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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-11-08
CITY IN BRIEF

The county fathers are in session
this week.
John Steen, state treasurer, was a
visitor in Minot Friday night.
Albert Marshall and family have
moved to this city from their farm
near Plaza.
We are enjoying some of the wea-
Their which the weatherman neglected
to give US early in October and the
femers are making up for lost time
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-11-08
Johnson's Freeze-Proof
Preparation

Does not evaporate or steam, and
raises the boiling point of water II to
rs degrees. Absolutely harmless to
radiator, rubber connections, cloth,
packing or metal. You will fill your
radiator once-that does the trick
there is only one cost, the first, as it
does not evaporate, you simply add
water
Per 5-lb. package
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-11-08
He Who Saves
Helps Three

good triftand there werether
force multiplied hundedfold now that
going billions of capital successful
finish warf freedom of the world"
income, deposit savings in
have the that helping your cou-
try, your community and YOURSELF
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-11-08

F. w. ROACH, Vice President
w. E. TOOLEY, Assistant Cashier
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-11-08

r. e. BARRON
H. e. BYORUM, Cashier
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03
HENRY Stafford GONE
The Last Survivor Among Those Who
Saw Lincoln Die Joins the
Silent Majority.

SPRINGFIELD. Mass, Feb. 2s,-
Henry Stafford. II years old, believed
TO be the last survivor of those pres
ent at the deathbed of Abraham
Lincoln, died here yesterday. Mr..
Stafford was a roomer in the Paterson
house. opposite Fords TheateT and
on the night of the assassination,
hearing a noise in the street, went to
the door. He saw several men car
rying the wounded President and
one of them exclaimedi
"where shall we take him?"
Mr.. Stafford calledi Bring him in
here"
He was present at all the events of
the night in tho house and at the
deathbed.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03
Effects of the Law

1.-TWO years in the penitentiary!
Why, under that law, let US see what
could be done and what would be
done. A great paper is printed in
New York and has its subscribers all
over the United States. 1t prints a
1iquor advertisement, soliciting, as all
advertisements do, the purchase Of
the goods, II is sent to the state OF
would be consummate within the
state OF Washington. A single copy
of the paper is mailed to the state Of
Washington from the office to some
old subscriber or to some New Yorker
who Is travelling out in that country,
who is sojourning there temporarily.
The grand jury in the state of Wash
ington indicts the New York editor or
publisher, and he is hailed across the
country, 5000 miles or more, and is
put upon his trial. If they can prove
that he knew that that advertisement
was in the paper and that he knew
that the paper was going to be sent
out to this list of subscribers, which
embraced that name, he can be sent
to the penitentiary for from three TO
five yearsi
"It would be good deal more con-
sistent with right and fairness If II
were provided that any man who read
an advertisement and then ordered
liquor sent into "dry" territory should
be punished. That requires an af-
firmatiye and positive act by citizen
OF the state In violation of the laws OF
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

history when If a man stole a loaf of
bread the wise lawmakers of that day
thought it was entirely appropriate to
take him out and execute him, an1
they passed laws accordingly; there
was a time when there were 200
crimes in England that were punish
able by death; but humanity finally
opened its eyes and concluded that
brutal, cruel and outrageous punish
ment did not make for the enforce
ment of law, and was not consistent
with Christian civilization.
Two years in the penitentiary for
a newspaper publisher whose paper,
printed in a state where he has a
right to print these advertisements,
and copy of that paper shall be sent
into dry territory! Well, let us Ser
how it will work. The District Of
Columbia has already been made very
dry" so far as the Senate's action
is concerned. If the other House
agrees to the bill which has passed
this body, and it becomes a law, this
would be dry" territory; and it would
be entirely proper, and we should at
once expect the authors of this legis-
lation to provide that no paper should
be permitted within the District Of
Cnln hia anntafnffar
ments. If that should happen, ana
man came to the Senate from q
state like New York, and he had his
home paper sent over here to WASH
ington, the New York editor could be
Immediately indicted by Federal
Grand Jury, put on trial, and sent to
the penitentiary.
The law Is a Crime
1.-THE enactment of a law OF that kind
is greater crime against civilization
and against humanity than is 'he
printing of a liquor advertisement and
sending It into dry" territory /
suppose 1 could not get a paper sent
to me from my home state, for I ap-
prehend most of them do print liquor
advertisements. / have never exam
ined their columns to find out, but ]
apprehend such advertisements are
there. I suppose that nine-tenths OF
the members of Congress could not
get their home papers in the city OF
Washington.
Extreme and radical and cruel leg
islation never advances a great moral
cause. 1t only produces reaction; Il
only arouses resentment in the end.
II wonder, while he was at It, why
the Senator did not make the penalty
death, and finally dispose OF thesq
wicked editors In the electric chair
You can undertake to aid good
cause by extreme and radical methods
until you ruin the cause. The wors
enemy any good cause ever has is the
man who lays aside the guidance o.
reason, who allows prejudice to usurI
the throne OF judgment. and wh'
.thereupon proposes with fire ans
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03
his own state, If it has a real prohlti-

his own state, If it has a real prohlti-
tory law.
'"The senate may adopt this re-
markable amendment, If 1t wants to
do so--and say again that / will
vote for an amendment to protect
"dry" territory with a decent penalty
attached-the Senate may enact 1t;
but, if they do, suggest that the Sem
ate copy the old blue laws of connec-
ticut, In order to save time here, and
Just enact them all as statutes of the
United States" r-sfr. st
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

The seventeenth annual mule sale
of S. +. Rankin was one of the most
successful he has ever held. The to-
tai receipts of the sale were s23,-
917.15 and the average price per head
was S214. The highest price realized
per span was s6S7.5O. and the second
highest was 500. There was large
attendance of buyers from the sur
rounding territory and bidding was
brisk.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Quietly, and without any special
demonstration, or elaborate spread,
William Kuhler and his good wife
versary at their cozy little home IN
the Highlands addition to oregon. and
owing to the advanced years of the
couple, only few of the most inti-
mate friends OF the couple were in
vited TO participate with them on this
unusual occasion.-Holt County Sem
tinel.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

sword, with coercion with the thumb
screw, the lash, the rack and collar
to enforce his opinion. In a little
while there comes reaction; and the
reaction is likely to be visited not
alone against the unjust penalties, but
upon the cause they were intended to
bolster and aid.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Practical joke, as narrated by the
Pleasant Hill Times: Chad Smith sat
mapping in a restaurant, when Pete
Burton poured alcohol on the sleeper's
toes then set them afire. The effect
was instantaneous. The sleeper rous-
ed and the flames were put out. Thea
the victim of the joke caused Bur-
toms arrest.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Every paper in Missouri having
printed the obituary of the once i'm
portant town of Roanoke, said to
have been sold at auction recently for
S440, Roanoke arises to remark in
the Glasgow Missourian that the re-
port of it's death is greatly exaggerat-
ed. 1.-THE largest Hereford dealer in
the world lives within mile of Roam
oke and spends his money here" says
the denial. "Our high school, with
its three teachers, is far ahead of
many larger schools. Two groceries
are doing a flourishing business. The
Roanoke Band, with thirty-seven
members, is the pride of the COM
munity. The postoffice is doing a
better business than it did fifteen
years ago. We receive the mail twice
a day and have one rural route. Our
drug store and up-to-date soda foun-
tain are features unequaled in larger
places. The barber shop is as indis-
pensable as the blacksmith shop,
which keeps busy early and late. Then
our physician hardly knows what rest
means. We have two churches and
there is no better kept cemetery in
the state than the Roanoke cemetery.
If anyone doubts this let him come
out and see." ..
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

dreamed the other night that 1 was
back in Jewell, mingling in it's beau
tiful, elevating, instructive life, laugh
ing with sheer enjoyment after this
hell; then a cold wind woke me and
never were my waking moments more
disappointing. pulled my overcoat
closer around my shoulders and tried
to dream again, but failed. When I
get back I shall have this pull over
you fellows; l shall know what am
enjoying"
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03
GRAPES WILL GROW
ANYWHERE; SPRING
BEST TIME TO PLANT

Grapes will grow almost anywhere
and are sure 10 bear Grapes can be
trained on trellises close to fences
or to outbuildings. Spring is the best
time to plant, using either / or q
year-old vines. Or FREQUENT cultivation
during the summer will Improve the
fruit.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

DR.. ]. e. Logan sold his Hereford
cattle on his farm near Cameron.
throng of cattle buyers from all parts
Of the country. The 1913 lots, or a to-
tai of 165 head, brought sS6,275, or
about s523 a head. The largest price
for any one animal was paid for the
bull Russell Fairfax, which was
$4,000.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03
WOOD ASHES GOOD ~ So,
FERTILIZER FOR GRAPES

Wood ashes make a good fertilizer
for grapes, and " bushel to the vine
win not be too much. No pruning
will be required the LIST season. but
the End season cut back the strong
est canes to s or 4 buds and remove
all others
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

was on the floor intently studying a
map of Colorado. Finally he raised
his head and addressed his mother.
Mamma, where is vicinity7 The
teacher said to learn about Denver
and vicinity. 1 found Denver, but
can't find vicinity nowhere"
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Cold weather stopped the work in
a Ray county coal mine during the
recent SNAP" when frost closed the
air shaft.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

The league TO enforce peace move
ment has progressed to the point in
Scotland county where eighty-one
farmers join in a warning to hunters,
printed in the Memphis Democrat,
But the Peter Rabbit that stakes its
safety on a trespass warning sooner
OF later understands the sensations OF
Belgium.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Occasionally a dentist admits 1t.
One in Chillicothe is advertising,
Especial pains taken in all cases"
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

1t may or may not follow that DR..
James Titterington, Crockers humane
dentist, uses laughing gas.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Is there no limit to human infamy? Z?
Thieves who had been baked in one
attempt to raid the hog yard of a
farmer near Hawkeye, Galloway
county, by the squeals of the animals,
came back with a bottle OF chloro-
form.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

High cost living has even hit hu-
manity, observes the California Her
aid, in noting that while we bought
the Filipinos at 81 a head, the resi-
dents of the Danish West Indies are
costing us $3.50 apiece.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Colonel W. B. Rogers, veteran edi-
tor of the Republican-Tribune of
Trenton, reached his eighty-second
year Thursday.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Mr.. J. J. Cop has been sworn in as
eventualities are awaited.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

A Louisiana bank has added an
automobile bookkeeping machine so
canny that 1t refuses to work when a
depositor's account shows an over
draft. But so far no method for pre-
venting a woman from writing checks
as long as blanks remain in her book
has been devised.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

L. w. Bigley experienced the won
derful feeling of selling a load of hogs
for more than $4,000 last week-in
fact the load netted him $2,1O4.43, on
the St. Joseph market. The hogs
were of Mr.. Bigley's own feeding.
There were 81 in the load, average
weight 26O lbs, at SIZES, quite a bit
below the top.-FairfaX Forum.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Forty-six coal oil stoves were hur-
riedly pressed into service at a Mound
City greenhouse recently when the
boiler of the heating plant got out Of
commission. Prompt action in light
ing the stoves saved the stock Of
flowers estimated at several thousand
dollars.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

The fire which destroyed the home
Of Robert McIlvain in northeastern
Clay county recently appears to have
been a greater catastrophe than first
reports indicated. ]. C. Holt, the first
neighbor on the scene, had time to
save a feather bed.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

The Marshall Democrat-New has a
delicate way of breaking death news
to its readers. zone of the profess
sional engagements of p. NJ. Walker,
mortician, for Monday" says the
Democrat-N News, was the arrange
ment for the burial of the late Mrs.
Blank, who died at the home Of her
nephew Sunday"
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Troop trains returning from Texas
TO Ohio that passed through Brook
field this week were placarded, "FrCm
He'll to Heaven" and From Texas
to Paradise" a gross libel on the
sovereign state of Texas, which really
is as charming a place of abode as
Siberia.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

]. X. Spsngler, of Elmo, was killed
Tuesday evening by having a load Of
hay turn over with him. Mr.. Spang-
Ter had gone out southwest of Elmo
in the afternoon for load of hay.
He was seen about 4 o'clock loading
the hay, and about o'clock a man
passing along saw the load of hay
turned over and on going to it found
Mr.. Spangler lying unconscious some
little distance away.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

The Chillicothe Chamber OF Com
merce will ask that one OF the two
military training camps to be estab-
lished in Missouri this spring be To-
Gated there. Chillicothe is the logical
site for one camp, it is pointed out,
General Pershing having been born
in Linn county.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Eight or nine tons of hemp raised
thirty years ago was shipped from
Mosby recently to a twine factory
which bought it at 500 ton. The
hemp had been stored in barn, the
grower having held it for that price.
Time was when hemp sold for as
much as 1920 a ton, the price in the
old hemp growing days being govern
ed by the yield of the Kentucky hemp
fields. When the price was beaten
down the Clay county grower just
waited.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Ordinarily We country folks don't
worry about our city cousins, but we
cannot restrain our sympathy for Mrs.
Lueile Murphy, of st. Louis, who was
Fastening TO board a street car when
q lighted cigar stub carelessly tossed
out O rear window fell within her
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Up to February the secretary of
states office issued $3.50 auto IL
censes for which fees to the amount
Of 100000 were received. This is
about one-half the number issued last
be 10000 licenses issued during the
current year.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

"Limburger cheese will drive ants
boards" according to household
hint, which fails, the Clifton Hill
Rustler holds, to give limburser
than that" declares the Rustler. at
will drive spike in brick, drive a
hog out of a lanyard, drive a mule
through a barbed wire fence and a
negro away from a chicken roost."
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

The Butler Democrat tells the story
OF the son Of q Butler physician who
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

What has become of our boasted
patriotism? A Lamar druggist is ad-
vertising "Prussian calf meal" as a
milk substitute.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Sydney J. Waterman, William
Jewell student, who enlisted in a Can
adian unit, writts back from the
trenches to a friend in Liberty. II am
In the best OF health. but tired, except
at certain times when one forgets 1t.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Only a few of the fault-finders are
good enuf to draw pay as critics. ~
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Miss Matte Woodcock was up from
her suburban place Wednesday and
she is confidently prophecying six
weeks OF rain in the near future and
thinks it will be just the thing for a
good crop year. -Four years ago the
winter was fine and you remember
how six feet OF snow came the last of
February and that we had snow on
Easter Sunday" said Miss Matte.
She is one of the pioneer teachers OF
the county and is yet youthful in mind
and spirit for she is an inveterate
reader from the best intellects OF the
present and past and no one enjoys
life more.-savannah Reporter.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

A public spirited Sarcoxie druggist
has supplied every pupil in the grade
schools there with tooth paste, but
the problem of inducing the boys to
apply it to their teeth is left to the
ingenuity of the already overworked
teachers.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

How to increase city revenue and
at the same time enforce respect for
the ordinances concerning the peace
and dignity Of the city is solved to
his own satisfaction at least, by Sc
dallas chief of police. The chief sug-
gests that Immediately upon arrival in
the city each visitor be required to
deposit So with some city official as
a surety for good behavior. Should
the visitor behave himself properly
the money would be returned to him.
IS could be applied on the fine.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

John Vanderlluden stepped into the
limelight as some poultry raiser Tues
day when he sold two Plymouth Rock
hens to f. o. Browning that brought
him s2.SS.-Burlington Junction Post.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Folks never grow old in Missouri.
To Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Arnold, Of Atchi-
son county, aged 63 and So, respect-
lively, has just been born their six
teenth child, a ten pound daughter.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Speaking of humble heroes there's
Policeman Cy Freeman, of Cape
Glrardeau, who ate seven meals at
an all night lunchery between mid
night and morning.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

one by one the traditions fall. None
Of the three county judges Of McDon-
aid county, southwestern Missouri,
uses tobacco in any form. according
to the Pineville Democrat
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Congressman Hensley Of the Thir-
teenth Missouri district, will not
again seek reelection. He has held
the office four terms and will retire
at the end of his present term.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Edward Barton, a life long and
honored resident of Linn county, who
died last week, was a soldier in the
Second Missouri Confederate Volun-
teers and was wounded at Corinth.
His colonel, DR.. Peter c. Flournoy of
Linneus, kneeled beside him and said,
Ed, my boy, fear you are fatally
wounded. Is there any word you want
to send to your folks?" you might
tell them that I was not shot in the
back" replied Barton in a flash.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03
SENATOR REED
DEFENDS EDITORS

Continued from Page 1
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

low cut dress.-Henry County Demo-
crat.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

"If Pharaoh had used silos," adver-
tises Mountain Grove dealer, "ey-
erybody in Egypt would have had
roast beef and cream gravy" VIII
someone please pass the ensilage this
way?
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

william Rolf, Of Alma, was haul
ing a load Of fodder to town, his dog
trailing the wagon, Four wolves at
tackled the dog and only by prompt
action with the scoop shovel was the
dog saved
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

On Monday w. L. Reynolds sold to
j. NJ. Shumate the following poultry:
Seventy-three head, bringing him
$97.2O-he had three coops. One
coop of "a hens, weighing 7lbs. each,
at II cents, which was $1.19 EACH
Two coops of SO head capons weigh
ing pounds each at 22 cents por
pound. which netted him s1.76 each.
Forest City News.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Aztec corn, a thousand years old, is
being planted in Kansas and the Jop-
lin News-Herald assumes that the
spectators who held it weren't salts
fled with prices in the Christian era.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Willie Sherman, son Of a ST. Louis
physician, is not yet p years old but
has been married twice showing that
he has tasted the bitter with the
sweet at a very tender age.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

DR.. c. f. Wettstein was on the en-
tertainmeut committee for the open
ing OF the new Elks' clubhouse at
Trenton Tuesday, and it is presumed
that an enjoyable time was had by
all.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

In the interest of conservation, the
King City Democrat says that next
season two potatoes should be made
to grow where none grew before
Which is all right, If a person car
only make 'em grow.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Plans will be finished and the con-
tract let in about three weeks for the
construction of the 100000 dormitory
for women at the Maryvile State
Normal school.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Cameron has raised the required
$500 and Missouri Wesleyan Col
lege will be rebuilt and be permanent
ly located at that place.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Getting married only changed Two
letters in the name of Miss Frances
V. Miller, of Warrensburg. Her hus-
bands name is Francis ;. Miller.
The St. Joseph observer., 1917-03-03

Tomato futures in Platte county
went up 81 a ton last week when the
Dearborn Canning factory raised their
contract price to $40 a ton.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-08-17

Due TO the scarcity Of broom
corn. State Senator J. r. Domen-
geaux. OF Louisiana. has expert
mented successfully with palmetto
as a substitute.