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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-09-09
BOOZE OUT OF DATE
SAYS HOTEL MAN.

Manager Leimbacher of the Gard
ner hotel at Fargo, while attending
the Northwestern Hotel Mems Asso-
citation at Davenport, Iowa, recently,
in a discussion before that body on
the question of prohibition, said:
THAT it was about time that the hotel
men quit insulting the public by MAIN
tanning that bar was necessary to
the financial success of the business"
He asserted that a bar detracted from
the efficiency of the employees and
that more managers lost their posi-
tions because of excessive drinking
than for any other cause. Mr.. Leim-
bacher hit the saloon advocate with a
mailed fist when he made these state
ments, but he told absolutely the
truth. Any hotel with a manager like
Leimbacher with clean ideals is en-
titled to the support of the public
generally.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-09-09
OLE WRITES TO MIR. FORD.

Dear Mr.. Ford: You ask me Wy ay
skall buy me a Ford machine instad
of automobile. Ay skall tell yu. In
the LIST place folks around har amt go
in var much for style, and if ay get
Buick or Overground car day tank
ay'm stuck up. Dis way day tank
praps ay maik him mysalf. Dan ay
laik it because it ban riding yust laik
vagin ay yusto haul milk in on de
farm in Ayva. Some people have lots
trouble cranking it. Das ban all fool
ingness. Ay naver have to more as 20
or 80 minutes, and eff he won't go den
it is too late to start anyho. Anoder
ting Mr.. Ford, NIT yur car ay need no
horn for footing and eff ay get run
over NIT railroad cars ay sure get
damages because all my neighbors vii
swar ay could never hear das vissel
on de train coming.
yurs truly Ole Olson.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-09-09
1T WAS A HOT ONE.

A travelling man on one of his trips
struck a streak of hard luck He had
completely exhausted his expense
money, and not wishing the house to
know Of his predicament, he raised a
few dollars by pawning an extra suit
he had with him. Soon afterwards he
was fortunate enough to make a COL
lection and, redeeming his suit, hastily
packed it in his grip, forgetting to re-
move the pawn tags. When he arriv-
ed home few days later his good
wife went thru his grip and happened
to see the tag on his coat. Naturally
she wondered at it and asked him
what it meant. He explained by say
ing he had attended a little dancing
party in a certain town one evening
and, the weather being warm, he had
left his coat in the check room. She
was satisfied with this plausible ex-
PLANTATION but presently noticed sim
liar tag on his trousers. "Say, john"
said she, "that party you attended
must have been blamed sight warm
err than the weather.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-09-09
Act Quickly
Delay Has Been Dangerous in MinOt

Delay Has Been Dangerous in Minot.
Do the right thing at the right time.
Act quickly in time of danger.
In time of kidney danger, Doan's
Kidney Pills are most effective.
Plenty of Minot evidence of their
worth.
John A. Botz, ST., retired farmer,
317 Conrad street, Minot, says: 81
over-l lifted and strained my kidneys.
They didn't act right. l had attacks
of backache, headaches and dizzy
spells. The kidney secretions were ir-
regular in passage and obliged me to
get up at night. Doan's Kidney Pills
had been used with such good results
in my family that got box. They
cured all the pains and put my kid
neys in good shape"
Price SOC, at all dealers. Don't SIM
ply ask for kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Botz had. Foster Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-09-09
NEW ELEVATOR
READY FOR WORK,
FARMERS COOPERATIVE CON-
PANY LEASE OLD ACME ELL
EVATOR FOR THIS YEAR.

The board of directors of the new
Minot Cooperative Elevator company
held special meeting at which time
all arrangements were completed to
open up the new elevator.
A lease was closed whereby the new
company leased the Acme elevator,
just west of the Robinson elevator on
the Great Northern right of way, the
directors deciding that it was best to
rent an elevator for the season in
stead of building one this fall.
The directors selected the First In
ternational Bank of Minot, N. D., as
depository for the new elevator.
Sever Some, the capable, expert
enced assistant manager of the Farm
ers' Elevator company of Minot, is the
new manager of the elevator. Mr..
Some has large acquaintance among
farmers, is competent, honest, in
dustrious young man, who will be a
big factor in making the new cooper
alive elevator success. He has al
ready entered upon his duties as man.
ager.
A large volume of business is as
sured. Several dozen of the very best
farmers have become subscribers for
shares in the new elevator and many
others will later become share holders.
The business will be run on a purely
cooperative system. All patrons will
share in the profits Of the business.
At the end of the business year, which
is the last day of May, as soon as it is
determined what the profits on the
business have been, the directors will
first pay from the earnings per cent
dividends on the capital shares, then
there will be set aside, as a sinking
fund, an amount equal to 10 per cent
Of the remainder of the earnings to
promote and develop the enterprise,
and the remainder of the profits will
be paid to the patrons of the elevator
as a patronage dividend, proportion
ately to the amount Of cash received
for grain by patrons delivered to the
elevator, then proportionately also to
the amount of purchases made by pat
rons from the elevator.
The board of directors is made up Of
experienced, sound, progressive farm
ers as follows:
Anton J. Johnson, president; Frank
Linha, e-president; Bert Solberg,
treasurer; Ed Livingston, secretary;
John E. Christensen, E. G. Kivley and
Andrew T. Hegreberg, directors, and
Sever Some, manager.
The new cooperative elevator was
planned, organized and established un-
der the supervision Of the Farmers
Rural Credit association of Minot.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-09-09
MAN KILLED
BYLIGHTNING.
Manger, Was Instantly Killed
By Lightning.

Odd Opsahl, young farmer who
was working on the Severson farm a
few miles east of Manager, was struck
and instantly killed by lightning last
Friday evening about six O'Clock. OPP
sahl was driving the binder to the
time and the stroke came from small
cloud which was passing over. The
lightning struck him in the back of
the neck and passed down his back,
burning it severely. 1t struck the
binder seat and made dent in it
something like bullet would leave.
w. OpsaPs clothes were severely burn
ed as well as his body and the doctor
said death must have been instantan-
eous.
The deceased was a young man 27
years of age and leaves wife and
one child. He was very large strong
man and weighed about 235 pounds.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-09-09
DISEASE FRHE POTATOES.

One way to tell if potatoes are free
from disease is by the vines. When
the vines are healthy and have fiat,
green leaves, the potatoes are free
from the diseases that have been in
the state this year. Potatoes so af-
fected have had the vines rot, the
leaves roll upward and then prema-
ture death to the vines. If disease is
present some of the plants are likely
free from it as indicated by the heal
thy foliage. These should be saved
for seed. Mark these, unless cut down
by frost, and when ripe dig them by
hand, so as to prevent any disease
coming in contact with them. This
seed should be planted on land that
has not raised potatoes for several
years.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-09-09
An Everyday Cake

.Iere is simple and inexpensive cake that
can be varied in many ways with different
frostings and icinss. 1t looks little nicer
baked in tube pan, but will be equally as
good baked in square loaf.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-09-09
CORNELIUS ]. BRENNAN
WEEDS MISS TRAP

On Sunday morning at 9:45 at the
Presbyterian parsonage Ethel Trap
became the bride of Cornelius J.
Brennan. Rev. P. w. Erickson per-
formed the simple ring ceremony in
the presence of few immediate rela-
tives and friends. a..
Shortly after. the ceremony a we'd
ding luncheon was served at the home
Of the bride in Minot, after which the
young people left for Fargo to make
their future home.
The bride is a we'll known and pop
ular school teacher of Ward county
and the groom holds a responsible po-
sition with the Park Grant Morris
wholesale house of Fargo.
The Independent joins a host of
friends in wishing the young couple
happy and prosperous life.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-09-09

Reuben Swift, one of the Indepen-
dents capable printers in the early
days, has acquired an interest in the
Herman (Cal.) News.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03
OFFICIALS CLAIM
TO BE ENCOURAGED
Think the German Note May Have
Some influence on the Attitude
of Great Britain.

WASHINGTON, March B. Al
ministration officials were encouraged
today by unofficial accounts of the
German note. While unofficial reports
from London on Great Britain 5 atti-
tude on the same subject have so far
been indefinite officials here take, the
view that the German note NAV have
some influence upon it. They hold TO
the view that the position of the
United States is absolutely in accord
with international law, although they
realize that Great Britain has taken
very advanced stand in her latest
note.
Representative Metz who is in com
munication with the users of dyestuffs
in the United States, said at the White
House today that there was practically
no supply of dyestuffs on hand in the
United States at present and only a
few DAYS supply in prospect. Ameri-
can textile mills are practically de-
pendent upon German dyestuffs.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03
HEAVY FIGHTING
IN SNOW DRIFTS
Russians Making Desperate Effort to Ward Off
EnCirCIing Movement Submarine Squadron
Despatched to Attack Brtish-French Fleet in
the DardaneeS Italy Again Active

An Austro-German submarine squad
ron composed of six submarines and
several torpedo boats has left the Aus
trian naval base of Pola on the Adri-
attic, presumably to strike at the An
glo-French fleet in the Dardanelles.
Italy continues military preparations,
having taken in parliament Legislation
for increasing the strength Of the ar
my.
German correspondent on the Gal
jcian front telcgraphs to Berlin that
the Russians have not won a single
success in their effort to regain their
lost positions on the crest of the Car
pathians. Heavy fighting continues in
the snow, the Russians making des.
peratc efforts to ward off the danger OF
an encircling movement.
German opinion as reflected in the
Berlin press is divided in regard to the
American note to Germany and Great
Britain. Some newspapers share the
view Of the government that the note
is an Indication of the disinterestoC
friendliuess of this country. Othe1
commentators, however, suggest tha'
the note was inspired by regard fol
American business interests.
The Montenegrin minister at Londol
was advised that an Austrian squadron
had bombarded tine Montenegrin por
of Antivari. intlicting considerable
damage.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03
AT THE CENTRE CHURCH

Thursday evening at 7.30-First ses-
sion Of Christian Endeavor mission
study class, in the chapel.
Friday, March 5, 40 p. m.-Devo-
tioual service of the church in the
chapel. Subject, The Place of Prayer
in the Life of the Soul. John 17:1-26.
Saturday, go to 6 p. m.-Children 5
Greenawav fair in Festival hall. There
will be "a sale which will include fancy
articles, aprons, books, food, confec-
tionery and grabs. Refreshments in
Guiding ice cream, Lady Baltimore cake
and coffee will be served in the tea
room. The entertainment on the stage
at $50 clock will consist of the Sun
bonnet Babies and tableaux from Kate
Greenaway Admission to the fair, Il
cents. Children up to ami including
the intermediate department of the Sun
day school will be admitted free.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03
COLE AND HIS WIFE
ARE UNDER ARREST
Charged with Larceny in Connection
with Affairs Of the Collateral Loan
Company.

BOSTON. March , - Mrs. Loranna
Cole, formerly bookkeeper mt the
Collateral Loan company, and her hus-
band, George W. Cole. an electrician.
pleaded not guilty today TO the charge
of larceny Of S20.136 from the loan
company. They were held for a hear
ing on March : and in default Of sure
ties of $4,000 each were committed
to Jail
The Coles We're arrested az Provi-
dence yesterday.
The complaint alleges that the lar
ceny was accomplished by replelging
articles left with the company Will
liam Cobb, former president of the
company, is under indictment for lar.
ceny of So 900 from the company.
There is no connection between the
two eases.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03
CLAIM SUCCESSES
FOR RUSSIAN FORCES
England Hears That Advances of the
Germans and Austrians Have Been
Checked.

LONDON, 1888 p. m. - According
10 what appears to be the virtually
unanimous opinion of British observers
Germany and Austria are fighting a
losing game along almost the entire
eastern front The situation for the
Austrians in the Carpathians would
appear to be unsatisfactory, while the
Russians, it is aid, have definitely
checked them in Eastern Galicia.
The attitude Of the neutral powers
over Great Britain S proposal to shut
Off all sea traffic with Germany forms
the basis of most of the political com
ment being published today in Eng
land. The London papers have al
been told that the United States will
protest vigorously and protests are
likewise expected from Holland and
the scandinavian peninsula.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03
HALIFAX WOMAN
SUES FOR DIVORCE
Another Woman Implicated - Injunc-
tion Issued and Partly Dissolved
Brattleboro Case Entered

Eta +. Howard of Halifax has en-
tered suit for divorce from Fred c.
Howard, alleging desertion and intol-
cradle severity and duplicating an
other woman. She sets forth that they
were married in Hillsboro, y H., Nav
16, 1889, by Rev. Mr. Goodell and
lived as husband and wife in Spring
field, Mass, Brookfield (Vt.). Colrain,
Mass, and Halifax until Sept. -, 1911
when she asserts he deserted her.
She sets forth that in 1911 they
bought n farm in Halifax of F. : Up,
ton and paid $500 down and gave q
mortgage for 81 600 which has since
been reduced to 5000. There is per
sonal property in the form of animal,
and farming tools and equipment val
| ued approximately at 5000 on which
George Harris Of Colrain holds Q
mortgage of S400.
She asks that her husband be en-
! Joined from encumbering or disposinl
/ of the property or from interferin.
with her liberty and an allowance fo1
alimony. Judge Frank /. Fish granite,
/ the injunction as prayed for and then
after a hearing by counsel, dissolved
such part of it as concerned the dis
position Of the property in question.
The couple have two children. Haze
Z. Howard of Halifax and Mrs Nil
dred l.. Tayener OF Colrain
| NTette Nelson Jefts of Brattlebort
asks divorce from Lewis w. Jefts The,
were married in Brattleboro, Oct 81
1906, by Rev. q. G. Lamson. Sh
charges that he deserted her on Nov. :
1913. and she alleges neglect and re
fusal to support.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03
Only 19 Towns and Cities i'm
the State Are in the
Yes Column
THREE OF THESE
ARE LITTLE HAMLETS
Where Licenses Are Not Expected to
Be Granted - Montpelier Dry, Ben
nington Wet, and Burlington and
Rutland Barely Get License.

Returns received from the ii coun-
ties of the state show a total of 10
''wet - towns against 20, the record of
1914. There were surprises for both
sides in the voting and five counties
are entered in the lilly white col
umn, Lam0ille, Caledonia, Orange, Or
leans, and Washington. In the latter
Montpelier voters ran up No. ma
iority Of l2S but Barre no-license ad-
vocateS were able TO muster only seven
majority.
Windham county is virtually white,
as there Is no probability that the lit
tie hamlet Of Somerset, which voted ;
| to !. will grant license. Somerset
has voted the same way several times,
but has never had a saloon. Searsburg
| in Bennington county and Brunswick
| in Essex county, two other very small
| towns. are not expected to grant IL
| censes, SO that the number of wet
towns is reduced to Is and possibly
| less.
Burlington and Rutland. strong IL
cense cities. barely pulled through with
a majority for the sale of intoxicants
| Burlington gives a YES majority Of -
and Rutland gives a margin Of only i
votes for license.
The number of towns voting license
this year is the smallest since the Ii
| eense local-option law went into effect
in 1903 and III many instances the vote
| is closer than for several wears past
IN Ecrgennes the margin for license
was two votes and only one vote car
rled Bethel. Reading went wet 10y
eight votes.
Bennington, after a year Of no-i
| eense. swings back to the damp column
Of the towns voting for license las
year Bloomfield, Castleton. Montpelier
Poultney, Sandgate, SwantOn. Water
bury ana Wells so to the dry column
OF the dry towns of 1914 Searsbura
Pownal, Brunswick, Isle La Motto an,
Somerset swing to license. the latte
town voting three for and one agains
the sale of intoxicants.
Swanton, nOminally license town
went dry by eight majority. BY tn
slender majority of four votes Middle
, bury voted against license. Last yea
the no majority was six. The voter
went on record for the fifth class. drug
. giSts licenses.
Bellows Falls east its largest no vote
since the law went into effect. 61S t
252 YES.
Towns voting license in 1914 were a
follows:
Bethel, Bloomfield, Brighton. Burlins
ten, Canaan, Castleton, Colchester, Fai
Haven, Montpelier, Poultney. Rutlan
f City, St. Adams City, Sandgate, She
burhe. Shoreham. Swanton, Nergenne
Waterbury, Wells, West Rutland.
J., No licenses were granted in Bloom
e field, Sandgate and Wells last wear.
$ The license local-option law went il
= to effect in 1908 and that year % town
Y and cities voted to license the sale {
e intoxicants, Up to 1915 the averag
5 number of towns voting for license W.
IA 3G though in no year from 1905 to 1871
f inclusive, have over "a towns voted We
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03
FOR MINISTRY
KILLED BY OFFICER
Latter Claims That Walter Marisor
Was Trying to Rob Office in
Rochester, n. H.

ROCHESTER, \. H., March 3. =
Walter Narison, who was shot by a
night watehman at the factory of the
Comic Manufacturing company last
might, died today The watchman
claimed that he surprised Marison as he
was attempting to rob the Office and
that the young man threatened him
with a revolver.
Marison, who was % years of age
came from respected family and in.
innate friends expressed the opinion
that he might have been affected by
over study. He had the ministry il
+ view and on one occasion had spoker
from the pulpit here. According (
the police he was in need of money
with which to continue his study anC
was familiar with the factory, havins
formerly been employed there.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03

LONDON. March "a report reach
ed here today that an Austrian fleet
had started for the Aegean sea. This
seems improbable, but if true it will
have a warm welcome from the ships
at the Dardanelles.
Reuter- 5 correspondent at Amster-
dam telegraphed yesterday:
4 despatch received here from Con-
stantinople says that Hail Bey. presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce. at
a meeting of that body before an ad.
journment was taken until September
2S, declared that the bombardment of
the Dardanelles had not achieved the
smallest result.
1t is improbable that the enemy
can come through the straits, he said
but if he does come through he will
find that the greatest part of our army
has been gathered there, and that meas
ures have been devised against every
possibility.
The Ottoman troops, said Hail. hat
exhausted the Russian army in the
Caucasus, others had crossed to tn,
west bank of the Suez canal, fulfilled
their task, and returned.
The latter army, Hall declared, wa
now perfecting its preparations, anc
would shortly hberate Turkey from
the tyranny of the enemy" He adde,
that the British would soon be driver
from Basra (Bussorah, Asiatic Turkey
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03
Vermont Valley Railroad Co.
Says Dam Has Caused
Heavy Damage
$52,895 ALREADY
SPENT FOR REPAIRS
Pond Between Brattleboro and Bellows
Falls Causes Overflow of Tracks,
Plaintiff leges-Service on Clerk
Harold E. Whitney

The Vermont Valley railroad has en-
tered suit in county court against the
Connecticut River Power Co. OF New
Hampshire to recover So, $500, the
amount Of money the railroad claims to
have spent III making repairs to its
roadbed between Brattleboro and Bel
lows Falls from March l, 1913, to Feb
l, 1915. The railroad claims the dam
age was caused by the power com
pany' 5 building a dam at Vernon,
which causes the water to back up. The
figures named in the writ are SO 900.
The papers in the case set forth that
the dam has caused the formation of a
pond north of the railroad station in
Brattlehoro and that the water there
from flows against and over the rail
road tracks and embankments and road
bed of the railroad, especially the
double track roalbed near Dummers-
ton. Putney and Brattleboro, and that
it has damaged the roadbed and rem
dered it unsafe for travel at different
times and in different places.
The railroad has been compelled IA
make extensive repairs OF which the
power company has knowledge, it is
claimed, between the dates mentioned
in the papers. For repairs and mov-
ing tracks the road has spent $4,000
and for filling with gravel, cinders
riprapping, rc-surfacing and labor and
| materials the sum of S22 ,S95.09 ha.
been expended. it is claimed.
Demand has been made upon tn,
company for payment of these amounts
and it has been refused. The paper.
are from the office of w. B. G. Stick
new. chief counsel of the railroad, an,
service was made by Sheriff G. +. Mann
upon Harold L. Whitney, clerk of tn,
power company.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-03
GERMAN WAR REPORT.
British and French Attacks Repulsed
and Two Aviators Captured.

BERLIN, March THE report on
the progress of the fighting given out
by the German war Office SAYS: Near
st. Eloi the attack yesterday of two
English companies upon cur line was
repulsed after violent hand-to-hand
lighting. At a point near Peronne a
French aircraft came down on account
OF motor trouble and the two men on
beard were taken prisoners. The
French attacks in the Champagne dis
trict have been without any degree of
success. The French troops have been
once again driven back into their DO.
sitions with heavy losses.