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"PickWick" Wash Suits Specially Priced at$2.95

The Wash lSnits that have brought fCs:;, admiration, sales, too, from many mothers-because they are differently new. Everything boy needs-from shoes to hats at RaA@HiS Mail Orders From $1 Up With Cash, Dc
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Are You One OF Those
Who Habitually Catch Cold ?
Investigation Shows That Certain Occupations and Professions
Are Constantly Prolific Causes For Frequent Colds
What Can Be Done About It9
What Can Be Done About It9

medical only entertains but does not in.
suc In this strenuous period when life strain
need Light and facts how disease than
Do know that the clerk and
sedeny creating conditions
that condnce to colds?
Mental iatgue worry heavy resulting from desk
store ara the easiest for colds
LIE o. less than
sedentary m especially where tissue
leads veran
eating
When the digestive
liver and kidneys and other important vital vitality
and there less reance which ordinary
conditions causes harm, results in bad cold
10 relieve cold good
should be conveniently at hand be taken attack
But what be frequency people
that are confined to sedentary work?
H cold towel walk
vote an hur Of outdoor pERuNA before
meal to up eat moderately retire early and
full Of ffeah air
Mr. Richardson, substantial druggist Marine Illinois
mentlng On the merits medicines
been engaged the retail pas forty
years During this time have medicines
Tor then gradually disappear There
ew enough long
Pesuna
The change the formula
slightly laxative made remedy constipation
and for colds brother duggs
it for these two aiImentzn
Those who wish the cold copy
Of Ills ofIa Ssnt hss b. the peruna %, Columbus Ohio
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b. r. sTREETER.

To-day new year opens its many
possibilities. and with il will come
the usual many changes. To the
Record, too, there comes change.
The founder or. perhaps one Of the
founders, for the writer's mother
had much 10 do with its founding
retires from the field Of active duty
after a period Of thirty years. lack
ing only few months. Nearly
thirty years Of close application and
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1914-01-01

A period of thirty years is a long
time. 1t is within few months of
that time since founded the Rec.
ord. 1t was shortly after the or
Ranization of the county-a county
that by the census of 1880, four
years previous--possessed but thir.
ty-eight men, women and children
within its borders. and these COM
prised few families residing on or
near the banks Of the Missouri river.
When the Record was started there
was no mail service between Will
Transport. it's place Of publication,
and the outside world. There was a
postoffice at the county-seat, but for
. couple of months after began the
publication of the paper there was
no mail service. Winchester and
Winona were settled in 1884, and. in
addition to postofiices at those
places, there were Offices at Glencoe,
Gayton, Livona and Emmonsburg-
oil of the points named, except
Winchester. being served by a mail
route between Bismarck and Winona
Tor, rather. Fort Yates. which was
the southern end of the mail service)
route which had been established
several years. Before the first mail
route serving Williamsport was es-
tablished, the mail of the Williams
port country was sent to or received
from the Capital City by the medi-
UNI Of farmers or others with teams
who went to Bismarck on business.
As 1884 was the first crop.year, I'M
til the fall everything consumed by
man and beast in the Williamsport
country had to be hauled from Bis
marck, and every day a number of
teams passed over the road. Hence,
the lack of a government mail
route was not 80 much of a draw
back as it would now appear to be.
The number of copies Of the Rec
ord at its first issue. and for several
months thereafter, was seventy.five,
and there were not many more than
that number of heads of families in
the county. Until the mail route
was established the papers, except
those for the home nelghborhood
were sent to Bismarck and from
there distributed copies for the Of
fees above named. except Winches-
ter. reaching such Offices by the Bis.
marck-Y Yates mail.
The first mail route established in
the Williamsport region was be.
tween Bismarck and Glendale, in
Dickey county. AS we remember it,
Williamsport received mail from
Bismarck three times week.
Messrs. Murphy and Cochran were
the mail.drivers, the former between
Bismarck and Roop and the latter
between Roop and Glendale. Every
trip from Glendale Cochran would
have stories for Emmons county folks
about smallherd of buffalo that " ere
grazing down near the dividing line
Of Mcintosh and Dickey counties.
There were twenty-five or thirty an
imals in the herd. and during the
summer and fall they were all
killed.
The writer first went to Bismarck
in April, 1881. He had known M.
H. Jewell slightly in Chicago, where
Mr.. Jewell was foreman of a daily
paper known as the Courier, which
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soon went to occupy space in the
journalistic boneyard. had come
eur 10 see the country and if possible
find place where ] could work for
myself instead of fer some one else
IA motive that h2esioverned a large
majority OF the setthss who have
come to this sectjon--later arrivals
as well as those OF an earlier date.
When reached Bismarck found
that Lounsberry & Jewell. publish
ers of the Weekly Tribune, were
thinking of establishing daily edi-
ton, and Mr.. Jewell wished me to
stay and help him out as compost
tor with the new daily until he could
obtain another printer. found the
country too new for the establish.
ment of country newspapers, unless
coyotes, deer and antelope were the
subscribers. So | concluded to 90
back to Chicago and work there a
couple of years and then come out
to remain permanently. This
course l pursued.
In June. 1888, my wife (Mrs.
Josephine Streeter, mother Of F. B.
Streeier) and myself reached Bis
marck. At that time, owing to the
boom caused by the removal Of the
territorial capital from Yankton to
Bismarck. there were three dailies
in the new Capital City-the Trib-
une. morning paper. and the Ad-
vertIser and the Capital. evening
sheets. The evening papers died when
the boom burst in the fall of 'S3.
The writer secured a job on the
Miles City (Mont.) Yellowstone
journal, but in the early winter re-
turned to Bismarck and worked on
the Tribune until February, when,
believing that the country was still
too new for the starting of country
papers. | returned 70 Chicago and
went to work on the Herald. leaving
my wife to sell out our household
effects and a couple of cottages on
Eighth street.
The wife, however, mad had some
experience of the unhealthfulness
and discomforts for husband who
was employed on morning news
paper, and who had to lose day
when they wanted to visit theater
or an evening social function of any
kind. She knew that, even with good
wages, a family amid the city allure
ments must needs be largely of the
tightwad order to be able to save
anything. Although she had never
been out Of Chicago from the time
she arrived from Canada as child
of two years of age. until she went
to Bismarck, she liked this country
greatly. and disliked to return to
the city, knowing as she did that it
was almost impossible for people of
small means to make much Roadway
there. 1t 81 happened that
roomed in Chicago about the same
distance from my work that my
home in Bismarck was from the
Tribune office; but | felt the cold
much more during February and
March in the big city than during
the December and January in Bis
marck, and wearing the same guam
ity of clothing, too. Every letter
received from my wife told of the
clear, bright, invigorating weather
they were having on the Missouri
Slope; while in Chicago it was as cold
as Medicine Hat one day. then sleet,
and then slush. AS matter of fact,
] didn't want to leave Dakota, but
saw no prospects otherwise.
H*~
During the winter my wife be-
came acquainted in Bismarck with
two ladies (Mrs. Halstead and Miss
Taipe), whose families were to set
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reason barring sickness or misfor-
tunewhy itwould not be possible
toduplirate the period OF service
rendered by the man whose phase /
shall now attempt to fll.
50
] shall at all times welcsme fair.
criticism; and, further. will deem it
2 favor to receive suggestions from
Record readers which might lead to
the bettering Of the paper. have
not the advantage Of long years Of
experience ana ample reading in
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to be lenient as to shortcomings.

Although he is retiring from ac.
tive connection with the Record, n.
is hoped that we will have the bana
|sfit Of occasional articles in the orig
inal style Of composition and com
tanning the results of a wide range
OF general information which has
made the Record and its editor we'll
known oyer the entire state.
Yours very truly, 81
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1914-01-01
HII0Ns COUNTY RECORD
lfnsm; .Nwsh Dakota.
BY F. B. sTRERTHR,
PIONEER PAPER or THE COUNTY

The Record Is entered ut Linton Pos,of'ice
- second-clnss matter
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~ - o. fN' ~
As toour future policy, | pro-
pose to let that take care of itself.
slnheriting some Of the character
3istics of the older generation Of
lstreeters, 4 believe can safely say
that | shall attempt TO fulfill my
duties to my readers uninfiueneerl
by personal solicitation from
any individuals, cliaues or combine
tions. My aim will be to give TO the
Record readers the facts in all cases
just as they areto be found. ! desire
to be fair TO all. and I expecttha usu-
al amount Of condemnation and criti-
.cism. ! hope TO improve the nle-
chanical department of the Record
as the income from 1T allows. i
have 9 firm faith in the future Of
Emnlons county and the state ii,
-. 4 ~.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1914-01-01

For two years the writer has been
a Record publisher. taking a half
interest in the firm of d. r. Steeter
& Son in January, 1912. Since that
time | have ATTEMPTED to take a
closer view of the requirements of
the paper and of its readers, and
have become actively engaged in
business dealings with the people Of
the county. In assuming charge Of.
the Record ] hope to be able to view
closer than ever those requirements,
and ! deem it worthy aim to fur
Their the efforts Of its founders the
writer's father and mother and the
writer feels that they will be amply
repaid if he succeeds in some meas.
lure in keeping it in the same posi-
tion.it now holds in the affairs Of
the town, county and state in which
it is published.
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low figure. ! was advised to take
the Fort Yates stage and go down to
some point about east of The Syndi-
cate Township and then walk across.
/ took the advice. At Glencoe the
stage stopped at the residence of the
late Charles Robinson, where the
postoffice WIS located. He told me
it would be the part Of wisdom for
me to stop there, as the twenty
mile trip to Williamsport was over
better trails. The kind old man al
so walked with me in the rain con-
siderable distance to show me the
Bismarck Williamsport trail, at a
point not far from where Tom
Sanders used to live. Al it was
raining and the snow was not yet all
melted, the roads we're very bad.
and / was glad whine / reached the
lhospltable mansion Of Bob Burhan-
an, of which Bob was owner and
Jack Goughnour "chief cook and
bottle-washer." There / was given
two big feeds and a nights lodging,
and next morning saddled up
Shank i mare and departed. As the
writer has before stated in pioneer
"reminiscences in the Record, there
was little shoemaker with me. He
weighed about l15 pounds, was a
bachelor. crankier than Old Nick,
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U. 9. we.ther ana Crop Report.

Denver.-The weather was excep-
tionally favorable during last week.
There was an abundance OF sunshine.
mean temperatures were above the
normal, and there was but little rain
fall. according to the United States re-
port. All crops made satisfactory
growth, and under ideal weather con-
ditions the harvesting Of grain con-
tinued with good yield. In localities in
the south-central part Of the state.
where haying had been delayed by
continued rains. the second crop OF
alfalfa has been practically harvested
and such progress has been made In
the harvesting Of grain. Range grass
10 curing nicely. Sugar bsets and
corn are maturing; some corn has
been cut. with good yield. Early po-
tatoes are being marketed in western
localities. Ranges continue in general
ly good conditions. The third crop Of
alfalfa is nearly ready to harvest in
western and eastern counties. The
fruit crop ID exceptionally fine. and
much fruit will be ready to ship with
in Q week or two.
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MRS. A. POTTER IS DEAD
pIEs At COLORADO SPRINGS
FROM TUBERCULOSIS.
Her Second Husband Died Suddenly =
Month AGO From Heart Disease
on Cheyenne Peak.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Colorado springs.-Mrs. Ashton Pot
ter, one OF the leaders in Colorado
Springs and Denver society circles,
died after long illness from tubercu-
losis. rf5s
Her second husband, Ashton Potter.
died suddenly = month ago in cabin
ON Cheyenne peak from heart disease.
He was formerly q regular army Off
Ger. The couple were married after
both had obtained divorces about five
years ago.
Mrs. Potter's maiden name was
Grace Goodyear. and her first hus-
band was Ganson Depew, a nephew
Of Chauncey Depew. former New York
senator. She Is survived by one son,
GansoA Depew and daughter. Her
son was with her at the time OF
death.
Ell Pomar, noted ~ one Of the most
beautiful homes In Colorado Springs,
was whore Mrs Potter succumbed. 1t
was the residence built by Ashton
Potter when Mrs. Potter became his
bride.
Mrs. Potter had been in \ critical
condition for several days.
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SPORT.

Vancouver, by winning at Seattle
while Seattle lost gained the North
western League pennant.
Larry Lejeune. leading hitter Of the
Western League and star member Of
the Sioux City ball club, has been sold
to the Pittsburg Nationals.
Special telegraph service from all
the race tracks in the British Isles
has been suspended during the war
by order Of the postmaster general.
]. C. McGill, president of the Indi.
annapolis American Association base
ball club, admitted that he had dis
cussed with C. H. Thomas, president
of the Chicago Nationals. the possibil-
McGill obtaining an interest in the
Chicago club.
The st. Leger stakes Of $500 sov-
ereigns for colts and fillies foaled in
1911, distances about one mile and
six furlongs, was run at Doncaster,
Eng, and won by ]. B. Joels Black
Jester. Sir John Thursby's Kenny
more was second and his Cressingham
was third. Eighteen horses ran.
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I lamps, the last being used principally
In park lighting.
The best lighted thoroughfare in
New York today, In fact In this whole
country, is Fifth avenue. Lighting az
pcrts after comparing this street with
the best lighted streets In London and
Berlin. are of the opinion that the
American method of Illuminating this
highway is by far the best yet reached.
Fifth avenue, once q dark and
gloomy tunnel, began to attract atten-
tion as particularly we'll lighted
street, beautiful vista of glowing
arcs, when in 1892 1t was frst lighted
with the Ward type Of multiple two-in-
series. and the installation OF these
lamps was .se foundation OF the pres
ent efficient arc lamp equipment in
New York streets.
The city is still experimenting in
street illumination. looking to the Inn
provement OF the system in general.
The Great White Way which attracts
at night the visitor to the city like the
magnet does the needle. il, of course.
the brightest spot on Manhattan
island. But 1t is not the city. but the
individual, the advertiser, who makes
1t SO.
New York merchants stand In line
and fight over their position for the
use of some electric Sign sites. SO
eager are they to add to the general
glare emanating from upper Broad
way. One single man will pay from
$4,000 to $4,000 year for q good
site, and he's glad to do It. It 10 esti-
mated that more than a million dollars
is spent yearly in site rentals alone.
Displays on Broadway.
As near as can be estimated there
are at least 5.1O0 electrical displays on
Broadway between Twenty-third street
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HELD FOR FIXING FOOD PRICES
rhIrty.feur Dealers indicted by Fed
eral Grand Jury.

washington. Thirty two indict
ments were returned here by federal
grand Jury after an investigation to
determine whether food prices had
been artificially increased on the pre-
text Of having been caused by the Eu.
ropean war. Bench warrants werets.
sued for all the indicted men. who are
local commission merchants or prod.
duce dealers, and bail was arranged
for their appearance in court. No ma
tionally known concerns were In
dicted.
The indictments charge that they
have been fixing prices every day on
foodstuffs by ballots" or "susses-
tions," or verbal agreements. and that
the fixed prices have becn circulated
by printed circulars. The indictments
are under the Sherman law and con
yiotion carries fine Of 5000 or one
years imprisonment, or both.
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'treet, having nearly

and Fifty-ninth street. having nearly
million lamps.
That the cost Of lighting the Great
White Way for ten or twelve blocks
In the environs Of Forty-second street
mounts into millions each year is gem
orally admitted by electric experts
just how many they cannot say.
1t must not be thought for an in
stant that the white-light district Is
the only section Of the big town in
which electrical signs are to be found.
as aside from those on Broadway at
least 5000 OF them are distributed in
various other sections of the borough
of Manhattan. These contain at tho
lowest estimate 100000 lamps. which
contribute 100000 added candle
power to the general illumination.
Brooklyn has 1000 more electric
signs to its credit. which are respon-
sible for 100000 additional candle
power. while in the Bronx, Queens and
Richmond sections many more cleo
trio signs are to be found doing their
part toward making Greater New
York at night the most brilliant city
in the world.
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preliminary Estimate.
Comparison of the September with
the August forecasts will show the
change in bushels in the harvest pros
ects as effected by weather and other
conditions during August.
Details of each crop, other than to-
tai production follow:
Spring Wheat-Condition, sS per
cent of a normal, compared with 75.6
last month. 1873 last year and 76.6
the ten-year average. Indicated acre
yield, 1872 bushels, compared with 1873
the five-year average.
Corn-Condition, 71.7 per cent. COM
pared with TAB last month, 65.1 last
year and 1874 the ten-year average.
Indicated acre yield, 24.9 bushels. COM
pared with 259 the five-year average.
oats-Condition. 75.s per cent. COM
pared with 1914 last month, 74.0 last
year and 791 the ten-year average.
Indicated acre yield. 81 bushels. COM
pared with sos the five-year average.
Barley-Condition, 1874 per cent.
compared with s5.3 last month, 73.4
last year and sO.2 the ten.year aver
age. Indicated acre yield. 1858 BUSH
els. compared with 24.3, the five-year
average.
Buckwheat-Conditio 87.1 per cent.
compared with SS.s last month, 75.4
last year and 1874, the ten-year aver
age.
White Potatoes-C 1853 per
cent, compared with 100 last month.
6s9 last year and $50. the ten-year
average. Indicated acre yield. SO
bushels. compared with s7.1, the five
year average.
Sweet Characterization. s1.8 per
cent, compared with 755 last month.
s1.4 last year and s5.2. the ten-year
average. Indicated acre yield. SO bush
els, compared with 92.7. the five-year
average.
characterization, TIA per cent,
compared with 665 last month, 74.5
last year and sos, the ten-year aver
age. Indicated acre yield. 729 pounds,
compared with s151 pounds, the five
year average.
Flax-Condition. 72.7 per cent, COM
pared with S2.1 last month. 74.s last
year and s0.4. the ten year average.
Indicated acre yield, 80 bushels, COM
pared with 7.s, the five-year average.
Rice-Conditions, $50 per cent, COM
pared with 87.6 last month, $50 last
year, and S8.7. the ten-year average.
Indicated acre yield. 34.5 bushels.
compared with 33.3, the fiveyear ay-
erage.
Hay-Condition, - per cent, ocm-
pared with S6.7 last month. Indicated
acre yield 1.42 tons, compared with
l.S4 tons, the nve-year average.
Apples Condition, 61.a per cont,
compared with 61.3 last month. AT
last year and 53.6, the ten-year aver
age.
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outside world. Here and there. In the
very heart OF It high spots OF illumina-
ton, veritable aisles Of light reveal
parks and public squares.
Viewed as q whole, it's a wonderful
mination. And then, by way Of con-
trast to think that ten years ago New
York was down and out as a well light.
ed city.
Electricity long freely used in other
towns had hardly come Into use and
feeble gas lamps with open fame were
in the majority. with only here and
there. at rare intervals, arc lamps and
mantle gas lamps mixed in.
Then, one day, Just a decade back.
the people woke up. They were tired
of stumbling home through dismal
streets. and Of being held up and re-
heved Of their valuables under cover
Of the darkness. A general demand
was made that something be done
quickly to improve the street lighting.
The city was heard, and then, as AL
addin rubbed his lamp electricity be-
ued and the arc lamps were practically
gan to come into its own. The flick
ering open flame lamps were discontin-
doubled in number at avenue and
street intersections. and symmetrical
ly arranged on street house lines. The
city began to be really lit up.
City engineers and central station
men worked like beavers to improve
conditions. once their interest was
aroused, and in the short space of the
time mentioned, the street lighting of
New York was revolutionized until its
present effectiveness Is the admiration
and wonder of all visitors.
In New York today there are S3.746
street lights. both arc and incandes-
cent. There are 1880 arcs and 1891
incandescents and every one OF them
is burning every night In the year. In
the borough OF Manhattan alone 1854
arc lamps are employed to light the
city's main thoroughfares and cross
streets, as well as 1897 incandescent