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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-15
.BOTTLERS WILL Meet
AT NINOT next YEAR
#. l.. BursIey, of NFInOt. Elected Pres
fdent of AssOciatiOn-FargO Man
ON Legislative COMMITTEES.

Grand Forks, N. D., Feb. 15.-Minot
was picked as the next meteing place
for the convention of North Dakota
and northwestern Minnesota bottlers,
at the close of their convention here,
The following officers were chosen:
z. l. Bursley, MinOt, president;
Frank Bailey, Valley city, vice presi-
dent; ]. P. Sell, Bismarck, secretary
and treasurer. NJ r.. Richtman, of
Devils Lake, was elected trustee for
three years, and M. K. Lee, CARING
ton, and II. Rabe, Dickinson hold over.
The legislative committee is COM
posed of w. S. Whitman, Grand
Forks; B. l. Kindall, Fargo, ana NJ.
u. Lee, Darlington.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-15
NONE TOO SOON.

ANY corporation that tried to con-
duct its business without purchas-
ing agent, would invite wholesale
'gouging''.
No business corporation worthy of
the name, gets along without some
employe whose duty it is to study the
market and shop" for supplies.
Up to the present the city Of Fargo
has invited ali with supplies to sell
to get the highest prices they could.
Now it proposes to get the best prices
1t can by the use Of efficiency meth
DDS in buying. ]. J. Jordan has been
given the duties Of purchasing agent
for the city. It was high time for
such a step.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-15
HILLSBORO PASTOR IS
APPOINTED CHAPLAIN
Rev. J. r. dickinson Ordered to Camp
DOdge-En Charge Of HtIlsbOrO
Church Two Years.

Hillsboro, N D., Feb. 15.-Rev. ].
p. dickinson, pastor of the First Con-
gregational church, was notified yes
terday by the adjutant general of his
appointment as chaplain in the United
States national army and to report at
Camp Dodge Immediately for assign
ment. Rev. Mr.. dickinson came to
Hillsboro two years ago from the
LidgerwoOd Congregational church,
Spokane, Wash.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-15

The Cavalier County Republican
adds this comment to the many thai
have been made regarding the
strange silence Of the Townley
organs on his bankruptcy proceed
ings:
The testimony secured from A.
G. Townley in the hearings con-
Quoted relative to his bank
ruptcy proceedings furnished the
most astonishing and astounding
news items in business transact
tions affecting thousands of peo-
pie that have been made public
for a long time.
Here was a hearing in a court
in which testimony showed that
one man held in his absolute
control the political dictatorship
Of upwards of 100, 900 votes, coll
lected, spent or retained as he
wtlled. dues and funds received
from stock sales amounting to
far more than $1,000,000, started
newspapers with the funds, ran
them with dummies, represent
ed that organizations were form
ed for certain duties when moth
ing of the sort was done, no
accounting was made, no one in
connection with the whole string
Of affairs really owns anything or
has much of anything to say
about the various enterprises eX-
cept himself. He was so busy
getting the easy money that he
did not buy a Liberty bond or do
anything else in that line. Some
of his associates stated that
some bonds had been purchased
in a jackpot fashion and one was
assigned to Mr.. Townley.
Mr.. Townley and his whole
chain of newspapers have long
beloved about the kept press"
but the lack of news of the past
week shows most conclusively
that the Townley organs consti-
tute the only kept press" in
North Dakota and they are so
absolutely well gagged and muz-
zled that they have hardly peep
ed about this proceeding.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-15
STATE HARDWARE MEN
MEET AT GRAND FORKS
Two Hundred Delegates i'm Attendance
- Representative of American
Steel & Wire Coz Give Banquet.

Grand Forks, N. D., Feb. 15.--Near-
ly 200 hardware men from points in
the state are in attendance at the
twenty-second annual convention of
the state hardwaremen's association
which opened here yesterday after
noon. Representatives of the Ameri-
can Steel e. Wire Co. last night gave
a banquet to more than fifty dele
gates who were among the early ar
rivals,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-15
new ROCKFORD WOMAN
TO SAIL FOR ORIENT
Mrs. ID. j. Richie to Join Her Hus-
band Who Ii Member Of Anaera-
can Railroad Service Corps,

New Rockford, N. D., Feb. IS
Nagasaki, japan. will be the goal Of
Mrs. ID. J. Richie, who expects to
leave here soon to join her husband,
former New Rockford man and en-
ploye of the Great Northern, now a
member of the American Railroad
service corps, located temporarily
with other engineers in the Japanese
city. 90
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-15
CLUB GETS CHARTER.
MinOt Plans to Make Big Preparations
to Entertain A n

Minot, n. D., Feb. 1.-THE charter
of the Minot Bowling association has
been received from Sec A. L. Lang
try, of the A. B. A, and steps will be
taken to stage a big A B. 4. tourna-
ment in Minot next month. Minot at
the present is the home of the North
Dakota State Bowling association.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-15
In The Open Forum
A Column Devoted to the Task of
Keeping Up With North Da-
lEota Editors.

The Griggs County Sentinel.
Courier isn't afraid OF the spread OIL
polygamy while the cost Of living
remains so high. 1t says:
It's out at last and we didn't
know 1t existed in this land Of
the free and home Of the brave.
Two million mothers Of the coun-
try have petitioned President
Wilson to prevent polygamy from
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-15
LEARNING ABOUT THEIR OWN
COUNTRY.

Breaking up the units Of the Am
srlcan army and redistributing the
mon. will have other effects than the
one sought.
II was feared that an American
company might be caught In an en-
assmant and decimated or wiped
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-15

The Jamestown Alert has thi
comment on Germany's tools of mill
tary autocracy:
1t is pointed out that four
classes of people in Germany
that are suffering from the I'M
usual privations, are the classes
which inflamed the nation to war
and made 1t easy for the army
and navy cliques to declare and
carry on the war. These classes
are listed as school teachers,
college professors, Office holders,
and newspaper writer's. AS a
matter of retributive justice the
hard conditions in Germany have
been felt by these classes of resi-
dents more than the laboring
classes, whose wages are higher
now than ever have been paid
in peace times.
In every nation and in every
period OF history whenever the
military classes concoCted a pro-
gram to be carried out for kings
or groups of men seeking power,
and to crafty military ambitions
the above four classes have been
used to the limit
1t is easy to infiame the public
mind where all sources Of pub
Lefty are in the hands of those
who profit by it, and Il takes \
long time to remove the poison,
once carefully spread.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-15
The Walsh County Record gives

The Mandan Pioneer wonder
about the big silence as follows:
II the stories that have ap-
peared in the press of the state in
regard to the chain stores have
not appeared in just the right
light, we are patiently waiting
to get the straight Of the whole
matter from Townley's kept
press" From all appearances we
will have to have the patience of
Job.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-15
HEARING AT MTNOT.
Railway Commission to weigh James
town Case ON April 4.

Town Ga4@S ON April IL
jamestown, N. D., Feb. 15.-Mayor
TT. G. Flint has received a letter from
the secretary Of state railway com
mission that the hearing OF the
Jamestown electric light plant will
be held BY the board at Minot on
April !.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-15

Get wise and order Flavo Four
from the manufacturers Phone So.
ADV
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-15

gaining ground. We're sure there
is no immediate danger of an
epidemic Of polygamy in Griggs
county. The cost OF high living
is already too darn high.
The Walsh County Record gives
some good advice in this item:
Don't dispose OF your Liberty
bonds unless forced to by dire
necessity. When you decided to
lend some money to your Uncle
Sam it was not because Of the
per cent interest offered. That is
not a fancy rate, but you did 1t
because you felt 1t was your pa
triotic duty to lend to the gov
eminent a small portion of what
its protection and benefits allow
ed you to accumulate. The same
conditions exist now as when you
bought your bonds and you
should keep them as an invest
ment and will them to your
descendants.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29
HAD NOT DEPARTED ALONE.
Fake Telephone Call May Have Scared
Tramp, But He Had Retained
His Business Faculties.

Representative Edward w. Saunders
of Virginia remarked at a social gath
ing that foxy schemes do not always
pan out the expected results, and told
this story as an Illustration:
"Tw0 men were having gabfest
over lunch table recently when one
told of an experience he had just had
with q tramp.
"'He came to my house. said the
man, fmpudently banged on the kitch-
en- door, walked In and demanded
something to eat. Right there ! decid-
ed to give him the scare of his life.
Going into the next room, liberated
an alarm clock and pretended to call
up the police station, and told them
over the imaginary wire to hurry down
to my house and arrest hobo. When
! returned to the kitchen the tramp
was gone
~ see,' laughingly interjected the
other. The fake telephone started
him.
YES returned the first, a little sad
ly, he was gone with two of my coats,
one hat and enough silyerware that
was lying around loose to start quick
lunch restaurant philadelphia Eve
ming Telegraph.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29
"Tricks In All Trades"

Every transforming company has as
not the least important part of its
equipment pair of followed coconut
shells, which, in the hands of the stage
mechanic, sounds more like horse
than horse itself. Now that most of
our melodrama comes to us through
the motion pictures, along comes an
imitator of gathering hoofs to be at
tached to stationary organ. 1t is
operated from keyboard by lever
or button. With the aid of a swell
box the sound can be made to swell
or diminish.
The device consists of six cups, the
upper three of which are secured to
the bellows and the lower three of
which are mounted on q solid base.
To operate them, the organ player
presses key which causes the first
cup to come down with thud, fol-
lowed in quick succession by the other
two cups. There is no break in the
action. The cups are made of maple.
The inventor is Harold A. Valkenburg
of Oakland, Cal.-Popular Science
Monthly.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29
WORSE THAN WASTED.


The liquor men are wasting food.
Last year the waste amounted to
100000, 900 pounds of foodstuffs.
They are wasting labor. About
100000 men are engaged in the man
ufacture, sale and distribution of
booze in breweries, saloons and res
taufants, as brewers, bartenders and
waiters-at time when every man
is needed in some useful occupation
to help win the war.
They are wasting life. Bartenders,
brewery workers and walters in
saloons lose an average of six years
of life on account of their occupa-
tions. If the 100000 men who make
and sell booze lose an average of six
years of life, 1t makes total of $780,
900 years of life. The average man
works about 80 years-so that the
liquor traffic is using up the equiva-
lent of 10000 men In each generation.
And this is too great price for the
nation to pay.
For these reasons-(1 the waste of
food, (2) the waste of labor, (3) the
waste of life-we have a right to de-
mand that the liquor business be abol-
ished.--From Publicity Material Sent
Out by the Federal Council OF
Churches in It's Strengthen America
Campaign.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29
CaIomel Loses You a Days Work!
Take Dodson's Liver Tone Instead
Read my guaranteed If bilious constipated or head
achy you need not take nasty, sckening, danger
GUS calomel to get Strengthened up

Every druggist in town-your drug
gist and everybody's druggist has no.
ticed great failing Off in the sale Of
calbmel, They all give the same rea-
son. Dodson's Liver Tone is taking
its place.
"Calomel is dangerous and people
know 1t, while Dodson's Liver Tone is
perfectly safe and gives better re-
suits" said prominent local druggist.
Dodson's Liver Tone is personally
guaranteed by every druggist who
sells it.,s A large bottle doesn't cost
very much, but If 1t fails to give easy
relief In every case of liver sluggish
ness and constipation. you have only
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29
GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER

has been a household remedy all oyei
the civilized world for more than hall
century for constipation, intestinal
troubles, torpid liver and the generally
depressed feeling that accompanies
such disorders. 1t is most valuable
remedy for indigestion or nervous dys
pepsfa and liver trouble, bringing on
headache, coming up of food, palpita
ton Of heart and many other symp
toms. A few doses Of August Flower
will Immediately relieve you. 1t is Q
gentle laxative. Ask your druggist
Sold in all civilized countries.--Adv.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29

BEEN AMI TIE WAN.
Save, save, save! These are words
that we face at every turn, says Cora
Stoddard In the Union Signal. Money
for Liberty loans; food for the allies
and the war-tossed peoples; and for
the boys and youths who are to fight
the battle for democracy. Save!
Through oil the grave or sometimes
gay aspects of this many-sided thrift
endeavor there recurs jarring ele-
ment. Questions arise which will not
be silenced. What Of the money, the
food, the man-power involved In the
production and use of beer?
We know from government statistics
that the amount of foodstuffs used in
making beer was greater in 1917 than
in 1916 or 1915. We knew the worlds
food supply was low yet we allowed the
brewers to use more foodfstuffs last
year than in either of the two pre-
ceding years.
A 30 per cent reduction in the grain
used In brewing has been ordered for
ic1O, put t1iic iCafCo al uiuOuht
of food material to go into the brewery
watts, appalling under the circumstan-
| ces.
Take the single item of barley. The
barley used by American breweries last
year, If made into flour or sent into
France for bread, would have been
equal to the normal bread ration of s.
| 100000 people for year. This we
learn from no less an authority than
a new book on food written by Yer
non Kellogg and DR.. Alonzo q. Taylor
of the United States food administers
ton, which gives the bread values for
100000 bushels of barley--bread
enough for our army many times over,
or more than enough for all Belgium
or the smitten people of the French
war zone.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29
o ask for your money back.

to ask for your money back.
Dodson's Liver Tone is q pleasant
tasting, purely vegetable remedy,
harmless to both children and adults.
Take spoonful at night and wake up
feeling fine; no biliousness, sick head
ache, acid stomach or constipated
bowels. 1t doesn't grippe or cause In
convenience all the next day like vio-
lent calomel. Take dose Of calomel
today and tomorrow you will feel
weak, sick and nauseated. Don't lose
days work! Take Dodson's Liver
Tone instead and feel fine, full Of
vigor and ambition.-Adv.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29
EoE MOST TO BE FEARED.

1.-THE foe that l fear most" said Ar.
thur Nee, author of Defeat or Vic
tory" at recent meeting In Queens
hall, London, lis the man who is de-
stroying the food / shall want for lit
tie Marjorie Nee when famine comes. "
And an outraged audience cheered to
the echo Mr.. Mee's indictment of "a
trade which from the first day Of the
war till now, has never strained a
nerve to help this land; has hindered
1t, hampered 1t, kept back ships and
guns, caused the loss of thousands Of
our soldiers lives, and has all the time
been the greatest pro-German force
outside the German army"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29
RATIFICATION PLAN CONSIST
EMIT WITH AMERICAN DEMoc

hACf.
prohibition in the organic law will
forever destroy the keystone in the
arch of true democracy" is the charge
by the opponents of the federal
amendment. They deplore the fact
that a big. populous state like New
York should count for no more than
a small, sparsely settled state like
Nevada in the matter of ratification Of
the amendment. They go even far
Their and insist that such a method of
procedure is undemocratic and I'M
American. 1t is certainly too late
in the history of the nation to make
such claim. AS has been logically
said, this method Of amending the
Constitution not only is not opposed
to the American system, 1t is inherent
In that system. If the principle in
volved In this method is wrong, If it is
against public policy, the way to rem
edy it is to amend article 5, which
provides this method of changing
the fundamental law, rather than to
denounce the provisions of the article
as inconsistent with American insti'
tutions.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29
q
REPRESENTATIVES. For MALARIA,
lvUIllkI II ldlIASUul Ii InlM CEiIIIS and
H.IuuA S) FEVER
lAJ flI1110 III II(O\GNT1(~ Also q Pine General
uV NUuulZl5 u\OILNIuNS Strengthening Tonic
II
What She Would Take.
ALSO q Fine General
Strengthening Tonic.
SOLD BY ALL DRUG STORES.

At an Irish assize deaf old Lady,
who had brought an action for dam
ages against her neighbor, was being
examined, when the judge suggested
compromise, and instructed counsel
to ask what she would take to settle
the matter
His lordship wants to know what
you will take?" asked the learned coun-
sci, bawling as loud as he could In the
old lady's ear.
II thank his lordship kindly" an
swered the dame; "and If it's no incon-
venience to him, I'll take little whis-
ky and water
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29
SHOULD WE?

In the face of the terrific struggle
for human freedom should we spend
approximately billion dollars a yea;
for beer when this money is needed
for Liberty loans. the Red Cross and
those thousand and one beneficent
agencies essential to all humanity in
this crisis? Should we give the brew
err foodstuffs that hungry world
could use, or coal needed for heat,
light and power, or transportation
needed for men, food, fuel and NUM-
tons.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29
A New Way to Shave

Tender skins twice day without irri-
tation by using Cuticura Soap the
"Cuticura Way" No Shiny mug, germs,
waste of time or money. For free SAM
Piles address, "Cuticura, Dept. X, Bos-
ton." AT druggists and by mail. Soap
20, Ointment rs and 50.-Adv.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29
Not So Bad.

Target No. was the one to shoot
at and you hit target No. T." said the
captain.
Eyes, sir" replied the cross-eyed pri-
vate.
Didn't you look where you We're
shoOting?"
"No, sir, shot where was looking ?
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29
How's This !?

We offer $4,000 for any case OF catarr
that cannot be cured by HALL.
CATARRH MEDICINE.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is TAX
on the Mucous Surfaces Of the System.
Sold by druggists for over forty years.
Price 75c. Testimonials free.
#. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29
& RI x ||| e. e. T.
Too Valuable.

THAT prima donna didn't seem at all
angry"
"How did you get that impression?"
inquired the weary manager?"
''She never once raised her voice."
"Well, you don't think she'd waste
high note on me, do YOU"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29

AVOID a DOCTORS BILL
on the first of the month by taking
now bottle of Mansfield Cough Bal.
sam for that hacking, hollow cough.
Price 25c and 50c.-Adv.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29
A LONESOME PAIR.

my goodness, but this is wonder
full" ruminated Justice John OF .he
Lincoln (va.) police court on Monday.
morning, December 81, as he eyed The
two lone DRINKS before him, the entire
result of the police vigilance for Satur-
day and Sunday. "And this during the
holidays" he continued. 4Never In
my long career on the bench has such
thing occurred before"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29
Marital Amenities.

He-"I want home, and you must
take flat She-"Oh, no; did that
when married you"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29

Mixed flour containing less than 80
per cent Of wheat flour may be sold
without accompanying substitutes.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29
Between Girls.

Betty Wilde--Jack declares he'll go
crazy If don't marry him.
Her Friend-Ah! Then there's no
hope for him either way,
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29

Very Plain.
"What interest is your dog taking
in that cat chaser"
II should judge, sir, one purr scent"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29

A valuable Iron Tonic for the Blood
GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC Purifles and
Enrches the Blood 1t arouses the liver drives out
malaria and builds up the whole system. a Gem
eral Strengthening Tonic for Adults and Children,
SIC.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29

Acid Stomach, Heartburn and Nausea
quickly disappear with the use OF Wrights
Indian Vegetable Pills Send for trial box
to 872 Pearl st., New York. Adv.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29

All mistakes are stepping stones,
some lead up and others down.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29
The Difficulty.

u hear that young Smith is the salt
Of the earth" Indeed, then, he isn't.
He's too fresh"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29

Would you have all men your broth.
'ers? Then be brother to all men.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29

Keep your think machine In running
order; do not use canned opinions.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29

The dog is the only animal that is
capable of loving its master.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29
AIIsn's fooi-Easa for the IroQps,

Many war zone hospitals have ordered Aliens
Foot Ease, the antiseptic powder, for use
among the troops. Shaken into the shoes and
sprinkled in the foot-bath, Aliens Foot-Ease
gives rest and comfort, and makes walking .
delight. Sold everywhere 25c. Try 1t today. Adv.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29

Error is its own REPUTATION.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29

Alcohol leads to Nowhere Land. Fan
better that your boy should be Some
where in France.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29

THIS IS THE AGE OF YOUTH.
You will look ten years younger If You
darken your ugly. grizzly. gray hairs By
using LA Creole" Hair Dressing ADV