the lumber jacks
very busy in temperature that ranges as low
20 to 40 degrees below it must not be sup
posed that they do not find time and opportunity
for plenty of fun in the isolated camps where they
spend the season. logging camp may be any
where from five to twenty-five miles from the
nearest store and postofice, but the "jacks'
kept literally supplied with fresh butter, fresh
meat smoking and chewing tobacco, etc. A
graphophone photograph is almost newt
able adjunct of the isolated logging camp and the
lumbermen manage in one way and another to
get records of the latest song hits" from time to
time.
The average logging camp has two main struc
tures-the bunk house where the loggers sleep in
hunks arranged III tiers, and the cook shanty
where the food is cooked and served. To call
this eating hall shanty is, however, something
of misnomer, since the word is likely to suggest
a modest hut, whereas the cook shanty of an up
tO-date logging camp must be large enough to &C.
commodate crude dining table perhaps 40 feet
in length The cooking in logging camp is
usually done by and wife (almost invar-
iably Germany, who hire out as professional cooks
and who have the help of two masculine assist
ants. They work range that is 10 feet long
and on top of which stands coffee urn that holds
as much as barrel: meat boiler that holds 100
pounds of pork or beef and in which there
can be boiled at time more than bushel of
potatoes Below the ovens where are baked
some 10 to Is square feet of biscuits every day.
In some camps heavy stone ware Is provided for
use on the table, but at majority of logging es
adjustments each of the so to $50 men is simply
allowed spoon plate, and cup of tin and q
knife and fork Of steel:
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would otherwise be the case when the loles' "on
arch comes down on rocky, uneven srounu
After all however it is in the various Stages
ne tho +ronsnorta+ion of the logs that the snow
and ice WELD the greatest aid F1rst Oh all II snn
pliies the operation of skdd1ng or oraselns .ne
log lengths from the depths OF the forest 1nis
work was formerly done by norses hules vi
oxen and is vet to some extent, but for the most
mart the modern donkey engine has supplanted all
other forms of energy for skidd1ng. supposedly
the skidding operation is designed only TO see
the logs out of the forest depths Wnere no log
CARRYING vehicle could be operated without Infinite
trouble and damage to the standing TIMBER nov"
ever when the Snow King is in command 1t some
times happens THAT similar method may De en-
poyed for moving the logs to the roll"ay OF stor
age yard perhaps mile or two distant "nere
the logs are held to await the spring freshets OF
are loaded aboaHd railroad cars that convey them
to the mills E0r this long-dstance log trailing
there is employed more powerful type OF engine
than the DONKEY above referred to and stronger
wire cable is supplied. The pathway for the logs
is an icy boulevard-kept in condition by flood
ing" as circumstances requ1re-and this becomes
80 smooth from the polishing process afforded by
the passage of the logs that it is practicable TO
transport at each operation not merely single
log but whole strings Of logs attached END TO
end by means of stout chains.
At some lumber camps it is the practice to en-
ploy giant sleds to carry the logs the first
stage of their journey from the forest to the saw
mill OF course snow is requisite to the salts
factory operation of these sleds, but when
path" has been for the sled runners along
the icy roads the vehicles traverse the line thus
furrowed with facility suggestive of that with
which a locomotive glides along the steel rails
There is Of course, minimum of resistance to
the progress Of sled along such glazed surface
and in many instances log loads OF almost 1ncred-
ible weight thus transported over the gi1sten-
Ing surface new wrinkle that character1zes
winter practice in some of the up-to-date logging
districts consists of what might be denomnated
an ice automobile for log carrying. Powerful
traction engines have been used for some time
past on the Pacific Coast to draw trains OF log
laden trucks out of the forest, but this new form
of commercial motor vehicle goes even these