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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
World Believes Peace
Coming Before Long

Washington, March ia general
peace movement may be launched
within three or four months, it was in
timated today by officials and diplo-
mats here. In the opinion of military
men, government authorities and rep
resentatives of the foreign powers
here, there are many elements at
work which are tending to bring the
great war to a closing stage shortly
They include the growing tenseness
Of the food situation in the warning
nations, chiefly the central powers,
and the growing uneasiness among the
people as exhibited by the severe crit
Icism of cabinets and the POSSIBLE
Yty of nations breaking under the
strain and the growing belief that
neither can achieve overwhelming vic
tory such as would force great MILL
tary peace:
It is now believed that President
Wilson's suggestion of peace without
victory will come not late than July.
By that time the empty stomachs and
the general unhealthful conditions in
che warning nations will have argued
successfully for termination of the
struggle. AS a result it is the grow
ing belief that Germany will do all in
her power to stop the entrance of the
United States into the war. If she
d0eSx enter officials feel sure it would
only serve to prolong the struggle
and increase the suffering among mil
lions of people.
There are reasons to believe that
Germany will exercise every precau-
ton in sinking armed merchantmen
without complying in every way with
the International law demanded by
this government. By July it is be-
Iieved the success or failure Of the
German submarine warfare will have
been determined.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
EQuR ESCAPE INJURY
WHEN ENGINES CRASH

Mandan, March H. Yard switch
engine No. 1112 and Bismarck switch
No. 4s5 colhded head-on in the Man.
dan yards at 6.45 this morning. None
was injured. The cab on engine 465
was demolished and both water tanks
On the engines were thrown from the
track. The Bismarck engine had just
returned from Bismarck with a coach
attached and was travelling eastward,
having just passed a switch! Engine
1112, with several box cars attached,
was switching in the yards and was
going westward. Steam was thick
and obscured the view of both of the
engineers The two engines crashed
With considerable force. Engineer Nc.
curry and Fireman Miller were on the
Bismarck switch, and Engineer Hell
Bling and Fireman Clark on switch en-
CINE No. 1112 Those who saw the &C
cident aver it was nothing less than a
miracle. that some of the four engine
men were not killed. Up to late
hour this morning no blame had been
taid on any of the engine crews. It
was stated, however, that an investi-
cation will be held either late this aft
ternoon or tomorrow morning.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
kiMBALL CHOSEN EXALTED
RULER OF FARGO ELKS

Fargo, March 12-B. l.. Kimball was
chosen exalted ruler of the B. P. O..
Elks, No. $50, at the annual election
held at their hall last evening. The
other officers are as follows: J. T..
Land, esteemed leading knight; VIM.
J. Doyle, esteemed loyal knight;
Chas. H. Kellogg, esteemed lecturing
knight; E. B. Mackenroth, secretary;
Fred A. Irish, treasurer; H. H. Burton,
tyler; Addison Leach, trustee for
three years; E. L. Mackenroth, grand
lodge representative; G. A. Fraser, al
ternate grand lodge representative.
District Deputy Hector Barnes was
present at the meeting and presided
during the election of officers and will
also preside at the time of the install
lation, which is to be on the evening
Of April IA. He made his official Wis
it to the lodge at the same time. There
were between ITS and 200 members
present at the session, which ia one
of the largest attendances in the rec.
ords Of the lodge.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
Is BASEBALL POOL
REALLY GAMBL ING

Bismarck. March 12-Whether base
ball pool is, a test of skill or gamble
is knotty' problem with which the
attorney. generals office is wrestling.
The puzzler was put up to the attor-
ney generals office by states attor-
ney in whose bailiwick baseball
pool game is run. So far as the <unso-
phisticated members of the attorney
generals legal staff can discover from
their authorities, baseball pool is; play
ed With II balls, each of which is
numbered. Every shot is banked from
the cushion, including the "break,"
and the player who pockets the great
est number of points as represented in
the numbers on the balls, wins. So
far SO good. The rub comes in the
fact that the score sheets ON which
records Of baseball pool games are
Jotted down are filed away, and at the
end of certain number of games the
possessor of the highest score gets a
bushel of potatoes, an automobile, a
grand piano or something Of like val
ue. That is where the gambling feat
ure enters, if at all, and the barris-
tiers in North Dakota's legal mill have
not been able to decide to date wheth-
or it does or does not. ~
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
MOVIE MEN WE'RE FOOLED

Bismarck, March 12.-Yesterday
movie men the length and breath OF
North Dakota Rugged themselves with
joy in the belief that they had slipped
over Joker" on Governor Frazier in
Senate Bill 294. Today, after looking
over Senate Bill 294, as enrolled and
signed by the governor, and after a
frantic delving into senate and house
journals for the closing day, movie
men are less jubilant, having come
to the conclusion that the joke is on
themselves.
Senate Bill 294, as it reposes in
the secretary of states Office, with
the governors signature attached
reads precisely as it did when intro
duced by Senator Lindstrom, and as
it appears in the printed bill:
Section I. It shall be lawful for
chautauqua associations, summer re-
sorts, firms, corporations and private
persons" to operate bath houses, bath
ing beaches or pleasure boats Of all
kinds on Sunday.
Section All acts or sections OF
acts, insofar as they. are in conflict
or inconsistent with this act, are here
by repealed"
There is not a word in the bill which
extends to moving picture theaters
any privileges which they do not now
enjoy; there is absolutely nothing
which would legalize the operation OF
picture houses on the Sabbath.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
FIVE DAYS IN YELLOWSTONE
WITH USE OF AUTOMOBILES

| Changes recently made by the in
terror department insure new order
of things at Yellowstone national park
when it opens for the 1917 season June
! 20. Advices reaching the Northern
Pacific railway from Washington
show that hereafter automobiles, some
of them carrying ten passengers each,
only will be operated in the famous
Wonderland. Horse-drawn stage
coaches have been completely done
away with.
Under the new arrangement, tour.
lists can complete the Journey through
Yellowstone from the Gardiner gate
way in five days. This period will af-
ford them ample time to see the many
uncanny formations. Schedules have
been prepared so that parties may re.
main nights either at one of the pala-
tial hotels or in one of the permanent
camps.
Inquiries daily reaching the North.
ern Pacifc's general passenger de-
partment indicate large volume of
travel through Yellowstone, via Gardi-
ner, the coming season. Privately
owned automobiles will be used in
some cases, and many of these will be
shipped to Gardiner for the park tour.
Among the tourists who will visit
Yellowstone this summer are several
teachers from eastern points. A North
ern Pacific special train will be operat-
ed for their accommodation and after
the park trip, will carry the party to
Portland, Ore, where the National Ed
ucation Association is to be hold it's
fifty-dfth annual convention from July
Z to IA.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
Bernstorf Party Is Angered
by Thorough British Search

Christiana, March 13.-Not even
Countess Won Bernstorff, wife of the
former German ambassador to the
thorough examination aboard the
Friedrich VIII, on which the German
ambassador and his party left the
United States for Germany. So thor
ough was the search as we'll as the de-
lay it enforced upon the former am
bassador that he will lodge formal
protest at Washington. At the time Of
the searching the British authorities
refused to transmit his protest by
wire. They mailed one, however, to
the Swiss minister, Ritter, whom Won
Bernstorff left in charge Of German
affairs at Washington. This was not
forwarded, it was learned, until after
the examination had been completed
and the Friedrich VIII had left port.
The British authorities refused to let
American consuls come aboard, Won
Bernstorff was the only one of the
party exempted from the search, but
his wife was thoroughly searched.
Even the inner soles of her shoes
were ripped open, though this was
mild compared with what the other
Germans went through. They were
stripped to the skin and even their
teeth was examined. Not a woman in
the party was excused. All German
gold money was confscated as contra
band. A few lost paper money and all
rubber, including hot water bottles
and bottle nipples, was seized.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
RAILWAY COMMISSION
SECRETARY SELECTED

Bismarck, March 12.-There will be
a new secretary Of the state railway
commission within a few weeks, or, to
be more explicit, April 1. The new
secretary, J. H. Calderhead, halls from
Arnegard, Mckenzie county, near
which place he is engaged in farming.
Walter F. Gushing, the present secre-
tary, has handed in his resignation,
which is to take effect on the date
mentioned. The announcement that
a change would be made came after a
conference between the commission.
ers, Attorney General LANCER and
President A. C. Townley, of the Non.
partisan league. Mr.. Calderhead, the
new secretary, was for four years state
auditor of Montana, and is we'll quail
fed for the important position to
which he has been appointed. r.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
CAN'T EVEN GUESS At Y. S.
INSTRUCTIONS TO GUNNERS

Washington, March 13-Instructions
to naval gunners for their conduct in
defense of American merchant ships
from German submarines in the bar
red zones have been drawn and ap~
proved and will be issued when need
ed. Secretary of the Navy Daniels
drew them up and after two hours con-
ference with Secretary Lansing, made
several changes believed to be minor.
They will not be made public, but
there will be little delay in forward
ing, it is assumed. Secretary Daniels
declined to give the exact time when
they would be issued, stating that it
would serve as means of showing the
sailing dates of American ships. Pres
ident Wilson saw the order, with Sec
rotary Lansing's approval of them.
Secretary Daniels asked newspapers
that they refrain from speculation and
inference as to the contents Of the in
structions.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
BISMARCK ElKS ELECT

Bismarck, March 12.-At meeting
of the Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks William O'Hara was reelected
exalted ruler, and A. A. Jones, esteem.
ed leading knight. The other officers
are: Esteemed loyal knight, Henry
Murphy; esteemed lecturing knight, J.
J. White; tyler. E. F. Highly. P. J.
Fields was reelected secretary and
J. P. Sell, treasurer. The old trustees
were also reappointed. They are: J.
L. George, DR.. C. E. Stackhouse,
Charles Glitschka, Carl Peterson is
the past exalted ruler. The committee
who will have charge of the annual
state convention which meets here
next June, will meet this evening In
the hall, to make preliminary arrange.
ments.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
JUROR BECAME INSANE;
CASE TO SECOND TRIAL

Devils Lake, March 13.-No verdict
could be returned by the jury in the
case of Hugh Mcmillan VS.. C. E. West
tried last week in district court, ow-
ing to the fact that J. Mccarthy, one
Of the jurors, was seized with fit of
insanity. His actions during the trial
of the case excited suspicion and after
the case was heard and the jury sent
out for verdict, he refused to VOTE
The jury returned during the after
noon and stated that it was impossi-
BILE to secure verdict, because of one
member voting blank. They were sent
out again by the judge, but with the
same success. Mr.. Mccarthy was TAX
en- to the Mercy hospital yesterday
morning and grew worse during the
day. He finally became violently in
sane and is today being held for hear
ing before the board. Mr.. Mccarthy
is farmer near Starkweather. where
he has lived for some years. The case
will be retired, but not at this term Of
court.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
VALLEY CITY STUDENTS
ORGANIZE CLUB At u

The young people from Valley City
and Barnes county attending the uni
versity at Grand Forks had a banquet
Saturday night at the Commons and
organized Valley City club. Roy
Weston is president and Margaret
Mudgett is secretary and treasurer.
All Valley City students and residents
are eligible. The first act of loyalty
will be to welcome the Valley City
basketball squad when it arrives
Thursday evening. They will be at
the depot in body and welcome and
encourage the boys during their stay.
Also they will pull for them to cop the
state championship.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
Faculty "Froie" Is to
Be Simply immense

With the date OF performance stil
some days distant, members of the
Normal school faculty who are to APP
pear in their annual "Frolic" in the
auditorium next Monday evening, have
their program about completed, and
the balance of the week will be used
for dress rehearsals. AS has been an
nounced, these entertainments; have
become annual events during the last
two or three years, in an endeavor on
the part of the instructors to raise
the loan fund to $1,000.
''Frolics@ have been immense drawing
cards in the past, assurance is given
that nothing like what will be present
ed Monday evening has ever beer, wit
messed in the auditorium.
The program will be opened with the
presentation of "A Bunch Of Roses" a
romantic comedy for four males and
four females, by M. E. NJ. Davis, worth
Is cents without the other four or five
acts that are to follow. We don't
know much about this part of the pro-
gram ourselves, but the Normal Bud
get states that If you don't laugh
yourself to tears, you are at liberty to
step up to the box office and demand
a refund of your admission fee."
The following stars" are to ap-
pear in "a Bunch of Roses"
Mr.. Peter Petlove: middle-aged and
jealous-Prof. J. H. Seymour.
Mrs. Peter Petlove: Christian name,
Harriet, young and pretty Miss
Helen NJ Crane.
Miss Hilda Greaves: young, pretty
and romantic-Miss Vida A. Austin.
Miss Malvina Pilkington; uncertain
age, very romantic-Miss Marguerite
Rae.
Mr.. Herbert Mason-Prof. w. NJ.
Wemett.
Mr.. George Hargrove-Prof. L. j.
Call.
Higgs: a romantic maid-Miss Ruth
B. Cranz.
Hopson: romantic butler-Prof.
H. C. Souder.
Scene: Petlove Court, Pass Chris
tian.
But "A Bunch of Roses" is only one
act of the evenings entertainment.
Other laugh-provoking parts are Sum
mer Girls Minstrels" and can Opera
by George AIDE, Without Aid," and a
number of other take-offs on students
and prominent personages about the
Normal school. Every part of the pro-
gram has been given something of a
local setting.
The Normal school has been poster
ed, billed and window carded, several
the work of the Times-Record, exam
pies of some of which have even crept
into the downtown windows. Prof. J.
B. Meyer is portrayed in a character
istic pose, as are several of the other
members of the faculty.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
TOWN is VERY NEARLY
WIPED OUT BY FLAMES

Zenith, March 12.-Fire starting in
small frame building used as a
school house spread rapidly and de.
stroyed the Solomon Nicola store with
loss of $4,000, covered by $500 in.
surance; a hotel building occupied by
Conrad Bower, loss $4,000; and the
residence of I. H. Roberts. The tele.
phone exchange and post office of
Zenith were located in the Nicola
store and all equipment were destroy
ed.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
DECLARED INSANE, THAW
DoDGES PENALTY OF CRIME

Philadelphia. March 13.-Harry K.
Thaw was today adjudged insane by
alienists in the sanity inquiry started
by Thaw's mother: Commissioner Will
lard and six jurors made the report to
a common plea court that he is insane.
Papers giving custody of Harry K.
Thaw at St. Mary's hospital, where he
has been since his attempt at suicide,
will be made out at once. The move
to have him declared insane was start.
ed in order to have him sentenced to
insanity in one state to escape being
sentenced in another state for the beat
ing of Friedrich Gump, of Kansas City.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
CITY ELECTION At DICKINSON

Dickinson, March 13.-The regular
city election will be held Monday,
April 2, at which time one alderman
from each ward will be elected, the
remaining elective officers being
elected last year for a period of two
years. The following are the alder
men whose terms expire this year:
First ward, Roy Butler; second ward,
Chas. Bake; third ward, T. N. Har.
tung; fourth ward, Harry Beidler;
fifth ward. B. H. Crawford; sixth
ward, Martin Scheeler.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
PENSIONS FOR THE GUARD

Bismarck, March 13.-Legislative
recognition Of the services rendered
North Dakota by her stalwart sons
who served seven and one-half months
on the Mexican border was made ef-
fective last evening when Governor
Frazier signed senate bill 324 under
which $4,000 will become available
July 1 for the pensioning of enlisted
men of the first North Dakota infantry.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
ARREST ALLEGED AUTO
Thief AT JAMESTOWN

jamestown, March 13.-Bob Coach,
who was arrested here Saturday night
charged with having stolen Buick
automobile, was taken to Red Cloud,
Mimi, yesterday afternoon by a spe-
cial policeman of that city. Constable
Barlinks went to Sheyenne today to
locate Ford car Coach is said to have
offered to sell. The prisoner is said to
have sold two cars in this vicinity.
Officers here believe Coach is one of a
gang operating in the northwest.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
RAILWAY LABoRERs
KILLED BY A TRAIN

Marmarth, March 13.-Because they
were so earnestly engaged in CONVEX.
sation that they failed to notice the
approach of locomotive, Tony Evor.
lam and Kiro Penonsa, Macedonian,
railway laborers, were instantly killed
when the locomotive struck" them. A
dead engine was being pushed by the
locomotive and the engineers vision
was thus obscured.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
SINKING OF SToRsTADT
HAlTS RELIEF WORK

Washington, March IL. - The Ger.
man torpedoing of the Norwegian
steamer Storstadt, official confirma-
ton Of which reached here today, may
serve to halt the Belgian relief work
for 100000 people The Storstadt
was sunk in an open lane designated
BY Germany as safe from submarines
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
WERE BARELY ABLE TO
ESCAPE CREMATION

Golden Valley, March 12.-Awaken.
ing to find their bed on fire, Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Long barely were able to
escape cremation. Fire started in the
kitchen of their home from unknown
causes. The loss was $4,000.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
STATE WILL NINE COAL

Madison, March 13.-The Wisconsin
senate today passed Senator Metcalf's
joint resolution giving the state the
authority to assume operation of coal
mines in the state. The recent high
coal prices prompted Senator Metcalf
to draw I'D the resolution
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
EDWARDS IS APPOINTED

Jamestown. March he. R. Ed
wards. Jamestown, state high school
inspector, has been reappointed to that
position by N. G. Macdonald, state SUI
perintendent of public instruction. Mr..
Edwards was first appointed by the
former state superintendent, E. J.
Taylor.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
PROTESTING RELIEF WORK

New York, March 13.-Germany has
made protest against the administra-
ton by Americans of Belgium relief
work in northern France, it became
known today. Herbert Hoover, direc-
tor general of the Belgium relief work,
suddenly sailed for Spain today.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
No. 2548
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
The FIRST NATIONAL BANK

At Valley City the State business
Loans and discounts .$ss745
Overdrafs
bonds (pa vaue .... 100000
bonds pledged deposits 100000
et Sr tna1 i stoGkg including premiums on same 1856
Value of banking 122150o
Furniture and fixtures
No. estate owned oner uan banking house $4,000
vet amount que from approved reserve agents in New York Chi
Net approved agents other
reserve CUES 115995"32
Net amount due from banks and bankers 1o.e, than
Outside checks and other cash
fractional currency, nickes
NOTES Of other national banks
redemption fund with u
Total 4oo,s4o1e
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in
Undivided 171723S
Circulating notes - s s2a"Ss
Net amount due 1754435
Demand deposits: -
ssss: ss ass :ss s.1 50 day:
Cashiers outstanding 114cio
losta savings deposits 56787
Certificates days ....... 55so24s4
Bills Bank including ali
obligations None
Bills payable with Federal
Total 400 s4o1e
State Of North Dakota County
that the above statement
.'s~' JOHN TRACY, Cashier
4~~. ~.. '''''* S4k SsS'! 9mA5a.pr
o!1:M HSdSF7;
Subscribed March,
o., sep Not cgn RSs B s4,. csns
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
HAND MANGLED IN WHEELS

Taylor, March 12.-Carl Johnson,
farmer, assisted local elevator man
in adjusting a machine. His right
hand was caught in cogwheels and so
horribly mangled that amputation was
necessary,
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15

Kensal News of Darlington. Indepen-
dent: H. L. Wiese, of Valley City, is
in town this week tuning pianos. ..
Frank Booth has returned to Valley
City after visiting friends here.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
EAR CUT OFF BY FALL

Elgin, March 12.-When Mrs. Colt
heb Vossler tripped and fell, the upper
part of her right ear was completely
cut off by the sharp edge of a door.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15
REPORT OF THE CONDITION THE
MlDDlEWE8T TRUST COMPANY


Nl00lEWE9T TRUST COMPANY
March 5h
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts 214O9514
Securlues deposited with State Treasurer $4,000
Overorats secured and unsecured H.46
warrants stocks cerhcaes claims
que from agents
rurnHure ana nxues 2,34966
s
CnecKs and otner cash items 1914
42562
31,S3965
Total
Capital stock paid in .$1oooeooo
surplus ana reserve 1und
O4aeo pronts less expenses and taxes paid 84668
31983.26
State Of North Dakota County Of Barnes--ss
that the above statement
T..
Subscribed and Of
J.. E.
Public County Nd
(Notar1al SeaD Commission 81,
Correct-Anest:
".'" FRANK WHITE
O. H.
s. MASON
~ H.. 4. ~>*.~-
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-15

Mrs. Beecher Cox is spending the
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Cox.