The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-11-22
Leege' that her knittin needles
lest flew.

jest flew.
Now Marthy is as good a sole
as ever lived and a splendid cook
and housekeeper but she thinks
the best use she kin make of a
newspaper is to put it on her
pantry shelf, for she SEE she
can't git time to read EN-. John
Owens, her husband, sets a lot
of store by the Non Partsen
Leeder and Bottineau Current
and the only thing that has
kept him from joinin the Leege
is the membership fee. John is
a trifle close but SEE he would
have jined the Leege if he'd thot
a lot of the farmers could stick
together. Now that they've
proved they can stick liter than
a postage stamp he talks of jim
ing and Silas, my husband, SEE
he believes John will do so.
Marthy started in to tell me
how smart her nefew was and
how he was q college graduate,
and reporte ron a big paper, etc.,
and then she sed Harold had
told her John not to jine the
ILeege. what for?" SEE I, and
"Well SEE she that man Townley
who is editer of that Non Part
sen Leeder went bankrupt and
took the Nelson cure and did all
kinds of disgraceful things" els
that 500" SEE I. "Well Marthy
Owens" SEE /, Wouldn't you
and John been in the same boat
litter all those dry years when
you couldn't get your seed back
out of the ground, and wouldn't
Isl and me ben bankrupt if we
hadn't sold part of our land to
save the rest, and your folks
helped you out with cash to tide
you over"
There's a lot of North Dako-
ia people who went broke be-
cause it didn't rain, says I, land
/ fail to see where the disgrace
comes in"
l. Marthy knit pretty fast for a
vile and ten seq she, "Jerusha
Higgins, what becomes of all
that money the farmers paid to
jine?" Well I had to laf right
out at that it was so silly, but
I knew Marthy wasn't to blame
and thot it was one of the argi-
ments used aginst the Leege by
it's enemyz so / ansered calmly,
did you ever hear of any arg
nizashun or society transaktin
bizness without capitel?" SEE I,
"Why even our ladies aid charg-
es a mebership fee, and becoz
the Leege has money to carry
out it's bezins it's enemy are at
tackin it's officers jest as they
did the Equitee officers"
Harthy knit fast for a while
and then she SEE, my nefew
Harold SEE that the Leeege has
aided and abetted the. I. w. w.
and that Guverner Frazier,
Townley and others are unpay-
triotic, and / think he must be
right, SEE she, becoz he has a
college edjication and has read
every thing under the sun and
that's moren we have" SEE she.
At that I riz pu in my rath-
so to speak. / was workin the
butter and as I talked I flurish-
ed the ladle as if I was goin to
attack the Kiser or someone and
SEE l, "Marthy Owens if I was
you I'd reed the Bottienau Cur
rent and Non Partsen Leeder be-
for / papered my shelves with
EN-. It was a Grafton paper
that rote that piece about our
guverner and if that paper would
cross out the last syllabell Of it's,
first name it would spell what
they most probaly stand for
Craft" SEE ]. "Becoz Gov. Fras-
Ter believes in givin the /. w.
w. and everything else a fair
show and a hearin, which is gar
anteed them by our ~constitu-
shun he is called unpaytriotic.
Maybe the j. w. w. is as bad as
its painted and mebbe it isn't,
SEE /. Many fires and things
like that have ben laid to them
which they never done, and at
any rate they have q rite to be
herd in their own defens," SELL.
IF I wuuz you Marthy I'd read
all the Non Partsen papers I
could GIT hold Of for they are
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