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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10
North Dakota Leads
Way in Bible Study

Devils Lake, Feb BY introduc-
ing a course of Bible study in the
public schools, successful work in
which is recognized by the high school
board with credit equal to any 80.
hour subject, North Dakota has blazed
way in religious education.
"In this respect North Dakota has
been put on the religious map of the
world declares Walter A. Snow, Sec
rotary Of the State Sunday School as.
ISOLATION, who is in Devils Lake max
ing arrangements for the 1916 con-
vention, which will be held here.
The undertaking is successful be-
cause the course of study outlined
avoids points of doctrine and all con-
troversial subjects. It has been ac-
cepted by Catholics and Professionals
alike. The course is optional. When
students desire to take it, they are
referred to Secretary Snow, who pro-
vides each with what he terms a syl-
labus, prepared by Dean Squires of
the state university, This is a con-
else outline, with references, of the
work to be covered. To these stu.
dents the state board submits an ex-
animation, conducted simultaneously
over the state, in the same manner
that all other examinations are con-
Quoted.
Secretary Snow credits Dean Squires
with having done wonderful work
in the syllabus, which has met with
great favor. So far as can be ascer-
tanned, not single complaint has been
registered.
The North Dakota system, which
was entirely original here, has been
copied bodily by Indiana. In the
state Of Washington many cities have
adopted it. In Michigan such cities
as Grand Rapids and Lansing have
accepted it,; in Ohio, Toledo and Tiff.
fin In North Dakota 500 students,
Protestants and Catholics, have re.
ceived high school credits for Bible
study.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10
REPORT ON HuLL-LEss OATS

County Farming Agent Maryland has
received from the Washington state
experiment station at Pulliam, Wash
a report upon the variety Of hull-less
oats recently exhibited for sale by a
Washington solicitor. The report
states that tests do not indicate that
the hull-less oats will yield as well as
other common varieties, falling off
about Is per cent. and adds "They may
have special use but we do not know
Of any demands for hullless oats at
present"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10
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STEWART


Mr.. and Mrs. Val Potter spent Tues
day at the Clancy home.
Bob Croft returned Monday from
Pittsburgh, Pa, and other points east.
where he had been visiting the past
month with friends and relatives. He
will make his home with Frank Pot
ter for the rest Of the winter
Mr., and Mrs. Will Potter Spent
Tuesday evening with the latter's par.
ents.
William Rohde spent Tuesday with
his brother Louis Rohde.
Mr.. and Mrs Conrad Potter we're
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Will Potter
Wednesday evening.
Thomas and Peter Clancy drove to
the Val Potter farm on business Sat
urday.
William Rohde drove to the John
Froelich farm Thursday.
Mrs. Val Potter spent several DAYS.
last week in Valley City visiting with.
friends, Molly Potter returned home,
! with her, to spend few days before,
going to Medina where she, will visit
her mother.
Conrad and Will Potter called at
the Will ,Thiel home Monday morning
where the former purchased a COW.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. H. Miller and son
Willie and Emma schafer were guests
lat the schafer home Sunday. The,
storm made it necessary for them to-
! leave the children there, and return
home early in the afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Schafer spent
Saturday in Valley City.
Val Potter and Erwin Bergen drove
to the latter's farm Saturday where
Val went to purchase some stock,
| Mr.. and Mrs. Will Rohde and daueh.
ter Marian, Mr.. and Mrs. Will Potter
and son Lawrence, spent Thursday
evening with Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Pot
ter. q
a very pleasant storm came Sunday
ana spent the day with us, there sure.
was music in the air!
III Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Rohde and Mr.,
and Mrs. Will Potter spent Sunday at :
the parental home. Mrs. Potter was
compelled to stay over till Monday on
account of the bad storm. Il
Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Potter. Mr. ana
Mrs. Will Potter, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Rohde. Mr.. and Mrs. Will Rohde and
family and Louise schafer spent Mon.
Day evening the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Dotting, the occasion being the
birthday of Mrs. Dotting's mother.
Mrs. Haupt.
Louise Schaffer who has spent tho
past four weeks assisting her aunt,
Mrs Rohde, returned to her home
Tuesday. .5
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10

Bismarck Tribune: Miss Elizabeth
Richards, Of Fngal, N. d., arrived here
yesterday on No. 8. Miss Richards has
accepted position in the Lucas store.
She is former employee OF the store.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10
cARRINcToN PLANS PAVING

Plans for the paving Of several Of
the principal streets Of the Caring.
ton business district are being consid-
cred by property owners, and some
definite action with that object in,
view is anticipated shortly.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10
Des Laos Boys Invent
Tractor Steering Gear

MlnOt, rep. 9.-ROy Williams, son OF
T. Williams, and Herschel Wagner,
two prominents farmers living five
miles south of Des Laos, have invented
and patented a steering gear for plow-
ing tractors that bids fair to bring the
young inventors, who are only II
years of age, a fortune and at the same
time revolutionize the use of tractors
for blowing purposes.
The inventors have been offered
$4,000 for the Canadian rights for
their invention and they have receiv.
ed a number of inquiries from manu-.
facturers in this country asking them
to name a price for their attachment
or to specify the royalty they will take
to have it manufactured. So far they
have not disposed of the invention in
either country.
The boys are young farmers and
have been working on the invention
for something like a year. Roy Will
liams was the real inventor of the
attachment. Herschel Wagner has
been operating tractor engine on
his fathers farm for some time, and
by giving the matter careful study
had become considerable of an expert
in that line. The boys entered into
partnership and the invention was
tried out on the tractor which young
Wagner was operating, and was thus
worked to perfection which would
otherwise has been impossible.
The difference between the boys
tractor guide and those which have
/ been in use is that instead of the
two wheels running in span on the
same exile, they run tandem in the
furrow and are so arranged that both
grip against the BERN of the furrow
automatically. This gripping of the
furrow BERN guides and changes the
course of the front wheels of the trac
tor and makes the entire outfit follow
the lines of the furrow Thus, if the
furrow is crooked, the old method fol
lowed a straight course and the ma
chinery was not at once adjustable tc
the change. The invention of the boys
overcomes this defect, which was real
ly the purpose for which the invention
was intended. The wheels and their
connections are such that they buckle
automatically and the tractor is thus
guided without the use of a steering
wheel. But steering wheel is pro
vided, which can be used to turn the
tractor in a remarkably small space
the buckling of the guide wheels and
connections carrying the front wheels
of the tractor itself in a short but
perfect curve without the least skid.
ding.
The invention has been tried out
thoroughly on tractors of different
makes and has been found to work to
perfection under all conditions.
The inventors are farm boys with
brains, who have not given so much
attention to book farming as they
have to farming with their eyes and
ears open.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10
GUNDER OLSON IS
AVoWED CANDIDATE

Grafton, N. D., Feb. 8-Gunder Olson
is out with his announcement that he
is a candidate for the position of Re.
publican national committeeman from
North Dakota. and will seek the cleo
ton at the coming primaries. Mr.. Oh
son was at one time state treasurer
and is one Of the best known men in
the state. III
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10
CALL CONVENTION OF IRISH
TO BE HELD IN NEW YORK

New York, Feb. S.--A call for ma
tional convention Of men and women of
the Irish race in America to make
known to the world that Ireland has
not been and cannot be absorbed into
England" was issued here today over
the signatures of 500 men of Irish
lineage of prominence in different
parts of the country.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10

Butter made .22, 725 900
Cheese made ..,....... 67,6O8
Received by Producers $5,648,O0O
Gain over 1914 pounds in
cream S,914,OOO
Gain over 1914 pounds in
butter fat ............... 3,O64,00
Gain over 1914 pounds in
butter made ............. 4,oSo,ooo
Gain over 1914 pounds in
cheese made ............ 1923
Gain over 1914 in milk ..... $4,000
Gain in number of COWS ..... 2O,O31
Gain in dollars in milk,
cream, etc. 81, O63,OOO
Average butter per COW in
1914 "a lbs. butterfat.
Butter made .............. 80 lbs.
Average butter per COW in
1915 81h lbs. butterfat.
Butter made 80 lbs,
Gross income per COW, 1915, price at
27c per lb.-$26.73.
1T is astonishing to know that
farmers keep cows producing so small
an income, and gross, at that, as
$26.73 each. I dare not attempt to OBJ
tain the net results, fearing there
would be no semblence of the COW.
The old saying we have the hide and
tallow left, so let us thank the Lord
for this. ... .....#.
However, we should not become
disheartened or discouraged over these
conditions, as it's these very expert
ences we are now passing through that
are going to produce efficiency in the
dairy COW. And I apprehend we are
going to realize to a marked degree
this efficiency which will be largely
caused by up-breeding. The hundreds
of pure bred sires which have been
purchased by our dairy-breeders and
shipped from other states during the
past three years are going to amaze
US as to results of production; within
the next decade, we will not have,
then, yearly average of leo pounds
OF butter per COW. IT will not be a
safe venture for ! leo pound COW to
show her face through the barn door.
Not the 200 pound Cow likewise and I
sincerely hope it, will be dangerous
for 300 pound COW, for if this should
happen, amagine see them tangoing
toward the packing house.
The saying that the dairy industry
can not be maintained largely by the
reason of inexperienced labor, and
further, that the average farm hand
will not milk cows is somewhat over
drawn, although true to some extent,
but there are hundreds of ads. in our
farm papers and leading dailies bear
ing ads. every day from experienced
men asking for positions as dairy men,
or mixers Young men are making
this study in our schools and col
leges and expect to make this their
life work. These young men are not
among the rif-raff class that food our
state; they are of higher type and
must be sought. They are there and
you can procure them, but you must
get into communication with them; it
costs very little; worth it; try it.
II have learned by experience that a
dairyman will not hold down his Job
il required to go into the field and do
the regular work Of other men-why
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10

Jamestown, Feb. 9.-North Dakota
state dairymen in session here today
elected c. E. Batcheller of Fingal,
president of the organization; James
Cooper of Fargo, vice president; Peter
Miller Of Bismarck, secretary, and w.
Stegel of Medina, treasurer.
The selection of city for the 1917
convention was left with the board OF
managers.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10
y'sDepartmentS Store

should he? But he will do this in con-
nection with his dairying, look after
regular farm chores Gf he has time)
keep the horsebarn clean, also pig and
chicken houses, make and attend the
garden, and keep the premises slicked
up generally and what is nicer to be-
held, and more restful to the eye than
a we'll kept farm?
do you know it's actually danger
Gus to drive on to many farm premises
for fear of running into gang plows,
mowers and the like, not only this but
it seems sort of custom to have a
Dukes mixture) all about, pigs, geese,
calves, chickens, machinery and what
not. If any of my hearers are guilty
Of this mixture, when you get home
and the weather permits, right about
face, and clear a patch about your
farm premises, at least large enough
to set a cream can without it's upset
ting or being upset by some wandering
vagabond whose place should be in
some enclosure.
"Now just a work regarding eff
cheney; breed up your herd. If you
cannot afford to buy pure bred COW
and sire, purchase a pure-bred sire,
just as quickly as possible. And, by
the way, look up the records Of the
animal before you make the purchase,
by getting an extended pedigree to at
least to. the fifth geenration back and
ask for the milk and butterfat tests
to be inserted in the pedigree, as it
is not sufficient that you get the pure
bred animal, but you must have in
this animal an ancestry that has
shown efficiency, for many pure bred
dairy COWS are Just borders that's
all. And while you are casting about
for COWS and sires, better get busy
with the breeders of North Dakota.
There is just as good stuff right at
home as elsewhere, and no chances to
run, practically, Of contracting dis
eases. during transportation.
"The following statement ought to
keep farmers milking COWS:
with every ton of grain marketed,
yielding from $1S to $50, is marketed
from s6 to So worth Of soil fertility
md with every ton Of butter market
el, yielding from $500 to $500, is mar
keter but so cents of soil fertility"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10

Ticket Collector (after heated argu.
ment)- Well, you'll have to pay for
him; he isn't under three"
Mother-"No, but If he hadn't got a
new suit on, he'd be under the seat"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10
Bachelor Made
Great Address

Jamestown, Feb. 8.-President G.. e.
Bachelor Of Fingal, N. D., was very
happy in his annual address before the
North Dakota Dairymen's association
convention. His address was replete
with facts. He said in part:
1T affords me great pleasure to
greet you here at so notable gather
ing as the twenty-second annual con-
vention of the North Dakota Dairy
mems Association and further l have
been afforded the honor of being your
president, and still further of being in
one of the best and important and pro-
gressive cities in our state, and if l
mistake not jamestown has warm
spot in her heart for thedairymen =
since they have been her guests on
previous occasions of this kind.
"The address of welcome of your
mayor-and also the president of your
Commercial club are indications of
your hospitality and assure you that
we are going to sack up and carry
away everything you have offered,
even to the gates and key to your city.
AT this convention l suppose you
are expecting to be bored with figures
and statistics from the speakers gen.
orally, but I am going to be as brief as
possible, by giving in just a few lines
what has been accomplished the past
two years in the dairy industry of
North Dakota:
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-24


he's had a terrific clip on the back
Of the head. Looks as though some
one had hit him with life-preserver.
He's coming around, though. He'll
be all right in a few minutes"
Here are the books on the table"
said Cleo, recognizing two Of her ia
theirs beloved volumes. "Poor Mr..
Lcyland must have been looking at
them when"
She stopped abruptly. for from be-
hind the curtains had come muffled
sneeze.
Someone's hiding there-behind
the curtainsl" she whispered, gripping
Hopes arm,
Crossing the room on velvet feet
Hope suddenly jerked aside the heavy
draperies. As he did so, Mahlin, who
had slipped a black mask over the
upper portion Of his face, leaped at
him like panther. Locked in each
others arms the two men swayed
out into the middle OF the room.
They hit carved cabinet filled with
| porcelain and II went over with a
crash. They caromed from the wall
to the table and from the table to
the wall. Cursing. grunting, snarl-
ing, straining, more like animals than
linen, they reeled through the door
way of the study into the upper hall
A rug slipped from beneath them and
sent them to their knees, but still
they~battled on. Nearer and nearer
their desperate struggles brought
them to the top OF the stairway
Hope, who was on top now, had his
fingers on Mahlin's throat. The
house was in an uproar now. Guests
servants and musicians, attracted b.
, the piercing screams of Cleo and Mrs
Delmar, rushed from the ballroom
and stood crowded in the door below
watching the struggle at the head o.
, the stairs as an audience watches ;
mock struggle on the stage. Nov
the two were poised At the top D
the stairway. Then, amid q chorul
{. Of screams from Cleo and Mrs. Del
mar above and from the assembled
guests below, they rolled, with ter
, rifle humping, down the marbi,
stairs. So intertwined that one coul,
not be distinguished from the other
| they burst into the ballroom, tn,
frightened guests giving way befor,
them. Painting from exhaustion, the,
! rocked and swayed across the pol
! ished floor, reeled for sickening mo
: ment against the low balustrade Il
front Of the open French window
I and then. amid cry OF warning iron
: the onlookers, plunged outward an,
: downward into the darkness. A ter
! rifle crash Of broken glass told tn
! Mortified listeners that they had fallei
Z through the roof Of the conservator,
i. below.
5 Throughout the desperate encounte
$ Cleo had remained at the top of tn
Z stairs, petrified with fear for Hope
I safety. clinging iconvulsively to Mr..
z Delmar. AS the two figures plunge
G through the open window she gave
: shrek Of horror.
$ Hes killed. He's killed. ], kno,
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-24
CONTINUED from Yesterday

The study was large and hand
soniely furnished apartment. Its walls
were paneled in oak and heavy bro
cade curtains were drawn before its
recessed windows.
Mahlin, closing the door behind
him, had unwrapped the books with
quick, nervous fingers, and was bent
over the table, absorbed in their ex-
animation, when the door was sud-
denly thrown open and young Ley
land entered the room.
Excuse me-" he exclaimed, suppos-
ing the figure At the table was one OF
the guests, I'm sorry il | intruded.
I Just stepped in to see II could find
some cigarettes and then, recogniz-
ing Mahlin as the servant who had adj
mitted him, what the devil arc you
doing with those books And why
haven't you told my aunt that ! had
arriyed1'
Il really beg pardon, sir" said the
supposed servant hufnbiy, "but ! was
Just glancing over the volumes, sir.
They are highly interesting, sir. ]
will notify your aunt Immediately,
sir, and he backed toward the door.
"Weil, don't waste any more time
about Ii, then" said Leyland, "and
you can tell her that I'm going to
stay here for while and have .
smoke"
Dropping into a chair, he lighted
a cigarette. An instant later crush
ing blow descended on his head and
with . groan, he slumped from the
chair on to the floor. where he lay
with outspread arms, breathing ster-
torously.
| Needless Of the unconscious body Al
| his feet, Mahlin had resumed his scru.
tiny Of the books when he heard out.
side the door the voices Of Mrs. Del
mar, Hope and Cleo. They were as
cending the stair They were coming
to the study. He glanced about him
i The only means of escape wa,
| through d single door He wa:
trapped. His only chance Of avoiding
discovery lay In concealing himself
/ until the unwelcomev isitors had de-
parted. Leaving the books on the
table, he blew out the lamp and slip
ping into one OF the window recesse.
| drew before him the heavy curtains
| Scarcely had he done SO when tn,
Edoor opened. sA l
"Why, the rooms dark" exelaine,
Mrs. Delmar. Il can't understand II
i'll certainly gave orders to have tn,
lamp lighted" and, stepping to tn
wall. she switched on the electri
| light.
GOOD heavensi What's thisr erie,
! Hope. catching sight Of Leyland'
body.
. Mrs. Deimar gave a cry Of horror
II "Its Francisl It's my nephew !
! The deadl Oh, he Is deads What
! happened to himf
. mo, he's not dead" said Hope, es
aiming the unconscious man, "bu
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-24
FIFTH INSTALLMENT.

Lieutenant Jarvis Hope Is detailed by the
United States naval board to Investigate
and report his findings on the invention OF
DR.. Ralph Burke which serves to bring the
submarine to a state Of perfection. The
lieutenant arrives In valdavis and 10 well
coined BY the inventor and his daughter.
Cleo. on the trial trip OF the inventors
boat. q Japanese helper IL surprised In the
act OF examining the mechanism OF the ven"
tiiating device Hope reports favorably on
the new device, but there are others inter-
ested In It, An attempt TO burglarize DR..
Burkas laboratory falls but later Cleo finds
him murdered In his bedroom Cleo sells her
fathers library to get money; later she finds
note. from which she learns that they con-
tain the secret formula. With Hope she
races to the auctioneer's store. only TO find II
In flames Olga Ivanoff and Gerald Morton,
two apies in search Of the formula, attempt
to capture Cleo when she calls at the house
OF 6tephsnski. the anarchist. Hope PUSHES
to her aid; Morton shoots At him. but the
bullet hits = bomb. In the cellar. which sx-
plodeB.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-24
Nebraska
HIGH COURT GIVES
SOME OPINIONS
.cngressman Shallenberger Must
\ Pay Note Which He Endorsed
for Another.
HAIooH RULE FINALLY FIXED

y tFrom . Staff correspondent.)
" Lincoln. June y23.-(Special.) -Su-
Feme court opinions handed down
Sday show that Ex-Governor Shall
|tnberger, who endorsed the payment
N note given by W.. P. Sommers
whom he had sold some cattle,
Ne note later appearing in the hands
the Home Savings bank Of Free
ont, will have to pay the same. The
BITE amounted to $3.50 and was given
1902, since which time il has been
i litigation.
II Saloon Regulation.
IN Ignorance Of the age Of a minor
hes not excuse saloon keeper in
elling liquor, and a sale by an en-
0ye Is the same as If sold by the
roprietor, unless ii is clearly shown
i'll TIE sale was made IN the absence
the owner OF the saloon in the
fect contradiction to orders.
Whether the instructions were given
good faith is for the jury to de-
|,krmine.
"A The case came from johnson
bunty, where Herman Steinkuhler, a
herring saloon keeper, was arrested
nd fined $47s and costs for sale o.
quor to : minor. The saloon keeper
" up the defense that the sales made
We're contrary to orders.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-24

u Beatfice, Mob, June Sz3.-(Special
eieersMl) thousands of Beatrice
tixenS NAthertd 1t the Burlington
|A4ions kiis morning to bid members
i Con3pIny G good bye before their
Eparflife icrs mobilization camp ct
inccld, Tie Beatrice military band
ia boS scouts accompanied the COM
anyt the train. Patriotism was
hpaiSnt on every hand when the
nd began playing national airs and
e were cheers and heart-aches Is
Ihe train pulled out Of the station for
Lincoln. Twelve new recruits were
eived BY the Company today