The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-05-17

1t is to be sincerely hoped that the proposition to build a first class high
vav from Bottineau to Lake Metiposbe will become q reality. Such a road
would mean a great deal to the people of the Turtle Mountains, the city of
Bothneau and the travelling public generally. Its commercial value can
moblists to and from the lake is merely al incident. The important factor
would be the establishment of a frstclass highway over which heavy loads
mean a saving in actual time and money on every load hauled ver this
much-traveed thoroughfare for all time to come. The building of a good
for this end of the county. With cooperation between the townships af-
fected, the city and the county it is a comparatively small undertaking: Let
Vi all put ~ shoulders to the wheel and realize this dream of years.
When Attorney General LANCER took possession of the telephone exchange
in Minot during the vice raids in that city last week, he robbed the under
world of its most valuable ally. It is a well known fact that the under
world makes use If the telephone to pass a warning whenever the authorities
start a crusade, and al a result these so-caIed raids come to practically
naught. Whether Or not the attorney general has committed a technical
crime will remain for the courts to determine. Certain it is that the good
respectable citizenship of Minot should support him in his effort to clean up
their city, which has become notorious oe the entire northwest for :icen-
tousness and crime. There should be n mistaking the affiliations of those
who arep prosecuting LANCER for embracing the Jesuitic expedient.
Owing to the many extraordinary expenses incident to the a condi-
lions, there is some disposition to abandon, temporarily at least, the fnan-
cial support of the Bottneau Military Band which has been given by the
citizens during the past several years. While the point seems to be well
taken, it would be regretable to have this excellent organization disband
at the present time. During the next two n three months the band will be
in greater demand than the entire balance of the year. The absolute lack
bic. Some arrangements should be made whereby the band will remain or
ganzed and open for engagements, at least until after the county fair.
Bismarck Palladium: A two hundred per cent increase in the price Of
penalty o. patriotism. The government should do something to flag manu-
facturers-or start a factory of its own-so that people who desire to "show
their colors" can do so without denying their family bread.
The numerous prize fighters who ire putting On exhibitions about the
country should be drafted for military service without further ado. Those
who make fighting a profession could hardly offer a valid excuse, even
though the ringside seats might lot sell at SO attractive a figure.
Darlington Record: The Bismarck Tribune has discovered that Townley
at me time registered with the assessor as a socialist Some time it is. 60
ing to perculate through the head OF the editor of the Tribune that julius
Caesar is dead.
Even the grain gamblers are proposing to "o their Bit by refraining
from dealing il. wheat futures. + this is 9 mark Of patriotism. why not
make it permanent?