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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-23
BUSINESS

SAY, Il saw it in The Forum"
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WHEN ANSWERING advertisements
In The Forum. please mention that
you saw 1t In The Forum.
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FOR SALE OR TRADE-Up to date fiR-
ty barrel -four mill, either controll-
ing stock, or all, good business, only
to make money for the right party;
reason for selling, present manager Is
going to the coast this winter; this
mill is IN the heart OF a wheat coun-
try, and a good thing can be made by
buying grain and shipping in
ton with making -four. B. TempeL
Tenvik, N. d.
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FOR SALE-Meat market in Minnesota
town of 700; cash business; one OF
the best towns in state; will give good
terms. Write to 574, care Forum.
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ADvERTIsna1ENTs

WHEN YOU WANT to talk to the
people of prosperous South Dakota
you can DO II best thTough q columns
every day by $4,000 in ESQ towns and
rural routes In b northern half of
the state; classified ads, for sale, help,
wanted, exchange, real estate, etc, for
1 cent q word each insertion. Send
stamps to American. Aberdeen, s. ID.
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FoR ALE-AUroMoRTIrs

SECOND HAND W -passen0ar &C.,
mobile fully equipped, must he sofa
at once as owner is leaving town, tn
quire Fargo Auto & Supply &C.
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FOR SALE-Three pool tables, one
billiard and fixtures, also pool hall
TO rent or sell. y. T. Brown, Petit
bone, N. ID.
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FOR RENT-one half OF double house
close In; modern: eight rooms; $2T5O
per month. p. Z. Tlndick, 1924 3rd
av N.
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FOR SALE-RufaIo Pitts separator.
almost new, largest size: So II. Z.
Solllns engine, almost new; rs H.
Buffalo Pitts engine. See John Wy
man. Fargo, N. D.
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FOR sALE-A half interest In a good
grain elevator at Harvey; fine crops
and a good town; may trade for good
iand. Address Box is, Harvey, N. d.
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FOR SALE-Hardware, implement, and
furniture stock In prosperous city in
For particulars write Box 143. AM
brose, N. D.
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tnws sALEE-oniy blacksmith sbop IN
grain belt neaFt OF Judith basins great
w,fIT Tor two men at highest prfces.
WI axe less han first cost. an t.L
m mg management Of other business and
Wagna qulck sale. Address Brad
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SALE-PracticaIly good as new,
$3.50 Advance separator with all at
including drive belt, . IN.
wide, 100 feet long. See Hans Larson,
A~rgusville, N. o.
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THE FORUM has b supply Of naat
r~eceptacles in which to place daily
nstron of this paper Ia FARGO or 49, ~
head may secure OF these boxaa
free by calling at The Forum Office
provided his paper is paid to date.
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FOR RENT-Eleven room house, eli
modern, one block from Roosevelt
18th st and 18th av NJ: house will be
let after July ]. Phone S24 Mooraead.
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FOR RENT--A nine-room house In
good location, modern except heat;
small family could rent cut looms for
more than to pay the rent Call az
room is, Kennedy block.
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FOR SALE Or TRADE for right priced
farm land, thirty-five horse power
steam threshing and blowing engine,
latest type Minneapolis engine; good
as new; to right parties, part time can
be given. 123 N. oliver av, Mime
apolis, MINI.
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can have same by calling at The IA.
rum once and paying for this al
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d. X. LAUNmRY-Mra. II. G. oflcer
1928 9Th cit 81: phone 219I-LA
LOTS FOR sALM.
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PARTY SHIPPING household Goods to
san Diego, Cal, about Aug. / has
room In ear for goods of someone else
who desires to ship to same point. RI
Interested phone 2355-J.
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FOR sALE-nousEHoLD GOODS.

FOR SALE-Furnfture used only few
months. Call at 16 9th ST s.
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N sALE-one first class drug stock
4 rlm q good North Dakota town; one
count on account OF sicknesa WIZ
COX Ss6' Stanley, N, d.
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FOR sALE-A brand new eight-roora
fully modern house with b-asenenI.
furnace heat, excellent fire niana:
situated on q beautiful southslde asst
Front lot T6x16O feet. with fine 80.
Of island park two blocks to ear Iine
and school: less than a block IA Tr.rao
college. Address p. O. box 3s6. Bareo
N. d.
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FOR RENT-Several houses for rent
ranging in price from IS to $46 per
month. W. J. Lane. First National
bank building.
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WANTED-Competent girl; small fam
lty. Apply Mrs. w. e. Heller, Ills
End av S. Phone 499-L2,
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WATCHES CLEANED s5c, Jewels a ngs
m~ainsprings 75c; csnts: watch
yea a TX Cents ]. Miller. $40 Front st
Fargo. -
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FOh SALE-Cheap; a six-room draw
81 abine National cas register,
guaranteed perfect condition. Call or
441uress "A. Il. Cannon lilo
cargo.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-07-19
The Fair.

Now is the time for the officers and
superintendent of the West Tennessee
Fair Association to get busy for the fall
fair at Union City. Arrangements
should be made for the best fair we
have ever had. The fair last year was
our greatest success. This year we
should have still larger fair. There is
no reason in the world why we shouldn't.
There is every reason to believe the at
tendance will be larger There should
be more work done to attract these Wis
itors. The superintendent should make
it their duty to see every person possible
and get large exhibits in every depart
ment and fine display in each one
where it is possible to create something
novel and attractive. We have advo-
Gated for number of years the build
ing of merchants building and ma
chinery hall by private subscription, but
there will not be time to do that this
year. We are, however, going to in
sist that everything possible be done in
the way of getting together the material
and making attractive displays. One
of the superintendent has been busy,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-07-19

we understand, for month, getting his
work ready for the fair, and we look for
the prettiest and best in his line we have
ever had. Next year we are going to
start subscription for merchants
building and machinery hall. We need
it and must have it. In the meantime
the fair association has offered its usual
liberal premium list, the largestyof any
county fair in the State, or probably in
the South. These catalogs are now be-
ing distributed. Everything in live
stock, agriculture and kindred lines is
included, and this alone will cause more
interest to be taken each year in the
fair. If the offer of these premiums is
with attractive displays
the fair will feel the effects of the inn
proyement. Come on, everybody, and
help make a great fair. 1t is your fair,
our fair, and everybody's fair who will
take an interest in it.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-07-19

be a calamity to start another campaign
of gambling here. 1t would kill the
town SO dead that the angel, Gabriel,
could not arouse it at the resurrection.
To say that the farmers have been
benefited in return in prices is out Of
the question.
After all supply and demand regulate
prices. True that the brokers depress
prices to some extent about harvest
time. They cooperate with the max
ing OF Government reports in doing this
to some advantage. The elasticity of
the market, however, brings it back to
natural and normal conditions.
There may be an advantage in futures
in small way for the dealer to hedge
on his spot purchases. But such an adj
vantage is offset an hundredfold by the
many iniquities of the system and the
disadvantages to the people all over the
South in squandering our money in
gambling. There is no comparison be-
tween the two.
The system of futures in this country
brought on the panic of 1907. 1t was
a bankers panic. The bulk of bank
reserves are held in New York, and
these reserves were used by scoundrels
high up in the business world, men who
should be trustworthy, for gambling in
futures. They got on the wrong side
and went to the wall, and the result
was that little banks all over the coun-
try were effected. 1t is well remem-
bered that depositors here could get
only $50 of their deposits in one week.
There is something rotten in this kind
of system, and the system Of gam
bling in futures is responsible in the
largest measure for the evil.
The Beall bill should pass and every
other bill calculated to prohibit futures
Of any kind.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-07-19
Futures.

w. A. Thompson, former president
of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange,
says that the Beal bill in Congress will
strike at Southern prosperity. The bill
is in brief to prohibit dealing in cotton
futures.
1t is a strange thing to us that the
business of the world cannot be carried
on without gambling. Men will frown
with virtuous disdain on poker game
or the books of horse race, and yet
the American institution of betting that
cotton or wheat will go up or down, or
that railroad securities will fuctuate
from day to day, must be maintained
with eminent responsibility. Gambling
in futures, forsooth, is right, and gam
bling on horse races and around the
card tables is wrong. One is a black
leg and the other is a great financier.
To sheol with all such moral philos-
ophy. The statement that Mr.. Thomp-
son makes is SANDER on the wisdom
and intelligence of the Southern people.
To say that the fixing of prices should
be entrusted to gamblers and not to
spinners is damnable. To say that the
prices OF wheat should be entrusted to
brokers and gamblers, the same in
Dutch, and not to millers or buyers of
spot grain is to say that the American
people are in total darkness and igno-
rance.
The fact is that the South is spend
ing annually SOS, 900, 600 in futures.
Does the producer get the smallest per
cent of this in return in the way Of
prices. The argument is absurd.
Did Obion County ever get the one
hundredth part of the money back in
prices that is been sauandered in flu
lures IRON UhloA city. 1t can be esti-
mated appfoxima on reliable figures
that oblon Count has speEt a million
dollars in futures s|pn City, once
acknowledged the a polls Of West
Tennessee outside Of phis, suffered
a fall in futures chat iced the dwarf
ing OF her growth ipf s. until many
of the towns around Is ts a1ght up.
We are just now einei si1e i.<E 2 siege
Of this kind 81 busln artI2f
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-07-19

the most noticeable features was the
uniformity and evenness of the road
from end to end. There were a few
slight defects. of course, but these will
soon be eradicated
We crossed the Number Ten line and
entered on the primitive roads. The
speed of the automobile relaxed in
stantly and we travelled roughly and
comparatively with difference not to
be estimated by those who have not
tried it. We came to the Logan bridge
which I. L. Bransford & Sons have just
put in, steel bridge on concrete foun-
dalton, a modern piece of bridge work,
which Mr.. Bratton says cost the county
$3.50. A wooden bridge for the same
crossing would cost about half the price
with life of two years probably while
this bridge is calculated to last a gener-
alton. The advantage of the steel bridge
is a matter of utility and the greatest
economy.
Returning, Mr.. Massey asked us to
notice the difference in the speed of the
machine when we reached the Number
Thirteen road. The speed gear was not
touched and the machine shot out over
the good road like bird out of cage.
The difference was estimated III ratio
of six to thirty-fve miles an hour, and
this is one of the most practical illus
trations of the relative merits of the
two kinds of roads, the old and the
new, or the Number Thirteen road
handled by Mr.. Bratton, and the Num-
Der Ten road handled by the old system.
We could not but help think of the
time twenty-five years ago when we came
to picnic short distance from town on
this road. 1t was covered with a cause
way of fencerails and as rough a piece |
of primitive road as Houser V alley ever
boosted, and that means a great deal. |
The picnic was in forest heavily !
shaded, now one of the finest farms in |
the county in the highest state of de-
velopment.
What a difference. In the quarter of
century the world has been almost
completely transformed with improve
ments. Since then we have the tele-
phone and rural free delivery mail serv-
ice. We have evolved from a swamp
to the finest farming section in the
world. We have improved these farms
up to the highest standards. We have
kept pace with the times with every
thing except good roads, and now we
are starting on campaign of good
roads A great day, this, when we be-
gin on good roads. Another new era
in our advancement and prosperity, and
the greatest of all. In few years we
will have a complete system of good
roads, and our farmers will have all the
we have in town with the
added advantages of country life. Hur-
rah for Mr.. Reynolds, Mr., Bratton, Mr.
Caldwell and everyone who has contrib
uted to the making of this road.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-07-19

and no historian would have paid him
the homage of respect.
Decoyed, deceived, true patriotism,
true Americanism, would have risen
from the cloud greater in statesman
ship. Lorimer, righteous, in a just
cause and beset with unrelenting pur
suers, should have handed up his COM
mission and gone back to his people,
the untrammeled voters, for vindica-
ton; but Lorimer had no cause; he
could not be vindicated.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-07-19
Democratic Ticket.
Announcements.
For State Senator.

ELKINS.-We are authorized TO announce Robt
A. Elkins of Weakley County, candidate for
State Senator from Weakley, Lake and Obion
counties, in the Tennessee General Assembly,
subject to the action of the Democratic party
CALDWELL-We are authorized to announce
Fred ]. Caldwell of Lake County, as eandi-
date for State Senator from the counties OF
Weakley, Lake and Obion i'll the Tennessee
General Assembly, subject to the action of the
Democratic party.
For Floater.
HOWARD.-We are authorized to announce S.
+. Howard a candidate for reelection to rep
resent the counties of Dyer, Lake and Obion,
the Twenty-hfth Pictorial District, in the Ten
nessee General Assembly, subject to the action
OF the Democratic party.
COCHRAN-We are authorized to announce ].
L. Cochran a candidate to represent the coun-
ties of Dyer, Lake and Obion. the Twenty-ifth
Pictorial District, in the Tennessee General
Assembly, subject to the action of the Demo-
cratic party.
For Representative.
WELLS.-We are authorized to announce DR..
j. j. Wells candidate for Representative from
Obion County in the Tennessee General AS
sembly subject to the action of the Democratic
party.
McDADE-We are authorized to announce G. R.
McDade candidate for Representative from
Obion County in the Tennessee General AS
sembly, subject to the action of the Democratic
party.
For Magistrate.
MAYS.-We are authorized to announce W W.
Mays a candidate for Magistrate for Civil Dis
trict No. 49, election first Thursday in August.
BRIGGS-We are authorized to announce w. ].
Briggs candidate for Justice of the Peace for
Civil District No. 10, election first Thursday in
August.
MORRIS.-We are authorized to announce w.
c. Morris candidate for Magistrate for Civil
District No. 49, election first Thursday in
August.
ROBERTSON.-We are authorized to announce
Fred r. Robertson as a candidate for Magis-
trate of the Third Civil District of obion
County. Election first Thursday in August.
For Constable.
WRIGHT.-We are authorized to announce J.
w. Wright a candidate for Constable of the
Third District Election first Thursday in
August.
JACKSON.-We are authorized to announce John
Jackson as a candidate for Constable of the
Thirteenth Civil District, election first Thurs
day in August.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-07-19
To The Public and My Friends.

a
I take this method of announcing
my withdrawal from the race as Repre-
sentative of this county to the General
Assembly of the State of Tennessee. l
desire here to thank my many friends
who have pledged me their support.
l will ever remember them gratefully
and kindly. l am compelled to with
draw from this contest for reasons best
known to myself. 1t is my prayer and
wish that my friends will support none
but good Democrat, and one who will
keep the party's promises and pledges.
Yours truly,
July 10, 1912. r. w. POWELL.
Use Jersey Cream Flour. None better.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-07-19
The Easy Boss.

The unseating of Senator Lorimer in
the Senate serves as one of the great
est object lessons in the history of the
republic.
Though Senator Lorimer may have
been honest in defense OF his personal
connection with his own election; though
he may have been guiltless as far as his
own conscience was concerned, he, to all
intents and purposes, made the error, so
common to mankind, in justifying his
course, either upon the ground that he
violated no function of law or civil rights
or that he was not the cause of others
corrupting the franchise in making his
election possible. Senator Lorimer had
so completely indicated himself in his
own eyes that his appeal to the Senate
for justification had the ring of SINGER
ity and eloquence. So transparent was
his misguided logic that his plea was
pathetic. Senator Tillman was caught
with the magic. The pitchfork gladi-
ator fell victim and contributed SAM
pie of his enfeebled mind to Lorimer's
defense.
Senator Lorimer paid his respects to
the Chicago Tribune and other news
papers. Aggrieved statesmen usually
do. The public condemns the news
paper because it does not take up the
cause; the man who interferes with the
cause finds that the actively interested
is scandalous and hhelous.
Then, as the sage once said, there is
only one way left, and that is to "Hew
to the line, let the chips fall where they
may"
Senator Lorimer forgets, innocently
or intentionally, the principle that the
spectator in gambling
room must be arrested as an accom-
plice. Senator Lorimer has made an
effective effort to disprove the weight
of his own guilt. He fails completely
to show why he must be exonorated
from the guilt of corrupt methods and
practices in his election. He fails to
show why he should not be held re-
sponsible for the acts of his supporters
and the agencies of his election, wheth-
er authorized or unauthorized.
Senator Lorimer has failed to answer
the indictment.
In the investigation of Senator Lori
mer the republic has been on trial and
republican institutions have been vindi-
Gated. In the action of the Senate the
forces of disloyalty and disruption have
been overthrown, and the interests Of
the republic--the interests of demoGt
racy-haye been restored and advanced
for many years to come. The ballot
has been lifted out Of theAp and the
mire. The politician ~ been taught
that he must not c6y1to Congress with
unclean hands
AS to senate Lorimer he could not
have been lid to the fact that he went
% the SenaA with q faint of corruption
ccnnecta 9TH his Election. He never
'had rage to admit it. Tho storm
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-07-19
Our Good Roads.

Esquire Bratton and Col. Z. r. Mas
a.y took the newspaper men out over
the upper lake road from Union City to
the Number Ten line last Friday. The
object was to make some observations
on good roads and the results obtained
with the drag system on this road. Mr..
Massey has one of the famous E. M. F.
80 cars and it glided along under his
guidance as smoothly as if we were tray
cling in Pullman car over a section Of
the finest and prettiest roadways and
the most beautiful landscape ever be-
held. When we speak of landscape it
is not exaggeration to call it beautiful.
The word does not express the grandeur
and glory of our country. Our city,
with all it's improvements, does not
compare in beauty to the surrounding
country, and it will take years and
mountains of civic pride to make it so.
Then with a public road in consonance
with all these surroundings we will have
indeed the finest rural conditions in the
world.
But back to the road. Last year w.
6. Reynolds was the moving spirit in
widening, grading and leveling this
road to standard specifications. He
worked with will and persevered in
making the basis of one of the best
roads in the county. Cooperating with
him we're S. r. Bratton and Jake Cald-
well and others of the neighbors. This
year Mr. Bratton, his son managing
most Of the work, experimental on the
road with the drag system. Mr.. Brat
ton has adopted the Ward drag, with
some notifications Of his own adapted
oar roads, and he has kept them sys-
teinsaeally dragged for several months
from Union City to the Number Ten
line Rith the most hattering results.
Tie drag was used after every rain and
used systematically. Every time the
road ives cut with the tires after the
rains tho drag was used to fill and pack
the rutsl The result is that the road
has bectbme practically smooth and firm,
unueu~iif grades and adequately drained
tn some few exceptions which Mr..
Bratton expects to overcome IN a short
kime.
A., ed, We Travelled 10 Mr.. Mas
sr thS(road towards Number
part Of the road'was IN
}hne sg,apIe Of the work
q d Is where they
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-07-19
For Register.

MILNER.-We are authorized to announce R. B.
(Bob) Miner as a candidate for Register of
Obion County, subject to the action Of the
Democratic party. General election to be held
first Thursday in August, 1914.