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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-03-06

VIM. Dew and Jos. Uhrich were
Wales visitors in the city t%ransactlng
business Monday.
Miss LaBelle Mahon is spending the
week in Grand Forks at the Wesley con
servatory of music.
Druggist Murray Archer was a visitor
here with friends from his home town
over at LONE on Tuesday.
j. "A. Terhaar, the Dresden banker
made a round of short business calls in
Langdon on Monday between trains.
Optometrist A. o. Void is making
professional visits to Cavalier county
towns on the Munich branch of the
Ct. Northern this week.
George Deibel one of Millions success
full old timers spend a couple of days
during the week in an enjoyable visit
with his Langdon friends.
August Moritz spent part of the week
here coming down from Dresden to
attend the stockholders meeting of the
Cavalier Co., Implement Go.
j. w. Haw, and wife left Monday fol-
Fargo whore Mr.. Haw will spend most
of the week at a meeting of the state
organizers of the better farming move.
ment.
Attorney Thos. Devaney went to Cava.
lier, the new county seat Of Pembina
county, to look after the interests Of
clients in Judge Kneeshaw's court the
early part of the week.
Ole I. Gjeyre and George Smith were
over here from Nekoma spending part Of
the week. They had been OF a cattle
buying our through the north and ives.
tern parts of the county.
Miss Susan jackson returns, this week
to Chicago, having visited here for over
a week with her sister Miss Tessie Jack.
son, since coming to Langdon to attend
the funeral of her uncle, Rev. T. Dougau
Mrs. VIM. Smaile, nee Miss Evelyn
McMurray, a sister OF the McMurray
Bros. of Walhalla, and years ago a
teacher of music.at Langdon. Hannah
and Park River,died quite suddenly last
week at her home in Minneapolis.
i ST.. a. Boyd Of the Hannah Moon and
field deputy superintendent of schools
was here Monday from his home up the
line. MI. Boyd has returned within the
past few days from a vacation trip Of
several weeks throughB British Columbia,
Alberta and other points west.
The f. W. Poppe family loaded ane
shipped their household effects Monday
for Plentywood, Mont, leaving for thai
destination on yesterdays passenger
Mrs. Pope and the, children will make
a weeks visit with Grand Forks relatives
before joining Mr. Pope in their new
home in Montana.
J.J. Robson has made shipments
reaching fifteen carloads of cattle from
points in Cavalier county since winter
set in, which in spite of cold weather
for stock in transit were safely market
ed at a top selling figure. He made a
shipment on Saturday of two carloads
of choice beef cattle from Osnabrock.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-03-06

ALERT d Winter have plenty of money
to loan on first and second mortgages.
Get your -four, bran and shorts from
b. A. Enger at the Duluth Elevator,
Wales, N. d.
A policy in the New York Life is a
business investment. Talk with e. A.
Weed, of Hannah about it.
tuesday afternoon Of next week the
Langdon Womans Club will meet an the
home of its president. Mrs. j. ii. Harlan.
Frank Agar took a shipment of two
Carloads OF cattle from Osnabrock on
Sa turday to the st. Paul stock yards
for J.J. Robson.
Halvor Iorgerson, county justice of
peace, attorney at law and postmaster at
Homen was a business visitor down the
line at Milton a couple of days last
week.
M. l.. Sullivan bought several head
Of thoroughbred stock from j.. J.. Rob
son last week that will prove a valuable
addition 10 the herd on his farm south
of town.
w. A. Laidlaw was an arrival Monday
from Minneapolis for a stay here of
most the week looking after business
interests which Mr.. Laidlaw still holds
in this county,
Rev. Arnold Bidder, former priest of
Mt. Carmel parish was a visitor a couple
of days last week from Wahpoton, where
he has been located since leaving this
county several years ago.
Mrs. e. W. Quick the
spring millinery opening at her establish
ment in the First National Bank block
for Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
next week, March ID, il and Is.
Mrs. John Burgayne and Mrs. John
Radford. daughters of Mrs. Charron,
were here during the week from Nc
Currey. Man. and Portage la Prairie,
Man, to see their mother VINO is quite
seriously ill at her home in this city.
Wednesday of next week, the 10Th
inst, the ladies of the Methodist church
hold their Easter sale IN the basement
OF the church. They announc that
the sale will include a large assortment
OF articles of useful and ornamental
| needle work.
John Ryan has bills out announcing
that Auctioneer Kieffer will hold a sale
at his farm in Manila township on Wed.
nesday of next week, March 18th. The
bills show that the Ryan sale will offer
buyers n of the choicest selections OF
good farm horses to be sold this spring
The wedding Of Miss Vessie Amelia
Darling and Thos. Alex Roney, occurred
yesterday afternoon at the home of the
brides uncle and aunt Mr.. and and Mrs
Malcome Darling of Harvey township.
The, ceremony being performed by
Rev. Hubbard. A more extended men.
tiontthis event will be given space in
next weeks paper
Miss Emma E. Olson. who succeeds
to the millinery business of Mrs. They
son at the Schulke department store.
makes announcement. of her Easter dis
play of spring millinery next week for
March 18th to 18th, the three last days
of the week. Miss Olson brings to
Langdon with her from the Twin Cities
a complete line of the latest fashion
patterns in ladies headgear.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-03-06
Resolution of Coincidence

10 Mr.. Joseph Power and Family:
At a regular meeting Of the Members
of the Maccabees of Langdon Hive No.
30, held on February 10th, 1913, the
following Resolution of Coincidence was
adopted unanimously, ordered spread on
the minutes of the Hive, published in
the papers of this city and a copy of the
same forwarded to the bereaved family:
"Whereas, The Great Supreme Ruler
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-03-06
The Mothers Fav0rite

\ cough medicine for children should
be harmless. 1t should be pleasant 10
take. 1t should be effectual. Chamber.
lain's Cough Remedy is all of this and
is the mothers favorite everywhere. For
sale by all dealers.
Charlevoix county herald., 1913-12-13
LIVE PEOPLE
MAKE A TOWN
Keep Things Moving is Best
Method to Build Up.

There are different methods of MAX
ing town grow. Some people have
the idea that the only manner in which
growth can be obtained is by bringing
in a lot of factories, and yet at the same
time they are not willing to put up any
of their good cash to bring such an
event to pass. On the other hand there
are others who believe that their home
town will make good growth if they
stand idly by and wait for something to
turn up that will bring additional
people within the corporation limits.
Both of these classes are laboring under
wrong impression, for town growth
depends first upon the makeup of the
people who compose the population
and the geographical location. A town
that is inhabited by live people who
never let an opportunity pass to do
something worth while in development
work is always assured of steady and
healthy growth. When this condition
is coupled with the fact that the town
is located in an ideal place for business
and is backed up by fertile soil then
the problem Of growth is solved, for
people will always follow the course of
progress and good producing land.
Town booming is a poor method of
growth and many a promising place
has been sent on a downward course
after the first enthusiasm subsidized.
One of the greatest factors in town
building is constant; truthful and con-
sistent advertising and the ability on
the part of the real live citizens to keep
something moving that will attract at
tention Of the outside world to their
particular locality. This system builds
up towns upon a firm business basis
and provides the newcomers with
positions as fast as they come, and does
not flood the labor market or over
crowd business. Boom towns attract
class Of people who are looking for
easy money and not permanent resi-
dence. On the other hand when people
can be convinced that town is good
place in which TO live and bring up
family the result is that desirable
element will be attracted, who in turn
will take an active interest in commun-
ity development.
Charlevoix county herald., 1913-12-13
DISINFECT THE SCHOOLS
Proper Precautions Against Dis
ease Epidemics are Advised.

The proper disinfecting of school
property is a most important health
consideration both in districts threat
ened with contagious disease epidem-
les and other districts. The burning of
sulphur and formaldehyde is now re-
garded as only partially effective so the
State Board of Health recommends
a thorough washing of the floors,
furniture, woodwork and, if possible,
the walls with water in which is placed
a disinfectant of high phenol efficiency.
Some of the highly advertised disin-
fectants on the market are declared
worthless by the government but those
guaranteed under the government CO.
efficient test are safe. Too many dis
tricts fail to disinfect the outhouses
despite the fact that they are often the
source of disease epidemics.
Charlevoix county herald., 1913-12-13
TO TEACH KINDNESS
School Children are to Learn
HumaneneSS.

AS the result of law passed by the
1913 legislature, every school in the
state is required to include in its cur
riculum such humane education as shall
include the kind and just treatment of
horses, dogs, cats, birds and other
animals and also the important part
they fulfill in the economy of nature. 1t
is the purpose of the law not only to
have kindness inculcated in the minds
of children but also to have them ap-
preciate the worth of the birds and
various animals in dollars and cents. 1t
is estimated that toad is worth about
twelve dollars annually to the farmer
on account of the number of injurious
insects he will destroy. Many kinds of
birds are even more valuable in their
active warfare against destructive in
sects, In order to aid the teachers in
this work, the Department of Public In
struction has available for distribution
o bulletin concerning the common birds
of Michigan.
Charlevoix county herald., 1913-12-13
Mail Early
Xmas Gifts
See That Parcels are Addressed
and Wrapped Properly

Christmas parcels should be mailed
early. For local delivery they should
be mailed not later than December %,
and for out-of-town delivery, as early
as possible but in any event in time to
reach the offices of destination at least
two days prior to Christmas.
Christmas gifts sent by mail should
be wrapped securely. The containers
or wrappers must be sufficiently strong
to withstand the necessary handling in
cident to transportation and delivery.
Glassware, crockery, Christmas toys
easily breakable, glass, framed pic
lures, etc., should be carefully packed
in boxes >of metal, wood, leather, or
corrugated pasteboard, with sufficient
excelsior, raw cotton, or similar matter
to prevent the contents from coming
into contact with any portion of the
box. These parcels should be marked
''fragile." Postmasters will refuse to
accept for mailing packages. that are
insecurely prepared.
Parcels should be addressed plainly.
The addresses should be complete and
plainly written in ink. The regulations
require that parcel post packages shall
bear the names and addresses of both
the sender and the addressee. If a
tag is used the names and addresses
of the sender and the addressee should
also be written on the parcel, itself.
Parcels sent in advance of Christmas
may be marked "Not to be opened un-
til Christmas" or some similar drec-
ton. Written or printed messages
such as "Merry Christmas" "Best
Wishes" etc, may be enclosed in
parcels, but no other written or printed
communication should be placed there
in, as this will subject the parcel to a
higher rate of postage. Parcels should
not be sealed or otherwise closed
against inspection, Sealed parcels are
subject to the first class rate of post
age.
Photographs, printed books, and
other printed matter are not included
in the parcel post, but are third class
matter, on which the postage rate is
one cent for each two ounces or frac-
ton thereof.
Ordinary postage stamps are valid
for postage on parcel post matter.
Christmas stamps or stickers of any
kind other than postage stamps should
not be placed on the address side of
mail matter, as this renders such mat
ter unmailable.
Valuable parcel post packages may
be insured against loss in an amount
not exceeding $25 on payment of a
fee of five cents in addition to the
postage, and for fee of ten cents such
packages will be insured in any amount
not exceeding $50.
Charlevoix county herald., 1913-12-13
Two Children
Burn to Death
Mother Locked Them Alone in
the House.

News of the burning to death of two
little children in Bliss township Satur-
day night has shocked the whole county
and has filled with sorrow the hearts of
all the residents of that section. G..
Stoneburner moved to farm on section
eleven, Bliss township, about six
months ago and Saturday was out in
the woods, about mile from his farm
cutting wood. Mrs. Stoneburner, about
four o'clock Saturday evening,
wishing to go out where her husband
was working, locked her two little
children, boy about three and girl
about two years OF age, in the house,
little thinking that it would be the last
time she would see them alive.
She had been gone but little while
when the little daughter of Perry John
son, living across the road, noticed
smoke in the house and ran across to
see if there was anyone at home. She
found the door locked and broke out
window in ber effort to ascertain if
any of the family were in the house.
She says she heard no one. Arthur
O'Neal, also noticed the house burning
and came from his work about quart
er of mile away. He also found the
door locked and could hear no one in
the house. He returned to the field
and securing his team and long chain
succeeded in pulling the roof from the
house, which was built of logs. He also
pulled the sides down and scattered
the timbers SO as to put out the fire.
He found the blackened and burned
bodies OF the two little children under
one OF the beds, where they no doubt
crawled in their effort to get away from
the smoke and flames.
The parents did not notice the fire,
being in the woods, and did not learn
of the burning OF their home and child
rem until about an hour later. The
funeral was held Sunday afternoon and
the bodies were inferred in the
cemetery at Bliss.-Petoskey Indepen-
dent.
Charlevoix county herald., 1913-12-13
KEEP A POSTOFFICE.

If you want to know people and know
them well,
know them better than | can tell,
Know them like their mother should,
Know them better than they wish you
would,
Know their hobbies, their fads and
whims,
A great deal of their business, land
some of their SINS,
Just keep postoffice.
If you want to lose all your self-con-
ceit,
Work hard with your hands, mouth,
eyes and feet,
Get up early and go to bed late,
Get blown up hourly, sure as fate,
Know everything human and divine,
And speak the language of every
cline,
Just keep postoffice.
If you want to know everyone's Chris
tian name,
Their uncles, and aunts, and from
whence they came,
The names OF their kids, from the baby
up,
The tabby cat and the brindle pup,
Their brothers, sisters, cousins and
beaux,
And everyone else that anyone knows,
Just keep postoffice.
If you want to know more than a
mortal should,
OF everything bad and everything
good,
About everyone who lives in your
town,
From the chief executive all the way
down,
Know all of this and "hold it in trust, {"
Until you're so swelled you are likely
to bust,
Just keep a postoffice.
Anonymous.
Charlevoix county herald., 1913-12-13
Hog Cholera
in the State
Monthly Crop Bulletin Reports
Nineteen Counties.
Lansing, Mich, December 6, 1913.

Lansing, Mich, December 6, 1918.
WHEAT.-The condition of wheat as
compared with an average per cent is
9S in the State, central and northern
counties, "a in southern counties and
102 in the Upper Peninsula. One year
ago the per cent. was 80 in the State
and southern counties, SO in the
central counties, 81 in the northern
counties and 81 in the Upper Peninsula.
The total number of bushels of wheat
marketed by farmers in November at
81 FIGURING mills is 113, 130 and at 81
elevators and to grain dealers II, 1896 or
total of 1S3,525 bushels. OF this
amount 1873, ,096 bushels were marketed
in the southern four tiers of counties,
sc, 107 in the central counties and 1892
in the northern and Upper Peninsula.
The estimated total number of bushels
of wheat marketed in the four months,
August-November, is 2, 10000. Sixty
two mills. elevators and grain dealers
report no wheat marketed in Novem-
ber.
RYE.-The condition of rye as COM
pared with an average per cent. is 90 in
the State and central counties, 95 in the
southern counties, 81 in the northern
counties and 10l in the Upper Peninsu-
la. One year ago the per cent. was so
in the State and northern counties, SO
in the southern counties, 81 in the
counties and 96 in the Upper PENN
sula
FALL PASTURE.-The condition of
fall pasture as compared with an aver
age per cent is 95 in the State, 80 in
the southern counties, "a in the central
counties, 9S in the northern counties
and 104 in the Upper Peninsula.
LIVE STOCK. The condition of live
stock throughout the State is 81 for
horses, cattle and sheep and "a for
swine. Crop correspondents report hog
cholera in the counties of Berrien,
Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Clinton, Emmett
Hillsdale, Ingham, jackson, kalamazoo,
Lenawee, Macomb, Mason, Menominee
Ontonagon, Saginaw, st. Joseph, Wash
tenaw and Wayne.
FREDERICK c. MARTINDALE,
Secretary of State.
Charlevoix county herald., 1913-12-13
Indians Claim
Valuable Land
Beaver, Fox, Manitou and
Mackinac Islands Involved.

Approximately 500 Ottawa and Chip
pewa Indians in Michigan early this
, month will enter claim for 5000, 900,
600 against the United States govern
ment for alleged deprivation of valu-
able lands and fishing rights in the
Great Lakes. Several of the attorneys
who investigated the claim which is the
most gigantic ever entered against the
public demain by Indians, say that it is
valid.
Two former claims of similar nature
made by these Indians were recognized
as valid by the government and some
thing over 100000 paid to the tribes.
The validity of this latest and largest
demand against the government hinges
upon the Interpretation of the treaty of
1888, between the government and II
Indian tribes, including the Northern
Michigan Ottawas and Chippewas. I'M
til recently, it was supposed that under
the terms of this treaty, the red man
had signed away all rights to land
where South Chicago is now located, to
all the Great Lakes islands and the un-
restricted fishing rights in the lake
waters, as well as other property of en-
ormCus value in Wisconsin, Illinois and
Michigan.
1t is now claimed that through faulty
, wording of the treaty and through
oversight, the South Chicago land, the
Great Lakes islands and the fishing
rights were not included in the treaty.
Through the United Stntes court of
claims at Washington the Indians will
now attempt to obtain the money
equivalent of the property of which
they have been deprived for two gen.
erations.
For two years, preparations for filing
the claim have been in progress. There
was much work TO be done The gradual
disbanding of the tribes during the
past half century resulted in a scatter
ing of the Indian population and it was
necessary to locate all direct decend-
ants of the chiefs of the tribes named
in the treaty Most of the claimants
were found residing in the vicinity of
Mackinaw City, Sault Ste Marie, Petos-
key and Charlevoix, with few scatter
ed throughout the Grand Traverse and
Leelanau districts. This work of To-
eating and classifying the claimants is
now completed.
The Indians attorneys, in presenting
their claim, will call attention to the
fact that the deprivation of the Indians
of their fishing rights took from them
their principal food-fish.
Some of the late islands involved in
the fishing rights claim are, North and
South Manitous; North and South Fox;
Beaver, with its cluster of lesser islands
Mackinac Island; Bois Blame and num-
erous fishing bays.
Charlevoix county herald., 1913-12-13

Joe Hinton, charged with having
stolen timber from state lands and who
jumped his bail and failed to appear
for trial, is still a free man in spite of
the efforts of Wexford officers to To-
cate him. He has been traced to Dan
vile, Ind, where he worked until
about two weeks previous to the date
of his trial. From that point the officers
have been unable to follow the miss
ing man, Hinton was under bonds of
five hundred dollars but up to date the
state has realized nothing because the
man is believed to have disposed Of all
his property. He was on his own
bonds.
Love in cottage is another name
for labor union,
Charlevoix county herald., 1913-12-13

Alas, when the microbe of love sue
cumbs to the germ of suspicion!
1t may be better to give than to re-
ceive, but few of us are in position to
keep it up indefinitely.
The young man who succeeds in mar
rying a whole-hearted girl is playing in
great luck. The average girls heart has
been broken three or four times.
Charlevoix county herald., 1913-12-13

Perry Ritter, a Cheboygan county
supervisor from the fifth ward, Che
boygan, has gotten into trouble and
will be taken before Judge Shepard in
mandamus proceedings, to show cause
why he failed TO spread the sum neces-
sary for the construction of sewer in
his ward upon the tax roll. Quite a
little trouble has been had in Cheboy-
gan over the sewer in question.
Besides the people who evade the
truth because they are polite, there are
lothers,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-21

third problems; while the fourth prob
lem, the relative strength of the cen
tral government and the provinces, was
left unSOlVed- These conclusions were
reached by the consent of Yuan Shi Kai
to the adoption of the republic and by
the decision of Ii Yuan Hung, who had
charge of the revolutionary forces, and
OF all the more thoughtful leaders of
China, in favor of Yuan Shi Kai for
the presidency.
The first problem which confronted
Yuan Shi Kai as provisional president
and the new government was the prob
lem of finance Fortunately. the finan-
ces Of China in general are in good con-
ditiOn, so far as Indebtedness and the
annual expenditures of the nation are
concerned. The total Indebtedness of
China for the central government, the
provinces and the cities. plus the re-
cent loan. is S1.079, 600. 900. gold, of
which S277,00O,0 600 are on railway and
telegraph lines and other industries
which are earning more than interest.
leaving some $500. 100000 to be met by
taxation Considering that Japan's ma
tiOnal Indebtedness is S1.306, 901, 499 and
that China's population and natural re-
sources are some six or seven times as
large as JapanS. China's Indebtedness.
speaking in comparative terms. is not
large. Putting the matter in another
form, China's total Indebtedness is
about 81 per capitum. whereas Japan'S.
including the Koreans in her popula-
ton. is some $40 per capitUm
The war mas brought serious dan
gers to China It has compelled con-
siderable increase in expenses at a crit
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-21
PRELIMINARIES FOR
DEBATES ARRANGED

Preliminaries for the debate with the
Forum society are engrOSSing the at
tention of the Sam Houston society of
the high school. The first prelimi-
naries will be held Friday night, with
Harry Ginsberg. Maurice Blumenthal
and Perry Ross on the affirmative and
Frank Peach, Harry Welsch and Ralph
O'Neiu on the negative. Saturday
morning Harold Depew, Fred Hunter,
Frank Brown and Eugene Thurston
will be on the affirmative and Rupert
Gillett, Stanley Shea Frank Hardie and
Cecil Stanfield on the negative. The
winners of each preliminary will de-
bate Saturday night against each other
and the winners of that debate Will be
selected to meet the Forum
Programs for the two meetings fol-
lowing have been announced by Rupert
Gillette, chairman of the program COM
mittee. On Friday, October 81. Wayne
Garrett will give a defamation, Paul
Downs a speech, and the debate of the
evening Will be That a special juvenile
court should be established Immediately
in FL Paso.' On the affirmative will