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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-06
STILL HAVE BARN RAlsINGs
Good Old Custom Has Not Died Out,
Though the Conditions Have
Greatly Changed.

The Connecticut Valley Advertiser
tells it's readers that on Saturday Of
last week q barn-rafsing was held at
Hadlyme with about everybody in Had
lyme and East Haddon present. That
seems much like the old type of barn
raisings, but something new comes in
the statement that three kinds of Ii.
guilds were to be had for the asking,
one being water and another root beer.
Formerly there were but two, one be-
ing hard cider and the other West In
dia um.
From early times up to 40 years ago
jewellers in the country did not have
the knack Of erecting a building with
no more timber in it than could be car.
ried on a wheelbarrow; hence, to erect
the frame for a barn OF house was a
work which taxed the strength Of all
the men and boys in the community
and which brought the local carpenter
into a place Of proud Importance. It
was considered altogether out Of the
question to do the work without stimu-
lants, and these were furnished gen.
erously, for, though a man might be
%"close" about many things, he could
not afford to ration those who came to
the raising if he hoped to spend the
rest Of his life in the community.
Having this in mind, he bought rum
literally, while the sour cider was
brought from his own cellar, but,
though it's ability was recognized, it
was hardly regarded seriously because
everyone had an abundance of 1t at
home, while drinking rum at the .ex>
pense Of another was something alto
gether more important. 1t was hard to
raise a building without it, and, on
some occasions, fairly difficult to raise
n with it. Not infrequently it was
found necessary to continue the work
to a second day because the spirits
from st. Croix had done their work
not wisely but too we'll. Changing man
ners have modified the work, for the
Advertisers account says that the barn
was raised in a single afternoon. It is
a pleasure to know that the work was
done successfully and that this old
form Of communal living survives
Hartford Courant.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-06
MONEY FOR UNCLE SAM
Reserve Bank Head Appeals for
Thrift and Saving.
Bills Now Pouring in Requiring Gov.
eminent to Pay Price of Great War
-.PeopIe Get Money Back.

The Ninth Federal Reserve district
mas probably received as great an in
flow of money during the past year as
IN any two preceding years. in it's
history according to Theodore Void,
governor of the Minneapolis Federal
Reserve bank. MI. Void made the
statement in calling attention to the
secretary of the treasury's statement
that the government is in urgent need
of money, with war costs now in their.
highest point. With it he coupled an
appeal for careful spending, thrift and
saving.
Instead of spending twice as much
as in past years the people of this dis
trict have every reason, both of per-
sonal advantage and national necessity
for saving" said Mr.. Void. ut is true
that prices are higher but most fami-
lies have a good margin above ~necessi-
ties and from this there should be
substantial savings.
"The immediate way of loaning
money to the government, and saving it
at the same time is to buy Wal Saw
ings Stamps. When one realizes that
as much was yielded last year by sale
Of these stamps as it cost before the
war to run the government for a year
it is seen that they are no trivial fl.
nancial item. War Savings Stamps
are very real and the man who buys
them in proportion to his ability is
helping the government as much as
any Weather man who buys in pro
portion to his ability"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-06
BOWLING ARCHBISHOP
Des Moines PreIate Named by
Pope to Succeed Ireland.
Will Be Consecrated to New Office on
Date to Be Selected by Himself
Born in New York

st. Paul, Feb. 3.-Monsignor Austin
Bowling, bishop of Des Moines, Iowa,
has been announced by Pope Benedict
as %uccesso to the late Archbishop
John Ireland, of St. Paul. The new
prelate, on a date to be selected by
himself, will be consecrated archbish-
op, and will become metropolitan of
the archdiocese, having authority over
all other bishops in the district.
Archbishop Bowling, who is 81
years. old, has been bishop of Des
Moines since April 25, 1912, when he
was ~consecrated. He was born in
New York, April 6, 1858, and was edu-
Gated in Manhattan college, st. Johns
seminary, Boston, and the Catholic
university at Washington. He was
ordained in the priesthood in 1891, and
had the pastorate of st. Mary's church
at Warren, R. L., since 1905 has been
at Saints Peter and Paul cathedral
in Des Moines.
Announced From Rome.
The cable from Rome declares that
the pope has promoted Monsignor
Bowling to metropolitan of the do
cese of st. Paul. The term metropoli-
tan is used Interchangeable with arch
bishop, although in the early church
history there was a slight Shade Of
difference.
When seen at the archbishopic,
Father Thomas WEIGH, secretary, said:
Bishop Bowling has been a visitor
of the late Archbishop Ireland on sew
eral occasions in recent years." said
Father WEIGH. 81 do not recall that
he OBLIGATED on any of these occasions.
He and the late archbishop were close
friends"
The levation Of Bishop Bowling to
the office of archbishop will be made
after his conservation, date Of which
can be arranged by the bishop himself.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-06

sums will be shown as accurately as
possible. 4
So far as possible the programs OF
the War Savings Societies will be
worked out on pleasant and attrac-
tive lines. 1t is planned to have each
member take an active part from time
to time. The study done in preparing
papers or short talks before the so.
ciety will educate the members in the
matters which the clubs are organ
lied to teach.
Intensive Preparation.
Between now and February 18th
there will be meetings of War Savings
society organizers in many parts of
the district at which speakers under
direction of the central committee will
outline the purposes and plans of the
societies.
Although the societies are now being
organized for the year 1919, 1t has
been announced at Washington that
they will be kept alive and encour-
aged to continue permanently. The
two-fold purpose Of maintaining the
societies will be to continue giving
the people aid in their efforts to save
and to aid steadily to the Govern
ment's income from small sources.
The Treasury Department has an
nounced definitely that taxes can be
reduced in practically direct ratio to
the amount of money supplied the
United States through sale of War
Savings Stamps.
working on the fundamental idea
of the value Of Thrift, we intend also
to convince every person in the dis
trict that the purchase of War Saw
ings Stamps will make savings do a
better, bigger and more valuable work
than any other use of the money" Mr..
Meyering said today. "At the same
time the money saved and invested in
stamps will be perfectly safe and will
yield an interest return of between
4 per cent. and 5 per cent. each year.
For more than four years the world
has been spending. Now the world
must either start saving to make up
for the loss and waste or it must fall
back into stagnation and sink to a
lower standard of comfort and happi-
ness than it had before 1914. But it
is not necessary for the American
people to fall back if they are thrifty
and save. We have the best oppor-
tunity to save of any of the worlds
nations. We have the food, clothing
and money-all the good things of
life. We must make the basis of our
prosperity secure. Saving makes the
future prosperity of the individual
safe. At the anne time it supplies mo.
ney to the Government with which
the whole national structure can be
so strengthened that we will not have
to lose or forego any Of OFT national
prosperity"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-06
Horvath Opposes Conference.

Vladivistok, Feb. 3.-General Hor-
vath, manager of the Chinese Eastern
railway, declared the proposed con-
ference of all Russian factions in the
Princes islands, Sea Of Marmora, Is
impracticable. I'VE cannot trust the
Bolsheviki, to observe a truce" he
said. "The decision of the peace con.
ference Is impracticable." Official es.
innate of the strength of the Bolshevik
army on the various fronts was close
to 200, 900, with reserves OF over
1000, 900.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-06
House Committee Unanimously
Decides to Support New
Building Program.
MEASURE IS AMENDED
Plan Calls for Construction of Ten
Great %Battleships and Ten Scout
Cruisers, the Work to Begin
After Feb. I.

Washington, Feb. 3.-The admins
tration policy of vast naval expan-
sion, unless world disarmament be-
comes a certainty through information
al agreement at Paris, was approved
by the House Naval committee by
unanimously recommending a new
three-year building program Of 10
great battleships and 10 scout cruis-
ers.
Four Democrats and two Republi-
cans were understood to have opposed
the program as originally outlined, but
their approval was given after an
amendment was accepted providing
that work on the new ships should
not begin until after Feb. 1880.
Endorsement of Daniels Plan.
Administration leaders said the vote
vas IN Endorsements of the program
announced by Secretary Daniels for
an American navy second to none, I'M
less limitations are imposed on all ma
tons by the peace conference. Should
an agreement for such limitations be
reached the bill provides that the
President may stop construction at
his discretion.
While the program as recommended,
does not authorize the six battle cruis-
ers and 100 other similar craft asked
for by the Navy department, it was
explained that it had been decided to
postpone construction of these vessels
until naval experts could reach agree
ment as to their designs based on ex-
perience gained in the war.
The agreement of the committee
was reached at a long executive ses-
sion, after which Chairman Padgett
smilingly announced that the decision
had been unanimous.
Bill Totals $750,00O,0 900.
Mr.. Padgett said that the completed
naval bill would carry a total Of $780,
100000 of which sum $169, 000, 900
would be for ship construction.
Mr.. Padgett said he hoped to get
the measure before the House next
week.
Besides providing for the new build
ing program, the bill authorizes a tenn
porary naval force of 225,000 men, ex-
elusive of officers,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-06
Riaht Out Loud.

The master shipbuilder, Charles M.
Schwab, was discussing the trend Of
the times with a friend who remarked:
'Do you follow the food regulations,
Charlie, or are they meant for only
the little fellow"
Schwnb laughed. ITO tell the,
truth" he said, "the food savings pol
Icy has been a great thing for me.
Now I can go into n restaurant and
order corned beef and cabbage and
boiled potatoes right out loud, and
nobody thinks anything Of It,"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-06
Bullets Ruin His Clothes.

Chicago, Feb. 3.-While Severno Di
Francisco stopped in front of his gro
Gerry to feed his pet dog, in the North
side Italian district, two men fired
five shots at him. The grocer fell on
his face, policemen picked him up
s~enseless and he was taken to a hos
pital. There two bullet holes were
found through his hat, two through his
vest, and three through his trousers.
Francisco a not eve scratched, but
he was distressed over the perforation
of his clothing-a new suit, he said,
which had cost him $l8.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-06
Try New Preventive for Rabies.

The production Of a new serum with
which animals and man can be made
immune to rabies may result from ex-
periments recently conducted by a
French scientist. The brain of II rab-
bit which had died of rabies was treat
ed will, sulphuric ether and then
mixed with a special preparation,
forming an emulsion. by injecting a
weakened solution of this emulsion I'M
der the skin, immunity to rabies has
been produced which appears to be
both lasting and effective. No bad eff
fects, it is said. result from giving the
injection. The serum has, so far, only
been tried on ahimals.-Popular Me.
chanics.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-06
CONVERSION OF INSURANCE
Men Have Five Years in Which to
Secure New Forms.

Men Have Five Years in Which to
Secure New Forms.
Washington, Feb. 3.--Conditions
under which soldiers or sailors now
holding government life insurance may
convert these policies within five years
into other forms which can be carried
with the government during, their life
time were announced by Col. Henry
D. Lindsey of the War Risk Insur-
ance bureau. Rates will be made pub
lie soon, as the new policies will not
be available until then.
There will be six different kinds of
insurance-ordinary life, 20 payment
life, 80 payment life, 20 year endow-
ment, 80 years endowment and endow-
ment payable at the age Of 81.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-06
DRESSED IN ARMY UNIFORM
Bandit Obtains $4,000 in Daring Hold
up at Indianapolis.

Indianapolis, Feb. 3.-Dressed ii the
uniform of a United States army Off
Ger and wearing wound and oversee
service emblems a robber held up the
office of H. F. Campbell, former secre-
t~ary-treasurer of a motor a company,
on the 18th floor of a downtown Of
flee building here and escaped with
$4,000.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-06
FATE OF GERMAN COLONIES

Senator Lodge Favors Letting Victors
Dispose of Them.
Washington, Feb. 3.-"The German
colonies should be turned over to the
people who captured them, to make
any disposition they choose, but why
should we be charged with administer
ing them?" Senator Lodge told the SEN
ate during the peace debate.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-06
STRIKE is BEING SETTLED

Buenos Aires, Feb. 3.-The princi.
pal differences between the port work
ers here who have been on strike for
several months and. their employers,
it is understood, have been adjusted.
Negotiations over minor details are
still in progress.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-06
AUTHORIZES STATE LOANS
Michigan Legislature Makes Funds
AuaiIahIa Cor SnIdiarc

Available FOR Soldiers.
Lansing, Mich, Feb. 3.--Every
Michigan soldier back from service
and out of a job will be able to Dor
row $50 from the state war prepared
ness board, according to a resolution
passed in both houses of the legisla-
ture.
stake them at least to enough to
get a suit of clothes and a meal tick
et," said the members.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-06
NO RETALIATORY MEASURES
War Trade Board Will Not Protest
British Regulations.

Washington, Feb. 3.-The War
Trade board will not take retaliatory
measures on account of import re-
strictions promulgated by the British
government. This statement was au-
thorized by a member of the board.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-02-06
EIGHT HOUR DAY ORDERED
100000 Members of United Textil

7UU,UUU WcFT1DETS OF UTTlEu TEXL!IC
Workers. Union Affected.
New York, Feb. 3.-Orders direct
ing &c., coo members Of the United
Textile Workers of America to estab-
fish an eight hour day, regardless Of
objections Of employers, have been
issued by the unions executive COM
mittee, according to an announcement
here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-03
HUN DELEGATES
ON FINANCE MEET
ALLIED MISSION
Conference Yesterday Was
Limited to Exchange
of Views

Paris, April S.-The first meeting
of the representatives of the tinan-
cial comm ission of the Supreme
Council with the German financial
delegates, took place yesterday. The
conference was limited to an eX-
change of views.
Further details of the report of
the commission on international la
Dor legislation show that the de-
cisions of the labor conference, to
be held annually may take the
form either of recommendations or
a draft convention, which each
member undertakes to bring before
competent authorities within year
for legislation or other action. If
no legislation is enacted or action
taken, or if the draft convention
is not approved by the competent
authorities no further obligation
rests upon the state in question.
While the commission was not
asked to deal with specific labor
questions. it proposes to insert IN
the peace treaty clauses declaring
the right of association by both en-
ployers and employees; the prohl-
bition of child labor, under fourteen
years of age; equal pay for women
and men for equal work; a day or
rest weekly for all workers; the
limitation of work to an elght-hour
day, and guaranteeing the beneht OF
insurance laws to foreigners on the
same basis as nationals.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-03
Thin, Weak People
Get Strong and Fat

Thin. weak, nervous people. espee-
tally those convalescing from infiu-
enZa or similar enervating com
plants. can quickly regain their
strength, flesh and energy by TAX
ing a fiVe-grain tablet of Blood-Iron
Phosphate with each meal.
This wonderful nerve and blood
builder, which is now obtainable OF
George A. Gorgas and other leading
druggists. contains neither stimulat-
ing or narcotic drugs nor dangerous
alkalCids, and does not upset the
stomach or discolor the teeth: but is
simply harmless, easily digested
nerve and blood builder which, ac-
cording to leading French and Ameri-
ran authorities, is quickly converted
into living nerve tissue and at the
same time increases the oxygen car
rying red cells of the blood.
Blood-Iron Phosphate helps make
the weak strong, increases endurance
and prevents fatigue; pale cheeks re-
gain the bloom of health. dull eyes be-
come brigh. and sleep returns to the
sleCEless. Take Blood-lron Phosphate
for three weeks-it costs only $3.50
for three weeks treatment-and il it
doesn't do all this for you, if you
don't feel better and stronger than
YOU have for months. IL you don't put
on several pounds of solid stay-there
flesh, You can have your money back
for the asking and the trial will cost
you nothing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-03
CITY ON TOES TO
, MEET QUOTA in
PEACE RELIEF
Other Sections of Country
Have Fallen Down in Great
Christian Campaign

One reason why the churches of
Harrisburg and Dauphin county are
so interested in the campaign for
the relief of Armenian and Syrian
sufferers is because many sections
of the country have fallen down"
lamentably in their campaigns for
the relief of the victims of the Turks
and the latter's German directors.
The local campaign, which is for
the purpose of raising $4,000 for the
sufferers and orphans, will begin
Sunday. 1t is in charge of a commit
tee headed by Charles w. Burtnett.
b. w. Desant, of New York, who
is assisting in the local campaign, is
in receipt of a letter describing con-
ditions in the Near East. Extracts
from this letter are as follows:
IF you could but have seen the
daily train load of refugees from
the Persian rail head in the early
days of the camps, when hundreds
were added to the population every
twenty-four hours, you would not
wonder that the nursing sisters and
medical officers have been aghast at
the fearful mortality rate among
hospital cases. Every power of re-
sistance was shattered; before dys-
entary and smaller diseases, men and
women and children We're moved
down by the hundreds-and the plot
of ground with it's rows of graves
was never long unVisited.
Between the rails and reception
tent there were great iron cauldrons
for water-eXhausted women knelt
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-03

for a moment in the blaze of the
MeSopo -amian sun, threw water on
their flushed faces, and bore it to
thirsty little lips in the hollow OF
their trembling hands. One saw con-
stantly such things as this--a moth
er rose to walk towards the recep-
ton tents. the young child by her
cried piteously the mothers grasp
tightened, and she dragged the limp
little weight until relief came in the
emergency hospital. How could she
know that II bullet did not still lurk
for dragging steps?
But under the sanitary arrange
ments made by the sanitary corps
and medical staffs-the erection of
closed incinerators, proper latrines,
and the provision of scientific means
to fight the fly pest, inoculation and
thorough medical treatment. the
gain in health has been encouraging
in the highest degree-in fact. the
children seem on the whole well and
happy.
The camps are located on n bend
of. the Dialo river, which flows into
the Tigris some thirty miles below
BaGdad, and not far from that hugh
arch of Ctesiphon which remains to
attest the former glory of the later
Sassanian dynasty. From the river
the water is pumped in to the chlor-
ination plants and thence both
pumped and carried into the supply
tanks of the several camps and sub
sections. Running across the camp
site are the great mounds of earth
worn down by the rains of over a
thousand years, which mark the
channel of the ancient Norwahn
Canal. in fact not the least impress
sive reminders of the glories of the
'cradle of mankind" are these
ghosts of one-time channel courses
which shunted Tigris and Euphrates
water into irrigation bitches resemb-
ling the branches of a mighty river
system. Everywhere are the hum
mockS of bare earth stretching
across the plains as far as the eye
can reach. Although the ground OF
the camps is in these days. almost
entirely barren, the tangled growth
of palm and willow and poplar and
orange trees in the river flats on the
opposite side of the Diala and in the
nearby Arab village suggest the soil
possibilities under the proper irriga-
ton arrangements"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-03

public proclaimed in Belgrade, >the
capital of Serbia. and Jugo- -Slavia,
contained in Rome dispatches via
London, were declared to be simply
ridiculously stupid" and "a piece of
n most vulgar propaganda" by Prof.
Yyslav Nj. Yovanovitch, director of
the official information bureau, here
of the new Jugo Slav state.
ITO call such news 'childishly
stupid" said Prof. Yovanovitch,
would be an insult to the children's
intelligence.
In the very moment when a for
eign invader is still in occupation of
the most essential parts of our ma
tional territory and is terroriZinS
over a million OF our Jugo-Slav
brothers in Georizia, Istria, Fiume
and Dalmatia. it is not the time to
amuse ourselves in internal political
struggles"
The director declared that forty
three times within the last ninety
days dispatches announcing reVolu-
tons, instructions and plots against
the Prince Regent of Serbia and
Jugo -Slavia have been sent out from
Rome and circulated in the Ameri-
can press. Many of these dispatches.
he asserted. quoted newspapers
which never existed or ceased pub
lication years ago. One such dispatch
he declared. quoted Monsignor Stad-
Ter, n prelate who at the time had
been dead seven months.
London, April S.-The Serbian
legation in London has heard moth
ing of the reported proclamation of
a republic in Belgrade. 1t says that
the report is quite untrue.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-03
The TRUTH ABOUT
ECZEMA AND PILES

Thousands and thousands of people,
says Peterson of Buffalo, are learning
every week that one 30 cent box OF
Peterson's Ointment will abolish &c
zema and Danish piles, and the CRATE
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Il had eczema for many years on
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to do it any good, ! saw your ad ana
got one box and l owe you many
thanks for the good it has done me.
There isn't a blotch on my head now
and l couldn't help but thank Peter
son for the cure is great" Miss Mary
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| have had itching piles for 10 years
and Peterson's is the only ointment
that relieves me, besides the piles
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Washington Avenue. Racine, Wis.
Use Peterson's Ointment for old
sores. salt rheum and all skin dis
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