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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-09-12
he a spendthrtft in Thrift Stamps
Lick the Stamp and Lick the Kaiser
Quiet Water Supply HdMtbesfzs

A nioseless water supply pump Of
small capacity is described In Poular
Mechanics Magazine. At a distance Of
ten feet, it is claimed, the only sound
to be heard III the hum Of the motor.
It operates at a speed of 500 revolu-
lions a minute and therefore can be
belt driven. The pump is supplied
with an air cock and is used with
either open or pressure tank syatema
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-09-12
REPoR1 OF THE !, CONDITION OF THH
FIRST NATIONAL BANK.

,ax NQ..4802.. ,,,f
at .Langdon. in the State of--Nerth Dakota at
the close Of business on Aug. S1st, 1913.
f. s:tas, s%s1 RESOURCES. =. a.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-09-12
DISSOLUTION. OF PARTNERSHIP

DISSOLUTION Of ,Pl7 PARTNERSHIP
Notice issherebyggiyen of the. dis.
solution of. the. - partnership existing
between w. H. Kartes, and A. P.
Zettel,, under the firm name, of Kartes
& Zettel, engaged in, business at Mt.
Carmel, N. D., as we'll borefs, who
upon the date of this notice have
agreed by mutual consent to dissolve.
The business viii hereafter be cohtin.
.ued by Mr.. Kartes alone.
Signed: W. H. Kartes.
"A. P. Zettel.
Mt. Carmel, N: B.. Aug 20, 1918.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-09-12

FOR 'SALE.-Water tank and wagon in good
condition. Apply to Home Implement Com
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-09-12

COOK CAR-Good cook car for threshing out.
lemenJ Company. Langdon.0MIs -. 81
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-09-12

DUTY OF

Postmasters Of North Dakota are
urged by the State War Savings Com
mittee to discourage as far as possible
the cashing Of war savings stamps.
Fortunately, the requests for redemp-
ton Of stamps are not frequent, as
most North Dakotans, the State Com
mittee believes, bought the stamps
with the idea Of holding them until
maternity. The people generally
realize that the ownership Of war
savings stamps gives them the COM
Portable feeling of participation in
their country's effort to win the war,
and they would feel like slackers
upon losing that sense Of partnership,
unless the direst necessity caused the
premature redemption Of the stamps.
The postmasters are also urged BY
the State Committee to always keep a
supply of war savings and thrift
stamps on hand as complaints have
been made that some Of the offices do
not have stamps on sale. Any district
p~ostoffice may have it's credit in
creased by special requisition on the
central accounting postmaster to take
care Of an unusual demand for war
savings Stamps Which may arise, and
the central accounting postmasters, in
rush instances, may order supplies Of
stamps through the Fargo office.
Great reliance is placed upon them
by the. government to lend every as
sistance in this campaign, as. the post
office more than m other, agency, is
the place y, where !, people. go to buy the
stamps. IN the past the postmasters
have been Of the greatest assistance in
selling these government securities,
and it Is hoped their interest in the
campaign viii be maintained to the
end. ~'t'%'>f ~. >4e'&% a',sE - =
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-09-12
,NA WANT I ::C;@L!!!!!N

"A DVERTISEMENTS viii 90 inserted in.this
81 column for One Cent a Word each insertion
No tinserted for less than fifteen
cents. Cash must always ~ out of
town orders. The rate for the insertion Q.
business locals among pure reading matter;wlI
hereafter be ten cents perlire eachinsertion.
:" = ~ 81.
FOR SSALE.-Water tank and wagon in good
condition. Apply to Home Implement Com
THRFSHING TRACTOR-One 1880 Rumley
Oil Pull Engine. 1 oil tank, 1 2S-48 Avery sep
arator, all complete and in running order.
Apply to August Moritz. Dresden, .6.tf
COOK CAR-Good cook car for threshing out.
fit; in first class repair. Apply to Home Imp
1emenJ Company, Langdon.-MLS 81
For baby's Group, Willie's daily
cuts and bruises, mothers sore throat
g%randma's lameness-Dr. Thomas
Eclectic Oil-the household remedy.
Price thirty and r~sixtyacents.G ~a"
i&$ ~ .a..
Order your Thresher's account book
at the. Democrat Office: ,anx
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-28
WOMAN'S TRIUMPH

Those who have not realized the
new status won by British women by
their war service may have noted
with surprise the adoption by the
British Parliament of a resolution
favoring the admission of women
members. But this emphatic decision
is entirely in harmony with the dom
inant national sentiment of admra-
ton for the way in which women
have suffered and appreciation fo1
what women have done.
1t seems a century at least since
the days when all that was conserga-
tive in Great Britain cried outrage at
the suggestion of votes for women
Leaders of the women's movement no
doubt classed Great Britain DIS one OF
the last states likely to enfranchisc
both sexes. And that was less than
five years ago.
Women's conquest of the British
Parliament is triumph to be record
ed high even in these days of victori.
es that raise hearts and stir souls
Montreal Star
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-28
Liuhtest Known Wood.

A consular report from Port Limon,
Costa RIGA, gives interesting details
concerning the trade of that region
in balsa or cOrkwood (Ochroma), said
10 be the lighteSt of all known woods.
1t has long been used in tropical
, America for making canoes and a spe-
cial type of raft, also known as balsa.
1t is very porous and good insulator
against heat and cold, and the report
above mentioned states that it would
be valuable for airplane construction.
The young trees are soft and very SEN
sitive to injury from vines. The trees
are diOecious, the male tree being
known as burillo and the female as
balsa real. The shipment of balsa
wood has apparently not assumed
large proportions, owing to the diff
Guilty Of transporting it from it's native
forests to the railway.-Scientifc
American.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-28
MERCY MUNITIONS
NEEDED IN TRENCHES
Lieut.. Coningsby Dawson, Fight
ing Author, Makes Stirring !.
Appeal for Y. w. C. A.

Lieut.. Coningsby Dawson, who wrote
Garry On" says of the war work
which the Y. w. G. A. is doing: "You
at home cannot fight with your lives,
but you can fight with your mercy.
The Y. w. c. A. is offering You just
this chance. 1t garrisons the women's
support trenches, which lie behind the
mems. 1t asks you to. supply them
with munitions Of mercy that they
may be passed on to US. We need
such supplies badly. Give generously
that we may the sooner defeat the
Hun."
What Lieut. Dawson says of the z.
". C. A. he might have said of all the
national organizations which are COM
ing together for the biggest financial
campaign that organizations have ever
headed. All the S17O,5OO,O00 to be
raised by the seven great national or
CARNATIONS the week of November IL
will be used to garrison and supply
the support trenches behind the lines
They are the Y. NJ. G. A, the 7. w.
G. A., the National Catholic War Coun-
Gil, Jewish Welfare Board, American
Library Association, War Camps Com
munity Service and Salvation ARMY.
American girls in various uniforms
mingle strangely with picturesque
Brittany costumes in France. The
American Y. w. C. A. has a hostess
house in Brittany where the Signal
Corps women live and a hut where
the nurses spend their free time. Both
these centers are fitted with many of
the comforts and conveniences of
home.
cat a tea given at the nurses hut
one Saturday afternoon" writes Miss
Mabel Warner, Of Salina, Kansas, 7.
W. G. A. worker there, "there was an
odd gathering-one admiral, bishop
a Presbyterian minister, a Roman
| Catholic priest, a doctor, an ensign
one civilian and myself"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-28
Let France Judge

Huge posters on the walls of Paris
put in these words the national feel
ing of all France: eve do not dis
cuss. We judge them. Remember
These are the only terms France has
for the invader, now defeated and
seeking to save himself by negotia-
ton. France knows him. France
will remember. It is France that
has suffered. For half a century she
has lived under the threat of the blow
that finally descended. Neither
England nor America can possibly
know what it was to have lived under
that shadow, seeing it grow bigger
and blacker year by year, and know
ing that at last it must shut out the
sun. Neither England nor America
can know what the long agony OF
France has been since that hour came
and the invader occupied her SOIL
Kansas City Star.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-28
When Airmen Eiqht,

One imagines picturesque duels to
the death between A (the great French
or English ace) and x (his German
comprehensive multitude of strain
ing, upturned eyes, the distant rattle
of shots, the flaming spin of the loser.
AS matter of fact a duel between
two monoplanes, handled by pilots Of
anything like equal skill, who are
aware of each others presence, is not
unlikely to end without bloodshed.
Bear in mind that they can shoot only
forward. that the gun must be aimed
by aiming the whole machine Ito
which it is fixed immovably) and that
twisting, climbing, banking airplane.
travelling at over a hundred miles per
hour. is no joke to hit in its small vi
tails, and you can see that this must
be so.-Charles 3. Nordhoff, in Allan
tic.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-28
Monarch's Hobby Is RntanY.

King Ferdinand Of Bulgaria is said
to have one redeeming virtue. He is
considered the best botanist in eastern
Europe. At his summer residence
just under Musalla, the highest peak
of the Rhodope range, he has, or used
to have, a wonderful rock-garden
where not only Alpine and sub-Alpine
plants are grown, but even representa-
tive specimens from England, as well
as many rare native Bulgarian noun
tain plants. These last have peculiar
scientific interest, for, while some of
them are mere varieties of Carpathian
or Alpine types, others correspond
closely to those Of the Caucasus and
ASiatic highlands-thus dating from
O period before the two continents
were divided by the Dardanelles-
while few others, like the lovely Bull
garian gentian, are indigenous flowers
not found elsewhere. But summer
succeeds so quickly to the time of
melting SHOWS that the full glory of
spring flowers on the Rhodope range
is seldom seen except by the shep-
herds of the mountain pastures.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-28
First Victory Boys Work.

"Say, I'm wiSe to you, all right"
Western Union messenger boy wills
pered TO one of the directors of the
United War Work Campaign in the
New York headquarters. The direc-
tors desk had only just been moved
in and the work of the big drive had
hardly BEGUN. ...-
"rm onto your stunt" the boy went
on as he swung a grimy fist over the
desk; you're goin' to give US fellows
that amt old enough. to go to war
chance to earn an give to back up
fighter an help win the war. Listen /;
I'm in on this"
The erumpled s. bill he dropped on
the desk made him the first of "a mil
lion boys behind a million fighters"
who are to be lined up as Victory Boys
during the week of the drive.
There will be a division of Victory
Girls, too. and every boy and every
girl enrolled will have TO earn every
dollar he or she gives to the war work
fund.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-28
CandY,s Value Recounized.

Fifty years ago the candy Of the
country was almost invariably hard
and coarse, and much of it unwhole-
some. Now the making of it has be-
come a fine art, and the wizard of
connection and flavOring has a for
tune at his command. Pure candy
in moderate quantities is no longer
regarded as a menace to the healthy
stomach. It has been sent to Ameri-
can and British soldiers, while we
have a recent, unconfrmed tradition
that the lure of the gumdrop will en-
list an Eskimo to almost any service.
AS candy takes it's place among the
articles that go to make up high liv-
ing, we may assume that it's consump-
ton, even per capita, is steadily on
the increase.-Boston Transcript.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-28
READ lads" TO KEEP POSTED
Manufacturers and Dealers Have Much
to Tell the Public, Through the
Newspaper Columns.

Keep posted-for conditions are
changing from day to day and the
past is unlike the present.
Save time-for time, your time, the
clerks time, the Dealers time, the
manufacturers time, is the nations
most important asset.
Manufacturers will necessarily have
to curtail their statesmen on the road,
and the only substitute for statesmen
is "silent craftsmanship" i. e., printed
advertising. Therefore retailers will
be asked to send their orders for mer-
chandise by mail, and the best way
for manufacturers to make thousands
of calls on retailers without employ
ing statesmen is through printed ad-
vertising.
Advertising, too, must be used to
tell you why you cannot buy certain
goods, and to continue the good will
and trademark value of such manu-
facturers in the minds of the con-
sumer and the dealer so that, after
we win the war, the sale of such prod
ucts can be increased and multiplied.
During the past four years no auto
mobiles have been sold or offered for
sale in Great Britain, yet the manu-
facturers of automobiles have con-
tinued their advertising unabated
with the full approval of the govern.
ment, and their good will and stand
ing with the buyers will be 100 per
cont off0p tho
10 per cent if they had discontinued
their advertising.
so read advertisements to keep
posted as to what to buy and also to
be informed why you cannot buy GER
tain brands of goods because theil
manufacturers are devoting all OF
their time to building war products tC
help win the war, and keep a warm
spot in your heart for the goods nc
| longer available on the dealers
shelves, because they, too, like oul
| boys overseas, will "come back" after
the war and renew old friendships
and we want to be ready with our vic
! tory celebration and say "Welcome
home again, advertised product-youl
company did good work for Uncle
Sam and we are going to show ou1
appreciation by buying even more Of
such products than before the war;
| In that way the advertisers goot
will will be maintained and he viii
| draw dividends in increased sale!
| after the war to make up for the los!
Of trade during the war.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-28
More Diversified Farming.

In the census report of 6,361 ,502
farms in the United States in 1910, no
ones mental picture of a typical farm
is verified by general facts. Only one
crop, Indian corn, was produced on
more than three-fourths of the farms,
the precise percentage being 75.7.
Only two corps were produced on one
half of the farms or more. and these
were hay, with 53.5 per cent and po-
tatoes. with so per cent. Apples, with
46.9 per cent, nearly reached this
class. On more than one-fourth of the
farms only three other crops were pro-
duceti-oats, 34.2 per cent: peaches,
% per cent; and cotton. 1853 per cent.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-28
SERVICE that WINS
THE SOLDIER HEART
Fred Lockley, Y. M. C. A., Tells Of
the Gratitude Of the Boys T,
at the Front. @I

"One of the discoveries men are
making over here" Fred Lockley, OF
the Y. M. G. A. and of Portland, Ore
gon, writes from London, us that
more pleasure can be had out of Civ
ing than getting. Many man who
has spent money freely in the old days
to buy pleasure is finding that he gets
more pleasure over here by the spend
ing of ones self in the service of others.
"a few months ago / went out with
a fellow Y. NJ. G. A. secretary to hunt
up out-of-the-way attachments OF
troops. A stable guard here, a ma,
chine gun company there, platoon
somewhere else. We carried our
goods in an automobile. We had
plenty of writing paper and envelopes
for free distribution, and chocolate,
cookies, chewing tobacco and smoking
tobacco, cigarettes, razor blades,
tooth paste and things of that kind for
sale. American war service workers
were busy everywhere. We found Sal
walton Army lassies making doughnuts
for the boys and X. of G. secretaries
giving help. Books furnished by, the
American Library Association were to
be seen on all sides. -,-,5 -
Hearing firing at distance, we
drove down, the road and found a
score or so of men at machine gun
practice. The officer gave the men
half an hour recess to buy goods.
"At another place we came in sight
of a lieutenant drilling platoon. I
said to the lieutenant: How soon be-
fore you dismiss the company We
, have Y. N. G. A. goods for sale
He said: Right now. Sergeant,
/ dismiss the companyp 80
"And ten seconds later the company
was in line waiting to buy goods from
our travelling ~ Grateful Is no name
=! for it. The men can't do enough to
show their gratitude"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-28
NO need TO WORRY
Despite Croakers, Human Race
Is Not Deteriorating.
Facts Brought Out by the War Show
That Men Today Are as Strong
Physically and Morally as
Ever in History.

The big average height Of the men
drafted into the United States army is
being widely commented upon in the
press, and it appears that the facts
justify the favorable remarks being
made, observes the Montreal Gazette.
Records Of the quartermaster's Office
show that the Americans who are
DOMINIC the army uniform today are
bigger than the men who fought in
former wars. The size most in demand
for the standard army shoe ia the past
was re, while the average size of the
marching shoe today is S1h d, and that
of the field or trench shoe 9E. Two
styles are issued, for it has been found
by experiment that soldiers require
larger shoe for the trenches, it being
necessary to wear two pairs of socks
at time in cold and wet weather.
Similarly, the present-day American
soldier has to be provided with a size
larger than his predecessor, in coats,
shirts and breeches. He is a bigger
man all round, which is decidedly sat
isfactory from the national point of
view.
Events in other belIigerent lands
since the war began have served to
prove that men generally are as strong
physically and morally as ever they
were in history. The long campaign
in the trenches in Europe has put the
soldiers to greater test than the fight
ing men of the past were submitted
to in the worst of the numerous old
wars. They have stood that test, and
the hundreds of thousands who survive
the lannon's blast and the rifles bullet
wild emerge physically fine specimens
of manhood.
1t is not necessary to look to the
United States or over to Europe to
see that the human race has not de-
Perforated. Canada is small nation
compared with it's tremendous neigh
Dor and with other allies. It had a pop
| ulation at the census in 1911 of 7,20O,-
| 600, about half Of whom were males.
! Out of the young man part of this total
! 100000 men have measured up to the
severe medical test of the army and
some tens of thousands of others
have been examined and rejected for
minor defects that do not interfere
with their life as civilians and do not
| threaten to shorten their days appre-
ciably. The men who were taken to
the field of war have lived in the open,
through the heat of summer and the
cold and snow and wet of winter, and
the thunder of the guns has been con-
stantly in their ears.
The stress Of the deadliest warfare
has not broken their spirit and they
stand ready today to face attack from
a powerful enemy and to deliver it in
return. In view of these facts, the
little bodies of gloomy and narrow
minded persons who meet periodically
and resolve that the race is degenerate
ing physically and morally should rest
| from their croaking for the time be-
ing. Actual conditions are confound-
ing their slanderOus assertions. The
race is stronger today than ever.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-28
NEAR NO MANS LAND
Pvt. 3. A. Schak of the 10th U. S. In
fantry in New York Tobacco

There wa MT no bugler there a-blow-
in taps;
The regimental chaplain, tho, was
round;
An I'm tcllin' you as how I'm feelin'
blue,
Cause they put my rookie Buddy
in the ground.
I showed i'm how to do Fright should
er arms"
An told him all a doughboy oughta
know;
We slept together but today he sleeps
Near "No Mans Land" beneath
the mud an snow.
He said is ma an sister back at home
Kissed i'm a dozen times in fond
good-bys,
An when e talked about 'em l could
see
That look o. longin' shinin' in his
eyes.
I hate to think O. how is mother
feels
A mothers loneliness is worse N
mine.
I'd write Us folks letter, only that
This writin' business amt much in
my lyme.
I don't know what to do when I'm off
post,
Ny Buddy's gone; an seems like all
] know
I'd like to put flower on is grave
Near "No Mans Land" beneath
the mud and snow.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-28

Notwithstanding our government
is working overtime winning the war
a far-reaching campaign has been in
augurated that will increase our for
eign, trade. After a lapse of more
than year trade relations between
the United States and Denmark have
been renewed, the treaty following
the same lines as the treaties with
Norway anG Sweden made earlier II
the year. The fullest commercial
goodwill also will be extended to-
wards Russia and applications will be
considered by the war trade boarc
for the exports of all commodities to
Russia which may in turn export tc
this country hide. minerals ane
grains.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-28
WILL SUPPORT DR.. MAYO

Editor Caledonian:-
| enclose herewith letter recently
received from DR.. William B. Mayo
of Mortified, in reply to a letter
! sent DR.. Mayo last Monday:
/ was surprised at his answer that
four years since he began voting
mo at the March meeting, and was
now quite ready to vote for prohl-
bition for the state. Dr. T. R.. Stiles
tells me that although Mortified is
a republican town it has more than
once sent DIR. Mayo to the Legislature
to represent their town, and DIR.
Stiles said that the year he was state
senator DR.. Mayo was in the senate
with him from Washington county.
Respectfully yours,
"A. B. PRINGLE
St. Johnsbury Center,
Oct. rs, 1918.
DR.. Mayo's letter to Mr.. Pringle
here follows:
Mortified, Vermont,
Oct. 81, 1918
Mr.. Alexander B. Pringle,
OF. JOnuSUuIy SSICSI, V SIIIlOIlL'
Dear Mr.. Pringle:
am very much pleased with your
letter of Oct. Goth. 1t is a source of
satisfaction to know that men of your
type and experience feel as you say
you do.
In answer to your question about
prohibition, am sending you copy
of letter of my own printed last
Friday in the Burlington News, cop
led on Saturday in the Free Press
and the Argus. hope you will like
it.
| believe that men and womer
should have equal rights as elector:
and the plank in the Democratic plat
form to that effect is my own.
1t must be a source of great sat
isfaction to DR.. Stiles that he ha
been so successful with his patients
very few of US have met like sue
cess.
Thanking you for your letter ant
wishing to you health and peace,
am,
Very sincerely,
VIM. B. MAYO
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-28
AirpIane Cameras.

The airplane camera is fixed either
to the side of the machine or below it.
1t must be and is of signal reliability.
Plates add weight to the cargo of an
airplane, and there must be no vast
age through ineficiency in the camera.
Aerial photographers are the detec-
tives of the air. A mark appearing at
a spot where no mark was visible in
a previous photograph of the same
place may indicate some important
change in the enepy's organization,
and extreme care is taken to insure
that the mark is not the result of a
fortuitous finger print. Thumb marks
are the deadly sin in the royal air
force Photographic service.