The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-10-02
IN MEMORIAM.

In the passing OF the Schafer Rec
ord, on Sept. 10, the obituary" offered
by Editor Graham Is characteristic Of
the spirit Of consistency the paper al
ways maintained. With not a re-
vengeful word towards the powers
that be whose, grasping clutch de-
scended upon his publication with a
strangle hold, he lays down his bur-
dens cheerfully at Schafer. The "obit-
uary," which is gem in itself, fol-
lows:
OBITUARY.
Since the new law, giving our friend
ToWnley monopoly on the newspaper
business, went into effect, The Schafer
Record has been a pretty sick old wo-
man.
The Record first began to show
signs of failing health about August
LIST. AS the weeks sped by her pulse
became weaker and slower, her voice
dropped to a mere whisper, and her
complexion became winter and more
pallid. The end was not UNEXPECTED.
She expired at 3:15 p. M, Thursday
September 10, 1919, within a few
hours Of the time she was expected to
depart this world. Her loving father
was at the bedside when the end came.
The Schafer Record departed this
earth at the age of fourteen years,
eight months and three weeks. She
was favorably and unfavorably known
over the Northwest as an enemy of
the majority and friend to the mi
nority. She had associated in her
time with Tin Lizzies, millionaires,
and pearl necklaces on a free and
equal footing. She had an everlasting
love for gossip and loquacious
tongue. She found willing listeners
to the stories Of all the doings and
the scandal Of the community, in the
telling Of which she never tired until
the more loquacious tongue of self
appointed political boss talked her to
death. She gloried in the prosperity
of all the farmers. She was we'll pleas
ed in the farmers getting fifteen or
twenty bushels of wheat to the acre
and selling it for So per bushel, happy
when they got 60 cents per pound for
butterfat, and rejoiced in the matern-
ity of their best mich cows. She had
always been true to the one of her
choice. She was asked to choose be-
tween True Democracy and Rank So
cialism as she could not accept them
both for the reason that Townley had
not made polygamy good form. With
out hesitation she gave her good right
hand to the former and with the other
endeavored to give the latter some
points on democracy by pushing him
to seat on bed of cactus. If she had
truly believed Rank Socialism would
accomplish what he said it would she
would not have rejected him. She
knew that Rank Socialism would not
and could not put these loafing pra-
tries to work for all the people.
| The Record slid off of this world
with that glow of satisfaction that
springs from a sense of duty we'll per-
formed. The fact that her dying
statement was not pungent with ami
hilation shows that even in her death
struggles she was not the least bit dis
couraged. She expected no gratitude
and received none. She knew that the
big boss had merely clouded the sound,
wholesome understanding of many of
the farmers Of tn estate and that
those would sometime drift away. She
sacrificed her life for the cause. May
| her pure and wronged soul rest in
peace and quiet for evermore, if that's
any satisfaction to her enemies.
She leaves a perfectly good and up
to-date printing establishment, good,
substantial building, number of true
and faithful employees, and cheerful
| but not wholly discouraged editor and
publisher to mourn her loss.