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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-02-01
HIDE AND FUR MARKET

HIDE prices little lower than in
Dec. but double what they were several
years back.
Furs continue to bring very high
prices. Write for price-list, trap-book
and trappers' supply catalog. For
best results ship to and buy of the
"Old Reliable"
Northwestern Hide & Fur Co.,
Established 1890
Minneapolis, MINI.
P. S. Our Sure Death Capsules for
wolf, etc. are endorsed by the United
States Government Forest Rangers as
the best poison made dozen $1.0O
Sits per hundred, charges prepaid
(by Express only.)
Just received car of frozen fish at
the following prices: Pickerel, &c per
h.; Pike, 13c per h., in box lots. Send
your orders to N. Papermeister, 1876,
Minot, N. D. 1-25-2t*
McCall's Decoy, most powerful scent
made, 4 OF. 6Oc-1-2 pint $1.00. Ex-
press or postpaid. 1-25-t5cg
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-02-01

vestigate the conditions Of the ONCE 30
that the interests of the state may be
properly safeguarded.
The Courier News publishes a letter
from Rev. C. E. Vermilyea that hits
the mark on the lid lightning problem
The fire fiend visited Lucca, almost
wiping out the village before help ar
rived from Enderlin.
Harry Halfhill, late proprietor OF
the Crystal Cafe, makes his getaway
with 5000 belonging to Ray Vest. Vest
claims his vest is empty and others
have crystalized the cafe.
Monday afternoon of last week the
eastbound passenger train on the Can
nonball branch of the Milwaukee killed
five cows belonging to Mrs. Emma Gill
more Of Leith. The railroad company
will make good her loss.
The Security Cattle Loan company
is new organization of Morton coun.
ty capitalized at 100000, that will
introduce more live stock on the farms
of the slope country.
The "Blue Law Sunday" is getting
popular since the advent OF VIM. Lang
er into the attorney generals office
down at Bismarck. Several OF the
larger cities of the state observed the
day religiously last Sunday-and some
of them even claim that they like it.
Drilling operations were recently be-
gun at Marmath on the big artesian
we'll that will supply that village with
water. The wells are to be sunk very
deep to make sure that the water will
be absolutely pure, as the state health
board declared that the recent cpl
demic of typhoid at that place was
caused by the use of impure water.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-02-01
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF
PARTNERSHIP

To Whom It May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that the CO.
partnership heretofore existing be-
tween the undersigned, J. H. Peterson
and H. w. Nelson, doing business un-
der the firm name and style Of Peter
son and Nelson Drug Company, has
this day been dissolved, the said H. w.
Nelson withdraws from said firm and
the business is to be conducted by said
]. H. Peterson, and said J. H. Peterson
assumes all the debts and liabilities of
the said firm, and is authorized to COL
lect and receive all moneys and prop
erty due to said firm.
Dated at Minot, North Dakota, this
23rd day of January, A. D. 1917.
J. H. PETERSON.
1858 H. w. NELSON.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-02-01
WE CARRY WOOD

WE CARRY WOOD
for fuel and it is of the selected kind,
hard, easily ignited, but slow burning.
It gives out plenty of heat, is well sea-
soned and cut to convenient length to
split into kindling. If you have dealt
with us before you know how literally
we treat our customers. If you have
not, you'll be glad to get acquainted
with our business methods.
WALLACE & BOWKER,
Phone sos
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27
GIRL BATTLES WITH SKUNK
Then Pupils in Her School Were Civ
en- Vacation for Few
Days.

Pueblo, Colo.-Miss Madge McMil-
Ian, pretty and young, three years ago
filed on a homestead in Peaceful Val
ley, 20 miles west of Pueblo, and has
been teaching school ever since to
hold her rights to the claim. 1t is sad
to relate that Miss Mcmillan is Gin
bad odOr" with her pupils.
The young woman lives alone on
her ranch in shack which she built
with her own hands. One night re-
Gently she was aroused from a deep
sleep by the sound of squawking.
Selling a flashlight and butcher
knife, she rushed to the chicken house
and, catching sight of an animal in
one on the nests feasting on an egg
it had broken, lunged at it. In an
instant it turned, biting and scratch
ing. The pretty schoolteacher con-
quered the thing and soon it lay swell
tering in it's own gore"
Then she discovered that the animal
was a skunk.
The pupils have been on a vacation
for a few days and the beauty of the
teacher has been admired only from
a distance.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27
AAc5AlrtURA1Ila
! ! 1000 S gS &szEs!| - ~ ;
y TOGO SWATS THE FLY

wedsday historical
K W. Humphrey,
Bourbon, accident hepesness
When this Mrs humphrey
Togo" she relate, 81 particular about fies'
varieties of these live
collapse for chvay
20 have
than
"They should permitted
they do the
they land" she tell.
"In this they similar arpanes" smuggest
instructions
a him at once"
horse-fies
She could assmilate this
hodder
husband deare Baby Alexander endanger
Each
"Eow flies caught this m Togo?" ask it.
"Six," say it. "Ffve house and butter"
lovely because of Of others"
with hot
poison TAIL
a
could Hon walking windows time My
behind with hand swatstk
Humphrey husband, about flies
attention
wndowiock he otter Is
flies"
filed bullets him
doggishly
OIL"
cruel feet intending 10000 Spank capu
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27

thanks
9 s Ts ALL WIFI" ne s sT a
complihment of my great science
dishwa done Cousin Nog arrive kitchen for make
who know it. of hour arrive When time
1882 Nogi make sleepy gohome while bed
light What BUZZ All, l
eyesght behind enough There stood
entirely enlarged buz washing his front thumbs
finally, looking
Bangs! Yet he He few apaned circular
hallway
th hf . p sung t WIN meoea diseases no nero was
with ippershoe my
talented of match lit yes There Hon Fly smuggling
poets avoiding praise.
should get him YETI down my slipper raised uy But
Standing dsinctualy in doorway chdroom
he held that enlarged shootish revolver.
What is?" he Whisper CHASTITY
here" goap hiding
Were he stealing my chid?" gawsp him.
making target
several with
courage lep swatts!!
with dare heel of eded Hon certainly that
child without expenser
Here what" " he require psvy chewing his breath
hies?' This from him with flashes.
Great scotch And thought
Hon M pumphr ey' on Gn whe U she tainted away
Next time come into Daby don't do SOL"
slaughter their
Midnight hytime"
Maybe
"A japanese foolboy isl! corrode Hon Mrs Mr. in together while
solute
Copyright by Inter ationalPre
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27
Proper Furniture
for the Children
Prepared by Children's Bureau. U. S.
Department Of Labor

Too many homes, even those where
there is no lack Of means for the nee
essary margin of choice, are furnished
without apparent regard for the needs
or rights of children, and in these it is
hardly possible for a child to find a
place to play or use his own things
without having to be continually
warned against breaking or harming
something. 1t is plainly not just to any
child to surround him with furnishings
designed entirely to accommodate
grown-up people and ask him to re-
spect them, unless there is somewhere
a place in which he has equal rights,
and where the grown-ups must pay
equal respect to his possessions. For
this reason there should always be
some room, or at least a corner Of the
family living room, where the children
may keep their own things and use
them in comfort.
The ideal rooms for children contain
only such furniture as they need for
comfort or convenience, and this will
be simple and easily kept clean. Wash
able painted walls, bare hardwood or
painted floors, simple curtains and
painted furniture are suitable. If wall
paper is used it should be inexpensive,
so that it can be frequently renewed.
All the holdings, door panels, window
and door screens should be made with
plain painted surfaces so that they can
be readily cleaned.
Only the lightest curtains should be
used, and they should not cover the
windows, save when necessary to shut
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27
Waste Of Mothers Lives and
Health Altogether Unnecessary
Prepared by Chdren Bureau. u S. Department Of Labor

More women fifteen to forty-five
years of age die from conditions con-
nected with childbirth than from any
disease except tuberculosis. Some 49,
600 mothers lives are sacrificed yearly
to ignorance and improper care. In
connection with Baby Week, the Chill
dren's bureau calls special attention to
these facts, for three reasons:
1. The life and health of the mother
are essential to the health and we'll
being of her children.
.. The majority of these mothers
lives could be saved.
3. The number of deaths among
mothers is merely rough index of
unIneasured preventable illness and
suffering.
Just how adequate care for mothers
Is to be assured depends, of course, on
local conditions, but DR.. Grace L..
Meigs of the federal Children's bu-
reau, whose special report on Ma
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27

quireS special skill and training.
Many people do not seem to under.
stand that in any case complications
may arise which can be met safely by
prompt and skillful scientific care, but
which at the hands of an unskilled at
tendant will cost the life of mother or
child or both.
Doctor Meigs admits the difficulties
of making accessible to every mother
in the United States these essentials
of maternity care, but she says:
when women and their husbands are
convinced of the need of such care,
and when women demand it, physi-
clans will furnish it; medical colleges
will provide better training for physi-
clans; and communities, rural and ur'
ban, will see to it that mothers are
properly protected"
The difficulties are perhaps greatest
in rural districts. The Children's bu-
reau has had letters from mothers who
are 10, %, 80 and even 65 miles from
physician, and for whom any trained
Other countries have been ut work on
this same problem, notably New Iea-
land and Canada. From their expert
ence and from the experience of those
American cities in which special ma
ternity work is being developed, Doc
tor Meigs has drawn up the following
suggestions for q unit of service to
meet the needs of mothers in rural
districts:
The unit would provide center for
a rural nursing service with visiting
nurses especially trained to recognize
dangerous symptoms in expectant
mothers. At such a center mothers
would be able to obtain information as
to the proper care of themselves and
of their babies. If suitable general
hospital is too remote for use, the
county center should include a cot
tage hospital for difficult maternity
cases and for the care of normal
cases when it is convenient for the
mother to leave her home for confine-
ment In general, skilled attendance
should be obtainable by every woman
in the county.
Little has been done as yet to show
women that much Of the waste of
mothers lives and health is unneces-
sary. Even less has been undertaken
by communities to provide protection
for motherhood. Many communities
which have studied their typhoid and
tuberculosis death rates and have I'M
dertaken costly measures to reduce
them have been needless of the death
rates among mothers. 1t is not
strange, therefore, that since 1900 the
typhoid rate for the country as q
whole has been cut in half, and the
rate from tuberculosis has been mark,
eddy reduced, while the death rate
from maternal causes has shown no
demonstrable decrease. But maternal
deaths are largely preventable, and
Baby Week should mark the beginning
of definite work for their prevention.
Doctor Meigs' report on Maternal
Mortality may be had free upon re-
quest, from the Children's bureau,
Washington, D. G.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27

ternal Mortality was published re-
Gently, believes that the first essen
tial everywhere is better understand
Ing of what mothers need.
Few women seem to realize, for ex-
ample, that a mother needs special
care before the baby comes. And yet
the principles of personal hygiene
which have been worked out by mod
ern science are of the utmost import
ance in preventing complications for
the mother and illness or weakness for
her baby. Further, the expectant
mother should be under the SUPER
vision Of physician, and she should
have certain periodic examinations by
which any symptoms of complications
may be discovered and treated while
they are still comfortable.
And the mother needs skilled at
tendance when her baby is born. Doc
tor Meigs emphasizes the fact that a
difficult maternity case is one Of the
gravest surgical emergencies and re-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27

The average weight of girl babies at
birth is slightly more than pounds
and that of boys ~ pounds. The av
erage baby will weigh twice as much
at the fifth or sixth month as at birth,
and three times as much at the end Of
the first year. At eighteen months
girls will weigh about % pounds and
boys "a; at two years boys will weigh
q pounds and girls % pounds. The
increase in weight thereafter will be
slower. The normal gain of healthy
child, according to Doctor Holt, is
about 16 pounds during the second
year, about during the third, and
about the fourth, girls remaining
about 1 pound lighter than boys ali
the way along.
( A baby begins to laugh aloud at some
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27

clemency, and heard Frank Lowery,
the prison worker, appeal for her hus-
band. "Of all the cases l have become
interested ill.," said LOwery, none has
appealed to me more than this case.
1t was not premeditated murder. This
man has lived long years in sorrow and
penance, and he wants to go back to
his wife and child to help make what
ever reparation he can for his mis-
take"
'And / haven't seen papa since l was
a little baby. I don't remember just
when or how he went away, spoke
up the child.
Governor Whitman saw there were
no objections to the application Low
cry presented, and Immediately par
doned Mcnamara. Mrs. Mcnamara
became ilysterical. Mother and daugh-
ter had to be led out of the room.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27
MURDERER FREED
BY PLEA OF CHILD
Governor Pardons Frank McNa-
mara After Hearing His
Daughters Story.

Albany.-Governor Whitman did not
need much more than the statement of
a fifteen-year-old girl, who said she
was ''in the cradle when papa went
away" to pardon Frank Mcnamara,
who is serving his thirteenth year in
Sing Sing prison. Mcnamara was con-
victed Of murder in Kings county in
1904 and sent to prison for a minimum
term of twenty years or the maximum
of life.
Mrs. Mcnamara, accompanied by her
daughter, stood before the governor at
his public hearing on application for
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27

out the hot sun. The chairs, tables,
beds, shelves, bookcases and all other
necessary articles of furniture should
be small and low, so that the children
may find them comfortable and con-
venient. The continual effort to use
tables and chairs which are too high,
to get things that are out of reach,
and to be under the necessity of trying
to adapt the strength, size and skill of
children to the furniture of grown per-
sons results in no little irritation,
some of which might be easily re-
lieved. The washbowl in the bathroom
is usually too high for child to use
without getting his sleeves and the
front of his clothing wet. A stool or
hassock, or even a low box on which
he may stand, will save much trouble.
After the baby's high chair has been
discarded the child should be provided
with a dining chair which is high
enough to bring his elbows about on
level with the top of the table, and he
should have stool or a footrest. An
ordinary kitchen table or common sew
ing table with the legs sawed off about
half way will afford untold comfort to
the children at their work or play. 1t
should be painted white and should
rest firmly on the floor. Low chairs
should also be provided. These may
be pine kitchen chairs with the legs
sawed off. Added to this, there should
be some shelves with drawers where
work and playthings can be kept with
in easy reach. Such an equipment as
this, in sunny, cheerful room, with
plenty Of fresh air, and warmed in
winter to 6S degrees, will provide an
amount of happiness to the child quite
out of all proportion to the cost.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27

Representative Charles Mconge Of Mune during
sufragsts
member
househad become
suffrage but he
when cowed the Indianapolis
Finally one day. delegation of uragsts swooped him be-
could
breath before
uny him "Wen
give seat in a street of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27
Something Wrong with Child Who
Does Not Come Up to Standard


time between the third and fifth
month; he begins to reach for his toys
from the fifth to the seventh month |:
and at the seventh or eighth month he
is usually able to sit alone and hold up
his body. At the end of tbs first year
he will stand up by chairs, and by
about the sixteenth month he can usu-
ally walk alone.
At the end of the first year the baby
will be saying a number of words, and
at the end of the second year the aver
age child is putting them together in
short sentences. If a child is making
no attempt to talk at this time it may
be that something is wrong.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27
Chicken eizzard Held Diamond.

Grown Point, Ind.-A valuable dia-
mond, which she had lost some time
previously and had given up hope of
finding, was discovered by Mrs. Henry
Schafer of Lake county, Ind, in the
gizzard of chicken she was dressing.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27

and cured me Of this nervous con-
dition. Since that time have always
taken the 'Favorite Prescription and
it has always been such help to me
in keeping me well and strong, and my
babies were all fine and healthy. ]
consider the Prescription one Of the
best things woman can take."-MRSs
DAVID DUBRY, 2228 e. Lake St
Liquid or tablets. All druggists.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27
Do You Neglect
Your MACHINERY?

The machinery of the body needs to
be well oiled, kept in good condition
just as the automobile, steam engine or
bicycle. Why should the human neglect
his own machinery more than that Of
his horse or his engine? Yet most peo-
pie do neglect themselves. To clean
the system at least once week is to
practice preventive measures. You will
escape many ills and clear up the coat
ed tongue, the sallow complexion, the
dull headache, the lazy liver, If you will
take a pleasant laxative made up Of
the May-apple, jufee of the leaves Of
aloes, root Of jalap, and called Pleasant
Pellets. You can obtain at almost any
drug store in this country these vege-
table pellets in Walls for 25c-simply
ask for DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
There can be no counterfeit If they
have the DR.. Pierce stamp. Proven
good by 80 years use.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27
schooI lad committed suicide

Haledon, N. Raymond Canove,
aged twelve years, committed suicide
in his home here, rather than submit to
the command Of his stepfather that be
assist his mother by washing dishes
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27

Happy hearts and happy faces.
Happy play in grassy places.
That is how in ancient ages
Children grew to kings and sages.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27
MADE TO KNEEL AND KISS
FLAG HE HAD CURSED

} Kansas City, Mo.-William
Powell and Eddie Smith, ne
} groes, were in police court one
day recently,
} II had an American flag out
, in front of my house." said
} Powell. "This fellow came along
, and started cussing it; then we
had a fight"
, LAY the flag on the floor" or
dered the court. Powell laid it
, down.
''Now," said Judge Herman to
} Smith, "you get down on your
knees and kiss that flag, and do
} it quick"
Smith Obeyed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Birth Of Twins Restores Mothers sioht

Burlington, Kan.-Two weeks Of
blindness was ended for Mrs. McCul-
Tough, when she gave birth to twins
A few hours after the babes were born
she awoke from sleep and was able to
see faint light. Since that her sight
has gradually returned.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27

One of the best of slogans for moth.
ers is Keep the Baby Well"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27

There is something wrong with the
small boy who isn't the victim Of a
chronic case of hunger.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-04-27
HIS DIRE THREAT.

Copyright, by International Press B,
The Washington herald., 1917-11-14
Not Lonesome.

A college graduate was walking
down the street one evening with a
friens of Irish descenE and. pausing
The Washington herald., 1917-11-14
IERRY Wit OF THE HERALD,S CARTOONISTS

!. -. -
The Washington herald., 1917-11-14

to look up at the starry sky, re-
marked with enthusiasm:
How bright Orion is tonightm
SO that is Organ, is itr' replied
Pat We'll. thank the Lord, there's
one Irishman in heaven. anyhow
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-07-08
KEEP CLOSE WATCH
ON TREES IN JULY

July il the month when most Of
ones attention should be given TO
trees by spraying for insects and wa
terlng and cultivating, says bulle-
tin from the American Foresty asso-
citation. Of Washington, D. c.
Spray fruit trees with Bordo-lead.
spray elms for elm leaf bottle with
arsenate Of lead, one pound to ten
Eallona OF water.
Spray tuseock moth and other leaf
eating insects with arseuate of lead
one pound to ten gallons OF water.
Examine the under side OF beech
trees. and II woody aphis is present.
spray with whale oil soap, one pound
10 ten gallons Of water.
Examine evergreens, especially
PROSTATE jumpers. box, yew, etc. for
rcd spider. and II necessary spray
with whale oil soap, one pound TO
ten gallons of water.
Examine sycamore trees for syCa-
more blight which produces a white
woody mass on the under side of the
leaves ana causes them to curl and
wis. II this disease is present sprav
with Bordeaux mixture, one pound to
eight gallons of water.
Examine the peach trees for leaf
curl. and watch all the other trees
for some insect iufestation, because
this 1s n month when fine insects most
commonly appear. II Won discover
something new TO you write to the
4 rT1urtran Forestry association IN
Washington.
Trim shrubs after towering DO
nor destroy the natural. dropping Of
fccts az the shrubs but conflne yonr-
self principally 10 dead and old wood
and superfunus branches
The conservation branch Of the
American Forestry association IS CO.
operating with the national nnanr--
eprcy food garden commission in IT'S
nationwide food conservation cam
paign. and Will send free to any read
or Of this paper manuals on canning
ana on drying vegetables and fruits
for two-cert stamp 20 pay post
age.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-07-08
McGUIRE'S UNIVERSITY SCHOOL

Opposite Richmond. Va
49,
IN school
In department
is School
for
Polytechnic
Degrees Medical
College. L.
Three Columbia Three
grees. y. T.
Academy Two Graduates; Hopkins University
Harvard
Princeton
Princeton
Pennsylvania Degree. University
Monmouth College, III,
N r.. Degree Pennsylvania
Arkanse College. Degree: Richmond
Hundred in ten
Mcclure making his
1
Tie Boys
This department of the school
college
This
81 pr3ncipaI.
q Mcn az Hunters Book Bells
Principal at 1911 Grove Telephone Madison
JOHN p. MCGUIRE.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-07-08

mentum at a distance OF eight miles
equal TO the colliding force OF a mod
ern express train running at TOP
speed.
Yet this shell must have nose
40 hard and so perfect that, although
the entire force Of the impact is upon
rs narrow point when II strikes the
armor plate IL viii pierce the plate
without being deformed itself"