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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-01-12

when you have. and the accommo-
dation extended when without
funds should be remembered. If
you must send away for anything,
do not forget to pay your bills at
home tirst-yon owe that much to
the community in which you live.
The home merchants are ready
and willing at all times to extend
credit and favor their customers
in any way possible, and in return
those who receive these little fa-
vors should be willing to treat the
merchants with absolute fairness.
Wheaton Gazette.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-01-12
Be Fair 10 Youf Merchant

This is the season Of the year
when some people are inclined to
be unfair with the local merchants.
Insthis vicinity, as we'll as in every
neighborhood, there are plenty Of
folks that buy at the local store
ION time" when they have no
money, and when they do get
some Of the long green, they for
get about the storekeepers that
mmodated them, and instead
Of going into those stores and pay
ing on their account, they send
the money away TO catalogue
housee for things they can get at
home jjustsas well, and in fact as
cheap, il they would only stop to
thin Ifa place i good enough
to trade at when you haye,no
money, i certainly ought % BE 50
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-01-12

Mrs. Oscar Lee Jan. ~ and held
their yearly meeting.
Walter Wilkins who has been
working for Okerson for the last
two months left for his home in
Detroit, MINI. on Sunday.
The stock holders of the Equity
Elevator went in to attend the
yearly meeting in Coleharbor on
Saturday.
Olaf Stotterud of Stanton who
came up on business trip and to
visit friends in Malcolm left for
Washburn last Thursday where he
will stay during the winter months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charley Berg
drove to Wilton last Thursday
where they will visit friends and
relatives for few days.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-01-12
Makoim Correspondence

Frank Lynch returned to Turtle
Lake again op Sunday where be
is attending school, after spending
two weeks vacation at his home
during Xmas and New Years.
The people Of the Swedish
Luthern church held a meeting in
Malcolm School house No. / on
Sunday.
A New Years dance was given
at the. home Of Nick Reuters
Tuesday evening. A very large
crowd was present and everybody
reported good time.
Fred Stohl left for Fargo last
week where he intends to go to
college.
Miss Florence Holmquist went
TO Bismarck last Thursday to visit
friends for . few days.
The Ladies Auxiliary met with
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-01-12
Warning To Many
North Dakotans
Stick To North Dakota Farm Instead
Of Going To Canada Advice Of
Man Who Is Familiar

sNorth Dakotans should stlcx to
their homes and be careful about
investing in Canadian land propo-
sitions and especially so in regard
to locating there for farming pur-
poses.'
The foregoing statement was
made by R. j. Morris, an inspector
on the Canadian Pacific, with
headquarters at Winnipeg.
Il have seen many Americans
in the Canadian Northwest, who
are in desperate financial straits. ="
continued Mr.. Morris. ''Some of
them will sell their relinquishments
and their land for sufficient funds
to bring them and their families
back to the states.
THE land out there is fertile
aud productive alright, but the
seasons are too short. 1t is only
an occasional year that the season
is long enough for the grain to
mature without being frosted. AS
result the yields are greatly re-
duced and the grade is so poor the
farmers get only 40 to 60 cents per
bushel for it.
"Ihis year / saw some fields
that went thirty or forty bushel
per acre, and right alongside were
later fields Of grain the frost caught
that would yield eight or ten and
very inferior grade.
Until conditions change. North
Dakota farmers are Il great deal
better off here than in seeking
homes in the Canadian northwest.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-01-12
Wilton News

Miss Elizabeth Walsh, deputy
superintendent of schools for Nc
Lean County, was guest at the
home of .her sister. Mrs. Claude
Newman. over New Years.
j. b. Taylor. of Bismarck, ar
rived in Wilton Thursday morning
with Il force of men and will spend
some time on his farm west of
Wilton where he will be engaged
in getting out frewood. posts and
poles.
5. M. Pye, who has been look
ing after his business interests in
Wilton during the past few
months, returned to Los Angeles,
California, this week. Mr.. Pye
will spend the winter under the
sunny skies of the southwest, but
no doubt the coming of spring
will see him back in North Da.
kota.
An important business deal was
contaminated Wednesday in Will
ton when 81. w., Gray acquired
the interest of p. G. Remington
in the Red Cross Drug Store. Mr..
Gray also purchased from Mr..
Remington his interest in the
drug store at Richsrdton which is
known as the III. w. Gray Drug
company.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-01-12

is eating, him up. He's right
where the now rich old settler was
fifteen years ago, the darkest hour
before daylight, and by sticking
there is no question about it. he
will win and win big for wheat
pays and pays big once things
come the right way.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-01-12
Had Many Cases

Attorney H. F.. johnson Of Ry-
der left this week for the south
where he will spend a portion of
the winter. He will return in the
early spring to attend many law
cases which are nov pending.
During the last two aud one half
years Mr.. johnson has been re-
presented as attorney in $50 law
suits. He is in partnership with
II. L. Frszer Of Garrison who will
look after their entire law practice
during Mr.. .Johnson's vacation.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-01-12
How One Farmer Makes Money

Just to show you how one of our
successful farmers feel about corn
growing: ''Yes said John Seblen,
II have just received, tried and
found satisfactory fodder cutter
and husker. | am not going to
cut down the number of acres of
coru but will plant the usual fifty
&, seventy acres. The past year
frost came a little too early to al
low the corn to fully mature, but I
am satisfied with profits. ] am
fattening thirty hogs and will in-
crease the number BY purchase.
Next spring, when pork is in
greatest demand, ! will have $500
or $500 worth Of corn to dispose of
in the form Of pork which has cost
me little more but my labor aside
from the corn. I will plant my
corn earlier next year, preferring
70 resesd, il case Of damp, cold
weather, rather than to- get too
near efrost line.
~ g. 49,
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-01-12
Investigations Made

The first week of the new year
showed a slight betterment in
both financial and commercial
sentiment. The improvement was
not so much observable in any in.
crease in the volume of business
AS in the recognition of the fact
that. while conditions are conflict.
ing and in some respects unsatis-
factory, corrective forces are
steadily at work. Here and there
are signs of abatement in general
unrest which is beginning to show
itself in a more rational attitude
in POLITICAL circles toward large
corporations. The only exception
is fresh outbreak Of the investi-
CATION mania in form of an in
quiry regarding the alleged money
trust" While trusts and the tariff
are still the first subjects of inn
portance in the public mind, the
chances of their being reasonably
dealt with are much better than
three or six months ago. No ra-
dical action on trusts is probable
during the present session of con-
gress, which will be chiefly de.
voted to active and possibly some
what heated discussion There is,
however, some prospect of positive
action on the tariff question, the
greatest likelihood being a sharp
cut in the steel schedules and the
placing of iron ore on the free list.
As for cotton and wool schedules.
these also may be revised, but at
the moment it looks as if steel
would come first. The labor out.
look is somewhat uncertain, but
the sorry disclosures connected
with the McNarmara cases have
had a SOLDERING effect upon labor
and are likely to result in the
selection of higher type of leader.
ship in the future; a result which
would benefit labor and capital
alike by moderating class war.
fare and facilitating settlement Of
the differences between employe
by discussion ane not force. The
issues Of the presidential campaign
are now sharply defined. and their
outcome can already be somewhat
foreseen. Public sentiment is
| pretty definitely formed, and the
|tchTef object regarding the future
is that of personality concerning
the different candidates. This, Of
course. may remain unsettled un.
til the conventions next summer
although it is not impossible that
the successful nominees will be
correctly guessed at in advance
says Henry Clews in his weekly
editorial review.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-01-12
Be Careful About
All Your Seed Grain
Practically None Produced In North
Dakota Last Season But Pros
poets are Better

Q q
your seed corn for the 1912 plant
ing? This is question that
many North Dakota
corn growers, who grew a good
crop of corn in 1911. and several
hundred prospective corn growers:
who have as yet grown no corn in
North Dakota.
There is practically no good
seed corn produced in North Da-
kota the past season to be had at
any price, because the fall weather
was quite wet and the growers
failed to pick their seed corn as
they should have done before the
zero weather of November firrt.
This exceptionally low tempera-
ture when the corn was wet,
though fully mature, has in very
many cases completely killed the
seed. In other cases fifty per
cent is still good seed and in ex-
ceptional cases seventy-6ve per
cent of the ears will grow fairly
we'll.
If you have corn tt at belongs
to either of the latter classes-
save as much of it ter seed as you
can. Dry it in the attic or in the
spare room at a temperature OF
about so degrees. Make a ger
muator by filling square box an
inch and a half deep with an inch
of sand. Rule a. white paper cover
in squares an inch and a half to a
side, give each square a number
corresponding to the number of
an ear of corn to be tested. Take
six kernels one from the tip, butt
and center and from different
sides of each ear and place over a
square, moisten and cover with a
sheet of wet paper and keep moist
and in a warm place. Select only
the ears for your own seed in
which the entire six, kernels
germinate strong and quickly
This will require little work but
it may save you the cost Of buying
southern seed which probably
would not mature corn next year,
as if you plant your own seed ii
will give you a perfect stand. This
one acre of tested seed might
yield you more net pffo,6ft than ten
acres antested seed. Test each
individual ear of seed corn now
Know definitely whether your
seed corn is fit for seed or not.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-01-12
saw Grand Opera

Among those who went to Nam
dan. Sunday to attend the grand
opera we're Mrs. Walfred Anderson
and Misses Martha and Freda
johnson and Hilma Anderson-
The opera .H Trovatore" was Civ
on In a way 70 please all.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-01-12
The Growth Of North Dakota

The Growth Of North Dakota
According to the advance sheet
of the thirteenth United States
census, North Dakota's population
in 1910 was 577,O56, as compared
with 3l9, 146 in 1900. 1t ranked
thirty seventh among the ~ states
and territories in population in
1910. and fortieth in 1900. r.
In 1910 only IL per cent of the
total population of the state re-
sided in incorporated cities having
a population of $500 or over, as
compared with 73 per cent in
1900.
The density of population in
1910 was SO persons per square
mile, as compared with 40 in 1900.
In 1909 the state of North Da-
kota had 1872 manufacturing estab-
ments operating under the factory
system, which gave employment
to an average of 4, las persons dur
ing the year and paid out $2,4l6-
600 in salaries and wages. OF the
persons employed, 2,7S9.were wage
earners. These establishments
turned out products to the value
|of $19. .l3S,OO0, to produce which
materials costing $l3.674.OOO were
consumed The value added by
Manufacture was thus So. 464 600.
whifh figure test represents the
net wealth created by manufactur-
ing operations during the year.
In 1910 there we're 74,36O farms
in North Dakota. or slightly over
two and twt,-thirds times as many
as in 1890.
The average value of farm land
per acre for the whole state is
$3.50. In practically all of the
counties in the western two-thirds
of the state the average value ia
between $40 and $25 per acre
while in the eastern third of the
state the average value Of farm
land is generally between $25 and
$50 per acre.
The aggregate value Of farm
property has increased during the
decade $7ly,547,WO. and is now
nearly four times as great as in
1900.
The average value of farm
with its equipment in 1900 was
$5,6 ,63l, while ten years later-it was
$l3, 100. The average value Of
land rose from $l1.l5 per acre in
to $25 SO in 1910
The total wealth in the form OF
farm property is $974,sl4,OO, Of
which $84.4 per cent is represent
ed by land and buildings. As pei
cent by implements and machin.
cry. and Ill per cent by live
stock. The total value of farm
property is nearly four times what
it was in 1900. The absolute and
relative gains in all classes of farm
property has been rapid and con-
tinuous since 1890.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-01-12

There are 565 state banks and
lag rational banks ia the state of
North Dakota.. i.5
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-01-12
Douglas Correspondence

y
Douglas Correspondence
We are having the coldest
weather now that some of us have
ever experienced in North Dakota.
Those neighbo who moved to
Palm Beach, Florida. are telling
how they are enjoying the summer
weather down there.
Mr.. LOBBY received word that
his father died, and was buried on
New Years day. He lived in Og-
pensburg, New York.
A girl arrived at Cecil Taylors.
Several schools continued vaca-
tion another week on account OF
the severe cold weather,
Mr.. Cowan. the mail driver, has
not missed a trip during the stormy
weather.
Mrs. r. G. Cullen has returned
from a visit in Minot.
Catholic service was quite we'll
attended on the 9th.
Frank Brannonand family visit
ed at Ross Motifs last Sunday.
Can Still Get Companion for $1.75
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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-05-02
For The Stomach.
Here's an Offer You Should
Not Overlook.

Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets rem
edy stomach troubles by aiding
nature to supply the elements
the absence of which in the gas
trio juices causes Indigestion and
dyspepsia. They aid the stom-
ach to digest food and to quickly
convert it into rich red blood and
material necessary for Overcom-
ing natural body waste.
Garry a package of Rexall Dys-
pepsia Tablets in your vest pOck-
ct, or keep them in your room.
Take one after each heavy meal
and prove our assertion that in
digestion will not bother you.
We know what Rexall Dyspep-
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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-05-02

Maw's calm from the milk-house,
Calm stern:
"Jim, yer lazy good fer nuthin',
Come an churn."
Paws calm from the cOrnpatch,
Calm loud:
Games, yer hulkin, stupid loater'
Time yer plowed."
Natures calm from the trout-brook,
Calm whish;
Son. yer poor, tired, lazy Teller.
Come and FISH,"
Stranger, if we just snapped places
Put il clear,
Which of all the three a-callin'
Would you heart
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-05-02

falls on the surface in the form
of rains or by artificial irrigation.
If this water exists in excessive
amounts and percOlates slowly,
saturating the soil to the extent
of filing the air spaces between
the particles of soil for protract-
ed period, thereby driving out the
air, it works disaster to the crop.
If, however, the ground is OF
good filth, and the seed bed is
deep and free from hard pan, the
downward movement is sufficient
ly rapid to prevent smothering
the plant. If a hard pan exists,
which is rarely the case where
deep blowing is practiced, but is
usually found where the practice
is to plow shallow, the soil re-
mains cold, sour and lifeless.
Deep blowing and subsoiling
where it is needed are usually
sufficient to properly take care OF
ordinary rainfalls.
CAPILLARY WATER:-Capillary
water is the reverse of hydrostat.
| ic water in its movements. Water
| is stored in the deeper subsoils
and by the process of attraction
it moves upward, passing from
soil particle to soil particle, en-
veloping each with a film OF
moisture until the surface is
reached. This water dissolves
plant food elements and distrib-
utes them. 1t also forms chemi'
|cal combinations, making plant
food compounds, and holds them
lin solution until they.are utilized
by the plant. The root hairs, or
food and water CATERERS, pass
between the soil PARTICLES throw
ling out their minute tentacles,
which wrap around the particles
of soil, absorbing by the process
of osmosis nourishment and send
ing it through the plant arteries
performing its functions of life
and growth.
It is needless to say to the OBJ
; serving farmer that this process
lis not carried on in saturated
: soil, for but few farmers have
not observed the absence OF q
crop where water has stood Of
; 1.-THE ground has been completely
saturated for any considerable
length of time.
HYeRoscoP1c WATER:-Hygro
sccpic water is the moisture tina
lis found on soil particles but il
not subject to movement either
> by gravity or capillary attraction
More or less moisture exists il
the air, and as the air enters thu
) soil the moisture adheres to thu
!! particles. This water probably
plays little or no part in dissolv
Ting Or distributing plant food
but at the same time it quenche'
, lin a measure the thirst of sun
E burned plants in the semi-arid re
: gions.
: CThis article will be continued
p in next weeks issue.)
a "
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-05-02

Lame back is usually cause d
BY rheumatism of the muscles Of
the back, for which you will find
nothing better than Chamber
lain's Liuiment. For sale by all
dealers.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-05-02
The Seed Bed.

(By DR.. w. E. Taylor, Director |
Soil Culture Dept, Deere & Co..
Primarily want to impress
upon the mind of the farmer the
fact that good farming involves
at least four essential features,
all of equal Importance and all
inter-dependent, and neglect OF
any one of them will be sooner or
later reflected in the products OF
the farm. The four steps or OPP
erations are as follows:
Cd The seed bed.
CD The fertility, which in
wolves the necessity OF
stock raising.
(3) Seed selection and breed
ing.
Cd Cultivation and crop man
agement.
We will first consider the seed
bed; how it should be made and
what it should contain.
The seed bed is the home OF
the plant. From the seed bed the
plants receive their essential re-
ouirements, namely, food, air,
water and warmth.
PLANT REQUIREMENTs:-Plant
requirements, like those OF ami
mails, are exacting. The laws OF
life and development of the plant
permit of no repeal, nor will they
tolerate radical interference.
Plants, like animals, may subsist
on a starvation diet and in an un-
sanitary environment, but under
such conditions the growth and
production is Improbable. The
best results are obtained only
when natures laws are observed
and quantity and quality of eve
rything that enters into the
growth of either the plant or the
animal are provided.
A1R:-Plants require air, and
it should not only be accessible
to the stalk, branches and leaves,
but it is absolutely necessary that
a sufficient amount be in the seed
bed within reach. of the plants
and roots.
Nature lavishly supplies the
plant with an abundance OF at
mospheric oxygen and carbon
above the ground, but it devolves
upon man to so make and main
tain the seed bed that the parts
of the plant below the surface
will also have an abundance OF
free oxygen.
Soil is composed of crystals and
particles of disintegrated rock
containing chemical elements
The irregular surfaces of the par
ticles do not permit them to come
in close contact with each other
The intervening spaces are equa
in volume to the particles of soil
that is, approximately fifty pei
cent of the volume of the average
soil is air spaces. These space:
are intended for the circulation o.
air and the passage of minut'
roots. Oxygen enters the soil II
various ways, and. is utilized by
the plant roots, and through the
same air spaces carbonic acid ga:
and other noxious gases pass out
If from any cause the ground i:
sealed up: if the air spaces are
clogRed either by water or silt,
the plant suffers from two things
namely, autO-intOxication, caused
BY the presence of poisonous gas
es, and smotheriug ensues on &C
count of the absence of atmos'
-. ,vv0au plants in This
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-05-02
Announcement.

Phil C. Metzler of Columbus
asks us to announce him as a
candidate for the Democratic
nomination for probate Judge,
subject to the action of the pri-
marieS.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-05-02

Poor appetite is a sure sign OF
digestion. A few doses
of Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets will strengthen
your digestion and improve your
appetite. Thousands have been
benefited BY taking these Tab
lets. Sold by all dealers.