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The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1920-01-02
FILE PETITIONS ON
SUNDAY. BLUE LAWS

Bismarck, N. D., Jan. 1.-Initia-
tive petitions said to bear $4,000
signatures were filed with the sec
retary of state by Jack Williams,
secretary of the North Dakota
American Legion. The petitions
call for the repeal Of the Sunday
blue laws, the establishment of u
state boxing commission and an
amendment to tho anti-cigaret law
permitting the sale of cigarets to
adults only. so. ~ @ j.,
By filing the petitions the Legion
will be able to have the questions
submitted to the voters of the
state at the presidential primary
election March 16. -.
The questions to- be submitted
are the repeal of the Sunday clos
i~~ law which will permit theatres
and other places of amusement to
remain open on Sundays; the re-
peal of that portion of the so-called
Sunday baseball law which now
prohibits the charging Of admission
to games staged on Sunday; The
creation: of state boxing commits
sion which will supervise, regulate
and license all boxing matches or
prize fights, limiting all bouts Ito
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1920-01-02

and was left in the depot until the
coroner, sheriff and states attorney
arrived here when an inquest was
held and a verdict as follows was
rendered: That the deceased came
to his death from bullet wounds
said wounds inflicted by. the con-
stable in self defense. The coron-
ers jury was composed Of W. D.
Powell, Jas. and Tom Brady.
Staples had no relatives in this
community. His name had been
mentioned in connection with the
killing Of Clint Hoke who was
found dead in the ruins of his
shack near Gackle last fall. Be
that as it may, he probably was
guilty of enough crimes to have
kept him in states prison the rest
of his life had he not met death
at this time. gsa,.ss.... -
y Staples is presumed to have been
mixed up in a cattle stealing deal,
the cattle being held in Edgeley un-
der a court order. o..
: Undertaken Anderson came up
from Edgeley Monday and took
charge of the remains taking them
to Edgeley where preparations were
made for burial. At this time it
is not known where interment will
be made.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1920-01-02
FARMERS CLUB HOLDS
BUSINESS MEETING

At meeting Of the Bowbells
Farmers Club held on Saturday af-
ternoon of last week a constitution
and bylaws were adopted by the
directors with the assistance OF
President f. ]. Marks of the Wo-
burn Farmers Club, and these were
approved by the members and are
now in force. Fifteen new mem
bers were taken into the club. The
members made known that they
would be in the market for corn,
oats, fence posts and formaldehyde
before spring, and Secretary Law
renee Larsen was instructed to get
prices on these goods to submit at
the next meeting of the club. Mr.
Marks stated that last spring the
Woburn farmers bought formalde-
hyde for 32 cents pound laid
down in Woburn, while those who
were not members paid as high as
SO and 60 cents a pound elsewhere
He also assured the club that big
money could be saved on fence
posts, oats and Corn if they were
ordered from the right place, and
furnished the Bowbells club with
addresses of firms which had done
business with the Woburn farmers
Mr.. Larsen will have prices on
these commodities at the next meet
ing, of the club which will be hello
probably in about two weeks, and
in the meantime those farmers who
will need articles mentioned above
should see Mr.. Larson at once and
let him know how much they can
use. Any farmer may become a
member by paying his fee to Mr..
Larsen at any time before the next
meeting. There are now 46 mem
bers in the club.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1920-01-02

ten rounds; the substitution for the
anti-cigaret law of a measure pro-
hibiting the sale of cigarets to
minors, making it felony for d
merchant to sell cigarets to boys
under 21 and a misdemeanor for
youths under age to smoke them.
Proponents Of the cigaret mea-
sure claim that the cigaret law
proposed by them fully accomp-
fishes the real purpose of the pres
ent law without violating the rights
Of adult tobacco users.
It is argued that the only result
Of the present blanket law is to in
crease the price of cigarets to the
consumers. since dealers simply
add charge which will meet all
fines they may be required to pay
and sell to adults and minors
alike.
The strong demand for the re-
vision of the present law comes
from returned service men, who
claim that the state law was flag
rantly violated during the war by
the Red Cross, churches, commun.
ity clubs and other organizations
which raised cigaret funds and dis
tributed packages of cigarets to
soldiers and service men passing
through the state.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1920-01-02
.MAKOT| FARMER j. !.
FACES GRAVE CHARGE

,Minot, N. D., jan 1. George
Martin, a Makoti, N D., farmer,
56 years old, was arrested and brot
to Minot yesterday bv Sheriff SEQ
field, charged with having Illicit
relations with his 16-year-old
adopted daughter, who is said to
be in a delicate condition. Both
Martin and the girl were detained
in the county Jail last night, pend
ing the hearing which was held be-
fore. Mark M Chatfeld, Juvenile
Court Officer this afternoon. 1t is
understood that the girl claims that
Martin is not guilty for her condi-
.tion, but instead swears that she
was accosted bv a man who came
to their home and overpowered her.
The complaint for Martins arrest
was made by Edw. Kamerud,e a
prominent Makoti hardware mer-
chant. 5# p
Martin is a widower, his wife hav-
ing died November 29 Of this year.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1920-01-02
BRICK AND TILE -. Z. >.
s,. PLANT FOR KENMARE

Machinery Of the latest pattern
for making hollow tile for building
purposes, is, being Installed at Ken, Sc !,
mare. The plant will also make
pressed brick and drain tile. The
clay. used is obtained about 100
feet below the surface from de-
posits in a Ignite mine and is
hoisted to the brick plant in guam
titles to suit. The product is said
to be equal in every respect to that
made in Minnesota and Wisconsin
and shipped into this state at high
cost. 1t is said the Kenmace plant
can make and sell the tile and
brick at a reasonable price. '.
The Kenmare plant is being
erected by a Dayton, Ohio, firm that
had arranged to put in the ma
chinery for a brick plant at James
town, for. Schelde & Co., but which
enterprise, for various causes, did
not materialiZe. Z. .-,t =
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1920-01-02
BUILDINGS AT FAR. !. J. ).
|hER]|S / NINE BURNED

.Y5 The boarding house as we'll as
the bunk houses used by the miners
lat sthe Farmers Coal Mine on Des-
8Lacs lake east of this city were to-
tally destroyed by fire between four
and five o'clock Wednesday morn
Ing, and as a. result all mining at
this place will have to be discon-
&tinued for ten days or two weeks
until. new buildings can be erected,
I The fire started from a lamp worn
by one of the miners on his cap,
which ignited some clothes that
were hanging over a door through
which the miner passed. The
flames had gotten good start be-
fore the occupants of the building
srealized what was going on, and
nothing in the buildings could be
saved. ALI the household goods
and cooking, utensils of the board
ing house eas well as all the per-
sonal effects of the eight miners
were totally destroyed, leaving most
of the miners with nothing but
their sleeping; apparel which is. all
most of them had on when they ran
!; out. The weather that night was
severe, the thermometer registering
20 below zero, and; high wind
blowing. Farmers nearby came to
their rescue and provided them
with clothes. ts 2
.s The Farmers Mine had been turn
! ing out more coal than all the 9th
er Ignite mines on the lake put
together, and its shutdown at this
time may create hardship on some
s$of its patrons who have no large
amount OF fuel on hand in case the
cold weatrer continues. 6.i1
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1920-01-02
CATTLE HUSTLER IS
KILLED BY OFFICER

Jud. Jan. j while resisting ar
rest, Frank Staples, known to this
community as Heavy, was shot
and almost instantly killed Satur-
day night by Constable Storla. AS
near as we can learn, the affair
{ was as follows Ks;
2sag i Much thieving and looting of
houses near Alfred and vicinity has
been. going on for some tiimie. The
latter part OF \ last week the house
belonging to- Carl Ensigner was en-
tered aud various articles u stolen
including q suit of clothes and a
watch and chain. "
on Saturday Mr.. Ensing ger went
to Edgeley and on the train met q
man who was wearing the stolen
watch and chain. "A phone mes
sage from Deisem while the train
was held for q few minutes brought
the information that the stranger
would be taken care of when the
train reached sEdgeley. When ar
rested the: man confessed stealing
1 the watch and also confessed to
many other: like. crimes and impli-
Gated sta ples.5 si5s n. 55 .&.
message was. sent to Constable
}StOrla sfronl the sheriff ordered him
stof 55gO to Alfred and arrest Staples.
MI. Storla deputized H. p. Put
man, ohns Iverson and Adolph
sWelta and they went to Alfred by
spesdar,sbut found that Staples was
not there They were directed to
the home of ~ 81 son near Sid
ney. At SflrstRs lNelsonts d declared thar
3S1xo nlnas 1,nfi tSg yya known
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1920-01-02
CORN, 10 BUSHELS

One North Dakota acre in Sar-
gent county produced 119 23 BUSH
els of mature corn this year. Wes-
ley Cooper, a member of the North
Dakota Boys and Girls Clubs, won
the state championship on this
corn. This won for him a trip to
the Boys and Girls Institute,
weeks course in agriculture and
home economics given at the North
Dakota Agricultural College for
club winners. He planted home
grown seed May 10th. Eight loads
of manure were put on this ground.
The corn was cultivated four times.
His yield last year was II bushels.
George Allison of Grand Forks
county wins second Diace With lis
bushels. The average yield of
corn of 80 club members reporting
was 38 1-3 bushels. Yields in the
western part of the state were re-
duced bv dry weather and grass
hoppers. The outstanding facts in
connection with the big yields were,
tested. we'll bred home grown seed.
early planting and clean cultivation.
Another factor was the favorable
weather for corn.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1920-01-02
.B|NFQRD man KILLED.
WHEN ICE FALLS

Binford. N. D. Jan. L. Ole Ols-
gard met death when he took his
team and hay rack to a straw stack
about 80 rods from his home in
tending to bring home load cf
straw. The team came home
without, him some time later. Upon
Investigation 4by members Of the
family 1t was found that he was
pinned beneath q cake of ice and
had died as result. i
1T Is believed that Mr.. DISCARD
found the straw stack covered with
snow and ice and In attempting to
remove 1t IN order to get down to
\ the straw, broke a large piece of
ice which fell. and crushed him.,
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1920-01-02
| ! A||I|' N 1. IS A|IlCC|| ! ! j
DENTALlY KILLED

Taylor, N. D. Jan. !. - = Truman
Helgeson, prominent young Dunn m !
county farmer, residing about 4
miles north of Taylor, was instantly
killed early Wednesday morning or
when a shotgun he was carrying
was accidentally discharged. He
had gone to the barn about 6:SO.in 30: IN
the morning to do the chores prior prtor
to the making of a trip to Taylor,
but as time passed and he failed % Yto
put in an appearance for breakfast,
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1920-01-02
LAMBERT LOSES CASE
AGAINST McGAHAN

Atty. F. B. Lambert, who sued
L. D. McGahan publisher of the
Dakota Publishing Co., for $4,000
for alleged damages resulting from
the publishing of "The Widows
Story, at the. time that Mr.. Lam
bert. was a candidate for district
Judge against Judge K. r. Leighton,
lost hissfcase in district court this
week, the jury: being out but a
short time. n s.s
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1920-01-02
y APPLES Il IN BOWBELIS3

Those desiring to purchase apples
from the Woburn Farmers Club and
live too Tar away from Nv Woburn to
make the drive can now obtain this
fruit ID Bowbells from &. u Kopri-
iva who has several hundred boxes
/ stored iii his cellar. 26tf9 y
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1920-01-02

midst did
neglect
Public Nurgins Instruction g.
Ihs
the sbabys
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-14
Campaign Prospects.
From the Washington Post.

A lively campaign is in the making. By
September / it is expected that the battle Will
be raging along the entire front, involving
every conceivable shade of opinion upon every
imaginable subject. On the sidelines will be
found a large crowd Of interested partisans
adding zest to the contest; Bryan raging up
and down the chautauqua PLATFORM; Gompers
and his colleagues of the labor movement
cheering their favorite candidates and hurting
a blacklist at those they oppose; Wheeler,
Baker and Anderson, Of the anti-saloon
league, demanding the election of dry con-
gress in protection of the eighteenth amend
ment, and the farmer-labOr party struggling
for government ownership of utilities and
necessities with "enlightened democratic
manageent" which means management by
the employees. All this in addition to the
emission, from time to time, Of socialistic
messages by Gene" Debs through the bars of
the Atlanta penitentiary
The country is calm now, but probably it is
the calm that precedes the storm, for it is
inconceivabe how all these divergent ideas
and conflicting Interests can be unleashed
upon the American public in national cam
paign without creating more ferment than
crock of home brew. 1t S urged that aside
from the league of nations there are no great
issues involved in this contest; but what have
issues to do with presidential campaign?
There is plenty to talk about, enough to prom
ise and no lack of ground for critic ISM. What
more is needed to make a campaign? If
that additional state necessary to give wom-.
en- universal suffrage in this election does not
come through very soon another element of
excitement will be injected which will add to
the gayety of the situation Anybody who
believes this Is to be d mOl1ycoddle affair
Is booked for an awakening before November
second.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-14
HUNTING FOR PEACE.

The statements issued by Premiers Lloyd
George, of Great Britain, and Giolitti of
Italy, strike the keynote of the psychology
of peace in Europe. The peace conference
having completed its work of Remembering
the defeated nations and remaking the map
of Europe and portion of Asia it behooves
all governments which are in accord for
peace to combine their moral and diplo-
matte influences to keep the peace, to quiet
the nerves of the masses, to set the wheels
of industry in revolution and to bring con-
tentment to the country. Had not Poland
developed an exaggerated national ego and
entered upon a campaign of military con-
quest while her people were being fed by
the charities of the world there would not
have been any war in middle Europe. Had
the Polish people accepted the conditions of
their new national life as the Jugo-Slavia
and Czecho-Slovakia people did, though for
sometime after the conclusion of peace
these nations were considered the danger
spots of Europe, the recent conflict in which
Europe was saved from another war by the
1.-THE of a hair would never have taken
place. The struggle between bolshevism and
Poland would not have occurred had the
people of that country been content with
justice in the peace treaty.
There must be tolerance on the part of
the victors, which will permit the vanquish-
ed to reconstruct themselves and to make
possible the existence of their people under
tls new conditions. But these conquered
and remnant nations must understand that
the grip of the conqueror is on their threats,
and that any disposition to start trouble
anew will bring retrbutive punishment upon
them, and that every attempt to foment dis
cord will result in more drastic terms be-
ing imposed. AS the premiers' statement
we'll says, these conquered nations must dis
play a spirit of loyalty in executing and in
meeting the terms imposed upon them that
will meet the spirit of moderation displayed
by the victors in enforcing the terms i'm
posed
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-14
No Lean Years in Southwest Ga.
From the Albany Herald.

The editor of The News has lived in
Southwest Georgia since his early man
hood, and has never yet seen a crop fall
ure or lean years of famine. He expects
to live here all his life, and never will
see a crop failure.-Dawson News.
Here in a few words is stated something
worth thinking about.
Editor Rainey is not by any means an old
man, but he has been here long enough to
have noted the passing of many seed-tlmes
and harvests.
And he has never seen a crop failure in
Southwest Georgia There have been bump
er-crop years, average-crop years and short
crop years, but never has there been crop
failure.
When there has been too much rain for
cotton. the corn fields have flourished and
returned heavy yields. When it has been
too dry for corn the cotton fields have been
white from August till the pickers finished
bringing in their snowy burdens, and it has
unfailingly held true that whatever condi-
lions initiated against the full yield of GER
tain crops made sure the bumper returns
of others.
No part of the United States is more ver-
satiIe in agriculture than Southwest Geor-
gia, where the growing season is long and
both soil and climate are favorable to the
splendid fruition of almost any crop the
farmer cares to produce. Hogs and beef
cattle have now become two of the great
money Crops of the section, and thous-
ands of acres of nuts and fruits are pouring
an ever swelling volume of wealth into their
owners bank accounts.
Nature has highly favored this section,
and Just how great its advantages are is be-
coming more generally known as the results
of diversified agriculture become apparent
It now has many money crops and the
specter of crop failures never haunts its
nc
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-14
THIRTY-NINTH YEAR.

With this issue The Dawson News enters
upon its thirty-ninth year. Unlike the old
gentleman who, when he had a birthday, al
ways claimed that he was year older than
he really was, The News feels that it mere
ly stands at the threshold of another year
of existence, a year destined to afford OPP
portunities for public service greater than
it ever had as a medium of interchange of
thought, recorder of events, and factor
in the affairs of its town, county and state
The News here renews its devotion to its
home people, and pledges its efforts to the
greatest good of the greatest number. This
has been The News policy under its present
ownership of thirty-four years, and in con-
formity thereto the paper has supported
that which seemed right and best and con-
demned what it believed to be wrong and
injurious.
To those who have sustained US with their
patronage we are grateful, and The News
will strive to merit a continuance of their
friendship and good will.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-14
CFORCJA's GARDEN SPOT.

The editor of The Dawson News says
he has spent his entire life in Southwest
Georgia since he reached manhood and
expects to spend the rest of his life there
WHY a fellow will spend his life in Ter
rell county with Franklin county only
two hundred miles away we cannot un-
Observation-Disclosures Times.
1t is evident that the editor of the Lavo-
MIA Times has never been in Terrell county.
We have been in Franklin, one of North
Georga's best counties, and the more we
see of that or any other section of country
the better satisfied we are with this unrival-
ed section and greater is the determination
to spend our remaining days here. The Lavo-
MIA editor should come down to Terrell
county and see a real good farming coun-
try, where there is fertile soil and splendid
climate; where the growing season is long
and conditions are favorable to almost any
crop the farmer may care to produce;
where crop failures are never known; where
the farmers are intelligent, prosperous and
progressive, live in modern homes, have
churches within easy reach and nine-months
schools for their children. Grand old South
west Georgia is not surpassed by any sec
ton of country in the world
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-14
Animal Speed Demons.
Jackrabbit Can Do Forty Miles an Hour.
Greyhound Is Equally Fast.
From the New York Tribune.

Two of the fastest of the smaller animals
are the greyhound and the jack rabbit. The
GREYHOUND can do at the rate of thirty-tW
miles an hour, while his cousin the Russian
wolf-hound, can beat him by five miles ana
has much greater powers of endurance. Inc
greyhound, like the horse, digs IN with ms
fore feet and uses Ibis front legs for pulling
as we'll as pushing with his hind legs. The
iackrabbt's front legs are only clutches, but
like the antelope he makes up for 1T by the
power of his hind legs.
Out in Kansas a crazy jackrabbit start
ed up beside a passenger train making for
ty miles an hour. Passengers crowded the
platforms and the windows and whooped 1t
up for the jack. The jack went completely
insane and raced the train for miles, never
losing an inch or jump. AS the train and
the jack flashed past the last mile post neck
and neck the jack curled up in the air in
the middle of a jump and lighted squatted
on his launches and rubbed one of his
forefeet over his nosey The jackrabbit is
speedy, all right, but he's plumb crazy. :.
There is another mammal that Is SO last
no one has ever been able to find out how
fast he is. This is the porpoise. The por-
poise can do stunts in front of the fastest
boat that travels the bounding wave, and
when he is through after several hours OF
Glowing he flirts his tail and honchalently
speeds beyond the horizon. The porpoise
will do his tricks under the bow of nine
knot cargo tramp or twenty-knot ocean
greyhound. He is like the antelope in that
he sets his pace according to the speed of
the pursuer.
And let us not forget that small and hairy
creature, bird, insect or beast, the honey
bee. This little creature develops great
speed on the western plains. In Oklahoma
there was a passenger train making the ira
ditional forty miles an hour. It was
warm day and the windows of the cab were
wide open on both sides, A honey bee flew
through the cab, grazing the nose of the
startled engineer, turned at right angles,
flew for a dozen miles beside the engine,
and then, with an intelligent hum, put on
squirt and disappeared up the line ahead OF
the rocking trains
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-14
BUYING GEORGIANS.

In the last days of the campaign the
partisans of one of the senatorial candidates
published and sent broadcast a report that
one of the other candidates for that Office
had sent great sums of money to rural
counties of the state for the purpose of cor
rupting the ballot. Just how did he go about
it to "buy' the people? Buying votes NAV
still be done in some wards of New York,
Chicago, Cincinnati and Other large cities,
but how would one proceed to do it in Geor-
gia ard the rest of the country that IS hon
EST still? The ballot is secret; no one knows
how another mar votes. Just how would
the brving be done, assuming as these
gentlemen assumed that voters of Georgia
can be bought?