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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-21
GOOD WINTER HORSE FORAGE
Corn Stover> Has Practically Same
Feeding Value as Timothy Hay
Alfalfa ls Favored.

By A. A. AGEE, New Jersey Experiment
Station.) e
With choice timothy hay quoted at
the present price Of $24 to $25 a ton,
and with inferior grades at not less
than $40 a ton, other roughages
should be substituted for wintering
horses. Good corn slower (corn fod-
der minus the ears) has practically the
same feeding value as timothy hay and
may be fed to horses with about the
same results during the winter months.
Alfalfa and clover are legume hays
having a still higher feeding value
than timothy, particularly in their
content of protein. The best grade Of
alfalfa usually sells at considerably
less on the market than timothy hay,
making it a more economical rough
age on the farm. Alfalfa and clover
when fed as the only roughage have
been known to cause an overexertion
Of the kidneys because of the high nj
trogen content. However, this objec-
ton Is practically done away with by
substituting corn stover, straw or tim
othy for q part Of the roughage. Horses
on heavy work need approximately a
pound of grain daily for each hundred
pounds Of live weight.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-21
CHATFIELD

We have been having some very
fine weather of late. Most of the snow
has disappeared and the farmers are
getting in readiness for the big spring
drive.
C. J. Steen transacted business in
Glenburn Saturday.
Mrs. Andrew Twite is on the sick
list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Kjhonaas spent a
few days in the Magic city last week.
John Erickson made a business trip
to Towner and Berwick last week.
Laura and Marion Crisman return
ed from Iowa Saturday, where they
have spent the winter.
Miss Stella Twite is helping Mrs
Faust near Deering.
Martin Nicholson and Chas. Chap
man returned from Washington last
Saturday, where they have been
working in the coal mines.
At the Farmers meeting held at
the Kjhonaas school house last Fri
day every assembly decided to organ
ize a Red Cross local at the next
meeting held Friday evening, Feb. ~
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-21
WNSH

Nh. and Mrs. Jas. Shuman and
children attended the Royal Neigh
bors dance at Mohall Friday night.
A number of friends of Mrs. v. A.
Moody surprised her Saturday, Feb
End, the occasion being her birthday,
Dancing was the diversion and a
most delectable lunch was served al
midnight. February 9th, MI. and
Mrs. Fred Moody were host and host
ess at a pleasant dancing party given
to a number of their friends. All re-
port a fine time.
The VIM. Nelson family and August
Challquist visited at Persons Sunday
evening.
Clyal Nelson visited John Edwards
Sunday p. m.
One Of the most pleasant events
we have been called upon to chroni-
Gle was the surprise rendered Peter
Moody, Tuesday, Feb. 5th, on his seth
birthday anniversary. All of the
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-21
OAK VALLEY

Richard Wilson, his daughter Vel
ma and neice Georgina, also Jacl
Witcher, went to Forest River to at
tend the wedding Of Miss Daphne
Wilson. MI. Wilson and Miss Geor.
gina returned Saturday, while Mis-.
Velma and little Jack remained fol
a more extended visit.
.Wilfred Miller journeyed to thu
mountains Saturday to visit at thu
B. Brown home and hunt rabbits.
John Carol and Miss Evenson spen,
Sunday at the John Hays farm east
of Bottineau.
Miss Edna Jones is spending thu
week at the William Williams home il
Pickering township.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Hamilton ane
little son spent Sunday at the Has
kett home.
Herbert Hamilton arrived Monday
evening from Wyoming for a short
visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Pugh spent
Sunday at the George Stewart farm.
Richard Granthum submitted to 9
second operation on his throat last
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fursteneau Of Gar
dena called at the r. B . Hamilton
home Friday.
James Miller has been hauling 6
supply of wood from Bottineau. Dick
Wilson is assisting him.
Misses Minnie and Rose Zorn have
accepted positions in Bottineau ane
started to work this week.
Mrs. Melvin Clark and Mrs. R
Coils of Amity township, call
ers at the Hamilton home Friday af'
ternoon.
Albert Hamilton returned to Mi
not Monday to resume his studies al
the normal.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-21

A number Of Renville farmers Or
dered a carload of Ignite coal from
Redstone, Mont. 1t was shipped to
Hurd and the farmers went after it
Friday. All went with wagons. The
roads are very slippery and rough and
several had trouble before getting to
their destination. Mr.. FELTON, and Mr..
Cram broke their wagon poles, R. B.
Rohrbacher got hung up in a snow
drift and blocked the road SO that he
and r. S. Stair had to leave their
loads until the next day.
A week ago last Monday Oscar
Ahlstrom met with a serious accident
while driving around with a bob sled.
he got his leg under the sled and it
was broken. Mr.. Woodbridge and Mr..
Merritt took him to Bottineau by way
of Antler. DR.. Halliday set the limb
before the party went to Bottineau,
owing to the rough journey it had to
be set over again.
Chas. Merritt attended a rural
meeting at Bottineau last week and
also heard the discussion Of the new
seed and feed act of u legislature
Petitions are being circulated in or
der to comply with the terms of the
law and make it available to the farm
ers in this county.
John Aasheim expects to ship q cal
load Of hogs to So. st. Paul this week
Clifford H. Cram, one Of Uncle
Sans boys from this township lis now
at the U. s. Armory at Springfield.
Mass, taking a course in machine
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-21
DIRECTORS MEETING.

The board Of directors Of the Bot.
tineau County Agricultural Society
met here last Thursday, Feb. 18th
Members preesnt were F. A. Tyler
Lansford; Alex Cranston, Antler;
Ross Trimble, Westhope; Fred Brain.
ard, Souris; ]. L. Gorder, Carbury and
j. M. Miller, Bottineau.
The meeting opened with Mr.. Cor.
der in the chair about $3.50 a. M, and
session was held all day.
Messrs. Gorder, Brainard and Mil
Ter were elected as the Executive
Committee for 1918.
The following heads of departments
were selected: Horse department
superintendent, Frank L~onsbrough
Bottineau and C. M. Condit, West
hope. Cattle OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
tendents J. Clayton Russell, Botti-
neau and E. D. Condit, Souris. Sheep
departFent-Ed. Hopwood, Maxbass
Swine department-Russell Dinwoodie
B~ottineau. Poultry Departmental
A. Thatcher, Souris. Grains & Grass
es, M. r. Shuler, Bottineau. Vege-
table department-George Williams,
Westhope. Woman's Art department
Mrs. Andy ohnston, Bottineau.
County Agents Henderson and
Humphreys r requested by the
board to act as a fair soliciting COM
mittee to solicit exhibits Of livestock
and produce for our coming fair.
The proposition of building a new
cattle barn was thoroughly discussed
by the board and it was thought best
lowing to the war conditions, scar
city of feed, high priced building ma
terial, etc., to go slow on improve
ments this year. The board thor
oughly realizes the necessity of a new
cattle barn for the benefit Of the fair
and exhibitors, but are inclined to act
conservatively for reason above stat
ed.
It was decided to hold an auction
sale of livestock on the fair grounds
commencing at 10 o'clock the second
day of the fair.
It is expected that County Agents
Henderson and Humphreys will select
anu prepare anoClleI NoAlous VSeu
exhibit to be displayed at the fair
again this year.
A special prize for Bottineau chap
tiers of the Red Cross was voted in
the amount of $500 to be divided
into first, second and third prizes
Money to be credited to branches
winning same and to be donated ia
the Red Cross by winning branch
Details of this premium r not yet
worked out.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-21

family, except his son John and wife
and two children Of Weyburn, Sask.,
met at the home Of Fred Moody,
where the old gentleman resides, and
made his heart glad. There were
present Is grand children, and three
sons and one daughter of Mr.. Moody,
also their wives and husband. The
children were, VIM. E., Vic. A., and
Fred Moody, and Mrs. John Eng
strom. The occasion will long be re-
membered by the children, as it would
have been a complete family reunion
had John Moody been present. Mr..
Moody bears the distinction Of being
the oldest Cival War veteran in this
township, and as his career is one we
all are proud Of we proceed to give
a sketch of the same.
Peter Moody was born in Sweden
in 1882 and came to this country in
1857, locating in eastern Minnesota,
then a new, rough, and undeveloped
region. He had been in his new
home but a little over three years
when the Civil War broke out, and
altho not yet a U. s. citizen he at
once enlisted in a Minnesota regi-
ment. His first military service,
however, was to help quell the Sioux
Indian uprising, after these warlike
savages had massacred the settlers
at Minnehaha and committed horrible
atrocities throughout that section. At
ter the Indians yer conquered and
their leaders executed, Mr.. Moody's
regiment was ordered to Tennessee,
where he saw hard service. His regi-
ment was a part of a division belong
ing to Gen. Thomas army, and took
part in the battle Of Nashville.
Later, when the west was won for
the Union, this army was transferred
to the East, and took part in the final
campaign, when Sherman's army cap
.tured that Of the Confederate Gen.
Johnson. Lees surrender to Grant
ended the war and MI. Moody return
ed home to engage in more peaceful
operations, but in this he was disap-
pointed for his regiment was part of
the force ordered to Montana to quell
a second uprising of the Sioux. This
trouble was soon over and Mr.. Moody
returned home. He engaged in farm
ing for many years, and about Is
years ago came to this section with
his children.
His wife died about seven years
ago and since that time he has re-
| sided with his son Fred. He is much
respected by all who know him, and
everyone feels that he has always
done his DUTY both in war and in
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-21
DEEP NEWS.

Herman Elke returned from Fargo
Monday, where he has been taking a
course in engineering.
Mr.. and Mrs. John PETERSON, the
Misses Eva Hanson and Julia Ner-
moe and the Messrs. Edgar Rupert
and Lawrence Matsen attended the
home talent play at Upham Friday
evening.
The Progressive Whist club was
entertained by Mr.. and Mrs. Ska1
last Saturday evening. There was a
large number present and a very Ell
joyable evening was spent. 70
The Free Lutheran Ladies Aid met
with Mrs. E. H. Moen last Thursday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marcus Hidden anc
Mr.. and Mrs. John PETERSON spent
Sunday evening at the T. H. Hilder
home.
C. T. Hidden of Russell spent Sun
day with relatives here.
The Farmers Elevator is expecting
a carload of corn and shorts o
Fred Nichols was a Towner passen'
ger between trains Friday.
John Joern, Jr., has purchased hay
from Mr.. Vativog of Upham.
Miss Anna Moldenhaur was enter
tanned at the Moldenhaur home neal
Russell Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Moldenhaur ant
the Albert and C. Gessner families
were dinner guests at the l.. Joer1
home Sunday.
Miss Anna Hammer visited at thu
Kitzman home Sunday.
John Hammer and Fritz Gessnel
were Russell callers last week.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-21
MAKING SELECTION OF A RAM
Animal Should Be Vigorous, Active and
Show Strong Masculine Character
in Makeup.

In selecting the ram, special atten-
ton should be paid to type, mutton
qualities, and d%enseness Of fleece. Quail
lty Of mutton is the prime factor in the
farm flock, and should receive the most
attention.. The fleece should not be for
gotten, for not only will the fleece be
a source OF income, but a good fleece
will give a higher market value to the
Sheep
The ram should be strong, active and
show strong masculine character.
These points are important, for on
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-21

gun construction and operation. He
aspects to return to Camp Dodge lat
er as an instructor in this branch Of
the service.
The two Misses Aasheim Of Buxton
are visiting their sisters and broth
ers' families, Mrs. p. P. Price and Mr..
John Aasheim.
Mrs. s. j. WIKI and Miss Marie WIKI,
our two popular teachers and MI. and
Mrs. Merritt were visitors at the T.
M. Kent home last Saturday.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-21
Splendid Mutton Type.

them will depend 70 Z large extent the
number Of lambs produced, also their;
health and vtgor. The ram should
stand ~ well On his tel, ana his pa1a
farms should be strong. The DaEk
1h6uid - STRONG and tAe ribs WS1
peune o. Dlvs plenty q 1sem ~ t
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-24
WheatLeSS Meals

Wheat is the most pressing food
need of the allies. Americans alone
can supply wheat until the next har-
vest and they can do so only by re-
ducing their total consumption of
wheat to one half of normal. Not all
Of us can cut our wheat consumption
so drastically, but those of us who
can do so, must. Some, indeed, are
giving up the use of wheat entirely.
1t can be done. Here are suggestions
from the United States Food Admin
istration for palatable and nourish-
ing wheatless meals. Housekeepers
Will be glad to know of these varied
ways of using up the wheat substi-
tutes they are patriotically buying.
SUNDAY
Breakfast
Oranges, baked eggs, barley muf-
fins, jelly or jam.
Lunch or Supper
Creamed lobster or salmon, thin
corn bread, oatmeal cookies, tea.
Dinner
Roast mutton, mint sauce. brown
ed potatoes, cauliflower, date and
cheese salad, sweet potato pie with
cornmeal crust.
TUESDAY
Breakfast
Stewed prunes, hominy grits with
top milk, hashed brown potatoes, 100
per cent. oatmeal biscuits.
Lunch or Supper
Italian polenta, baked apple, top
milk.
Dinner
Cream of cauliflower soup, soy
bean loaf with tomato cause, baked
potatoes, spinach salad, apricot tarts
in oatmeal crust.
Breakfast
Grape fruit. omelet, creamed DO
tatoes, toasted barley mullins.
Lunch or Supper
Baked pinto beans, Boston brown
bread, prune whip, corn crisps.
Dinner
Vegetable soup, salmon loaf, seal
loped potatoes, peas. celery and
cheese salad, Indian pudding
WEDNESDAY
Breakfast
Apples. homemade sausage, corn
meal griddle cakes, corn or maple
syrup.
Lunch or Supper
Welsh rarebit served on oatmeal
crackers, fruit ice, oatmeal cookies.
Dinner
Beef pie with potato crust, hon.
my, escalloped cabbage, creamy rice
pudding.
THURSDAY
Breakfast
Oatmeal with dates, Goldfish cakes,
corn flour mullins.
Lunch or Supper
One-half baked potatoes. creamed
leftover meat, radishes, sliced bana-
mas.
Dinner
Baked beef hearts or braised ton
que, potatoes au gratin, dandelion
greens, barley pudding.
FRIDAY
Breakfast
Rice with maple sugar and top
blk, escrambfed eggs, toasted muf-
fins, jelly or marmalade.
Lunch or Supper
Cornmeal mush and meat or fish,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-24
Suggestions For
Victory Meals

These receipts will help you save
wheat -four.
Cornmeal Crust For Pies-Grease
pie tin. Cover it with dry corn
meal by shaking with a rotary mo-
ton. Have cornmeaI covering pan
to depth of 1-16 to Il inch. Fill
with pie mixture. Bake.
Barley Pudding cups milk, 1-S
cup barley meal, Il cup molasses, y
teaspoon salt. tablespoons sugar,
teaspoon ginger.
Scald the milk. pour this on the
meal and cook in double boiler twen-
ty minutes; add molasses, salt, sugar
and ginger. Pour into creased pud-
ding dish and bake two hours in a
slow oven. Serve either hot or cold
with top milk.
Oatmeal Fruit Meringue-Turn
leftover oatmeal into a round mold
and cool. When cold, turn out. cut
in slices u inch thick. put one slice
in round dish. put layer of ber-
ries or sliced peaches on it and on
top of this another slice of oatmeal
Beat the whites of eggs until light.
add 4 tablespoons powdered sugar
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-24

seemed, al a private school which is
attended by his little daughter. and
there had found in conversation with
the principal, a man of good ad-
dress, although looking little seedy,
who was trying to obtain position
in an extra or substitute capacity
if nothing better offered.
The principal had nothing for
him, but the applicant still linSer-
ed and so persistently urged his
claims that she finally turned to my
friend and explaining that the man
was a teacher from the far West
who had failed. through no fault of
his own to establish an expected
New York connection, asked IL he
knew of any opening.
Not necessarily at teaching,
said the Westerner. quickly stepping
forward as if to forestall the almost
certain demurrer. II am willing to
do anything-anything at all, no
matter how small the pay, until
have a chance to look around.
The New Yorker is naturally sus-
picious-he has been so often stung
but there was something in this
mans manner that aroused my
friends sympathy, hint of despe
II.
the strangers face the signs of phys
ical suffering. He scribbled a line
on Il card to a friend who is in
charge of a large business establish
ment, asking that the man be given
employment suitable TO his qualitica-
tions: then he drew the other aside
and pressed a bill into his hand.
But the Westerner Redeemed and
drew back. "Oh, no, thank you,
he protested. Il can't take money.
l merely want work, and you have
already given me chance at that
Don't be a fool" said my friend,
You're hungry, and you can't
strike for job properly on an emp
ty stomach. If the case were re-
versed, Ia take that dollar only too
quickly"
In the end the teacher was per-
suaded, and hurried away with the
bill and my friends card. The next
day the latter was surprised to re-
ceive a visit from the Westerner
who jubilantly announced that the
card had secured him a position run
ming freight elevator, and that
having been paid a days wages he
had come to return the dollar.
Then the man told something of
his experiences. He had come to
New York to accept place in a
school, but on the way was taken
i'll with pneumonia and had to go
to a hospital on his arrival. When
he came out the vacancy he was
after had been filed, and his money
was about all gone. He knew no
one in New York, and he hesitated
until the last moment to write back
home for aid.
When he did he had to face the
fact that ten days must intervene
before he could get an answer.
Feverishly he sought for work. The
Municipal Employment Bureau sent
him to a munitions factory in Ho-
boken, but the doctor there refused
to permit him to work on account or
his weak lungs. He was compelled
to pawn his every possession, even
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-24

down to his overcoat. and walked
miles daily to save carfare, but still
he could get no work.
Two days before | met you. he
said to my friend. II spent my last
ten cents for a sandwich and a glass
of milk. That dollar of yours look
ed bigger to me than all of Rock
efellers millions"
But if you were hungry" de-
manded the other. why did YOU not
so to one of the public charities 2"
II did. he smiled grimly. They
gave me a blank to fill out as long
as the moral law, and, asked for per-
sonal references. | wrote down the
name of a bank president, the may
or and several other prominent cit
izens of my home town. Then they
told me to come back the next morn
ing. / gasped: twenty-four hours
seemed long wait TO me. Can't
you give me some little job in the
meantime p I pleaded. Something
even if it earns me only ten or fif
teen cents p But they said no;
they must first telegraph to my ref
erences
!. When l heard that I reached out
and grabbed the blank l had filled
out and tore it in two. | would
rather starve than let those men
whose names l had given know that
| was reduced to such straits"
And that is organization char
ity for you" concluded my friend
dissustedly. ASK for bread and
they will give you a stone-neatly
tied up in red tape. Not another
dollar of mine do they ever get"
do not give this little story for
the purpose of arranging public or
I organized charities. IL l were to
| do that. I should be overwhelmed
with a mass of figures and statistics
and by them can always prove and
justify it's existence.
| only say that if a case of this
Kind could occur-even if it is an
individual and exceptional case =
there Is something wrong with the
charities.
System is a necessity. of course
especially in a bureau called upon
TO deal with the vast horde of
frauds and fakirs and mendicant inn
posters. But the tendency of sys-
tenn is always to make itself the
! be-all and end-all - to make the
way of doing the thing more i'm
portant than the actual doing it.
over at the front the French
officers, finding themselves ham
Peieu anu eHHleSneu Dy war Of
nee red tape, have introduced an
efficiency feature which they call
system D., and which simply
means to go ahead and do the neces-
sary or proper thing and then get
the authority or permission for it
afterward.
Possibly our charitable and phil
anthropic agencies would be i'm
proved by the addition of a few
System ID" experts. Possibly also
they would profit by cutting out
some of the statisticians and calcu-
lators. and putting in their place Il
few red-blooded and sympathetic
persons who possess at least the
character-reading ability. of the or
| dinary clerk
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-24

| Are Discussed
BY Mrs, wilson woodrow

VTTHAT would you do if you
wv found yourself broke in
strange city. without
friends or acquaintances ?
That was the interesting question
a man submitted to me the other
day. Submitted" though is hard
ly the word; he had just met me
as | was strolling up Fifth Avenue,
and as he turned and walked along
beside me he shot out the ques-
tion with a vindictive earnestness
that showed his feelings had been
aroused to the boiling point.
II don't mean merely strapped
or financially embarrassed, he
went on. but fiat broke, penni-
less, hungry, with no place to rest
Your head.
| reflected a moment, why, if
such u thing should happen to me,
rapping the wood of my umbrella
handle TO avert the evil possibility,
Il should try to get something to
do wouldn't care what.
But suppose you had tried and
failed Suppose you We're faint
with hunger and ready to drop with
fatigue -
"Oh, then l suppose | would ap-
ply 10 one of the public charities"
| said.
Yes; and a sweet chance you'd
run of getting any relief" he eX-
ploded wrathfully. Then he launch
ed, as l had anticipated, into the
story which explained his perturbed
spirits.
He had called the day before, it
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-24
SENATE REFUSES CLASS
ONE DRAFT QUOTA BASIS

Washington. April 24.-The Sen
ate yesterday afternoon refused to
concur in the House amendments to
the resolution fixing draft quotas
upon the number of men in Class /,
rather than on population. Senators
Hitchcock Chamberlain and Warren
were appointed as Senate conferees.
The House amended the bill so that
each local board district would be
given credit for all voluntary enlist
ments in either Army or Navy since
April /, 1917.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-24

and beat until fine and glossy.
Spread this meringue over the top of
the fruit and oatmeal, dust with
powdered sugar and stand in the
oven until a golden brown. (Yolks of
eggs may be used to make Gus
tard).
Barley Hermit Cakes-A cup fat,
y cup sugar, l egg, tablespoons
milk, 2 cups barley -four 2 teaspoons
baking powder, Ia cup chopped
raisins, n cup. chopped nuts. Il tea
spoon cinnamon, Il teaspoon cloves.
Combine the ingredients as for
cake, add enough barley flour to
make a dough stiff enough to be
rolled. Roll thin, shape with
small cookie cutter and bake on tin
sheet.