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Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06

Pond Factery.-August 1, 191s.- Bebolinks are beginning to grow fat on the best war bread ingredient in the Carolina riee-fe There were two families of swallows on our phone wires last week, there are five fam flies this week. next week there. will be a hundred birds, and soon great divisions from this way will cross the sound to swell the immense army in the coarse salt shore grass at Hor- tons Point light. Woodland and field music is nearly over, except for the lively vireos and now and then a cock robin hoping for second honey moon A bachelor redbreast has been singing for three weeks in an apple tree in kelly's orchard.
 At five thirty A. M., one day last week l stopped my horse in the road to see a buck and a doe jump ever i've barred gate and go into a low fog bank from which the bucks two- point periscope stuck out for long minute. Before the deer were out of sight, bobw lite was calling from a rock within reach of my whip, while over the opposite wall, an hour later, I haymakers flushed a pheasant with her covey of finely grown young. Two bobwhites were calling the second week in July, on the Rawson farm, but we do not know that they found mates l In five separate covers in North Wood I stock bi6dy grouse with angry crests and dragging wings drove intruders from their dozen downy chicks
 There were few rabhits last year
 but this year shows a great increase and, in nearly every morning and evening drive, young bunnies are seen in the road. In every farmers
 garden rabbits and woodclucks have 1 eaten the tops of beets. peas, beans
 and cabbages. Woodchucks were nev-
 CT in greater numbers, and every good farmers dog has killed from six t( 1 twenty; one deor-yard near Redheat 1 hill is now earpeted with dead chuck ies. The absence of young trapper 1 in camp and abroad may account fo 1 the activity Of silunks. SiXteel
 chickens were killed in one night ol
 Mapiewood farm, and the next nigh at the coop a large white skunk wa trapped and shot Near the Pigeol Inn farm. two skanks were shot insid | the c6ops, and at the Rawsen farn 9 girl killed two .skuni1s in the poultry
 yard with stones and sticks.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-02-28
NeWs
$4,000 STORE
NOTES SOLD TO
BANKF0R$
Townley Sells Farmers
Notes to killdeer First
National Bank.

| Schafer, y. b Feb, 1.-THE Sch,
Ter Record, IN It's issue OF F"bIuarF
7. prints the following interesting az.
ucle
| 1T Is reported here on good all
thorlty that A &. Townley, creator ot
tho Consumcrs' United stores com'
panE sold recently 10 the First Ma.
tionai bank OF Kiildecr. n. u. some
10000 worth Of the 800 notes. slyen
by farmers for the privilege Of do
Ing business at the Townlcy stores,
Tor $4,000 or at a discount OF so per
cent. II Is rUmored also that he made
similar deals with other banks.
| "A, least half OF these 200 notes arc
considered TO bc good. bankable pa
per, It Is said these will promptly be
| taken care of at maturity and will net
the bank a prott OF at least $4,000.
Many Of the remaining 100 notes Will
( be granted an extension and viii I'm.
ally be paid with interest, some will
he placed IN Indictment and collected
with added costs; and few, Il In said.
Will never be collected. Considerable
speculation Ia rife as to whether the
| makers II the latter will enjoy equal
! privileges IN trading at tho To~nley
/ Storcs with the men who arc furnish
ing the promoter with the funds to
launch this sigantic trust,
/ Some arc beginning to realize that
they have contributed to a fund which
, will doubtless place TownIey beyond
alt dreams Of avurlce and are limiting
at desire to have their money re-
turned. The tact that Townley has
iled petition in bankruptcy has
made these men suspicious, They
argue that Townley would not 30 to
the trouble 10 divorce his debts unless
he Intended to acquire wealth In his
own namc. Their notes arc now in
and the chances for ever getting any
OF their money back are slight Tho
notes were no doubt Endorsed In such
terms ~ 10 negative company linbi]i-
~ and in order to recover, II would
he necessary 10 prove that the pres
en-, holder had notice Of 'pnrm'ty In
the instrument"
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-02-28
Bad \
Wants Everyone T.

This article appeared orr
ginally in the Schafer Re-
cord; the above was taken
from the Grand Forks Her.
aid; like charges have been
published in the Minot Mes
senger, Fargo Forum, and
other newspapers fighting
farmer organizations.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-02-28
Farmers Challenge Editors to Prove
StatenentS

Watford City, N. Oak, Feb. Fl, '18.
WHEREAS the Schafer Record in it's issue of February
7h, 1918 published article headed: "Townley Dis
counting Notes in which it set forth that G. ToWnley
$4,000 worth of $4,000 notes given by farmers Of Me-
Kenze county for memberships in the Consumers United
the said Schafer Record has set forth other false and de-
famaory statements against the Consumers United Stores
of which members and it's officers, and,
WHEREAS, at meeting here today of the members
of the Consumers United Stores company the said state
ments in the Schaer Record have been shown be false
not been sold evidenced by the following statement
from our cashier and treasurer at ST. Paul, Mimi:
STATEMENT TREASURER
+ : s; ::s ss:;
are
;'
Subscribed sworn e. me s s
Notary Public. Samsey Co, s4nn.
AND WHEREAS, the Mckenzie County Red Cross is
nG m eeTe a TINS sg ana Is IN 81
help the RED Cross and support the government in this
FARMERS PUT UP CERTIFIED CHECK
WHEREAS, the committee resolutions at this meet
ing has in its possession certified check for 100000
strctons from the General Manager of the Consumers
United stores deliver said check to the Editor
OF OF the Sc M he sd that
ers for memberships in the Consumers United Stores
company to any bank bankers the state of North
Dakota other state any discount par and
WHEREAS this committee will hold this offer for
thirty days before returning said check to the company
and this committee urges the said Schafer Record
and It's editor to devote his energy and utmost effort to
secure this thousand dollars for the Red Cross if he
believes the articles published in the Schafer Record his
own paper are true and published with good motives and
as he states, "on authority" and,
NAMES LOCAL MKENZIE COUNTY PAPER
WHEREAS, believe that the said Schafer Record
Darlington, N. D., Feb 10th, 1918.
he FarCO fhoG md Eor<c
the Bismarck Tribune and other papers in North Dakota
have made united and organized attack the Con-
sumers Stores Company farmers cooperative store
organization doing business in North Dakota in an ef
fort to put it out of existence, and
WHEREAS, these publications are now and have been
supporting nonresident corporations, trusts and COM
blnaons that are depressing all peoples and making it
difficult for the government to carry the war for de-
mocracy by increasing prices the necessities of life
needed by our government, and people alike, and
thus pocketng profits great when our
sons and brothers, and those of allies are dying and
bleeding on the battlefield for democracy and the free
dom OF the people everywhere from oppression
NOW THEREFORE,, we, the farmers of this commur-
ty, members of the Consumers United Stores Company
IN meeting assembled at Carrington North Dakota this
10th day OF February, 1913, numbering about 211 do
hereby condemn these newspapers for their support of
the enemies OF the people, and denounce their
false and malicious attacks the Consumers United
This space the Independent paid for from the educ
operative
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-02-28

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Samuel Engebretson, c. O. Engebretson,
J. H. McCutcheon Resolution Committee.
ing after the above resolutions adopted,
sage was received BY p p Kurtz from the First Ma
tonal Bank of Killdeer that it had bought notes
of the Consumers United Stores Company its Of
fcers or from Mr.. Townley.)
ALEXANDER FARMERS ENDORSE UNITED STORES
Alexander, N. Oak, Feb. 20, 18.
WHEREAS there is united effort being made by Ger
hamper and discourage the farmers who trying
operate to bring about better system of buying and SELL
ing merchandise and farmers products, and,
WHEREAS the profits taken by the big middlemen, the
food SPECTATORS meat packers and other proteers
the government hamperng the government in carrying
the and expressing the farmers city
WHEREAS believe the farmers and workers
benefit themselves by cooperation and have associated
the Consumers United Stores company numbering
two hundred in this m territory and are
North Dakota; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED, that we the farmers here assembled
in mass meeting at Alexander N Dak this goth day Of
February do hereby unanimously endorse the said Con-
sumers United Stores company and it's officers and ask
ana that all farmers OF the state unite thef
associating themselves with u.s. and,
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED, that condemn the
kept the state and the agents of big business and
the politicians because of their attacks this
and it's officers and especially do condemn such
papers the Schafer Record of Mckenzie county which
has joined in publishing false statements against
company these small papers get support direct from
effort instead of in the interest of big corporations out
side the state.
UNANIMOUS PASSED.
Signed: F. R. Minear,
0. A. Gajewski,
John Jiricka,
Resolution Committee
Fessenden, N. D., Feb Is, 1913
WHEREAS in the recent issues of the Harvey Journal
edited by j. F. Richards there has appeared articles de-
nouncing and crcizing company known as the Con-
United Stores Company, a cooperative farmers
merchandise operating retail stores in North Da
kota,
NOW THEREFORE, we farmers here assembled mem
bers of the Consumers United Stores company, number
ing about 200 do hereby condemn and repudiae the said
Harvey Journal representative local farmers
working in the interests of large corporations who
alike expressing both the farmers and the local business
and which attempting at this time to destroy
company and other cooperative farmer institutions.
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED, that we do hereby
animously endorse the methods and activities and pV1
of the Consumers United Stores Company and
officers in charge of it's affairs
Passed unanimously,
E. J. Storee, David Pross
J. j. Jones,
Committee on Resolutions
Company furnished by the farmers to encourage CO.
umers)
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The diamond drill., 1918-06-08

thunder OF strife into the realm OF
peace and rest. Even now, while we
gather here. soldiers on the edge OF
the battlefield are burying our dead
amid the roar OF cannons and the
bursting OF shells. Nothing could be
more fitting than their remaining
there. The soil that holds their blood
should have their bodies also. for in
that rich earth a richer dust is con-
cealed.
Therefore, let Decoration Day 20
down from generation 10 generation.
Let II be yearly reminder to our
children and their children's children
that the liberties they enjoy were
bought at a fearful price. Let them
be taught to strew flowers over the
feet that blistered in the long and
forced march, and over the hearts
that ached, and over tne patriots that
fell. The lessons incident to this day
must be inculcated in the hearts OF
our offspring if-this republic is to en-
dure
The diamond drill., 1918-06-08
EXHIBIT OF DOMESTIC ART

On next Thursday afternoon and
evening, June 18th the annual exhibit
Of the special departments OF the
public schools will be held on the
first floor of the Forest Park school.
The domestic art department will
exhibit work from the 9Th, 9Th and
9Th grades. Problems in simple
stitches, seams, hens, etc, will be
displayed from the 9Th and 9th
grades, and plain sewing under gar
ments and winter and summer dresses
from the high school.
One division Of the commercial de-
partment will exhibit in penmanship
typewriting and shorthand Speci-
mems in writing from every child from
the Forest Park, Western, and Tobin
schools will be displayed. Attractive
designs on ovals from grades and s
will be shown. There will also be an
exhibit of all the typewriting work
done by the high school classes this
year.
The other division Of the CONNER
cial department will give an exhibit
of the work done in bookkeeping.
The manual training department
will exhibit some shop work done by
all the grades from 5-a through the
FIRST two years in high school. Work
in brick laying and carpentry. me-
chanical projection, and architectural
drawing will complete this exhibit.
Three model meals will be the nu-
cleus Of the exhibit OF the domestic
science department. There will also
be foods made from substitutes for
wheat. n eat, sugar, and fats.
The art department will exhibit a
collection of drawing. craft work, and
manual arts from all grades Special
work IN interior decoration, applied
designs, and commercial art will be
shown from the departmental school.
This exhibit will give the people OF
Crystal Falls some idea of what the
public schools are doing in these
special lines and all those who are in
terested are cordially invited TO at
tend.
The diamond drill., 1918-06-08
FREIGHT NOTICE.

Owing TO orders received from the
United States government freight
must be paid upon merchandise when
received. Hereafter no freight will
bet let out OF Offices without cash.
Merchants must pay their freight
bills every day or there will be no
freight delivered to their teams.
F. o. RoSCHON, Age. C. & n. w.
S o. CRoGHAN. Agt. c. NJ. & st. Pc.
The diamond drill., 1918-06-08
MICHIGAN'S CONTRIBUTION.

Michigan's contribution to the war
was made public Wednesday when a
compilation of the work OF the local
boards was made public.
One year ago 377,179 of draft age
registered and of that number $4,000
have been inducted into the ranks,
In addition to those inducted 10000
men Of all ages have enlisted in the
army or navy.
There remains today 24500 men
physically fit in class /, to which
must be added the number that regis.
The diamond drill., 1918-06-08
A Memorial Day Address

, often TO wait in dread anticipation OF
the results OF the battle where thei
loved ones faced the brave men from
the South.
1t Is now fifty years since John A.
Logan issued general orders No il
designating the 30th day OF May. 1868,
as day of mourning over the graves
of the slumbering patriots. and TO
strew with flowers or otherwise their
graves. On that first Decoration Day,
without any legislative demaDd or ex-
ecutive proclamation, the loyal people
OF twenty-seven states thronged TO
the heroes graves, and We'd with sur1
yiving veterans in rendering homage
to the beloved dead.
From that day until this day the OBJ
servance OF the day has been confined
to The United States and her island
possessions. But today we are not
the only people, the only nation, that
is decorating the resting places of our
soldier dead for on this day we have
Joined the English and Irish. Scotch
and French. This day, maybe this
hour, men and women and children
assemble on the heather-covered coast
OF Scotland, and on the green banks
OF the coast OF Ireland, and in peace
full graveyards in brave little England,
and on the battlefield cemeteries OF
bleeding France TO decorate the graves
OF our own American soldiers who
made the supreme and final sacrifice
for worldwide mankind. On this
Decoration Day we "reach hands
across the sea-" as we never have
done on any past Decoration Day, and
mingle our tears with the tears Of
the people Of other lands; the people
for whom our brave boys died as well
as for ourselves. and we whisper in
their ears, 'Do 1t again. Do it every
year, for they are worthy"
But how came It that their scored
dust lies in foreign soil 1t was their
answer to Germany's lust for power
and worldwide dominion. II is peace
loving Americas challenge to Prus-
sian militarism 1t is the spirit OF
great Democracy battling against q
vile autocracy. When Germany over
ran Belgium and invaded France, pur-
posing TO go on [ Paris, arriving at
Verdun they found their progress
stayed by the combined forces OF
France, Great britain and the British
colonies The slogan OF our Allies
was, They shall not pass" We know
that they did not Tass.
That same purpose has animated
the heart OF our warriors in France
anew ever since the 21st day Of last
March, and in the biggest drive that
any army has ever made the British
and French and American soldiers,
| hghting side by side, nghting against
tremendous odds, are still saying to
each other, They shall not pass"
And they will not pass, for such sold
! iers as ours are never shot in the
back. They may die, but they will
never surrender. They are determined
to win this war, and all the Huns In
the world can never break that spirit
Therefore repeat it, do 1t again.
DO 1t every year, for they are worthy
And next year there will be many
more OF their graves to be decorated
for we have been told that when this
greatest OF all battles is over. not
less than 100000 soldier boys OF Great
Britain and France and Belgium anC
America will have passed out OF the
The diamond drill., 1918-06-08
BY REV. W. b. COOMBE

be decorated by US. AS of Moses, so
OF them II must be said mo man
knoweth their sepulchre," and thus,
their graves we ne'er shall strew
with sweet and silent tokens OF our
grief"
Many OF them, under scorching
Southern skies, o'ercome with heat,
fell Naked and starving, some died
in damp and loathsome prisons. Many
fell on bloody battlehelds now hal
lowed by their dust; others rest on
hillside and valley and dismal swamp,
but wherever they lie they will not be
overlooked. Though human hands be
deck not their resting place, never
theless, on each Decoration Day their
graves are strewn with grasses green
and flowers gay, for kind nature at
tends to that for us, and so every
grave gives forth the perfume OF ma
tions love, and will continue to do
so until the last trumpet shall sound.
But, some ask, 'What good does it
do? Do they request that they be re-
membered? Has voice come up from
the grave saying. Come and do us
homage?" No, it is not that Brave
souls never ask for homage. and true
nobility never pleads for recognition.
IL needs not. 1t Is sufficient in ITSELF
and we cannot add honor to the ma
tions great dead by anything We say
or do. They will not suffer il they do
not receive Il. We only will suffer II
we withhold II. They can do without
our praise; we cannot afford TO do
without memory. Therefore we claim
the high prerogative of recognizing
brave deeds, and do them homage.
Brave men, l have said, good sold
iers. / declare. and you gather from
this that / mean men only. But ]
may not fail to speak of women. too,
for no war in history is complete with
those heroines left out. II they could
turn the hands of time back well-nigh
sixty years, they would not be wrink-
led, loveless and alone They would
be radiant in maidennood's bloom;
just graduating from seminary, and
conservatory, and studio. Girls who
ftt1 nd No
fore whom life opened roseate vista
in love-crowned homes. There were
thousands OF them whose first-love
dreams were shattered by the shelling
OF Fort Sumpter. They could not
fight, so they gave what they could.
They put aside with firm thoughts and
anguished hearts the dearest hopes
that come TO bless young lives, and to
many a maiden that first bright love-
dream was the last,
But there were others too. When
| the husband in husky tones said, wife
feel as If | ought 10 leave you and
| NAN anu 81 w NAit AiChNt Wv
wife's voice grew steady and strong,
as she said Go then, and God give
you victory" And sealing her words
with a kiss, she sent him forth a true
knight-a true knight-errant. Pom
derous volumes have been written
about the men who went to the front,
but the wives who titled the farms,
or worked for richer neighbors. and
out OF the few remaining hours of
the evening made supplies for hospi-
tai and camp. thus doing the triple
duty OF mother and father and philan-
thropist, have received only scant at
tention. Yet theirs was the hardest
lot OF all, for in addition to exacting
toll they were compelled 20 wait, and,
The diamond drill., 1918-06-08

Wnen the urSt Napoleon was crOss-
ing the Alps he saw an old peasant
woman Fastening through the noun
tains, and he asked her. whittier are
you Fastening this sharp morning."
She said ito yonder pass to see the
emperor" He asked, what have you
gained in him more than in the Bour-
hons? Have you not simply exchang-
ed one despot for another?" The old
peasant eoman thought moment, and
then answered, "The Bourbons were
the rulers OF the rich and great; Ma
poleon Is our ruler"
In our democracy we acknowledge
no Bourbon rule, for here every citi-
zen is g sovereign king, yet let us
hasten to confess that there is one
day each year when, as a nation
-'The spirits Of the dead do rule as
from their urns," 1t is the day we
call Decoration Day, and your pres
en6e here now is a verihcation OF
their rulership. 1t is a custom that
has upon It the sanction of long an
tiquity. For many centuries past ma
tions in the Orient have observed
days similar TO this, decorating the
graves OF their departed ones in ac-
cord with their peculiar customs. The
Athenians rose up early and sat up
late rehearsing 10 their children the
splendid achievements OF their ances-
tors. We ought not to be less mind
full OF those who bore aloft the Stars
and Stripes during the great Civil
War.
When the immortal Lincoln called
for $4,000 men to crush the spirit of
rebellion evident In the South the im-
mediate rush TO arms from the homes
OF the North was but mere wave up
on the rising tide OF hostility toward
the South, 10 be increased as its bill
lows extended to millions OF men.
The few remaining veterans are
mere remnants OF an army that a Cea-
ear might well be proud to lead But
who would have dared think that in
the students chamber, the lawyers
office; the mechanics workshop and
the farmers field were to be found
young men who would prove them
selves worthy 10 follow and to fight
u&der the worlds greatest soldiers.
Approaching this truth more and
more as the years go by we claim the
right 10 recognize brave deeds, and
so on this day strong men-wondering
children accompany surviving veter-
ans to our cemeteries Lift up your
eyes from Maine TO California, from
the lakes TO the Gulf OF Mexico and
see the vast multitudes moving to the
places where loved ones sleep. The
drum sounds the grand march, and
the minute-guns are the heart-throbs
of nations sympathy. The march
ing hosts bring flowers in wreaths,
that means honor; they bring flowers
in crosses, that means suffering; they
bring flowers in anchors, that means
hope, they bring white flowers, that
means purity, they bring evergreens
that means Immortality.
Yes, there they will strew memorial
blossoms on the passionless mounds
where the heroic army OF the dead
with banners set, and their battle
harness on, by ranks and regiments
by hundreds and thousands, officers
and privates are holding their last
long solemn blyouac watched only by
the silent sentinel stars.
But many a soldiers grave cannot
The diamond drill., 1918-06-08

tered last Wednesday. estimated at
about 10000 additional.
In addition there are 13.500 delin-
quents, men who did not return
missionaries and who go automat-
ically into Glass when they are
apprehended.
Michigan certainly has reason 10
feel proud OF its showing in this war
Ii is in keeping with its work in the
Civil war when the Wolverine state
was one OF the stand-bys OF Presi.
dent Lincoln