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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-19
An Old Settlers Story, Told by Mr..
Gregoire Monette, Interpreted by
Judge H. E. Dorval, and Tran
scribed by Mrs. John Mahon.
CONTINUED from last week.

Continued from last weekly
AS we have already seen, winter
hunting was done principally for the
furs. The animal was killed and the
pelt taken leaving the carcass to the
wolves, foxes, or other wild animals.
They turned these carcasses to &C.
count by spreading poison on them
and reaping a harvest of peltries from
the unsuspecting victims. The hides
were sent to the camps where the old
people, women and children did all
the work of scraping by hand and tan
ming them for market. The workers
became very expert in this. Only the
choice hides could be sold for a price
worth while shipping. Bull hides were
too coarse and the pelt too stiff, they
brought only $l.5O each and were
very heavy to haul. Cow hides and
hides from the young bulls were the
first choice and brought $500 each.
The process of preparing and tan.
ming the hides was as follows: The
green hide was stretched on a strong
square frame made from four rails.
Holes were cut along the edge of
the buffalo skin and by this means
laced and made very taut. A serrated
iron scraper, made fast to the wrist
was used, with which to scrape every
particle of flesh from the hide, this
knife being about four inches wide.
The frame was supported by a heavy
rail, held in place by two crotches
about four feet from the ground. With
the frame in this semi-upright or tilt
ed position they stand and do the
scraping. 1t was then allowed to
freeze hard and then another instru-
ment like a small hoe, was used. This
was sharp and required ski]lful handl-
ing to make the pelt of even thick
ness and not cut it any place. The
next process is to rub into the pelt
the liver of tie animal, when this has
all been absorbed, the brain is rubbed
in as an oil or softening fluid. 1t is
now folded with the hair outside. A
rope made of sinew is fastened to the
ceiling and to the floor. Around this
the hide is passed and by hand rub
bling and manipulation the skin is
dried. When dry it is pulled through
a serrated iron hoop to raise the woody
nap seen on a good soft we'll tanned
hide. To insure its being perfectly
dry it is hung on a pole a day in the
wind and sun. Such an important par
Of their Lie business was this prepar.
ing of the pelts that when Mr.. Mo.
nette was asked how many buffa)oes q
hunter must shoot each season to be
considered an expert hunter. He
replied that there was never any ques.
tion about being able to shoot the
animals. There would, with any or.
binary hunter of that time, be a line
of dead buffalo marking the way with
only the distance it required between
for re loading. The vital and only
question was how many women anc
children he had, to take care of the
meat and hides. The variety in foods
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-19
ADDITIONAL LOCAL

Mayor John Powers ten year old
son, Marcus. i'll for the past couple
of weeks with tubercular meningitis,
rs still quite a sick boy, though the
doctors state his general condition as
improved over that Of a week ago.
Ole T. AXvig was in the city yes.
terday from Milton in company with
d r. Buchanan and G.. Brecke, also
prominent, Mlltonians. All hustled
through considerable bust ness at the
county seat between trains.
Mike Fuchs of the repair shop of
the M. 0. Strom Of hardware store,
took yesterdays afternoon train to
his former home at Cold Springs,
MINI. where he will look after bust
ness matters during an absence of a
week or ten days.
Miss Gertrude McGauvran now fills
the position of stenographer in the
office of Auditor Eide, rendered va.
cant by the resignation of Miss Agnes
Mclean. who left recently to accept
a clerkship at Bismarck with State
Superintendent N. C.. Macdonald.
The Wales Grain Co., of which j.
Heille is proprietor, is now in the
market to buy your screenings, such
as wild oats, mustard seeds, pig weed,
in fact anything cleaned out of your
seed grain. Bring it in when coming
to Wales and get a good price for it.
Wales Grain Company. 1914
Mrs. John Maybe, of this city, has
in the past year been treated by eye
specialists at Fargo and in the Twin
Cities for a trouble and aggravation
of the sight of one of her eyes, which
extehds owe the greater part of the
last twelve months, and it is only
within the past week that a consul
tatiob Mrs. Maybe had with DR.. A..
@. Void, revealed the fact that the
pain and irritation of the eye was
caused by a small particle of broken
glass. This painfui substance was
withIittle difficulty located and re-
moved, but it will take time to allay
the Irritation and inflamed condition
caused by its presence during upwards
OF a year past.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-19

Binder Irvine that sold locally last
harvest time at from IL to Is cents
Il pound will cost 20 to rs cents when
che time comes around for the cutting
of the crop of 1917 as indicated by
the present quotations. With cost of
production problems such as this to
confront and including the items of
labor and machinery, each and all
touching the high spots, the farmer
doesn't figure $3.50 a bushel for
wheat to be such a get rich quick
proposition as some would seem to
think.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-19

Road conditions and bad weather
of the past few days has not prevent
ed several in the immediate vicinity
of Langdon from marketing the sur
plus .of their 1916 crop after the
cleaning up of their seed this spring.
The top figure of this springs fancy
prices for both wheat and other small
grains has Melted a number of farm.
ers in and around Langdnn quite hans.
sOmely,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-19
Hunted Buffalo Here
The Story of 49,
Gregore Monette, of kIffu Yaarc Ann
Langdon, N. D.. NY SeAAO NV

only helped their larder, but furnish.
ed a revenue from their sales, Fish
too made a change in the meat and
was used freely in the spring of the
year. Very little bread or potatoes
were used but tea and sugar was q
great necessity. Flour was coarse and
they did not make bread as we know
it. Mr.. Monette describes it as more
like hard tack and says it was made
by using a small amount of buffalo
fat with water and flour and almost
no rising.
Fish in the Pembina river, run.
ming through the village, was very
plentiful. 1t was not necessary to use
a bait or net. Fish gates, barriers
or traps were better. Each two fami-
lies could have a small trap. A large
trap would often have four hundred
or more fish in its meshes. These
traps were made by driving into the
ground in the river bed two rows of
stakes. Between these willow gads
were laid and when full they were
tramped down and more added. The
Fish Trap that still exists in this
county, Mr.. Monette declares is of
more recent date, being constructed
after Mr.. Mayors mill was built at
Walhalla in 1872. The river is very
wide at this point and altho very
shallow is quite rapid. The whole bed
of the stream for some distance is
covered with large boulders. Round
racks made from bent poles and will
low gads were placed over these
stones and obstructed the progress of
the fish so that they could be taken
out by hand OF with a spear.
This beauty spot needs only to be
seen to be appreciated. The hills
rising on either side to a height of
several hundred feet to the level
plains above Down here in the quiet
of the hills all is still, no picture
can do it justice. The feeling as one
looks at the primitive structure is one
of a past age prevailing the whole
place. The land marks are fast pas.
sing away and little Is left of its an
cient industry.
A mill was built here about twenty
five years ago. which seemed to spoil
for a time the quiet grandeur of the
place, but it was removed to Bath
gate perhaps twenty years ago. To-
day the same little Paubian, now
called the Pembina, winds its way
over the stones through the hills to
Walhalla, where in former days it fed
the fish traps along its border. The
village life at st. Joe centered around
the Catholic church in which the Mo.
nettes were married. The building
was made of logs 28x5O feet with 6
thatched roof of mud and willow.
The whole was built under the direc.
ton of Father Belcourt, who also
built a dam and a "grist mill' al
we'll as a large log residence for the
priests home. The community cen.
ter was the basement of the church.
Here they could come to get warmed,
visit or smoke. The auditorium ul
stairs held 400 people. Here too they
had a school and the priest resided
until in later years the priest resi-.
dence was built. 1t was Father Bel,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-19

The last installment of the Greg
ore Monette narrative, telling of pio-
ieer. experiences on the prairies of
Cavalier county upwards of fifty years
~ego,swhen the Indian and the buffalo
roamed the plains of the Dakotas, is
printed this week. 1t is by long odds
one of the most entertaining stories
chat have been gathered by the His
Eorical Society of this county.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-19

Just now North Dakota, along with
every other state in the Union. is ex-
%periencing an every day feeling of
loyalty to the flag and American pa
triotism. that would seem to more
than anything else resemble one con-
thu MI Fourth of July celebration.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-19

Subscription Sl.5O per aunum Canada $500
eer annum. Advertising rates on application.
Communications must be received by Tuesday
noon to receive prompt attention.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-19
SUMMONS.

Srt County N Of ca7 p a SIS
4. In District Court. Seventh Judicial District
John j. Power,
Plaintiff.
John Burkitt, Elle Bur-
kttt. William Burkitt,
Joseph Burkitt. Jas.
devisees Of William
Burkltt. d g c g a S ed,
Katherine Jane Bur- SUMMONS.
kilt, Henry Taylor,
and all other persons
unknown claiming
any estate or interest
IN, or lien or incum-
berance npon the pro-
perty described in
the complaint.
Defendants.
The State of North Dakota to the Above
Named Defendant:
plant in this action, which said complaint has
been filed q the Office of the Clerk of the Dis
trict Court, Cor Cavalier County. North Dakota
and to serve q copy Of your answer upon the
of this summon upon you, exclusive of the day
of such service: and in case of your failure to
appear or answer, Judgment will be taken
against you by defaulo for the relief demand.
ed in the complaint.
Dated February 18th, 1917.
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Office and Post Office Address.
Langdon, North Dakota.
You will please take notice that the purpose
of the above entitled action is to quiet in the
plaintiff the title to lots One and Two of Sec.
tiou Thirty. One, Township One hundred Sixty
-Four. Range Fifty-Nine. in Cavalier County,
''' GEO. III. PRICE.
1898 ATTORNEY for Plaintiff.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-19

A. l. ~KRHMSTEDT, Prop.

Published every Thursday morning at Lang
6~n. Cavalier county, North Dakota.
Entered at the Post Office of Langdon a mail
matter OF tho AAcond Class.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-19

SrATEoF North DAKOTA. (ss
County of Cavalier,
In District Court. Seventh Judicial District
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-14

cent an ounce. These are even less de-
sirable than the high-priced goods. I
can say nothing in their favor. they
are never economical frequently leav-
ing the baking bleached and acid: some
times yellow and alkaline. and often
unpalatable. They are not dependab Bile
and represent false economy at any
price.
1.-THE most simple way for the house
wife to class baking powder is by price.
The trust goods that retail for 45c or
SOC pound are usually the cream Of
tartar powders, and are of the old
school; and the cheap and Big Can
kind that sell all the way from 10c q
pound up to cent an ounce should
also be avoided.
1.-THE last word in baking powder is
the happy m dium, combination pow
der that sells at moderate price and
when properly prepared gives the con-
sumner full value for the money. The
result in baking is pure, wholesome
food. without any harmful residue.
There is no reason why any housewife
should pay 45c or soc per pound. The
best baking powder made can be manu-
featured so as to retail at about II this
price"
on being asked what baking powder
she used in her work, Marian Cole
Fisher frankly stated that for more
than seven years she had used Calumet
Baking Powder with the most satisfac-
tory results in every particular.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-14
DIED At HOME
NEAR SUMMHv|LLE
Ralph Hanson Passed Away Sunday
Evening-Rad Been Confined to
Bed Since Last
Christmas.
FUNERAL Is TUESDAY
YOUNG Man Had Lived In This VI
cinity Entire Life and Was
Esteemed by Host Of
Friends.
FUNERAL Is TUESDAY

Ralph Hanson, % years old, young
est son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Han
son, who live two and one-half miles
west of Summitville, Iowa, died at
the family home, Sunday evening at
.S:15 O'Clock from a complication of
diseases. He had been confined to
his bed since Christmas.
Ralph Hanson was born near Sum
mitville, March 6, 1889, and had re-
sided there all of his life. He was
highly esteemed by a host of friends
and his early death will be reeply re-
GREETED by all who were acquainted
with him. He possessed sunny and
cheerful disposition and his genial
good nature made him a general
fayorite. He was single.
Besides his parents, Mr.. Hanson is
survived by five sisters and two
brothers: Mrs. r. A. Hall, Ottumwa,
Iowa; Mrs Frank Nelson, Keokuk !;
Mrs. o. A. Johnson, ST. Louis; Mrs
George Doherty and Mrs. Frank
Deere, Vincennes, Iowa, and Harvey
and Walter Hanson who live at home.
The funeral will be held Tuesday
afternoon at 400 o'clock from the
home, west of Summitville, and burial
will be in the Friends cemetery two
miles west Of that town The Rev.
Mr.. Swanson of the Swedish Metho-
dist church will officiats-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-14
MARIAN COLE FISHER
National Authority on the Subject of Pure
FOODS and the ART OF COOKING.

IN an interview on baking powder.
ssuarian Cole Fisher, ChautauQua lee
~ er and at that time special chairman
me Saint Paul Housewives League
lows: eaeu as
- find many, in fact, very many,
ss o.heR woefully uniformed on the SUBJ
ke. OF baking powder. Evidently the
- does not appreciate the value
uaKing powder in her kitchen and in
Ser BAKING. or she would have inform ed
Important. 4a.'
"a great many of the housewives
.oudy nave followed their mothers or
sIandmothers In the use of baking pow
faL. which ,r, in some instances is e. mis-
srn ne mere has been just as much i'm
pporovement in baking powder as In other
b5oo1nniinodlties. am glad to find that
times
III Some housewives have been led to
SSeueVe that the cream of tartar pow
ssI are the best goods to USE This is a
snnstake resulting no doubt from the
SSohIstant efforts of the Twenty Million
D .uai taking Powder Trust to create a
pneJudice against all goods save their
sts. lheir goods should be least de-
ss,raole on account OF the large quanti-
food sass -A's - $40
MT The other extreme is the cheap and
p9Ig Can baking. powders. which sell
ni the way from ten cents a pound to
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-14
MANY PRESCRIPTIONS

This Season, for Impure Blood,
Weakness, Nervousness, Brain-Fae.
In order to comprise the best course
of treatm ent, and to secure the best
results, should read as follows:
R Hoods Sarsaparilla-12 or.
Peptiron Pills-1SO
Sig: One teaspoonfu1 Hoods Sar-
saparilla before meals
Two Peptiron Pills after
meals.
No better course of medicine can
be recommended by the most skilful,
for Hoods Sarsaparilla is made from
an unsurpassed formula Of blood
purifying and stomach-toning rene
dies, including sarsaparilla, man.
drake, dandelion, yellow dock, wild
cherry, gentian and other valuable
alternatives and diuretics, while Pep
tiron Pills, named from pepsin and
iron, include also nux and other
blood and stomach tonics which
physicians prescribe.
1t is therefore wise and economical
to get these two medicines from your
druggist today. The two working to-
gether often give four-fold benefit
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-14
An Arizona City of Distance.

FL Paso Herald: Mesa, Ariz,
streets are eighty feet wide and every
block comprises ten acres. A resi-
dence building site there averages
about an acre. When you ask an adj
dress in Mesa, and the obliging in
habitant directs you to walk six
blocks, 1t doesn't sound far, but you
realize the distance before you arrive
Mesa was laid out by Mormons who
favored unusually large streets for
attractiveness and who made the ten
acre blocks in order that every FAM
lily might be more or less self-sustain-
ing in time Of Indian raids when the
family garden might be the only
source Of food.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-14
SUNDAY TOLL
OF AUTOMOBILES

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, May 14-Eeven per
sons were dead, seven perhaps fatal
ly injured and fifteen others were
suffering from minor hurts today as
the result Of a series of automobile
accidents in Chicago and vicinity
yesterday.
Three men and three women were
instantly killed when the automobile
in which they were speeding to the
Midlothian Country club was struck
by a Rock Island train The dead
are Jacob Livingston, his wife, Miss
Lsthar Nowttz. Miss. Josephine Tobin.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-14

Benzain Hochstaedt and an unidentt'
fled man. Guy A Ferree, another
member of the party, will die.
Anothy Parish and his little daugh.
ter, Eleanor. were killed when al
automobile in which ten persons were
riding, was struck by a. Michigan
Central train near Hammond, Ind.
His son, Vinvenct, was badly injur-
ed. Fracisco Ferulle, noted band
master, escaped INJURY. Joseph Kon-
insl1i and Leo Sikkinske were killed
when their automobile overturned
near Argo, H.
Belle Ponitz, five, was knocked
down and killed by an automobile
on Chicago street.
A score of other persons were in
jured in other mishaps
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-14
Those Who Volunteer.

A number of local people and many
from out in the country have written
to Sheriff Scott volunteering their
services for registrars. Among those
who have volunteered are l.. A. Ham.
i'll, third precinct; Al Rumbaugh, F. c,
Overton, Alex Cohan, first precinct,
]. P. Ingle has volunteered the serv.
ices Of any of the employees Of the
company c. J. Smith has volunteer
ed to assist in any of the precincts
where needed and to do all Of the
stenographic work connected with
the registration necessary.
From outside of Keokuk. Sheriff
Scott has these volunteers: j. p
Kennedy, Montrose; John Cruze, Ira
Bailey, L. W. Shaffer, and William
Case, Vincennes, and George Pfliger-
stofer, Argyle.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-14
Sheriff John c. Scott, Acting Under
Orders From War Department is
Securing Registration
Places.
HAS THINGS LINED UP
Patriotic Citizens Both In City and
Country, Have Written They
viii Serve as
Registrars.
WHERE TO REGISTER.

WHERE TO REGISTER.
! Sheriff Scott announced that NJ
had secured the following registration
| places:
First Observation-Disclosures associa-
ton offices, is North Fifth street.
Second precinct-E. w. Moore's
shoe shop, 2e South Fifth street
! Third precinct-George Washing
ton school basement Ninth and Con-
cert streets.
Fourth preeInet-West keokuk en-
qinc house.
Fifth precInct-PeopIes' institute
314 North Fourteenth street.
| Sixth precinct-Tenth street fire
station.
Seventh precinct-k~okuk Electric
conapany's car barn.
| Arrangements for registering keo-
kuk men who will como under the
| selective CONSUMPTION act, were be-
/ ing made today by Sheriff John z.
Scott, under orders from Governor
Harding and the war department.
The registration for selective con-
scription is under the supervision of
the federal government, and the
sheriffs Of the counties in the state
are being asked by Uncle Sam to look
after the arrangements for regf~tra-
| ton.
| The instructions from the governor
includes the selection Of tentative
! list Of registrars of at least one in
| each precinct, who will serve without
pay wherever possible. The registra-
ton places are to be secured by the
sheriff in each precinct. The provis-
| ions for the registration places are
that there shall be tables, chairs, and
good light, and proper conveniences.
No booths will be necessary.
Governor Harding's letter to the
sheriff says that the registration
| should be completed eight days after
the president has issued his procla-
nation. In order to have everything
ready he is asking the sheriffs to get
things lined up for the speediest,
most accurate method for handling
affairs.
Sheriff Scott this morning was in
terviewing owners of the buildings
where registration Offices may be pro-
vided He has list Of volunteer
registrars in the city, and several
from out in the country have already
volunteered their services for the
country precincts. The sheriff had
everything practically lined up by
noon and will be able to report to
Governor Harding and the war de-
partment that Keokuk and Lee coun-
/ ty are ready.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-07-18
TRYING TO FIND WHAT BIRDS
ARE INJURIOUS.

Prof. H. F. Wickham, an entomol-
ogist at the State University, has
been called to Washington, D. c.. to
spend the summer in examining the
stomach contents of American birds
for the department of agriculture.
AS part of the general campaign
for greater food production, the gov
ernment is attempting to determine
from the insects found in the stom-
achs of birds which birds are injur-
ious to crops and which are benefic-
ial to crops.
The work requires the greatest
amount of skill, for many times the
entomologist is called upon to name
an insect from some small fragment
of leg or wing. Professor Wick
ham has made a life study of the
beetle family and his work will be
centered on this group of insects.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-07-18
DELAWARE COUNTY
Lands APPROPRIATION
HIGHWAY BETWEEN DYERSVILLE
AND MANCHESTER TO BE
IMPROVED.
COUNTYs ALLOTMENT s44.sss. 10,
Survey Of Highway To Be Made Al
Once Work To Be Completed
During 1918.

Through the persistent efforts of
County Engineer Henry Klaus, Della
ware county succeeded in landing
$44,595.10 of the $4,3S5,OS0.7O appro-
priated by the federal government to
assist the various states of the Union
in building permanent post roads.
1t will be of interest to note that
Delaware county is the third county
in the state to land this appropri-
alton. Polk county landed the first
which will be used in making a per-
manent road between the city of Des
Moines and Camp Dodge. The second
was that of Mason City and Clear
Lake. The road between these two
cities, it is said, will have to be paw
ed, owing to the unusual amount of
travel between the two places. The
third county to get its allotment is
Delaware, and the road between
Dyersville and Manchester was des-
ignated as the one to be improved
On Monday evening a traffic CEN
sus was completed. The census was
taken at point just west of Dyers-
vile, and a record kept of every
motor car passing over the road, the
number of occupants in each car,
the number of horse drawn vehicles,
loads of farm produce, etc. The fig
ures are not available this week but
will be published next week. The
taking of the census gives the engi-
neers good idea of the amount of
travel over certain roads and the
kind of surfacing required to stand
up under the strain of such travel.
Later in the fall weighing system
is to be installed and every vehicle
and load is to be weighed for a Civ