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Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23
DELAWARE NEWS.

Six carloads of foreign berry
pickers, passed through Delaware
on Monday for Sussex county, to
pick berries for the large crop now
on in lower Delaware.
Wilmington. No clue has
been discovered to the yeggs''
who blew open the safe at the
office Of the Union Macaroni Co.,
and secured $1,000 in money and
jewelry.
Dover, Dell Capt, Andrew
C. Mensch, of Camden, Del, aged
sc years. a veteran of the civil
war, and captain of a Pennsyl-
vanla regiment during the war,
died at his home ON Monday.
Georgetown. The heavy rain
of Saturday, followed by sun on
Sunday, brought the Strawberries
into market and hundreds Of crates
were bought and shipped at prices
ranging from 81 to So so per crate
of 81 quarts The rain is said to
have made thousands of crates OF
berries,
Seaford, = AS q token of their
appreciation of his good services.
the congregation of st. Johns
Methodist Church here has in
creased the salary of its pastor
the Rev. o L. Jones, from $1,000
to $l100 a year. Mr.. Jones il
serving the church for the thirC
year.
When friends extended congrat
t ulations on his Goth birthday an
5 nlversary, John Maxwell, a re
r tired railroad employe, brok,
: down and wept. When they wish
ed him many more years of lif,
S Mr.. Maxwell replied, i" No; dc
! not care to live. am so lionel,
that want to go. My friends anG
my loved ones have all gone and
j want to GO"
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23


tied a single or double thickness OF
tar paper with the paper face against
the last laid section of roadway.
After the surface of this section is
filed, and while the concrete for
the adjoining section is being
placed, the cord holding the paper
to the eross-form is cut and the
cross form is removed. The tar
paper adheres to the concrete and
stays in the joint, which is reduced
to the thickness of the paper by
forcing against it the freshly
placed concrete of the section
under construction.
When the surface of the concrete
has hardened enough to prevent
pitting it is sprinkled with clean
water and is kept moist for several
days. Likewise, as soon as posi-
BILE, the pavement is covered tenn
poraily with 2 inches of sand OF
dirt from the side-road to give fur.
ther aid in curing the concrete'
Traffic is confined to the earthen
,side.roads until the concrete is
about two weeks old. In the
meantime shoulders of broken
stone or gravel are built along both
edges Of the pavement. These are
made 3 feet wide and sufficiently
thick to be firm and to make it an
easy matter at all times for wagon
wheels to pass from the side-road
onto the pavement.
THE FIRST COST AND THEE
REAL COST OF ROADwAYS.
There are two phases of the cost
of any improvement-frst cost and
up keep expense. In both items
the concrete road has proven less
lexpensive than any other kind of
| permanent roadway. OF some
three million yards of city and
Icountry concrete pavements built
| in recent years, the average first
cost has been 1922 per square
!, yard. The annual up-keep eX-
pense per mile on these roads has
, been, almost nothing. In Belle
, fontaine Ohio, concrete payements
, in use Is years have cost annually
for maintenance only t OF one
cent per square yard. The up,keel
; cost of Wayne County, Michigan,
country concrete roads for three
4 years has averaged but $2.5 pei
Z mile. In 1911 the mean cost o
4 lSepairine macodaIl roads IL New
o York state was $500. 90 per mile
: 10 per cent, of the first cost. 1
e these roads had been concrete
: practically all this immense ex
pense could have been saved ant
used in building new roads instead
ofrepairing old ones. With bet
ter roads will come better schools
better churches, better business
land decreased cost of living.
GREEN'S Fruit Grower
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23
An Consumed In q Minute.

In one minute in state of rest the
average man takes into his lungs
about 3 liters or 4ss cubic inches of
air In walking he needs 16 liters or
97.6 cubic inches, in climbing % liters
or 1908 cubic inches, in riding at a
trot SO liters or 201 cubic inches and
in long distance running 81 liters or
347.T cubic inches. Scientific Ameri-
can.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23

Soapstone is largely used in China
for preserving structures built of sand
stone and other stones that are liable
to crumble from climatic effects. The
soapstone is powdered and put on in
the form of paint, and will preserve
buildings for hundreds Of years.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23

"Mr. Singleton piides himself on be-
ing strictly impartial"
YES" answered the unamiable man;
II once went shooting with him. He
didn't seem to care whether he hit the
rabbit. the dog or one Of his friends"
london Tit-Bits
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23

Published by
]. L RUsBRIDGE.
Editor and Proprietor.
Issued every Friday.
S1.00 per year. Q cts. per copy.
Advertising rates on application.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23

II have been counting her for two
years." said the disconsolate one, "and
am certain that she will refuse me
when propose"
"Ah, that is interesting" said the
amateur photographer-"a sort Of un-
developed negative "-Pittsburg Press,
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23
DELAWARE CITY PRESS.

Delaware City, Del, May %, 1913.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23

Madge / refused Jack eight times
before finany saying 'yeg.s
( EtIsei WY did Won change Your
inlndg
Madge-T Didn't. was merely see
ing If be would change his.-Boston
Transcript.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23
GEORGE A. HARTER,
rector of Summer of Delaware College

8s g8
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23

In Persia the man who laughs is
called effeminate, but free license Is
given to female merriment.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23

Entered at the Post Office in
Delaware City, Del. as second
class matter, March 18th, 1919
under Act of Congress, March 3,
1897.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23

HAS he a very wide circle Of
friendsg Eyes; they all keep clear
Of him."-Town Topics.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23

"Well, Johnny, don't you wish that
you were grown up MANI"
"You bet dee''
'But why2"
$50 that people wouldn't ask me
such fool questions. New York Jour
nal,
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23
Country Roads OF Con-
crete.
INEXPENSIVE IN FIRST COST
AND MANI : NAN CE

No single factor plays such an im-
portant part in til. social and bust
ness life of community as the quail
ity Of lis roads. Aside from the plea
sure & convenience of travel, possible
at all times over permanent roads,
there is the financial phase which
directly concerns the cost not only Of
farm produce but of city products as
we'll Consequently everybody |
wants good roads. In the matter Of
paying for permanent highways,
generally satisfactory agreement seems
to have been reached in the proposed
distribution of the cost between the
nation, the state, the county and the |
users Of the road in question, As al
result, within few years this country
will take its righsful leading position
among the nations Of the world in
the number of miles of permanent
roads.
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miS the concrete 7t.i, machine than
b. hand. Depending On the grading
81 the aggregate .ae concyete is usual
" proportioned DAG Of Portland
cement to , cpbie feet Of sand ana
cubic feet II screened gravel O.
crushed rock Or j Of cement 10 =
ST., i and ! OF gravel or rock. Dur
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Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23
LODGES.

The regular monthly eommuni'
cation of Jackson Lodge No. 10 A.
F. & A. M. will be holding on the
first Tuesday of next month.
Old Glory Council No, IL j, o
o. A. NJ. meets every Thursday
evening.
Delaware City K. G.. E. meets
every Monday evening at Eagles
Hall, above Cofer's Hardware.
Patrick Henry Lodge No. IL T..
o. 0. f. meets every Wednesday
intheir Temple. Corner End. and
Jefferson SITS.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-05-29
ben Ness IS
FOUND GUILTY
o. BRIBERY
Jury RECOMMENDED MAN TO
THE COURTS LENIENCY -
SINKLER'S SEVERE ARRAIGN-
MENT OF TWITCHELL.

B. j. Ness, the former Devils Lake
druggist, was found guilty Of attempt
ed bribery in district court at Bis
marck. The court recommended him
to the courts leniency.
This was one of the most peculiar
cases ever tried in the state. Ness
claimed to certain members of the
last legislature that he represented the
American Tobacco Co. and that he had
been given q large sum of money to
see that the anti-snuff bill was killed.
He never produced any Of the money
and many believe that he never had it
in his possession, altho he was evi-
IDENTIFY interested in seeing that the
bill was killed.
Atty. Sinkler, chief attorney for the
defense, addressed the jury for three
solid hours. He contended that while
there was undoubtedly someone who
had tried to smother the anti-snuf
bill, he did not believe that the Amer
lean Tobacco company would have
3picked out men of the calibre Of Ness
Ito do their work. Mr.. Sinkler was
Particularly severe in his arraignment
kpf Twitchell, stating that he was
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-05-29
PLAYED MEAN TRICK ON
YOUNG RAILROAD MAN.

A good story is told on a young G..
N. fireman who is sort of "dandy"
among the girls, and who imagines
that the members of the fair sex are
all enamored with him. Some of his
girl acquaintance put up job on him
Sunday night and he readily "fell for
it," One of them telephoned the
young man that she was "a certain
young charmer from Valley street,
told him how she admired his appear
ance, and asked him to bring his vio-
lin to her home that evening. He as
sented. He borrowed a fiddle" and
tucking it under his arm leisurely
strolled down Valley street. Knock
ing at the door, he walked right in,
made himself very much at home and
started to take the violin from it's box.
The young woman was startled and
after explanations were made, the
youthful masher secured a tie pass
up the 500 tracks and lost no time
in getting back to his boarding house.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-05-29
+. T. GRAVES
WRITES ABOUT
SAN DIEGO
FORMER MINOT MAN TELLS OF
THE GROWTH OF WONDERFUL
CALIFORNIA CITY - SPEAKS
OF FORMER NORTH DAKO.
TANS.

The following letter received from
our old friend, F. E. Graves, Of San
Diego, CAL, will prove interesting.
Mr.. Graves was once engaged in the
real estate business in Minot. He
made success here but went west for
his health, where he was completely
restored. He is doing a great busi-
ness in the growing California city:
San Diego, Cal, May 21, 1913.
Messrs Truax & Colcord,
Minot, N. D.
Dear friends:
The Independent comes regularly
and am always glad to get it and
hear what my good old friends are
doing in Minot.
We all like living in San Diego and
the city is growing very fast, in fact
it has doubled in the last three years
and on the average for the last two
years there have been moving to San
Diego about 800 families every month,
which is going some.
The growth heretofore has been
largely due to the fine climate, but
now, owing to progress on the Pana-
ma canal and the building of rail-
roads, and the improvement of the
harbor, which is one of the finest nat
ural harbors in the world, the city is
fast being commercialized and is get
ting to be important as a business
town and there is also quite good
deal going on in the manufacturing
line.
Work on the Exposition, for the year
1915, is progressing rapidly and we
will give the world something unique,
something different in the way of an
exposition, and the work already done
and the plans for the future, are at
tracing the attention of people in all
parts of the world and if you boys do
not come before, you must be sure to
come in 1915.
The business opportunities here are
good in nearly all lines and particu-
larly good for the small farmer, as
there is not enough stuff raised to
supply our own needs, in fact the
country tributary to San Diego is al
most entirely undeveloped and there is
no place in the world where you can
raise more stuff to the acre than right
here.
We are now building houses and do
ing general real estate business, and
have no fault to find with our pat
ronage since coming to San Diego.
There are good many people here
from North Dakota, and our old neigh
Dor, M. 0. Hall, has just completed a
directory of North Dakota people and
in order that you may get an idea of
the number l am sending you by this
mail copy.
Our old friend, DR.. Crokat, is here
and having very nice practice and
on the side makes real estate deal
every little while.
see that Minot is growing consid-
erably and that there is good deal
of building, and l am very glad that
the future is so bright for Minot.
With kindest regards and best
wishes I am
Yours truly,
F. E. Graves.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-05-29
CATHOLIC SISTERS WILL ERECT
S75,00000 HOSPITAL IN N|N0T
Glad to Get Back.

D. Butcher, who has been living at
Yamhill, Ore, for the past three years
has returned to Minot. He owned
some fruit land there but was glad
to get his money out Of it. He says
he grew weary of the rainy weather,
rain falling nearly every day for sew
en- months. He also reports that
many of the fruit growers lost their
prune crop this year by late frost.
Mr.. Butcher owns some valuable prop
erty in Minot which sometime ago he
tried to sell, and he is glad that he
didn't.
John Wynn was in from his north
prairie farm Friday. John has II
Guernsey cows that he bought year
ago. The cows have more than paid
for themselves and are worth good
deal more than the price he paid for
them.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-05-29
ARCHITECT INSTRUCTED TO
COMPLETE PLANS AT ONCE
FOR ONE OF THE FINEST IN
STITUTIONS OF THE KIND IN
THE STATE-TWO SITES BE-
ING CONSIDERED.

Architect r. T. Frost, who is draw
ing plans for a $4,000 hospital for
the St. Francis Sisters, has been in
structed to complete the plans at once
and it is believed that work on the
structure will be started this year.
Two sites are under consideration,
one known as the John Ehr normal
school site at the end of Valley street,
and the other located on the McKoane
property on the south hill, just back
of the Dinnie flats.
The hospital will accommodate 100
patients and will be the most modern
in every particular.
St. Joseph's hospital is altogether
too small and the doctors and Sisters
have been considering ways and
means, whereby a larger hospital
might be built, for some time.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-05-29
Three GIRLS
DROWNED AT
JAMESTOWN
BERNIE RIPLEY, SCHOOL TEACH
Err, MET DEATH WHILE AT
TEMPTING TO RESCUE YOUNG
Err GIRLS-CITY OF JAMES,
TOWN FRUSTRATED.

Claudio Ripley, aged 16, and Mamie
Matchie, aged 1S, were taken with
cramps while wading in the James
river within the city limits Of James
town about o'clock Sunday evening,
and were drowned in deep hole in
the river. Bernie Ripley, school
teacher, 20 years Of age, who went to
the rescue of her sister and cousin,
sank below the surface Of the water,
and altho she was still alive when
taken out some minutes later, she died
within few minutes.
AS soon as Mary Matchie, aged IA,
saw the predicament the girls were in,
she gave the alarm and hundreds
rushed to the river and took the bodies
out.
A triple funeral was held from the
Catholic church at jamestown.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-05-29
Company D. Election.

The election of captain for Co. D.
will occur next Tuesday night. E. S.
Person recently resigned after rs
years. service in the National Guard,
owing to other business, and the va
cancy will be filled. It is expected
that DR.. F. E. Wheelon, First Lieuten-
ant, will succeed Capt. Person. DR..
Wheelon has been connected with Co.
d for several years and at present is
First Lieutenant. He has always tax
en- great interest in the work, is pop
ular with the boys and is an excellent
military man.
Election for such other vacancies
as may occur will also be held Tues
day night.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-05-29
Automobile Burns Near brady.

The auto owned by Ed Christensen
and L. M. Due caught fire while those
gentlemen were driving it four miles
south Of brady Tuesday afternoon.
They were enroute to Minot when they
noticed that the gasoline was leaking
and had caught fire. The machine
was soon mass of ruins and the own
ers had a narrow escape from being
injured. The owners walked to brady
and telephoned to Art Harshman, who
went out after them. The machine
was insured for 5000.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-05-29
PRICES FOR COWS
ARE ADVANCING
r. 8 PERSON TELLS OF WON
DERFUL DEMAND FOR WIS
CONSIN CATTLE WHICH AXE
SHIPPED TO ALL PARTS OF
THE GLOBE.

Major Person and H. ]. Hecht re-
turned from Whitewater, Wis, where
they bought car of high grade
Guernsey cows and three registered
bulls. Mr.. Hecht bought Holstein
bull for his farm north of the city.
"There is great demand for cat
tie in Wisconsin," Mr.. Person said.
"Cattle from that state are shipped
all over the world. We met three men
from the Idaho Agricultural College
who were after cattle. A car was
shipped to Maryland and a car
month goes to Mexico. Japan goes
to Wisconsin for her cattle. They are
getting higher and harder to buy.
Let me say to those farmers who
bought last year that they made mon
ey.
"We attended Guernsey sale May
% where SO head sold from $3.50 to
s7OO apiece. Heifers year old brot
from $4OO to $500 each, some of them
half sisters to some / have on the
farm, and which I consider are equal
ly as good and superior in many ways.
l figure that the price of cattle will
stay up for many years. The popu-
lation is increasing so rapidly that it
will take years to catch up. Our peo-
pie should lose no time in getting in
to the dairy business right. Wherev-
er you find the dairy cow, you find
high priced land and cheaper money.
The land in Wisconsin is not as good
as ours. Mr.. Hecht said he didn't
see a farm that he'd trade for his
farm north of Minot. They have too
much moisture and have to drain the
land, which is very expensive. This
is worse than not enough moisture.
They have black, soggy, heavy soil
with hard pan beneath, and the wat
er cannQtadrain, of. I'd ii. .ss,s,s .... .s
"They are no farther advanced with
their farming than we are. Farmers
are just getting their land ready for
corn planting"
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-05-29
Cyrus Francis at Rest.

The funeral of Cyrus Francis, Mi
not's Oldest citizen, was held from
the Presbyterian church Friday after
noon, Rev. VIM. c. Hunter, an old
friend, delivering an impressive SER
mon. The pail bearers were VIM. MUIR
ray, John Lynch, VIM. ]. Carroll, John
Maloney, Mr.. Fowler and E. D. Skin
ner. There was an escort Of old SOL
diers, and quite large number Of the
w. r. C. members attended the SER
vices. The remains were inferred in
Rose Hill cemetery beside those of
his wife who died years ago.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-05-29
MORE Evidence
AGAINST STAFF
Authorities NOW HAVE IN
THEIR POSSESSION BOTTLE OF
STRYCHNINE WHICH ALLEG.
ED MURDERER INTENDED TO
Use AFTER KILLING HIS WIFE.

The poison which John Staff, the
man who shot and killed his wife,
intended to take in an effort to end his
own life, Immediately after the trag-
edy, was definitely located by Assist
ant States Attorney Dorr H. Carroll,
as a direct result of an article appear
ing in last weeks Independent.
Mr.. Carroll, accompanied by the
editor of the Independent, drove to
the farm home of Albert Susak, seven
miles northwest of Minot Monday af-
ternoon, and secured from Mr.. Susak,
the bottle of strychnine which Stairs
old neighbor had taken away from
him the Sunday morning, just after
s+afrs wife had been killed. The
strvchnine was contained in a small
bottle and there was enough Of the
deadly poison to kill hundred human
beings. The bottle had never been
opened, and if Staff had entertained
notions of ending his own life, he
must have gotten cold feet.
After Staff had killed his wife, he
bade his children goodbye and said
they would probably never see him
again.
He drove to the home Of Albert Su-
SAX, a neighbor, told him what he had
done, and producing the bottle Of poi
son, told Susak that he intended to
kill himself. Susak replied: whats
the use of killing yourself now? Wait
until after the trial and maybe you
will not want to end your life" Talk
ING in this manner Susak induced
Staff to hand the poison to him and
placing it in his coat pocket, says he
forgot all about it, until he read in
the Independent the testimony Of the
little Staff boy at the hearing, who
told of the father bringing home sew
eral shells for the army rifle. and the
poison, saying: "The bullets are for
you and your sister and your mother,
and the poison is for papa"
After Susak read about the poison
in the Independent, he met E. J. Pep
ke, the Watkins Remedy man, and
told him of his experience with Staff.
Mr.. Pepke lost no time in telephoning
the Independent Office and we at once
notified the states attorneys Office,
and as result, the poison was soon
in the possession of the authorities.
The finding of the poison is re-
garded by the state as most impor-
tant in it's case. Staff has spent a
large sum of money in his defense and
it is believed that he will put up a
scrap. However, with the poison in
the possession Of the states attorney,
and with the testimony Of Albert Su-
SAX, the state should have no trouble
in convicting the man.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-05-29

looking for the money before Divit
came into the case. He dwelt 1t
length on the relations that one Mr..
Rice, representative Of the American
Tobacco company, was alleged to have
had with Mrs. McKinsey, one Of the
stenographers of the house, and said
that in his opinion Mrs. Mckinney
was one Of the parties implicated and
that Ness was used in an effort to
cover up the proceedings.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-05-29

Walter Bond was a business visitor
It Bowbells Saturday.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-05-29
SUNDAY SCHOOL. CONvEN-
TION AT GRAND FORKS.

The Independent is in receipt Of
the tentative program Of the annual
convention Of the North Dakota Sum
day School Assn, which meets at
Grand Forks June 1912. There will
be two special trains to the conven-
tion, one leaving Minot at s:45 q. m.
June 10. 8.S
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-05-29

A good sized crowd attended the
Eastern Star card party at the Ma
sonic Temple Tuesday night. Nor
wegian Whist was played, Mrs. Ar
thur Fisher winning the lady's prize
and George w. Kemper, the gentle
mans. Refreshments were served.