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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-05-15
TWO TOWNSITES
ARE LAID OUT
In RIohIand county-one at Man
tador and Possibly One On
the Adams Farm.

Since the announcement q few
weeks ago, of the purchase of the
Adams farm by Purcell & Divet
and Bonzer & Mathews, the de-
mand for these lands by the peo-
pie living in the neighborhood has
been so marked that Messrs.
Bonzer & Mathews have taken
over the Keystone farm at Man.
tador and will divide it also into
small farms. Only three sections
of this farm, however, will be on
the market this year, the purchas-
ers having taken it over with the
equipment and the expectation of
not selling it out at once.
Since the making OF this deal
plot of ground has been set
aside for townsite on the 500
road at the present village of
Mantador, lumber yard has been
established and the Farmers
State Bank of Mantador organ
lied.
People from Iowa and Illinois.
are daily coming into the county
and picking up these lands in
quarter section tracts.
The cutting up of these farms
must tend to increase the mater
ial property of their neighbor-
hood and of the county as a whole
Mantador has already a prosper
Gus community back of it, and
the town should very shortly be-
come a very live business point,
and other business enterprises
will undoubtedly locate there at
once.
1t is probable a town will also
be established on the Adam:
farm, at the location of the pres :
ent elevator. That should be an
ideal location, upon the division
of these lands for a bank, lumber
yard, general store and farm inn
plements.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-05-15
MEMORIAL DAY

On the 3Oth day of May, 1913.
the Grand Army of the Republic
will meet at Wahpeton and Breck
enridge to pay homage to the
veterans Of the grand army and
to dedicate the graves of those
who have answered the last roll
call and we earnestly solicit the
assistance of every true American
citizen. We need your hearty CO.
operation. While the frost of
many winters have whitened our
locks and enfeebled our steps our
days Of marching are over. Let
us go to the cemetery where We
can pay the last respects to the
dead.
o b. TODD,
Col. Com.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-05-15
SAYS a GOOD MONO
FoR ms HOME TOWN

w. A. Farnsworth of Wahpe-
ton was a visitor here this week.
Mr.. Farnsworth is one of Wahpe-
TONS real live boosters and never
lets an opportunity get by him 10
boost for his city. He stated to
The Pioneer man, II tell you,
Ed, ] have faith in that good old
burg" He was one Of the shin
ing lights in entertaining the
Press association in that city last
January.-Larimore Pioneer.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-05-15
BOOSTER CLUB IN CHARGE
OF MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE

The Booster club has taken
up the matter Of Decoration Day
exercises and promise an elegant
program in honor of our soldiers
dead. The complete program will
be published next week. The
ranks of the G. A. R. boys are
growing thinner year by year and
If memorial day is kept fresh in
our minds, other and younger
hands will have to plan for these.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-05-15
srRAYED

One bay mare 2 years old, one
iron grey mare years old and
gray bronco mare. Write or no.
tify Ira Babbitt, Wahpeton, N. d.,
r. II. 3.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-05-15

Electric Co., o. A. Lacy, A. J. Ross
4 Co., Voss & Dietz, C. j. Kachel-
hotter, JOS. J. Voves, b. H. Doug
las, w. A. Farnsworth,A. b. Dick
inson, Chas. Hanson, Frank Ben
da, +. b. Schneider, Nick Klein,
a. +. McMichael, Wahpeton Gar
age. Nels Oslund, A. q. Div.t, H.
T.. Wilson.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-05-15
INSTALLATION OF PASTOR

Rev. Edmund Meier, the new
pastor of the Immanuels German
Evangelical church will be install.
led next Sunday at 2::30 p. M, at
the church, at the corner of Fifth
street and Pembina avenue. Rev.
Hinck of Great Bend will offlciate.
A collection will be taken up.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-05-15

Mrs. Hans Christensen has re-
turned from the Breckenridge
where she had been confined on
account Of blood poisoning in her
arm. She is greatly improved and
out Of danger Of further compli-
cations.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-05-15

Oakes is to have a new brick
block.
Two banks at Williston have
consolidated.
Minot expects a big building
boom this year.
Jamestown will entertain the
Elks on June 10 and 20.
Eleven glandered horses were
shot at Fessenden last week.
The state University is plan
ming elaborate commencement
exercises.
The Knights of Columbus held
q convention at Fargo on the
18th Of May.
The Fargo police made a raid
last Saturday night and conflsca-
ted much booze.
The postmasters of the state
will hold their seventh annual
convention at Fargo in July.
There is big track meet and
declamatory contest on at the
Agricultural College this week.
The first jury to be served by
mail under the new law was serv-
ed last week from Grand Forks.
Great interest is being taken in
the good roads convention which
will be held at Fargo June 10 and
H..
The man who swallowed four
different kinds of poison at Far
go recently is said to be improv-
ing and will live.
The Great Northern will give
the men who are employed i'm the
shops at Minot half day off On
Saturdays during the summer.
A guy in Williams county had
the nerve to sell a pint of booze
to the states attorney and is now
waiting the action of the grand
jury.
Little Edward Gatman of White
Earth was playing with q cart
ridge when it exploded and was
blown into his foot. When found
he was trying to extract the shell,
which was embedded into the
flesh. with a jackknife.
o.
The Finley Beacon comments
as follows: ''The parcel post has
come to stay. It's use by the peo-
pie will grow rapidly. And there
should be a prompt response to
this patronage on the part of the
in the way of increas
ed and improved facilities. This
duty not only devolves upon the
postoffice department but chiefly
upon congress, which should au-
thorize and provide for more par
eel post stations and cut such
foolish restrictions as that which
bars book from the post while
admitting a brick or cabbage"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-05-15
ABOUT The STATE
BEING A SUMMARY OF THE NEWS OF THE
WEEK GATHERED FROM OUR EXCHANGES

Lansford is after. an electric
light plant.
Mayville will have an art ex-
hibit May i3.
Bottineau county is organizing
a baseball league.
Brinsdale has named June 81
as s@l annual gopher day.
Extensive oil drill operations
are to be started soon near Mar
marth.
A blind boy at New England
was gored by a mad bull and
will die.
The Oakes high school pupils
are planning on a circus in the
near future.
A young girl at Rugby looked
into the barrel of a shotgun with
fatal results.
A farmer near Belfleld fell in
front of a moving traction en-
'gine and was killed.
One North Dakota farmer who
resides near Lansford has set out
five hundred trees this spring.
A number of towns in the state
are scraping over who sported
the first straw hat this season.
-
The state convention of the N.
D. Christian Missionary society
will be held at Fargo June 10 TO
22.
nr. M. McGregor was named
president of the State Medical
association at the convention at
'MinGt. r-,-s--- -- s.
The Grand Forks Times says
the State Medical association will
meet in that city in 1912. Is the
world going backwards?
A man by the name of Peterson
went "nutty" at Bismack last
week from the effects of too
much "snoss' and killed himself.
a North Dakota editor thinks
that the militant suffragettes
should be treated as lunatics and
confined to asylums instead of
jails.
Park River wants a chief of pO-
lice and the mayor of that town
is advertising for a man to fill
the position and also to act as
janitor of the city hall and street
commissioner: Some job that.
A Ford auto going at high
Snppd at Portland had a narrO,y
escape from a collision with a rail
way gasoline speeder driven by
Foreman J. F. Rooney.
Neither driver saw the other and
spectators stopped spellbound
but when twenty feet away the
Ford man saw the danger, jam
med on his emergency brake and
the car stopped a foot from the
track, just as the speeder
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-05-15
WAS OUR CHIEF .woRkEp"(7)

A New ROCKFORD editor is OF the
opinion that the chief of police
Of Wahpeton was worked when
he, in sympathy for a stranger
who had suffered ''paralytic
stroke" paid said strangers car
fare to Devils Lake, where he
claimed to have relatives. The
same stunt was pulled off at New
Rockford recently.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-05-15
FOR SALE

At a bargain, Kimball organ
in first class condition. Inquire
of B. C. Ness at the second hand
store.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-05-15

See Mutt and jeff tonight at
the Braun theatre.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-05-15

nr. M. McGregor was named
president of the State Medical
association at the convention at
'MinGt. r---s1
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-05-15

The Grand Forks Times says
the State Medical association will
meet in that city in 1912. Is the
world going backwards?
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1913-05-15

The Great Northern will give
the men who are employed i'm the
shops at Minot a half day off On
Saturdays during the summer.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-10-03
A NEAT HALL.

The exterior of the Odd Fellows hall
is nearing completion and has develop
ed into a very creditable building.
While more substantial material is de-
sirable in new business blocks and
buildings of a more or less public ma
ture, yet half dozen more such
structures as the Odd Fellows have
put up would make very creditable
addition to the town. Although of
frame the building is well and neatly
built, and the interior corresponds
very favOrably with the exterior in
point of finish The hall, and acces-
sorry apartments on the upper floor,
will fully meet the requirements of
the lodge and give the members very
comfortable and convenient quarters.
The hall has a high ceiling and is
ample in size to accommodate the
lodge for years to come, and will,
when finished and furnished be the
neatest and most attractive lodge room
in the county. In the rear of the hall
is roomy kitchen, modern in
all of it's appointments. The prop
erty rooms are on the third floor, IN
der the roof, thus placing the para
phernalia within easy reach yet out
of the way. The plans throughout are
along the lines of convenience, comfort
and utility. The hall is reached from
the rear by a strongly built and easy
flight of stairs that has two landings.
Taken altogether and the Odd Fellows
have every reason to feel proud of
their new home.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-10-03
WELL REPRESENTED,

Riverside should be we'll satisfied
with the size of the delegation that
>roville sent to the county fair Friday
last. The turn out was all due to the
presence of the railroad, for if people
had to drive the distance over the
roads as they are at present there
would not have been a corporel' s
guard from this place on the grounds.
Special trains were run during the
air and special rates granted, and
people took advantage OF those special
Inducements. The utilization of the
train service was not confined to Oro-
Vile alone, for large delegations trav-
eled to Riverside by rail from To-
nasket, Omak and Okanogan. A crowd
even drove up from Brewster as far
IS Okanogan, taking the train at that
station. Taken altogether and the
train service was an important factor
swelling the Friday attendance at
the fair.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-10-03
A NOVEL CONTEST

G. G. Tilley, manager of the Green
wood, B. c., fair, that is to be held
October 7th and 8th, has framed up
contest that should interest auto
owners in Oroville and the valley.
The proposition is the Offering of
three prizes to the automobiles maxi
ing the fastest time in the run be-
tween Oroville and Greenwood. The
first prize is $25 cash and a silver cup
trophy, with 500 and $40 for the sec
ond and third prizes. The conditions
are that there shall be four or more
passenger cars to make the journey.
The start to made at any time after
. o'clock a. M, October 7th, to suit
competitors, and to arrive in Green
wood not later than p. m. of the
same day. The time of departure of
each machine to be recorded on Of
fetal cards, in duplicate, by E. A..
McMahan, at the jewelry store, and
exact time of arrival will be re-
corded at Mr. Logan's jewelry store
at greenwood. If the race is made,
and it is such new and unusual
'ohtest that car owners should make
a try for the prizes, the trip and the
interesting sights at the Greenwood
fair would be a greater compensa-
ton to those who make the journey
t1an the prizes.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-10-03

where he resided for seven years,
when he moved to Okanogan county
where he has sinced lived. He was
married to Mrs. Luella yelling, at
Spokane, June g 1908. He leaves a
wife, one son, two daughters, two step
sons, four step daughters, and father
and two sisters in Denmark Mr. An
derson was widely known throughout
the north part of the county, and he
was one of the most popular residents
of this place. He was public spirited,
Industrious, upright in all his dealings,
of sunny disposition that endeared
him to all who knew him. In his
death this community loses one of it's
most valuable and best liked citizens.
and the wife and family a devoted
husband and loving father. He was
a member of the Loomis lodge of
Odd Fellows, Rebekahs and Eagles.
The funeral took place Wednesday
afternoon from the M. r. church, Rev.
A. H. Mortar officiating The casket
was covered with flowers, and flowers
were banked up in front of the alter,
testimonials of love from many
friends The church was crowded un-
til there was not even standing room
in the vestibule, and many stood pa
tiently outside the building during the
services. The local Odd Fellows and
Rebekahs turned out in a body. Fully
twenty members of the Odd Fellows
and Rebekah lodges of Loomis, of
which the deceased was a member,
and representatives from Tonasket
and Nelson were present. Interment
was in Odd Fellows cemetery, and the
funeral cortage was the longest ever
seen in the county. At the grave the
Odd Fellows took charge of the cere-
monies. The large crowd that took
part in the last sad rites bore silent
testimony to the popularity of the de-
ceased in his life time
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-10-03
SOLD TWO TRACTS.

During the past week Jas. E. Forde
disposed OF two tracts of orchard
lands in the Ellis-Forde orchard tracts,
south of Oroville, to visitors who came
all the way from Gary, Ind, in COM
pany with j. r. Silkwood for the pur-
pose of looking over the land, and in
vesting if the property looked good to
them. 1t would be more correct to
say that one of the ladies came to see
before investing, as her companion
had already been over the tracts on a
previous visit and was so well pleased
that she made a small investment.
These ladies were Miss Margaret
Pritchard and Miss Anna E. Smith
Each of them bought 10 acres. They
were so we'll pleased with the country
after a stay of several days that they
will probably do considerable mis-
sionary work on their return home,
and through their representations
others may come west and invest in
choice Okanogan valley apple lands,
and they could not use their money
for a better purpose.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-10-03
DOING EXTENSIVE WORK,

The Orc Placer company that Is to
work the bed of the Similkameen river
and the bars and banks of that stream
for placer gold is investing consider
able money in preliminary prepara-
lions A large scow is being built at
Rich Bar, upon which machinery for
saving gold is to be placed and operat-
ed. The upper floor will be divided
up into rooms for the accommodation
of the workmen. The bottom of the
river will be cleaned up by a system
of suction, and where boulders are en-
countered they will be moved out of
the way by means of a heavy hoist
installed especially for that purpose.
There have been many efforts in the
past to extract and save gold in the
Similkameen, but this is the first time
company has gone at 1t the right
way. 1t is the intention of the Orc
Placer company to get the gold out il
there is any there, and the experience
of the past bears out the claim that
the precious stuff is there. If this
company makes a thorough trial with
the appliances provided and fails It
will be hardly worth while for any
body else to try the game. The under
taking should have been started in the
spring, although it is claimed the
system to be applied will work Just
as well in winter. Still we must re-
member that sometimes the winters
are very severe in this country when
outside work is almost impracticable.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-10-03
TRINITY EPISCOPAL MISSION.

Rev. G.. H. Severance M. A. B. d.
Missionary in charge. Services for
Sunday October 5th. Holy communion
and sermon at II. There will be a
celebration of the Holy Communion on
the first Sunday of every month at the
morning service. Sunday school at 12
Evening prayer and sermon at Z.
Our Sunday school is rapidly in
creasing. If your children are not in
Sunday school they will receive a
hearty welcome at our school. 1t is
better to start when the Sunday school
is being organized because you will
then commence with the beginning of
the courses. Our Sunday school will
be run on correct and interesting ped
agogical methods. We solicit your in
tcrest and all are welcome either as
visitors or as regular pupils.
We call your attention to our even
ing services. This service will be
short and helpful. Get in the habit
OF attending these services and you
will soon discover that you cannot
afford to miss them. All are welcome
The rector may be seen after any
service or by appointment at any time
He will be very glad to discuss any
question concerning the position, doc
trine or discipline of that part of the
Holy Apostolic church which is known
rs the Episcopal church.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-10-03
BIG PIANO CONTSET.

announcement was made last week
oI the big voting contest for young
women, with three handsome pianos
as the principle prizes and many other
valuable prizes besides. The contest
Is now fully launched and several
young ladies' have already entered the
race. The field Is open to all who
wish to enter and the opportunity is
equal to all. See the second announce-
mentment on the fourth page of this
issue of the Gazette and read the rules
carefully. Any person is at liberty
to name candidate by securing a
ballot or ballots in the way provided
and explained in the rules.
The names fthe candidates will ap-
pear IN the advertisement next week
anu Dy that time the contest will be
IN full swing. A committee has been
named to count the votes each week.
and the first announcement of the
count will be made in the fifth adver-
tisement.
A ballot box is placed in the busi-
ness house of each firm connected
with the contest, and these will be
opened only when the count is made,
so that each contestant can be as
Sufed or q square deal.
The pianos will soon be on display
so that all can see what the contest
ants are striving for. Already the
minor prizes are displayed for in
spection at the OrOville Pharmacy and
the Frank Bartell & Co. store.
The contest will be carried on SIM
ultaneously in three districts. The
town of Oroville, including all the
area between the junction of the Okla
hogan and Similkameen rivers will
form one district All the country
west of the Similkameen and Okano-
gan rivers will form another district,
and the third district will be all the
territory east of the Okanogan river
One piano will be given away in each
district to the contestant who has the
highest number of votes in that dis
trict at the end of the contest period.
Now is the time for the young ladies
to get busy, and for all their friends
to get busy in their behalf.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-10-03
KNIGHTS OF THE QUILL.

While at the Riverside fair Friday
last We editor had the very great pleas
ure of meeting quite a representation
of the county press, and notwithstand-
ing the great collection of brains with
in a limited aera there were no seis-
mic disturbances noticeable in the
neighborhood. Among the boys of the
quill present were Brinkerhoff of the
Methow Journal, Marble of the Twisp
News, Dodd of the Pateros Reporter,
Woody of the Okanogan Independent,
De Vos of the Omak Chronicle, Put
nam of the Conconully Record and
TOnasket Times, and Skates and Fer
guson of the Riverside Argus, Beal
operator on the Okanogan Independ
ent. Also Proctor, of blessed mem-
ory, formerly of the Riverside Argus.
Good men and true one and all of
them; clean, upright, most likeable
members of the craft, all of them in
the flower of manhood, and each and
every one of them doing his share 20
ward the upbuilding of the Okanogan
country. Owing to the size of the
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-10-03
HAD ENOUGH OF 1T.

Ed. kOlb, of Fond du Lac. Wis. who
Is connected with the Ellemeham Min
ing company, successor to the old
Nlgnthawk Mining company, Is stopp-
ing FOR a few days in Oroville officiat-
ing as 1t were at the obsequies of the
company which he represents. Mr..
Nolb is here for the purpose of selling
off some of the accumulated property
OF the company and winding up it's
affairs. The chances are that the
stockholders will make no further eff
forts, at least for the present, to work
the mine. If they finally elect to aban-
don the property entirely that will
mark the end of a mining enterprise
from which at one time so much was
expected in the way of real and reg
ular producer, and 1t will stand as
another monument to stupidity of
management that has been responsible
for ringing down the curtain on so
many mining projects in this county
started with bright prospects Of sue
cess. Those who are familiar with the
surface mineral showings on the old
Nighthawk will always believe that If
business principles, coupled with per-
'cctly honest expenditure of funds,
had been applied from the beginning
of work the Nighthawk would have
developed into mine of value
Enough money was raised, had it all
gone into development, TO have pushed
the tunnel far enough into the noun
tain to reach the remOtest cropping
edges, thus demonstrating for once
and for all whether mineral existed in
sufficient quantities to make a paying
mine. If part of the large sum spent
IN running the tunnel had been used
in following down on the lodges the
yalue and permanency of those ledges
could have been established, and il the
showing justified then a tunnel would
have been the course to pursue.
Thousands of dollars have been ex-
bonded on the Nighthawk during the
many years since company was first
organized. A gOodly sum was invested
in a stamp mill before sufficient ore
vas uncovered to keep it running. and
that mill has been idle for years. This
purchase was premature, and evident
y fatal mistake on the part Of those
Who dictated the policy of the COM
,any. The Nighthawk may or may
not be the making of mine, but those
Who have furnished the money for ex-
,erimenting in the past have become
tired of the drain, and 1t Is doubtful
+ they ever will do anything more In
he way Of Investigating. They have
.)aid dearly for their experience, and
seem willing to let 1t 60 at that.