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El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-10-04
WOMEN Of NATIONAL
AR MY APPEALED TO
help IN CAMPAIGN
TO CONSERVE mel
MOTHERS, WIVES AND SISTERS
OF NEW MExIco's FIGHTING
MEN TO AID IN ENLIsTINo FOOD
SERVICE ARMY; FAMILY CEN
sus OF STATE TAKEN

Every bushal Of wheat and every
pound of meat saved in New Mexico
homes helps to bring the war to an
end that much more quickly by sus.
tanning Americas allies on the firing
line and thus reducing the sacrifice OF
American lives at the front.
Every woman in New Mexico who
has a son, a husband, a brother in the
national army wants to do everything
possible to enable that man to return
safe. Every oma can help do this
by insisting on a meatless and a
wheatless day every week, by substi.
tuting other things as far as possible
for wheat and meat and sugar and
preventing waste in the home.
The mothers, sisters and wives of
New Mexico's soldiers have been
asked by the state food administra-
ton to join themselves into a volun.
teer organization, the Women of the
National Army, to take the lead in
the personal work of helping sign up
10000 families in this state as men,
bers of the food service army of U.s.
600, 900 families in the United States.
These women have made the great
sacrifice to the cause. Their appeal
to their neighbors to help win the
war with food will come with peculiar
force and the food administration be-
lieves that such an organized effort
will be Of tremendous value in max
ing the October roundup a success in
this state and placing the red-white.
and-blue of the Hoover card in the
window Of every home; the badge
of service and patriotism.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-10-04
FIskE HEALTH OFFICER

The Santa Fe county commissioners
have named DR.. Eugene W. Fiske
county health officer, to succeed DR..
E. L. Ward, who has gone to Camp
Cody at Deming to enter government
service.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-10-04

administration has not specified what
this margin for operation and profit
should be, and sincerely hopes that
dealers will be able to handle their
business in such a way that the food
administration will never be called
unon m faka aunh action
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-10-04

Mixed Will be discounted 4c per
bushel under predominating grade. No.
5 and lower will be taken at prices
varying with quality.
Below is table Of the different zone
market basic prices which together
with the above table will readily give
you the value of any given grade at
ouu 0oua voorlrofu
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-10-04

Major G. s. Ridley, who has been ap.
pointed by the president as engineer
officer in charge Of public buildings
and grounds in Washington and mill
tary aid to the president. Major Rid
ley is the youngest officer we chosen
to serve in this capacity, being only
t~hirty-four years old and but IL years
out OF West Point. He will be respon-
sible for the expenditure Of millions
OF dollars in public buildings and park
improvements. He succeeds Col. W.
W. Hrats, who will command a regi-
ment In France.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-10-04

D. F. PIAZZEK,
Agent u. s. Food Administration, list
Floor New England Bank Building,
Kansas City, Mo.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22

published every day throughout the
country, reflect the actual changes in
the value of cotton rather than quota
lions of arbitrary fluctuations created
by gamblers for their own benefit, as
was too often the case in the past.
In summing up the effect of these
and other laws, Mr.. Vrooman says:
1T is clear, think, that as a resule
of this splendid program of construc-
tive legislation, a new agricultural
epoch has begun. At last what for so
long was merely the hope, the aspira-
ton, the dream of the widely scatter
3D. imperfectly organized tillers of our
soil has become the avowed policy of
the federal department of agriculture,
and has been written by congress into
the law of the land"
In conclusion the assistant secretary
says: There is indeed still need for
organized effort on the part of far
mers, still need for educational cam
paigns in behalf of measures to meet
those requirements of the farmer
which still remain unsatisfed. But
it is a great thing that the government
of the nation that leads the world in
agricultural production at last is meet
ing the farmer at least half way and
has manifested a willingness, and
friendly desire, to cooperate with him
in the future in any constructive work
that looks to the building up of our
national prosperity on the basis OF
permanently prosperous agriculture
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22
SNOW BLOCKADE CONTINUES

Litchville Bulletin: Another week
has rolled around and the sixteenth
day of the snow blockade is at present
passing into history: Like Germany,
we are living off our own resources.
Mail is hauled across the snow the
20 odd miles from Lucca and Dickey,
arriving every now and then. Some
days we have jag from each direc-
ton, some days We have none. VAL
ley City papers Of Feb. arrived here
Feb. II. Letters dated in January
were still dropping in on us this week.
And again, Mondays Minneapolis Jour
nal arrived here on Tuesday, being one
Of the two dailies that came that day.
A rotary snow pillow was sent out to
open this branch Monday, but after
tackling a drift near Embden-1,2O0
feet long, 10 to Is feet deep and hard
as ice-it broke down and went back
to Dilworth for repairs. Tuesday it
came back and broke again. On Wed
nesday they had better luck and at
present writing have reached as far as
Alice. With good luck they ought to
arrive here the latter part of the week.
Our supplies are holding out fairly
we'll, but in week or two there will
be several parties needing coal.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22
NATIONAL WEEK OF SONG

The plan to adopt in the United
States a national week of song has
been endorsed by the University OF
North Dakota, and that institution will
observe the week of Feb. % as a spe-
cial music week.
The general plan is to appoint ore
week in the year in which TIC national
songs will be sung by everyone, old
AMI young. Schools, colleges and uni
versities all over the country are TAX
ing up the idea, and some are obsery-
ing the week this year for the third
time. All the old songs are sung in
regular meetings and in special mu-
steal gatherings, and in many varieties
of entertainment devoted to the fea-
turing of the songs of the nation. The
songs of the United States have q
wider range than thoseJof perhaps any
other country, for the population is
made up of people from all countries
who have carried with them the songs
of their native lands. These have been
so woven into the accumulation Of
American song that they now seem to
be completely naturalized. With this
wealth of material it is easy to de-
vote a week to singing, and it is to be
urged that as many communities as
possible join in the national celebra-
ton.
The national anthem, America y
"The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Co-
lumbia, the Gem of the Ocean" should
have a prominent place on all pro-
grams of the week, and the story OF
their writing and of their writer's
should be told again to the school chill
dren and to the grown-ups who may
have forgotten it.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE BY
ADVERTISEMENT

Notice is hereby given, That that
certain mortgage, executed and deliv'
cred by A. ]. Salthammer and Jacob
inc Salthammer, his wife, mortgagors,
to Albert Hanson, mortgage, dated
the 18th day of September, A. D. nine.
teen hundred and fourteen, and filed
for record in the office of the Register
of Deeds of the County of Barnes, and
State of North Dakota, on the 28th day
of January, A. D. 1915, and recorded in
Book 6S of Mortgages, at page Is and
assigned by said Mortgage by an in
strument in writing to E. M. Hanson
dated the 10th day Of December, A. D.
1914, and filed for record in said Of.
fee of the Register of Deeds on the
28th day Of January, 1915, and record.
ed in Book CO Miscellaneous on page
$50, will be foreclosed by sale of the
premises in such Mortgage and here
matter described, at the front door Of
the Court House in the City Of Valley
City, in the County of Barnes, and
State of North Dakota, at the hour Of
2 O'Clock p. m, on the 10th day Of
March, 1917 to satisfy the amount due
upon said Mortgage on the day Of SALE
The premises described in said
Mortgage and which will be sold to
satisfy the same, are those certain
premises situated in the County Of
Barnes, and State of North Dakota,
and described as follows, to'wit:y The
Northwest Quarter (NWA) Of Section
Thirty-dve (35) and the South Half
IS ~ Of the Southeast Quarter Csc
~ Of Section Twenty.seven (27), all
in Township One Hundred Thirty
eight ,(13S)N North of Range F1fty-nine
(59) and containing 240 acres more
or less according to the u. S. Govern
ment Survey thereof.
The default consists in this that said
mortgagors have failed to pay the in
terest due under said mortgage on
September 9TH, 1916. The assignee of
said mortgage having, under the terms
thereof elected to declaDe the whole
sum secured by said mortgage to be
due and payable there will be due
on such Mortgage at the date of sale
the sum Of Four Thousand Five Hun.
dred Ninety-two and 91-100 ($4592.91)
Dollars, as principal and interest and
the costs incurred by this foreclosure,
and an attorney fee in the further
sum of One Hundred Nineteen and no
100 Dollars.
Dated January 18th, 1917.
E. M. HANSON,
Assignee Of said Mortgage and own.
er and holder of said mortgage.
E. A. HOFF,
Attorney for assignee Of mortgage,
Ypsilanti, North Dakota.
(Ftrst Pub. Jan. IS; last pub. Mar. ~
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22
WHEAT OECREASlNG-lAND
- yVALUES INC REASiNGf Vt i. .

Ten years ago the wheat crop in
Minnesota was nearly one million
acres larger than it is now. The de-
crease has amounted to nearly one
fourth the acreage of the entire crop.
While the wheat acreage was de-
creasing 25 per cent, the corn acre.
age has increased rs per cent. With
2,250,G00 acres planted this year,
crop worth $67,000,000 is promised
against a wheat crop Of 3,715,000
acres worth $44,00o,000. The 1909
yield of alfalfa was cut from 1890
acres. Last year $4,000 acres were
cut, yielding $4,000 tons. According
to estimates received from the rail-
roads by the agricultural extension d.
vision, University Farm, St. Paul, 5O,-
900 cars of livestock were shipped
from farms in the state, the total ship
ment being worth at least $4,000, 900.
With the increase in the amount Of
| livestock and the decrease in the
amount of wheat, the value of lands in
Minnesota has been increased. This
increase has come because the prod
uct of the land has paid the interest
on a larger investment. Land that is
raising good crop Of alfalfa and rails
ing a herd Of dairy cows to feed it to
is worth 500 an acre. Land that is
raising wheat even at 81 a bushel is
not paying the expense of cultivating
the land and the interest and taxes on
500 worth of property unless it is
making a yield of nearly Is bushels to
the acre. The average yield over the
state of Minnesota this year is IA
bushels and the average for the last
ten years is but 1875 bushels.
Land is going up as fast as we are
learning how to make it yield more.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22
CLEAN UP

Clean Up? In February, with tine
ground covered with snow? It can't
be done, you say.
Well, perhaps not, but presently it
will not be February. The snow will
have gone, and it will have left an &C:
emulation of odds and ends which
have been in process Of collection all
winter. And, while the actual work
cannot be done just now, if we don't
get into the right attitude on the sub
ject in February we are not likely to
do really first-class job of cleaning
up in May.
Let's see il we can't fix the town up
this spring so that there will not be a
corner Of it that we need be ashamed
of. There are many things that we
can't do, things that are quite desir-
able, but which will have to wait. But,
if we will, We can polish the place up
from one end to another and make it
clean and wholesome, good to look at
and good to live in.
This will involve something more
than just hauling out the manure from
the stables and gathering up the ashes
1t will mean general picking up and
Strengthening up: It will mean mend
ing of fences and repair of gates,
the collection and removal to a place
where it will not be an eyesore of the
stuff that is lying around loose and
that nobody wants. 1t will mean a
little lumber, few nails, few cans
of paint, and a lot of labor.s The ma
terial need not cost much, and the Ia
Dor is of the class that pays for itself
while it is being done, for it enables
the doer to see the results of his handi-
work as he goes along. r-
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22
MISS GRoNNA TO WE'D

North Dakota residents will be in.
terested in recent Washington
news dispatch, which announces the
approaching marriage of Miss Grace
Gronna, daughter. of Senator and Mrs.
A. J. Gronna, tc Carl w. Lewis of
Hettinger. The wedding will be an
event of Wednesday, Feb. %, and will
be solemnized in Washington. The
wedding invitations have already been
sent out. The bride-elect has many
friends in Lakota, her home city, and
throughout the state. Mr.. Lewis is
manager of the Dakota and Montana
Telephone company and is we'll known
in Minneapolis.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22
MILITARY TRAINING IN PUBLIC
SCHOOLS

Military training in the schools
conceived as military drilling is unde'
sirable and unavaling; military tram
ing conceived as a comprehensive pro-
gram of physical, moral, and civic edu'
cation is desirable and even neces'
sary," declares DR.. w. S. Small in
chapter on educational hygiene in the
annual report of the commissioner OF
education, department of the interior
DR.. Small points out that military
training thus conceived "offers pos
sibility of unifying and enabling the
now confused and disjointed activities
n the field of physical and moral as
cipline. The physical and moral val
ues of both gymnastics and athletics
are we'll understood, but both lack
comprehensive and unifying motive.
All systems of gymnastics are indi-
vidualistic. Their appeal is to the de-
sire of the individual for physical per
fercton. Competition is narrowly IN
dividualistic. Systems of athletics
are mostly based upon group competi-
tions, and if properly managed are
very valuable, not only for physical
development but also for training IN
the very fundamentals of social moral
ty. But the philosophy of athletics is
the philosophy of play, and the phil
osophy of play is the philosophy OF IN
stinct-aphilosoph that is not COM
prehensive enough to serve as sole
basis of physical and moral education.
Military training rightly conceived n
cludes these motives and subordin-
ates them to the ideal of patriotism"
The report describes and discusses
the so-called wyoming PLAN orlgi-
mated by Capt. E. z. Steever. U. 5: A.
outlines the plans of the New York
military commission in relation to ply
seal training, and analysis the rela-
ton of military training to school or
ganization, concluding that military
training in the strict and technical
sense of comprehensive program for
physical, moral and civic education IN
which some Appropriate military al
fairs may be included is likely to find
it's way into all schools"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22
WHEN TO PUT COLTS TO WORK

A good big, growthy two-year-old
colt may be put to work if it is work
ed only a half day eachday. A
three-year-old may work steadily if
the load is not constant strain for
him, while a we'll developed four-year-
old is about mature and is good for a
regular place in the work teams. w.
II. Peters, North Dakota Experiment
Station.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22
SAW SOME GREAT DRIFTS

C. E. Burgess returned Thursday
morning from business trip over the
Drake-Sanish line in the interest Of
his company. He was snowbound at
Ryder just two weeks and had TO-
drive to Minot in order to get out
where there were any trains moving.
Some of the cuts along this line are
filed with snow IL TO Is feet deep and
as hard as ice. so that it is very diff
cult to work it. Trains are not yet
running from Max to Sanish unless
the line was opened today
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22

3. Following is Walt Whitman's 20,
Captain! My Captain" written shortly
after Lincoln's assassination:
20 CAPTAIN! NY cAPTAIN!" .
o, Captain! My Captain! our fearful
trip Is done,
The Ship has weathered every rack,
the prize we sought is Won,
The port is near, the bells hear, the
people all exulting.
While follow eyes the steady keel, the
vessel grim and daring:
But o heart! heart! heart!
o the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and
hear the bells;
Rise up-for you the flag is flung
for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths
for you shores a.crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass,
their eager faces turning;
Here, Captain! dear father! -.,..
This arm beneath your head!
1t is some dream that on the deck
You've fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips
are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he
has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchored safe and sound,
its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship
comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and right, O bells!
But with mournful tread
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead,
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Matter of the Estate of Geor,

In the Matter of the Estate of George
Sowden, Deceased:
Notice is hereby given by the un-
dersigned Annie Sowden, executrix of
the Last Will of George Sowden, late
of the City of Valley City in the Coun-
ty of Barnes and State of North Dako.
ia, deceased, to the creditors of, and
all persons having claims against, said
deceased, to exhibit them with the nee.
essary vouchers, within 6 months, aft.
er the first publication of this notice,
to said Executrix at the law Office Of
Lee Combs and L. S. B. Richie, in the
city Of Valley City, in said Barnes
county.
Dated January 26th, A. D. 1917
ANNIE SOWDEN,
Executrix.
First publication on the list day of
February, A. D. 1917.
LEE COMBS & l.. S. B. RICHIE,
Attorneys for Executrix.
First Pub. Feb. l, Last Pub. Feb. 22}
If it's newsy, call the Times-Reeord-
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22
LINCOLN

- LINCOLN
By John Vance Cheney, in Chicago
Interior
The hour was on us. Where the man?
The fateful sands unfaltering ran,
And up the way OF tears
He came into the years.
Our pastoral captain. Forth he came,
AS one that answers to his name,
Nor dreamed how high his charge,
His work how fair and large.
To set the stones back in the wall,
Lest the divided house should fall
And peace from men depart,
Hope and the childlike heart.
We looked on him. otis he" we said,
Come crownless and unheralded, ,>
The shepherd who will keep
The flocks, will fold the Sheep
Unknightly, yes, yet twas the mien
Presaging the immortal scene,
Some battle of His wars
Who sealeth up the stars.
Not he would take the past between
His hands, wipe Valor's tablets clean,
Commanding greatness wait
Till he stand at the gate;
Not he would cramp to one small head
The awful laurels of the dead,
Times mighty vintage cup,
And drink all honor up.
No futter of the banners bold
Borne by the lusty sons of old,
The naughty conquerors
Set forward to their wars.
Not his their blare, their pageantries,
Their goal; their glory was not his.
Humbly he came to keep
The f1ocks, to aid the sheep.
The need comes not without the man.
The president hours unceasing ran,
And up the way of tears
He came. into the years.
Our pastoral captain, skilled to crook
The spear into the pruning hook, 49,
The simple, kindly man,
Lincoln, American.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22

The expression chickens will come
home to sroost" may be something to
worry about for the present admins
tration at Washington. After hatch
ing out. in Mexico lot of trouble
chickens seem headed this way.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22
KEEPING THEIR SECRETS

Philadelphia North American: Brit
ish steamship agents who want to keep
secret the sailings Of their vessels
might follow the example of the rail-
roads and issue printed schedules.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22
"coMPARisoNs ARE oDloUs"

Warroad, (Minn.) Pioneer. The ru-
raj legislator may not trim his whis-
kers with the regularity and style Of
the city Adonises, but he sometimes
astonishes his colleagues by reading
over a bill before voting for it.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22

The coming of the North Dakota
troops from Texas must have brought
the climate of the Southland along.
They arrived Thursday and Friday it
rained
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22

The German ambassador has made
his farewell statement and started for
home. So long, Count, take keer Of
yourself.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22

No wonder books are considered
good friends. When closed they stay
shut and do not follow you around
talking shop. Neither do they try to
hold you up for tip if they have rem
dered a real service.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22

There is considerable satisfaction in
owning home You have got to have
something to mortgage when you buy
a car.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22

The peeling can be removed from po-
tatoes with sand paper and a great
saving will result.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22

Senator Martins bill which would
prohibit churches from taking collec-
tons on Sunday may prove a blessing
if it induces more people to go to
meetin'.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22
A LYING LIAR

Bagley, (Minn.) Independent: The
man who calls out in the morning that
he is getting up when he isn't, simply
lies in bed.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22

Germanys latest advances are a
good deal like most of our last years
wheat crop-rejected.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22

Trouble comes not as single. spies,
but in battall;ons." Old Man Trouble
| has battallions in Cuba, Mexico, Japan
and Germany.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22

The local automobile dealers don't
care how many people are from Mis-
souri,. They are preparing to show
'em.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22

After the experiences of this wintry
winter the spring styles in hats are
not going to be Medicine Hats.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22
SOME READABLE VERSE
HOWDY, HANK f.!

Henry Ford's factories may be call,
ed on FOR administrations Item.
"Howdy, Hank" says folks one day.
Amt you gettin' kind O. gay
Sendin' your old peace boat round
Wher the battles most abound.
And that dove-can't you forget
That the bird was raised pet
With these warlike words astir,
Get rooster with spur"
What's that, Hank? In case of need
You can make still higher speed s'
Shiftin' from those road machines
To defensive submarines?
And you'll cut the muffler out
Fur patriotic shout?
Put 'er there an take front rank
In affection! Howdy, Hank!
Washington Star.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22

Dispatches say that relations have
been broken off with Austria. There
wasn't much left to break, anyway.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22

situation. We are also thankful for
what they were not called upon to do
zeal warfare.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-22

Valley City is to have an epidemic
this year, an acute attack of boosting.
Let every loyal citizen cooperate and
get some of the virus into your sys-
tenn. It will not only help the city,
but do you good.