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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-07-26
FARM LOANS

board as hereafter described. Said trans
portation shall be furnished in ac-
cordance with rules and regulations es-
tablished by the board and now on file
with the clerk Of said district, at the
bids will be received up until 2, o'clock
p. M, Wednesday,, August I, at which
time all bids will be opened at said bank
and contracts let to the lowest respon-
sible bidder.
Each bid must be accompanied with a
certified check for s25 to guarantee it's
fulf1llment in case a contract is awarded.
All bids will be subject to rejection by
the Board
Route No. I.
Starting at the home of L. ]. Renicker,
thence west to the p. H. Ray farm
thence north miles, thence west to the
home of D. E. Bennell, thence east and
north past the homes of F. S. Woodi-
wiss and J. w. Smith to the school
house, taking in all children along said
route.
Route No. 2.
Starting at the home of Alfred Chran-
strom thence north to the home of l.. B.
Yoder, thence west one and one-half
miles, thence north to Surrey school.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-07-26
AROUND THE STATE

j. B. Eaton bought the old Bruner
ranch, about ten miles south of Town
err, from c. M. Denny. The considera-
ton is given as $25,750.
A. c. Dayton of Glenburn says dur
ing the 43 years of his existence he
never had time to attend real live
circus until recently when he went to
Minot.
Two newspapers published in Ger
man in North Dakota are under inves-
tigation by the government for alleg
ed seditious utterances.
The Marmarth Mail man AYERS that
crazy people never get together. There
must be an awful bunch of "nutts"
running loose, both here and there
aboutS.
The re-enactment of Clusters mas
sacre featured an Indian day celebra-
ton at Devils Lake last week. More
than fifty Indian warriors and 100
members of G company of the state
national guard took part in the af-
fair.
At meeting of the stockholders of
the Glendale equity union held at the
farmers room of the court house, the
financial statement for the fiscal year
was read, showing a profit of about
$500.
Little Mac suggests that house
wives can all the can and dry what
they can't can. Why not eat what we
can and what we can't eat can, or as
the Englishman desired. "put 'em up
in bloody bloomin' tins"
Someone entered the store of J. D.
Soper at Iona during Saturday night
and succeeded in making clean get
away with something like $500 in cur
rency. 1t is understood that 500 of
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-07-26
Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent

Warner, thence north to the home of H.
f. Kunkel. thence north and west to the
north to school house, taking in all chill
dren along said route.
Route No. 2.
-, Starting at the home of Fred sorg,
thence east to the home of Mr.: Fuller,
thence east to the school house, TAX
ing in all the children along said route.
1t IS further understood that in case
Increased in miles that the amounts of
me bids will be reduced or increased pro
port1onately as the amount of the bids
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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-07-26

FOR SALE-60 shares of Nc
Coy Department Store stock
growing better every year-best
OF reason for selling. Will sell
at discount. Address 273 or
Phone 23S Blue. Minot, N. D.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-07-26

FARMERS AS BANKERS
FARM LOANS AND CITY LOANS
5 per cent paid on Savings Accounts.
6 per cent paid on Time Certificates.
Checking Accounts. Insurance.
Open Saturday Evenings
The Savings Loan and Trust Co.
The Minot Farmers Central Bank.
Sons of Norway Bldg, Minot. NJ D..
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-07-26

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF
PARTNERSHIP
Notice is hereby given that the Co
partnership Of Carroll & Peterson is dis
solved by mutual agreement and in the
future the business known as the TROY
LAUNDRY and DRY CLEANERS will
be conducted by William J. Carroll All
bills and accounts receivable Of date
July 1st 1917, and since that date
to be paid by Mr.. Carroll Those prior
Der Of Of the former Arm.
WILLIAM J. CARROLL,
CARL A. PETERSON.
Of July, 1917.
Notary Public Ward
County, North Dakota.
(SeaD NY Commission expires
March 30th, 1920.
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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-07-26
NOTICE FOE BIDS,

NOTICE FOR BIDS.
Notice is hereby given according to
law, that the School Board of Surrey
School District No. Al, County Of Ward,
will receive sealed bids for conveying
pupils over routes established by the
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-07-26
The Aeolian-Vocalio

A greater phonograph. The first
phonograph to mirror perfectly all th e
tones of voices and instruments. The
new musical instrument that you can
play by means Of the graduola device.
Clearer, sweeter, purer and volume un.
equaled. 1t is pleasure to show it
and to listen to the Aeoliaa.
Prices: Mahogany finish, as fine as
any piano
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-03

must have a protective tariff, or such conditions as have existed for the last wear or so on account of the war, to make it pay we'll The agricultural authorities are trying to get the plant CTS to engage in diversified farming, but the movement in that direction has been retarded by the high prices of sugar. and a greater acreage has been put out this year than in the past.
 Riding through Louisiana. you can see them everywhere cultivating the crop Sugar cane, you know. belongs to the same family al Indian corn, anu a canefieId looks just like cornfield until it begins to get ripe. The cane is planted in furrows, about seven feet apart, which run from one side of the field to the other. The seed is pieces of green cane which are laid in the furrows. so that they form long pipe of cane reaching from one end of .he row to the other, Each little piece of cane has a bud. or eye, al every joint and. when covered with earth, these tuds sprout and make their way through the soil As they come through they look like corn which has been planted with the drill.
 The can grows rapidly. By August it is as tall as man, and along about the middle of october 1t is about twice as high as the average cornstalk and IS ready for cutting. It is now chopped off close to the ground, and carried on wagons or on the cars of the planta- tion railroads to the mills. Almost every plantation has it's own mill and it is in these mills that the juice is squeezed out and boiled down into what Is known as the raw sugar of commerce. This is the sugar that is used in the great refineries, which put 1t through the various machines and treatments that transform it to the granulated sugar, powdered sugar and white Jumps used on our tables.
 We shall now take walk through the refinery at Chalmette and see how such sugar is made I warn you at the start that the trip may be a Sabbath days journey, and that you will have to walk miles before you come out It will pay you to go. however, for this refinery represents the highest type of cost efficiency work in the great indus tries of today. It is an example of what the country will have to do in mobilizing our industries and of what we must have if we would make Uncle Sam independent in peace and in war
 As we go through the factory you will see how each item is taken into ac- count. Everything possible is done by machinery. There are comparatively few men employed, and the savings are shaved to the thousandths of cent. The vapor that arises from the sugar is distilled that no molasses may be lost in the fumes. The steam is worked over and over again, and gravity car
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-03

Chalmette, La.
 57 HAVE come here to give you peep
 into Uncle Sam's sugar bowl. It is
 full enough now, though the prices
 are kissing the skies. It will be different if the war is prolonged, and we may yet have our sweetening doled out by the nation at so much per head Sugar is vitally connected with all work that requires great endurance. Germany thought otherwise During the first year of the war she cut down her beet acreage to give more room for ce- reals and potatoes, but the need for sugar was shown to be such that she changed her policy at the next plant ing time. It has been found that the soldiers in the trenches require much more sugar than they do at home. and from this standpoint, the American army will consume more per capital than any other body of soldiers on earth.
 The largest sugar refinery in the world is located here at Chalmette. It stands on the Mississippi river, near New Orleans, and almost on the site where Gen.. Andrew Jackson and his troop of backwoodsmen from Tennessee and Kentucky defeated three times as many British, Under General Pakenham, in the war of 1872 1 saw three great steamers filled with raw sugar from Porto Rico and Cuba at anchor on al- most the very spot where the British gunboats were stationed during that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-03

ries the raw sugar from process to process. It is first lifted by machinery to the top of the building, and when it comes to the bottom 1t is almost pure sugar. It is then carried again to the top and dropped by gravity through other processes, which, aided by steam and electricity. finally land it in the cars that carry it all over the union.
 Nothing Is done by guesswork The sugar is sampled when it comes from the steamer, and half dozen different chemists analyze every lot to see just how much pure sweetness t contains. As 1t goes on through the processes the sugar and sirup are tested again and again, some of the work being so delicate that scales which will give you the exact weight of a single hair from babys eyebrow are used in fix ing the quantities They will weigh to the one thirty -thousandth of an ounce.
 We first go to the wharf and watch sugar from the holds of the steamers and drop them on the floor of the ware house Here they are weighed and sam ples of each lot are sent off to the chemists. Then the great bags are lifted, six at time, by the Telpher car, which operates on an overhead track and runs along like a trolley high up
  trolley connect with the storage com partments. The bags fly this way and that, high over our heads They go from one room to another and finally drop on the piles just where they are wanted
 Each bag weighs $50 pounds, and the six more than ton. Nevertheless, that ton flies through the air as fast as the little cash box on the wires of a de- parement store. The machine seems like a gigantic cash carrier, save that the basket is operated oy a man who sits in cage at the back and directs the car over the track by pressing a button or moving a lever
 We follow one of the loads. It goes into a great Wareroom in which a quar- ter of a million of these sugar bags have already been stored They piled up by the carrier as easily as though they were feathers. Nevertheless, they weigh millions of pounds and there is enough sugar in this room to give the whole United States a taffy-pulling. It covers the better part of an acre, and it is a solid mass of sugar bags, 70 feet high At the present prices. more than $5,000,- 000 worth of raw sugar is piled up on this floor.
 But sect The mammoth cash carrier has picked up six of the bags and is starting them on their way to the mill. It flies round the curving tracks over head, takes them into another room and drops them in front of a chute. Here they are again sampled. and the go m- ples go off to the chemical assayer. The bags are left right in front of two men, who stand in pits, so that they may not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-03

engagement, and from the roof of the
 refinery was shown where Jackson had
 thrown up his breastworks. behind which
 his soldiers lay and slaughtered the
 enemy.
 The refinery is a mighty sweetmeat
 castle, made of brick. stone and steel
 more impressive than any castle on the Rhine or the Danube. This castle rises to a height of IA stories above the muddy
 waters of the Mississippi. It is larger
 than any of the flour mills of Mime apolis, and it's smok estaks are two-thirds
 as high as the Washington monument. It has 90 acres of floor space, and these are filled with machinery that is now turning out enough sugar year to give 10 pounds to every man, woman and child in the United States and leave some to spare
 The factory belongs to the American Sugar Refining company, and it is one of five operated by that institution. The others are located at Brooklyn. Jersey City. Boston and Philadelphia They have altogether an output of something like S0000 carloads of sugar and syrup per annum, and, placed end to end, their product would form solid train of sugar filling a railroad track from New York to Cleveland. That train would contain almost one-third of the sugar used in tn United States.
 But before we go through the re- finery let me give you a few facts about Uncle Sams big sugar industry and its importance to us in this crit ical stage of our history Of all the sweet teeth in human jaws, Uncle Sam has the sweetest. We are now an nually consuming more than S6 pounds of sugar per head, more than 430 pounds for every family in the United States, or more than pound day
 the whole year through. In this we are
 surpassed only by England and Dem mark, which countries use vast deal of sugar in manufactures of one kind or another. We consume more than twice as much sugar per capita as the French or the Austrians. We eat eight times as much as the Belgians, and
 more than four times as much as either the Spaniards or Turks. Last year our total consumption was about 4000, 900 tons-so much. that if it were loaded upon two-horse wagons the train of teams needed to haul it would reach around the world. It was mora than one-fifth of all the sugar pro duced during that year.
 Over three -fourths of that great mass of sugar came from countries | outside the United States, and the bulk of it was from cane grown Tn | Hawaii and the Philippines, and on the | islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, which | sources may be cut off by the war. | If this is so, it is hard to say how high the price of sugar will go. As write this it is g cents pound, | and at that it costs every household
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-03
The Real Secret of
 Rejuvenating the Face

She holds the true secret of facial re- juvenation who has learned how to re- move the dead skin particles as fast as they appear. It's secret anyone may possess. The aged, faded or diScolored surface skin may be gradually absorb ed. in an entirely safe and rational man ner, hy the nightly application of ordin- ary mercolized wax. Within a week or two the underlying skin, youthful and beautiful to behold, has taken the place of the discarded cuticle. So little of the old skin is absorbed each day there's no inconvenience at all. and no one sus- poets you are putting anything on youl face. The mercolized wax, procura ble at any drug store Gan ounce is suffi- cient), is applied like cold cream. In the morning it is erased with soap and water. It's the best thing known for freckles, blackheads, pimples, moth patches, liver spots and fine surface wrinkles.
 For the deeper wrinkles and crows feet an excellent and harmless recipe is: Powdered saxolite, one ounce, dissolved in one-half pint witch hazel Bathing the. face in the solution produces quick and wonderful results. It is fine for saggy cheeks or chin.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-03

have to bend in opening them and empt- ing the sugar.
 The first process is cleaning the raw sugar As the sugar comes fin from the plantation mills each of the brown crys- tals has a slight coating of sirup. This $ washed off and the sirup is saved There Is also considerable dirt mixed with the crystals. so much, indeed, that 200 barrels of pure mud are taken out of the run of each day. All of this mud has been paid for as sugar 90 q at at the present prices 1t costs the company something like Si0c0 uay for pure mud alone.
 After the first washing. the sugar Is melted to a sirup. and this sirup Is also washed It is now yellow, and the color of a thick dark moiasses. It has 10 be filtered again and again, until it IS as white as the sugar sold in our stores. The Altering is done in great tanks lled with charred bones, ground so that they look like gunpowder. This stuff is known a bone black. Ii takes the coioring mat f- ter and other impurities out of the slrup and makes it as white a s alcohol when II comes from the still. Bone black is cost ly, but the refinery uses 900 pounds of through the filters it grows lighter and lighter until al the end it is as clear as the purest spring water
 The next process is turning the clear sirup back into sugar. and that into crystals of just the right size. It seems strange to figure on the size of grain of sugar, but the sirup has to be built up in such way that the grains will be uniform throughout This Is done by steaming and boiling, and measur- ing the grains by means of the polari- scope. It would require too much detail to give the whole process. but the result Is the pure white granules used on our tables. This sugar falls into great bins, each of which holds IA, ,000 barrels, or some millions of pounds. It is carried from there again to the top of the mill, and much of it passes through other processes, which reduce it to the kinds of sugar that the people demand and into the packages required by the trade.
 In making cut sugar, for instance-I mean the little square Jumps used for coffee and tea-the soft sugar is re- duced to slabs, about 14 inches long. 10 inches wide and an inch thick. The slabs are divided into squares and dropped upon racks on an endless belt which forms a river of concentrated sweetness as it moves continuously on. The racks are placed in the fun = mace, or oven, and when the sugar comes out 1t is as solid and hard as when sold Tn the stores.
 It is interesting to see them pack sugar. The plant has machines that l make paper boxes and fill them at the rate of a hundred minute, pasting | and marking each box, without the | touch of hand Other machines are l used for filling bags of all sizes,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-03
New Hair Remover
 Works Like Magic Positively Removes Roots and AID

No discovery of greater benefit to hair disfigured womankind has been made in recent years than the marvel ous phelaetine method. It is entirely unlike and much superior to electrical, actually removes the hair entire, roots and aII-before your very eyes-easily. instantly, harmlessly! Get stick of phelactine, follow the simple directions, and you will be astonished and delight ed-or the druggist will refund your money without question. It is odorless, non-irritating, and so harmless a child could safely eat it. It leaves the skin so soft. smooth, hairless. that not the least sign of your former trouble re- nains-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-03

in our country on the average upward of cents a day, year in and year out. The actual cost Is about S39 family per year.
 Outside of the necessity of sugar for food, the by-products of the refinerics are needed for making munitions. AL cohol Is produced from molasses, and there is a plump little war bride" on the other side of the Mississippi river, not far from where I am writing, that has grown fat off of the molasses alcohol she has already supplied dur ing this var Alcohol is needed to treat nitrated cotton in the manufac- ture of smokeless powder, and it is also used in making other explosives From the consideration of these things it will be seen how important sugar is to our national welfare.
 And now let me show you where our domestic sugar comes from. Here in Louisiana is good place to learn The state is largely dependent upon sugar, and it keeps track of the output in all parts Of the United States and all over the world. Just now it is greatly in- creasing its area planted to cane It produces almost all of the cane sugar of the United States and it has some thing like 300.000 atres of this crop now in the ground. This area can be still further increased and there are thousands of acres of land in Texas that could also be employed for the purpose Indeed, cane is grown III nearly all of the southern states from North Carolina and Arkansas south ward and from the Atlantic coast to Arizona on the west. At present Louisiana is growing almost the whole of the product and of the cane sugar produced in our country in the last six years 97 per cent of it has come from this state.
 As to the beet sugar industry, 1t is comparatively recent as a national fac tor. It is about a quarter of a cen tury since beets for sugar began to be successfully grown, but they now pro- duce more than three times as much sugar as we get from our cane. In 1915 the product was about 15 pounds for every man, woman and child in the country. The chief states that produce beet sugar in large quantities are California. Colorado. Michigan. Utah and Idaho, smaller amounts com ing from Nebraska. Ohio and other states. The beet sugar area could un- doubtedly be very greatly increased. and we can, if necessary, raise all the sugar we need by planting more beets.
 have seen the cane plantations of many parts of the world Ther Q is no doubt that the crop can be grown more profitably in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippine Islands. Sugar cane is a child of the tropics, and in this climate and soil it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-03
JUNGLE SAINTS BIG SUGAR B(WI4-By Frank Carpenter

down 10 the one or two-pound pack ages sold in the stores. The sugar is weighed by machinery, and the tops of the bags are sewed by sewing ma chimes made for the purpose It is the same in packing the sugar in boxes of various sizes, and putting IL up into barrels.
 Even the counting of the oarreis and packages is done by machinery. record is made of the barrels as they pass through the warehouse on the way to the cars. Each barrel has itS weight marked on it, and an adding machine upon wheels which looks Tor all the world like a baby carriage, is pushed around from Barrel to barrel and the weight of each taken dow nr by touching the keys.
 All this results in saving which greatly reduces the cost of the sugar. The human labor item is so cut down that the refinery seems almost to run itself I passed through large rooms filled with machines. with only two or three men in sight. The total number of employees in the plant is a little more than 1000 /and the output equals almost 10 barrels of sugar per day to each man on the ground
 Copyright. 1917. by Frank G. Carpenter)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-03
Plain Colored Voiles

Plain COlOred VOlleS We are showing a full range of all new shades of plain colored voile in two pretty qualities. One quality 40 inches wide, at 29c yard, and one A inches wide at 49c yard.
 39c Skirtings 19c Yard A special price on ten pieces of fancy sport skirt material, 36 inches wide. Special 19c yard. 40-Inch Lingerie 27c Yard The prettiest Lingerie we ever offered at this price. Beautiful sheer silky quality, full 40 in. wide.s Others sell this quality at 35c and 39c.
 35c White Poplin 25c Yard 27-inch highly mercerized White Poplin, fine quality; will wash and wear we'll. Usual 35c Pop lin. Special tomorrow 25c.
 Printed Voiles Reduced Scores of patterns of 36 and 4o- inch Figured Voile, in stripes plaids and floral patterns, re- duced to 1oc, 25c and 29c yard.
 Bureer's-First Floor