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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-02-01

Upon motion the board adjourned to
Monday morning.
Monday, Jan. Is, 1917
900 n. m.
Bourd convene pursuant to adjourn
mcnt.
All members present.
Upon motion the board proceeded to
check the offices of auditor and treas
urcr Monday and Tuesday and found
the following report to be correct.
Balance on hand Jan. LIST,
1916 s215.267.41
COLLECTIONS for the year
ending Dec. 81, 1916 $500. S3O.173.42
Total .............. .......$1 ,O45, ,44O.S3
Total ayments for the
year ending Dec. 31,1916 ST., O07.47
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-02-01
NOTICE.

The new directory for the Langdon
Telephone Company will be issued
shortly. The new book will be come
what larger than heretofore and will
reach several additional homes, max
ing it a good advertising medium.
Anyone wishing advertising space or
change of address, will kindly notify
the company.
27-2t. r. 7. Burke, Manager.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-02-01
[OFFIl IALl
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
Board Of County Commissioners
CAVALIER COUNTY, N. D.

CAVALIER COUNTY, N. D.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-02-01

Minute of a regular session of the
board of county commissioners Of
Cavalier county, held at the auditors
office at Langdon, North Dakota,
Tuesday, January And 1917 at 300 p. m.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-02-01
IntheArena
Of Sports
Darcy of Australia

Les Darcy. the Australian middle
weight boxing champion, who recently
years OF age and has a fine physical
appearance. Ills height is slightly
over five feet six inches, and he
weighs about 175 pounds. Working ut
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-02-01
Hermann Keeps His Job.

At the recent annual session of the.
National baseball commission Presi-
dent John X. Tener of the National
league and President Ban 3. Johnson
OF the American league voted for Au-
gust Herrmann's reelection as chair
man of the commission. John e.
Bruce of Cincinnati was reelected seq
rotary.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-02-01

balance on hand in banks
and otherwise Jan.1, 1917 1GS,433.36
Upon motion the board adjourned to
Wednesday morning.
Wednesday, Jan. IL, 1917
600 II. m.
The board convened pursuant to adj
journmcnt.
All members present.
Upon motion the following amounts
MNre apnrOnriatcd for office hire In
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-02-01
NOTICE OF TEACHERS EXAM.
NATION.

An examination of applicants for
teachers certificates will be held at
Langdon and at Munich on Thursday
and Friday, February 9Th and 9th,
1917.
Fred j. Reher,
County Superintendent.
Dated at Langdon. N. D., Jan. II,
1917.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-02-01
CITY OFFICERS
SOCIETY DIRECTORY.

CHAPTER OF ROSE CROIN-Langdon Chap
ter Mo- holds regular communications on
the first and third Thursdays of each month
at the Masonic Temple.
WILLIAM FLACk, w. NJ.
ROBERT WORK, Secretary.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-02-01

LODGEOF Observation-Disclosures No.S
holds regular communications un tho first and
thiri Thursdays of each month at the Masonic
j. i. TRuAx, V. NJ.
'iGHERr WORK, Sec'y.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-02-01

Photo By American Press .NssGGlation.
LESTER DAICY,
his trade of blacksmith has given him
broad shoulders and Il deep chest.
while his hips are narrow and his legs
small in comparison to his bulky up
per body. Since he began fighting, five
years ago, lie has taken part in thir-
ty-sevcn bouts. lie won al of these
but four, twenty of them ending in
k%nockouts. His full name is James
Lester Darcy.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-11
THOUGHTS FROM LYMAN

One of the great arguments against
effect, Socialism in actual practice,
IS that the working class is not suf-
ficiently educated to conduct a gov
eminent for the members of society;
and one of the principal arguments
offered by members of the working
class who are opposed to Socialism,
is that the working class have not
sufficient brains and intellectual
thought, which renders them incom-
petent in as much as they therefore
lack self-confidence and determine
ton in dealing with the problems of
social commonwealth; not knowing
at the last critical moment which of
the courses they should pursue, and
the ultimate end of the deliberation
Government in the hands of such
would be mere chance.
Now let me say that chance in
some cases is a great remedy, and
has been the very guiding star of
many, and we do not have to go out
side the capitalist class to find such
and as illustration will cite one in
stance in the town of Lyman on cleo
ton morn when the mayor of Lyman
! seemed to think that the time had ar
rived for him to cast his ballot, in one
Of the most important campaigns in
The history of the American republic,
| 1t seemed to his Honor, the Mayor,
chat it was impossible for him, with
all his brains and his education, his
experience as a business man, his
knowledge that Socialism was so in
competent, unable to know or
eide on true and proper course to
decide which of the two capitalistic
parties should have his vote; and to
decide this very perplexing question,
rumor has it from his own lips, he
'fIipped" a coin; heads for Hughes,
tails for Wilson; heads came up and
he voted Hughes-tears for brains.
Socialism may be somewhat ignorant,
Of which we can show a valid excuse
on account Of our shortage on gray
matter, but there is not a Socialist
anywhere, the Jap not excepted, but
what knows which way he is going
To vote.
But let me now offer an excuse for
inc Mayor: He thinks he is some
thing which he is not; he realizes that
some party or somebody is getting
him; sometimes he thinks it is the
mail order houses, sometimes he
thinks it is free trade and he thinks
Notwithstanding. Why don't he
sometimes try to think up his class
and then get IN it.
CITIZEN.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-11
'IneHigh

will create on the part Of the people
in these matters and it's reflex i'm the
acccntuatcd representation they win
in business and political life as well.
will not only mean a much more near
ly just solution of this particular pro
blem, but will mean bringing the gov
eminent itself closer to the common
people and them closer to il, which
will, without question, result in their
fashioning it in such II manner as to
best meet their needs 1t is no acct
dent that wherever the cooperative
movement is strongest the labor
movement is strongest, and that la
Dor has the strongest representation
in all phases of the government.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-11
WAGE SLAVE DEPUTIES

Jack Lynch, Lowell paper mill.
>, M. Hodgen, Lowell paper mill.
Scotty Robinson, Lowell paper mill.
Percy Aines, Canyon Mill.
Robert Metz, Lowell paper mill.
~ French, -Nickerson Mill.
Carl Clapp, City Water Dept.
Joel Tobb, Home Shoe Store.
Bailey Hilton, Salesman.
Walter Smith, C. B. Mill.
C. Tucker, Clough- Hartley Mill.
r. w. Hunt, Weyerhaeuser Lbr. Co
Lee Wallquist, Clough Hartley mill
P. w. Liplle, Everett Water Dept.
Thos. E. Headlee, Bkpr C. N. Mil
Claud Smith, Millwright.
Joe Schofield, Clark Nickerson mill
Fred Bradshaw, Laborer.
Percy Ames, Boomman.
A. A. Erickson, Sumner Iron Works
Walter Downs, Jamison Mill
Ed. Carlson, C. B. Mill
e. f. Mcmillan, Cargo Mill
r. A. Noys, C. N. Mill
John Nypen, C. N. Mill
John French, C. N. Mill
I, S. Thompson, Granite Falls Stag'
X. B. Theeurer, Canyon Mill
Mike McDermott, H. o. SETTER
Mod 10
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-11
...,,lnb MATER
''A WITH THE S. r.?

r,rorade 0. II. Stone is, in my
opinion. most eminently correct IN
satrg that the cause Of the slump
in the Socialist vote lies in our mode
If ,r,napanda. but this is as far as
we t,ayol together. lie thinks the
.rouao is that we have not tried to
instruct the proletariat in scientific
Socialism; that if we had circulated
fewer JeafIcts and more copies Of
."fhe Communist Manifesto and En-
gels Socialism Utopian and Scien-
tific" tie Socialist vote would have
grown hstead of falling off.
The tomrade is way off-There
was lotsrf room for improvement IN
The leafll5s, not the slightest doubt
of it, but, TO offer to the overworked,
uneducated proletariat books demand
ing serious logical thought, like the
Two books before mentioned, is time
and money wasted.
As a rule the Socialist propaganda
mas zen too lofty for the common
-huICltud> 1t was aimed far above
their heads. 1t was absurd and fool
lsh to expect UNem to appreciate it,
as it would be to ask a man to run
an aeroplane who hao never hoard Of
The contraption. The power to think
implies mental discipline, years of
! training and these advantages the
wage workers, with rare exceptions,
have not had AS an instance Of the
way the scientific propaganda works.
Some ten or twelve years ago, we
mad here in Seattle street speaker
arthur Morrow Lewis) who was a
Iandy at selling books.
He was Scientific with a capital
IS" and his two favorite books were
the very ones so admired by Comrade
Stone. / have known Lewis to sell
in an hours time fifty to one hundred
copies Of Socialism Utopian and
Scientific" / saw many of these cop
les afterward, they showed no signs
Of wear. / doubt if one copy out OF
ten was ever read through.
In point of fact many Of these
scientific works on Socialism were
not written for the working class.
Marx certainly never aimed his
great work "Capitap at the heads Of
the proletariat, as in the first volumr
English EDITION. there were $50 foo
notes, untranslated, from almost
every continental European language
including latin and greek. 1t may be
asked what did Marx aim at? HI
was hitting the bourgeois philosoph
ers and so-called political economists
Of his day.
Scientific Socialism has it's proper
place in our propaganda, and "Ht
that is able to receive it let him re
ceive it." but l don't believe in max
ing it the main push. It's time K
quit feeding the proletariat will
theories and abstract ideas: the!
want the concrete facts, something
that appeals to their senses. The
average worker is from Missouri =
he needs to be shown.
H. S. CROSBY,
2340 N. ODD, Seattle
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-11
ECHO VALLEY LOCAL
HAS GOOD TIME
Everson, Wash, Jan. I. 1917.

Everson, Wash, Jan. I, 1917.
The Northwest Worker,
Everett, Washington.
The charter members Of Local
Echo Valley on Xmas night gave
a general good time TO the members
Of the local and their friends. An
oysteI supper was served and the ev-
ening was spent at games and dane
ine. The entertainment was given
Ia honor Of the tenth anniversary
since she organization OF the local.
Local Echo Valley was organized
December g, 1906, With IL charter
nembers, Of which are tin NOM
be- II good standing Local Eeho
Valley has never failed to report and
has missed very few meatinee We
have had 35 different members; at
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-11
WE NEVER FORGET


Mayor Merrill, n patriotic citizen.
Sam Walker, Republican Leader.
j. q. Gibson, summer Iron Works
w. r. Booth, Real Estate
Dr. Britt Veterinary Surgeon
G.. j. Whitney. Bay Idle Iron Works
ii. T. Fowler, Pacific Grocery Co.
Otto Leese, Leese Bros. Garage
Ed. llawes, Printer and Stationer.
jynn Insurance Company.
A. u. Hall, Real Estate shark.
II. W. Stuchell, Mgr. Eclipse mill
Kelly, building contractor.
II. o. Day, Mgr. Brodeck & Day.
r. NJ. MISSIONER, "The Plumber"
Dan Co'lie, Real Estate Shark.
NeiI Jamlaep, Mill Owner.
Ray Brown, iloooe Shoe Store.
Capt. KamweIl, Sea-. Boat Owner
Brewster Cigar store werks.
Tom Ueadlee, Canyon Lunar 10
Roland Hartley, Mill Owner.
at Quinn Real Estate.
ED. Stone, Real Estate.
Ocean Food Packing Co.
Herb SwaIwell, Real Estate,
f. x. Baker, Mill Owner.
II. w. Shaw, Coal and Wood.
Robbins Cement Co.
Lewis Conner, Everett Print Shop.
Robt. Moody, First National Bank.
j. A. Powers, Farm Products.
A. }. Agnew, Agnew Hardware Co
il. A. DUR, DUR Laundry Co.,
D. =. Oswald, Pacific Hardware Co
DR.. Frank Paddock, Dentist.
c. W. Anguish, Real Estate.
Oliver Clay, Weyerhaeuser Lbr. Co
a. l.. Van Valley, Soft Drink Mfg
Vigo Kreiger, Kreiger's Laundry.
Peter Zimmerman, Surveyor.
A. G. Edwards, Real Estate.
II. d. Cooley, Republican Politician
Walsh Bros Real Estate
H. W. White Logger
j. M. Hogan, lawyer and politician
j. w. Knapp, Brickmaker.
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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-11
DON'T FORGET

Kirkpatrick's latest book think OF
Surrender" is humdmger and can be
obtained from this office for Is cents.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
CHEATING CHEATERS" HERE
FRIDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER S
Farce Melodrama Played Solid Year
in New York Theatre.

Farce Melodrama Played Solid Year
in New York Theatre.
Cheating Cheaters," which A. H.
Woods will present at the New Opera
House, Dawson, for an engagement
Friday, October 9Th, has just com
pleted an engagement of a solid
year at the Eltinge Theater, New
York, and comes to Dawson with the
endorsement of the press and public
of New York as one of the most de-
lightful entertainments of many sea-
sons. The play is best described as a
farce melodrama in four acts and is
the work of Max MARGIN, author of
"The House of Glass" While the
characters in the play are for the
most part Crooks" Cheating Cheat
ers" is not a crook play in the ac-
cepted sense of the word. 1t is bril-
liant farcical satire on the "crook
as tense and exciting as
melodrama, and as full of sparkling
comedy as the koyest of farces. All
lovers of the theater should see this
brilliant comedy that attracted dis
corning New York audiences for an
entire year. The play will be inter-
preted by a powerful cast.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
MANY STRAY ANIMALS
ARE KILLED BY RAILROAD
On Savannah Division Alone Central of Georgia Trains Killed
in Seven Months 634 Valued at Over $1,000.

SAVANNAH, Ga.-On the Savan-
nah division of the Central of Geor-
gia railway during the first seven
months of 1917 through animals
straying on the tracks of the COM
pany and being killed by passing
trains, according to figures just COM
piled by the office of the general
manager.
Ten Dollars Head.
The total number of animals of
food value killed during the period
from January to July 81, inclusive,
was GA, ranging from geese to fine
dairy cows, with an average value of
$40 per head on conservative market
prices for such meats. This gives a
total value of $6,34O.OO for the lost
meat.
Train rules on the Central of
Georgia require engineers to use the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25

qulrements are me- modern
camp kitchen.
When the soldiers are ON the
march the camp kitchen waddles
along behind. A cooking machine has
been perfected for the United States
government and is declared to be one
of the most efficient in use. It can
be wheeled along behind the troops,
so that they can receive warm food
at any time, no matter how far away
from camp site.
Emergency Ration Big Factor.
But in modern warfare there are
many times when men are off from
their own company, or an entire com
pany is shut off from its base of sup
plies. 1t is then that the men must
fall back on emergency rations. The
American condensed soup tablets and
dog biscuits" of bygone days are
not popular with the soldiers, and the
quartermaster's department is work.
ing on a new bill of fare.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
NEGROES FORM SIXTY Per
CENT OF GEORCIA'S QUOTA
Next Movement to Camp Will Start
October 3, and Will Be Compos-
ed Almost Entirely of Blacks.

At least 60 per cent. of Georgia's
entire quota of 1887 men to be
sent to Camp Gordon will be negroes.
The next movement of 40 per cent.
which starts October 3, will be COM
posed entirely Of negro troops, and
the third and last quota will be COM
posed mostly of negroes, with the re-
mainder of the 40 per cent. of white
men which were to have moved with
the present quota. However, Cover
nor Dorsey and the military depart
ment have made arrangements with
the war department at Washington
that no negroes and white men will
move on the same day. These details
will be worked out later.
1t is estimated by Major Joel NAL
lett that Georgia will not be able to
furnish more than 40 per cent. white
men altogether, including 817 who
went to Camp Gordon on the first
call. When the local boards shall
have finished their work it is estimat-
ed that not more than 1885 white
men, at the most, will have been GER
tilted for service.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
Good Taste in Women's
Fine Shoes

The final touch to a woman's appearance lies
in the selection of her Fall Footwear.
The new modes are trife less fancifu than
heretofore, invariably displaying new nicely
of line and construction that will please you
The popular seven inch boot with plain or
fancy tips and vari-colored tops is certain to
meet with your approval. We have many mod
els for your selection. Grey, brown and black
uppers seem to hold first attention.
Make your purchases now and remember
good taste will tell We have found it 50 at
ter years OF service in selecting shoe styles to
meet your satisfaction at seasonable prices.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
Editorial


What world of meaning is bound up in
that one word and how much depends on it!
1t is not enough that you should find the
merchandise you need at this store. 1t is
not enough that you should meet with
hearty welcome or should be given the best
of attention Satisfaction embOdies both
these essentials and goes still further. 1t
means that at no time in the future shall
you have cause to regret any transaction
ever made at this store.
And this is the kind of satisfaction we in
sist on giving to our patrons, day in and
day out, throughout every month of the
year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25

utmost precaution when approaching
stock, and to exercise every care 10
avoid striking them.
Engineers state stock straying on
the tracks is a big problem. They say
not infreqdently an animal will wait
till the locomotive is just opposite
the spot where he is grazing and then
break to cross the track ahead of the
engine, and other times he becomes
terrified and actually charges head
long into the side of train, break
ing his neck and adding to the food
waste,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
HOW TO CALCULATE
YOUR INCOME TAX
A TABLE PREPARED BY A FL
NANCIAL EXPERT MAKES THE
MATTER VERY SIMPLE.

For the guidance of the man who
wants to know approximately how
much he will have to pay in federal
income taxes after the enactment of
the war revenue bill, which passed
the senate, tables are here presented
by which any one readily may find
what his tax will be. They were
worked out by Lynn E. Wolfe, fl
nancial expert of the New York
World.
The work of computing the tax
does not become complicated until
the income exceeds $4,000. From
that point upwards the figuring be-
comes more and more intricate I'M
less a "key" is obtained like the one
here presented, which makes the task
comparatively simple.
To begin calculation properly the
provisions of the new bill must be
clearly in mind. It's principle effect
is to add new normal tax of 2
per cent. normal" provided in the
law of 1916, thus making total
normal" tax of 4 per cent. on all
incomes. This is the starting point
in your figuring
Second, the new law reduces the
former exemption of $4,000 for sim
gle persons and $4,000 FOR married
persons to $1,000 and $4,000 re-
spectively, but it allows an exemp-
ton of $500 for every dependent
child under Is years. If mans net
income, after deducing the exemp-
tons, is less than 81, 900 he pays a
straight per cent. normal tax. Thus
a man with salary of $4,000, and
married but without other depend
ents, is entitled to deduct $4,000. He
then pays the normal tax on $4,000,
or $1OO.
The taxes on incomes below $5,-
900, therefore, will run in this way
when the law goes into effect:
Net Income
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
TERRELL FARMERS PROBLEM

The problem confronting the Ter
rell county farmer is how to save
what has been grown in such abund-
ance. With the Hooyerites shouting
themselves hoarse over food conser-
walton and the world waiting for our
products it seems almost a sin to
waste even an ear of corn or hand
full of peanuts.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
Prices $3.50 to $4,000
Beauty and Charm
in New Waists

That's called Fall She could
choosing several because they coaxngy tracve original
style and trimming
The silk gogte chine palmer than usual
distinction lies their collars the quality of the embrodei needle
work The wolfe effectively decorated with touches
aces which them with the tailored
them today while styles and
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
Women's Smart Suits
For Fall

While n
makes them than business
longer and help toward the youthful the figure which
much desired Buttons and braids
The oor led by blue followed by Fall
vpriced
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25

beginning at 90,UUU, tne new taxes
begin gradually to increase. Incomes
between $4,000 and $500 must pay
the per cent. normal, and in addis
ton / per cent. on the excess above
$4,000. Incomes between $500 and
$4,000 must pay the normal tax the
1 per cent surtax for the $4,000
$500 class and 2 per cent. surtax
of the excess of income over $500.
In every successive step upward the
receiver of the income must pay the
normal, the surtaxes for all the class
es below his class, and the surtax
for his own class.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
VISITORS THRoNG STREETS.

Now that the fall season is fully
opened scores of visitors help to
swell the crowds on the streets. au-
tomobiles putting the surrounding
towns in easy reach, and all who
come are mighty welcome.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
Distinctive Modes in
New Millinery

All women are preparing and choosing
new things for their seasons wardrobe, and
no one article receives az much thought and
care in its choice as-THE HAT, for none
are quite SO style important.
1t is with studied adherence to the Fall
Fashions that we choose our new models;
and our reputation for carrying the most
exclusive and distinctive millinery styles is
known throughout this territory
This seasons showing is larger and more
impressive than ever. The hats are de-
signed in host of distinctive and becoming
creations, each one smartly trimmed in an
ENTHUSIASTICALLY striking manner that at
once wins the approval of all correctly at
tired women
Come see our present displays of new
hats
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
SERVICE

This sells satisfaction To
which daily Highest
will % a
dependable
the give YOU if
you were n
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-09-25
Priced $500 to $4,000
Smart New Fall Coats for
Women and Misses

We haven't hesitation that will take them home with
after yourself before the model which will with
In length fully
while others be
pockets which stand the sides and wide cuffs finish them
All exhibit in
Materials