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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
FARGO MAN RECEIVES
$4,000 FOR PATENT
e. Invents Device to Regulate Temporal
ture of Motor on Auto and Sells
for Large Sum.

Fargo. - Albert Holland was not
satisfied with the way the temperature
affected the operation of the motor of
his automobile, so he set the gray
matter in his head to work to devise
some accessory that would remedy
the defect. 1t took him some time to
arrive at a satisfactory solution of
the problem but he has just received
$4,000 for his work.
James Watson, member OF a law
firm at Washington, D. c., after a
conference with Mr.. Holland at a local
hotel handed the latter a draft for
$4,000, Mr.. Holland having disposed
of his patent rights to the Holland Au-
tomato Regulated Windshield to the
law firm for that sum. 1t is said the
law firm bought the patent for a large
New York manufa cturing ice and
that the device will be put on the mar.
ket on a large scale at once.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
N BEGIN SEEDING
IN MANY LOCALITIES
Operations Expected to Be General
Over State Within Very Few
Days at Outside.

Grand Forks. - Credit for the first
seeding in this section of the country
goes to William Doty, a farmer OF
Blooming township, who began opera.
lions a few days ago for the spring
work, several acres of wheat being
planted during the first day. Mr.. Doty
reports the ground in excellent ION.
dition, fully as far advanced as it has
been several weeks later in other
years. He says that as soon as the
land upon which he is at present work.
ing is seeded, other places will be
ready for the drill.
With weather conditions as they
have been the past week, farmers in
this section will be on the land in a
very few days and seeding operations
will be quite general by next week.
Farmers report conditions to be prac.
tically ideal, many weeks in advance
of last year. With no further SHOWS
or cold spells, it may be safely as.
sumed that the greater part of the
small grains will be in the ground
within the next two weeks, and if
this be possible there is every assur.
ance that the crops will be sufficient.
ly mature to avoid a repetition of the
rust conditions of last season, no mat
ter what the weather conditions.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
ACTION AGAINST MANAGERS
OF FARMERS ELEVATORS
Started in Mercer County by States
Attorney OF Orders From Dis
trict Judge.

Mandan. - Judge j. NJ. Hanley in
district court here has ordered States
Attorney Johns of Mercer county
to institute prosecution proceedings
against twenty farmer elevator man.
ayers of that county on charges of
violating the state antitrust and anti.
combination laws.
The ordered action is the first step
against any of the farmers co-opera.
tive elevators either in North Dakota
or Minnesota, and, it is said, will de.
termine just to what extent the soci.
cites approach a combination.
The basis for Judge Hanley's order
was the evidence which was being in.
troduced before him in a suit brought
against the Farmers Cooperative Ele'
vator company at Stanton.
When the testimony tended to
show there was an alleged violation
Of some of the antitrust laws of the
state by the company, Judge Hanley
stopped the proceedings and ordered
the states attorney to take action.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
DADDSEWNN(
LAlM TALL al
~ MARY GRAHAM n
HOUSE PLANT.

"A little Plant" said Daddy, twas
once very unhappy.
"'I have lived in this hot DON all
the winter said the Plant. 4 have
kept green and made the room bright
for my mistress. But, oh, how I'd love
to feel the rain on my leaves
1.-THE Plant was just a little green
one 1t had no blossoms, but was u
sort of fern, with rather thick, stout
leaves.
"'Yes,' continued the little Plant to
itself, Il have sometimes been forgot
ten about and my roots have been so
thirsty. I didn't know whether at
times I could keep them from dying.
I just had to coax them and tell them
that my mistress was careless, and
that she really loved her plant. But,
sometimes it was hard to believe my
self. Now and again, one of my leaves
would dry up, and instead Of picking
it off, so another could grow in its
place, she would forget about it, until
the poor leaf would fall off and I'd
be very sad.
"'The part that hurts my feelings
continued the Plant, is that I try to
keep q room looking cheerful in the
winter. In the summer there are
bright flowers and gay colors. But in
the winter flowers are harder to get
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
NEW WHEAT STANDARDS
ARE PROMUL GATED
Department Of Agriculture Announces
New List Of Glasses and SUBJ
classes in Wheat.

Washington. - Standards for wheat
= have been promulgated by the Depart
ment of Agriculture. These three
features are of greatest interest to
the Northwest:
The designation northern" was re-
tanned for two subclasses of hard red
spring wheat.
Moisture content for hard red
: spring wheat was limited to 1917 per
cent over the protest Of North Da-
kotans, who insisted on Is per cent.
Spring wheat standards will not be
effective until August 1. The stand.
ards for hard red winter, soft red
winter, common white and white club
wheats will be effective July /. The
use of these standards is required for
wheat shipped between states or for
foreign commerce and sold, offered
Tor sale or consigned by grades.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
TWO ISOLATED COUNTY
SEATS TO GET RAILROAD
Farmers to Build New Road Extend
ing From Manning to
Freda.

Manning. - At a meeting recently
held here, it was announced that prep.
arations for the construction of the
railroad talked Of for some time be.
tween Manning-Emerson, east to Cen.
ter, had come to a head and that there
is now no doubt but that the proposi.
ton will be carried to a successful
issue during the present summer. The
line will connect with Center and then
run east to Freda, where it will con.
meet with the Milwaukee road.
It Is stated that the new road will
be built and operated purely as a
farmers line and the farmers OF a few
counties in this part Of the state will
be the stockholders and the managers.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
"would You Like to Go outdoors7"

and it is then that I try so hard
to be bright and cheerful. A little
growing Plant must mean so much
when the gardens are covered with
snow, and when cut flowers are SO
hard to GET
"Now, the little girl who owned tho
Plant had bought it one day from n
man On the street. What a cunning
little plant she had said. 4 would
love to have it in my room. 1t will
be so nice when I can't have fowers.'
snow instead of feeling hurt at such
a remark the little Plant was much
pleased. 4 don't feel badly that she
would like flowers BETTER said the 1T
tie Plant at the time to itself. I can
understand that. I am glad in my lit
tie green way I can make her room
prettier. And I nm a growing plant.
That means something in the winter
MONTHS
"For days and days the little girl
watered her Plant and cared for It.
The little Plant was delighted. But
then she grew careless. Days passed
without the Plant getting any water.
and the dried leaves were not picked
of.
"Now a rainy day had come, and the
Plant was looking out Of the window.
"'There is a nice ledge on the win
dow sill. Just room for me- said tho
Plant. Inside here, everyone is cold
with the dampness and it is so hot for
me. Oh, if I could feel the rain on my
leaves. The nice, cool RAIN
"The little girl was looking out OF
the window. oh, what a horrid, rainy.
damp day it is she said. But no
sooner had she said that, than she
heard n voice in her ear:
"'Little Girl said the voice, think
Of your Plant which has given you
such pleasure all the winter. Through
the cold days when you had no flowers,
how green and cheerful your plant
looked. And sometimes when you for
got to give it anything to drink, 1t
forgave you. Why not put it out on
the window ledge now to get a good
bath and drinkY'
WLcIc ulC SOu! Sulu lAS I1tLIo
Girl, but she could see no one and the
voice in her ear was no longer heard.
She turned around and IN the table
saw the little Plant. Would you like to
go outdoors said the little Girl. And
she was quite, quite certain that the
Plant nodded its leaves and tried to
say Yes
"She put the Plant on the window
ledge. And the Plant held up its
leaves to the rain, and said: :.
":Ah, r%ain-water, will you give mo
to drink Of your wondrous rain-drops2
It is so long since I have had O drink
Of rain-water. And it's the most won4
derful water in the world. Are you|
raining on my little cousins in the
Woods, and washing away the snow,''
rain-water?' And the rain-water pat
tering down gently on the leaves Of
the Plant whispered: yes, in the
woods we're dropping, and for you'll
For you belong to the woods, too, you;
brave, unselfish little house plantn !
"And when the little Girl looked out:
Of the window at her plant, she saw
the drops of water which had settled
on the leaves-and they were the,
smiles Of happiness from the little.
winter Plant" ,
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
LARGE APPROPRIATION
FOR INDIAN SCHOOL
Over $4,000 Available for New Build,
ings at Wahpeton Government
Institution.

Wahpeton. - The government In
dian school located here will have the
largest appropriation in it's history for
the next fiscal year, congress having
passed a bill carrying $S0,540. This is
in addition to the regular support and
will be sufficient to care for 225 pu-
pills.
There will be $4,000 available for
new school building, $4,000 for an as
sembly hall, $1,000 for new cottages
and $4,000 for the repair and improve
ment of other buildings.
1t is thought here that the new
school building and the assembly hall
will be combined, making a $4,000
structure and that it will be erected
to face Eighth street just south of
the hospital. It is expected that the
plans and specifications will be COM
pleted in time that the work may be
started during the early summer.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
Twenty-one Fargoans Enlist.

Fargo.-Twenty-one Fargoans have
enlisted for service in the United
States navy since the recruiting sta.
ton was opened in the federal build.
ing here last December, according to
J.. c. Poor, recruiting officer in charge.
In four months that the local station
has been open the enlistments were
distributed as follows: December 5,
January 6, February 3, and March Z.
The officers in charge of the local of.
flee are of the opinion that in the
event war is actually declared that re.
cruiting will be increased consider.
ably.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
Waters Receding Near Mandan.

Mandan.. Railroad men worked
here all Of one day and a greater
share Of one night in an attempt to
dynamite the gorge which has formed
in the Little Heart river at this point.
Later in the day it was feared that
flood conditions might prevail here
when the waters started backing up
There is now a most noticeable fall
in the waters and it is believed that
the gorge will be broken.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
Cattle kinq Buys Big Ranch.

Pollock. - c. P. Burnstad, "cattle
king of North Dakota" has purchased
the famous Smith ranch, comprising
1880 acres for $4,000. The Smith
ranch has been noted for its great al
falfa fields, 500 acres being planted to
that crop and 200 acres additional will
be sown this spring. The ranch will
be used by it's new owner for winter
ing stock and the raising Of hogs.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
Merchants to Reduce Cost.

Kensal. - A direct-to-dealer league
has been organized here, the officers
Of which are w. T. WATSON, publicity
manager, and Max E. Feckler, secre'
tary and treasurer. The members are
merchants of Kensal and it is planned
to make the league statewide. The
purpose Of the organization is to get
a square deal for the small town mer.
chant and the elimination of the mid.
dlemau as much as possible, thus re.
ducing the cost of goods to some ex,
tent.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
Improvements for jamestown Hotel

improvements for jamestown Hotels
jamestown. - Improvements aggre
eating $4,000 have already been
made, or will be made during the en-
suing two months, by proprietors OF
hotels in Jamestown. Jamestown has
a large number Of modern and up-to
date hostelries and the owners are
planning on placing their establish
ments on an even higher standard Of
efficiency to the travelling public. With
several conventions scheduled to be
held in the city during the coming six
months the hotel men r looking for
ward to q banner season.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
Indian Worker Meets Death.

Beulah. - F. C. Hopidus, for years
one of the most distinguished Indian
characters on the Fort Berthold reser.
walton, was accidentally killed when,
in putting on a wagon box his foot
slipped and the full weight of the box
struck him on the head. He was rem
dered unconscious and remained so up
to death several hours after the acct.
dent. Hopidus was forty-ave years
old and for several years was an as
sistant to Rev. Hall, Congregational
minister on the Indian reservation
near this place.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
CoIfax Elevator Burns.

Colfax. - The st. Anthony Elevator
company structure in this city, one OF
the biggest in this section, was de-
stroyed by fire Of unknown origin, two
freight cars on the track next to the
elevator also being burned. T. Berg's
barn, some distance removed from the
elevator, was fired by the blazing en-
bers that were carried by a high wind.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05

QED ever, with q scroll bearing
words Of promise!
Long ago the gowns whose soft har-
monies delighted have faded; with the
vanishing years have gone the dainty
love tokens and the lover; still the COW
enant remains and the golden glory of
the promise:
Il am the resurrection and the life !"
Far above the high-backed pew the
minister's voice intones the Easter
text.
Stretch as she may her fat little
chubby neck, baby Anne cannot see
the minister; so she gives herself over
to thoughts of glories Of her new Eas-
ter toilette; a round, pink-faced maid
en- she is, sitting straight and proper
as becomes her years; she counts ex-
uctly five; in a new little gown, low Of
neck and short of sleeves, and a very
round, short, little skirt; a monstrous
scoop bonnet, tied with fat pink little
bows under her fat, pink little chin.
Admiring contemplation Of her two
white-stockinged legs, projecting from
beneath stiffiy starched pantalettes, is
intermingled with pleased anticipations
of Don b%eholding the fat pink, also
green, blue and red eggs, awaiting her
ut home after the Easter service.
The minister's voice soothes like lap
ping waves; of q sudden the proprie-
ties of 1916 are forgotten little Anne's
golden head falls against her grand
mothers shawled arms, and she
sleeps!
II am the resurrection and the life !"
Again the words of the Easter text
fall upon "Miss" Anne's ears I'M
needed.
This Easter a lover in uniform
stands by her side; about him all Of
her thoughts center.
His gift is the nosegay in the silver
flower holder that bangles from the sill
yer ring on her finger.
The new Easter toilette is even a
thought of him, for were not it's beauty
and it's modishness planned to win ia
vor in his eyes?
Silver poplin it is, with a tight-ftting
waist, pointed in front and in back,
but it's full splendor reserved for skirt
effects, Of yards of close-gathered, glis-
tening breadths, falling W. an
enormous crinoline, but lifted on one
side to reveal the coquetry Of a scarlet
satin petticoat; a. crocheted net Of
scarlet chenille confines her black
curls, and scarlet are the loops Of vel
vet that fall in a curtain from the
back Of her tiny triangle Of a bonnet.
The minister and his world are so
far away.
Life-and the Joy Of Easter lilies,
and love, are so near!
II am the resurrection and the life !"
The little black-draped figure of the
little old lady in the high-backed pew
Strengthened %perceptibly at the words
of the minister as he read his Easter
text.
For an instant her face against the
crepe Of the mourning veil she wore
cleaned like a lamp of alabaster then
the flame went out in grief, for the
losses of the years; the husband, the
little ones, the bitterest loss of all, the
boy-her first born-who died at ST.
honey.
Tremblingly she strives to draw the
mourning veil across her withered,
vrinkled little old face to conceal the
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
Money First and Last.

snake your money first" said Ste
phen Girard. '"Then make your money
last" We are inclined to add that
the first is easier than the last. I
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
Death Ends HONEYMOON.

Minot. - Death has ended a honey
moor of one week, Mrs. Sylvia Ragor,
II years of age, married a week ago
to G. A. Ragor, died at a local hospi-
tai. The couple came to this state
from Montana on their honeymoon
and we're to locate near Deering, N. D.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05

Casters Message Still Impressive.
Easter crowns majestically the I'M
folding loneliness of the year, and if
the world sends up echoes Of discord-
ant conflict, Easter times message
gains in impressiveness of meaning
on that account.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05

"Granny's Hearts Ease"
The Joy Of all the. casters that are
dead and gone were not sweeter than
her smile, for is not "baby Anne" the
joy Of the new, the Earthly always"
Of "Granny Anne" and full recon-
pense?
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
Lilies of Peace

Lilies of Peace
o! beautiful Easter lilies that
open your hearts today
In the dusk Of the proud cathe.
dral, or the village chapel
gray,
look at your creamy petals and
your buds of pearl and
snow,
And think of the sitting trenches
DER the wide Atlantic's
flow.
Where the soldiers wounded and
weary, unshaven and UNI
shorn,
Crouched like beasts in their bur-
rows. wake to the Easter
morn,
And their only Easter anthem is
the rumbling cannon
wheel,
And in place Of the Easter lilies
are rows of cruel steel.
I think Of the ruined affairs with
broken debris strewn,
The roofless walls that totter
a-gape to the sun and
moon,
The bells in the battered towers
that hang SO sad and still,
The silent pipes of the organs.
the darkness and the chill,
The empty aisles and the silence
where once the music
poured,
In a silver flood Of gladness to
greet the risen Lord,
And kneeling among the lilies
fragrant and pure and fair,
The white and wondrous lilies, I
breathe an Easter prayer.
Lord of the Easter morning, in
thy compassion great,
Bind up the bleeding nations and
cleanse their souls Of hate.
To Europe's war-worn people
their ravaged homes re-
store.
And bid the fields Of battle grow
bright with flowers once
more;
And let these Easter lilies that
gloriously unfold
Beneath the painted window of
saints in blue and gold,
From snow-capped Fujiyama to
purple isles of Greece.
Bear through the world a mes
sage of everlasting peace"
-Minna Irving in Leslie's.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05

was no confession Of years in the tiny
"capote" Of glittering jet, with wide
bows Of flmy tulle.
The test had succeeded royalty.
To John and the children she would
always be yer lovely, ever young.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-05
of
Easter Days

ASTER memories, past and
present! Tenderest vanities
of earthland, fragrant with
the odor Of Annunciation
lilies and bound about for
ever, with q scroll bearing
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-04
ROTATION LEASES.
National Crop Improvement Service. ]

lNatiOnai crop Improvement SeTVce.J
There is nothing which endangers
America so much today as our very
much abused farm tenant system We
ought to have something in every
lease which will protect land and pro-
tect the people as we'll as posterity.
Year to year tenants who scratch a
little and move away, should be COM
PEELED to settle down and landlords
should be be compelled to make a
time rotation lease. 1t is easy to talk
about compelling this and compelling
that. but we mostly are very sloppy
people whose motto is "the easiest
way is the best"
If we let our soil run down, our
whole structure will fall. In order to
obtain larger yield of grain, this soil
must be fed The colleges and expert
ment stations beyond the Mississippi
river are entirely too timid about
preaching soil conservation In fact,
all of us are rather prone to tell our
audience what we think they would
rather hear.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-04
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
THE WAR.

Wednesday, April 25.-Captain Rice
of the American steamship Mongolia,
which has arrived at British port,
reported that the Mongolia had fired
the first gun of the war for the United
States and sunk German submarine.
The British troops along the Arras
battle line made further slight ad-
vances south of the Scarpe river.
There was continuation of aerial &C
tivity in which fifteen German air
planes came to grief and six British
aircraft failed to return to their base.
Dunkirk was bombarded by German
destroyers. British and French patrol
ships engaged the Germans, one of the
French torpedo boats being sunk.
Thursday, April 26.-Renewed Ger
man attacks on British positions near
Gavrelle have been completely re-
pulsed. During the past week 100 Ger
man airplanes have been shot down
on the west front.
The American schooner Percy Bird
sail of New York was reported sunk
without warning to the state depart
ment
Saturday, April 2s.-The British cap
tured Arleux-en-Gohelle and German
positions, including part of Oppy, on a
front of more than two miles. The
French made progress on Chemin-des-
Danes and report the capture of
10000 Germans since April 49, Berlin
says British attacks at Monchy broke
down, and reports infantry battle On
the whole front.
Both house of congress voted for
selective draft bill by huge majorities
Measure wanted by President and
general army staff passes.
Sunday, April 29.-Another trench
system-a barrier to the British for.
ward march toward Douai-has been
taken over front of mile in san
culinary fighting. The new position lies
south of Oppy, and runs almost to the
outskirts of Gavrelie
Berlin admits the loss to the Cana
dams of Arleux-en-Gohelle, and to
other parts of Field Marshal Haig's
army of Oppy and positions near Cav
reile and RoeuX, which are char
acterized as advanced positions
The German war office adds, however
that except for Arleux all positions
were regained.
Monday, April 30.-In powerful at
tack in the Champagne region the
French troops captured several forti-
fed lines of trenches in the neighbor-
hood of Mont Carnillet to G depth of
500 to 1000 meters.
Tremendous losses Of British at
lacking troops were revealed in the
German official statement. ''It is est
mated" the war office declared, "that
on Saturday, the English losses were
5000 fallen and 1000 taken prisoners
Fifty machine guns were captured
and ten tanks were destroyed"