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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-12-24
Never Hind an Doctor.

Ravenna, Nebraska, Dew. 15-Mich-
ael Kneiss, resident of Ravenna, is
100 years old, yet he never spent n
dollar for medical attendance in his
life.
He has all his teeth except two,
which he extracted himself, with n
pair Of pincerS several years ago.
Until after he was 80 years Ok age his
eyesight was unimpaired and he now
uses glasses only for reading and
very particular work
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-12-24
HORSE STEAKS FOR NEW YORK
First American City to Follow In The
Wake of Paris.

New York, December 22.-Horse
steaks are in prospect In New York
today. The Board Of Health repealed
a section to the code prohibiting the
slaughter and sale or horse flesh for
food. Tt is effective January i. While
Paris has been eating horse flesh for
years, New York will be the first
American city to have It.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-12-24
LOST.

LOST:-A necklace, between West
minister and my home The letters l..
IT, W., were engraved on IL Finder
please return to w. III. Warehime,
Westminster
Dec "a 1t
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-12-24
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DEC. "a. 1915
sale Register.

Mech ls at IL o'clock sharp. stock and farm
ma s,orIements. Noah L. Sullivan. "a miles
nth Ins sn Of Bachman's Church, D. d. Thurman.
AuctiOneer
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-12-24

a textile made I'm China from raw
silk can be buried In the earth a year
without deteriorating.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-12-24
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

NM school commissioners office
Will Be open on Monday and Friday OF
next week only.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-01-28
Dance Bill and Several
Others Also Disposed Off,
Woman Suffrage May Be
Put Up for Vote at Next
Election.

Bismarck, N. D., Jan. 23.-Two bills
vastly different in their provisions
met a quick and peaceful death in the
house yesterday afternoon.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-01-28
HIGH SCHOOL DEFEATS
TOWER CITY team
LOCALS SHOW UP STRONG
AGAINST VSITORS-RITCHlE
SWAMPS LlNCOLNlTES

At the first at-home game of the sea-
son the local high school defeated the
fast Tower City aggregation by =
score Of % to IS. The game was clean
and speedy throughout. The Towe>
City team made most of the long spe;-
tacular shots, but better team work
enable the locals to roll up more points
The game is a great encouragement,
as the high school team has lost three
of it's best players and mad never lined
up in the manner in which they played
until last night.
Kelley was the star for Tower City,
while the local honors were about ev-
emily divided. The fine spirit of loyalty
which the attendants showed is very
gratifying to the high school authori-
tiles.
AS a curtain raiser the Lincoln
school played the Richie school. This
game was unusually fast for grade
school boys and was much applauded.
The Lincoln boys were larger, but
some fine basket shooting by Bowen
and Macdonald gave the game to the
Richie boys by score of 16 to 10.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-01-28
OBITUARY..

The funeral services of Alex Nc
Fadgen was held from the Congrega.
gational church Thursday Afternoon
Rev. Willard Lyon officiating. Mr..
McFadgen was born in Ontario, Can
ada, Dec. 20, 1858, coming to North
Dakota in 1878, and has been res.
ident of Valley City since that time.
He was for II years deputy sheriff of
Barnes county and while in that Of
flee made many friends. He was high
ly esteemed by all his neighbors and
loved ones. He was a member Of the
order of Modern Woodmen, members
of whom acted as pail bearers. He
resided on Elm avenue at the time of
his death.
Hhe is survived by wife, son and
four sisters, Mrs. john Moore of Val
ely City, Mrs. Mary Yule of Rogers,
Mrs. Thos. Ford of Alberta, Canada,
Mrs. Herb Weston of Valley City, and
one brother who resides at Guelph,
Canada.
Interment was made at the Hills
side cemetery.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-01-28
Dance Amendment Kills Bill.

Dance Amendment Kills Bill.
The Dean bill which caused such a
turore when it was up for discussion
in the committee of the whole was
recommended for passage with an
amendment making it crime for a
dance hall to be kept open after mid
night and it was this amendment that
was responsible in great degree for
the death sentence. The bill as orig
inally introduced by the Grand Forks
county representative provided that
pool halls, bowling allies and temper
ance saloons should not open in the
morning before seven o'clock and
should close at eleven in the evening
1t was finally amended to read six in
The morning and midnight and then
Baldwin proposed the inclusion in the
provisions of dance halls. This
amendment was added in the commit
tee of the whole. Then, when the
bill came up for third reading and fin
al passage kellogg made motion that
it be indefinitely postponed stating
that if it carried it would make Grim
inals of a great number of our boys
and girls as very few dances are clos
ed at midnight. There were only a
very few votes against the motion to
indefinitely postpone further consider
alton of the bill.
Teachers Insurance Goes Out.
House Bill No. 100 was the second
atty was imposed in the committee of
the whole where it was the only bill
up for consideration. This measure
was introduced by Blanchard by re-
quest and was to amend the teachers
insurance and retirement fund doing
away with the compulsory part of the
law. Watt of Cass offered an amend
ment Whlch IN erect was to Kill the
entire insurance feature. Divet called
the attention Of the house to the fact
that amendment was not the proper
procedure to kill the bill. Mr. Watt
then stated that he would introduce a /
bill for repeal. Twichell, L. L., moved
for the indefinite postponement of
House Bill No. 100 and this carried
with but few scattering votes
against it. 1t was shown during the |
course of the argument that there was
at the present time $12,663.22 in the
fund that has been created and Mr..
Watt stated that in the bill he will in
troduce it will be provided that this
money shall be returned to the source
from which it came
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-01-28
EXPENSIVE BILL
PASSES The SENATE

District judges serving outside the
counties of their residence will re-
ceive expenses if the house concurs
in S. B. No. 551, which passed the up
per body yesterday.
Thirty-seven ayes and seven nays
were recorded against the bill. Those
opposing were: Senators Bond, Glib.
bons, Kirkeide, Loftsgaard, Nelson OF
Richland, Paulson and Trageton.
Senator Martins resolution to send
the house and senate journals to
farmers clubs was postponed indef.
nitely.
To Exchange Lands.
The Great Plains Experiment sta.
tion measure to trade off section of
state school land for two section of
federal land elsewhere passed. Sen.
ator Bronson voting in the negative
on the ground that he was not salts
fed as to the constitutionality of the
bill.
This station needs the land to ex-
tend it's experiments and the bill
merely empowers the state authori-
ties to make the exchange with the
government.
Special Committee Report.
Senator Vail announced that the
special committee appointed to study
Temple G. Webb's special report up
on the states finances would be ready
to report this week. This committee
was appointed to ascertain whether
it was advisable to continue the work.
After adopting the minority report
yesterday on Senator Dronson's bill
to provide for Peace Day, February
II, the senate today upon motion of
Senator Gibbons, deferred final con-
sideration Of the bill for one day.
Normal Wants $4,000.
The Mayville normal school asks
an appropriation of $4,000 for the
biennial period. Senator Paulson's
bill provides for an appropriation Of
$38,5OO for a training school building
and $1,000 for premiums on insur-
ance.
Agent for San Diego.
In bill proposed by Senator ia.
cobson, an appropriation Of $4,000 is
provided for representation of the
state at the San Diego exposition.
Under the terms Of this bill, the gov.
ernor appoints an agent, whose sal
airy is to be determined by the chief
executive and the commissioner OF
agriculture and labor.
Provision is made for the incorpor.
alton of local lodges or camps of
Modern Woodmen Of America and
other similar fraternal associations
not issuing fraternal insurance poll
cies or certificates.
Senator Clark introduced a bill pro-
viding for the instruction of hygiene
in the public schools. His bill also
provides that children be given sim
pie lessons in the nature, treatment
and prevention Of tuberculosis and
other contagious and infectious dis
eases.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-01-28
Converse in Chair.

Mr.. Converse of Mckenzie was call
ed to the chair when the house went
into the committee of the whole. This
is the first time this session that one
of the new members has been called
upon to preside. Treadwell Twichell
he cannot be figured as a new" men,
Der having served at several previous
sessions and been speaker of the
house in years past.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-01-28
THE TEACHERS INSURANCE
BILL MEETS SUDDEN DEATH

such election. At the present time
they are not required to make this re-
turn until the second Tuesday in De-
cember and it is claimed they might
as we'll get them in sooner and give
the clerk of the canvassing board
more time to arrange his figures. 1t
was December 9Th last year before the
returns were required. The secretary
of state had printed abstract of the
vote in Minnesota twelve days before
the North Dakota counties had all re.
ported last fall.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-01-28

Insanity in North Dakota is jncreas-
ing more rapidly than is the popula-
ton, according to an article by Prof.
J. M. Gillette, Dean H. E. French and
Prof. G.. R. Davies in concurrent
number of the Quarterly Journal of the
State University.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-01-28

A company of young Polish people
at Mimic observed the Epiphany sea-
son in the old world manner by sing
ing carols and acting pantomines ne
fore the houses of their friends.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-01-28
For Womans Suffrage

A communication was read in the
house calling upon the members to
support the constitutional amendment
providing for woman's suffrage. The
communication was signed by forty
residents of the twentieth legislative
district The woman's suffrage amend
ment passed the last session of the
legislature and is it passes again this
winter it will be put up to the people
Of the state for final action at the
next general election.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-01-28
Total Taxes Levied for School District Purposes.
Total Taxes Levied for all Purposes. .............

1914
swib
the December 1915. X
1914
delinquent March 1916 when penalty Of
delivered the sheriff
tober1 THOS A. COLLINS,
ss5 treasurer Barnes County N D.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-01-28
HieImstad's Return Bill.

Representative Htelmstad introduce
ed bill yesterday which if it becomes
a law will require that the county au-
ditors Of the state send the abstract
Of votes following any general elec-
tion or primary election to the secre-
tary of state within 20 days following
New Britain herald., 1915-07-31
NEW BRTrAIN's MATERIAL.


 With all the talk of national de- fense, Uncle Sam should be very much pleased with our own New Britain. There are within this city more than five thousand able bodied men. between the ages of eighteen and. forty-five, all of whom are avail able for military duty These figures are from records in the office of the registrar. There are some eight hum dred men who by virtue of their so- sitions are ineligible for military duty. In many of the manufactures in New Britain there are men who have served in the Army and the Navy of the United States. Some of these men have served two enlistments and are seasoned soldiers. Tn the event of war, much would be expected from men of this calibre who would go to make up the reserve to the regular. army. New Britain has the material
New Britain herald., 1915-07-31
Assimilating the Indian.
fTorrington Register.)


 According to a special report on the lndlan population of the United States and Alaska soon to be issued by the buerau of census, there were 265,- oSS Indians in this country in 1910, representing an increase of 17,340, or < per cent. over the number reported Tn 1890, when the bureau, made it's hrst enumeration of the race
 The report, however, will show a much lower rate of growth for the Indian population than for the white an increasing admixture of white blood Indians, indicating a tendency to disappear altogether, increasing attendance at schood and decreasing 3illiteracy, an increase in the percent age of the self-supporting and finally a decrease in the number of reserva- ton Indians.
 No better tribute could be paid to the character of the Indian than is contained in these statistics The In- dian is being assimilated by civilized America. He is adjusting himself to changed conditions.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-31
Immunity of Motorcyclists. Manchester Herald.

Considering the number of autu- mobilists who are prosecuted for reckless driving, it is surprising how few motorcyclists get into court. The same laws regarding speeding apply to the drivers of automobiles and motorcycles and they are vio- lated by the motorcyclist a hundred times when an automobiles violates them once. The motorcycle daslles through the street at 30 or 40 miles an hour and it's driver is immune from arrest An automobile driver going at the same speed would be pulled for reckless driving.
 We will admit there is less danger from q speeding motorcycle than from a speeding automobile. The motorcycle takes far less space in tsse, road, is more quickly guided and can dodge around obstacles which a1 automobile would collide with. Per- haps that is the reason why he police tolerate violations of the speed law by motorcyclists. Nevertheless the law is the same for both auto mobiles and motorcycles.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-31
Snakes Made in U $ A"
(New York Worldl

War having shut off regular sup- plies from Europe, Curator Raymond T. Ditmars announced that he has ar ranged to meet the public demand for a summer exhibition of freak snakes, by installing in the reptile house in the Bronx park zoo within few days collection made in merica," from specimens of oddities in snakes and reptiles recently bag ged in a hunting expedition sent by the zoo into South America
 The exhibits have been selected but they require quarantining and other official grooming to prepare them for public view MT Ditmars expects to have fifteen cages of them ready for visitors Sunday
 The display space is now monopo- 1ized by a black and shiny 6-foot snake called the mussurama, made famous by Col Roosevelt for it's abil- ity to eat alive and comfortably di- gest all other snakes however, pois- cnous. The mussura naa,a MT. Ditmars says, will be a prime attraction at the schow.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-31
Abolishing the "skeeters."
Waterbury Democrat. )

They are really doing it in New Jersey. The famous man eating Jer- sey skeeter" may, be extinct in few years. This season, being particulsr- ly rainy, has been favorable for the insects, but they have been decima.cd nevertheless by the scientific md heroic methods of the mosquito squad There is hope of getting rid of them even in the salt marsh -ss
 The slaughter involved may be m- agined from the fact that 1000 mos quitoes may be born in one square foot of stagnant water, every ten days or so, and there are 20,000 acres Of salt marsh land in, the Hackensack valley alone. Draining has been done on a vast scale. A million feet . of ditches have been dug in the meadows aroInds Elizabeth, and 4,- 500 acres have been ditched in Union county. A marshy strip along the coast from south of the Shrews
 bury to Barnegat bay has been vir
 tually cleared of the pest. Alto gether, 300,00o acres of salt marsh, 463 square miles has been definitely "de-skeeteredn The cost is repaid many times over, not only in added comfort to the inhabitants but in he appreciation Hof real estate Values. The damags still done is estimated
New Britain herald., 1915-07-31
Discredits 1st NatI Bank. tTrenton tN. J.) Dispatch New York praS1 fas
Press. }


 It can't be done, 7 is the substance of Vice Chancellor Backes comment on the story that Mrs. Lavina Cham berlain, of Hightown, carried $7.000 cash in bags secreted about her per- son, and still twas trim of figure and neat in dress He doubted, too, if sine could conceal so much cash in her stockings.
 The noopskict or the Grecian tsnd and the hustle were not in vogue, , writes the vice chancellor in his opin- ion. She must have had very clever dressmaker to preserve sym metrical proportions, or else there was an occasional bulge''
 John Chamb berlain, sued for s3,4o0, replied that the money was not his, but his Wife's estate. The vice chancellor concluded, eThis is not a case of hiding be- hind woman's skirts, but truly one of hiding within
New Britain herald., 1915-07-31
An old-Time Gas Gusher.
(New York Evening Sum

They have struck gas yet once more in Pennsylvania. The news rom North Versailles township rnust awaken reminiscence in the old-tirn
 CTS; a gusher shooting thousands of dollars day exuberantly into fbs ar and land leases for miles aro,1nd nylng upward more violently than the gas itself. To younger men tb.a news will bring astonishment that such wonders should still happen in this generation, weaned as 1t was s,,n- posed to be from these the more bountiful stories of earth for irfanf. settlements.
 Geological examination, as the pre- sent case proves is unequal to the task of making any thorough inven. tory or our resources underground II the realization of the extent ana value of the German potash deposits waited, in land long and caref,,l;v exploited until period some 50 years back, we may suppose that the ne culiarly abundant subsoil of our ovv, country contains many surprises vat to be revealed. For. all that n. United States has reached a poiut Where it's future depends less on y,.- turai bounty than on the redoub1ea energy and enterprise of it's inhah;- tants. oi
 Natural gas affords case in point. IL mas supplied light, heart ana in- dustrlal fuel at slight cost through n stage of growth when these advant~ ages were needed as the infant fool oI our early development New strikes oi natural gas are growing scarcer Existing supplies of it are in many cases approaching exhaustion. It m onger suffices torstrike the earth and cal forth what we need. This is rather the day to labor at the earth With increasing industry, to insure a greater nation.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-31
MERELY A SOLEMN FAD.

Everything must have it's day. Now comes the end of the tortoise shell rims on eyeglasses, Two psycholo- eists have been working on the case and, after thorough investigation these scientists have reached the com clusion that the tortoise e-rImmed spec- tacles and eyeglasses are harmful
 The growth of this fad has not been mushroom like in character. On the contrary it has taken many moons to the diabolical looking tortoise shell glasses The women have not as yet taken up the fad. These freakish looking glasses have never been recommended by doctors and eye specialists. which is one of the reasons the two eminent psychologists went out on the warpath after these newest style spectacies.
 Here is what the scientists found: :: |. That the ltortoise-shelled and rimmed circular glasses are an unconscious imitation or une eyes of owls 2 That there is neither a true cosmetic effect, nor any aid to the vision in tortoise-rimm speutacles.
 With one mighty effort these two scientists have exploded the mistaken theories of those who have taken their positions behind the tortoise -shelled eyeglasses. It is sad brow to the men to learn they have an inherent wish to look solemn and towl-like, [ and that to assume this desired state 1 they have unconsciously taken up the ] wearing of tortoise shelled glasses. There is a suppressed wish in all men
 to look wise, affirm these two scien-
 lists. further ruffling the feathers of the male biped. Such cruel doctors to issue these slanderou statements 1 just when all our leading college stu
 dents have forsaken the frivilous
 adornments of youth for the wisdom
 like demeanor that goes so we'll with the dignified. somber, tortoise shelled
 eyeglasses.
 Aside from saying there Is no true lccsme beauty effect in the glass :, es, the scientists take more joy out of life by asserting that the tnick. dark tortoise shell abstracts the eye from
 ;ts central focus and keep it annoyed
 and wandering to the dark edges ot
 the spectac1es. And we mad always ] thought these glasses were worn be-
 cause of their feather-like weight s Such are the delusions we sufter as we journey through this vale of tearx
New Britain herald., 1915-07-31

{t ' d f at $4,000, ,000 year; the jump m value of fertile land now tenantcd only by mosquitoes would add that much in taxes alone if the land were redeemed. The virtual elimination of mosquitoes from northern New Jersey has cost about S500,000 in three years. They could be exter- minated in the southern part of the state, the inspectors say. for the same amount, or less. It's a paying proposition. And doubtless there's just as big proportion of profit in 1t for any less pestered community in any part of the country, that will do the necessary draining and oil ing. And if New Jersey, with ''s tremendous handicap, can "de-skcct- CT itself, what excuse have other states for not doing so?
New Britain herald., 1915-07-31

question Osborne would remain. He has. won the favor of the men and they have stood back of him in all his trials and tribulations. Any time an offender has broken the prison rules the convicts themselves have taken care of the case and ad- ministered punishment.
 Osborne has not been at Sing ol.is long enough to really work out ms experiments Governor Whitman would do we'll then to give the man more time. Many there are who oe>. lieve he will lead the world Tn prison reform if he is allowed to go on With his work unhampered by men im~ bued with the spirit of jealousy.
 There is one reform it is hoped that Osborne will be able to institute at Sing Sing before he goes, If go .ie must. That is the method of sending men to their death by the electric chair. There should be something done to take at least part of the cruelty out of this form of capital punishment The dinginess of the room, the gruesomeness of the elec- tric chair with the great string of wires hanging from the ceiling like a snake about to bounce upon it's vic- tim. all makes death the more cruel to the condemned Those who wit messed the doing away with Becker yesterday morning are unanimous in voicing their disapproval of the ter rib1eness of the electric chair. Not a picture or anything on the wall upon which the man about to die can fasten his gaze and thus avert the eyes of the jury which must witness his execution.
 Osborne does not believe in exec'i7 ton. and while he will never be able to abolish that form of punishment, he should be able to do something in the way of making death less horrible to the poor wretches who must pay the extreme penalty of their offenses in the electric chair.