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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-02-19
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Wattstnl Baxter and her sister. Patience
Qatty). keep house for their widowed.
mean father. Ivory Boynton, whose ia
her disappeared. is interested IN Waitstill.
He takes care OF his daft mother.
Ivory's father abandoned his family to
oollow Jacob Cochrane. a mystic. Pa
tence chafes under her fathers stern
rule.
Patty has two admirers-Mark Wilson.
IN educated young man, and Cephas Cole
Who Is unlearned. Mark kisses her.
Wsitstill is spending her life in loving
care Of Patience. Aunt Abby and Uncle
Bort Cole are friends OF the whole COM
munity.
Cephas Cole. tending store for Baxter.
proposes to Patty and Ia rejected. In his
agitation he let's the molasses run all
over the store floor.
Although they love each other. Waitstill
and Ivory suppress their affection because
Of their household cares.
Patty and Waitstill go to church. al
though their father s too mean to give
them fitting garments. Waitstill sings in
the choir.
A strange young woman In the Wilson
pew, q visitor from Boston, makes Patty
Jealous. Haying time arrives.
waitstil decides to disobey her father
BY paying a visit to Mrs. Boynton. Uncle
Bart discourses to Cephas on woman's
ways.
Mrs. Boynton confides in Waitstill. tell
NJ the girl she believes Rodman is not
~ sisters child, but she canno be sure.
To punish Waitstil for disobedience
Deacon Baxter locks her out all night.
She spends the night In the barn. Pa
tenoe sympathiZes.
Patience baxter Is embarrassed amid q
multitude Of suitors. She thinks Mark is
nckle.
Trying to trace his father. Ivory writes
TO Waitstil q long account Of Boynton's
following OF Cochrane, with which Mrs.
Doynton was not in full sympathy.
The village gossips are busy with the
names of Waitstill and Ivory, but In .
friendly and sympathetic manner
In Ivory's absence young Rodman min
listers to Mrs. Boynton- She IL i'll and
sends Rodman for Ivory.
Ivory receives proof Of his fathers death
a succeeds in convincing his mother Of
Il. Waitstill volunteer her help in the
Boynton housekeeping.
Despairing Of winning Patty. Cephas
turns his affections elsewhere. Patty and
Mark are now s~weethearts.
Patty and Mark know Deacon Baxter
will not consent to their marriage. 20
they plan an elopement to New Hamp-
shire.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-02-19

oAAu oNSA III w AVOu uO O16I
heart with them.
Il love to hear Ivory talk. It's like
the stories in, the books. We have our
best times in the barn, for I'm help
ing with the milking now. Our yel-
low cows name is Molly and the red
COW used to be Dolly, but we changed
her to Golly cause she's so trouble
some.'
I'VE had a cross old cow like that
once" said Waitstill absently, loving
to hear the boys chatter and the eter-
nal quotations from his beloved hero.
I'VE have great fun cooking, too"
continued Rod. when Aunt Boyn-
ton was first sick she stayed in bed
more, and Ivory and ] hadn't got used
to things. One morning we bound up
each others burns. Ivory had three
fingers and l two done up in buttery
rags to take the fire out. Ivory called
us soldiers dressing their wounds aft
er the battle Sausages spatter dread
fully. don't they? And when you turn
a pancake it fiops on top ofsthe stove.
Can you flop one straight, Waity?"
Eyes. l can; straight al a die: that's
what girls are made for. Now run
along home to your big brother. and
do put on some warmer clothes under
your coat. The weather's getting
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-02-19

tly the story of her husbands death,
trying to make it sink into her mind
clearly, SO that there should be no con-
sequent bewilderment. She was calm
and silent, though her face showed
that she was deeply moved. She broke
down only when Ivory showed her the
lOcket.
II gave it to my husband when you
were born, my SON." she sObbed. Aft
er all, it seems NJ surprise to me that
your father is dead. He said he would
come back when the mayfowers
bloomed, and when l saw the autumn
leaves l knew that six months must
have gone and he would never stay
away from us for six months without
writing. That is the reason l have
seldom watched for him these last
weeks. l must have known that it
was no use"
She rose from her rocking chair and
moved feebly toward her bedroom.
Can you spare me the rest OF the
day, IvOry?' she faltered as she leaned
on her son and made her slow progress
from the kitchen. 81 must bury the
body of my grief and l want to be
alone at first. If only l could see Wait
still! We have both thought this was
coming; she has a wOman's instinct;
she is younger and stronger than l
am and she said it was Drawer not to
watch and pine and fret as l have
done, but to have faith in God that he
would send me a sign when he was
ready. She said if l could manage to
be drawer you would be happier too"
Here she sank on to her bed exhaust
ed, but still kept up her murmuring
family and feebly between long inter
walls of silence.
do you think Waitstill could come
tomorrow? ?" she asked. II am 20 much
drawer when she is here with me.
After supper l will put away your
fathers cup and plate once and for
all, Ivory, and your eyes need never
fill with tears again as they have
sometimes when you have seen me
watching. You needn't worry about
me; l am remembering better these
days, and the bells that ring in my
ears are not so loud. If only the pain
in my side were less and l were not
so pressed for breath, I should be quite
strong and could see everything clear
~ at last. There is something else
! that remains to be remembered. l
have almost caught it once and it must
come to me again before long. Put the
locket under my pillow. Ivory; close
the door, please. and leave me to my
self. l can't make it quite clear, my
feeling about it, but 1t seems just as
If I wer going to bury your father
and I want to be alone"
New England's annual pageant OF
autumn was being unfolded day by
| day In all its accustomed splendor, and
the feast and riot of color. the almost
unimaginable glory. was the common
property Of the whole countryside. rich
and Door. to be shared alike II per
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-02-19
CHAPTER XIX.
Lois Buries Her Dead.

"HE replies that Ivory had re-
ceived from his letters of in
quiry concerning his fathers
movements since leaving
Maine and his possible death in the
west left no reasonable Don for doubt.
Traces Of Aaron BOyntOn in New
Hampshire, in Massachusetts. in New
York and finally In Ohio all pointed in
one direction, and, although there were
gaps and discrepancies in the account
of his doings, the fact of his death
seemed to be established by two ap-
parently reliable witnesses.
That he was not unaccOmpanied in
his earliest migratiOns seemed clear,
but the woman mentioned as his wife
disappeared suddenly from the reports.
and the story of his last days was the
story of a broken down. melancholy.
unfriended man. dependent for the last
Offices on strangers. He left no mes
sages and no papers, said lvOry's cor
respondent and never made mention
of any family connections whatsoever.
He had no property and no means of
%defraying the expenses of his illness
after he was stricken with the fever.
No letters were found among his poor
effects and no article that could prove
his identity, unless it were a small
gold locket, which bore no initials or
marks of any kind, but which contain
ed two locks of fair and brown hair.
intertwined. The tiny trinket was IN
closed in the letter, as of no value, I'M
less some one recognized it as a keep
sake.
Ivory read the correspondence with
a heavy heart, inasmuch as it corrob-
grated all his worst fears. He had
sometimes secretly hoped that his ia
Their might return and explain the rea-
son Of his silence or in lieu Of that
that there might come to light the sto-
~ of a pilgrimage. fanatical perhaps,
but innocent of evil intention, one that
could be related to his wife and his
former friends and then buried forever
with the death that had ended it.
Neither Of these hopes could now
ever be realized nor his fathers memo
~ A4OOC OIACl A0A q S0uOC v VAA
less regret, sorrow and shame. His
father, who had begun life so hand
somely, with a gifts of mind and
personality, a wife of unusual beauty
and intelligence and, while still young
in years, a considerable success in his
chosen profession. His poor father!
What could have been the reasons for
80 complete a downfall2
Ivory asked DR.. Perry's advice about
showing one or two Of the briefer let.
ters and the locket to his mother. Aft.
or her fainting 1T and the exhaustion
that followed II, Ivory begged her r.
~ the old doctor, but without avail.
Finally, after days Of pleading, he tool
Ae hands y HE and sai6: II % asnGs.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-02-19
A~~ Mr~~
The Emergency Ration.

The emergency ration tastes better
than it sounds. and to its composition
has gone as much thought al in the
choice of a rifle. The conditions it has
to fulfil are many and 0nerous. First,
its food value must be high. for It has
not only to keep a soldier alive. but in
good fighting trim. 1t must be palata.
BILE. hot or cold. light in weight and
must not deteriorate under any condi'
tons Of service or climate for two
years. The British emergency ration
has a basis Of chocolate with an ad.
mixture of some milk proteid; It weighs
six ounces and a half, is tasty" cook
ed or raw. and will keep a man 60
ing well for thirty-six hours.-L0nd0I
Spectator.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-02-19

replies that Ivory had re-
ceived from his letters Of in
quiry concerning his fathers
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-02-19
One Of Natures Blessings.
''Is dem you all's chickensT"

''Cohse dey my ais chickens. Whose
chickens did You s'Dose dey vast"
II wasn't s'posin' MANN about 'em.
But ! will say dat it's mighty lucky
dat q chicken won: come a-runnin' an
a-waggin' its tail when it, regular
owner whiatles. aams - . dog."-Kap
- CITY Timss.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-15

Kansas could have added $20,.
546,7 ,764 to the value of her corn
crop Of last year by statewide
use of silos, according to J. c.
Mohler, secretary of the state
board of agriculture. Asst was,
the 1914 corn crop, 1888, 272
bushels on 5,279,552 acres, was
$50, s,32O,l4e.75. There were 7, 136
silos reported in 1914. At the
rate the farmers have been put
ting them in there now are prob
ably 10000 in the state.
1t was Charles M. Sawyer, then
state bank commissioner, who
gave the silo IN slogan form,
during the drouth of 1913. "SilO
spells salvation" declared Saw
yer, and Mohler's estimate that
proper use of the silo would add
$40, O,OO0,00 to the value of the
corn crop in year apparently
justifies Sawyer's expression.
Without the clio much of the
corn crop goes to waste, while
by turning the stalks and green
corn into silage, and adding other
green forage crops, every bit of
1t is utilized.-Topeka Capital.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-15

Chas. Small died at the home
of F. f. Byrns, in this city, and
where he had been confined to
his bed for the past three years,
on Sunday, July 18th. Nearly
four years ago he suffered a
paralytic stroke, and since that
time, despite all that medical aid
and the best of care could do,
has suffered constantly from it's
effects.
The deceased was born in
Illinois. February p, 1868. Ia
the early days Of Kansas, with
mis- parents he came to Harper
county, and in 1884, with them,
came to this county and located
on a claim fourteen miles north
of Meade. He is survived by
three brothers, Rufus, Robert,
and Frank, none of whom can at
this time be located.
The funeral services were
held Monday afternoon at 2 p. m
from the Byrns residence, con-
Quoted by Rev. c. J. Spiers, of
the Baptist church, in the alb.
sence of Rev. J. M. Macarthur
of the Presbyterian church, of
which Mr.. Small recently be-
came member.
Interment was made in the
McCauley cemetery, twenty
miles north of Meade, in the
family lot, where his parents and
a sister are buried.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-15

DR.. Dawes, who for the past
few months has been doing spec
ial work in the diseases. of the
eye, ear, nose, and throat at the
Office of DIR. Leslie every two
weeks, has decided to locate ia
Meade permanently, and ex.
poets his family here this week.
DR.. Davies Is graduate of the
Edinburgh University, where he
took the M. 3. and Ch B. degrees
and later took the NJ. d. and
Fellowship of the Royal College
of Surgeons also of Edinburgh.
After graduating he served as
assistant to the lecturer on the
diseases of the throat and eye,
at the Royal lnfirmary, Edin-
burgh, spending in all ten years
in these we'll known medical in
stitutions. Later be took a
course in eye and ear work in
Vienna and Utrecht. He ex-
poets to do a general practice as
we'll as special work in Diagnosis
and Blood tests, in addition to
work in the diseases of the eye,
ear, nose, and throat. He is a
physician Of much ability and
will have no trouble in building
up large practice. The News
welcomes this family to Meade.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-15
1915 Wheat Crop

TheAssessor's report for the
year 1915 shows that in Meade
county there are ll4,477 acres of
wheat. Averaging fifteen bush.
els to the acre, which seems at
this time to be a safe estimate,
this acreage will yield l,7l7, l55
bushels, This yield leaves suf-
ficient margin to safely estimate
a yield of7one and one.half mill
lion, bushels. At .95 cents per
bushel. the price paid for the
first wheat brought to Meade,
and the chances are that less
will not be paid, the crop now
being harvested will amount to
81, ,65l, 297.2 IS, which is an excel
lent showing for Meade County.
The above calculation is only
based on the wheat. Inaddltion
to the wheat the report shows
4,5S6 acres of corn, 1862 acres of
oats, which will make close to
forty bushels to the acre, 500
acres of rye, 1900 acres of barr
ley, estimated to yield between
thirty and forty bushels to the
acre, 6,740 acres of sorghum,
5l4 acres OF millet, 1886 acres
of kaffir, 1908 acres of milo,
7,07l acres of feterita, and 1888
acres of alfalfa.
The report also shows 5,743
head of horses, l,450 mules,
2,4l3 head of milk cows, 1s, ,S53
other cattle, and 4,7l+ swine.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-15

There is camp of this great
Order now being organized in
Meade and many of our best
citizens have their names on the
Charter list. Is yours there? If
net see Deputy Colby at once.
DIR. c. B. Carr of Hutchinson will
beat j. A. Denslows Office Satur-
day July Eth after the arrival of
No. to make examinations. If
you fail to get examined while he
is here it will cost you more.
Colby Is at Denslows Office every
evening till 9 o'clock.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-15
Kansas Babi..

Keep Your Baby Well" This
is the advice of the Chief of thc
new Child Hygiene Division OF
the Kansas State Board of Health
Last year in Kansas, nearly
one baby in every eight under
the age Of two years, or almost
5000 babies died. If a tornado
or food were to wipe out city
like Wellington, Galena, Con.
cordia or Junction City, the EN-.
tire State would be instantly
aroused. Yet, these 5000 babies
representa- population equal to
one of these cities.
In numbers, these 5000 babies
represent the entire population,
men, women and children of one
county such as Meade or Raw.
Inns, or the combined population
of Stanton, Grant, Morton and
Stevens counties.
And the greatest tragedy of all
is that these 5000 babies are born
only to sicken and die needless
ly. Medical science has proven
that the ma jority of these child
rem might be saved, had their
mothers known how to take care
of them.
The baby is a piece of delicate
mechanism who responds almost
to changes in tempera.
ture. He is quickly injured by
impure food and drink and ir.
regular care. Especially. during
the coming hot weather, when
so many babies die, he must have
painstaking and intelligent at.
In order to help the Mothers of
Kansas keep their babies healthy
this summer and to make them
grow as they should, DR.. De-
VIlbiss, Chief of the Division, is
going to send out through the
newspapers each week a letter
on scientific baby culture. In
addition, if'a stamp is enclosed,
the Doctor will be pleased to an
swer letters for special Informa.
tion in reference to personal
problems in Child Hygiene. The
Doctor cannot, of course, under.
take to prescribe by mail for sick
babies. That is the province of
the family physician.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-15
NUMBER 2S.


Judge L. M. Day, of Greens.
burg came to Meade last Friday
and held an adjourned day Of
District court. Chas WigginA
and John Youdiles who had been
in jail for more than two weeks,
charged with burglarizing the
WiIhite restaurant at Fowler,
were brought iHto court, and
plead guilty of the charge and
were sentenced to not less than
five years in the Hutchinson
Reformatory, unless pardoned
sooner for good conduct. The
boys were taken to Hutchinson
the first of this week by Sheriff
Krisle. A third boy, implicated
in the crime was paroled.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-15

a large amount of the help re.
CURED under the horsepower
system, and the above amount of
grain was threshed with the as
sistance of but fovr men, one on
the tractor, one to attend the
separator, one to attend the
header, and one to look after the
filling of the wagon, which is al
so drawn by the tractor.
This is certainly a wonderful
machine, and complicated as it
is, the boys started it without
the assistance of an expert. 1t
cuts twenty-four foot swath,
and does all the work under the
skilled manipulation of its own
ers.
To us it seems that Loewen
Bros. have set the pace that will
eventually revolutionize the mode
of harvesting in this part of
Kansas. Much credit is due
the boys for their courage in in
vesting so much in this county
in untried machinery and we
wish them all the success such
enterprise and thrift entities
them to.
The combined harvester re.
ferred to in this article is the
only one in the state.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-15
OfflciAls Arrest Gamblers
Plead Guilty Of Charge

Onr authorities seem to be do
ing a land Office business in
prosecuting law viOlaters. On
Monday evening Austin M. Nc
Cartney and Joe Wilson were arr
rested, charged with gam bling,
They were taken before Justice
Sourbeer Tuesday, when they
plead guilty and were fined $40
each and costs, which they we're
unable, or at least failed to pay,
and were committed to jail.
The fact that Abe Hansen, ar
reated last week on the charge
OF bootlegging and the men ar.
rested this week charged with
gambling. have all plead guilty
to the charges against them, is
proof that our Sheriff, City Mar.
shal and County Attorney have
been dong excellent work in
Kidding our city of these law
breakers, and they are entitled
to the help and cooperation of
our best citizens. Had the evl-
dence against these men been
the least doubtful, they would
have stood trial, which would
have meant that the taxpayers
would pay their board bill fiom
now until the October term of
court, which would have amount
ed to Aixty cents per day for
each prisoner, paid a jailer 81
per day for the same length Of
time, and added to this they
would have had the costs of the
trial to pay when the case came
up in court, Our readers can
figure Tor themselyes what they
as taxpayers have been saved.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-15

Sometime before midnight
last Thursday someone entered
James Byrns' barn and took his
motorcycle. AS the barn was
unlocked, and a storm coming
on at about that time, he had no
trouble in escaping un-noticed,
and the rain coming later in the
night covered his tracks. A
search was commenced as soon
as the machine was missed, and
on Saturday morning it was dis
covered in a weed patch south of
the alfalfa mill near Fowler, by
a "tourist" who gives his name
as Hall, and who reported the
find to the Fowler City Marshal
Both spark plugs had been re.
moved and the, pedals we're so
badly bent that the machine
could not be started by using
them. Evidently the thief was
not an expert at riding an Ex-
celsior motorcycle. The ma
chine is now in possession Of it's
rightful owner.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-15
Circus Day Thursday July p.

The first new wheat marketed
at Meade was bought by the
E46ity Elevator July 18th aud
the price paid was IS cents per
bushel. The garin was raised
by Loewen Bros. and tested SO
pounds. The field from which
it was threshed yielded from Is
to rs busheles per acre. To-
days quotation on new wheat IS
near the dollar mark.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-15

The young people of this part
of Kansas who wish to get col.
lcge education or 10 prepare
themselves to be teachers, can
obtain a catalog Of the Fort Hays
Kansas Normal School, by ad-
dressing, President W. A. Lewis
Hays, Kansas.
This is the only state college
in this half Of Kansas. The
courses lead to the one year state,
the three year state, and the life
diploma certificates to teach and
also to the college degree.
The Normal maintainsa din.
ing hall where board is furnish.
ed at cost at the rate of $2.75 per
week. President Lewis will be
glad to answer any letters con.
corning the courses, the work
and the opportunities to work
the way through, etc.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-15
Vast Amount Paid The
Auto Owners Aid Roads.

During the year ending, June
80, 1915, there were so, 900 anto-
mobiles and 10000 motorcycles
registered in the Office of the
Secretary of State. After pay
ing all expenses of administer
ing the law there was left in the
road funds of the various coun.
ties $27O,000 to be used Solely
for the maintenance and i'm
prOvementyof county roads. If
properly handled this amount
will greatly improve the high.
ways of our state. At rs cents
per mile, which is the maxlmp m
allowed by the law for dragging
roads, this amount will pay for
dragging $4,000 miles of road
five times. 1t is the duty
of the County Com missioners to
use all money so collected for
the maintenance and improve
ment of county roads and for no
other purpose. To use this
money tor any other use than
that of improving the roads is a
violation of the law. Good roads
not only benefit the automobile
drivers but the farmers and all
other classes of our citizens who
use the roads. If the amount of
money obtained from automo.
blles and motorcy Gle license fees
in Kansas be properly expended
it will be only few years until
Kansas roads will compare fav
orably with roads in any state in
the union.
Secretary of State Botkin is
sending ont letters to owners Of
automobiles, asking that they
cooperate with him in the rigid
enforcement of the law, asking
that if they know of any one, any
where In the state whois operat.
inga car without paying a license
fee, that information be sent to
him. In this way violaters of
this law cannot long. escape the
paying of the SIS a year license.
From July19l3 to July 1914,
the first year the license was in
effect, the amount paid for autos
and motorcycles together in this
county was $665.50. Of this
amount the state received $1ll.25I
and Meade county $554.25.
An increase is shown in the
record from July 1914 to JULY
1915, the total amount being
$866.7S. The state received
and this county $6S2.OO.
Of the total amount received by /
the county about 81, 800 is still
in the fund. The road on which |
this money is to be expended is
the HutchInson-Llberal road, !
going from Fowler west to
Leach's corner, south to Meade
and west to Plains.
Up to this time ninety auto
licenses have been applied for
and seventeen motorcycle. The
County Treasurer estimatesthat
three hundred automobiles and
forty motorcycles will be regis
tered in this county during the
present year. !
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-07-15

The Campbell Show will ex.
hibit at Meade, one day only,
Thursday July %, afternoon and
evening.