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The Brinkley argus., 1919-07-04
IMPORTANT SCHOOL WORK

State Superintendent Bond held an institute for the county superin- tendents at Conway the week be- ginning June 9th, and l have want ed to make report to the people at home ever since the institute closed, but the teachers institutes have taken all my time till now. Only four county SuperintendentS were absent. We were given com fortable quarters in the girls dorm itory and were allowed free use of the State Normal School Building and equipment. Only few of the superintendents had ever visited our Normal Schoal before, and if nothing else had been done, the vis- ii was worth many times the ex- pense of the trip. Each superintend- ent now can give his teachers first hand information about the Normal, and will recommend that his teach CTS attend this school. But there were many problems solved, and many tasks set for the coming year Below is a list of things we decided every county superintendent should know, and we who do not know all of them have determined to learn them in the near future. Some Things A County Superintend-
 ent Should Know.
 Population of County.
 Number of each race.
 Increase or decrease in ten years. Total enrolment in school.
 Percentage of attendance.
 Average length of school term. Average annual salary. Monthly. Enumeration of each district
 Enrolment and attendance.
 Number one-room schools.
 Number two-teacher schools.
 Number three-teacher schools.
 Number high schools
 Salary each district generally pays.
 Length of school term.
 Tax district usually votes.
 Revenue derived from special tax. Amount invested in school prop erty.
 Occupation of Nle people.
 Per capita wealth of people in county.
 Total assessment of re Il properly. Total number of cattle and hogs Average per capita annual cam ings of all producers.
 Bank deposits in county.
 Number of home owners,
 Number of tenants.
 Diseases most prevalent in county. Diseases due to what causes. Progress of health work if any.
 Birth rate in county, Death rate. Percentage of adult illiteracy.
 What papers are the people read. ing.
 What books ioni i-l the homes. Social pasticl", of young people. Name and ,yrr of community leaders
 Organizations most helpful to cd ucaticnal prog.es n county Name of each sehaal t,IIding.
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EDITOR MOONEY
 IN CLARENDON

does just what Mir. Mooney was advising all to do, i. Q. Tive on the farm so you can live off of it." Davidson some months ago, served a Monrooe county Grand Jury dinner, at which 57 va rieties of food, raised and pre- pared on his Holy Farm" were served as the exclusive food Of the meal. Davidson has reason
The Brinkley argus., 1919-07-04

IT is a pity the entire busi- ness element of Brinkley did not hear Editor Mooney in his Clarendon speech on Tuesday night. Cooperation and team work in city building came in for Editor Moneys attention and surely the need and neces- sity of this in dear old Brink ley" would have been helped by his speech.
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while in town. Perhaps you can gv. me just the information need to help me render the school of vou, community the best service m. Superintendent's office is the sm.ll. est office in the Court House, and only few can crowd into it at one time, but there are several chairs h the hall and we shall use those 'till good fortune gives us better uuart. CTS.
 Next week I will tell you some more of the things we did at the Sl,. perintendents' Institute.
 w. E. PHIppS. County Superintendent of Schools.
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Holly Grove 12 Years Ago

Holly Grove 12 Years Ago
 W. J. Hall, Esq, was seen on the streets of Holly Grove last Monday.
 A. K. Roberts spent last week talking insurance over in Lee county.
 Mr. and Mrs. H. c. Lair are visiting Mrs. Lair's homefolks at Summerville, Tenn.
 U. B. Mccoy, of near Bentons store, was in Holly Grove last Monday to see Dr. Saxon.
 Mr. and Mrs. Clyde WoOdfin of Clarendon, spent last Sunday with homefolks at Holly Grove.
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Brinkley is the luckiest town in seven states. The open sewer in North Brinkley, running for the past two years, hasn't started an epidemic yet.
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endon.

CIOOh'
 MT. and Mrs. D. s. Coleman and little son, Jim, left Sat''r- day for few weeks visi' at Mt. Magazine.
 Sollie Salinger was over from Memphis this week visiting hls sisters. Mesdames E. L Hirsch and Jacob Lamm.
 Mrs. Wm. Black and daugh- ters, Mrs. Benj. Ernmons and Miss Sara Black, left Wd1nes- day for an outing on Lake Erie Before returning they expect to make a trip to New York and other eastern points.
 MT. and Mrs. Warren Craven are again in Brinkley keeping house in the Fiddyment prop erty. where Mrs. Craven'S mother, Mrs. Anna Singleton, has been living. Mrs. Singleton will board with the young peo- pie.
 Postmaster M. R. Stimson and family are in Ann Harbor, Mich. visiting his mother and family.
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The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1919-06-05
Retired Farmer" Williams.
Calls 7ownley's Bluff

Whereas A c. Townley in his
speech last Tuesday night, in speak.
ing Of House Bill No. 81, which was
enacted into law during the last ses-
sion of our legislature, accused me
of lying in regard TO the meaning am,
provision of said bill, wish now to
explain the situation just little My
contention is that under section two
OF said bill a threshing crew may
stick their forks and refuse to work
further, which they could, of course,
always do but that they may also
picket the premises where such
threshing machine is located and
tarry in and about the premises
as long as they see fit for the
purpose of persuading and pursu-
ing others from working about the
machine to the great annoyance and
loss of the farmer. One would think
by listening to Ex-farmer Townley
that all the new laws were made by
and for the farmers but in this law
and many others we see the hand of
the Labor Unions to whom Mr.. Town
ley and his cohorts saw At to marry
US farmers without consent
We are now finding out that It is
not prudent to Join hands with those
who are not going our way.
Following is q copy Of Section Of
the above named bill submitted for
the purpose Of giving all chance to
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1919-06-05
TEXAS SOCIALIST TO EDIT
LEAGUES NEW ORGAN

"Judge" f. o. Meitzen. father of
E. r. Meitzen, who has been i'm the
employ of the Nonpartisan league for
some time as organizer and speaker,
is coming to North Dakota from
Texas to become editor of the ALL
German edition of the Nonpartisan
Leader. Commenting upon this fact
the National Republican of Washing
ton, d. G., says:
This paper has heretofore referred
to the fact that the socialist leaders
of the Farmers Nonpartisan party
are carrying out their part of the
arrangement with the Socialist wing
of the Democratic party by withhold
ing their activities from southern
states, or states where the activities
might interfere with Democratic Sue
cess. This is not because southern
farmers have not far greater griev-
ances than the farmers of the north
west, but because it is evidently de-
sired to utilize the Nonpartisan
forces to injure the Republican party,
party, as much as possible.
"a Hallettsville, Texas. dispatch of
April 26th, to the Houston Post, says:
"Judge E. o. Meitzen and wife left
Friday afternoon for North Dakota,
where he has accepted position as
editor Of German newspaper pub
lished by the Nonpartisan League
Judge Meitzen for some twenty-five
years has been the leader among the
Populists and Socialists in this Sec
tion and served term as judge of
Lavaca county. E. r. Meitzen, his
son, several times Socialist nominee
for governor of Texas, has been for
some time in the north working for
the Nonpartisan League, since the
Rebel was refused admission to the
mails"
cit will be noted that the Nonpar-
tisan leaders are even drawing upon
the Socialist leaders of the SOUTH"
adds the National Republican, "in
order to procure instructors for
northern farmers in the particular
propaganda they are carrying on. Or
sanizers for the Nonpartisan party
are secured almost entirely through
advertisements in socialist pubica-
ton advising the comrades that this
work Offers an opportunity TO boost
the cause.
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WHO'S FRED?

When poor old John Ogden was
State Superintendent of Public Ii:.
struction. Fred Cathro was his deputy.
John was old, impractical and Il
dreamer. Fred was young and prac
tical and has always claimed the
credit for John Ogden's administra.
tion. OF course much has been done
towards organizing the States scnool
affairs by Captain Mitchell, who died
but much was left to do. AS Secre
tary Of the Board of University and
School Lands. John Ogden. aiias Fred
Cathro, aided and abetted in paying
to outside bankers over $4,000 in pre-
miums on school lands on basis of 4
percent, while they charged our own
districts percent interest. This was
was rotten and helped the POpulists
to kick John. Fred and all others out
Of Office in 1892. Fred Withdrew to
the banking field. Here he organized
the State Bankers Association, the or
ganiZation that Townely and his st.
Paul orators have poured tlleir Walls
of wrath on. during the past year.
Nothing stimulated their holy anger to
such flights of fancy as the Bankers
Association. All last campaign Fred
CathrO's creation was damned from
the Badlands to the Red as "bittrr
enemies Of the organized farmers"
And. now. this same Fred C:.lro is
''organizing" the State Bank. hired by
Waters, who was made by Frazier.
who was made by TOwnley. In sack.
cloth and ashes, it would seem, Fred
Is doing pennance for all his sins and
evil deeds. by helping this bunch of
st. Paul 'reformers" o-get their hands
on the States money. "By their works
ye shall know them" The $SO.OOO pre-
MUM dead, five years later pronounc-
ed illegal by this same board. and the
Bankers Association. Townley's pet
aversion aud abomination. besides
profitable organizing and managing of
bank at Bottineau all show what
Fred Cathro can do. We know how
much the premium cost us. Town
ley says we have no idea how much
Fred's Bankers Association has cost
us. Can anyone tell, judging by Fred's
past work and by the sud tale Of state
bank failures in twenty-one states be-
fore ours. how much Fred's new ere
alton will cost the State? Well, Fred's
rich. He should worry. Money lonks
cheap to him. He has enough of the
filthy stun. It's honor and glory he
wants. Not more money. A statue
elongslde oE tie Indian woman who
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1919-06-05

! respectfully call the attention of
is published in this weeks papers.
regulating traffic on the city streets
There has been altogether too
much reckless driving in thi.; city il,
the past and will certainly lead TO
some serious accident if not discon-
tinued.
From this date the City Ordinance
will be enforced to the letter. Speed
above fifteen miles per hour and open
mufflcrs will not be tolerated. This
does not mean that an auto may be
driven at Il speed of fifteen miles per
hour at all times. The law conlrm-
plates a maximum speed to be such
that is not dangerous to the public
Therefore il the streets are conges,ed
and traffic is heavy a slower rate of
speed must be maintained. Again
turning around within city block is
dangerous and drivers are forbidden
to turn car excepting at crossings
without first bringing the car to a
dead stop in center of street
This ordinance applies to all
streets and alleys within Tic city
limits. II is not the desire OF the city
administration to discommode or
make costs for owners or operators
of cars, but the public have rights of
protection, and it is right ,ha, they
ShOu1d have nrOtactiO i'm
If you get into trouble do not blame
the officers as they are sworn TO per-
form their duties and am sure they
will do so.
Very respectfully yours.
c. f. KNOX, Mayor.
City Of Oakes,'N. u.
June 5th, 1919.
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Chorus Recital

The Women's Chorus will be heard
in a recital next Wednesday evening.
June 11th, at the Presbyterian church
beginning at 8:45 The program
which consists of lullabies, glees and
patriotic selections, closes with the
brilliant Strauss Waltz song, Greet
ing to Spring. The personnel is made
up of Oakes representative musical
women
The chorus is most ably assisted by
the best talent of the city.
Solo numbers will be given b. Mrs.
Howard f. Dady, Miss Dorothy
Brown, and Messrs. No,tinehnm and
Spindler. Mrs. Il. Ii. Ferber will give
a group of selected readings
Come and enjoy a musical evening
and at the same time encourage your
talented Oakes musicians.
The chorus is under the direction
OF Miss Gertrude Conn. who's" ability
in this line needs no further com
ment.
Mrs j. F. Nichols presides at the
piano and fills that e,lcting position
most admirably.
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LAWS ENACTED FOR CAMPAIGN PURPOSES

Teachers are repressed In our state
anu other states, says the Courier
News. That's strange. Considering
that over 75 percent of our teachers
are working for farmer school boards
and that practically every one of them
hopes to teach in town some day be-
cause they get better pay. this fact
put forth by the Courier-News is very
remarkable. Does the Courer-News
mean to say that the farmers are mig
gardly and stingy and do not want to
pay for their children's education?
Didn't the last farmer" legislature
rise and save the girls from more
than eight hours work in ull villages
Of over five hundred? or course it
was noticeable that they didn't pre-
scribe this eight-hOur law for farmers
wives and daughters, who frequently
work from fifteen to twenty hours q
day several months of the year. Since
higher wages are due the teachers, and
no one doubts that and since eight
hours is good day for village girls.
and no one doubts that, and since the
nOmadic bunch of reformers told said
'farmer" legislature what and what
not to do, and no one doubts that,
''may we not" to quote our absent
President, usk why did that said
bunch fail to raise the teachers salar-
les by fixing II minimum wage and why
did they not help out the farmers
wives and daughters? We should hate
to think that this was political revenge
because so many of these two classes
voted for Miss Nelson. We should
also hate to believe that it was cow
ardice, n fear to meddle with the
farmers affairs. No, it couldn't be
that, because they We're liberal with
the farmers, especially when it came
to inventing new and interesting tux
laws.
Well, probably 1t was just the same
weakness that gets most other reform
ers. This notorious Bunch of reform
ers finds it much easier to regulate
and reform others than to regulate
and reform their own crowd, because
they do claim that they own the farm
ers of this State body. boots and
breeches and can do with them as they
please, deliver them to the I. w. W.,
get their money, run the State into
millions of debt, etc. Oh we've got
it! OF course they could have raised
the teachers wages and given the
'furner's wife and daughter an eight
hour day, without compelling her to
seek it in town, but these two classes
We're not entitled to it. They had not
paid the $1,000. See?
But the clerks in town had not paid
$1,000, you say. Why were they en-
titled to consideration? Tlplt's entire
ly different story. ..
Here in North Dakota everybody
works and nearly everybody is a cap
italist OH larger Or snallerHcale. We
really have mo- labor problem, especial
ly since Arthur Townley suggested to
the 1. w. w. that they should charge
the farmers only S6.O0,a day for farm
work. This they did and then pro-
ceeded to work the sab-cat in his
fields. Nice bunch Of kittens the sab
cat pet of the, 1. w. w. produced; !;
shocks turned upside down to rot !;
twine bands cut, rocks and other use
full things placed in the bundles to
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settle down happily with some
energetic young mana soldier of
the present war might be her choice.
With her CHEEKY and enthusiastic
laugh we believe she will catch one
sooner than expected.
Inez Kallestad, our valedictorian,
is about to become head clerk of w.
J. Jackson's Cash and Carry Store
She has worked there for eight years
now and has been ready at all times
to assist in the upbuilding and trade
of that place She is one of the
smartest and fastest clerks Mr. Jack
son has ever seen. He therefore
pays her the biggest salary he has
ever paid. $50 month is wonderful
to. girls eyes but Miss Kallestad
earns it and the trade she draws is
enormous. IneZ also saves her money
and always did, being raised on
farm near Crete From her earnings
the past three years she has eight
$50 Liberty Bonds.
Edward Wright has spent four
years in college and comes out with
some honors in the literary world. AL
ready he has found position with the
Philadelphia Democrat as reporter.
His position is a fine one but we
always thought he was opposed to
anything that had the word Democrat
in it. Apparently he wanted an
eastern city to start with and Phila-
delphia was the first one he struck
east of Chicago. His editorials are
somewhat long in the line of politics,
but he enjoys that subject and always
hits the point. He has had experience
with his father in helping chase the
Nonpartisans out of North Dakota.
Glad they are gone anyway.
Harold Vinkle is about to open a
garage on Second street next to the
Meat Market. This young man has
gone through the Minneapolis Auto
School in-two years and knows all
about cara-especially Fords. Before
this he delivered some for Andrews
Livery and became an expert in
driving. His =: fine new building on
Second Street will draw trade be-
tween both depots, as well as bring
more people through the city. He
will run a livery in connection.
The last member of the class is a
boy who also loves the farm but will
not follow in his fathers footsteps.
Instead Gideon Hample will be agent
for the Lalley Electric Lighting Sys-
TEN while he helps in the oakes
Electric Shop. He has studied elec-
tricity for some time and has worked
in the Minneapolis power plant
several years learning to run motors,
while attending school at night TAX
ing up. battery work and house wiring.
This enables him to go out for Mr..
Hoar on wiring while the manager
attends to the batteries and office.
Mr. Hample says there is big money
in his line that's. why he, took it. He
makes about $45 every week.
| So as the class Of '19 is a large
one and the occupations many we
have endeavored to give brief in
sight to the lives and characters of
the future citizens of Oakes, in the
State of North Dakota and the
County of Dickey.
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Naughty. Naughty, Seniors!

We the Junior Glass of 1919 hereby
accept with intense gratitude the
generosity of the noble seniors ill
their bequeathing us with such few
in the senior class. Slight as this
tritling possessions as are To be found
Inheritance appears to be the Junior
class issnot unappreciative even for
such small favors.
We feel sure that we do not know
how the Oalles High will continue to
exist. now that this modest and un-
assuming body of students have left
us, nor how the Senior Glass of 20
can be expected to attain the high
standard set by the 10 bunch. Their
modesty has somewhat deprecated
however, by the egotism and selfim-
portance of such worthy members as
Nep, Vinkle and the stout. and quar-
relous Miss Fuller.
Since said members have so well
succeeded in accumulating the vast
sum, raised in their class play we
hope that in case the seniors of next
year should perchance go bankrupt
as some far sighted predicted that
they will be broad minded and ben-
evolent enough to assist us in our
extremity.
However as much as the Senior
Glass has proven itself such an es-
sential factor in the Oakes High,
School, in their own. opinion at least,
we are not so weak and unsophisti-
Gated as the seniors have seen fit to
call u.s. and even we, the Senior Glass
of 1920, will amply fill the slight va
cancy left by the seniors of this year.
We the meek and mild,
Junior Glass of '19.
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Section 2. No restraining order
or injunction shall prohibit any pcr.
son whether singly or in concert
from terminating any relation of en-.
ployment or from ceasing 10 perform
any work or labor or from recon.
mending, advising or pursuing others
so to do; or from attending al any
place where any person or persons
may lawfully be, for the purpose of
obtaining or communicating informa.
ton, or from persuading any such
person to work or to abstain from
working; or from ceasing 10 patronize
any party to such dispute; or from
recommending, advising, or persuad-
ing others so to DO; or from paying
or giving to, or Withholding from any
person engaged in such dispute, any
strike benefits or other moneys or
things of value; or from assembling
in lawful manner, and for lawful
purposes; or from doing an act or
thing which might lawfully be done
in the absence Of such dispute by
single person; nor shall any Of the
acts specified in this section be con.
sidered or held to be Illegal or unlaw.
ful in any court in this state"
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Bankers Coming to oakes

The annual meeting of the Fourth
Group of the North Dakota Bankers
Association will be held in Oalses
this year.
The meeting is called for June 10th
at the X p. Hall and a large number
OF Bankers from the southeastern
part of the state as we'll as others
are expected to be present.
The forenoon will be devoted to
business and the afternoon to ad-
dresses and discussions.
The public is cordially invited to
attend the meetings.
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eacca,aureate Address

The baccalaureate address at the
Methodist church on Sunday evening
brought full house.. A union choir
of voices from the Methodist and
Presbyterian churches furnished
special music On the platform with
the speaker Of the evening were
Revs. Moe, Grafton and Opie.
Rev. F.. B. Bartlett Of Aberdeen de.
,livered. a splendid address, weaving
in the great upheaval in world affairs
and the part America is taking in it.
He averred this country was not
measuring up to the standard that
was set for her as the real leader in
world thought and action.
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THE DOG AND THE BONE

How wise was Aesop? Let's see.
Twenty-Five hundred years ago this
humble swine-herd watching his swine
and studying man and his ways. re-
corded his observations in fables,
susar-coated pills of wisdom. Thus,
seeing the greed Of the we'll to do and
how this greed came 10 grief. as all
wrong does, he tells the fable of Il
dog who had a nice bone. On his road
he crossed a bridge. Seeing his image
in the water below he thought il was
another dog with a bone. Not Sats-
fled with his own bone but wanting
also the other dogs bone. he dropped
his own and plunged in after the
other dogs bone. Wet and without
bone. he crawled out of the water
wiser but Il poorer dog. His greed and
envy and disregard nf the rights of
others brought him to grief. SO was
it 25OO years ago: SO is it today.
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There never was Il set of cranks
yet who didn't try to steal the schools.
He who has the schools has the flu
ture. Temperance instruction pre-
ceded saloon destruction. But North
Dakota schools have never been the
victims Of cranks, and Judging by the
united front Of tire educational forces,
they won't he either. Children should
not be bothered with Socialism. It's
bad enough to bother grown-ups.
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Alfred Goodwin is Dead

Mrs. Goodwin of this city has just
been officially notified by the war
department of the death of her son.
Alfred. which occurred from disease
in France on July 10Th.
In his honor and at the request of
his mother Rev. James Opie will
preach memorial address at the
NJ L. church next Sunday evening.