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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-11
Dry FARMING Con-
0reSS Offers Prizes
For Best Grain
(By H. l. Bolley.)

l take this opportunity to call the
attention of the farmers of North Da.
kota to some very interesting prizes
that will be given at the 1nternation-
al Dry Farming Congress at Tulsa,
Oklahoma. This Congress meets Oc-
tober 22d to November LIST. The
prizes arranged for are very fine ones
and North Dakotans ought to be able
to carry off a number of them this
year particularly so inasmuch as
many Of our farmers have raised not
only fair crops of grain but grain of
particularly high quality.
l have a letter from the secretary
asking especially that the farmers Of
North Dakota be notified regarding
the prizes, as this state is included in
the range of territory which admits OF
competition. There are fine prizes Of
fered for almost all kinds of cereal
grains. The sweepstake prize for the
best bushel of wheat this year is a
s1250 threshing machine, given by NJ.
Rumley Company, of LaPorte, 1ndi-
ana. 1t is stated that the company
will furnish any size desired, complete
with feeder, wind-stacker and weigher
and will deliver it, freight and duty
prepaid, to any of the company's dis
tributing points in North America.
The secretary also calls attention to
the fact that there is a cash prize of
$50 offered for the best peck of fax
seed grown in any of one of the states
of the union. The writer is of the
opinion that some North Dakotan
should easily be able to capture this
prize. ..... .... ..
Any one who wishes a complete list
of the prizes offered at the Dry Farm
ing Congress competition should ad-
dress a card to c. c. Williams, Chief
of the Editorial Department, Dry
Farming Congress, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
While you are thinking about prepar-
ing a sample or samples for contest
there, remember that the North Dako-
ia Improved Seed Growers Associa-
tion expects to put on an Improved
Seed Growers Contest, open to all
parties, at Fargo, in January, which
will be second to none in quality and
wide range of prizes which will be
offered. Save the best peck of seed Of
any kind of grain which you may be
keeping for sale as seed for sowing
purposes, and see II you cannot win
one or more Of the important prizes
offered, under the direction Of the
North Dakota Improved Seed Grow
ers' Association. In this contest
grasses, grains, corn in the ear, and
garden seeds will be incompetition.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-11
Ancient EGGS
Cause Murder
;. MITCHELL, TRAMP, SHOOTS
coMRAOE THEN SELF OVER
BREAKFAST.

Lakota, N. D., Sept. 10.-Fred
Mitchell, aged IS, Of Providence
r. l., a tramp, late today riddled the
body of an unidentified tramp with
bullets and then fired a shot into bis
own, body. and he, too, probably will
die.
The double shooting occurred in the
'.jungles" just east of the city limits,
resulting from quarrel between the
two men, and which had its inseption
this morning when Mitchell charged
his victim with scrambling rotten
eggs into the camps breakfast.
Mitchell was taken to Devils
Lake hospital tonight, after a cor.
oner's jury had investigated the case,
holding him for murder. Physicians
could not probe for the bullet which
entered Mitchell's left side, in direct
line with his heart, but which they
believe struck a rib and passed
around his body lodging in bis back.
=. Three men,. all tramps,, witnessed
the shooting and their stories, as re-
lated to the coroners jury, tally.
Mitchell and his victim came to
Lakota early this morning and joined
company with several other men in
the camp. They had been together
only three days, meeting at Larimore,
and Mitchell said tonight that he
knew nothing about his victim.
Their quarrel over the mess Of
scrambled eggs this morning was
quite heated, but was dropped when
others took a hand. During the day,
however, both men drank consider
ably and were intoxicated when they
resumed the quarrel that resulted in
the shooting at 5 o'clock this after
noon. H.
Mitchell used 32.caliber revolver,
and was standing but few feet from
his victim. One bullet passed through
his neck, another entered his stomach
and another hit his right side, while
both arms also were pierced.
Coroner J. Jennings held the in.
quest commencing at 1880 o'clock to-
night, with G. w. Lewis, Herbert
Simons and J. J. Lynch as jurors.
Sheriff A. H. Smart and Special
Agent F. Hogan, the latter OF the
Great Northern, took Mitchell to the
Devils Lake hospital, where he will
be kept under guard pending the out.
come of his injury.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-11
."y
Sons of Veterans
To Organize friday
NEW PATRIOTIC ORGANIZATION
WILL BE LAUNCHED HERE
THIS WEEK.

On Friday of this week the new 10.
acl patriotic organization, the Sons Of
Veterans, will be formally organized
in Valley City, officers elected and in
stalled, and the society we'll launched.
George w. Turner, official organizer
of the lodge, who spent several days
here last spring securing members
expects to return to the city the lat
ter part of the week. and at that time
the installation will take place.
At present the local society has
nearly twenty members, and it is ex-
pected that this number will be large
ly increased after regular meetings
are begun. ...
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-11

Vice.President Marshall appointed
Senators Simmons, Stone, Williams
and Johnson, democrats and Senators
Penrose, Lodge and LaFollette, repub-
licans, the senate conferees, to the
conference. 1t is reported the house
conferes will be Underwood, Kitchen
and Raine, democrats, and Payne and
Fordney, republicans. Each house has
an equal vote in the conference COM
mittee.
The final vote was A to 81 with
Senators Clapp, Nelson, McCumber,
and Sterling included in the nays.
Among those paired and not voting
were Senators Crawford and Gronna,
both absent.
Tonight Senator LaFollette had a
few words to say regarding the vote.
II realize what I did was political
sacrifice, but that within me compell-
ed me to vote for the bill. The tariff
act Of 1909 is little short OF crime.
The bill which passed today is not
a democratic measure, but protec-
tive measure"
Senator Poindexter voted for the
bill, he said, because it is as a whole
a better bill than the Payne-Aldrich
law now in force. Furthermore, it
contains an income tax which we have
been trying to get for 20 years.
The average ad valorem rate in the
bill is now approximately 26 per cent.
The senate's additions to the house
free list with 1912 as basis, will cost
the government over $44,000,0O0, but
by adding tax on one-tenth of one
cent per pound on all cotton sold for
future delivery, tax Of one-tenth of
one cent per pound on bananas, and
restoring the requirement of the full
internal revenue tax of 81 per ten
gallons on brandies used to fortify
" nes, and by increasing the tax ON
la.ge incomes, senate leaders believe
they have provided an sctual increase.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-11
TARIFF BILL PASSES SENATE;
La Toilette VOTED FOR BILL
Senate Bill Lower Than When Measure Passed
fIouSe.--BeC0meS Law.

Washington, Sept. 10.-The demo
ratio tariff revision bill passed the
senate at SAB o'clock this afternoon
amid burst of applause that swept
down from the crowded galleries and
found its echo on the crowded floor
of the senate.
The passage was attended with sur
prises in the final moments of voting
when Senator LaFollette, republican
voted with the democrats and was
Joined a few moments later by Sena.
tor Poindexter, progressive, of Wash.
ington.
The democrats counted throughout
the long tariff fight upon losing the
votes Of Senators Ransdell and Thorn.
ton of Louisiana, democrats VINO voted
against the bill because it put sugar
on the free list. Until the names of
LaFollette and Poindexter were call.
ed, however, no one knew what stand
they would take; their votes were
greeted with applause.
President Wilson tonight expressed
qualification over the end of the long
struggle in the senate. Senator Sim
mons, chairman Of the finance CONT.
tee who piloted the bill through the
finance committee, the democratic
caucus and the senate, predicted its
passage would bring stimulum to the
business of the country.
AS is passed the senate, the tariff
bill represents an average reduction
of over four per cent from the rates
of the original bill that passed the
house and nearly 20 per cent from the
rates of the existing law. In many
important particulars the senate
changed the bill that passed the
house. A conference committee Of
the two houses will begin work We'd
nesday or Thursday to adjust these
differences. The leaders Of both
houses predict the conference will
consume less than two weeks.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-11
Three Local NimrodS
Land One Lone Rabbit
SERIES OF EVENTS END DAYS
SPORT OF PROMINENT VAL
LEY CITY AMATEUR HUNT.
ERS.
(From Wednesdays Daily,)

Herman Stern OF the Straus
Clothing Company, Prof. Knute Froy.
saa and Prof. Meyers of the State
Normal quietly secured guns and a
varied assortment of ammunition and
left shortly after dinner yesterday
for the Nester farm where they ex.
pected to bag untold numbers of birds
but bad luck seemed to decree other.
wise and the trio came in last night
with one rabbit; which it is stated
bore the marks of having been killed
with a club.
After travelling for some time Her
man decided to rest for a time and
used his gun, barrel down as safety
precaution, to lean on and while still
resting flock of chickens passed, the
gun was trained on them, but instead
Of several of them falling to the
ground, the whole business end Of the
gun was blown of, without disturbing
a feather.
Prof. Froysaa found after several
trials that shot from his gun was not
doing proper execution, caused he lat.
er discovered, because IL guage shells
would not work properly in 10
guage gun.
Prot. Meyer, however, proved him.
self real hunter with the primative
instinct that led him to the lair Of
the game with unerring certainty,
with satisfactory results. as he
brought in with him a rabbit, said to
have been shot but. some Of the fel-
lows every ready to criticize, claim
that the rabbit bore the marks of a
club
Altogether the trio seems to have
had rather exciting afternoon with
out having assisted materially in d.
the crop Of chickens, which
they started out to hunt. The above
story is vouched for by farmer who
claims to have seen the operations
from distance.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-11
Chattanooga Visitors
viii Leave Friday

A jolly crowd of veterans with their
wives will leave on No. Friday. They
will 60 to Fargo where they will join
others in a special car that will take
them through to their destination
withouts change. The names Of those
who have made final arrangements
for the trip are Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Beal, Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Vallandig.
ham and daughter Catherine, J. s.
Weiser of Valley City, Comrade c. p.
Stearns of Rogers and Robt Kee of
Sanborn.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-11
new IDEAS PRESENTED IN HAND
LING Of CARNEGIE LIBRARY FUNDS
President Of the Library Board Gives Pertinent
Statistics As To Needs of Local
Institution.

The Times-Record is in receipt of
the following communication from
Major Frank White, president Of the
board of the city library, with request
for publication. Any information as
to the status of the institution is Of
interest to the public, and we gladly
present it herewith.
l have been asked by quite num-
Der of-people what does it cost to run,
the Valley City Public Library?'
In answering this question l want
to say in the first place the board
have assumed that the people OF Val
ley City are entitled to a library
equipped and maintained in nrst class
condition. They are entitled to the
best Of service in the library, and will
not use 1t unless they do have such
equipment and such service. If the
library is worth running at all, 1t is
worth running in q way to give the
public the best possible use for the
investment. II its usefulness and ser.
vice to the community do not warrant
its being conducted in such q way,
it certainly were better that it had
:l,e, been established, and that it
now be closed without further ex-
pense.
The figures given beaow as to what
the board has found necessary to
maintain this library up to tbs stand
ard, are based upon the expenses of
the last ten ye:"s the details Of which
can be found in the annual reports on
file at the library, and with the board
of education Of the city. They are as
follows:
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-11

VIM. Karr who is at the Riverside
hospital is reported to be on the gain
again now with good chances for com.
plete recovery. A recent relapse with
alarming symptoms caused consider.
able uneasiness and the changes for
the better brings great relief to
friends and relatives Of the sick man
who is making such strenuous battle
for health.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-11

Ryder, N. D., Sept. 10.-Charles
Powelson suffered an accident that
will lay him up from work for some
weeks. He was engaged in loading
up a wagon with lumber when the
end Of a board poked one of the team
in the ribs. The frightened horse
made to go and Charles jumped for
it's head, was knocked down and run
over, one of the wheels of the wagon
passing over his left ankle. The ankle
was sprained and badly cut His in.
jury is likely to confine him to the
house for weeks. Only the fact the
ground was soft and SANDY saved him
a broken leg.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-11
SOLD HIS FARM.
Cavalier Man Receives $4,000 for
Half Section Of Land.

Half Section Of Land.
Cavalier, N. D., Sept. 10.-Isaac
Moritz sold his home farm two and
a half miles southeast of the city to-
Thomas Haukes Of Iowa. The farm
comprises half section and the
price paid by the purchaser was $751;
900, or about $3.50 per acre. This
is the highest price yet paid for farm
ing land near Cavalier.
Mr.. Moritz will remain upon the
farm until March l, next when he
will remove to Buffalo Lake, Minn.,
where he recently purchased farm
Of 240 acres. Here he intends to en-
gage more directly in diversified farm
ing. His son Irving has gone to
Buffalo Lake to work upon the new
farm.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-11

In the interest Of economy in what
way can these figures be reduced?
have been told by one who never
put his foot inside the library that
we could get a bright young girl for
$4,000 month who could do the work
as we'll as trained librarian.
agree that we could get bright
young girl who could enter the IL
brary at $4,000 a month. She will
spend summer or two in some IL
brary school and with a year or two
Of experience at our expense, will be
able to do the work. but If she is a
bright young girl as soon, or before,
we have educated her and gotten her
efficient, she will strike us for higher
wages and we will have to pay it or
she will go elsewhere and get the
wages paid for an efficient librarian.
Every workman is worthy Of his
hire If you have piece Of work to
be done and you want it we'll done,
you will have to pay the price that
good vorkmen get for doing such
work. When Mrs. Bassett resigned
as librarian she gave us more than
six months notice SO that we would
have plenty of time to look up a IL
brarian. We were assisted by the
State Librarian in our search for an
efficient librarian at a reasonable
price. We soon discovered that GER
tain wages had to be paid in order to
secure a librarian whom we felt was
capable Of handling the job. We
thought and still think, we did
mighty well when we secured the one
we now have, but we had to pay the
wages the service demands, and that
is being paid in like institutions. We
are not paying more-rather less
than many other libraries where the
service demanded are similar to ours.
Our library performs q service to the
public schools Of the city very similar
to the service performed by the Nor
NAL school library to that institution.
They pay one hundred dollars a
month for their librarian. sixty.five
dollars a month for their first assis-
tant, and forty dollars month for
their second assistant. We don't see
how we can economic on this item
and still maintain the service.
We might pinch the janitor's salary
a little, but when one considers that
he looks after the building, keeping 1t
clean, runs the heating plant shovel
ing in more than hundred tons OF
coal year, keeps the grounds In
proper shape, in my opinion he earns
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-11
Valley City Receives
DuCkinQ This Morning
(From Wednesdays Daily.)

The heaviest rain of the season fell
at an early hour this morning It
amounted to a cloud burst and the
streets show the result of thorough
washing, water standing everywhere.
Reports from other parts Of the coun.
ty are to the effect that the rain was
very general.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-11

Banker M. L. Rye of Nome made a
brief visit in Valley City Tuesday,
coming over by automobile and re.
turning the same way. He stated
that he is highly pleased with his in
vestment in Nome and that the bust.
ness is growing nicely.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-11

All samples which are to 60 into the
contest must first be submitted to the
Pure Seed Laboratory to be judged
on purity and viability before being
entered at the contest where they are
judged as to their commercial quail
ties.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-11

At Monday evenings meeting Of the
city council petition was granted for
water and sewer mains on the fats in
the southwest part of the city. This
section Of Valley City has been a suf-
ferer to some extent through the lack
Of water protection in cases of fire.
and the residents there are jubliant
over the concession they have obtain
ed.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-11

Supt. and Mrs. w. G. Hanna have is.
sued invitations to the teachers Of
the city schools for a party at their
home on Friday evening.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-11


ing the past ten years. This is true
of the express and drayage, printing
and rebinding, and insurance, and
other sundry expenses. The re-
pairs on the building have not aver
aged one hundred fifty dollars year
during the past ten years as no re-
pairs were made or necessary during
the first four or five years; since that
time, however, it has averaged con.
siderably more than one hundred
fifty dollars and this amount will not
in the long run, anywheres near take
care Of the repairs upon the building
and the heating. It is only one per
cent OF the original cost OF the build
ing. In the item of rebinding books
and magazines, seventy-eight dollars
has been the average for the last
seven years. A good many Of our
books are growing old and we either
have to rebind them, or throw them
away. The expense in the future will
exceed rather than be under seventy
eight dollars. In the matter of new
books we have found that If we wish
to keep our library up-to-date and
meet the demands of the reading pub
lie, we must spend at least three hun.
dred dollars year in new books. We
have spent about eighty dollars year
in magazines, periodicals and news.
papers; we have a large number Of
readers mostly young people, who
spend their evenings in the library,
especially during the winter season,
reading, and it does not seem to me
that it would be good policy to re-.
duce very much the number Of these
that we have upon our desks.
What service is the library perform.
ing in this community? Is it worth
the money we are spending on it?
What is the answer? During the past
year 24S8 different persons took
books out Of the library to their
homes. This number comprises much
more than half Of the; reading public
Of Valley City, and the number Of bor-
rowers of books is growing; the net
increase during the past year amount
ing to 307. More than $4,000 books
went into the homes and were read
by the people of Valley City. Besides
this a good many read books and mag
azines in the library without taking
them to their homes. l venture to
say that by the end of this year that
IS per cent of those who can read
will be taking books from the library.
The duties Of the librarian not only
include putting out the books and
keeping $500 different accounts of the
borrowers, inspecting and mending
the books when returned, having them
rebound when needed, selecting, pur-
chasing and cataloging Of the new
books, serving those who come to
read in the library, but good deal
of time is spent in assisting readers
who are studying up along particular
lines, students in getting material fo1
essays and debates, helping on pro,
grams of clubs and societies, and oc-
casionally q talk before the students
in the public schools on books and
how to use them and kindred sub
jects-the librarian has the entire
charge in the managing Of the work.
In fact, it looks to me like a man.
sized job, and If a man had to do, and
did it efficiently as it is being done at
the present time, he would want at
least two thousand dollars year for
doing it.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-09-11

rimes,Record, Want Ada bring results.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20
CURIOUS Facts About oysters.

An oyster is wonderfully prolific,
producing 3O,00O,OOO young in one
year. If they and their offspring all
survived, they would within a few
years multiply so greatly as to fill up
our great bays and sounds, like Long
Island Sound, Peconic, GARDENERS,
Narragansett, Great South and Chesa-
peake bays, so that navigation would
be prevented. The oyster shells would
form solid land, as do the houses of the
coral insects; but, instead of increas-
ing, the destruction OF the young oys-
ters by their enemies is so great, to-
gether with the depletion of the nat
ural beds by the demand for this de-
licious food by mankind, that, far from
increasing, the supply has greatly de-
pleted, and in many cases has threat
ened to become extinct. This was es-
pecially true in Great Britain and
some places on the Atlantic coast.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20
Sad Plight of Uncle Wagner weems

Sad Plight of Uncle Wagner Weems
Uncle Wagner Weems is sadly af
flicted," remarked John Henry Jurnf
gan. He is a chronic and consistent
advanced thinker, with all the love
possessed by most radical persons for
unbridled conversation, but just now
he is blessed with the asthma, and
can hardly breathe, let alone argue
and declaim. And when he thinks OF
the outrages that are being perpetrat
ed by the plutocrats, and the fact
that the money power is holding the
noses of the vox populi hard down or
the grindstone Of financial degrade
tion until it's Twin wonder that
there is a nose more than three-six
teenths of an inch long left in circu
lation among the tillers toilers, anC
the urgent need for somebody to say
something about it, and finds himself
unable to do more than gasp like an
expiring catfish, the expression on his
countenance is well worth noticing
Kansas City Star.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-02-20
From a Days Trapping $500.

Jesse Herrin of Canaan, Maine, q
trapper, has made small fortune in
one night. He put out line of
traps in the Pittsield woods late one
afternoon and when he visited them
the next morning he found a prime
glossy fox in one trap, a silver gray
fox in another and four red foxes in
other traps The black fox is valued
at $4,000, the silver gray at $1,000
and the red foxes at $40 each-$3, $40
in all. When Mr. Herrin reached the
read where his wife and team were
waiting he found big buck deer
which had been shot by Mrs. Herrin.
He figured up that the mornings trip
had Melted him about $4,000.