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of the arcades and in the middle are nosque-like domes of stained glass that blaze with electric lights during the even ings. and in the front of the stores is another promenade upheld by magnificent columns. At the back of the latter are the plate glass windows of the shops. which compare favorably with the best in Paris, New York or London The most of the goods are shown fin the windows and walking along the corridor is like going through the treasure vaults of king. Indeed, I doubt whether there is a. richer place upon earth, In proportion to it's population than this little city The most of its inhabitants are millionaire Ar gentinos, including rich estancieros who own thousands of acres and who feed their tens of thousands of cattle and horses
 I wish I could show you the shops on the Rambla. It would remove from your minds any idea that South America is a part of the backgrounds of he,world, and, therefore, fitted to be a market for the scrap and waste of our United States factories It would show you that the people demand the best of everything that Is made and that they have the money to pay for all that they want. In these shops are exhibited the latest mod els of fashions from Paris The milli- nery displays have hats that cost no ends of dollars and in the jewelry shops are diamonds and the pearls so set that a single ornament would cost a kings ran som. I have never seen more magnificent jewelry. Tn one window they have dia- mond tiaras and collars of emeralds and diamonds; in another there are solitares as big as the nail of my thumb and iri- descent pearls twice the size of narrow fat peas. There are also emera Is and rubies of wonderful beauty and many new creations in combinations of pre- cious stones. Some of the collars are made of emeralds and diamonds in which the emeralds run in a row through the center with diamonds of pure water above and below. There are sapphire and ruby collars made the same way and won derful knots of diamonds and bracelets and brooches of the costliest. stones There are four or five shops of this kind on the Rambla. and nearly all are branches of the large ieweiry establish ments of Buenos Aires. Paris and London
 There .are candy establishments fin which the boxes of confectionery are displayed in caskets so beautifully in- laid that one may give his sweetheart a present worth many dollars. al- though the contents are only sweets Some of the candy is imported from Paris. and the boxes are Of ivory. of embossed leather work and of satin and silk.
 Ii is the same with other wares The cheapest things are so put up that they cost a great deal. There are no chear John shops with pinchbeck 5ewelry such as one finds at Atlantic City The goods are displayed for the rich. and that so as to show that price Is no ob- ject. In fact. there arc no m1rked prices in any of the shops. and you are t.I thing for sale on the Rambla is high. and the purses of the visitors arc long.
 The yak along the Rambia Is In full view of the sea You look over the bill lows of the southern Atlantic us they
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than a. big fat steer for every day that he stays. am paying $20 a day for my self and stenographer, a young man of 20. For this. we have a double-bedded room without bath, and the water is brought in in a pitcher. The furniture of my room would not sell for more than $50 if put up at auction in Washington, and have. as the Englishman says, "to pay through the nose"
 But this is only one instance of the high prices of the Argentine Republic and especially of the prices at this sea- side resort. Nearly everything is im- ported, and if any comment is made the merchants will talk about the heavy freight rates, the European war and the duties. For instance, we'll known tooth paste. which you can buy anywhere in North America for a quarter, costs here one pesos, or more than 45 cents. Shaw ing soap is doubled in price. and safety razors are away out of sight. Photo graphs are especially high. An ordinary eight by ten view, which one can buy almost anywhere in the world for 2J cents, costs here s2.50 and picture post card photographs cost 40 cents Papers which sell for a nickel in the United States cost 25 cents at Mar del Plata, and S-cent magazine costs half dollar, The common cab fare Is 50 cents, but the automobile taxicabs are comparatively cheap.
 All kinds of service is high. The rates for shaving and haircutting are such that 1t seems to me they almost charge by the hair, and have just paid manicure a rate equal to 25 cents for each nail on my hands. I have been travelling out on the estancias, and my finger nails were so rough and stained that I asked the hotel porter to send me g manicure girl. He replied that there were few such in the Argentine. and added that it was hardly proper for girl to hold mans
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this city is q desert of flame. If one goes at night a few miles west to the N'olo or Czyste suburbs one can see behind the sunset an unfading after glow. This is the reflection in the sky of conflagratiors. Flame consumes every thing. Half a million Poles have lost their homes. 4 hundred thousand houses have been burnt or blown to bits. Forty thousand men and women arc huddling in sheds, in tents, in holes in the frozen ground. Families numbering together two millions have got on an average food for only a month. and there Is no way of getting more food Twenty thousand square miles of the best land are put out of cultivation. Two thousand civil ians have died of hunger or exposure and tens of thousands are threatened. All the cattle having been requistioned there is no milk. and a Guater of newly born children die within a week. That is the fruit of six months war for the King dom of Poland. As the war is probably not quarter over. nothing at all will left when the decision comes The vic- tor will gain a waste without men. houses, food, cattle, forests or tillabe fields "Einis Poloniae'' will be fact
 ,~ Devastation has almost reached War saw's walls. What the Germans have not yet got must be destroyed for military reasons by the Russians themselves. The nourishing villages outside the forts must be razed. Yesterday was destroyed Moz- siska. village with 30O0 inhabitants in the marshes to the northwest I arrived there at midday. Ten minutes before a party of sappers and engineers had come
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the sunshine and take a look
 at the great seaside resort of tS&&Ry the Argentine as it is in the
 midst of your winter. This country is far south of the equator and it has it's dog days of semi-tropical heat when the United States is covered with ice. Its summer is in the heart of our winter, and just now the rich have left the hot winds of Buenos Aires Rosario and Cordoba to bask in the cool breezes of the south Atlantic ocean at Mar del Plata Mar del Plata is the Long Branch, the Newport and Bar Harbor of this part of the world. It is situated 2iO miles south of Buenos Aires on one of the finest ocean strands of the world The city lies in a little depression, or val ley. with high ground all around it. The high lands are covered with magnificent villas, and upon them is wide boule- ward, where you may ride many miles in your automobile viewing the ocean. The town has fine houses, magnificent hotels and a club that cost close to a million dollars. It has extensive golf grounds, a race course. where meetings are nelu almost ua1ly ana an open camp, where they shoot pigeons. At the va rious clubs there are tables for playing roulette and other such games, and in the Casino you may lose a small for tune if you care to bet on the turn of the wheel.
 Mar del Plata has a business section Of reinforced concrete and the same ma terial is used in most of the houses and clubs and hotels. Altogether the place looks as substantial as did the spas of Belgium and France before this ter rible war. and 1t would be considered beautiful city if it could be dropped down into any part of our country.
 And still 1t is nothing like any of our seaside resorts and many of the arrange ments are such that they might be copied with profit Mar del Plate is O towni of millionaires and it is built like a series Of palaces. Take The Rambla" or wide promenade upon which the people stroll back and forth as at Atlantic City or Asbury Park. The two latter resorts
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-08-26

had come Tuesday Eight to take
charge of the Monteith household
Papa and Mama Monteith have the
congratulations of their many
friends and long may little Miss
Monteith live and prosper.
Mr.. and Mrs. Booth. of Iowa,
stopped off at Hazelton few days
the latter part of last week on their
way to Yellowstone Park and the
Pacific coast to visit with Mr.. and
Mrs. W. l.. Yeater. The Yeaters
and Booths became acquainted two
years ago while spending the winter
at Corpus Christie, Texas, and be-
came fast friends.
Miss Louise Grunefelder, of Man
dan. was the guest of Mrs. F. J. Ap-
pert. Last Saturday evening the
hostess gave a party in honor of her
guest at which number of the
young people of the vicinity round
ed out some pleasant hours at cards
and other pastimes. Miss Grune-
fielder departed for her. home, Mon
day morning.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-08-26

for the members of the school board
that they believed the First State
Bank to be less secure and less ac-
ceptable as place tn which to de-
posit money, that it's business was
conducted in a wooden building
while the institution which had been
accepted sported a fine cement
structure, that the officials of said
First State Bank were not reputed
good bankers and that one had even
come from another state, etc.
While this able effort was being
prepared by the attorneys in the
case. the officials themselves had
been scurrying to cover. Hence,
the "dry-goods box" bank, as the
return inferred. gets the money they
went after.
The fight for this school money
has been watched with much inter-
est by many because of the heavy
weight scrap for patronage which
Mr.. Fischer and his bank is putting
up and further, because it is another
instance where an action of body
Of public officials was absolutely
contrary to the wording of the
statute governing their action.
The Record understands also that
one of the district boards which had
designated the Hague State Bank
although their bid was lower than
the First State Bank of Hague, also
decided to rectify their mistake,
that a cheek was drawn on the
Hague State Bank for the money
and that said bank refused 10 honor
the check or let go the coin. How
ever, as additional time deposits are
made by the board of the district
involved they go to the bank bid
ding the higher rate and so that
matter rests.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-08-26
FarnlerS'EleVatOr

Linton's farmers elevator is a re-
alizatlon. Early this week the Reli-
ance elevator al Linton was sold to
the Dewly-organized farmers Or
gan'Zation and all the details of
transfer have been made. RECENT
Iy, Edward Braddock, president of
the German-American State Bank,
made trip to Minneapolis at which
time the negotiations were carried
on successfully with the company
that owned the local house and now
the local farmers elevator is ready
to handle the whole business
A buyer will soon be here and
within few days the actual buying
will begin.
With the wonderful crops which
are nearly assured now it would
seem that the new. company starts
out under most auspicious circLm-
stances There are some fifty or
sixty local farmers back of the en-
terprise and they are mostly SUBJ
stantial farmers. E. 7. Anderson,
well-known farmer and stockman, is
pre sident of the company. Hans
Hanson, of the Omio country. is
vice president and John Dockter,
prosperous Russian. German far
mer, is secretary and treasurer.
Sam Busby and Jos. Vetter are the
other two members of the board of
directors.
The perfecting of the local or
ganization has been accomplished
only after some considerable
trouble as there we're those who at
tempted to hinder the same. How
ever. not only the Linton farmers
are getting in shape to handle their
own grain. but those Of both Stras-
burg and Temvik seem to be on the
road to success. The Strasburn
house is under course of construc-
ton and the Temvik people have
finally secured the coveted site. 1t
provided little business for local
attorneys before such results were
accomplished, however. Attorney
Scott Cameron represented the
Strasburg farmers and Attorney
Chas. Coventry those at Temvik in
their fights for sites.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-08-26

the following places: Bismarck
Fargo. Grand Forks. Dickinson,
Rugby. Minot. jamestown. Bow
man. Valley City. Devils Lake and
Glendale.
Paul Larson. Willie Schlusser and
Margaret Schlosser were issued Ger.
tifirates for three months perfect
attendance.
The following is the list of those
VIII" appeared for he August exam
nations: Emma Tre-sIer. Frances
Lutgen. Hewitt V. Wilson, Clara
b. CarIey. Winona Retz, Ray Bun
gener, Marie lnman, Sarah Porter,
Walter Shaw, May Burbage, Ernest
y. Hanger. Genevieve Braddock.
Gladys Orthmcyer, Clarence Hud-
son. Pettrah MAIDEN. Ralph Arm
strong, Don M. Paul. Cecile Horst
meyer. Werner Bung and Emma
Fjon.
School boards that have not hired
all their teachers are urged to do so
at once for although we are receiv.
ing applications every day these
teachers are propably applying for
other schools ut the same time and
we may be short at the last minute.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-08-26
Pollock Pick-Ups.
u'rogress. Aug. ao.a

Mr.. and Mrs. W. o. Irwin ano
MIR. and Mrs. Don. L. Tracy came
down from Linton Sunday morning
for an all days visit with relatives
Aberdeen is now permanently
dry. the supreme court having ren.
dered decision Wednesday uphold.
ing the finding of the circuit court
in all opinions
Black rust has developed very
fast the last two weeks and it is re-
ported that many of the fields of
late wheat will be seriously injured
by this infection.
The Progress is in receipt of
letter from Ed. Histed in
which he says: 81 arrived home
last Friday. My mother had been
operated upon at Galesburg, Ill.
| wish you to thank the people of
your little city for the kind treat
ment | received while there. | was
called away 30 suddenly that ! did
not get to bid my friends good bye.
Give them my regards Will start
pitching again as soon as my mot her
is out OF danger"
In Memoriam: Ryckman.-E
ma. the little two. year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Ryckman.
residing north of Pollock, passed
away Tuesday evening after a
lingering sickness following an at
tack OF scarlet fever. Little Emma
passed away just as the shadows of
night were enfoIding the day. The
small form was laid to rest in the
Dale cemetery by loving hands that
had tried to make her young life
happy and had done everything
possible to soothe the pain that
racked her little hody for 80 long.
May Gods purest angels guard her
slumbers.
King Alcohol is my shepard,
shall always want. He maketh me
to lie down in the cutters. He
leadeth me beside troubled waters.
He 1estroyeth my soul. He leadeth
me into the path of wickedness for
effects sake. Yea. though walk
through the valley of poverty and
have delerium tremens. will cling
to evil for thou art with me; thy
bite and sting they torment me.
Thou preparest an empty table be-
fore me in the presence Of my
family. Thou annointest my ::head
with helllshness my cup of
wrath runneth over. Surely de-
struction and misery shall follow me
all the days of my life, and ! will
dwell in the house If the adversary
forever Contributed.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-08-26
School Dist, Busy

When County Superintendent of
Schools Lester Briggle required the
school officials of the various dis
tricts in the county to do that which
had never been done before and ad-
vertise according to law for bids for
deposit ofschool funds. he headed
off what might have we'll meant an
other ground for legal procedure
and added expense to some of the
school districts. As it is. there has
been considerable amount of ex-
citement among the officers of
some of the districts in the southern
part of the county.
Lipps school district appears to
have been the first to get into the
mix-up, although other districts
were equally liable to feel the ef-
feet of the strong arm of the law.
And it seems that the question of
all this legal business came as a re-
suit Of the desire of S. A. Fischer
and the First State Banks of Stras-
burg and Hague to be accorded rec
ognition by some of the school
boards in the matter of the deposit
of funds according to the nature of
the bid submitted. The directors of
Lipps, as we'll as Strasburg, Exeter,
Hague and Selz, turned down bids
from one or other Of the banks in
which Mr.. Fischer is interested for
time deposits although in every in
stance his bid was higher than the
bids of the institution which was
awarded the money.
In the Lipps matter writ of GER
tiorari was secured by Attorneys
Cameron and Coventry. This pro-
ceeding is one seldom used and
was invoked for the first time in
this county. By it these interested
proposed to have the District Court
review the official action Of the
school board Of Lipps and, if found
illegal. to be corrected. However,
while the matter was still pending,
the school board decided to see the
matter in a different light and they
changed their findings 30 that Mr..
Fischer's bank secured the funds.
AS all banks had bid the same on
open accounts, there was nothing
left to fight for. Since that time
several of the other districts have
taken similar action and it now ap-
pears that perhaps there will be no
need to press the certiorari proceed
ings. However. a return had been
made in behalf of the directors of
L;pps district by Lynn & Lynn.
Clemens Kelsch of counsel. The
document is q most interesting one
and attempts to set up as an excuse
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-08-26
Changed Owners
List of Emmons County Real Estate
Transferred Since the Records
Last Published Report.
Warranty Deeds

Warranty Deeds
John |. Roop to N. l. Roop, lots
Is and l6. block d, Roop's Second
Addition. Hazelton. $l.OO.
John M. Schneider and wife to
Valentine Keller. lots 3, a. S, block
19. Hunters First Addition to Lin
ton. 100000.
lsak lverson to Edward Garfield,
sw or of Sl34-77. $1.OO.
Elizabeth Becker, ct al. to Will
liam H. MaIIoy. ne or of IS-I35-76.
$4960. 90.
Milwaukee Land Co. to Johannes
Holzer. lot 6l. block IT. Milwaukee
Land Co. s Third Addition to Stras-
burg. $4,000.
John Atens and wife to w. l..
Yeater, hf of 10. IL, block 8, Haz-
elton. $G00.0O.
Valentine Keller and wife to John
M. Schneider. hf of 23-131.76.
$s50O. 90.
Andreas Boschker and wife to Jo.
seph K. Feiszt, ne or of 1-l30-77.
$50OO.OO.
Frederick Frankhauser and wife
to Mary E. Hart. lot 8, block "a,
Hunters First Addition to Linton.
$1.OO.
Anton Chas tka. ct al. to James II.
Stephens. sw or of sw or, sw or OF
Sc or of 10; n hf of n hf & sw ar OF
Id; hf of Is; hf of ne ar of 22.
1SO-78. S1.00.
Linton Cemetery Co. to Frank
Chesrown, all block ID. Linton Gem.
etery. $4,000.
Drake & Ballard Investmen,
Company to A. L. Ahrens. Sc or OF
l0.132-78, $l.00.
F. W. Keagy and wife to August
Benz, lot 3 & d, hf of NV ar of g.
1866. $2l92.SS.
| Peter Ed. Erickson and wife tt
Henry N. Miller, Sc qr of l.134-74
$32OO.OO.
| Carl A. Erickson. ct al. to Fred
! Clark. n hf Of l3-l33-74. 81 90.
Quit Claim Deed
!. Fred Surfing to Danbury Schoo
District. acre ln..sw or of sw or OF
29-l34-76. $1,000.
Patents
A United States to Delano M
Heath: lot l, 2-l33-75.
i United States TO John Yer He
ven, ne or of 34.130-76.
(. United States to Ernest G.. lille
hen. 8 hf OF NV or of 4-134-75.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-08-26
HazeIten Happenings.
utepublicun. Aug. 10.


E. Jampolsky was visitor from
Linton Monday afternoon.
B. F. Klabunde made business
trip to Fargo the latter part of last
week.
Mrs. S. A. Mikalson is spending
the week visiting at the f. H. Brant
farm.
Leroy Irvine and e. E. Bredberg
motored to the Capital City Tuesday
afternoon.
John Haley has been hauling lum.
ber out to his farm with which Ia
build a new residence.
Attorney Fl. A. Armstrong re-
turned Saturday from a short bus
mess trip to Minneapolis.
The harvesting of the big crop is
on in full swing this week and the
grain is being taken care Of very
rapidly.
Miss Leone Malloy retul ned home
last Saturday from an extended Wis.
it with Mr.. and Mrs. H. W. Batter
at Morristown, S. D.
Mrs. Carrie Snyder and grand
daughter, Miss Grace Baker. we're
up from Linton the frat Of the week
and spent few days visiting at the
DR.. Snyder home.
An item overlooked last week was
that Miss Ruth Hubbard arrived
from Lake City, Iowa. to pay a visit
to her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. 7. l..
Hubbard, and other relatives and
friends.
rwobr three auto loads of local
folks enjoyed q picnic at W,Ides'
Lake Tuesday. The party included
Messrs. and Mesdames Jos. Heuly.
W. l.. Yeater. II. O. Batter. Mrs j.
F. Snyder and Miss Grace Baker.
Six new auto owners are driving
as follows: E. O. Beastrom. Matt
Dahl. Walter Laml,recht. John
Peery and John Grenz are all own
ers Of Overland touring cars and G..
A. Lenhart has purchased new
Studebaker six
Tuesday night some of the men
who were hanging about town in
quest of work in the harvest fields
went down to the creamery building
for quiet game of peker and along
about II or IL o'clock got into a
row with the result that one of the
party was knocked out with club.
DR.. Monteith came down town
yesterday morning wearing q mil.
lion dollar smile and Immediately
proceeded to invest in cigars which
he distributed among his friends, or
account Of the fact that a daughter
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-08-26
Increasing Number
Of Motor Vehicles

Thomas Hall. secretary of state,
reports an increase Of more than
G.000 automobiles in North Dakota
for 1915 over 1914 The motor We
hicle registration books for this
year will not close until December
next. but taking the figures as
shown until July 3lst of this year
and last year. some interesting in
formation is revealed:
To July 81. 1915. automo-
biles registered. ...... 23,l75
To July 81. 1915, motor
cycles registered. go. 1,43S
Fees received for automo-
biles. -. s69, ,525 90
Fees received from mo-
torcycles. .............. ABA 90
Fees RENTED to coun-
ties for good roads. 80. 81 .l32 SO
For the same period in 1914:
Automobiles registered l6.742
Motorcycles registered. / 1.189
Fees received from all
motor vehicles $53. .793 90
Fees remitted to county
for good roads. ........ ID ,872 SO
After July 81. 1914. but COS auto
mobiles and 6G motorcycles were
registered. but with the combina-
tion of splendid crop and the re-
duction in price Of motor vehicles,
it is expected that more than 900
automobiles will be registered be-
tween now and December 81, 1916.
In brief. the total number of auto
mobiles registered for this year
should not fall far short of 24,5OO
and the number of motorcycles may
reach l 800.
For 1915. Emmons county has reg
istered 3O1 automobiles and ID mo-
torcvcles, and has received $945 90
for use in building roads.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-08-26

An examination for Professional
and Primary Certificates will be Of
fered by the State Board of Educa-
tion on August az and 2S. 1915, at