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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-06-17

Clerk of Court Harry Olsby has pur-
chased the fine lot just south of Mrs.
Cummings residence, and next to the
Mrs. velzy property on Ninth avenue.
Mr.. Olsby is having the excavating
and foundation put in for modern
new eight room, two. story house,
which news will be Of interest to the
many friends Of the Olsby family.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-06-17
CITY SCHOOLS PREPARED
FOR COMMENCEMENT DAY

The city schools will close Friday
June 10. The final examinations are
now well under way. The commence
ment atmosphere already permeates
the premises Of both grades and higl
school, The formal exercises begi1
with the baccalaureate sermon mex
Sunday evening, June 10, which will
be- preached at the NJ. e. church BY
Rev. Vermilya.
On Tuesday evening, June Is, the
eight grades of the Lincoln school anG
the Richie school will hold their grad
uating exercises in the assembly
room of the high school. Each schoo
will furnish one part of the program
the Richie school putting on an oper
alta entitled "The Flower Nymph's
SURPRISE" and the Lincoln school a
dramatization of "The Lady of the
Lake." Over so pupils will take part
On Wednesday afternoon the high
school will hold their annual field day
exercises at the Chautauqua park.
Among other athletic affairs arranged
by classes, the following have been
suggested; An obstacle relay race, a
canoe race by the boys, row boat
race by girls, tree-c1imbing and rope
climbing contests and a tug of war
across the river.
In the evening at the assembly
room the Senior Class Night" pro-
gram will be held. The program is
as follows:
Vocal Solo-Laila Platou.
Class History-Ruth Witter, Alice
Tolstad. Clara Gunderson and Mabel
Winkler. r.
Senior Girls Sextette - Slumber
Song.
Class Prophecy-Marion Cole, Aman-
da Bonhus, Ferne Wilson and Chester
Nayes.
Class Will and Shower-Amanda
Wagle, Florence Noltimier, Roy Wes-
ton, Carl Heyerdahl, Oliver Aas and
steidL.
Advice to Juniors-hy Senior class
president, Margaret Mudgett.
Response by Junior class president,
Esther Schroeder.
Senior Class Song-Paul Baarstad,
Laila Platou, Florence Beachem and
Ann MCGEE.
The commencement exercises Of the
high school will be held in the Armory
Thursday evening, June II, and on
this occasion two dozen of Valley
City's finest young people will be glad
dened by receiving at the hands of the
board of education testimonial o.
in the accomplishment OF
the great task with which they have
been faithfully toiling for a dozen
years. This year for the first time
the school has yielded to the custom
of having commencement speaker
from abroad. Prof Vernon P.
Squires, dean of the liberal arts col
lege of the state university, will be the
speaker and his subject, "A Life of
Three Dimensions" The program is
as follows:
Invocation ......... Rev. w. c. Lyon
(a) Stars of the Summer Night. .Nevin
(b) Romany Mothers Song .........
Gertrude Knox
High School Girls Chorus ....
Violin Solo-Hojre Kati ..... .Hubay
..... Miss Adolpha Hedstrom ......
Address go. Dean Vernon P. Squires
Bridal Chorus from Rose Maiden" =.
............. ......... Cdl'eA
High School Octette
Presentation of Diplomas. ...........
Mr.. A. P. Paulson
Benediction ........ Rev. Mr.. Lyon
The Alumni Banquet will be held on
Friday evening.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-06-17

Fargo, June 11.-"Of course there i!
d printing combine in North Dakot;
and there has been In some form OF
another for a good many years, but
never was member of it," said FREQ
Knight, of the Knight Printing com
pany, to a reporter when asked con
corning Secretary Tom Halls state
ment concerning the state printing
"The printing is in the hands of few
big firms and number of little fel
lows come to bid but they get maybe
$50 to 5000 worth of it and the biz
ones get the rest" continued Mr.
Knight.
Mr.. knight says the statement thai
he double-crossed the combine is in
correct because he never was in 1t
but that in almost every case where
he files bids on public printing some
firm will underbid him on some one
article, another upon some other ar
ticle, etc.
AS to the Blue book, Mr.. Knight
says of course it should be printed
by his company to whom it legiti'
mately belongs, and they are at work
upon it. In the main, he says the
charges published as coming from
Bismarck, are correct. Some firm
formerly grew fat on the state print
ing: then another appeared to get it
away from them, but they seem to be
pulling together now.
Have you got copy of the Red
book, Mr.. Knight" asked the reporter.
"No. I haven't" he said. "but Of
course they have schedule of prices.
A good many years ago when l worked
for the old Argus company there was
such a schedule of rates; it was a
black book in those days and even the
St. Paul firms conformed to it, but l
haven't been near enough to the fell
lows getting it to have a peep lately"
Some years ago a sensation was
made in the state by the publication
Of the fact that pool controlled the
state printing, and in proof a copy of
an agreement was published, signed
by representatives of the four big
firms of the state; these included Geo.
B. Winship of the Grand Forks Her
aid. and NJ H. Jewell of the Bismarck
Tribune. Jewell is now dead and
Winship, the once great progressive
leader of the state, is retired and liv.
ing in California In these days "com-
bines" were general and not looked
upon as they are now.
A state officer tells us that the fol-
lowing is copy of one page contained
in the Red book He says no names
are signed; the members of the COM
bine are wiser than those of the old
time organization, but this particular
official does not believe that any of the
parties concerned will deny either the
fact of the combine or the book and
rates. The quotation is as follows:
"General-No bids shall be filed.
No price to local dealers below sched-
ule, except Is per cent on blanks, Is
per cent on stock books and 20 per
cent on election supplies. Penalty
for violation, fine of so per cent of the
regular schedule price of job, majority
vote to enforce penalty. All goods
shipped F. O. B. factory.
New or Burned Out Companies
Each house shall notify each other
house by telephone of the time of let.
ting. Any house wishing to partici-
pate in the letting shall be on the
ground within 49 hours after receipt
of notice, but in no case sooner than
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-06-17

/. Mr.. and Mrs. Sim Mason reached
home Friday morning, from an ex-
tended trip to points east. They Wis
tied at Washington, D. C., and New
York city, where they went to see
Miss Blanche graduate from Columbia
university. At Detroit, Mich, they
visited George Mason and they also
made various other stops. Miss
Blanche remained over in Chicago to
visit Miss Beatrice Soren, who has
been attending the School Of Fine
Arts. She will go from Chicago to
Oshkosh and Fondulac, Wis, return
ing home some time next week.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-06-17
MARRIAGE LICENSE ISSUED

On Saturday morning Judge O. H.
DIES Irgens, of the county court, issued
a marriage license to Brent Gustave
Sad, of DOGGY, and Miss Gudrin Kan
militia Gunderson, also of DOGGY. Mr..
Sad is a nephew Of John Sad, Of Val
ley City. #. ID
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-06-17
PROPOSALS WANTED

The board of supervisors of Ellsbury
township will receive proposals for
drawing grader until noon, June 10,
1915. Proposals should be written and
filed with the clerk who will furnish
further information. G. o. Lemley,
Clerk, P. o. Pillsbury, N. D. low
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-06-17
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera. an
.:. Diarrhoea Remedy.

.. Diarrhoea Remedy.
This is a remedy that every family
should be provided with, and especial
ly during the summer months. Think
of the pain and suffering that must be
endured when medicine must be sent
for or before relief can be obtained
This remedy is thoroughly reliable
Ask any one who has used it. For sale
by Siegfried Pharmacy. .a-.."#
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-06-17

c. w. Hensel, of Courtenay, was a
local visitor Jon Thursday. He was
registered atsthe Kindred hotel.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-06-17

Art James, of Darcy, was in the
city on business Thursday and Fri
daV.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
4 Barnes Victory in the Senate.

On the issue of Barnes versus antl-barneS IN
the committee contests the Barnes side won III
the selection Of Henry NJ. Sage to be chairman
Of the Senate Finance Committee. ms was
moreover. a declaration of the Senate itself Lieu
tenant Governor Schoeneck requested that the
rules be changed so as to relieve nm OF the
appointn,ent of committees and the Senate, re-
versing the precedents Of years, took TINS duty
out of the hands of presiding officer Of the same
party as the majority.
Mr.. Sage is an estimabe and accomplished
LEGISLATOR whose ability to handle the affairs OF
the Finance Committee cannot be questioned. New
ertheless it is to be regretted that at the organi-
cation of the Legislature a member OF MI
Barnes's Albany County machine should be ele-
waited to a post of such power by course con-
spicuously unusual. There were Senators Of
longer service and equal ability who might have
been chosen If one Of them had been there would
not be hanging over the Legislature the shadow
of Barnesism. which has been an affection to the
Republican party in this state for years, and
which grows no less even though Mr.. Barnes him
self occupies no party position now.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
Count Berchtold's Retirement.

Popular dissatisfaction undoubtedly forced the
retirement Of Count Berchtold, the Austro-Hun-
garian Foreign Minister. Viennese newspapers
have limited at the existence Of such dissatisfac-
ton. The recent retirement from Servia excited
fierce resentment, and the Hungarians have been
ANNOYED because the armies of the Dual Mon
archy are being used largely to support the
German offensive in Poland instead of in defend
ing the eastern and northern boundaries of Hun
gary. Count Berchtold was shining mark for
criticism on account Of his grave misjudgment
Of the effects Of his ultmatum TO Servia.
The Tribune pointed out at the beginning Of
the war how self-deceived Austro-Hungarian
opinion was. The newspapers inspired by the
government all said that Russia would never go
10 Servia's aid because she knew that France and
Great Britain would not back her up in interfer-
ing with Austria-Hungary's punitive expedi-
ton" Count Berchtold also allowed the public
TO delude itself with the idea that Italy would
act with Germany and Austria-Hungary although
italy had served notice on him in 1913 that she
could not approve policy of aggression toward
Seryia.
The whole structure Of Austro-Hungarian
Diplomacy went 10 smash when the great test
came. Aehrenthal was the chief architect of that
unstable fabric, but Berchtold continued TO work
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
Italy's Disaster.

The very extent of the Italian earthquake pre-
vented its terrible destructiveness from being
promptly known As one stricken town after an
other revives sufficiently to send out call for
aid the death list mounts Every means of COM
munication has broken down, and it will be days
before the full extent of the disaster can be as
certained. From present indications the loss in
life may be close to the figure at Messina, when
n. 900 persons were snuffed out of existence.
We have grown so numbed toward death by
reading day after day of the wastage on the bat
tie lines of Europe that the present calamity is
hard to appreciate at its true horror Yet If the
worst is true the lot of Central Italy is in some
respects but little better than that of Belgium
The great difference is, of course that nature
did her work swiftly, mercifuly with the turn OF
a hand; while the devastation and destruction OF
Belgium are continuing horrors, without an end
in sight. The relief of the stricken sections OF
Italy will be that much simpler and surer. FOR
emergency relief Italy will be glad of any assist
ance that may be within reach.
As in Belgium. thought of the art imperilled runs
side by side with the human tragedy. 1t seems
appalling that the treasures of the Roman Forum,
of Siena and of Florence should be assembled
over one of the flaws in the earth's surface, a
foundation among the most unstable that could be
found. Yet that is the way Of the world Art
endures only by comparison with individual lives.
In the end nature conquers all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
Support for the Small Education Boar d.

The demand for small Board of Education
gains strong supporters in the signers of petit
ton to the charter revision committee of the
Board of Estimate for speedy introduction of a
bill to reduce the number of the Education
Boards members. The City Club, the Citizens
Union and the Public Education Association are
represented. while individuals like Seth Low, K.
Fulton Cutting, Abraham FleXner and Miss Lii
liam Wald add their names to the plea. Their
wishes are also the wishes Of the Mayor and Of
committee Of the Board of Education itself, which
has recommended the creation of small board.
There should be no dissent. A board of forty
six members, while much better than the absurdly
huge one which existed a couple of decades ago,
is Just as much less efficient than board of from
five to nine members would be. 1t is unwieldy
and is bound to be inefficient. No member
under the system of committee work gets any
thing resembling a grasp on the whole school
problem. There is a diffusion of authority and
responsibility. Consequently there is bound to be
a disposition TO laxity on the part of individual
members. The old spirit of local representation
which partly accounted for the big board cannot
prevail now over the demand for efficiency and
simplicity and drectness in the schools affairs.
While there remains a Board of Education of
forty-six members it is impossible to obtain the
desired quality of service.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
Repeal the Full Crew Law

The two bills presented to the Assembly attack
ing the full crew law have the same purpose and
would accomplish the same thing, but by different
methods Mr. Conkling's would repeal the exist
ing law. leaving it to the Public Service Commits
sion to say how many men in train crew should
be employed for safety Mr.. Sullivan's would give
to the Public Service Commission the power to de-
termine the propriety of a reduction in the make
up of train crews stipulated in the full crew law.
OF these measures the former seems the better,
since it is more direct in its repeal of the OBJ
iectionable law. Certainly one or the other
should be adopted. The full crew law has not
proved itself a benefit for anybody, even for the
railway trainmen's unions. 1t has cost the rail-
roads hundreds of thousands of dollars which they
might better have devoted to improving service. 1t
cannot be proved TO have afforded protection to
the public It's repeal and the delegation of this
whole question to the Public Service Commission,
where it belongs, will mark return to sanity on
the subject.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
Mr.. Root TO Lead the Constitution
Makers.

The informal letter balloting process by which
Mr.. Low, Mr. Stimson, Mr.. Wickersham, Judge
Clearwater, DR.. Schurman and other eminent
Republicans have assured the election of Senator
Root to preside over the Constitutional Conyen-
ton is UNUSUAL but the result is highly desirable
Ii amounts to a caucus decision of majority of
the delegates-elect to vote for him. That action
will permit him to devote himself to many prelim-
inaries necessary to organization which, if they
were transacted after the formal meeting of the
convention, would occasion delay in getting TO the
real work of that gathering
Mr.. Root is worthy of the honor. As chairman
of the judiciary committee of the convention of
1894 he probably had more to do with shaping
the present constitution than any other member
of that body save Mr. Choate, its presiding officer.
The state which knows his ability, is fortunate
to have him for this great service.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15

Full fifty times | must have shot
My shafts of vibrant verse and wit
Fair at this turret smoking hot,
And once or twice my darts have hit.
Experience has taught me dear
The way to get the stuff across.
It's up to you to lend an ear
That you may profit by my loss.
A sure and much-espoused harangue
Takes for its topic this here col.
Another winner ends with slang
An ode to ones g. b. b. doll.
Shoot at the specials when begun
like Pet Names and the Epitaphs)
The worms by early birds are won;
Viz. Burgess and the typographs.
You've got to make the metre fit.
No tagging feet can hope to scale
The Towers narrow stairs, but split
Ting words keeps none outside the rail.
Be decent; rough stuff makes blot;
Hatch out a novel scheme of rhymes;
Go straight ahead and invert not,
And talk the lingo of the times.
Then call the game before it's dark.
Why, even this bright gem, | think,
With every added fash and spark
Is drawing closer to the zinc.
EARNEST Guy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
GIRL. AS HUMAN BELL-CLAPPER,
SAVES DOOMED LOVERS LIFE
Brave Act Of Bessie Smith Halts Curfew
from Ringing and Melts Crom-
wells Heart.
rry Gable 30 The Coming TovorI

Huddersfeld. Kent, England, Jan. 15.-Swing-
ing far out above the city, Bessie Smith, the
young and beautiful iancee of Basil Underwood. a
prisoner incarcerated in the town Jail, saved his
life tonight.
The woman went to Jack" Hemingway, sexton Of
the First " f. Church, and asked him to refrain
from ringing the curfew bell last night, as Under
woods execution had been set for the hour when the
bell was to ring Hemingway refused alleging 1t to
be his duty to ring the bell.
With a quick step Miss Smith bounded forward,
sprang within the old church-doo left the old man
threading slowly paths which previously he had
trodden, and mounted up to the tower. Climbing the
dusty ladder in the dark, she is said to have whis-
pered:
"Curfew is not TO ring this evening"
Selling the heavy tongue of the bell as it was
about to move, she swung far out suspended in mid
air. oscillating thus preventing the bell from ring
ing Hemingway's deafness prevented him from
hearing the bell ring. but AS he had been deaf for
twenty years he attributed 10 Importance to the
silence.
As Miss Smith descended, she met Oliver Crom-
well, the well-known lord protector who had
demned Underwood to death Hearing her story and
noting her hands bruised and torn he said, in part;
CO. your lover lives Curfew shall not ring this
evening
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15

on the false foundations which his predecessor
had constructed. Austria-Hungary is now paying
severe penalty for the miscalcuations OF l's
leaders in foreign affairs. Those Of them VINO
remain must also pay some penalty.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
Made in 1. 5. A.
The subway crush.
Words to ragtime songs.
Baseball contracts.

The top o the morning, if not Of The Tower to
Nine. Strindberg. who advises people who aren't III
to wipe of Bernard Shaws shoes not to insult MN
when he isn't here TO defend himself But why IN
suit Shaw, unless you resent the large amount OF
merriment he has given you. Or, as Miss Rodman
saws. hasn't he?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
The Coming Tower
the PASSIONATE poLyGANlST TO HIS LOVE.

Come live with me and he my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
And then. when ! have spoiled your lite,
III 20 and get another vile.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15

In our admiration for Mr.. Alfred W. McCanns pure
food crusade in the Globe dof our cap to NOBODY
1t is matched, however. by our astonishment at the
pat meds. the Globe accepts money for advertising
the virtues Of.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15

There must be a lot of English actors VINO dello-
Grated the question of enlsting but decided TO See
America First
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15

Mr. Charles l. Woody the b. R. It's counsel 'aid
that the company would soon 20 bankrupt II 1t tried
to please its patrons We'd like to buy some b. H.
stock.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15

Suggested motto FOR boards OF directors whose 'o'e
il is necessary to obtain before transportation '''
,,r,,,o,,o,,+s COR, bo effected: Conservatism First
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15

They don't oyerestimatc the value OF the individual
in Elizabethtown, Pa. lir J. c. Wilmer take it from
the Elizabethtown College Catalogue, will transport
any baggage between depot and college at fifteen
cents the passenger and twenty-five cents the trunk"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
RACK TO TIE PHAEMAcoPEIA.

From A Prairie Wife" 10y strueer in the satevopost
"The open air and the swaying and joltihg had
chloroformed me into insensibility.'
81 breathed in lungfuls of clear, dry, ozonic air
champagnized with the invisible bubbles
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15

Perhaps, too, they are here to avoid reading
punch" which prints many quiddity these days
about just such things.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15

Each one Of us has in our dreams Venus of our
own.-The Tribune
The Freudian theory.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15

The column Of Marcus Aurelius was twisted by
the earthquake.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
SILVER Innings.

SILVER Innings.
Consider the movies, old top;
Observe how the crowds block the walk
It's quite an attraction to get lots Of action
without an abundance Of talk,
c. A. B.
Consider the photograph, too;
What charm in a record is pentl
It's worth half your trousseau to bark to Caruso
And not have to look at the gent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15

Business of looking at our seismograph.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15

Il needed that etheric eye-opener.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER.

Come, my Corinna, let's go a May-wheating
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15

o,.s and rut,ishcd daily The Trtune A.'oiai,on Nv
$3.50 - OGDEN Reid President. c. Vernon soe,f.
o,s lt Trsss,-er Address Tribune Building No i% Nassau
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-07-03
DA JOHNSONBURG, PA.

= In questo paese owe cOnto diversi
amici, non appena arrivato mi portal
direttamente dial signor Pasquale Be
vacqua, milo intimo AMIGO di vecchia
data, il quale provo mel vedermi una
consolazione indicibile.
Da circa 20 ami non avevamo potuto
avere il reciproco piacere di incon-
contrarci. Grandiosa fu raccoglienza
ricevuta dial Bevacqua, unita ad ogni
sorta di s2uisite gentilezze.
Ebbi occasione di cOnoscere i fra
tell signori John e Raffaele Nctarian-
nj, due distinti, colt gentiluomini
della colonia.
II primo, Raffaele, e proprietario
di una spIendida macelleria arreda-
ia, secOndO gil ultimi usi. Ha dele
splendide bilancie della ditta Dayton,
specchiata e la pulizia, ammlrabile
rordine
II secondo, Giovanni, e agente
viaggiatore di una rinomata Ditta di
New JOrk. Giovanni volle essermi di
compagnia la quale mi valse motto.
Di tutto cuore ringrazio Iamico
Bevacqua pei lie grandi gentilezze,
similmente i distinti fratelli signori
Raffaele Giovanni Notarianni, au-
gurando loro sempre ottimi AFFAIR.".