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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-08-21
MINOT WOMAN is STATE
TENNIS CHAMPION
Mrs. G. E. Bemis Wins Woman's Con.
test at jamestown Tournament
Min0t Gets 1920 Meeting

Mrs. G. E. Bemis of this city is
the woman tennis champion of North
Dakota, having won the cup at the
jamestown tournament last week.
Mrs. Bemis brot back two cups, one
for the state single championship and
the other as joint holder of the state
double championship.
H. budding and G. S. Wooledge who
participated in the tournament, made
good showing winning oil of their
first round matches.
DR.. Blatherwick of Van Hook, is the
state champion in the mems singles.
The doctor is so years old, but he dis
played plenty of ginger.
Minot was chosen for the 1920 tour
nament.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-08-21
Floyd Tofflemire Back From Overseas.

Floyd Tofflemire Back From Overseas.
Floyd F. Tofflemire, son of Mr.. and
urday from fifteen months service ov-
erseas: He was in the End Division,
18th Field Artillery, and took part in
the Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel and
Meuse-Argonne offensives. Following
the signing of the armistice, he spent
eight months at Weis, Germany.
Floyd came out without scratch, al
tho he admits that he had plenty of
narrow escapes. Floyd was away from
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-08-21
Elder Sparkling Returns to Minot.

The many friends OF Elder VIM.
Sparkling, who for years had charge of
the work for the Church of Jesus
Christ, Latter Day Saints, in the Mi
not district, will be pleased to learn
that he has returned to our city to
take up his former work. For three
years he has held a similar position
in eastern Iowa with headquarters at
Davenport. Mrs. Sparkling, who has
been an invalid from rheumatism for
years, is growing weaker. She is liv-
ing with her daughter, Mrs. Couey, at
La Moure, N. D., and her husband re-
turned to Minot 80 that he could be
with her more.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-08-21
DOOlittle Leaves for Hartford
Cnnuon<sn,.

w. 0. Doolittle, superintendent of
the Minot parks, left Wednesday for
Hartford, Conn.,, where he will attend
a convention of the park superintend-
ents Of the United States. He will
visit the Geological societies of New
York, Detroit, Chicago: and Milwaukee
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-08-21

Plum Picker Thot Car Was Stolen.
Thos. Hecker of Logan relates an
amusing experience he had with Mi
not man who drove car into the
Hecker woods when he made a recent
trip there in quest of plums. Thos.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-08-21

found the fellow wandering about the
dense forest and he had lost his car.
He feared that someone had stolen it.
Mr.. Hecker suggested that it wasn't
any worse to steal a car than to take
plums, but the fellow could not see it
that way. Mr. Hecker did the man the
favor of locating his car.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11
THE FRYATT CASE.

TO forestall the trial by tribunal OF CIVIL
zation of the murderers Of Captain E,ryatt, OF
British mail steamer, the Germans have made
q pretenge of an investigation and whltewashed
the criminals by report that the sentence was
not contrary to international law. The facts
were that the sturdy British skipper, attacked
by submarine and ordered to surrender, steer
ed straight for the pirate craft forcing her to
dive and thus escaped with his ship and crew.
In the following year he was captured by the
Huns, charged with trying to ram German
submarine, sentenced to death and shot. The
world was Mortified at this dastardly, indefens-
ibIe, cold-blooded crime, and the allies determ-
med to bring the perpetrators to justice. The
judicial farce Of their acquittal will not save
lhem IF terms of peace are forced on Ger
many, the surrender Of the officers responsible
for Captain Fryatts murder in the face Oh the
protests Of the British and American govern
lnents will be one Of the conditions. So also as
we may hope the killers Of Edith Cavell will be
brought to bar and the principle established
that murder is not egalzed by war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11
A Free Oatmeal Prescription Does
It's Work Overnight

New York: ut is my own discovery,
and it takes just one night 10 get
such marvellous results says Mae
Edna Wilder. when her friends ask
her about her wonderful complexion
and the improved appearance of her
hands and arms. ''You can do the
same thing if you follow my adj
vice" she says. Il feel it my duty to
tell every girl and woman what this
wonderful prescription did for me.
Just think OF 1t. All this change in
single night, never tire OF tell
ing others Just what brought about
such remarkable results. Here is the
identical prescription that removed
every defect from my face, neck,
hands and ;lT1rs Until you try it
you can forr. no idea of the marvel
QUO change 1; will make in just one
application The prescription, which
YOU can prep5fe at your own home,
is as followa: Go to any grocery
and get te,l cents worth OF ordinary
oatmeal, and from any drug store a
bottle OF derwillo. Prepare the oat-
neal as directed in every package Of
derwlllo and apply night and morn
ing The first application will as
tonish you. It makes the skin appear
transparent, smooth and velvety
especially recommend 1t for a sallow
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11
vermont,s Ancient Laws.

Cedar Rapids Gazette; The ancient
blue laws OF Vermont that have been
in force and effect since the closing
days of the eighteenth century, were
violated last Sunday and there was
no protest voiced by either the city
officials, state officials, laymen or
clergymen. Moving pictures were
permitted to be shown in Burlington.
When the most rock-ribbed state In
the union casts aside her ancient
laws that her people may enjoy a
Sunday entertainment one is forced
TO believe the world is growing
saner. Clean Sunday amusements
never hurt anybody and never will.
Vermonts taking off the lid may
cause howl from some quarters,
but it will not be taken seriously.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11
FORT MADISON
STORM AT SEA
And the Threatening Waves Dashed
on a Stern and Rock Bound
Coast at the Other
SOdoE uS e'~
County Seat.


There must have been great
storm at sea at Fort Madison yester-
day. and no wrecks seem to have
strewn the beach, although the de
tails are somewhat hazy But 1t was
grand terrible, sure, for The Even
ing Democrat describes it thus:
"Byron's justly famous lines to the
ocean might be called into insignifi-
canoe beside the composition of a
local poet if one inclined to WOO the
muse would choose the breaking of
the cold gray waves of Lake Cooper
over the rocks of Riverview park as
a subject for certainly there is
enough play of the elements there
today to furnish the foundation for
an immortal bit of poesy.
dashed by the furious wind which
held sway throughout the day, the
usually tranquil surface of the big
lake was broken into a never-endiAg
series of big rollers which, having
their inception near the Illinois
shore, gained size and impetus as
ohey approached Iowa soil, and at
last broke with a thunder and a
shower of spray over the riprap along
the river front OF Fort Madison.
"In Riverview park great puddles
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11
NOBODY HoME.v

U. S. Senator Hiram Johnson: We
are under the spell of world hyp-
notism, unconscious Of what is trans
piring about us. Our committing gov
eminent hoyers around European
capitals, basking in the sunlight OF
foreign adulation. The president is
in Paris, the secretary Of state there,
the secretary Of the navy in Italy,
the secretary of war on his way to
Europe, the heads OF various admins
trative departments are scattered
east and west and north and south
in Europe-there's nobody home in
America.
II has become reproach in many
quarters now to think in terms OF
America for America first. It's time
to cry halt Let's make it respect
able TO be an American again.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11
MORE REGULATION"

Cedar Rapids Republican: 1t may
be admitted that IN many states the
medical interests have permitted their
ideals to run away with their judg-
ment- Several legislatures have ac-
tually had under consideration bills
to make compulsory medical inspec-
ton not only for school children but
for adults. under certain conditions.
In the Minnesota legislature and also
In Montana they have just defeated
such bills Undoubtedly the men who
advocate such legislation have good
motives, but they should bear In mind
that the American people have seen
abcs. as many invasions Of their per-
sonal liberties as can be safely en-
cured in one decade. The American
people are not yet ready to turn them
selves over entirely to the state TO
be directed and regulated in all their
acts. The state may be almost all
wise, but most Of the people are not
yet prepared to believe that the fiat
of an election makes universal guide
out Of policeman.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11
How TO Make
Your Own Complexion
Treatment at Home

skin, freckles, tan, sun spots, coarse
pores, rough skin, ruddiness, Wink
les, and in fact every blemlsh ".
face, hands and arms are heir TO- Il
your neck or chest is discolored lroi
exposure. apply this combination
there and the Objectionable ueie.'
will disappear as If by magic. y
absolutely harmless and VIII ~.
produce or stimulate a grown y
hair. No matter how rough ana ~
calmly the hands and arms, or VIVA,
abuses they have had through naia
work and exposure to sun and Wihu
this oatmeal-derwillo combination wiz !.
work wonderful transformation ~
10 hours at the most. Thousdnu.
who have used it report the san'
results | have had :.
NOTE-To get the best effect. "
sure to follow the complete aHeS
lions contained in every package o.
derwillo. You have only to get ues
willo and oatmeal You need no'n
ing else, and it is so simple thas
anyone can use it and so inehper
sive that any girl or woman can a. al
ford it. The manufacturers am ~,
druggists guarantee that there WV W..
be noticeable improvement aitel
the first application or they WIZ 80,
fund the money 1t is sold IN ing
city under money refund guar a. a.
tee by all druggists, includlhs
Wilkinson and the McGrath st'i00'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11
Further Reasons Desired.

Springfield. Mass, Republican: Mr..
Burleson cannot assume the attitude
of the EDITORIAL character I'm "Alice in
Wonderland" who cried, loft with his
head" SO often he must give the de-
tailed reasons for his acts. 1t Is gen.
orally agreed that he has not yet fur
pished the country with reasons suffl.
GENTLY detailed TO satisfy the users
OF the telegraphs that the recent in
crease in rates was entirely necessary
under good management. Increases
In wages may explain the rate in
crease, but employees of the companies
seem surprised by such an explana-
ton.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11
RED TAPE TWENTY YEARS LONG.

OF all red tapes that Of governments and OF
government bureaus is the longest and the most
tied in knots by senseless investigation and
clubbing. A story is told by writer in
l,eslie's Of an officer in the Spanish-American
war twenty years ago who is still entangled in
a bit of our government red tape. He was lead
ing detachment Of troops on the march when
an army mule became disabled. The animal
was impeding the marching column, was past
recovering to marching capacity by any means
at hand Rather than abandon helpless ami
NAL the officer shot the mule and reported the
circumstances. The value Of the animal-at
army rates-was deducted from his pay. He
lnade a claim for recovery of this sum and he
has been in trouble ever since. He can neither
get the claim settled nor get rid of the matter.
lio probably would willingly sucer the loss of
the money and even add one to the government
collection Of mules for good measure to be al
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11
lopA ) III OF VERSE
BUDDING TIME roo Brief

BUDDING TIME TOO BRIEF.
D little buds break not so fast
The springs but new,
The skies viii yet be brighter blue,
And sunny. too.
would you might thus sweetly last
TIL the glad seasons overpast,
Nor hasten through.
it is so exquisite to feel
the light sun;
TO merely know the winter done,
and life begun:
And 10 my heart no blooms appeal
For tenderness SO deep and real,
AS any one
OF these frat April buds, that hold
The hint Of springs
Rare Derfectness that 3iay-tine brings
SO take not wings.
On Mngsr, ungery nor unfold
Too swiftly through the mellow mould,
sweet growing things!
and errant birds, and honey bees,
Seek not 70 wfiei
And sun, let not your warmest smile
Quite yet Deg1ile
Tne young peach boughs and appleirees
To trust their beauty 70 the breeze;
Wait yet awhile.
-Evaleen Stein
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11

If were asked to make list of personal
qualities indispensable to gaining real sue
cess in life, am sure that high IN my list L
should place the quality Of sincerlty.-H- Ad-
dington Bruce.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11

of water gathered in the low places
as showers OF spray were flung land
ward in the booming gale. Along the
entire river front of the city the
railroad tracks were coated with
spray, and rendered slippery as a
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11

lowd to drop the whole business But govern
ment bureau is working on that mule and VIII
not be deferred from duty. This story suggests
painful reflection of half centuries OF trouble Tor
many people every time there might happen TO
be a destructive accident railroad operated
by the government.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11

These views so far at variance with his pres
ent state of mind do not convict Mr.. Wilson or
insincerity. He has seen light-he does from
time to time. They simply show how wise
man Washington and how well we do IN
needing his admonitions, SO far at least as TO
exclude the rest of the world from participation
in the affairs of the American continents. Cir
cumstances have changed. We are now the
greatest nation In the world, and if we can help
Europe in her terrible trouble it is our duty to
do SO. The greatest living Americans believe
that we should. Root, Hughes, Taft, Lodge,
Knox, all want league that may help to pre-
serve world peace. They have never been
against league though implacably opposed to
the plan the president brought back from
Europe in that it gave foreign nations con-
trolling influence in affairs which are and
should be exclusively our own or be settled by
the republics in this hemisphere.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11

All the Seasons display peculiar beauty that
ronnes well the forms OF vegetaton
Nature, after the of winter, very slowly nnfoios
beauties, and is lavish IN the early months or
description ornament Day BY day she dscioses
verdure Of the plain the swelling buds with their seV
and various coors pale Of the early flowers
she brings along offerings by one, leading from
harmony to harmony early twilight users in the rud-
IN tints O nqorn-Wlson Fisgg.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11

result. Ia and
Late this afternoon the wind a his
waves quieted down, but the INC
waves cavorted enough tins nl '.,,aast
to mark today as one OF the w.n Wiz, !.
the big stream here has ever hio"A'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11

Mason City Globe-Gazette: The
president persistently refuses 10 re-
turn 10 this country and attend TO
his duty of throwing out the first
ball in the league season.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11

Chicagos specially is top records.
a local concern employing 10000
men gives a war and peace bonus
averaging $50 per person.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11
COSTS AND NATIONAL SECURITY.

Has it come to a pass where it is advisable
10 pay high costs-costs excessive as measured
hy any pre-war standards we have ever known
as a means to national securityi The Guar
anty Trust company, of New York, is OF the
opinion that industry-particularly the building
soon be started in large way
if we are not to run into dangerous condition
Of unemployment. This means, if it be made
working policy, the paying Of the present high
costs as an investment which in part represents
national welfare. It may be wise to pay more
money for industrial projects just now than
their intrinsic value will represent because the
business impetus by starting our building
trades the country over may save situation
which would possibly cost the public OF this ma
ton much more than the excess cost involved
in present construction. This is the view TAX
en- by such economists as Professor Irving
Fisher, of Yale university, and it was voiced by
him with wide assent at the conference OF gov
errors and city officials at Washington
But the difficulty of putting such policy IN
operation is apparent. The businessman, large
" an agent in managing the money and prop
erty Of others as well as his own, will not heed
mandate from his clients in policy unless
some definite assurance Of the public's assent
and cooperation in such policy is put in some
form or other that will serve as a basis for the
risk he is asked to take. Public construction
work will be easier to bring to this policy than
the great mass of private construction which is
waiting for knowledge of what is to happen to
wages and material costs, since public consent
to high costs warrants payment Of them. For
there is no means Of meeting losses by falling
back on taxes to the private business manager
and he is slow to act unless some more stable
readiust1nents are in sight before entering on
an experimental investment under present con
ditons.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11

Perry Chief. It's pretty good
guess that the boys in the Rainbow
division will be perfectly contented
10 omit those parades in the east.
What the most Of them want is to
get their feet under mothers table
once more and their arms around
their family and friends.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11

Marshalltown Times-Republican
Don't you belivee if the peace had
been turned over to Foch that the
whole controversy would have been
decided and settled long ago?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11
WASHINGTON AND WILSON.

Curiously enough President Wilson is on
record as condemning the very sort of league or
alliance he is seeking now to make. In Wash
1ngton on May sixteenth. 1914, at the unwilling
Ct the Barry statue the president sald
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Cedar Rapids Republican: After he
read Elihu Roots letter on the league
did the president regret that he did
not call such an able expositor OF
international policies to the peace
table? A man like Root would have
given a different color TO the con-
ference We believe he would have
been the greatest man around the
horseshoe table. not by his own in.
sistence on his own greatness, but
by sheer weight of intellectual lead
ership.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11

II was not because of passing and transient cir
cumstances that Washington said that we must
keep free from entangling alliances. II was De
cause he saw that no country had set its face IN
the same direction in which America had set ner
face We cannot form alliances with those VINO
are not going way and in our might ana ma
jesty and In the confidence and dennitsness OF our
purpose we need and we should not form al
nanceg with any nation in the world Those who
are right those who study their conse,enees IN
determining their policies, those who hold their
honor higher than their advantages, do not neeo
alliances You need alliances when you are not
strong and you are weak only when you are not
true to Yourself You are weak only when you are
in the wrong You are weak only when you are
afraid to do right You are weak only when you
doubt your cause and the majesty OF nations
might asserted.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11

Davenport Times: With the Ger
mans insisting that peace must be
made on the basis of Mr.. Wilson's
fourteen points, and the French de-
manding a generous slice along the
Rhine, being q peace conference dele
gate has its drawbacks.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11

Upon more than one occasion the president
has boasSed of his Scotch-Irish blood and Of his
temperamental propensity for induiging in a
fight 1t there is anything in the theories Of
the psychoanalysists it looks as if the pre-
natal complex was going to come in mighty
handy before the peace conference ends.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11

And now statesman wants to remove ''E
Phribus Unum" from the silver dollar, and
substitute therefor Liberty, Equality Frat
ernity." There is no reason 10 suppose, how
ever, that a silver dollar with the new inscrip.
ton would go any further than silver dollar
with the old one.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11

Speaking automatically, what action would
the league OF nations take should there be war
between the National and American baseball
leagues2
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11

The thanks of congress for war
work is the highest honor conferred
in America, and there will be much
interest in watching what the next
session of congress does ABOUT the
recommendation OF the Iowa COVER
nor.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11

Burlington Hawk-Eye: The meat
barons seem agreed on one point.
and that is that the removal of gov
eminent restrictions is not going to
reduce the price OF meat Most
people viii be thankful if 1t does not
result in an advance along the line
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11

Davenport Democrat: The Iowa
house having declined to repeal the
Iowa blue laws. we may look for an
other bluff at enforcing them AFTER
the legislature adjourns.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-11

Webster City Freeman-Journal:
Yes. of course, nearly everybody
wants league of nations, but when
il comes TO the question of details
there are about million different
ideas as TO just what the league
should stand for.