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The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02
TOwnIey Stores
Halted By Order
BLUE SKY COMMISSION ACTS
UNDER RECENT SUPREME
COURT HOLDING.

The North Dakota blue sky COM
mission has ordered the Consumers
United Stores company, Townley
project, to cease the sale of certifi-
Gates of stock or to establish more
stores until it complies with the laws
of the state.
The commission, made up of the
governor, attorney general and secre-
tary of state, issued it's order under a
ruling of the supreme court this week
that certificates of a similar nature,
offered by the Ignite Consumers
Mining company, were speculative in
nature and covered by provisions of
the blue sky act.
The Consumers United Stores COM
pany is one of the main business out
growths of the Nonpartisan league. 1t
is controlled by A. C. Townley and the
other chiefs of the league. The Con-
sumers' Coal company is an indepen-
dent concern, established at Dickin-
son. It's certificates of stock were
identical with those of the Consumers
United Stores company The stock
was sold for 500 a share, as was the
Townley company stock.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02
The action taken by the state COM

The action taken by the state COM
mission makes it necessary for the
Consumers United Stores company to
bring in all of it's records and accounts
to the commission. The company is
absolutely prohibited from continuing
until it complies with the laws of the
state.
An inquiry into the accounts Of the
company is expected to bring to light
many facts concerning the financing of
Nonpartisan league projects.
A report of the condition of the AM
erican Exchange bank of Valley City,
recently organized by John J. Hast
ings, and a statement as to whether
this bank has taken over the affairs
of the American National bank, and
if so, by whom transfer was made on
behalf of each institution, was also or
dered by the commission.
In the investigation of the Valley
City bank deal it was found that note
of $4,000 drawn in favor of the Con-
sumers' United Stores company, had
been given in part payment. In anoth-
er case some months ago it was dis
covered that the Consumers United
Stores company had loaned the Non
partisan league $4,000.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02
WHAT THE PREACHER SAID

While the editor of a certain news
paper was away from home for a.
while, he left the paper in charge of
a minister of the gospel. During the
minister's stay in the office the fol-
lowing letter came from a, subscrib-
er: 81 know very well that l paid
nv subscription to your paper the last
time | was in your office. If / get any
more letters from you as | received
last week | will come in and maui
hi out of you." The minister ans
wered the note like this: 81 have been
trying to get that out of the editor
for ten years, and if you will come
down and maui it. out of him then,
my dear sir, / have twenty mem
bers of my church | will let you op-
crate on" Exchange.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02
Wrote Big Insurance

Benz. R. Schmid, cashier of the FL
deity State bank, is justly proud of
a gold medal in honor of valuable SER
vices rendered for the Western Union
Life Insurance company of Spokane.
Mr.. Schmid wrote $118,OO0O0 for the
company within two and a half
months at the close of 1913, which
broke the record by several thousand
dollars. Mr.. Schmid had only been in
this territory a few months, but wrote
more insurance in that time than
many of the other agents did during
the year. The name and emblem of
medal and on the reverse side is in
scribed, "B. r. Schmid, vice president
$4,000 club Western Union Life,
1918" The medal is worth $40, being
that amount Of gold in it-Orofino
(Idaho) Tribune.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

rules and regulations. Such permis-
sion, if taken advantage of by Amer
lean brewers and distillers, seems al
most certain to lead to complications.
The Mexican are not now, to any great
extent, users of the kinds of beverage
which the United States brewers
and distillers produce. The
establishments referred to, therefore,
if permitted on the Mexican side of the
line, would presumably exist primarily
for the purpose of supplying liquor
illegitimately to customers on the
northern side At best, the Mexican
border has long been a serious pro-
blem for the United States. With
breweries, distilleries, and saloons
stretched along it on the Mexican side,
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02
MAKE THE FOUNDATION
BROAD.

Kansas City Star: Bolshevism is
the child of misery and ignorance.
There is no chance for it to take root
in America because, in spite of all
faults, America has managed roughly
to keep the door of opportunity open
and to obtain a wide diffusion of the
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

and with ''blind pigs" and "speak ca
sizes" stretched along it on the Ameri-
can side, it is hardly going too far to
predict that the situation would soon
become intollerable And so Mexico
should be informed in advance by
Washington Christian Science Mon
itor.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02
A WORD OF WARNING.

It is reported from Mexico that. in
case prohibition goes into force in the
United States, the southern republic
will permit within its borders the es-
tablishment by Americans of brewer
les and distilleries, subject to certain
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02
gains Of civilization.

gains Of cIVlIiZation
The broader the foundation the more
secure the edifice 1t is for America
to make sure that the whole popula-
ton shares in decent standard of
living and that social justice prevails.
Then Bolshevism will continue to find
it's only support in the lunatic fringe
which always exists, but which is of
itself powerless for mischief.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-16

legitimate revolutionary organizations
into organizations for the distribution
Of Terror In this way the soviet has
been thoroughly discredited I'M the eyes
OF the world though YOU might as
reasonably discredit parliament in the
namo Of the Rump," or representative
government on Account of 'ho Noun.
tain"
The fact OF the matter is tha, the
apologist Of the soviet. qua soviet. has
mainly himself to thank for the some.
what rihald criticism Of his opponents.
IT YOU win defend Philip drunk as well
as Philip sober, YOU must accept the
consequences if YOU are classed with
ihe Hacchauals, The temptation to do
so may be extreme, when you are faced
with the oppressive decorum of Sir
Gorglus Midas as champion Of law
and liberty, but the biography of
Charles Fox should afford instructive
illumination in study of such ef.
tects. Every mistake which was made
by the revolutionaries of 93 seems to
be copied by the apologist of bolshevism
today. There is a certain grim humor
IN a Whig being represented as a sans.
culotte, yet that was the fate of Fox
and Sheridan, Therefore let the apol.
oglst Of the soviet take warning It
may have been extraordinarily vicious
for some illconditioned bourgeois to en-.
deaver to encompass the assassination
OF Ulianoff, but such things have been
done before by reformers. Brutus
stabbed Caesar, Cromwell bcheaded
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-16
BOLSHEVISM AND ALL ITS WORKS
(From The Christian Science Montor)

David Il. Francis of st Louis will
90 down TO history as one of the great
ambassadors of the world lie consti.
tutes a compelling force of honesty d.
rected 10y a clear and vigorous under.
standing, and utterly untrammoled hv
fear For this reason. he has been.
Tor the United States in Russia. pro.
cisely what STAFFORD Canning was
in the era of the Crimea, for the United
Kingdom in Constantinople. the voice
%! America i'm the East Reading his
straighttold and unvamished story
Of the Russian revolution. as given 10
The senate committee, In Washington.
on Saturday last one is filled with hone
that the public will grasp more incl
ligently the meaning of that portentous
event, in its innumerable qualifications.
and will be prepared to grapple with
and master the specter Of bolshevism,
born like another Night from the
womb OF Chaos
What exactly the word bolshevism
means TO the public it would be difficult
TO say. 1t is used quite chaotically,
and is in danger Of degenerating into
a term of opprobrium for anything or
person, any other person may please TO
think too advanced for his particular
Utopia. As a consequence the word is
being used very much in the way abo-
litionist was once used In the South,
aristocrat in France, or radical in Eng.
land. The result Is that its force Is
rapidly being dissipated for people are
getting used to it as signifying nothing
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-16

IN particular This s, exactly what
ITS true opponents desire. since they
roresee That. as e result, bolshe,ism win
rapidly come to be considered as To-.
giumate expression oft advanced thought
and action
Now what bolsbeylsm really is. is
class war waged by force. ana en-.
dowed with every conceivable means of
terror ana coercion The terrorist of
1913 was an afGpble sort of phuanthropist
compared with the tcrrorists OF 1919;
Robespierre and Danlon "a Kind of
Brothers Cheewhlc in the light of TN.
anof and Bronsten Marat never form.
ed 50 ghasOy a conception of demo.
cratic rule as the naturalization of
women, like cattle and railways. nor
did Fouquer Tnyillc ever demand that
the victims of the little window"
should first dig their own graves.
When the bolshevil0 set out on their
great experiment as they love to
call it, they did not propose to admit
even the peasant to their Utopia. the
freemen Of that ideal republic were to
be drawn from the ranks OF the urban
workers alone. Circumstances were
however too strong for their fastldious
spirit, and so today the Reputation of
a collar constitutes in some way a
prima facie case for citizenship in the
latest OF all the cities Of the sun. The
effect of this has been deplorable on
institutions such as the soviets, which.
dominated 10y the manufacturers Of the
new Terror" have passed from being
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-16


/ Charles, kobespicrre voted for the gull
/ lotin" for Louis. Consequently TO CON
| tend that tine bolshevjsJ Terror was
a necessary result of dastardly effort
~ o'',"""" ''' p'''I'"' regime o'
'''''"" "''" '''''9''''' ~ ''' 'I S"'''''
"''7''''" WIZ" '''''''''''''''
NnaL of course, the bolshevist Ter
/ ror' really proves is that the human
/ mind thinks very much the same wheth
er a man wears a crown or red tie.
/ How he may act rs largely question
| of opportunity The auimalIty Of hu.
man nature may find refined EXPIRES
sion i'm pare aux certs, but that is
only the opposite extreme To the ma
| tionallzauon of women Now every
| one knows that this last stage of hu.
man nonmorality and depravity has
/ been angrily repudiated by the apollo
gists But unfortunately the evidence
| in support of It is much stronger than
! the evidence against It, For the evi.
dence i'm support of il exists i'm the
shape of proclamations posted, at any
rate, at Saratalf and Ekaterinburg, in
/ accordance with the decision Of the
peasants, WorkmenS and soldiers so.
Wet Consequently a mere denial is not
a sufficient denial
When fugitive after fugitive from
various parts of Russia. men and WON.
ON with mo connection one with the
other and of antagonistic views tell
the same story with details which vary.
without contradicting. II lis difficult to
believe thar thov are au the victims og
an apti.l,,lshevis, animus The only
way. in short to accent the apolopia
of bo,sbovisrn is nv uritiro down a
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-16
40" HAS CONQUERED
BL OOD POISON

Scrofulous eruptons, pimples on the
face are both annoying and disfguring.
Sores, ulcers, mucous patches, copper
colored spots, glandular swelllngs, in.
famed eyeids, wasting OF the muscles,
constipation, a form of dyspepsia and
stomach trouble can all be the result
Of blood poison. Number 40 for the
Blood" an old doctors prescription,
Is the best treatment for all forms OF
blood poison known to medical science.
Made by j. C. Mendenhall, 40 years
q druggist Evansville, Ind
Sold by City Drug store.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-16
BRITISH CONSUL WILL GIVE
TOLOA MEN TRANSPORTATION

New York. March lj.-Americans and
Britishers residing in the United States,
discharged from the British army, who
made trouble aboard the transport Toloa
because they were not put ashore and
sent to their homes from Halifax, ar
rived here today on the vessel
Three officers and $40 men made up
the contingent, and they will be dis
patched to their homes with transpor'
tatIon furnished by the British consul
I'm New York
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-16
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

CTne Ardmoreite submits in this
column communications from the
public. Those who submit matter
for this department are requested
TO sign their names and addresses,
which may or may not be printed.
No anonymous communication will
be printed.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-16

TO THE WOMEN or ARDM0RE.
solicit your support as commission
er from the Second ward upon my past
record, Honesty and Business Admin
iStratiOn.
W. :. FRALEN,
political Advertising.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-16

The senate committee on appropria.
tions has turned down the request Of
Confederate Veterans and members Of
the C. 4. r to provide custodians for
rooms set apart for the two oreaniza.
tions i'm the state capitol
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-16

g. a. Waters of Pawnee, formerly
state senator, has been appointed mem
bcr of the state board Of agriculture
10y Governor Robertson. Waters sue
cecds c. l.. Edmondson Of Chandler,
who resigned from the board to he.
come head of the agriculture boards
livestock inspection department
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-16

Robert Glendenning. recently return.
ed after eighteen months service in
the L, 5. army in France, has been
appointed national guard captain by
Governor Robertson. Captain Glenden
ming is commissioned to organize an
infantry company at Hartshorne.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-16

Try an Ardmoreite Want Ad for
quick results.
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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-07-03
F. B. STREETER SPEAKS
ON REFERENDUM FIGHT

Haxelton Republican: F. B. Stree
ter. editor Of the Emmons County
Record. spoke here last Saturday af-
ternoon to fair sized audience on
the laws to be voted upon 1t the ref
erendum election today. Mr.. Streeter
gave very fine talk. taking up the
measures one by one and thoroughly
discussing them. He read the laws
and then pointed ont the dangers lurk-,
ing behind these measures.
He was fair with both sides and
indulged in no personalities. but gave
4 clear cut talk Of q nature that did
him and the side Of the controversy
which he represented very much cre-
al.
Mr.. 6tree4er also spoke .at several
ethsr points n ths ebuntv dnrine De
lvssk.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-07-03
NOTES BY co. sUPT.

The following teachers have closed
their terms of school: Julia Brath-
eng, Mrs. R. A. HUM, Mrs. A. Brooks,
Mrs. j. B. Miller, J. Van Houte, Jr.,
Laura Studley, Jean Mae Burmeister,
Prof. Eldon Hanson, Ellen F. Tuttls,
Anna Rattenstetter, Alice s. Ander-
son, Ldella Kohnke, E. Beatrice
Wright. Ruth Y. Erbst, Mary Brod-
head, verda Gear, Maude Batchelder,
Ethel and Hazsl Fogle.
Nine month Perfect Attendance
certificates were issued to Betsy Sjer-
slee of Logan District and to Johnnie
Schmidt, Winchester District.
The following pupils received three
month Perfect Attendance certificates
the past week: Hazel Gillespie, Win
chester District; Charles Swanson 2,
Selmer Fransen, Alice Fransen, Edna
Fransen, Ida Swanson and Lila Swan
son, Lincoln District; Henry and AL
fons Zirnhelt, Highland District.
An eighth grade diploma was is
sued to Evelyn Nelson, of Kintyre,
this week. 4.s!
"The child who bolts his midday
meal and then rushes back to school
can neither work nor digest proper
ly." .~.,.;1> 4
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-07-03
A WORD TO THE EIGHTH GRADE
BY A. w. Burr, Beloit College


"The boys and girls in the eighth
grade in the next two or three weeks
will face more or less definitely what
they shall do next. Shall it be fac
tory, farm, Office, a trade, high
school? Beyond in their vision will
be Iobscurely perhaps three objectives:
Ny work in life the way l am going
to do it. and what for.
This eighth grade pause and point
Of view is the time to help the boy
and the girl to see more clearly, to
make them feel that, like the soldier.
what they do is not 10 much matter
az that they do their part to the best
Of their ability, and that only ths
common welfare gives the morale
that carries one over the top in the
fronts beyond their training days.
It is the hour to enlist them for their
life's war"
The County School Notes probably
will not be in the papers regularly un-
til September 1st from now on. Most
Of the schools are closed. However,
from time to time, as points of inter-
est come up we will have them pub
lished.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-07-03
1OWnLEY CARRIES STATE But LOSES El[MONS

talking to one of the county officials
who opposed the educational bill. Up
on expressing such an opinion, the
county official was informed: II sup
pose you know the league will put up
an entire county ticket next year"
Looking at the returns in this elec-
tion, Indications are that candidate
for county Office in this county next
year will not want the league en-
dorsement. At any rate, the vote is
such that no county official need get
in line simply through fear of politi-
cal defeat. And, one years taxes
will be paid before next year.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-07-03
Personal Work By Iwnsy Haa Senator Cs Mss Horst and an
Unlimited Number Of Organizers Fails to Keep Emmons
County from Regulating IoWnIeyism
South Hall Of County Piles Up Mammoth Anti MaoritieS
North Halt Seriously Split Returns Show tnat the
More Wealthy Farmers Jumped Traces ALL Over
much quicker. In some sections, the
league town vote was greatly increas-

much quicker. In some sections, the
league town vote was greatly increas-
sd.
Before the next general election
the people win have had one inter
view with the county treasurer, and
it is generally conceded that the COM
ing tax experience will be mighty
efficient doctor for what Fails some of
the psople.
Beinton Papers Help
Another thing that helped Townley
materially was the Brinton string of
newspapers. In many towns where
the Brinton papers are running, they
succseded in lining up the town vote
in xxeat shepe by. holding before the
business men the fear gf farmer
boycott if the town voted against the
bills. In some towns, the Brinton edi-
tors even managed to fix up page and
double page advertisements pro
claiming that "the business men viii
support the league program" and then
put it up to the individual business
men to come through, or be singled
out as individual cases that refused
to do 30. - I.
In some Of ii Iunties ;wher. Brin-
ton already has H practical monopoly
Of the newspapers, the league ran ss-
pecially strong. The Brinton papers
worked hard, and they managed in
some cases to mislead the voters. Ov-
sr at Fort Yates the Brinton paper
had an, article the week before cleo
tion which Indicated that an snti-
league paper had admitted that the
printing bin allowed the people to
vote for their official paper when in
reality that bill was not the run being
referred at al.
Bishop weh1le Opposes Socialists
Bishop Vincent Wehrls, Of Bis
marck, opposed the league {bosses very
strongly in Emmons county, and had
the people Of his church followed his
advice, the league drubbing in EN-
mons would have been much worse,
strasburg went against the league
last year, and did much better this
year. Dakem. however, Catholic
community, stood by the league in
spite Of the Bishops. warning. Exeter
snlit on soYne of the hills. In Linton
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-07-03

The Referendum election is over.
Returns indicate that Tpwnley has
managed to get away by narrow
squeak in the state. In the county,
he received an awful drubbing.
Every one Of the seven measures
were defeated in Emmons county. The
Printing and Educational Bills rolled
up anti majorities Of more than three
hundred. The Immigration Bill did
nearly as we'll. The Bank Bill seemed
the most popular.in the county, and
was only dsfsatsd III something more
than one hundrs Sotss.
In the 5tkae, the returns Indicate
the gradual clipping Of the Townley
schenes. -wsslthy farmers md land-
holders throughout the state seem to
have hacked up. because there is a
steady fall throughout the entire
state. Men who pay little or no tax
es, anyway, are staying with Mr..
Townley, probably on the theory that
it will not cost them much, any way,
to pay the fiddler.
Missouri Slope Counties Kick Over
Returns indicate that b number Of
the Slope counties hav. had enough.
Emmons, McIntosh and Logan all
rave the league big n,ajorities last
fan. and have all hacked the league
this year. Morton, Grant and Sioux
are losing their love for Townlsy
Bnrleigh broke about even.
On the Red River, Trail county
switched, giving the antis . majority
There are several counties, however
that rolled up mommoth league ma
jorities, and thus made it possible TO,
Townley's plans to be realized by q
mighty narrow majority. B,
Printing and Educational Billi Clos
Throughout the state, the printing
and educational bills are very close
The other measures had considerable
Of a spread" and the bank bill
seems to have drawn the largest vote
The immigration Bill ran only a little
better than the .Brinton and Macdon'
aid bills. =;
The vote is 30 close in the stats
that II is q practical certainty that
Townleyism is on its last lap. Their.
seems to be no doubt that Townley
/ viii never control another state ticke'
in North Dakota. In many section,
Of the state people voted for th.
measures who did not really believe
in them simply because they felt t.
buck the MEASURES was hopeless ant
that to put the whole thing across q
: once would sicken the people just thai
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-07-03

had been held in various parts of the
county, and paragraph after para
graph read from the seven laws. And
where this was done, the anti voters
increased materially. Putnam and
.Glanavon showed that to the best nd
vantage. Nearly all the voters 'of
those two precincts. turned out to
hear the law5 read. and both switched
ont of the league column. Putnam
almost solid for the league hast fall
went anti by vote Of 81 10 Z. Clan
avon did nearly As well.
Leaguers Stay Home
As result of the bitter fight ir
Emmons county, many lsagse mem.
hers did not vote. In Linton, unor.
ganized, Emmonsburg and McCulley
election officials report that some .,
the best-mown league leadsrs sstayet
away frusn the polls. It seems tha,
they refused to vote against the lea.
que measures, and were afraid Il
vote for them. So they passed
Throughout the north end Of tht
county, the anti-leaeue vote increased
by an average Of better than ten 10 9
precinct.
Organization Lacking
The opposition to the referendum
was not properly ORGANIZED
and financed. II. counties where midi.
.vidual opposition WAS put m. Town.