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Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-12
Towner's Retail Merchants.

To give a passing index Of the live
merchants who supply the people
with all their wants in this territory
We shall make mention of the more
progressive, the men who believe in
Towner and McHenry county, and are
willing it the light Of publicity:
The Towner Supply company was
Of the leading general merchandise
stores of this section, carrying full
lines of dry goods, boots and shoes,
ladies' ready-to-wear, mems INC boys
clothing. groceries, glassware and
crockery and flour, a general depart
ment store. The business is located
in the First National bank building
and occupies a store Of 25x7o feet and
full basement. besides ware house
24X70 feet. The business is conduct
ed by c. G. Feldman as manager who
came here in February last from
Berthold, North Dakota, where he
held a similar position with the Tenn
pie Cash Store. Mr.. Feldman is a tive
progressive merchant and caters to
the wants of the whole people which
accounts for the success OF the Towner
Supply company.
The Harris Drug Store is one of the
old pioneer business houses of the
Mouse River Loop country, being es-
tabiished in 1898 by w. L. Harris, it's
present proprietor. The stock carried
comprises everything in drugs, drug
gists sundries, toilet and fancy articles
and makes a specially of physicians
prescriptions. There is also a wen
supplied news stand carrying many of
the leading magazines, the Sunday
Minneapolis Journal and the Daily
Grand Forks Herald. Mr.. Harris
WINS his own building, size 24x6O feet,
fitted UP expressly for the drug busi-
ness, making it the equal of any in
his line in the north central North
Dakota.
Sommerdory g. Eynon, general mer-
chants, is n Of the newer business
houses, being established in February,
1907. They occupy the spacious brick
building size 50x70,; with full base
ment, stocked with up-to-date dry
goods, ladies' ready-to-wear, furnish
ings, mems. ladies' and boys shoes.
mems and boys clothing, staple and
fancy groceries, while a big special
line in California fruits which is
handled in a load lots. The trade
o n of this firm covers all the outly-
ing towns for a distance of twenty
miles south and ten miles east.
Mr.. w. f. Sommerdorf, the active
managing head is one of the progress
sive types Of citizens and a member
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-12
VIEW OF OLE HANSON TvEDT FARM, FIVE MILES SOUTHEAST OF
..-". ri TOWNER. #'Ge4 #@g

Of the city council hat is serving UNI
der the unique form of city govern
ment without salary that has done sc
much for the upbuild of Towner.
o. j. Craven, the photographer.
has one of the most complete galleries
in the northwest, covering everything
in cameras, kodak supplies, kodak
fi%nishings. artistic pictures and en-.
largements. He owns his own build.
Ing and in h five and one-half years
he has been here he has made a rep
utation that covers this whole section.
J.. ]. Bertram established the Ber-
tram Hardware store in 1908. It 10
known as the quality house, carrying
all ines Of shelf and other hardware
paints, cutlery, wall paper, quick
meal ranges, Singer sewing machines,
and supplies. occupying a spacious
store building 30xSO feet and ware
house 13X2O.
A. E. Anderson, jeweler and optici-
an, opened his store here in July.
1918. coming from Spring Grove.
Minnesota. Mr.. Anderson is the prin-
cipal matchmaker and jeweler, carry
ing a stock of everything in watches.
diamonds, jewelry, clocks, u glass
ware. decorated china and a line of
the Columbia graphaphones a splendid
line suitable for wedding, birthday
and Christmas presents at popular
prices.
T. w. Heintz is one Of the Oldest
hardware and furniture and undertake
ing establishments in the Mouse River
Valley. The business Of this house
for the past four years has been
der the management of c. F. Haium,
who came here from Upton, South
Dakota. The store has prospered un-
der his management and now that he
is leaving for Brookings. the state
where he goes to take up business will
gain what Towner is losing.
The Towner garage was established
In 1911 by George L. Clodgelter, Its
proprietor, who has been one of the
progressive farmers of this section for
the past eleven years. The Towner
garage occupies a building specially
built for it 40x74 feet, concrete floors
and having a car capacity of twenty
five cars. There is a special vulcan
izing and repair work department,
while all kinds Of Ford repairs are
carried in stock besides other auto
mobil equipment and supplies. The
auto livery part Of the business has
a five-passenger Ford and a seven
passenger Jackson that covers this
whole section for miles and miles
around.
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city of which there are $1,000 acres,
owned by the Northern Trading COM
pany, wner not agents. This valley
was originally homesteaded and was
put to wheat, but it was not a wheat
section, being adapted for cattle rails
ing, dairying, alfalfa. tame grasses,
corn and root crops. An amazingly
fertile soil, a, rich dark sandy mari,
under laid with living water at a
depth of from eight to fifteen feet,
making it adapted. to the growing Of
alfalfa. 1t is naturally a stock rails
ing section, the whole surface being
gently rolling and covered with mag
nificient natural meadow grass, which
produces thousands of tons of native
hay. 1t Is in the good road section
with telephone service to e farm
home, the best of schools and
churches and tributary to Towner, the
county seat Of McHenry. This whole
valley is being colonized, and there is
room for hundred and twenty new
farm homes Of neShundred and sixty
each for those who desire to embark
in stock raising, dairying, alfalfa and
corn and wheat Is generally termed
diversified farming. The land has
been blocked of In 40, 80, 100, 320
and $40 acre units and is priced at
$40 to $50 an acre in twenty pay
ments.
C. T. Sinderson came here from
Waverly, Iowa in 1913 and bought $40
acres eleven miles south. Of Towner In
the Alfalfa Valley. E The crops grown
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-12
KAISER PICTURED
AS A new YORKER
London Financial News De-
clares He Has Invested
Heavily on this Side.

London Sept. IAN article
which appeared in. The Financial
News yesterday, said. ~
No doubt the defeat of Gertnany
means for the Kaiser either death at
his own or somebody else'e hands. or
else fight to a non-Teutonic soii.
Ever since Germany began to
make preparations for. an .attack on
Belgium, France. Holland. England,
and. ultimately, the United States, the
Kaiser has been investing immense
sums on the other side Of tho Atlantic.
He Is one OF the largest landowners in
western states. not in his own name,
Of course. He owns considerable sec,
lions OF property in Western Canada.
These enormous Investments In
America indicate very plainly thatAshs
Kaiser at h time he preparing
to stake the fortunes or his dynasty
upon an attempt at the Leonquest1o OF
Western Europe, also was Preparing
for the possibility Of failure by con-
solidating his huge financial resources
in h United States and the .donninf-
on in case he had to escape to that
part of the world. II he cannot be
boss Of western Europe he means 10
have the finest house on Fifth Ave-
MIA tJ-rEHT 100
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-12
SAW LOUVAIN BURN
Girl in Dondon Descxfh.a
he Scene.

o 1SSASAs ..Ha.L.#r-
London Sept. 12.-Marguerfte
O~stterbreick, a 16-year-old American
girl from Millerville, ILL.,, arrived in
London yesterday after an adventure
Gus trip from Louvain, the burning OF
which she witnessed.
The girl was visiting Flemish rela-
tfves ne aTLouvain when the village
where her relatives lived was burned,
They went into Louvain. She said that
the first sign Of trouble was when two
German soldiers maltreated and killed
several girls. These soldiers were
promptly shot by their own officers.
but the feeling of the populace against
the invaders had grown very intense.
The German soldiers, according to
Miss U~sttebreick, made no secret Of
their destination to make the Be1gfans
suffer for the indigntities which they
claimed the German residents had suf-
h outbreak of the q
The girl described the destruction
OF Louvain and the terrible firing in
the streets that continued for two
days as q sight that had been burned
into her memory. Her father and &
l5-year-old brother who were also IN
LouvAin disappeared and she believed,
tnat they had been made prisoners n
Germans. Seeking to locate them.
Miss U~stebreick made her way into
Germany on q German prison train
that was loaded with British and Bcl-
eian captives. She was unable to mo
her relatives. and appealed to the
American consuls In various cities.
The investigations OF the constls sAtis-
ned them that the father and brother
were held at some German concentra-
ton camp. The girl then made 4 DIM
cul trip b Cologne, where she met
her aged mother and brought her With
her to London. Mother and dAn4hter
are now being aided by the American
relief committees
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-12
CASUALTY REPORTS
Chief berlin news
-, - g.
Official Gazette Prints Lists
Of Losses at Rate Of
1000 Daily.
Correspondence. OF the Associated
f.. Z We PrasS n.

Correspondence. OF the Associated
Press.). ....... -
Berlin Sept. 12.--This written at
the end OF nearly four weeks of the
European war. A series OF gigantic
battles along the western front, from
Brussels to the Swiss frontier, has
been fought; on the east the Rus
slams, despite repeated reverses, have
poured into East Prussia and occu-
pied in force the eastern end of this
long, exposed tongue Of German soil.
thrust out between Russian Poland
and the Baltic sea. and as yet, the
only regular, detailed features of. war
news for the German public are the
daily casualty lists.
War bulletins furnish scant reading
for anxious German eyes. The army
leaders can announce the occupation
of Brussels Of LieRe in seven words
and the rout Of eight French army
corps in ninety-barely one word for
each mile of front covered by this
great battle in Lorraine: but day after
day the Official Gazette rolls out its
long list Of killed. wounded and miss
ing at the rate now Of nearly a thou
sand day. These cover. only the
preliminary fighting between the
q great struggles on the French from
tier: the reports from the great bat
ties near Metz, Longwy and Neufcha-
SCdup With SAACA COIllklIdHOS Oh CASUAL.
ties, are yet to come.
The names march by in long COL
un1ns Of the of1cial Gazette. arrayed
with military precision by regiments
and companies. batteries. or sdua-
drons-frst the infantry and then
cavalry. artillery. and transport serv-
lice. The company lists are headed
usually by, the names OF the officers,
killed OF. wounded; then come the
casualties from the enlisted strength,
first the dead, then the wounded and
the missing.
A feature Of these early lists is the
large proportion Of this last class, re-
ports from some units running mon
ing or wounded ana missing" In
mute testimony Of scouting patrols
which did not return or Of regiments
compelled to retire and leave behind
them dead. wounded, and prisoners, or
sometimes Of men wandering SO far
from their comrades in the confusion
3re5oin their companies for days.
Wounds Are Described,
An attempt Is made with the
wounded to. give the nature and loca-
stion Of the wound. These as yet are
principally from rifle or shrapnel fire.
A scanty few in the cavalry are la
belled lance thrust" indicating that
as yet the favofite weapon Of the
European cavalry has not done the
damage expected Of It. although the
latest reports of the war correspond
sence in the east indicate that the
lance Ii now, coming more Into play In
the ,engegsments between the Russian
and German cavalry divisions.
Only n death from sickness has
9sbeen reported.
I The wastA Of war has opened room.
Il FOR the volunteers. OF the 1900, 900
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-12

@.E 100000 W.
ground has been dedicated to the gar
den and root crops, while there are
24o acres in1wheat, 100 barley, 80
oats, SIS fax, 10 De corn and the ball
ance in meadow. Every acre Of the
Tvedt farm is a crop producer.
Robert German. located one mile
east of Towner, homcsteaded and pre-
empted 500 acres in 1886 and has
since increased his holdings to 1,120
acres. There is a well matured 6-acre
grove of cottonwood, willows and box
elders. An e has been set to small
fruit, plums. currants, g~ooseberries
and strawberries, all of which have a
large yield, while in the garden there
were all varieties of vegetables and
root crop In farm crops 300 acres
Of wheat( so oats, 20 fax and 100 bar
ley. All of these crops will have
more than an average yield. The stock
on the farm consists of 10 head of
horses, ~ head Of cattle, IA hogs and
SO chickens. The soil is a rich black
sandy loan, with suh-soil Of clay, very
fertile in plant life.
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-12

Haman docs his own threshing, own
successful, coming here with only his
bare hands without a dollar capital,
but now WINS a magnificent farm, it's
stock and machinery all free from
debt, every dollar of it having been
earned from the fertility of the soil.
Hans Jorgersen started as a home-
steader in 1887, taking up $50 acres.
His present farm of $50 acres is To-
Gated three miles southeast of Town
er. The farm buildings consisting of
a roomy well built farm house, horse
and cattle barn, granary, hog pen,
and poultry house, built within the
circle of a 6-acre grove Of boXelders,
willows and evergreens. The water
supply is pumped by a gasoline en-
CINE from an S6-foot deep we'll. The
crops consist Of 80 acres of wheat, so
of oats, IS of corn and 60 acres in
meadow or hay lands. In the garden
there are all kinds of small fruits,
c%urrants, raspberries, gooseberries and
PiuAASb ia dIliplc SpoSC 40 oAOSICu "
growing root crops. potatoes, cab
bages, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions,
beets, carrots and r%utabagas. In
stock there are 16 head Of ~shorthorns,
Is head of horses besides the colts,
So hogs and 200 chickens. The soil is
a black sandy mari loan.
c. A. Hanson, q native Of Denmark,
located on 320-acre farm three and a
half miles southeast Of Towner in
1880. There is a 20-acre grove of ash,
elm and boxelder, in the circle Of
which is the farm buildings, house
barn, granary, poultry and hog
houses, while the garden is just be-
yond, set to cherry and plum trees
and other small fruits, all bearing.
The vegetable and root crops will
have record making yields. The farm
crops, consist Of 100 acres Of wheat, Is
oats, - corn, 4 fax, barley Is and 100
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-12

Make music sweet, as TIL allow.
i love to hear the watchdog bay
Those spectral shadows In the moon.
But most I love the horns that play
The witching dinner call at noon.
The guinea's chatter gives delight,
The braying mule$I love to hear,
The turkeys gobble is all right,
{; The peafowrs yell makes glad my
ear;s 55St
The twitter Of the birds is sweet,
SOL IL the tree frogs drowsy long.
But dinner horns that tell Of meat,
! sing their praises good and strong.
The sleepy gable OF the geese.
The cats nocturnal. eerie squawl,
The screech OWLS .screech, bring Joy
and peace,
I love these rural noises, all.
The summons to inhuman toll
I do not loathe on frosty morns,
Because 1t I'd a pleasing foil
Unto those dulcet dinner horns.
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-12

conditions.
Some trades, however. are affected
in the opposite direction. Bakers and
butchers are being advertised for: SO:
service with the.troopsSthat for q time,
interruptions in the city's. supply of
bread and meat were feared. Brew
ers ara also in demand. the breweries
being In full operation to supply the
increased demand, from the cafes and
restaurants, where the public gather
to await the var news: and soldiers.
tailprA.t and carpenters are working
overtime to supply the needs Of ths
army.
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-12
FAT woMAN LOST OUT.
Forfeited Wager and Went to Hospital
az Result Of lifting Contest.
lNeW YORK SUM-

AS the result OF a small wager, Mrs.
Elizabeth Weir, ~ years old. Of
Brooklyn, who tips the scales at 800
pounds, is in Long Island College hos
pital suffering from compound frac-
ture of the ankle.
From what the police could learn.
Mrs. Weir and Mrs. Mary Flynn, so.
years old, off, Vine street, had a dis
cussion over their relative strength.
(Mrs. Flynn weighs 1870 pounds.)
They decided to hoist each other in
turns up q rope attached to q pulley.
Mrs. Weir was the first and the last
OF the disputants to be hoisted. She
had risen ten feet above the ground
when Mrs. Flynn lost her grip.
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-12
The Alfalfa Valley.

Among other sections of the Mouse
River Loop country tributary to
Towner, McHenry county, North Da-
kota, ia that of the Alfalfa Valley,
situated some eight miles south Of this
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-12
THE RAGTIsiE MUSE.
Farm SymphonY,

! love to hear the clucking hen,
/ love to hear the lowing COW,
The pigs a-suuealing In the pen
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to 60. Tbs Illustration shows a COM
pany Of them tied up while Belgian
soldiers from a distance are shooting
them down.
These Uhlans have overspread Bel
GUM and part of France during the
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-12

war. It was their business to cut
telegraph and telephone wires ahead
of the main army and spread terror
among the peasants. They invariab-
~ tried to make a show of force to
prove Their numbers were much great
er than they really were.
Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-12

Belsians shot down Uhlans, the
crack German cavalry, by the score
when they made their sorties over the
country by ehtangling them in barbed
wire fences through which their
horses sometimes found 1t impossible
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-10-01
FRENCH CLAIMING PROGRESS
German Announcement Reports Ad.
vance RepuIsed.

London, Sept. 2S.-Along almost
two-thirds of the great battle line
across Northeastern France the ar
mics of the allies and Germany fought
fiercely, at some points with the bayo-
net, and statements from both sides
are worded with the optimism which
characterized all these official pro-
nouncements.
The French claimed marked prog
regg. The German announcement from
Berlin, though insisting that the ad-
vance had been repulsed, nevertheless
referred to it as an advance.
Elsewhere along the battle front
neither side seems to have achieved
any notable success.
The continued forward movement of
the Russian troops in Galicia, the ap.
pearance of German aircraft dropping
bombs over various places in Belgium
and again in Paris and Warsaw, and
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-10-01
WILL BUILD LINE IN 1915
Great Northern Read Will Start Work
Next Spring.


Work on the Great Northern line
between New Rockford. n. d., and
I.ewistown, Mont, will be started next
spring, in spite OF the European war,
according to assurances received from
Great Northern officials. Some work
has been done east of LewistoWn and
there is a stretch of road built from
Circle, Mont. to Watford. The work
next spring will be to connect these
points.
Crews will be started from New
Rockford westward and from Watford
eastward and west from Circle and
east from Grass Range.
An effort will be made to do all the
construction work in 1915, as a short
err route is wanted for eastern ship
ments originating in the western part
of North Dakota and eastern Montana.
The line will furnish an outlet for
some of the best territory in the north
west.
New Rockford people also presented
the idea of an east line from there to
Larimore to make a shorter route to
Duluth and to the central and eastern
part of that state. No announcement
was received and nothing will be done
until after the line to Lewistown is
finished.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-10-01
FEARS ENGLAND ON WATER
German Secretary Of State Talks
About Present War.

Rome, via Paris, Sept. 2S.-The fate
of the German colonies will not be
decided in the Pacific or in Africa.
but on the European battletieds. Such
was the assertion made by DR.. w. S.
Solf, German secretary Of state for
colonies and former governor of Ger
man Samoa, in speech in Berlin, ac-
cording to a dispatch from the Ger
man capital.
DR.. Solf said he hoped that in the
European theater of war the Germans
finally would defeat our worst enc
mics, the English, which is a more
difficult task than many imagine.
Germany does not fear England on
land, but or sea, he added, where she
must face the most powerful fleet in
the world, in addition to the Japanese
navy"
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Taken Up.

A bay work mare about six years
old came to my place short time
ago. She has three white feet and u
white star in forehead, and branded
thus~7 on the right thigh. She also
had - on rope halter. Owner
will ~ please call at the {. a. Ours
tin ranch, northwest OF Malta. it'll
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-10-01
.11E:V|SINM0N1IThNA
Events Happening in Various
Parts Of the State.
DAVID RICE PASSES AWAY
Pioneer Resident and Former Assessor
Of Cascade County Dies at Age
of Seventy seven.

The death of David Rice Of Rice
Vile, pioneer of Cascade county,
widely known in the state, occurred at
his home in the town named. He was
seventy-seven years of age and came
to Montana in 1882. He came from
California, but was a native of Yer
mont. He erected charcoal kilns at
Riceville and supplied mining COM
panies in that region with fuel, &C
cumuating considerable property. He
was county assessor of Cascade county
for two terms, elected as a Repub-
lean. He leaves two sons and daugh-
ter He was a Mason.
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KILLS WIFE AND HIMSELF
Slain Woman Gained Notoriety by
Murder of Former Spouse.

John Murpheson, billiard hall pro-
prietor, shot and killed his wife and
himself at San Francisco, Cal, after
a quarrel in down town hotel
Mrs Murpheson gained notoriety in
June, 1910, by shooting and killing
her divorced husband, Reese Prosser,
on 3 railroad train at Libby. Mont,
Prosser, an automobile salesman, had
obtained a divorce in Seattle two
weeks previously and started fos
Cleveland, O., where he came of a
we'll known family.
The woman, intent on revenge
boarded the same train. She was
tried in Montana for murder and &C
Quilted
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Wealthy Sheepman's Son Killed.

Bernard Ebert of Livingston, mar
ried last spring to Bonnie Shadoan and
son Of Napoleon Ebert, a wealthy
sheep owner, was killed in fall from
a sheep train at Dickinson, N. D., on
the way to Burlington, Wis.
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Kills Wife and Himself.

Lincoln, Neb. Sept. 2S.-Oscar
Brown killed his wife and shot him.
self in a hotel which the woman
conducted jealousy is said to have
been the cause of the tragedy. The
couple leaves six small children.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-10-01
Accidentally Shoots Son.

Harold Arthur l4istoe thirteen-year-
old son Of MIR. and Mrs Julius Listoe
of Libby, was accidentally shot in
the right shoulder by his father with
a small rifle and died soon afterward.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-10-01

A choice lot of kitchen furniture
for sale. Inquire at this otlic. tito
| have a buyer for 5000 acres good
farm land. Must he in one body.
Talk to Kramer.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-10-01
Court Refuses Appeals.

An oral order was entered by the
state supreme court dismissing the
application of President Mcdonald OF
the Mine Workers union of Butte;
Owen Smith, Joseph Bradley, d. w.
Malone Ed Ross and James Chapman,
for writs Of habeas corpus to procure
their release from jail in Butte, where
they are held by the state militia