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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22
MAINTENANCE OF HIGHWAYS

The present year promises to be
the greatest in the history of the
movement for the improvement of pub
lie roads throughout the United States.
North Dakota will share substantially
in this movement, and 1917 promises
to be one of the states most active
good roads years. With this informa-
ton it is happy to reflect that the
days of haphazard road construction
and maintenance are passing. Exper-
fence has been the teacher.
Too much stress cannot be laid upon
the Importance of maintenance in con
nection with the work of improving
the roads. Provision that does not in
clude proper maintenance after a road
has once been carefully put in shape
is worse than useless. 1t requires, of
course, considerable annual outlay,
but this outlay is infinitely less than
the loss which must fall upon the peo-
pie eventually if roads are allowed to
go to utter ruin. Continuous, sys-
tematic maintenance-in these three
words lies the secret of good roads,
which brings a happy, contented peo-
pie, and an efficient, prosperous neigh
borhood.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22
THE BOY WHO DIDN'T PASS

HE BOY WIN OIDN FAoo
A sad-faced fellow sits alone in deep
disgrace,
There's lump arising in his throat
and tears stream down his face;
He wanders from his playmates, for
he doesn't want to hear
Their shouts of merry laughter since
the world has lost it's cheer.
He has slipped the cup of sorrow, he
has drained the bitter glass,
And his heart is fairly breaking, he's
the boy who didn't pass.
In the apple tree the robin sings a
CHEEKY little song;
But he doesn't seem to hear it, show
ing plainly something's wrong;
Comes his faithful little spaniel for a
romp and bit of play,
But the troubled little fellow sternly
bids him go away
And alone he sits in sorrow, with his
hair a tangled mass,
And his eyes are red with weeping;
he's the boy who didn't pass.
Oh, you who baost laughing son and
speak of him as bright,
And you who love a little girl who
comes to you at night
With smiling eyes and dancing feet,
with honors from her school,
Turn to that lonely boy who thinks
he is fool,
And take him kindly by the hand, the
dullest in the class: e.
He is the one who most needs love-
the boy who didn't pass.
Michigan Christian Advocate.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22
BOARD WILL NOT
INCREASE VALUES

Bismarck, March Is. - Goversnor
Frazier today intimated that as a re-
suit of an agreement of the board of
Equalization not to increase the as
sessed valuation of the state when 1t
organizes July 1, ali appropriations for
new buildings will be vetoed. This
will include the Dickinson normal
school
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

izations probably think they have a
chance to win by striking. We believe
they have taken an opportune time to
lose whatever sympathy the public
held for the railroad employees. With
the country facing war the man or
men who inaugurate a movement to
tie ND the transportation facilities are
doomed to failure because it will not
be tolerated.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22
THE BOY WHO CAN DREAM

1t is a good thing for the farmer
boy to. have an imagination. 1t is
a good thing for him to dream
dreams and see visions" 1t takes
dreamer to see the transformation
that intelligent effort will bring to
pass on the old place. 1t takes a.
dreamer to see how much more de-
sirable that place will be in 10 years
than JOB in a dry goods store.
1t is the boy who dreams who sees
a field of thrifty alfalfa where that
stunted patch of wheat grew last
year on the lower forty, made sterile
by single-croppage. It is the boy who
dreams who sees these lean scrub
cows replaced by a herd of dairy ma
irons that tax the milk cans at every
milking. It is the boy who dreams
who sees cultivated crop where the
buck-brush, wild oats or quack grass
now holds sway; who sees woven
wire fence in place of the tumbled-
down makeshift that tempts, because
it never repels, the live stock CON
stantly breaking through it; and new
farm buildings in place of those now
falling to pieces.
We need the boy dreamer. He is
the progenitor of things to be" in
the affairs Of tomorrow" On. his
shoulders will fall the burden OF
tasks laid down by us today. His is
the tender plant which should be
diligently watered by encourage
ment rather than wilted by ridi
cule. 1t is all a very wonderful worlt
for the boy, and his dynamic enthu
siasm should never suffer decadence
through harassing attitude of repre-s
sion by his elders.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

Bismarck Tribune: State Superin-
tendent of Public instruction and Mrs.
N. G. Macdonald have taken the Pat
terson suite of rooms in the North
west hotel and will shortly take up
their residence there. Superintendent
and Mrs. Macdonald have been guests
at the Grand Pacific hotel since COM
ing to the city the first of the year.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22
SUNDAY BALL BILL SIGNED

Bismarck, March Is. Governor
Frazier today signed S. B. 1877, legal
izing Sunday baseball in North Dako
ia. Games must be played certain
distance from places of worship and
no admission fee can be charged. Or
ganized baseball is prohibited on Sun
dSy.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

In an editorial recently the Times.
Record quoted the price of coke $40.
That is the price in Milwaukee where
most of it is handled. The freight is
81 per ton in addition, and makes a
material difference to those industries
which use it in large quantities.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

Courtenay Gazette: DR.. Livingstone
came up from Valley City Saturday
and spent the day with old friends and
Itransacting business. The doctor is
kept very busy in his new location and
is we'll pleased.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

Along with other commodities coke
has jumped to $40 per ton. Pretty
soon every means of roasting senators
will be too expensive.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

O. p. Emerson is back from Pasa-
dena, Cal, after spending an enjoy
able time there for several months.
Mrs. Emerson will remain a while long
er before returning. ---
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

People who are complaining of how
little dollar buys at the present time
might try exchanging it for Mexican
or other foreign money.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

Minnesota has her Senator Won
Clapp, Wisconsin has Dinkelspiel La
Toilette, while North Dakota has only
Herr GrOnna
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

The prospects for general strike
by railroad employees set for Saturday
night is not good news, to say the
least. With milling centers clamoring
for cars and a general congested traf-
tie at all terminals the labor organ:
M
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

Work has actually started on the
new st. Paul union depot, which
should encourage peace advocates;
even that hoped for event may come
vet
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

President Wilson's instruction of
merchant vessels might be adapted
from the famous order of Admiral
Dewey: "You may fire when you are
ready, Gridley."
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

A guy who shutters has always got
a chance to think twice before he
speaks.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

Governor Frazier has signed the
guaranty deposit bill, and the large de-
posits carried by the newspaper men
will be safe.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22
FRAZIER SIGNS HIGHWAY BILL

FRAZIER SIGNS HIGHWAY BILL
Bismarck. March Is. - Governor
Frazier today signed House Bill 228,
appropriating $4,000 for the building
of state highways to meet the provis-
ions of the federal road act.
Senate Bill 314, providing for state
grain grading commission, was also
signed. az. :a.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

We hear so much about common
sense and hardly ever mention Of un-
common sense.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

Our forecast for the remainder of
March is that it ought to be an out.
cast.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

If the United States should buy Ire
land another color would have to be
added to the flag.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

Germany must be getting into that
state described by Grover Cleveland
as "innocuous desuetude" to have
China declare war against the Kais-
erial government.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

About the most chagrined man in
the world would be an American gum
ner taking a shot at submarine and
missing it.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

makes it appear that our greatest
Folly lives in Wisconsin.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22
WHY DO TENANT FARMERS MOVE

The fall or winter months, as is u.s.
ually the case, mark the sale of much
farm property in the rural communl.
ties of the state and the moving OF
farmers from one farm to another.
This frequency of moving, or instabil.
ity of occupancy, very likely is one of
the chief causes for decline of rural
prosperity, Or is hindrance to great
er progress. Frequency of removal OF
farmers is one of the greater causes
why the roads and bridges generally
are in a poor condition, because the
farmers, moving at frequent intervals,
are not particularly interested in their
upkeep. Farm buildings of such farms
are not usually kept in good repair, as
the man who is about to move will
leave the repairs for the next tenant
to make. The same reasons will apply
for lack of interest by the unstable
farmer in the schools, churches, and
general welfare of the community.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

What little change there is in mems
clothes this spring will hardly pay the
wives for searching their pockets.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

The LaMoure Echo is receiving
many plimentary notices for hav-
ing the best appreciation week paper.
To our notion the best part of all is
that the Man Behind modestly gave
most of the credit to the force and
eliminated himself "a rather Lowe
trick
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

Circuses are going to travel by mo-
tor truck, and gone is the joy of get
ting up before daylight to watch 'em
unload.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

It was left for the expedition into
Mexico to put the pun in punitive.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

"Pigs is Pigs" the author wrote,
And sixteen dollars means shoat.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22
OH, SUCH FUN

On, you little periscope,
All it needs is plenty rope;
With every merchant ship a gun,
Clear the decks and watch the fun.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

Courtenay Gazette: Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. Isensee, of Valley City, spent Sat-
urday and Sunday in. Courtenay.
George is in the land business in Val
ley City, and reports that inquiries for
land from outside parties are coming
to his desk and prospects are bright
for good business.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22
FOR THE FAIR SEX

FOR THE FAIR SEX
Tears and nerve together
Form a combination grand;
Just little drops of water,
And little grains of sand.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22
. w. W. AND OUR GUM

". W. AND OUR GUM
In case of war with Mexico
We'd get no chicle,
And that would put us, as you know,
In quite pickle.
For chicle is the base of gum,
The kind for chewing,
And that is why we all feel glum
With trouble brewing.
Smooth out your visage, wrinkle6
Mars,
Put up your sickle.
We would not mix up in your wars,
We need our chicle.
-Pittsburg Post.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22

The above notice was sent to this
paper from one of DR.. Sims parish
toner's. 1t will be remembered by ear
ly settlers that Dr. Sims held pas
torate here in early days.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22
THE MAN WHO WINS

The man who wins is the man who
works.
The man who tolls while the next man
shirks;
The man who stands i'll his deep dis
tress
With his head held high in the deadly
Yes, he is the man who wins.
The man who wins is the man who
knows
The value of pain and the worth of
woes,
Who lesson learns from the man who
fails
And a moral finds in his mournful
walls;
Yes, he is the man who wins.
Tie man who wins is the man who
stays
In the unsodght paths and the rocky
ways,
And, perhaps, who fingers, now and
then,
To help some failure to raise again.
All, he is the man who wins.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-22
MRS. THOMAS SIMS DEAD

Mrs. Melissa Sims, wife of the Rev.
DR.. Thomas Sims, of the Melrose,
Mass, congregational church, died
March II at her home, 119 West Eos
ter street, after being sick one week
with pneumonia. She was IS years
old and was born in Ontario, Can. She
and Mr. Sims were married Al years
ago.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1917-06-28

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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
A OFFICIALLY
ELLER'S TOO SMART
Thompson Appointee in Chi
cago Refuses to Serve on
Board, Tells Just Why

CHICAGO, July u Morris ElIeH'
city seaIer. republican boss OF the
twentieth Ward and a Thompson ap-
pointee. has refused 10 serve on the
exemption board. TO which he was
appointed. When asked by secretary
Raker 10 act temporarily he ilatiN
refused Here is his explanation;
WI are just as smart as those
people in Washington. once you
anaiify. they have You by the neck
ana you have to serve On the board
/ won't do that. ! have gtNen them
notice that won't serve. and th1'
ends II as far as l am concerned. We
Chfcagoans are just as smart as
those people. don't forget that They
appointed me without my consent
and they have no right To PM me on
the board.
Il am too busy 10 monkeS with
draft / notified them and il my
action ties up things that is not my
fault"
DIT. FRANK A Siahl a member ap-
pointed with Eller. refuses to serve
FOR conscientious reasons
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
CoONS ATTACK CHILDREN;
GIRL BITTEN so TIMES
animals. Probably Furious With
Hunger Appear Dobbs EerrS
Killed With six shots.

NEW YORK, July 1.-two rae
Ieoons attacked a group of children at
Dobbs Ferry last night and injured
one girl dangerously.
The children We're playing on the
old Grafton aqueduct where it passes
through the property of Edwin Gould
when the animals came along.
Screaming, the young ok ran toward
Cedar Street. The 'coons caught Rosa
GTande, eight years Did. and pulled
her TO the ground.
They hit her with a fury probably
born Of intense hunger. Her clothes
were torn into shreds. Elliott Bray
and Vincent Costello ran up. h rae
coons showed fight. Bray and Co.'S
tello got large sticks and beat the
snarling beasts away from the child,
but the kept fighting until
Patrolman Edward Say arrived and
killed them with six shots.
DR.. Robert Dennison counted thirty
wounds on the Grande child.
AS a usual thing. a coon Will not
fight until attacked. when ne puts up
a desperate defense.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
TROOPS FURNISHED. Is ANSWER
BcS4 Reply TO Charge Regarding Use
of soldiers. SAYS Lister.

AhFHd ha3hN w -
OF soldiers. SAYS Lister
OLYMPIA July i=-The follow
ing statement was issued last might
from the office Of Governor Lister;
The best answer To the telegraph
ic dispatch from Washington. D. g.
published in a newspaper. 10 the et-
fect that no federal rroop OF federal
authority would be used in our state
unless Governor Lister represents to
the federal government that all the
forces Of the state are powerless Ia
handle the situation and restore or
der. can be made by calling atten-
ton to the fact that before the dis
patch had been published h troops
requested by the governor and h
state council OF defense a been
furnished and were located Al differ
ent points in the state. This condi-
ton also nswe the ~purported in
terview with the adjutan general of
the western department United
States army. San Francisco. in which
he was made O say that troops would
not be furnished"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

of the sheriff at Miles City caused
the arrest of Al Truscott, a deputy
sheriff in that town. Custer county
authorities sent the federal auhori-
ties here a letter regarding a man
who had not registered. T~ruscotts
name followed the name OF this de-
PENDANT as the deputy who made the
arrest. but no comma coming between
the two names local authorities
thought the two names one and is
sued a warrant for Truscott's arrest.
He was dismissed today.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eu-
gene. July l1.-Twenty thousand pic
ture cards, bearing an engraving OF
the proposed Women's Memorial
building at the University of Oregon
represent the latest effort to augment
the fund. which has more than dou-
bled in a year and now exceeds SIS
600. The cards, printed by the Uni
versity Press. are to be sold at the
rate Of 10 for IS cents The building.
when erected, is to house the wom-
ems gymnasium and the household
arts courses and will provide a social
enter for the University.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eu-
gene, July ll,-Oregon boys and
others in the naval reserve at he
puget sound naval station are receiv-
ing a good bit of their reading matter
from the University Of oregon. Be-
tween 500 and 500 pounds Of popular
magazines were sent a few days ago
to the boys at Bremerton by Librarian
NJ. H. Douglas. What the boys par
ticularly want are magazines with
stories not pertaining particularly to
war
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
TURN CITY GARBAGE
INTO PORK PLEA MADE
Will Save City People Big Sum
Annually and Add to Lo-
cal Food Supply.

WASHINGTON, July 1l.-Use Of
city garbage for feeding hogs viii add
materially TO pork production and
also substitute a more economical
garbage disposal system for the
wasteful practice Of burying or burn
ing city waste. according to the
United States department of agricul-
ture. To make city waste most avail
able for feeding to pigs, every house
hold must be required and trained TO
separate its household waste careful
" so that dangerous material like
broken glass or bits of metal, burnt
matches and wood and other inedible
material will not be mixed with food
scraps. vegetable parings, n bones
useful for feeding. cities should en-
force existing ordinances requiring
every household to separate wastes
carefully and to put all feeding ma
teriaI in one container and all med
ible trash into the ash receiver.
Utilization of garbage for feeding
animals will save h people in the
cities an important sum of money
annually and contribute materially
to the local food supply.
Dwellers in small towns and even
in the suburbs and on the outskirts OF
h large cities. in many instances
also could help meat production.
Many vacant lots provide a suitable
site for a hog pen which will annoy
no one and some OF these lots are
large enough o grow green feed 10
aid in fattening pigs. While the az
erage family will not have enough
garbage to fatten a pig. several fam
lies who jointly build a pen and
purchase one or two pigs can fatten
them comparatively at little or no adj
ditional expense.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

cations. She enjoys shopping. ans.
takes great trouble 70 obtain the par
ticuIar presents which she sets her
heart on. For instance. she once
asked in "a London shop for a small
hard broom. They had not one.
I want a nice little hard room
for my brother TO sweep garden
paths with said the princess.
Since the war Princess Mary has
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

PLANT an onion every time YOU
pun up a flower" is one of the mot
toes Mrs. Frank a. Vanderlip is car
rying out today on the beautiful
Vanderhp estate in scarborough, as
a simple and effective war measure
for the production Of food.
Hundreds IF acres around the
home were early this spring planted
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
Princess MARY SHOPPING.


Princess Mary likes an o%pen-air
life. and has been often seen riding
with the king during his majesty's
early morning rides. both in London
and at Windsor. She made her de-
but in the hunting field when n
was only eleven. attending a meet Of
the West Norfolk Foxhounds on her
chestnut cob.
AS the only daughter in a family
with five boys. the princess has
shared her brothers games and rec
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14
LACK OF COMMA CAUSES ARREST
Negligent Sheriffs Clerk Cause
Trouble FOR Deputy.

HELENA. JukF 12.-The omissIon
of a comma by n clerk in h office
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

RUSSIAN WOMEN TROOPS
PARADE IN -PETROGRAD

PETRoGRAD. July H.
With Cossacks and sailors as "A
} guard of honor. the first detach-
e Of the Petrograd women's
, regiment assembled today in the
, Square OF 81. Isaac's Cathedral.
} where a priest blessed their reg
mental colcss. Armed with
, rifles and with their hair close
, ~ cropped. the more than eco
, ONE presented a truly SOL
, dier-like appearance.
After the they pa
, raded the Nevsky Prospekt and
, other streets with banners in
, scribed, Death IS better than
, shame and Women. do not
, give your hands TO traitors
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

All business to be successful must
every method is essential. It's an age
With your support the local meat
possible for them to erect modern abb
may come to you clean, wholesome an
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

TO potatoes. and Mrs. Vanderhp has
given the whole scheme her personal
attention and cooperation.
Not only has she superintendent
this work herself but she arranged
to have land nearby plowed up and
planted with vegetables and cared
for by the ~suffragists from the city
who are anxious to show their pa
tiotism and do their bit in this way.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

made a quantity Of things for sale
and distribution on behalf of war
funds.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

French is a good e more of an
international language than it was
three years ago and German is con-
siderably less.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

Men with weighty opinions are will
ling that anybody should weigh them.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-14

When there is an office for each
the millennium will be in sight