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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
Cat and Dog Are Frozen
in Attitude Of Conflict

Wimbledon News: To the many
curiosities wing for first place as the
eighth wonder of the world new rival
has been discovered near Wimbledon,
which, in the opinion of the discover
ers, will make all other claimants fade
into oblivion. In this case the object
of wonderment is not freakish crea-
ture, the result of slip Of nature, but
rather a freakish conditional dog and
cat standing, facing each other in a
fighting attitude, apparently a deter
mined stand after bitter chase, their
wide open eyes wild with rage, the
cats tail bushy, back bristled and
mouth open as if just ready to lead an
other charge. In that position they be-
came paralyzed with cold and finally
froze rigid.
At least this is the attitude in which
they were discovered Saturday. J. d..
Fox and Louis Altringer, of this city,
while driving across field to avoid a
bad piece of road near liver Skarr's
place, eight miles north of town, made
the discovery. Struck by the singular
ity of the animals position and salts
1lCu ClAdC IA4C AAOCh was lAO AohO Cl1Cy
left the bodies undisturbed.
The next morning J. E. Fox and
Photographer John Harter drove out,
and after taking number of photo
graphs from various angles, they took
the creatures up and brought them to
town. They will have them mounted
and placed in the position in which
they were originally found.
The cat is a normal sized gray cat
and the dog is a short-haired mongrel
about twice the size of the cat. They
belonged to liver Skarr and the place
where they were found was in the
open field about an eighth of a mile
from the farm buildings. They had
been missing about week.
This cat and dog have created quite
a sensation. Many look in credulous
when they hear the story, but the
facts are there and that freak Incl
dence has actually transpired and has
been discovered is the belief of all who
have full knowledge Of the facts.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
500 Freight Rammed Mp.
Rotary at Lucca Tuesday

Fingal Herald: Tuesday morning
when the east-bound freight on the
500 line was running through Lucca
at quite fast rate, the engineer evi"
dently neglected to stop for the cross
ing Of the N. P. track, where the ro>
tary snowplow was standing. The
rotary engine was struck with terrific
force and with the tender was knock
ed into the ditch, tearing up consid-
cradle track en- route. The N. P. en-.
gine was badly demolished with the
exception of the boiler, which is said
to be in fairly good condition. 9'he
accident occurred about $50 in the
morning. DR.. Labbett was called from
Enderlin and cared for three injured
men, who were taken to the hospital
at Enderlin. John Douglas, engineer,
suffered several broken ribs and a
sprained back. C. H. Witchurch, fire.
man, back sprained, and r. l.. Long,
brakeman, back sprained and an arm
and leg badly scalded. None of the
N. P. crew were injured.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
United Press Has Awful
TaleofCerman Trenches

(By VIM. Philliu Firms, United Press
correspondent with the British armies
In Farnce):
One of the reasons why the Germans
retreated along the Ancre was because
they were fast becoming lunatics. The
positions they held there were fast be-
coming more hideous than the SOUP
pers of hell. The field was covered
with mud that in some places was al
most bottomless and the ceaseless
pounding of the British guns turned
their positions into places where the
stencil was too much for human nerves
to stand. The United Press CORES
spondent was the very first American
permitted to penetrate ground evac-
uated by the German army as far as
Thilloy and toward Bapaume. Madame
Jussaud's chamber of Horrors" is as
cheerful as a May day compared with
this field of terror. At every step the
correspondent zigzagged through stag
nant cesspools in which the water had
the exact color of blood. This might
have been due to the chemicals from
the high explosives which rent the
holes or it might have been due to the
nature of the ground itself. The cor
respondent found himself stepping on
German bodies which Uttered the
trenches in piles several deep. He saw
arms sticking at full length out of the
mud which concealed the rest Of their
bodies. At other places legs, feet, half
bodies or heads were alone petnerating
through the thick black mire. Some
lay face downward, some prone on
their backs as though sleeping. At one
place the correspondent passed a pile
of dead Germans several deep and up
on them lay the body of boyish Off
Ger, fair as girl, lying on his back
with his blue eyes staring at the sky.
Imagine every trace of vegetation long
since blasted away; imagine the pow
der-stained ground torn up from ten
to go feet in depth; imagine mud so
bottomless that the German claim
their men were frequently swallowed
up whole in their attempts to cross it
latter dark. This is the kind of terri
tory that the Germans left when they
retreated. Today it is under the in
cessant British fire. Men on patrol
missions were caught by the British
machine guns sweeping the darkness
and could not have been saved. It was
| impossible to save those caught in the
trenches. Scores Of dead Germans
were found outside the trenches from
two attacks made in November and the
British soldiers are now burying them.
Such was. the sinkhole occupied by the
Germans. Some of the German SOL
diers became raving maniacs. Where
ever they stopped their new positions
| became as hideous as in the mud
where the hands of the dead clutched
! from the mud for the kaiser's men.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
Death Of James Moore
Came Sunday Afternoon

James Moore, an old and respected
resident Of the city,, passed away at
the family residence, 604 First avenue,
Sunday afternoon about 4:3O. The
immediate relatives were present at
the time Of his death Mr.. Moore had
been ailing for long time, and his
death was not entirely unexpected.
James Moore was 81 years old and
had been resident of Valley City for
the last 18 years. During that time he
has been a respected and industrious
citizen. He leaves a wife, four sons
and two daughters to mourn his loss.
The members of the family are all here
for the funeral.
The bereaved wife and children will
have the sympathy Of the entire COM
munity.
The funeral was held at the Con.
gregational church Wednesday after
noon at o'clock. Rev. Lyon conduct
ed the services. Members of the fire
department attended the funeral in a
BODY.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
Ed. Pherigo Is Married

Enderlin independents: Last Tues
day afternoon, at the home ofaRev. F.
w. Harron in Minneapolis, J. E. Pher-
igo, of this city, was united in marriage
to Miss Helen E. Austin, of Grand Rap
ids, Wis. The bride is most estim-
able lady whom Mr.. Pherigo met last
summer at Fargo. Eds Enderlin
friends join with the Independent in
wishing Mr.. and Mrs. Pherigo happi-
ness and prosperity in their welded
life. Mr. Pherigo returned from Mime
apolis Wednesday night and his bride
will follow in a few days, as. soon as
she settles some business matters at
her old home at Grand Rapids. They
will be at home to Enderlin friends
after March 10.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08

The serbon themes at the services
of the Methodist church for next Sun
day morning and evening, according
to the settled policy of the pastor, will
be most practical and vital. In the
morning the subject will be, "Are we
as a people to be our own destroyers?"
In the evening at the request Of a
party who is not an attendant Of this
church, the pastor will discuss the
dance. This will not. be a dogmatic
denunciation of persons, but an at
tempt to set forth such conclusions as
the facts of life seem to demand.
Those who have no church home are
urged to attend some of these SER
vices and help spread the influence of
this "homelike church" with it's mes
sages for the times.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
SHOULD TEST SEEDS
FOR ERMlNATION

A few years ago the Iowa expert
ment station collected corn from the
seed selected to plant from large
number of farmers in every county in
the state. In all they tested $500
samples for termination. 1t. was
found that 19 per cent of this corn
was dead and 81 per cent was SO weak
in it's powers to grow as to make it
useless for Seed This may have been
an unusual year, but think of the loss
to the farmers of that state had this
corn been planted without first being
tested.
1t would mean only go per cent of a
stand, or three-tifths of a crop. Sup
posing good stand made so bushels,
these farmers would have received 80
bushels. This would have been loss
Of 20 bushels per acre, Or $14 per acre,
at 70 cents per bushel
A boy near Valley City made SIM
pie termination test of some oats his
father had bought to plant 40 acres.
The boy found that the oats were very
poor, only small per cent growing.
His father, however, was not satisfied
with the test, so he planted a few
acres with the oats anyway. The re-
suits were that he did not get anything
at all from these few acres.
Many other examples might be cited
to show how important it is to test all
seeds before they are planted. This
is a simple matter, taking only a
short amount of work, yet it is exceed
ingly important in insuring against a
poor stand or even no stand at all in
some cases.
An article will follow later giving
simple methods of making fairly ac-
curate tests of ordinary farm seeds.
-McNeal c.. James,
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
City Team Easily Defeats the
Speedy Hendruln Ball Tossers

Monday evening at the Armory the
Hendrum, Minn., team which the Min
neapolis and Fargo papers have been
boosting as being of championship cal
ibre fell before the City team in its
first game. The score was "a to %.
The game started out fast and was
kept that way for the full first half.
The second half was little slower
on account of the locals not being lin
the best of condition, but if they had
been forced they could have gone the
limit. There was some brilliant play
i'll the game, and shows that all the
locals need is practice and condition
ing to stand the full time of the game.
The town team has the makings of the
fastest in this part of the country.
Bonynge and Stevenson at forward
could not have been kept down with
four guards. They played good floor
games. Harry Davidson, the big cen
ter, played remarkably well. Red Mel
son held his own at guard.
In the preliminary game the Inde
|pendents defeated the Reserves.
The lineup for the big game was:
Valley City Hendrum
BOnynge .rf. ...... Knutsor
Stevenson If. ....... Brattland
Davidson. ....... &C.. BrattlanC
Mcdonald. ...rg. ........ Duberg
Nelson ...lg.......... Fuller
|, Baskets from. field: Bonynge ~
Stevenson 5; Davidson 6; Nelson /;
ID. Brattland 2; G.. Brattland 3; Knut
son 4; Duberg 1. Free throws: Bratt
land 2. Koehn was substituted for Nc
Donald and Delaney for Nelson.
The band concert was one of the
pleasing features of the evening, and
enjoyed by all.
The dance which followed the game
was successful, both in attendance and
having a good time It. was a fitting
climax to an evening of clean sport
and wholesome entertainment.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
Mandan Will Have
Biggest Shop on N. P.

Mandan, March 6.-All question as
TO whether the Northern Pacific rail-
way company would build it's proposed
new shops here this year has been dis.
sipated. Positive information has
been secured that the Northern Paci.
fic has asked a dozen or more of the
greater contractors of the nation to bid
on the Mandan plant. 1t has also been
learned upon reliable authority that
the N. P. purchasing department has
let contracts for $50O,000 worth Of ma
chinery for the shops.
r. The new Mandan plant will be the
largest car and locomotive repair and
building works on the Northern Pacific
system; will be greater that the shops
at Brainerd, Livingston or Tacoma,
and will cost between $1,500,O00 and
$2,000,000. Four large factory build
ings, 1O0x250, are contemplated and
company engineers have laid out the
sites.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
TAYLOR INVENTOR HAS SAFETY
DEVICE FOR AUTOMOBILES

Taylor, March IA safety device
for automobiles which in case of acci-
dent will cause the wheels of the auto
to run in a parellel line with the car,
thus eliminating the risk of the wheels
becoming "jack-knifed' and the car
upsetting, has been patented by H. H.
Eldredge, a garage man here, who
worked on the device two years. The
device will be manufactured in st. Paul
and will sell for SIS. The inventor de-
clares that a time will come when all
automobiles will be equipped with one.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
SAVE THREE CHILDREN,
BUT FOURTH PERISHES'

Manning, March 7.-Three Of the
children were saved but the fourth,
a child of one and half years, per-
ished in the flames which destroyed
the John Heiser home near Grassy
Butte Sunday. The parents were out
side doing chores when one of the
children playing with matches lighted
some paper on the wall
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
MARMAETH MAN is SAVED
BY ACT OF COMPANION

Marmarth, March 7.-Thrown under
the forward end of a moving switch
engine, George Anderson, riding on the
footboard, was saved from death by
Jim Barns, who grabbed Anderson by
the collar Of the mackinaw and drag
ged him along until the engine could
be stopped. The footboard had struck
a pile of frozen dirt, throwing Ander-
son under the forward part of the en-
gine
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
FROM COAL
GAS Is GIVEN AS CAUSE

Hazen, March 6.-Suffication from
coal gas has been given by the coroner
OF Oliver county, as the cause Of the
death of Charles Brown, who was
found frozen in his shack, eight miles
south Of here last Saturday. His
clothes and body were burned, which
with the lids off the cook stove plainly
indicated that an explosion had occur
red.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
CONSOLIDATE NEWSPAPERS

Harvey, March u. R. Richards.
editor of the Harvey Journal, yester-
day announced the purchase of the
Herald Publishing company, publish
ers of The Herald and The Advertiser.
The papers will be consolidated with
The Journal,
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
GETS BIG CHECK FOR THREE PIGS

Hettinger, March John Carroll,
Of the Dainy Butte country, came to
town this week with three pigs. He
returned to his home with a check Of
$104.75 which he presented to his
wife. He got the top price, $11.5O per
hundred weight
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
ARREST CROSBY MAN
TWICE IN ONE DAY

Crosby, March 7. - William La
Shelle, recently Of this city, was ar
rested twice in one day at Westby,
Mont, according to word reaching
here. The first time he was taken
into custody was on an assault and
battery charge. The second time was
on a charge of white slavery.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
$4,000 JAIL AT BOWMAN

Rhame, March 6.-Jesse M. Warren,
an architect of Butte, Mont, has been
employed to draw plans and speclflca'
tons for Jail at Bowman county to
cost approximately $4,000. The
building will be located just east OF the
court house.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
MEDORA SCHOOL HOUSE
DESTROYED By FIRE

Medora, March 6.-The school house
in the Lebo district, six miles south
of here, was burned to the ground last
night. It was reported that an attempt
had been made the previous night to
destroy the building by pouring oil on
the floor. For some time there has
been agitation in favor of the removal
of the building to another location.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
EDITOR OF
STATE REPORTED ILL

Williston, March 7.-George FAIRIES,
publisher of the Wiliiston Herald and
one of the well-known state newspaper
men, has gone to sanitarium at Bat
tie Creek, Mich, in hopes of escaping
an operation which physicians declare
imminent. Reports indicate that his
condition is serious.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
BOY PLAYING WITH
RIFLE SHOT IN LEG

Underwood, March shot through
the foot and suffering from loss of
blood, the 12-year-old-son Of Mr.. and
Mrs John Mccartney was taken to
Bismarck yesterday for medical treat
ment. The boy was playing with
rifle which was accidentally discharg-
cd
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
EDINBURGH MAN RESIGNS

Edinburgh, March 7.-Having taken
position as instructor in manual
training in the high school at Cloquet'
Mimi, Frederick Smith Peterson has
announced his resignation to take
effect Immediately.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
Holzman's S Sale FRIDAY
to Be Record-Breaker

George Holzman's auction sale Fri
day is going to draw a big crowd of
buyers. He has a fine lot of stock
and machinery and if the day is good
it will probably be a record-breaker.
He has advertised literally in both
Daily and Weekly Times-Record and
that generally brings the business. If
should not miss this sale.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
Hogs Are Higher Than Ever

Chicago, March 6.-Hogs established
a new high record when they sold for
SASS per 100 pounds on the local mar
ket. This is an increase of from 20 to
Is cents over yesterdays quotations.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
IMPROVEMENT At PARSHALL

Parshall, March 7.-Railway car
penters started at work this week max
ing an addition to the local station and
other improvements in the yards here
For two-year-old town Parshall is the
fastest stepping town in the state.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
NEW RECORD AT ST. LOUIS

East St. Louis, ILL.,, March 6.-The
hog market continued sky rocketing
today, with $14.60 the top price,
which is new record. The prices
We're up from ten to Is cents.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08
HAZEN MAN LOSES EYE
IN THRESHlNG ACCIDENT

Hazen, March 6.-Elmer Larson was
forced to submit to an operation for
the removal of his right eye, as the
result of an accident sustained while
threshing last fall. o.. .-,...-, ...-. ~.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-03-08

If it's newsy, call the Times-Record.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16

j. Il. Seal. editor and proprietor of
the Millersburg Herald, died ut the
Keystone Hospital last night. Mr..
Seal was 20 years old and had been in
poor health for number of years.
John Benjamin Seal was born on a
farm in Upper Paxton township, one
mile northeast of Millersburg. March
l, 1S41, on the same premises where
his father and grandfather lived all
their lives. When Is years old he be-
came a school teacher and followed
that profession seven years, in the
meantime pursuing his studies at Mil
lersville State Normal school, lie
taught three terms in the district, and
then took charge of the grammar
school at Millersburg and served a
term as principal of the nigh school
OF the town. He organized a private
school known as the West Bangor Sc
lect School. in York county.
In 1872 Mr.. Seal engaged in the
printing and stationery business here
and in 1874 established the Millers-
burg Herald. of which he remained the
editor and publisher until his death.
Mr.. Seal always took an active in
terest in public affairs, and was prom
inent in every movement or enterprise
for the benefit of his home town and
county. He was an active member of
the MeJhodlSt Cnurcn ana was pfoml-
nent IN Masonic circles.
In 1884 he was nominated by the
Republicans of Dauphin county for
the PENNSYLVANIA Legislature and in
November of that year was elected by
q large majority.
On February 8. 1891. Mr.. Seal was
commissioned postmaster of Millers-
burg for term of four years by Pres
ident Harrison. He was elected to the
Millersburg school board in 1896 and
was chosen president of that body.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
TURKS CONTINUE
HEADLONG FLIGHT
rConti,med From First Pagel

[Continued From First PaGe1
ish commander, reports them con-
tinuing to fall back.
On the other side of the Tigris.
however, the Turkish forces are ap-
parently endeavoring to hold on. for
a time at least, to territory lying
northwest from Bagdad toward the
Persian border. General Maude's re-
port announces. occupation by the
British of a portion of the town of
Bukubah, on the Diala river. about
thirty miles northeast of Bagdad.
Turkish resistance there is suggested
1t seems not unlikely that the Turk
ish purpose Is to hold off the British
in this region as q measure of assist
ance to the Turkish armies from Ker-
manshad, which at last accounts were
retreating toward the Persian border
not far north of the present point of
contact between British and Turks on
the Diala. The British object in driv-
ing northeastward seems to lie to push
wedge between the Turkish Meso-
potamian forces and tho Ottoman
troops retiring along the Kermanshah-
G2g6ad caravan road.
Fighting of notable appearance, by
all indications. is taking place on the
Macedonian front. The French have
been on the aggressive with consid-
erable forces there for some days To-
utN = DeFtHl lepOTlS say repeated at
tackS by the French occurred yester-
day northwest and north of Monastir
The Germano- Bulgarian position near
Nijopole, six miles west of Monastir.
was admittedly preached in this series
of assaults. Otherwise the attacks are
declared to have failed. as did French
attacks farther west between Lakes
Ochrida and Presba
In the house OF commons to-day the
British chancellor of the eXchequer in
dicated that an appeal to the country
was possible because of the attitude OF
the Irish Nationalists hampering the
government in its conduct OF the war
There has been Il general desire in
Great Britain to avoid elections dur
ing the war and the life of the par
lament has been extended to obviate
the necessity of holding them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
ECONOMY FOLLOWS
HIGH PRICES
Americans Use Less Food Be-
cause of Increased Cost
of Product

Washington, March 1G.-The war
and high food prices have caused
Americans TO be more economical ia
the consumption OF foodstulfs. Stetis-
tics indicating that fact have Just
been announced by the Department of
Agriculture. They show that In the
years of 1912 and 1913, before the
war, the United States was consunt-
ing rs per cent more food than II
produced. In the two war years, 1913
and 1916, the United States produced
l.2 per cent. more food that IL con-
sumed. Americans were consuming
less edible grain, meat, daily products,
vegetables, sugars and isn, while the
consumption OF coffee and teq, fruits
and nuts and poultry and eggs had
increased.
Production of foodstufrs between
the two periods Increased 81 per
cent; imports increased 3 per cent.
consumption showed an Increase of
only three e-tenths of one per cent. and
exports increased 76 per cent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-16
Pennsy's Operating
Staff in Session

Philadelphia. March 16 - The op-
Grating staff of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road is holding an all day meeting in
the general offices of the company
here. 1t is the regular monthly ses-
sion of these officials, and while moth
ing was given out, il Is presumed the
staff is considering ways and means
for meeting the threatened strike.
1t was said at the general offices
that the Pennsylvania railroad has not
been officially notified that its men
will be called out and until such noti-
fication is received the company will
have nothing to say regarding the sit
uation. No notices of embargoes have
been issued here.
1t is known unoficially that all the
arrangements made last fall to com
bat the strike then threatened are
ready TO be put into effect if walkout
is ordered. The company is receiving
reports as tothc attitude of the men
who would be affected by ctrike or
der. but these reports were not Off
cially made public.