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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-21
Big Registration at Bismarck

Bismarck, Oct. 19.-An exceptionally
large number of landseekers registered
yesterday for lands in the Berthold
reservation which will be thrown open
to homesteaders by the federal gov.
eminent. The heaviest registration
was reported from Minot, where prac-
tically 1000 persons registered up to
midnight last night.
About 700 people had registered at
the local booths when they closed
last night, and 465 registrations were
reported from Plaza, the third regis
tration point.
Notaries in the local booth register
ed land seekers from all parts of the
country. The office is kept open until
midnight.
A big rush is expected today when
the landseekers from the Twin Cities
come in. The new low rate from the
Twin Cities of IS for the return trip,
went into effect Sunday, and hundreds
will take advantage of it. -'*.&.
The land in the Borthold tract to
be opened is some of the best in the
state and it is believed 10000 regis
trations will be reported before Oct.
80, the last day on which registra-
ton can be made. The drawing will
take place Nov. 4.
The land has been appraised at
values running from $3.50 to SO
per acre, and is in tracts Of approx
mately $50 acres.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-21

Frank Potter was business caller
in Valley City Wednesday. .-
Wylie Nelson called at the Clancy
home Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Potter called
at the Zaun home Friday morning.
Mrs. Tom Maresh is visiting few
days at the Val Potter home. :
Mrs. George Dotting and her mother
spent Thursday afternoon at the
Louis Rohde home.
Will and Conrad Potter drove tc
Rogers Friday afternoon.
William and Louis Rohde autoed tc
Valley City Saturday. @
Frank Potter and Arnold Zaun and
Master Johnny autoed to Valley City
Saturday. Z
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Schafer visited
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Miller
A runaway team was seen in the
neighborhood early Monday morning
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Rohde started
for Clark City Sunday by auto, but
finding the roads too muddy, they
stopped off at Sanborn and visited
with friends there.
Frank Potter called at the J. H. Mil
Ter farm Monday morning on bust
ness.
Mrs. John Hessner and baby drove
to the Joseph Starke farm early Mon
day morning.
Val Potter autoed to Valley City
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Rohde and chill
dren, George, Jake and Marian, Mr.
and Mrs. Will Potter and son, Laur
ence, and Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Potter
were guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Rohde Sunday.
Joseph Starke and John Maresh, Jr.
were inspecting things at the Shey
enne river Sunday.
Henry Vogel, who is assisting Will
Potter during threshing, spent Sunday
at his home.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-21

the nurse had detected things in time
that if allowed to 60 on would have
lead to serious consequences. North
Dakota also leads in county agents in
proportion to the population of the
state. There are 81 of these men who
are bringing to the farm the latest in
formation and are also organizing the
farmers so that they will have the
benefit of organization in carrying on
their work as we'll as in learning more
about the best methods of farming. He
said that some people are sitting on
the tail of progress and shouting
"whoa!" These are the ones who are
opposing these progressive moves.
He said that he would wager that
there was no one that objected to get
ting his mail by rural free delivery
even though it was a new thing. That
no one would refuse to ride in an au-
tomobile, yet it had not been in exist
ence long. That no one would refuse
to use the telephone, another new con-
venience. Nor that any one would re-
fuse to have his grain threshed with a
threshing machine, even though per-
haps his father used the fail. These
new things are all accepted, yet many
think that what was in the school
when he was a boy is all that is need
ed in the school now. That what was
good enough for him or his father is
good enough in the schools now. Then
he asks the question why should the
school stand still, if all the other
things were being improved. And he
brought out the fact that the school is
not standing still, but it is progress
ing. That it has progressed so much
that there are many things in the
schools today that had not even been
thought of ten or Is years ago. The
first teachers cottage was built only
six years ago, yet it has in this short
time become quite common. The first
county school nurse in North Dakota
was appointed less than year ago,
yet seven counties have already hired
one or made provision for having
nurse.
He said that Oct. 2 was a red letter
day in his life; he was not sure that
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-21
Dr.: Winship Praised the
Farmers Of the County

North Dakota leads the states of
the union in county agents, consoli-
dated schools and county nurses. This
statement was made by DR.. A. E. Win
ship, of Boston, who has just spent
three weeks Investigating educational
progress in North Dakota, according
to information received by the Times
Record from the farm information SER
vice of the North Dakota experiment
station. DR.. Winship is the best au-
thority on educational work in the
United States. Since the civil war he
has been in practically every state of
the union every year studying educa-
tional work. He has already made
five trips to the Pacific this year and
is now on his way there again. He
makes a special study of few states
each year, one of which has just been
completed on North Dakota.
Below are a few of the statements
that he made in an address before a
teachers institute at Buffalo Tuesday:
'North Dakota is doing things. She
has more consolidated schools than
any other state. In the last four years
1888 schools have been consolidated,
over 1000 dinky one room schools
have been closed and 200 more kept
from starting by building consolidated
schools. North Dakota also leads in
county nurses. Seven counties have
made provision for them already" He
cited one case of where the county
commissioner was little opposed to
the county nurse. However, he voted
for her just because the county super
intendent said it was good thing. A
little while after the appointment the
nurse in visiting school found boy
who had defective eye sight. She call.
ed the attention of the teacher to it.
The parents took the boy to an ocu-
list and found out that if the eyes had
been neglected a couple of months
longer one eye would have become
blind and that soon the sight in the
other eye would have been lost too.
but taking it in time both eyes were
saved. And the boy was the son of
that very county commissioner. He
related many incidents to show how
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-21

he had any other that was quite it's
equal. 1t was the laying of a corner
stone for the consolidated school
in Svea township in Barnes
county. There was no town or rail.
road in the township. The building
is to cost $4,000 and will have all the
modern improvements, including flush
closets. It will have as good accom-.
modations as any school in city or
country, though others may be elabor-
ate. The chairman was one Of the pio-
neers that came IS years ago and
many of the others had been there
over 80 years. They came in OK carts
then, now they came in automobiles.
When it came to laying the corner
stone they put into 1t the names Of the
first township and school officers and
they were all Scandinavians. Then
they put in the names Of the present
township officers and school officers
and these were also all Scandinav-
ian. When the prayer was offered it
was in Norwegian. The chairman then
introduced his two daughters to sing
our national hymn and America pealed
forth. These men who had come from
a foreign land and made their home in
North Dakota were not only develop
ing it's resources, building homes and
showing patriotism, but they are in
tent on giving their children the best
training that they can procure, moth
ing can speak better for the future of
North Dakota.
DR.. Winship left for Kansas City,
from there he goes to Texas and then
to California before returning east.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-21
Were Married at jamestown

Jamestown Alert: Monday a license
was issued with the consent Of the
county judge Of Barnes county. to
Lawrence Coleman and Lula Allison,
both of Eckelson. They were married
by Judge Hemmi at the court house,
Mr.. Coleman is operating large farm
near Eckelson and he and his bride ex.
pect to begin housekeeping at once.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-21

jamestown Capital: The high school
team went down to defeat again Satur-
day afternoon before the Valley City
pigskinners in poorly played game.
by the score Of 81 to 0. Valley City
has a good team and all the players,
were full Of pep. They showed their
superiority from the first down on.
The local high school boys could not
get going.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-21

Are you satisfied with the quality Of
lumber you are getting and the price
you are paying? We invite your in
spection. Our White Pine Shiplap is
not equaled in this market. Our boards
and dimension are all under cover, not
exposed to rain and sunshine. Give
us trial on the next purchase. JEFF
frew Lumber Co. 21-2w
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-21

Wimbledon News: 'Who can beat
our record for six straight days thresh.
ing" queries Ed. Fellison. with q
36-inch separator we threshed 1870
bushels of wheat during the six days.
Our best days work. was 2,505 bushels.
Fred Brueske is the engineer and Will
liam Mcdowell separator man."
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-21

Mrs. Ed. King, sister Of Mr.. C.
L. Luessen, and son, Rodney. and Mrs.
Charles Lantz, arrived Tuesday morn
ing from Sanish, to visit couple Of
days with Mrs. Luessen. The three
ladies went to Oriska by automibile
Tuesday to spend a day or two with
Mrs. Lantz's mother.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-21

Our reporter must have been con.
fused about an item that appeared in
Mondays paper. ]. R. Getchell was
giving him jolly about his new SON
in-law and the reporter came back and
wrote is up as grandson" 1t was
simply misunderstanding, and we
hope there will be no offense taken.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-21
STEWART


Mrs. Fred Rohde visited Wednesday
morning with Mrs. w. H. Potter.
Mrs. George Dotting and her mother,
Mrs. Marguerite Haupt, visited Tues
day at the Jacob Schafer home.
Mrs. Val Potter and children called
at the Clancy home Wednesday.
Mrs Tom Maresh and daughter,
Eleanor, visited with Mrs. w. H. Pot
ter Wednesday afternoon.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-21

Vice President Marshall has been
threatened with death a half dozen
times within very short time. It
took something Of this sort to bring
us to a realization Of the fact that
our vice president is alive.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-21
Farmers Free CoIuI1)p

Actual farmers may advertise stock.
poultry, grain. machinery or farm pro
duce IN this column, free Of charge.
Advertisements may be signed or an
swers received at this ofiee and for.
warded. The right Il reserved to 70
ject.
FOR SALE Clydesdale Stallion colts,
saddlers, drivers and work horses.
Sold right and cheap. Leal Stock
Farm, Leal, N. D.
FOR SALE-Holstein Friesian bull
calves; full blood and high grades.
Well bred and prices reasonable. Cor.
aelius Vanderwerf, Tower City. N. D.
FOR SALE-Eight Scotch Collie pups
Enquire Of John Bertram, R 8, Box
s A. 21-4w
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-21

The Ladies' Aid of the Swedish
Lutheran church will meet in the
basement of the new church next We'd
nesday afternoon, Oct. 81. Mesdames
G. A. Bloomberg and Gust. Larson will
entertain. It is hoped that goodly
number will be present at this first
meeting of the Ladies' Aid in the new
church.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-21

We will endeavor to do our best to
have it right when the grandson ar
rives.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-21
SWEDISH LUTHERAN CHURCH

Corner Sixth avenue and Elizabeth
street. Earnest A. Martel, Pastor.
There will be services in the new
Swedish Lutheran church basement
next Sunday. Services will be con-
Quoted in the Swedish language in the
morning at II and in the English Ian
guage in the evening at 7:45. Sunday
school in the morning at 10. All in
terested are cordially invited to at
tend these services. Services in the
Hobart church at 3 p. m. ,-s.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-10-08
GOOD ROADS BOND
ISSUE IS STILL
IN THE AIR

The question of bonding the coun-
ty for road building is still up in
the air. The petitions presented by
the Polk County Good Roads Asso-
citation and which were checked over
by the commissioners yesterday
showed approximately fifteen hun
dred signatures Of which about two
thirds were registered voters The
commissioners agreed on an approx
innate total of 1900 registered voters
in the county, which would appear
to leave deficiency of about two
hundred qualified signatures. 1t was
ascertained, however, that the names
of several hundred registered voters
who had gone to Paradise were still
on the registration books and the SUI
pervisor of registration was asked to
Gull these out and go carefully over
the petitions again and report to the
commissioners next Tuesday morn
ing at 10:30 when it is expected the
commissioners will settle the matter
one way or the other.
Lakeland's position has been to
favor countrywide bond issue 50
that every town in the county could
he connected with a good hard-sur-
faced road. though she would have
to pay twice as much of the cost as
if she simply built and paid for the
roads in her own small district II
the other three districts which have
been more or less opposing the bond
issue are strongly opposed to it. it
may be better to let the two districts
favoring the bonds go ahead and
build their roads under a road dis
trict bond issne, rather than risk de-
feat in county wide election be
cause there is no question hut that
| akeland and Winter Haven would
carry an election by big majority.
nut for the sake of the county at
larec and many other reasons this
ought not to be necessary
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-10-08
MEMORIAL SERVICE
At FIRST BAPTIST
Church SUNDAY

Ss1t 80 closed the /; "a ',nol
! I" CT The church of the south
r 'rida Z ptist Association
At the necti~g ~ A.sc i"''or
next wee ;hc naLes e m d. j
will be reported who have died DIR
ing the rGst year.
The pastor feels that memorial
service in honor of those departed
will be very fitting and therefore in
vites all members of the church,
friends and relatives of the deceased
to be present at the morning hour
next Sunday when an appropriate
service will be held The service
will be especially helpful to elderly
people as the pastors subject will
be blessings of the Dead Who Die
in the Lord
The following members have
PASSED away during the year: L. r.
Battle. Sr, Mrs. Martha Bell. II
ID. Brown, w. l.. Finger. ST.. Mrs.
Mary Morgan. Miss Maggie McMul-
lin, Mrs. May Williams. If the names
of any of our dead do not appear
among the above list the pastor will
be clad to receive such information
WALLACE WEAR
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-10-08
REPORT MADE
BY REV. STEINMEYER

this weeks Florida Christian
ate, Rev. w. HI. Steinmeyer,
OF the Dixieland and Myrtle
Methodist churches. sives the
ing interesting resume of the
accomplished under his pas
nong the many charges in this
renee is the Dixieland and Myr-
rect in this city, an important
IN work.
ne Dixieland church "a small
ng) was built July, 1912, I'M
le superintendency of Rev |,
nkins, who at that time was
of the First Methodist church.
nceived the idea that church
ieeded in that section of the
md the novel plan of erecting
uilding in one da'. met his
and the object would have
carried to success had not a
nur of rain prevailed almost
attire day. The building was
ID. however, in a few days. ]
,laced in charge OF this work
years ago. Since that time an
on was made to the church TO
modate the growing member
ana Sunday school Bro Jon-
las kindly promised to he here
light of the fourth Sunday in
II. when he will dedicate the
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-10-08
.AUDURNDALE
PLANNING TO : !.
pave HER STREETS

A large and enthusiastic meeting
was held at Auburndale yesterday
Thursday afternoon to consider
the question of paving the streets
within the corporate limits of the
town. A sprinkling of fair women
and about fifty men were present,
including Secretary Holworthy, of
the Lakeland Chamber of~Commerce,
who had been invited by the Com
mercial Club to come over and as
slst with some helpful information.
The citizens, who had been in a
Quandary how to proceed without
the necessity of bonding the town
for these Improvements were glad
to learn that they might at once pro-
coed to have all the paving done they
desired without bonding the city,
croviding they were willing to pay
the entire cost. This plan appealed
to many who were present and eX-
pressed themselves SdtlsneQ with IL.
as it got rid of the bugb bear connect
ed with trying to bond the town and
called upon the citizens for no CON
tribution to pay for paving other
than that abutting their own prop
erty.
Plans were made at this meeting
Hlso for the immediate claying of the
road between Lake Alfred and Au-
bnrndale, the sum of S65 in cash
being raised at the meeting. together
with a contribution of teams and
men which. with a similar contribu-
tion pledged by Mr. Frank p. Good
man, on the part of Lake Alfred,
will put this particular road in pass
able shape, which. by the way. is
part of the approved tributary of the
DIXIE lIighway
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-10-08

where we wee entertained at the
home of my boyhood friend,
George Kirk attorney Tor the
illys-Ovcrland people, we ar
rived at one of the great objec-
tivcs OF our iourney-Akron, O..
home OF the Goodrich tires and
the Winona Park people. We
were the house guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Gerald S. Work at their
summer home i'll the Turkey
Foot lake country.
The night following our 2rriv-
III we were the guests OF honor at
a dinner given by them at the
famous .Albertson Hotel, owned
and managed by Mr.. and Mrs.
Ben Albertson, who have spent
50 many winters in Winona
Park, at which dinner nearly half
a hundred winter residents and
Visitors in the Auburndalc-Win-
ter Haven region enjoyed on OF
the worlds greatest chicken din
nerS The night before our de
parture Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Camp had anothc gathering of
the Florida clans in orr honor, at
which some sixty Akronitcs who
have Florida sand in their shoes
did great and deserved damage
to an Albertson dinner.
In between whites we were en-
tcrtaincd by MIR. and Mrs. Jere
Stambaugh i'll the charming
home Of she who was Miss Mary
Rabc: we motorcd out to Raven
ma in honor Of Mrs. Nichols and
\rchic Wolcott; we saw Barber
ton, and the famous million dol
lar Barber farm; we saw the
famous Goodrich tire factory ;
We were on the 90 for ten DAYS
steady, and had the time Of our
sweet Young lives every watkins
minute. ut the conclusion OF
which Mr.. and Mrs. Work har-
nesscd up their faithful and eff
cicnt Packard and motorcd >
Cleveland. where we took the
Loo, 90 Buffalo
From here we made a hastv
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-10-08
Mr.. And Mrs.
May Return
Auburndale's Live Booster Rem
ders Interesting Account of
Trip.

Nearly five months OF visiting
and touching in various parts of
the North from Nebraska to
Massachusetts. during which
they paid their respects and lis
tened to the siren voices of Chi.
cago, Detroit. Cleveland, Buffalo,
Niagara Falls, Kingston, Ont,
the Thousand Islands and the st.
Lawrence. Montreal, Lake
Champlain, the Hudson River,
New York, Newport, Boston and
Washington, have only served to
make Auburndalc look better to
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl c. MAY, who
returned from their wanderings
Monday night. both looking the
picture OF health and bout forty
leven pounds heavier.
I'VE have had a glorious trip
and our first vacation III nearly
four wears, but we are most en-
phaticallv glad to get back to An
burndalc and Lake Ariana,' said
the minor member of the Cook 5
tour party. At my old home,
Rochelle, Illinois. where we Wis
tied two months, our relatives
and friends made ii their business
to sec that no opportunity passed
to give us a delightful time. Each
visit To Chicago, our iavorltc city,
was the same story.
When we started east we
stopped at Battle Creek ust
tWcnty-iour hours, during which
time Mr.. and Mrs. T. l.. lIalla-
cay. who were here last winter,
entertained us most royalty at
their home, in their car and with
visits to the famous food factor
il, and santarium 81 the city
made famous by Post, Kellogg
and others.
Vt Detroit, kirke e.. Bumpus,
ri Bumpus < Company. the firm
which bought the Auburndale
school bonds. gave another bril-
liant example OF western hospi-
talitv i'll an eastern city. De-
troit IS hustling city with a pop
ulation OF $4,000 and with miles
II beautiful drive Mr.. and Mrs.
humpu- had us over every mile
n these drives. entertained us at
their charming home and then.
having exhausted the local sup
PLY. motorcd with IL to such out
living points as Orchard Lake
Twin Sister To- axe Arianal g,
and to Mount Clomon>, the lam
OTIS resort
.Aiter a brief stop at Toledo.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-10-08

trip to Niagara Falls so that we
might feel that we were legally
married; stopped five hours with
some of Mrs. Mays friends in
Rochester, took the night boat
across Lake Ontario, and spent
two wonderful days as the guests
OF MIR. and Mrs. W. r. Givens,
who are interested i'll Lakeside
Park property. One OF these
DAYS will always be especially
memorable as Mr.. and Mrs. Civ
ems launch carried us over an
eighty mile route through the
smaller channels of the Thous-
and Islands where the bigger
boats never 90. The second day
was also something of mile
stone ON our Journey since it in
cludcd' a visit to Camp Barrie
field, where 5000 Canadian
troops were being fitted for ser
MIR. and Mrs. Owens have a
beautiful home on the shore of
! axe Ontario and MIR. Givens as
the owner and editor OF the
Kingston Daily Standard is a
power i'll Canadian politics. We
left Kingston at Q a. m. and had
an all day trip among the Thous-
and Islands and the St Lawrence
river To Montreal. from which
point we went by rail along the
shores Of AXE Champlain and
the banks OF the Hudson River
to New York, and thence to
Newport. where for ten DAYS we
visited Mrs MAYS brother, Judge
Iohn {. Burke
Brief visits to Providence,
where we were entertained by
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick A..
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-10-08

church in his inimitable style A
large crowd is expected to be pres
ent on this occasion
In the spring of 1913 neat and
commodiOus building was erected
known as the Myrtle Street church
at the corner of North Tenn ,see
avenue and Myrtle street, which has
been included in thi, missionary
work This church has been stead
lily growing and now has a mem
bers; and Sunday school enroll
ment of over 100 These two
churches are needed in addition to
our First church Had not the strin
gency of hard times preycd so on
the people a commodioue brick h.if1d-
ing would have taken the place of
the little wooden chapel in Dixie
land. and it is sincerely hoped that
this plan will. as soon as financial
conditions will warrant. be carried
out. have been in the Florida
Conference about 81 years and do
not know of more important work
than this, and | do not know Of on"
that has prospnred more than this
missionary work in Lakeland The
two churches have a membership OF
over $50 and the Sabbath school over
200 God has opened up the way,
aud the pastor has been blessed by
the Guiding hand of our Heavenly
Father The good people of Lake
and have stood by us