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The circle banner., 1917-11-16
Weldon Farmer
Seriously Injured

John Kvam a well known far
mer living near Weldon, met with
a serious accident last week while
he was on his way to Oswego with
a load of flax. The accident hap
pened at a crossing of the creek
south of the Prairie Elk store. Up
to Monday, there was culvert t
this crossing, but it seems that it
had been taken away, and Mr..
Kvam not paying any particular
attention to the road did not not
ice the missing culvert until it was
too late to stop his team. He was
thrown from the wagon, the front
wheel passing over his arm and
catching his head in such a man
ner that he was dragged about ten
feet before he was released. He
was in an unconscious condition
when picked up by a party in an
automobile few minutes later and
taken to Circle for medical atten-
tion.
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Brockway Farmers
Haul Wheat To Circle

The Circle Flour Mill has indeed
been busy place the past week,
and farmers are hauling h Ell +
wheat to the local market from far
and near.
They come from as far as head
of North prong of Dirty creek,
which is about eight or ten miles
beyond the ttle"villiage"of Brock
way, which also claims to h av e a
local market for wheat.
Messrs. Ted Wangen and Harry
Enquist brought in two 4-horse
loads of wheat for the mill here
last Wednesday and yesterday c..
]. Johnson brought in a load. They
were all well pleased, in fact were
delighted, over the fact that they
could bring their wheat here and
receive the cash for it in preference
to hauling it to Terry.
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Lawyers Hold Banquet

The lawyers of the Sevent h
Judicial District of Montana held
a banquet at the Hotel Jordan last
Wednesday evening. A sumptu-
GUS dinner was served to members
of the legal profession from Daw-
son, Rchland and Wibaux counties.
A large number of out-of-town at
torneys were present.
]. A. Slattery presided as toast
master and in welcoming the out
of-town guests stated that Glen
dive threw the gates of the city
wide open to them and that every
thing possible would be done for
the entertaining of the guests while
they remain in the city.
Judge C.C.Hurley, ,AttorneysAn-
derson, O'Neil and Hildebrand re-
sponded to toasts. Among those
from out of town who responded
with short speeches were Attorney
Jones of Wibaux, Attorney Cowee
of Savage and Attorneys Colett
and Lunke of Sidney.
The large attendance and pre-
vailing enthusiasm was indicative
of the success of the gathering.
The presence of Mrs. Stephens of
Circle made the dinner noteworthy
one in that she has the honor of
being the first woman lawyer to
become member of the Seventh
Judicial bar. After the various
members had responded to toasts,
short stories of legal incidents oc-
curing in and out of court, dane
ing was indulged in to a late hour,
when those present parted, unani-
nous in the feeling that the din
ner was a huge success.-RevleW
Glendive.
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Little Savage Drew
Full House

! The home talent given here last
Saturday evening by the young
people of Union was well attended
and success in every way.
The play was a three act mill
tary comedy and was well render
ed and received a hearty applause
from the audience. The young
people that were in the play are
to be complimented for the able
manner in which it was given, and
showed they gone through con-
siderable drilling.
The Misses Willis favored tn e
audience with several beautiful
duets, sung to the accompaniment
of a Victrola and piano which was
real splendid.
The total receipts of the even
ings entertainment was $1,000
half of which went to the Circle
and other half to Union Red cross
auxiliary.
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Save The Dairy Cow
She Pays Her Way

c. Larson professor of dairy
husbandary in the South Dakota
Agricultural College, Brookings
thus figures out the slaughter oi
dairy cows:
Even high prices will not com
pensate one for selling milk COWS
The cow is the one animal on the
farm that pays as she goes. The
calf that is being raised for beef is
heavily in debt to its owner by the
time he is two years old; the own
er has carried it along. The dairy
cow makes return practically every
day for what she eats.
When the animal ha S to b e
slaughtered for food much is lost.
Suppose that we sell a COW or a
steer that weighs 1900 pounds.
This animal will not dress out
more than so per cent, or about
100 pounds of dressed meat. This
meat contains at least so per cent
of it is dry matter and this is not
all digestible There S m u C h
gristle and other parts of the meat
that cannot be eaten.
Now suppose that we allow
this 12Q0-ponnd COW to live. She
should produce a | ca S t 5000
pounds of milk during one year,
containing about l3 percent of dry
matter. During one year this COW
would then have produced about
1,040 pounds of dry edible matter
and which is practically all digest
ible. There is no refuse in milk.
So if this particular cow were al
lowed to go on with her milk pro-
ductIon, she would produce about
three times the food value in one
year that that same cow or a steer
of similar weight would if butch
cred, temperature of the old cold
storage room. In addition the COW
would produce a living calf at the
same time.
by all means keep the dairy
COW working. In this time of war,
when the food is so urgent, do not
kill off the milch COW. The dairy
cow is the most economical of all
far m animals properly handled
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Few Draft Men
In Next Call

Billings-Because of the patriot
ism evidenced by the great num-
Der of voluntary enlistments in the
regular army since July 1, war de-
partment officials declare their be-
lief that Montana will be called up
on to raise but a small part of the
regular draft quota on the next
call for conscripts. According to
the war department records, Mon
tana has furnished more than four
times the number of recruits for
the regulars allotted to the state on
the basis of its population.
The quota of enlistments in the
regulars allotted to Montana was
752 men. To date over 5000 vol
unteers have enlisted in the
state regulars. Billings and vicin-
ity has furnished nearly 1,200 of
the total, while approximately 500
have been recruited from Butte
and vicinity.
Aviation, medical, quartermas-
ters, infantry and field artillery I'M
its have been the choices of most
of the Montana recruits and many
states sons are already in France
or on their way there, i t is a d.
To date only two applications for
enlistment in the recentlyorgan-
lied flame and gas corps have been
received at the Billings sub-station.
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Circle Flour Mill
Starts Operations

AS was announced last week
the Circle Mil Co., commenced to
buy wheat for grinding purposes
on Monday of this week, and it has
indeed been big surprise to note
the amount of wheat that has al
ready been brought in. II was a
sight most pleasing to the eye, to
see this week, team after team lin
ed up at the mill with big loads of
fine hard milling wheat waiting to
get unloaded.
1t was expected to start grind
ing flour this week at least by Sat-
urday, but there is still a lot of
work to be done to get things in
good running order so that it will
take till Monday till they get start
ed.
The Circle Flour Mill is an insti-
tuition Circle may feel proud Of,
and will fill long felt want in this
section, both furnishing a local
market for wheat and supplying
the demand with good flour. The
plant is strictly modern in every
respect, the building and equipp-
ment being superior to any other
mill in the county, outside of Glen
dive. The main building is three
stories high, and has full basement.
1t has at present storage capacity
for about 5000 bushels of grain.
1t is equipped with a 25 barrel
Midget Marvel mill, and a 40 h. p.
gas engine furnishes the power.
Besides it has large grain clean
er and feed grinder. The build
ing is being heated by steam heat.
The local mill is paying railroad
prices for the wheat, and paying
according to grade same as any,
where else. Most of the wheat so
far has graded pretty good. Har-
ry Stone brought in the best wheat
so far, bringing in some Turkey
Red winter wheat that weighed
81 pounds to the bushel, grading
No. for which he received $1.97
per bushel cash.
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be satisfied.

be satisfied.
Some of you ask if it will be. a
success. | say yes, it is a success.
We know you will count the days
from one entertainment to the next
In years to come when our child
rem are coming here for entertain
ment, we can tell them of the en-
joyable times we had here in this
hall at Redwater. We will talk
for hours of its building and how
it was built against odds-crop
failures and so forth. So now let
us look at it in all its glory and
think of the glorious time coming
tonight and the other times to come
Now then friends, | dedicate
this hall to you, that it may brigh-
ten and gladden. the days of the
coming winter and the coming
years. want to impress upon
the minds of the younger people
that this hall will be a
place of respect where mother and
father can send their daughters
and sons. | thank you."
At midnight came lull in the
evenings gayety while the ladies
served supper. Socially
and financially the opening was a
splendid success.
Saturday evening Nov.24th ano-
Lher dance and supper will be
given at the hall and Stuart's or
,hestra will furnish the music.
Everybody is cordially invited.
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Supper And Bazaar

Remember the big Supper and
Bazaar at the Anderson hall, Sat-
urday afternoon and evening Nov.
Oath, given by the Luth. Ladies
Aid, which means lots of good
things to eat.
At the Bazaar YOU will find
many articles suitable for Xmas
presents, and articles of fancy
work sold at reasonable prices.
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Brye Ill With Typhoid

Carl Brye, one Of Circles lead
ing business men was taken il |
with an attack of typhoid fever
this week, and on Tuesday was
taken to Glendive.
Carl had not been feeling well
for some time and the first Of week
became suddenly worse, when it
was discovered to be case of typ
hold.
His many friends all hope for a
speedy recovery and that he will
soon be with us again.
How is your subscription?
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Jack Bicha of Corral creek is
seen driving Ford these days.
He bought if from Alex Ham.
The Banner editor and family
autoed out to the C. j. johnson
home on Dry Ash last Sunday
and spent most enjoyable after
noon and evening at their home.
The circle banner., 1917-11-16

Rev. Skindlov of Spok Kane,
Wash. president of the Rocky Mt.
District of the Lutheran church,
will speak at the school house
Tuesday evening Nov. 20th at 8 P.
NJ. Come and hear him.
Work of pouring the concrete
for the new Lutheran C h urc h
basement was started yesterday
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A letter from Jack Secora to
Victor Tatro states that 5000 train
ed men are being moved from
Camp Lewis these days to eastern
points. Jack expected to be NOV
ed to Mexico soon.
The circle banner., 1917-11-16

Circle always was a busy burg
and is still more so now since we
have local market of wheat.
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How is your subscription?
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-04-19
Community Chorus Is
Organized at Hastings

Hastings Times: w. J. Arnold, rep
resentative Of the North Dakota Stand
ard, held a meeting at the church
Tuesday evening to discuss the organi-
cation of community chorus. He has
worked last fall and expects to travel
5000 miles through the state this sum-
mer organizing these choruses. Sew
eral of them are now in successful op-
Grafton in the northeastern part of the
state, and reports from them are en-
couraging. The object of these chorus
es is to get all the people Of the COM
munity together for social diversion
that old and young can enjoy The
meetings will be held once week,
and during the winter season the pro-
grams will consist principally of mu
sic, with everybody taking part, and
once a month a light lunch will be
served, when free will offering will
be taken to finance the chorus, there
being no membership fee. In the sum-
mer time it is planned to carry out
program of outdoor sports in which
men, women and children may take
part. Officers for the local chorus are
as follows: President, H. o. Dahle;
vice president, Ludwig Larson; sec
retary-treasurer O. T. Olson; musical
director, Mrs. A. Jothen. The first
meeting will be held Friday evening,
and the Kathryn male quartet have
promised to come up and sing for us.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-04-19
Tried to Burn
N. P. Bridge

jamestown, April 12.-Official confir-
nation Of an attempt by party or par
ties to destroy the Northern Pacific
railway bridge at Magnolia, go miles
east of Jamestown, Wednesday night,
was received at headquarters of the
Northern Pacific here late this after.
noon. Oil was poured on the bridge
and the structure set afre. Fortunate
ly freight train happened along and
the blaze was extinguished before any
material damage had been done.
The N. P. bridge at Magnolia is IS
feet long and q feet high. According
to officials there is every evidence Of
incendiarism. Kerosene oil had been
poured upon the timbers of the struc-
ture, while other evidence of malic-
ious attempt to destroy the bridge has
been uncovered.
A thorough Investigation is now I'm.
der way and it is expected that the
vandal or vandals will be in the tolls
of the law before many hours have
elapsed.
The Importance of the bridge at
Magnolia can we'll be realized! There
is a double track over the bridge at
that point and although through coast
service would not be entirely tied up
by the destruction of the span, traffic
would be seriously impaired for some
time.
Whether the attempted destruction
of the bridge was the work of pro;
Germans is matter Of conjecture.
According to word received officers
are following a hot trail, but in the
meantime are keeping their opinions
to themselves as to cause and effect.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-04-19
THIS is OUR COUNTRY

Litchville Bulletin: For the past
two years and a half we have all had
chance to side with either Germany
or England. The choice was easy for
most of us and our sympathies went
accordingly. But today all this is diff
ferent. The choice is now between
America and Germany. between the
Stars and Stripes and the black eagle
Of Imperial Prussia. And for most Of
us the choice is easy. This is our
country. Everything we have we owe
to this country. Our fathers left Eu-
rope to escape oppression and because
there wasn't bread enough to 90
around. Europe we owe nothing,
America everything. But for many
OF German birth or ancestry the
choice is exceedingly hard. Yet, not
any harder than it was for Americans
to take a stand in our great Civil war.
Then American fought American; fam
lilies were divided and even brothers
fought on opposite sides in the armie:;
or the north and the south. In ITS
the American colonists fought their
mother country, England, and prevail
ed against her. In 1866 Prussian Ger
man fought Austrian German: and
German mas fought German countless
times before that. In this crisis our
guide should be cur duty and not our
feelings. When we have voluntarily
placed ourselves in the Melting Pot it
Ill behooves us to complain of the heat
of the fire.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-04-19
WILL MARSHAL FARM
FORCES UNDER LADD

Fargo, April 13.-North Dakotas
agricultural forces will be marshaled
under the direction of the North Dako-
ia A. c. and its corps of field workers,
who shortly will be drafted for nation
al service in connection with the AM
erfcan nationwide food production
campaign outlined last night by the
federal department of agriculture.
President E. F. Ladd of the agricul-
tural college indicated today that he
expected an early call from the govern.
ment for the field workers of North
Dakota. County agents now workins
in 81 counties and other agricultural
college men to the number Of prob
ably Is Or 20 will be drafted into the
federal service, forming a force Of
about 40 field men for active work in
this state. Their whole efforts will
be directed at increasing the states
acreage Of all kinds of staple grain and
cereals, to the end that North Dakota
may do her bit" in bringing the Euro
pean war to a successful conclusion
for the allies.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-04-19
Varsity. Boys
Made Big Hit

in spite of an unusual counter at
traction in the way Of number on
the city lyceum course, the mems glee
club OF our state university was greet
ed with a large house in the Congre-
gational schurch Thursday evening.
The night before they had sung at
Cooperstown and made the cross coun-
try trip by auto. Notwithstanding the
long hours on the road (some did not
reach Valley City until nearly
o'clock) they were in fine voice and
spirits for the evening concert.
The solo work was up TO the usual
high standard of the club. The Choir
uses were particularly we'll rendered
and showed the careful and artistic
training Of the director, William Well
ington Norton. Between the first and
second parts of the program Mr.. Nor
ton told Of the work Of the university
unsteady and made the statement that
OF all the state colleges and univer-
stiles between the Twin Cities and the
Pacific coast, Our own university re-
ceived alone the rank of "a" by the
federal government.
IN many ways, part tnree proved the
most popular, with its interesting pic
ture of Life on the Border" Lieut..
J. R. Frame, at present stationed
here in command of Company H, is a
member of the glee club and it was
principally through his efforts that the
fellows were trained in the songs and
stunts of the last part of the program.
FO11Owinp tho concort tho members
of the Barnes County Alumni associa-
ton rendered the club an informal re-
ception in the parlors of the church.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-04-19
FIRE DESTROYS FOUR
BUILDINGS AT FlNCAL

Fire which was discovered at about
7 o'clock Saturday morning in the
Kencke hardware store at Fingal could
not be controlled until four buildings
had been destroyed.
Mr.. Kencke also lost his residence
alongside the store building. He sue
ceeded in saving the household goods
and a part of the hardware stock
Two vacant stores belonging to A.
E. Nicholson, standing next to the
hardware store, were burned, as was
also the building of the Fingal Land
and Loan Co. The windows in the o.
son Drug Co. store across the street
were cracked from the intense heat,
and the hotel across the street east
was endangered.
The Enderlin fire department res
pended quickly to call for help. If
the wind had not been from favor
able direction there probably would
have been a far greater loss of prop
erty.
Mr.. Nicholson estimates his loss at
about $500. The loss and insurance
on the other property cannot be as
certained at this time.
The origin Of the fire is not known.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-04-19
Hope Of United States
in Hands Of Farmers

Washington, April 13.-In its effort
to awaken the country to the need Of
greater food production to meet de-
mands of the war, the department of
agriculture today began distribution
in the United States of an appeal made
recently by Premier Lloyd George to
the people Of England to plant more
crops if they hoped to combat the sub
marine peril.
The premier's appeal reads:
"We have now reached crisis in
the war when to insure victory, the
heroism of our armies must be backed
by the self-sacriflcing of the labor
people at home.
ITO that end the production of each
quarter Of wheat and oats and Of
each bushel of potatoes is of vital i'm
portance. In the nations interest I
urge you, at whatever personal sacri-
fee, to overcome all obstacles, to
throw your fullest energies into the
work, and to influence and encourage
all who assist you, so that every pos
sible acre shall be sown.
''The imperative demands of the
war, have made it impossible to
avoid calling up men fit for active
service, even in farming. AS far as
possible this is being met by bring
ing on to the land men and women
from other industries. There is NO
time for delay, and I am confident
that farmers will at once do all in
their power to utilize their services to
the best advantage.
''The farmers of this country can
defeat the German submarines and
when they do so they destroy the last
hope of the Prussian.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-04-19
MRS. GREENWOOD TO LEAD
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS

Mrs. Annie S. Greenwood of the de.
partment of Commercial studies at
the Normal school, has been request,
ed to conduct round table discus.
sion with all local publicity superin'
tendents at the w. G.. T. U. district
convention to be held at jamestown
May 8 and 4. At the same convention
she is also to lead conference of all
district superintendent on ways and
means of doing more effective temper
ance work by departments. Mrs.
Greenwood is also in receipt of a re-
quest to appear upon the program of
the w. C. T. U. institution to be held
at the Valley City Chautauqua this
season. Her topic will be What can
we do in the campaign for National
constitutional prohibition.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-04-19
A SAFE TEST

For those who are in need of a rem.
edy for kidney trouble and backache
it Is good plan to try DoaE's Kidney
Pills. They are strongly recommend
ed by Valley City people.
John NJ. Koehr, r. F. D. mail car
rier, Ninth Ave. and Third st., Valley
City, says: Il suffered considerably
from backache and finally got SO bad
thought I would have to give up my
work. suspected my kidneys and
used Doan's Kidney Pills. They bene'
flied me from the start, strengthening
my kidneys and removing the back
ache, headaches and dizzy spells.
When a cold settles in my kidneys, a
few doses of Doan's Kidney Pills. fix
me UP all right"
Price SOC, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr. Koehn uses. Foster-Mllbu1n Co.,
Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-04-19
Many Pay Tribute to
Mrs. James McFadgen

The funeral service of Mrs. James
McFadgen was held Wednesday after
noon at from the Methodist church
in this city. Rev. C. E. Vermilya, pas
tor of the church, had charge of the
service. Mrs. McFadgen was the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Stearns, of Rogers. She was born in
New York state and came with her
parents to Dakota in 1886, when she
was but nine years old. She grew to
womanhood in this vicinity and was
united in marriage to James ,McFad-
gen Of the same neighborhood. Sev-
eral times she has been compelled to
submit to surgical treatment during
the years. Her last ailment involved
an operation and for nearly two
months she has been lingering be-
tween life and death. She finally sue
cumbed on the evening of Easter day.
She leaves to mourn her loss two sons
aged 10 and IA, and the husband.
Mr.. Vermilya built his remarks
around the spirit of the life that the
service was supposed to commemorate
He stated that he had known the de-
ceased for nearly ten years, and had
specially been interested in trying to
comfort and help her during the days
of her stay in the hospital here. Her
beautiful Christian spirit and trust
that kept her through the years OF her
active life never failed her in the
hours of her trial. He said that the
one tribute that seemed most fitting
was summed up in the words "she was
good" The large number of friends
and sympathizers who were present at
the service was fitting testimony to
the esteem in which she was held by
her neighbors.
The husband who is bereft of his
helpmeet and companion in the prime
of life and compelled to be both father
and mother to his boys, certainly will
have the sympathy of his many friends
at this time.
A large number were present from
the north part of the county to pay
their last tribute of friendship.