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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-12-14
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BUSINESS AND CROPS.
A Hint on Christmas Shopping

. A Hint on Christmas Shopping. ="
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The following information was given
the Independent yesterday by Mr.:
Zehringer, of the Union National
Bank
Our local stores are now filled with
seasonable goods for the holiday trade.
Our merchants expect to offer you
good service in the matter of Christ
rzss shopping but if all purchases are
tcrUwyled into the last few days before
the holidays begin the results will not
be satisfactory to either purchasers
or merchant. The customers cannot
be given the attention during rush
hours that is possible when the con-
ditions are more nearly normal. There
are q score of good reasons for shop
ping early and not one for putting off
our purchases until the last minute.
There mas seldom been a year when
more business has been done than will
be transacted during the coming few
weeks. Trade throughout this part of
the country is active and the buying
power is phenomenal. A portion of
this demand reflects an apparent be-
lief that further price Announcements
Will be announced soon.
The High Cost Of Living, phrase
which has become sadly overworked in
the last few months, is the result Of
the increases in supplies which cannot
be Iegislated or investigated away.
We are paying our inevitable share in
the war tax. Wage increases are
taking care Of a portion of the in
crease for employees and clerks. This
movement is significant when we real
aze that seldom before has the COM
pensaTiun of clerks been altered to
meet such conditions.
The shortage of freight cars is be-
coming serious. This is directly caus-
ed by the meagre purchases of the
early war period when the carriers
were chiefly concerned with making
both ends meet. High prices for all
farm products is enlarging the volume
1of traffic to seaboard. The situation
IN this respect is highly interesting
AZ it reflects the prosperity Of the ag-
ricultural districts.
Wheat shippers are divided in opin-
ION as to prices as many are rushing
their crops to market, believing the
pinnacle in price has been reached,
while others are still holding for high
far prices. This situation has offered
u partial solution for traffics in that
section.
The enormous fruit shipments wait
inx ia Washington and other western
points is complicating potato and
Nther perishable shipments from the
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-12-14
10 CENT "CAsUARETs"
II BILIOUS OR CosTIVE
For Sick Headache, Sour Stomach,
Sluggish Liver and eoweis-1hsy
work while you sleep.

Furred Tongue, Bad Taste, lndiges.
tion. Sallow Skin and Miserable Head
aches come from torpid liver and
clogged bowels. which cause your
stomach to become filled with undi-
gested food, which sours and ferments
like garbage In swill barrel. That's
the first step to untold misery-indi-
gestion, foul gases. bad breath, yellow
skin. mental fears. everything that 10
horrible and nauseating. A Cascaret
tonight will give your constipated
bowels thorough cleansing and
straighten you out BY morning. They
work while you sleep-a 10cent box
from your druggist viii keep you feel
ing good for months.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-12-14
middle west,

middle west.
Those districts not in direct touch
with the mines are experiencing diff
Guilty in securing coal shipments
Sales are made only in small quaint
ties and dealers are given no satisfac-
ton in regard to date Of delivery OF
their orders. This is most serious in
the matter of hard coal shipments
Prices are advancing rapidly in this
commodity.
The general tone of the country in
regard to bank deposits is "up twenty
per cent" The recent calls on the
banks found deposits at record points
and augurs well for the general happi-
ness Of our people at Christmas time
and their prosperity during the COM
ing New Year-1917.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-12-14
MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY.

Inc mall OF newspaper OFTEN
brings in some gems of thought. A
salesman for the P. & o. Company
contributes the following converse
ton, which should go far toward
weakening the wall of the most active
calamity bowler:
"Good morning, ST."
Good morning, Hi"
81 say, 81, what is the price of that
wagon over yonder?"
$4,000, Ill.,"
$4,000! Why, my father bought
the same wagon thirty years ago for
$4,000"
eyes, ST, he did, and bought it Of
me, but as money was scarce at that
time, and I wanted some corn. your
father delivered to me 300 bushels of
corn in payment for the $4,000 wagon.
/ can use more corn at this time, and
] will make the same trade with you
today as I did with your father some
thirty years ago on the same wagon,
and will give you from my stock in
addition to this wagon at---$9O.O0
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-12-14

guilty before Judge Frank E. Fisk in
district court last Saturday and was
sentenced to six years in the state
penitentiary. Corey was a resident of
Trenton, where the family still lives.
The daughter is in the charge of Juve-
nile Officer Ellithorpe in this city.
Corey was recently captured in Wash.
ington after long chase by local Of
ficers.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-12-14

COREY GETS SIX YEARS.
Williston, N. D., Dec. 12.-Clark w.
Corey, charged with serious offense
in which his fourteen-year-old daugh-
ter was the complainant, pleaded
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-12-14

The Independent for up-to-dats com
nsrcial printing.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-12-14

$4,000
the present purchasing power of 300
bushels of corn"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-12-15
With A Shovel

There was a sudden rush of
work and the farmer was short
of laborers. Going out into the
road, he found a muscular look
ing tramp loafing at the cross
roads. Here was a possible re-
cruit.
my man," said he genially,
do you want work."
what sort of work." asked
the tramp cautiously.
well, can you do anything
with a shovelw
The tramp suddenly beamed.
II could fry a slice of bacon on
it., he said eagerly.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-12-15

Cur ''lickelish" lights have
been very true to name during
the past week and at times one
needed a gasoline torch and a
search warrant to find them at
all. This is a serious condition
for every town on the prairie
during the holiday season and re-
ours every year or two. If the
company does not take care of
the trouble soon it will be up to
the public to develop that big
power site down at Horseshoe
Bend on the Salmon and provide
power that will be on the job
when it is wanted.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-12-15
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1916

Now that you have your tax
notice you can figure out for
yourself just how much your
taxes have been reduced this
year. How much of the million
dollars" the Governor saved in
ured to your benefit. Meadows
Eagle.
Yes, brother, and while you
are doing the figuring don't fail
to compare your tax notice with
those of former years and see if
your Estate tax" isn't materially
less than under republican ad-
ministrations. The state tax is
what counts, for the governor
has no more to do with the coun-
ty, town and school district levies
than the proverbial man in the
moon.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-12-15

A little investigation by the
interstate commerce commissions
might unearth the niger in the
woodpile and enlighten the pub
lie as to why thousands of loaded
cars of coal are being held at the
mines in Wyoming, Montana and
other western coal states while
hundreds of towns are clamoring
for coal and none to be had, al
though the price is creeping high
err day by day.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-12-15

F. ]. Flournoy, recently arrived
from Iowa, has resurrected the
Winchester Journal and the first
copy came to our desk last week.
The new editor is a competent
newspaper man and has been in
the business for years. His in
itial effort shows up we'll and he
will give Winchester a good pa
per if the town and country
whereabouts gives him proper
support. We wish him the best
of success.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-12-15

The installation of a sewer
system and some street improve
ment here next summer would
give more employment to some
of our citizens than the tax for
the improvements would ever
cost them. And most of the
money spent for these improve
ments would be scattered among
our people right here at home.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-12-15

Butter fat is selling at Al to DC
cents a pound in Seattle. Good
dairy cows give IS to 40 lbs. of
butter fat per month ten months
in the year. That means $3.50
to $500 cash per month per
cow. if the right kind of COW and
we'll cared for. Add to the $685.
90 to $4,000 per year for butter
fat and cream, say $500 or
$4,000 for the calf and you will
begin to understand why the
dairy-farmer is prosperous.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-12-15

During t h e coming winter
months, when feed is scarce and
high in price, would be a good
time for our prospective dairy
men to visit western Washington
and Oregon sections and pick up
several cars of good dairy stock
at moderate prices. Think this
over carefully.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-12-15

If the snow wears off the road
in exposed places, try the road
drag on it. If it will smooth the
road it ought also to carry snow
from the sides back onto the
roadway.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-12-15

The Van Quentins have cut out
fruit for breakfast. Itgot down
to a point where either the table
expenses had to be cut or Con-
stances poodle would have to go
without bon bons.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-12-15

Charity is said to cover a null
titude Of sins but the kind excer-
cised by the average person in
this life would have hard work to
cover a postage stamp.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-12-15

The world may owe you a liv-
ing, but you will have to go
round and collect the bill your
self.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-12-15

When a person gets into the
habit of wasting time, he is sure
to waste a great deal that does
not belong to him.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-12-15

All trimmed hats and trimming
on sale at half price while they
asst, at Mrs. Malerich's.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-12-15
ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY

Copy for change of ad. must be handed In by
Wednesday noon to insure change.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-10
City With Weird Vame
 Is Russian War Bride

tant future the first place among all the cities of the rich southland. The iron factories and the machine shops were largely in the hands of German and Belgium investors. They made up the greater part of the towns industrl- al life. It also possessed flour mills tobacco factories and breweries. French capital was also largely inter- ested here. While but modest com petitor with Odessa, Kief and Rustot in matters of buying and selling, Ekat- erincslaf, nevertheless, possessed an important commercial business in cat tie, cereals, horses and wool. These articles form the leading products ot the country around, and were the lm- portant feature of the city's three an nual fairs.
 Ekaterineslaf was one of the many cities found by Cathrine the Great when she decided to Europeanlze the vast lonely region of Russia. and also to build a cordon of army bases along Her wide frontiers. PotemNn, the czarine's favoritcs, founded the city in 17S6 and his imperial patroness lald the foundation stone of the cathedral in the following year. It, how ever, was slow to appeal to the fancy of the Russian peasants and artisans, ana the work upon the city dragged along until 1885. Paul l. the sombre, dlsap- pointed son of Cathrine, after his ac- cession. loved to follow in the toot steps of his mother undoing all th.'t she had done, and he changed the name of the city to -rossiysk.
 "The original name was restored la- fen The boom of this eastern city Is of recent date: it having followed the coming of foreign capital. which be- gan to find it's way here some score and a half years ago.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-10

Washington, D. C., Feb. 10.-" "Ekat- erinesaf is the Essen, the Birming- ham of Russia,' begins a National Geographic society statement just is sued to the press. Tt is one of the Russian war-bride cities, where the needs of the great world struggle have caused a ring of giant furnaces to be kept burning day and night. It is one of the most important iron sm melting centers in the Czar's domain, and be- fore the war, it's machine works turned out a vast output of agricultural inn plements Now, however, likely, the mills and furnaces of the town are working to capacity in the service of the vast battle lines from Riga on tie Baltic to Hammadan in Persia.
 'The town is one of the great rail way centers and distributing points of southern Russia. It lies on the right bank of the Dnieper, 673 miles by rail southwest of Moscow, and as re- gards the gigantic campaign area of the present Russian armies, it is cen trally situated. A we'll developed rail- way net centers in this city and branches out toward the west, toward the east, and toward the south. The facilities for the distribution of war manufactures produced and assem- bled in Ekaterineslaf along the Rou- manian, Bukowinian, Galician fronts, and southward along the Caucasian battle front are excellent. Stores can be carried from this city down the Dnieper to the Black sea, and up the stream to Kief
 Ekaterineslaf was a rapidly grow ing city at the outbreak of the war, and the marvellous development of it's industries during the last few years seemed to promise it in a not too dis
New Britain herald., 1916-02-10
The National University.
Washington POSt.)

One of the greatest needs of the
 United States would be supplied by the enac actmcnt of Senator Dllinghams S
 bill creating a uniVe rSitN of the United
 States to be csta ablished in the District
 of Colum ba. The purpose of the uni
 versitN would be to provide facilities
 for the highest possible instruction in the sciences, arts and letters; to pro-
 mote the advancement of knowledge
 by means or original research and
 investigation; to provide the instruc-
 tion needed to qualify students for inn
 pOrtant posts in the service of the
 State and nation and to supplement
 State universities and other institu-
 tions of collegiate rank as they in
 turn rest upon the high schools and
 academies.
 Ii is noteworthy that provision for
 the establishment of such an institu- tion narrowly missed being included
 in the Constitution of the United
 States itself and was favored by such men as George Washington. Charles PinckneT, Benjamin Franklin, James
 Madison and other framcrs Of that | document.
 The only argument made against the inclusion of such a provision in the Constitution was that Congress would have ample authority to create a national university and would in all likelihood take immediate action to carry out the desires of the founders of the republic. Just why the nation IS not as far advanced scientifically ! and in it's business organization as some of the European countries is a question that has often been asked. and the partial answer is found in i the lack of national university Such an organization would help to crHstalllze the best thought of the na- ton. It would enable this country to train diplomats as they are trained abroad. It would permit the train Ing Of men who could represent the interests of the United States in the study of foreign markets with a view to obtaining a larger share of the ' foreign trade. It would he helDful in so many ways that the amount Of money for it's establishment-s5OO 900 | for buildings and s5.O0OOOO as an en- doWment to carry on the work-must | be regarded as insignificant.
 There could be no better time for establishing such an institution than at the present session of Congress. It 1 would be in line with real economy.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-10
GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED
 IN INSTITUTES LIST THIS WEEK

as possible in his own words "A. L. A. Booklist.
 Treasurer of hymns. by A. R. Wells
 Contains the text of 120 faVorlte hymns, most of them the great cla ssic hymns. by as many leading hymn writers. accompanied in each case by a short sketch of the author and often by interesting incidents connected with the writing and use of the hymn."-A. l.. A. Booklist Green half-moOn. by J. F. DWyer.
 A tale of the Orient
 "'The action is attended with thrilling and occasionally amusing in mancc that concludes satisfactorily Springfield Republican.
 Life and Gabriella. by Ellen Glasgow.
 Good character study; well worth while. The scene is first laid in the South, but afterwards transferred to New York"
 Mans hearth, by E. M Ingram. "A young man of New Works mill lonaire set has drifted into a love affair with his friends wife, who con- templates getting a divorce that she may marry him. Miserably musing over the situation in Central Park, the first glimmer of loophole or escape presents itself.''-N Y. Times.
 "A novel of originality and in terest, one that discernes clearly the things best worth living for, and that never blurs the line between right and wrong It is a good and whol2- some story."-N. Y. Times Marriage by conquest, by Warwick
 Deeping.
 "A story of England in the days on his skill with the sWord.'
 "If the reader who opens this book lays it down without external cause he must be a crusty and dis enchanted rson.'-Nation. Persuasive Peggy, by Maravene
 Thompson.
 Pleasant story. slight in plot, but clever and humorous Russian silhouettes, by Anton Tchek-
 off. Within the tides. by Joseph Conrad.
 A collection of short stories.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-10
POLITICS AND POLITICS.

Since the days when horse racing las in vogue when the great tracks the country were scenes of gala Eents and betting was done in the ben, there has come into American \ Ne new sport of kings. politics. Rfvasa. all accounts it is the greatest Htmble on earth. the most fickle jade at ever paraded before an American HIblic. Men have cast fortunes sopes ambitions honor, love and erythfng worth while into the arena 8a have seen their cherished forms z-etched and tortured on the pro- zustean bed of politics.
 It has been only some few weeks #ace tho venerable Senator Stephen Mn of Wisconsin published his rem N Essences of a life spent in the public @run, of the methods and ways of Men who feed at the public crib, of Me ingratitude of those he financed M helped climb the ladder to suc- s& s> HIS eApOSt "dS d Sdu bloW JO Nc friends and former admirers of @c famous Bob LaFollette, who @me in for no end of abuse Now #mes, on top of all that Senator had to say, another in
 - resting story of American politics 8 q the machinations that work with and about it. This story is in the of "reminiscences from the pen F,x-Senator F'oraker of Ohio, who HlfticaI lights of the country. He Bent more than fifty years in public @e and it needs follow that he has Nmething to say about the ways of nnanity within the particular sphere M politics. He tells of all his ups Md downs, his triumphs and defeats, KS achievements and disappointments @ring all the time that he swung @th the pendulum of his political 8rty. And, as a Republican, Sen a,r Foraker went through the most
 i've and prosperous period of the
 and Old Party's career. He saw
 the most part the highest side Of @ itical life, picked the plums, as S saying goes. and yet today he sits
 ek and contemplates nothing but a SHD overf1owing with bitterness, with & ratitude from the lips of confreres, |s h the dark side of it all over a flowing the bright, with despair
 S discomfort the predominant notes
 CT hearing of these confessions S# m two such men as Stephenson and
 aker. one begins to wonder whether #Ser all the political game is worth ##iIe, whether American politics as it
 played today can be ever brought
New Britain herald., 1916-02-10
AT THE POST.

How many disclaimers must come
 from Associate Justice Charles E..
 Hughes of the United States Supreme
 Court before the nation is convinced
 that he Is entirely out of politics? His
 letter to Representative Slernp of Vir- ginia, given out yesterday should ! have the ultimate effect of putting a
 quetus to the Hughes boom but will
 it? Though he is a man of his word
 no one seems to take his utterances
 is an injustice to the man who has
 never violated faith with the Ameri-
 can public.
 AS things stand at present the search for Republican aspirant to the presidency is almost as futile as the quest of Diogenes for an honest man. With the possible exception of few men like Henry D. Estabrook. who do not prove but admit their pos abilities presidential timber the field presents a gathering of race horses stalled at the barrier, unable to make a start, no one strong enough to dash to the fore. Coming down the logical line, there Is William Howard Taft, who seems perfectly content to teach Jurisprudence to aspiring law yers at Yale; Colonel Roosevelt who. after he gets through his series of magazine articles, may yet get in the race, but who has not committed him. self; Senator Weeks, who lost the ''s' from his name and proves not strong enough; and Governor Mccall of. Massa chusetts, who ordered his name stricken off the roll. Then there was the Whitman flash in the pan There is the situation in a nutshell. It may come out all right in the end, or a dark horse'' might put in an appearance and win the nomination in 3 walk. The process of elimination must be on very soon, or this man l Woodrow Wilson will capture all the l takes.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-10
THE CONTINUATION SCHOOL

Because of the very nature of New Britain with its enormous factories Burning out many of the necessaries Bof life there is a great field here for Experimental work in industrial edu- #cation. Prominent educators the Hnaiton over have recognized this and Ahave turned their eyes in this direc- ation in the ultimate hope of seeing the Fight, of leading the blindly grouping Rnembers of society out of the dark kaess. It was New Britain that first paved the way for pre-vocational s raining in its schools, followed up with a more extensive method of fit Ring the children to their proper q pheres in life. Now we hear of an spther step in vocational training, (which Is having the hearty co-opera-
 #ion of educators and manufa cturers M the city of Waterbury. The idea is No take care of those boys who in their Earlier days were deprived of the ben
 # fits of grammar school education
 # HUI ySL hCCu IIII5 hIlOWleuSe tO dpply ao their factory tasks. This new idea ss chased under the heading Con sinuation School, and under it's plan Hhe pupils divide their time between sheir work Tn the shops and the class looms. The employers of these young Aters pay them full time for all the @ours spent in the class room the Fork there being but continuation , Mf that done in the shops with the #dded value that scientific knowledge : applied to the mechanical. In this @7ay the boys are rounded out into Veal first class workmen and the fac 8pries benefit thereby. In Waterbury Ne learn the plan has been instituted
 End has worked successfully Whether would be a good thing for New
 Britain is a mooted question. The $chools we have already set up seem 8 be doing their proper work, and Ereat store is set by them. Vocational
 N'aining in all it's forms is opening a
 NonderfuI educational field and it's
 Possibilities are yet inconceivable