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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-03-09
Members of School Board on Tour of
Inspection.

Martin jacobson, Gunder Reishus
and C. F. Truax, members of the
board of education of Minot Special
School District, left the first of the
week for points in Kansas, where they
will inspect number of the most
modern high school buildings with a
view of getting valuable pointers con-
corning the building to be erected in
Minot. They will also pay some at
tention to the work done in the ad-
vanced manual training courses of
some of the schools.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-03-09
Henry Weber Residence Burned.

Henry Weber Residence Burned.
The old Henry Weber residence on
Fourth St. S. E. caught fire at $3.50
o'clock Wednesday morning and was
completely Quilted. The fire was seen
by employees in the RUSSELL Miller mill
and the alarm given. Firemen re-
sponded, but the fire had made such
Roadway that the building was practi-
cally destroyed. The building was
occupied by Scott Clark, who was con-
victed of pigging in district court last
week, but nobody was at home when
the fire started. The blaze started on
the first floor. The household goods
were a complete loss.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-03-09
HOOSIER CELEBRATION MAR. IS.

The Hoosiers Of this section Of The
state will meet at Surrey, Saturday,
March 10, to hold their first annual
celebration and to organize. All for
mer residents of Indiana are eligible
to join the association and all are cor
daily invited to take their lunches
and spend the day. A good social time
will be enjoyed and an impromptu
program rendered. The meeting will
be called to order at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-03-09
PARAMOUR GETS
THE LONG TERM.

Wanpet0n, N. D., March "a re-
markable contrast in punishment is
found in the sentences melted out to
Robert Sinclair and Edith Johnston,
parents of the baby killed by Sinclair,
now serving 30 years in stats prison.
While her paramour is serving the
long prison sentence, Miss Johnston,
exempted by Sinclair Of any knowl-
edge Of the baby's murder, is serving a
sentence Of 80 days in the Richland
county Jail on q minor charge.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-03-09

VIM. Ehr has disposed of his entire
herd Of Guernsey cattle, fourteen in
number, to J. E. Elsberry, Of the Riv-
erside Dairy Farm. Mr.. Ehr will
handle Holsteins exclusively in the
future. At present he has nearly Six
ty head Of Holsteins at the farm. He
is building up one of the finest Hol-
stein herds in the state.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-03-09
TIME OF SOWING WHEAT.

Early sowing Of wheat has been
found the best at the Langdon, N. D.
Sub Station in 1915. Marquis wheat
sown on corn ground, April 10th, went
IS is bushels per acre, sown May
10th the yield was "a AS bushels.
Marquis wheat sown on sod land
April 18th went 80 bushels per acre,
while wheat sown May 10Th yielded
10 1-2 bushels.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-03-09

A man from Fossten, Mimi, travel
ed clear to Minot to receive treatment
from one of our specialists. Altho it
was nearer to the Twin Cities, he pre-
ferred the work of our own doctors.
Not bad kind of reputation to
have.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-03-09
BIRTH REGISTRATION.

The following is an example Of The
value and necessity of birth registra-
ton, as occurring in Indiana.
"A farmer in Indiana left his valu-
able farm in trust to his unthrifty
son, to 60 to his granddaughter on
her twenty-frst birthday. When she
believed she was FL and claimed her
Inheritance, her father disputed her
age, saying she was only 10. The
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-03-09
FOss Family Return.

Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Foss and daugh-
tiers have returned from a three
months eastern trip. They intended
spending the winter in California but
upon their arrival in St. Paul, found
Mrs. Foss' mother in such poor health
that they decided not to make the trip.
Mrs. Foss' mother passed away Jan.
20 at the age of SO years.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-03-09
PITY THE POOR LINOTYPER!

The bride was gowned in white
silk and the bridesmaids in white
silk cots, IL pints syrup, IL ozs.
of carnations and the bridesmaids
white and pink charlottesville CAL
gary (Canada) Herald.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-03-09
Price of Old Rags Goes Skyward

Price Of Old Rags Goes Skyward.
The war has caused the price of old
rags to jump from 80 cents per hun
dred to $3.50 per hundred pounds. A
Grand Forks junk dealer who agreed
to furnish Crookston dealer with
10000 pounds of rags at 80 cents per
hundred pounds did not fulfill his con-
tract and is defendant in suit.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-03-09

Mule for Leapyear Bride.
Hopkinsville, KY, March 8.-There
is much interest here in the PROPOSE
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-03-02

to care. But somehow the society of
the calloW youths who had made love
to her began to be intolerabe. Will
ingly or not, she realized that John
was necessary to her life.
When he did come he was as pleas
ant as ever. But never another word
of love passed his lips. And about the
end Of the month he had given him
self he came gleefuIly up the path.
"Ship's in the bay" he called.
'Yes?" inquired Lydia, without en-
thusiasm.
Putting in at Raree. And say,
Miss Lydia, what do you think?
There's a party of English girls going
to spend a whole month in Raree.
Now well have some jolly times, eh?"
What are they doing in Raree?"
inquired Lydia suspiciously.
Blessed if know" said John,
81 hope you'll have a good time,
then" said Lydia acidly, and left him.
From her window upstairs she looked
across the bay toward Raree through
her fathers telescope. She saw the
tiny town, and the ocean liner in the
harbor, and suddenly she found that
she was crying.
She looked at herself in the glass
and discovered that she was not real
ly pretty-Only pleasant-looking and
good-natured. John Hardy would find
equal or greater attractions in any of
a hundred women with whom pro-
prinquity might throw him. And she
had as good as lost him!
She felt sure Of it during the ensu-
ing days. Not for a world would she !
ask any of her friends about the Eng |
fish girls in Raree. But she was mis-
erably unhappy, and she treated |
John like a dog, which is the way of |
some women when they are in love. |
The worst of it was, John did not |
seem to care. He spent lot of time
away from her now, and whenever |
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-03-02

why, Miss LYDIA" protested John.
81 didn't know you minded my going
to Raree."
81 don't, and l don't want you to
think 1 do-so there!" cried Lydia,
unable to control the tears.
But Lydia. Dearest"
How dare you call me dearest
when you spend all your time across
the bay? No, don't you dare to try
to put your arms round me. You
can just go to your pack of English
women and keep away from here for
forever! l shouldn't care at all if
you hadn't protested that you-yOu
loved mew
But I do love you, Lydia! I love
you with all my heart"
Angry as Lydia was, she could not
help the thrill that came to her when
John said that. And she suffered him
to take her in his arms without re-
sistance; and she knew that she loved
him with all her heart too.
But what do you go to Raree
for?" she demanded presently, sti-
fling the sobs that would still come
from her lips.
''Why, IL haven't been to Raree
quite as much as pretended to yOu,"
admitted Hardy. you see"
eyes, 1 see very well. It's that pack
of English women over there"
But there aren't any English
women-nOt real Ones" said John.
''You see, they are Kanaka women,
the wives of some of the black work
ers in Australia, who are waiting for
their husbands to come home after
serving their term on plantations"
John! Black women? Natives?
You said they were English women"
'Wel, they are, legally, Lydia,
dearest ,"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-18
Our State Taxes.

The state tax levy now being paid is
less by $40, 900 than that paid at this
time in 1915.
The amount of state tax levied upon
the real and personal property In every
county is less than that levied a year
ago.
purposes by the Legislature OF 1915 and
included in the present assessment IS
81, 900.
All other taxes levied for the present
collection are for educational purposes,
common schools, the university and the
normal schools.
Not a dollar is levied in the present
assessment for highway taxes, the en-
tire appropriation for that purpose,
S785. 600, being taken from the general
fund. thus providing the first real
state aid for road building.
In spite of the fact that the tax levy
for educational purposes is greater IN
the present assessment than in that OF
a wear ago, the total assessment by the
state is $40, 600 less, and this reduction
reaches to every county in the state IN
proportion to the valuation of real and
personal property owned therein.
Inc SUdLS LdA
authority in matters of taxation, has
found that the average rate through
out the state, including local taxes, is
materially less than in 1915 and as a
result the taxes paid by the railroads
and other public service corporations
are greatly less than they would have
been had the rate of 1915 been applied.
And then, too, it must be remember
ed that in the present budget provision
is made for paying off 100000 of that
old state debt of $2,251, 900 that has
hung over the people for more than
half century, memorial to the craft
mess and stiffness of the politicians
of the past. Had this provision not
been made; and it's neglect might cas-
lily have been justified at this time, the
reduction of the state tax might have
been increased by that much more.
The above facts relating to taxation
in Wisconsin cannot be denied as they
are matters of record written so plain
ly that they may not be perverted or
mistaken. And yet there are certain
editors and politicians in the state who
are dishonesty seeking to make the
people believe that there has been no
relief from the burden of taxation. =
Madison Democrat.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-18
Obituary.
HELMUTH BRANDT.

The particulars regarding the death
of Helmuth Brandt, briefly noted in
last weeks paper. are told in the fol-
lowing account given by the Beloit
Daily News:
While he was waiting for a train to
take him back to his home in Edgerton,
Helmuth Brandt, aged 81, a resident of
Beloit until last October, dropped dead
at the St. Paul depot in Beloit Febru-
airy 9th. Mr.. Brandt had been visiting
in Beloit since Monday with his daugh-
ter, Mrs. w. H. Lathrop, and looking
after his business interests here. The
aged man was walking upon the plat
form in front of the depot when he was
seen to fall. Patrolman Carter and a
travelling man rushed to his assistance
and carried him into the depot. In a
moment he revived and got to his feet.
'T'll be alright in minute" he said.
Then he slipped to the floor. He was
dead when picked up. Physicians were
summoned and after an examination
the body was taken to undertaking
rooms. Heart trouble was the, cause
of death. Mr. Barndt had been in
the best of health during his visit in
Beloit, and only once before several
months ago had he had trouble with his
heart. Mr.. Brandt was born in Mex
lenberg, Germany, June Is, 1884. He
received a fine education and became a
school teacher. When but little over
20 years of age he came to the United
States and settled in Garnavilla, Iowa.
There he taught school for some years.
He resided in Garnavilla until he went
to Beloit seven years ago. Ten chill
dren survive Mr.. Brandt. They are:
DIR. Glen Brandt, Farmersburg, Iowa;
Helmuth Brandt, Silverton, Ore; Mrs.
A. A. Smith, Postville, Iowa; Mrs. o.
H. Roebken, Garnavilla, Iowa; Mrs. w.
H. Lathrop, Beloit; Mrs. H. P. Kru-
ger, Garnayilla, Iowa; Rev; Marvin
Brandt and Miss Waldo Brandt, Edger-
ton; DR.. Ray V. Brandt, Germania.
Iowa, and Ellis Brandt, student at
the U. w. He is also survived by a
brother living in Germany. The body
was taken to Garnavilla, Iowa, for in
torment. The Masons of that city will
have charge of the services.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-18
Wire Tapping and EavesdrOpping.

Wire tapping is an offense that is
severely punished under the law and
eavesdropping on the telephone is also
punishable. There is only one person
in whom such an offense is excusable
and that is the detective on. the trail OF
a criminal.
Conversations over the telephone
should be just as private as converse
tions in an office The person who will
deliberately take down telephone re-
ceiver when his neighbor on party
linesis called should have as little stand
ing in the community as the keyhole-
pepper.
In order not to interfere with the
rights of other people on party lines
one should obey the rules of the tele-
phone company and use the wire not
over minutes. People who find them
selves on "a line that is being used
should get off the wire at once. Cow
ards and eavesdroppers" is term
that has been used for generations to
describe most despicable kind of per-
son.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-18
City Delivery Service.

By the authority of the Post Office
Department, city delivery service was
established at this post office Tuesday,
February 18th.
In this long drawn out matter of in
shutting city mail delivery at this post
office, Senator Husting was glad to
have been able to aid the patrons OF
this post office in the obtaining of it at
this time.
No patron of this post office will be
served with mail by letter carrier un:
less some means for the receipt Of mail
at or near the front door of a residence
is made.
Carriers are prohibited from deliver
ing mail at the side or rear door of res
licences, separate suites or rooms in
apartment houses, or above the second
floor of office buildings not provided
with an elevator.
Patrons of this post office residing in
the outskirts of the city, where side
walks are not continuous or where
there are no sidewalks, and on streets
used by the rural carrier, will be served
with mail by that carrier providing a
rural mail box is erected.
The establishment of the city, deliv-
cry service does not prevent any patron
of this post office from obtaining mail
through the use of post office mail
box; those who prefer to be served
with mail in that way may do so, as
mail boxes will be for rent at the same
rates as formerly.
Patrons of this post office desiring to
obtain their mail on Sunday and other
holidays may do so through the use of
a post office lock box; mail will be con-
tinued to be distributed on holidays to
holders of lock boxes.
Until further notice there will be
four deliveries of mail in the business
district and two deliveries in the resi-
dence district; two deliveries will be
made in the forenoon and two in the
afternoon in the business section and
one delivery in the forenoon and one in
the afternoon in the residence district;
complete schedule of the departures
and the arrivals at the post office of
the carriers will be published in the
next issue of The Reporter.
Collection mail boxes will be erected
so soon as they are received; there will
be nine of them. e
C. A. HOEN, Postmaster.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-18
Home Buying.

When you send your dollar off to
some mail order house Or distant store,
you get what you pay for and no more.
The fluffy haired girl who handles it
cares nothing for you. The merchant
whom you helped to enrich never hears
of you. The transaction has no after
math, except possibly the effort to re-
turn an unsatisfactory purchase.
When you buy goods at home you
make business ties. Proprietor and
clerks want to keep your trade and re-
turn your favors in any way they can.
A consistent policy of home buying
creates a circle of loyal business friends
and if you are in trade for yourself in
YOUR home town, this is absolutely nee
essary to success. And it is exceed
ingly helpful to anyone else.
Success comes largely by favor.
Many people wonder how some fellows
get along so easily. Usually there is
no magic or secret about it. They have
been trying all their lives to make
friends. If they have anything to sell,
whether line of merchandise or per-
sonal service, host of their neighbors
around them are glad to turn things
their way. Buying goods in ones
home town is the simplest and easiest
way to create helpful business rela
lions. And it costs nothing. Elk.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-18
THE Milwaukee Sentinel in

THE Milwaukee Sentinel in an able
editorial on the reasons why the country
is dissatisfied with the present demo
cratic tariff, puts the case well in the
following trenchant paragraph: eve
have surrendered large portion of the
revenues formerly derived from imports
and received nothing in return. For
instance, the present tariff placed
sugar on the free list and thereby sur
rendered 100000 of revenue, and
sugar costs the consumer 20 per cent.
more than under the old tariff. Meats
and other food products are higher
than they were before they were put
on the free list Everything the con-
sumner needs to buy costs more than it
did under the former tariff, and spec
ial tax has become necessary to meet
the expense of keeping up the govern
ment
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-18
Twenty-Five Y ears Ago.

Rev. L. H. Keller united in marriage
J James Earle and Miss Inez Walrath at
the home of the brides parents in Full
ton on the 18th.
Some 300 tobacco workers at Slough
ton went on strike. demanding an in
crease of pay.
A series of revival meetings has COM
menced at the NJ E. church with Frank
A. Stewart in charge of the singing.
A stock company is building cream
cry at MELVILLE.
Geo. Croft, for some years living at
Lancaster, Wis, has moved back to
Edgerton.
Gen. w. T. Sherman, a hero of the
civil war, died at his home in New York
on the 18th.
Miss Lizzie Dunning, Is year old
teacher at Darien, used four pound
bell to keep an overgrown boy from
breaking up the school, The admiring
citizens presented her with diamond
ring in admiration of her disciplinary
skill.
Friday. Feb. 20, 1891.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-18
Minnesota Cow is Record Breaker.

A Minnesota Holstein cow, Duchess
Skylark Ormsby, has recently broken
the worlds record for yearly produc-
ton of butter fat. Her record stands
at q, 761.7 pounds of milk containing
1905 pounds of butter fat. In terms of
butter this means about 1400 pounds as
her years work.
The dairy world was amazed some 20
years ago when a Holstein cow, Belle
Sarcastic, made yearly record of 632
pounds of butter fat from q, O85 lbs. of
milk In 1908 cow. of the Guernsey
breeding came into prominence by pro-
775 pounds of butter fat. In 1907
Colonthe's fourth Johanna made rec
ord of 908 pobnds of butter fat from
q, 432 pounds of milk. To those who
appreciate the possibilities of the dairy
cow this record of Colanthe's was
thought to be the limit. Since 1907,
however, seven cows have broken this
record.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-18
MRS. MAY TEUBERT.

Following an illness of a years dura-
ton, Mrs. May Teubert passed away
about Ais o'clock Saturday morning at
her home at the Bismark hotel in ] James,
vile. The funeral was held Tuesday
afternoon at l o'clock at ST. Peters
English Lutheran church and the re-
mains laid to rest in Fassett cemetery
at Edgerton.
Mrs. Teubert is survived by son of
former marriage, Louis Watson of West
Virginia, by one sister, Mrs. Charles
Munson of Colorado and by three broth
ers, George, Emil and Henry REM of
Nebraska. Albert Teubert, her hus-
band, passed away June "a, 1914. Until
about ten years ago the family were
residents of Edgerton for some years.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-18

THE California "wipin-rag'' law is
being held up to notice as limit which
progressive legislation might go. Note
the provisions of this legal curio woven
into the statutes: ''Any housewife who
gives to her servants q part of under
clothing, wearing apparel, bed clothes
or clothes to be used for wiping the
surface of windows or furniture, unless
the same has been sterilized by a pro-
cess of boiling for 40 minutes in solu-
ton containing per cent of caustic
soda, shall be guilty of misdemeanor,
ETC." The next in order would be the
state employment of inspectors to see
that the law was enforced.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-18
New England.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS, Feb. 8, 191

SPRINGFIELD, MASS, FEB. 8, 1910.
The Connecticut valley situation is
practically unchanged. The seasons
work is progressing in the warehouses.
Some tobacco is being bought, but un-
sold holdings of growers are still large,
and the demand for choice Shaded
wrappers is undated. 1t is evident
thus early that the fertilizer and labor
problems will be hard nuts for tobacco
growers to crack this year.
The annual meeting of the New Eng
land Tobacco Growers Association will
be held in Hartford next week, Wed
nesday.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-18
Methodist Church Notes.
REV. w. HOOToN. PASTOR.

REV. w. HOOTON, PASTOR.
Worship and preaching on Sunday at
1890 and 7:30. Morning sermon theme,
Fifth Commandment in the series being
given upon the Decalogue "Honor Thy
Father and Thy Mother"
Brotherhood Bible class Immediately
at close of morning preaching service.
Sunday school and pastors class at
the same hour.
All cordially welcome.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-18

In OUR frenzied haste to become pre-
pared for war, let US not neglect pre-
paredness for peace. We are far more
likely to have unbroken peace for a
generation than to have war. Our
greatest concern should be to fortify
ourselves in preparedness for the mo-
mentous problems of probable peace
that lies ahead of US.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-18
The Twins.

We have heard Of several cases
wherein twins have borne remarka-
BILE likeness to each other. But the
most curious was the case of twin Sis
tiers who had to be told everything to-
gether because it was impossible to
tell them apart
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-18
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET
Continued From Page ~

lately beer selling as high as II cents.
The crop is probably three-quarters
stripped now, and is being delivered as
fast as possible. 1t will be sweated
and used much earlier than usual.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-18

OUR supreme court loses one of its
ablest men when the NV. Life ms.
Co. induced Judge Barnes to leave the
bench to become its general solicitor.
Gov. Philips selection of M. B. Ros-
enberry, one of the strongest lawyers
in northern Wisconsin, as his successor,
however, meets with general approval.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-18
Life In Bermuda.

A feature of life in Bermuda which
always impresses, the stranger is. the
apparent prosperity of the natives.
white and colored alike Distressing
poverty is unknown. and even the poor
est. families can boast Of stone house
and garden. -ArgOnaut.>
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-18
Corrected.

MY husband tells me that he was
out late last night with your husband"
.That isn't So want you to under
stand that my husband was out with
your husband Detroit Free Press.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-02-18
Put Out.

why do writer's always talk of an
CRY fames?'
Because, if you notice, flames are
usually put out."-St. Louis Globe
Democrat