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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-03-02

A. L. Benarfa, of Fargo and Minnea-
polls, formerly representing a type
writer company in this territory, has
taken the position of manager of the
Blackstone pool hall at Jamestown.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-03-02

Ed. Kriens, who has been visiting at
the home OF his cousin, Miss Grace
Bowen, for the past week, returned to
his home in Bird Island, MIMI, Friday
afternoon on No. 4.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-03-02
Germany Lost 100000 Men
in Fierce Four Days Battling

Paris Feb. 25.-Battling desperately
toward the great French fortress of
Verdun, the German forces OF the crown
prince are paying heavily for their Of
fensive which tonight official French
statements says continues undated.
German losses during the first four
days of the battle are authoritatively
estimated at 100000.
Snow is adding to the misery of the
struggle which in violence and loss OF
life is compared to the battle Of the
User.
Tonight's official communication says
several infantry attacks launched by
the Germans by huge efforts have been
repulsed and that the artillery duels
are going on with great intensity east
Of the Mouse despite the heavy snow
fall.
The German offensive is recognized
now as probably only the beginning
Of a determined effort to take the
fortress which forms the key to the
French front.
The French assume that the battle
may continue a fortnight. It is be-
Iieved that the calm last night was only
a lull required by the attacking forces
to bury their dead and carry off the
wounded and bring up reserves to take
the places of divisions reduced to half
strength by French artillery and ma
chine guns.
The German forces are known to be
at least 100000, supported by num-
Der of 13-inch and II inch Austrian
mortars and all heavy artillery used
in the Serbian campaign and part of
that employed on the Russian front.
The French compare the gound
gained in four days with twice the
amount taken by the French in the
first two days Of their offensive in
Champagne, together with eight times
the number of prisoners. The conf
dence of France Is mistaken by the
fierce attacks and the slight bending Of
the French lines.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-03-02
skAN'DIA


Hastings Times, Feb. 23.-Pete Hell.
land called at Martin Giste's on Wed
nesday.
A. o. Norberg was visitor in this
neighborhood on Sunday.
Jacob Flatmon was a caller at Erick
Fossum's on Saturday.
Gustav Peterson is at present EN-.
ployed by B. o. Kielland.
Gusaas Brothers had hard luck while
hauling grain last Thursday, for they
broke one of the front benches of
their sleigh, but they called on a
neighbor. (And maybe got his sleigh.)
Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Nelson visited
at Erick Fossum's on Sunday.
Conrad Christensen and Edwin Ber-
ger were out for buggy ride on Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Giste visited
with Henry Kulsrud and family on
Sunday.
A. ]. ,Salthammer has been staying
with his sons on the farm this last
week, returning to Hastings Friday.
Anton Olufson has been doing the
bachelor stunt, as Mrs. Olufson and
children have been visiting in Hast
ings.
Mike Reidman was a Fargo visitor
from Monday until Thursday, going
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-03-02

down to bring Mrs. Reidman home,
who has been a patient at the St.
Johns hospital for six weeks, and has
undergone two operations.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Aandahl and Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Gusaas visited at the
Gusaas' on Sunday.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-03-02

Amsterdam, via London, Feb. 25.-
The Echo Beige, a copy Of which has
been received here says it learns that
a serious outbreak occurred in Berlin
three days ago. Cavalry charged the
crowd and in the resulting fight more
than 100 persons were killed.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-03-02

For sale cheap, team weighing $500
pounds, wagon, harness and racks.
Taken in trade, have no use for them.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-03-02

London, Feb 25.-Reuter's Amster-
dam correspondent sends report re-
ceived there by Bucharest that the
Roumanian war Office has announced
that all naturalized Roumanian citl-
zens between the ages of 81 and 46
must report themselves for military
service.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-03-02

Charley Cork, of Fargo, spent Fri.
day in the city with friends.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-03-02

Berlin, Feb. 25.-The report of Ger
man gains north of Verdun has
strengthened the feeling of confidence
here in the outcome of future events.
The news has provoked no noticeable
furry in Berlin, where no flags have
been exhibited.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-03-02

FOR SALE-Chester White boar at m,
farm. Geo. Holzmann. 18-4w
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-03-02

st. Paul, MINI.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-06
CHAPTER ".
The Change at the Cove.

1t was early in April that Billy
Louise rode over to the Cove to
see her friends. and these she
found a great change. Jase had
failed to wake up one morning, so
now Marthy was without even his
shiftless companlonship.
What are you going to do
now, Marthy?" Billy Louise asked
You can't get on here alone, you
know. Did YOU send for that
nephew"
He's comm" Marthy had talk
ed so long of sending for this
nephew of hers that Billy Louise
had begun to think there was no
such person. ~ dunno when he'll
git here: he's liable to come most
any time. | kin git along alone. l
might as we'll of been alone"
Even harsh Marthy hesitated and
did not finish the sentence that
would have put a slight upon her
dead.
And strange as 1t may seem, the
nephew, whose name was Charlie
Fox, came that very afternoon be-
fore Billy Louise went home. He
was a college man, Marthy had
said, and had worked in a bank,
and though Billy Louise wonder
ed why on earth he should want
to bury himself in the Cove with
Marthy, he had treated his aunt
with sympathy and kindness
when he heard of her loss, and the
girl rather liked him.
Pm glad he's come" she said
to Blue as she rode home, "even
If he proves to be a tenderfoot
which somehow | think he
won't. Because I'm not going to
be able to get over there often"
she continued musing aloud.
III have to do a lot of riding
on the cattle this summer"
Continued in our next issue.)
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CHAPTER ii.
A Storm and a Stranger.

Billy Louise was riding home
from Marthy's one January after
noon, the winter after she had
come home to take up the whole
burden of the ranch.
1t was getting late, and her
horse, Blue, had just rounded a
sharp turn of the trail, when Billy
Louise suddenly caught her
breath and her fingers slipped
around the butt of the gun she al
ways carried.
She did not know this horse
man, who sat negligently in the
saddle while his horse stood knee
deep in the little stream. She
did not know him; and there were
not so many travellers in the land
that strangers were a matter of
indifference.
Blue stepped nonchalantly down
into the stream beside the
strange horse and went across
without stopping to drink. The
strange horse moved on also, as
if that were the natural thing to
do-which 1t was.
Looks like a storm" the fur
coated one observed, with a per-
fectly transparent attempt to
Tighten the awkwardness.
Billy Louise glanced at the man
and caught him looking intently
at her face.
He did not look away immedi-
ately, as he should have done, and
Billy Louise felt a little heat wave
of resentment.
Are you going far?" he quer-
led in the same tone he had en-
ployed before.
six miles," she answered
shortly.
I've about eighteen" he said.
Looks like we'll both get caught
out in blizzard.
Certainly, he had pleasant
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-06
BY LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE

Sometimes the eyes of Billy
Louise were soft with sympathy.
Sometimes they were wide and
held the light of horror. Once,
with small sob that had no tears
she reached out and clutched his
arm. "Oh, DON'T" she gasped.
Don't go on telling-I-skip
that part and tell me"
Ward took up the story and
told her much; more than she had
ever dreamed could be. | can't
repeat any of 1t; what he said was
for Billy Louise to know and none
other.
After that, though there was
never any word of love between
them, Billy Louise, with the sure
instinct of a woman, watched for
signs of those fits of bitter brood
ing; watched and drove them off
with various weapons of her own.
Sometimes she cheerfully declar-
ed that she was bored to death.
and wasn't Ward Just dying for a
game of rob casino? Some
times she simply leased him into.
retaliation.
She only meant to wean him
from pessimism and rebuild with
In him a healthy appetite for life.
If she did more than that, she
did not know it then; for Ward
Warren had learned, along with
other hard lessons, the art of
keeping his thoughts locked safe
ly away. Only his eyes turned
traitors sometimes when he look
ed at Billy Louise; though she,
being a somewhat self-centered
young person, never quite read
what they tried to betray.
When spring came at last, and
Ward rode regretfully back to his
claim on Mill Creek, he was not
at all the morose Ward Warren
who had ridden down to the VOL
VERNE that stormy night in Janu-
airy. Fortunes football was max
ing ready to fight desperately to
become captain of the game, that
he might be something more to
Billy Louise.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-06
CHAPTER I.
The Beginning.

j Four trall-worn oxen Snould
really begin this story.
! There was woman, low
browed, uncombed, who drove the
four oxen forward over lava rocks
and rough prairie and the scanty
sage.
| might tell you a great deal
about Marty Melkle, who plodded
stolidly across the desert and the
low-lying hills along the Black
foot; and of her weak-bodied,
shiftless husband, whom she called
Jase when she did not call him
worse.
They were the pioneers whose
lurching wagon first forded the
Wolverine stream. And that night
two OF the oxen, impelled by a
surer instinct than their human
owners, strayed away down a
narrow, winding gorge, and SO
discovered the Cove, and Toasted
upon its rich grasses. 1t was Mar
thy who went after them and who
recognized the little, hidden
Eden.
Another sturdy-souled couple
came afterward and saw the VOL
VERNE, and made for themselves
a home upon its banks. And in
the rough little log cabin was
born the girl-child | want you to
meet, a girl-child when she should
have been a boy to meet her ia
Tiers need and great desire; a
girl-child whose very name was a
compromise between the parents,
for they called her Billy for sake
of the boy her father wanted. and
Louise for the girl her mother
had longed for, to tighten that
terrible loneliness which the far
frontier brings to the women who
brave its stern emptiness.
All through her little girlhood
Billy Louise Macdonald found
of visit to her harsh, unkempt
neighbors. And Marthy, who
her greatest diversion the paying
ordered her lazy husband around
like slave, watched and waited
for Billy Louise's weekly visit,
and loved her as only pent-up
heart can. love.
Perhaps she saw in Billy Louise
something of her own little
daughter, Minervy, whom she had
left buried back on the plains. At
any rate, she lavished her affec-
tion on the little girl with the
strange name, and when the time
came for her to be sent away to
school and the Macdonald crops
failed, it was Marthy who sup
piled the funds.
She gave the money to Billy
Louise's mother, and said it was a
present for Billy Louise, and
meant for school money She
said that she hadn't any girl of
her own to spend the money on.
A woman will sacrifice more
pride than you would believe II
she sees way toward helping
her children to an education. Mrs.
Macdonald took the money, and
she promised secrecy-with a
feeling that Marthy wished it.
At IS, then, Billy Louise knew
some things not taught by the
wide plains and the wild hills
around her. And when her father
died trigacilly beneath an over
turned load of poles from the
mountain at the head of the con-
yon, Billy Louise came home.
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regular wages.
His eyes went to her and stead
led there, with the intent express
sion in them. Thanks. Cut out
the wages. and I'll take the offer
just as 1t stands" he told her.
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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-02-09

and gutter in accordance with plans
and specifications prepared by the
city engineer and approved by tho
council of the city Of Denison Iowa.
Third Kind Said paving shall b.
constructed of a two inch wearing sur
face (,i -aspllaltic concrete, laid on a
five inch Portland cement concrete
base against a Portland cement con.
crete curb and gutter, in accordance
with plans and specifications prepared
by the city engineer and approved by
the council Of the city of Denison.
iowa.
Fourth Kind: Said paving shall be
constructed of two inch wearing Sur.
face of Warren Bros. bitulithic, laid on
a five inch Portland cement concrete
base, against Portland cement con
crete curb and gutter, in accordance
with plans and specifications prepared
by the city engineer and approved by
the council OF the city Of Denison,
iowa.
Fifth Kind: Said paving shall be
constructed of sheet asphalt with one
inch binder and one and one-half inch
wearing surface laid on a five inch
OItlttitu CtlIlCilL DdSc
o Portland cement concrete curb and
gutter, in accordance with plans and
specifications prepared by the city en-
gineer and approved by the council
of the city of Denison, Iowa.
Sixth Kind: Said paving shall be
constructed Of a number one vitrificl
vertical fiber paving brick laid on a
five inch Portland cement concrete
base, with one and one-half inch sand
cushion, against Portland cement
concrete curb, in accordance with
plans and specifications prepared by
the city engineer and approved by the
council of the city Of Denison, Iowa.
The following is an approximate es-
innate of the amount of work to be
done: $4,000 cubic yards OF grading;
20.594 lineal feet of curbing; 5G,S5Gl
square yards of paving, work to begin
on or before the first day Of April,
1916, and to be fully completed on or.
before the first day of August, 1916,
payment therefore to be made in spe-
cial assessment certificates bearing
at the rate Of per cent per
annunl, issued in accordance with pros
visions of Section Sal. Code OF Iowa
and to the extent that the costs OF the
same is assessable by law against
property abutting on and adjacent to
said Improvement and against rail
ways or street railway companies
whose tracks are located thereon, if
any there be, said certificates to be is
sued and delivered to the contractor
after the work is approved and accept
ed by this council; and deficiency be-
tween the amount OF the contract price
and the amount OF said certificates to
be paid in4sS warrants drawn on the
street Improvement fund, available for
the fiscal year beginning April l, 1916,
payable out of the proceeds of the tax
levied therefor and from no other
source, the city to incur no liability
other than the duty to levy the said
tax and to properly apply the proceeds
thereof, to making the special assess
ment referred to and to issuing asse:s-s
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-02-09

marriage Wednesday, February I'd
Their many friends extend hearties
congratulations.
Miss Lydia Prosch visited with hel
sister Mrs. II. Asmus, near Buck
Grove, last week
A sleigh load of Denison friends gave
Miss Ella Moeller surprise Sunday
evening. The young folks brought oys
tiers and all enjoyed the occasion.
Mrs. Brian Houlihan was a Carroll
visitor last week.
Leonard O'Brien attended the short
course at Ames last week.
Misses Bid and Margaret Houlihan
spent a few days last week at the M.
Houlihan home.
Mrs. Henry Schramm, of Denison,
spent last week with her daughter,
Mrs. Pete Paulsen.
Mrs. Bryan visited in the home Of
her daughter, Mrs. Powell, a few days
last week.
Gene Owens and sister and James
Hughes spent Sunday afternoon with
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Fienhold.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Houlihan entertain
ed a number of relatives at dinner on
Sunday.
Ruth Rogers was week end guest
in the home of her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. Rogers, in Denison.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Pete Paulsen was inferred in the Mis-
sen cemetery Friday.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-02-09

ment certificates to the contractor
| therefor, the warrants herein provid
| ed for. to be drawn as soon as the pro
ceeds of said tax are available. Said
assessment certificates ana warrants,
! il such warrnts be issued. shall be
accepted by the contractor in full pay
ment for all work done under his con
tract without recourse to the city Of
Denison, Iowa.
Each bid must be accompanied with
the certified check in separate en-
yelope, said check to be drawn on
some solvent bank lin Denison, Iowa,
and made payable to the order of the
city treasurer of Denison, Iowa, in the
sum of per cent of the amount of the
bid, each envelope must be addressed
ito the city of Denison, Iowa, and en-
dorsed with the name of the bidder
and the improvement such check and
proposal are for. Certified checks nc
companying proposals will be return
cd to the unsuccessful bidders when
contract has been awarded, and also
to the bidder to whom the contract is
awarded when he shall have entered
into the contract for the construction
of said improvement with the city Of
Denison, Iowa, and give bond in the
sum of so per cent of the amount of
the contract price with sureties to be
approved by the city council of the
city of Denison, Iowa, for the faithful
performance of his contract, the con
tract will contain a provision that the
contractor shall guarantee the i'm
provemtnt to remain in good repair
for a period of five years, excepting
concrete pavement which shall be
guaranteed for one year, from and af-
ter the date of its acceptance by the
city council and the bond will contain
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-02-09
Advertisements for Bids for the Con-
struction of Street Improvement.

Sealed proposals will be received a
the Office of the city clerk of Denison
Iowa, until ! o'clock p. N. on the lSt!
day Of February. 1916, for furnishing
labor and materials for the street i'm
provement on the following streets
and parts of streets, to-wit:
| Broadway street from the west linz
|of Anthony street TO the west line OF
Locust street.
fremont street from the west line
| of Court street to the east line OF
Sweet street.
Main street from the point $40 feet
north of the north line of West Pros
pect street to the south line of the
right OF way of the Chicago & North.
western railroad.
Court avenue from the south line OF
! fremont street to the north line OF
Broadway.
Center street from. the east line of
Court avenue to the west line of Main
street.
Sweet street from the south line OF
fremont street to the north line OF
Chestnut street.
Chestnut street from the east line
of Main street to the east line of Lo-
Gust street.
Locust street from the north line of
Broadway to the north line of Clark
street.
Burt street from the east line Of
Main street to the west line of Pine
street.
East Prospect street from the west
line of Pine street to the west line
of Washington avenue.
Walnut street from the east line Of
Locust street to the west line of Wash
ingtOn avenue.
Said pavement shall be constructed
of one of the following kinds descrih-
ed herein and the city council shall
select the kind OF pavement, the selec-
ton to be made after bids are received
thereon:
First Kind: Said paving shall be
constructed of vitrified number one
paving brick, laid on a one and one
half inch sand cushion, with five inch
Portland cement concrete base, against
a Portland cement concrete curb, in
accordance with plans and specifica-
tions therefor prepared by the city
engineer and approved by the city
council of Denison, Iowa
Second Kind: Said paving shall be
constructed of one course Portland
cement concrete seven inches in depth
laid against Portland cement curb
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