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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-11-04
WILLIS

Walter Klimple and Miss Lillian
Schmidt, Sam Seed and Miss Elsie
Klimple attended the pie social held in
Sawyer last Friday night. Benefits
were for the high school library.
Ralph and Ray Reed made so much
money threshing this fall that they
took a weeks lay off and made a
pleasure trip to Hankison, N. D. Their
in the car the latter part of the week
and accompanied the boys hume.
William Klimple has some respect
for his wife, so he built a fine new
wash house, 12x16, for her benefit.
Tracy M. Palmer of the Sawyer
high school came out Friday evening
and Saturday assisted Miss Lillian
Schmidt run the gas engine to do the
family washing.
Joe Gadbow and son Harry were
Minot visitors Saturday and on Mon
day Harry and family were again in
Minot doing shopping.
I E. E. Diehl cast his vote early Tues
day morning the End, and took a two
day vacation and spent the time visit
ing his old time friend Dad Brown east
of Minot.
There is quite rush now at the
Beighle coal mine, four miners and
one skinner are kept quite busy and
R. w. takes in the cash. Teams from
distance camp out over night.
Guy Birius was in Minot Monday
with load Of wheat. Mr.. Birius has
about changed his mind about locat-
ing in South Dakota, and is now in
the notion of going to Ballard, Wash.
and secure a position in a single mill.
Leonard McNoll departed for New
Boston, ILL.,, Thursday, Oct. %, and
will spend the fall husking corn. It
has been five years since Mr.. McNol]
has visited his old home town.
William Welding and son Glenn,
E. E. Diehl and his hired man, O. B.
Wallace, have been delivering wheat
to the Farmers Elevator at Logan
the last several days.
Walter Down was in Logan Monday
with 2 tons of coal for Mrs. Ezra
Nolph.
E. E. Diehl expressed a fine Collie
pup to P. c. Wells of Watertown, S.
D., Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kavenaugh of the
South Prairie general store spent
Sunday in Minot visiting their daugh-
ter, who goes to school in Grand Frks,
who on account of the election vaca-
ton, came to Minot on visit.
H. Chambers was business visitor
in the east part of the state for the
past several days.
Paul Klimple was fortunate enough
to get 30 acres fall-plowed, E. E. Diehl
100 and VIM. Klimple 85.
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DOUGLAS


Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. johnson left
Douglas last Tuesday in their new Sc
dan Tor California. they viii visit rel
atives in South Dakota and then will
60 to Omaha and take an auto route
direct for the west. During Mr.. John
sons absence his sons will have charge
of the light plant.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. E. Fladseth are
leaving today by auto for their new
home in Fargo. They leave for the
purpose Of educating the younger
children and to make a home for the
older ones who are employed there,
We are sorry to see them go.
The Olson Sisters of Minneapolis
gave q concert in the Lutheran church
Wednesday evening under the aus
pices of the Ladies Aid. Tho concert
was well attended.
Mrs. Ben Scott was taken to Bis.
marck hospital last week. She was
suffering severely with gall stones.
However she was compelled to under
60 a series of treatments before an
operation could be performed.
0. A. Odegard, from the eastern
part of the state is visiting his broth
ers at this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Petersen and Mr.,
and Mrs. Bert Schwenn drove over
from Minot last Tuesday to register
their votes.
Rev. and Mrs. H. L. Anderson at
tended the circuit meetings at Plaza
last week.
The Ladies Aid supper and sale on
Saturday afternoon and evening was
we'll patronized. The net proceeds were
$146.00.
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vices were held in st. James Episcopal
church, October 9, Rev. Smouss OIL
ciating. The deceased ID survived by
one son, B. r. Ritter Of New York, and
three daughters, Mrs. H. B. Rowlsy
Of Households, N. Y, Mrs. Hunter
Wagner Of Blaisdell, N. D., and Mira.
F. G. Schultz Of st. Paul, Mimi, Mrs.
Ritter had visited in Minot and Blais-
dell in 1908 and 1911 and had made
many friends who will regret to learn
of her death. She was 81 years old.
Mike Salo, machinist for the Great
Northern at Williston was here trans
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acting business Monday.
Mrs. J. 8. Brye and family spent
Saturday and Sunday at the John
DAZZLE home at Ray, N. D.
Mrs. Jennie Bronson and daughter
Mrs. Howard Kemp Of Minot, visited
friends here recently.
The Blaisdsll Farmers Cooperative
store disposed Of q car load Of -four
and = car load Of apples last week.
E. A. Malloy and wife will spend
the winter In California. c. L. Ticen
. former agent, has accepted Mr.. NAL
loy's position Is agent.
B. E. Spencer Is shipping out his
stock and machinery to Cambridge
Minn., where he will make his future
home,
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Ambrose-On Monday afternoon,
shortly after the dinner hour, the barn
IN the Lee Pentecost farm, about Is
miles southwest Of Ambrose was
struck by lightning and burned to the
ground, with all its contents, includ-
ing the family horse which was killed
outright by the bolt. The loss IL part
~ covered by insurance.
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Valentine .Knuth Nuptials.

Miss Margaret Valentine Of Des
Laos was united in marriage Oct. 81,
to George Knuth of Balfour, N. D. at
the home Of the brides parents. Lo-
hengren's wedding march was played
by Mrs. W. ]. Frey and the ceremony
was performed by Rev. H. w. Mergle
Of Des Laos, the beautiful ring SER
vice being used. The wedding was at
tended by. large number Of friends
and relatives. The couple were at
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-11-04

The bride is the daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. H. B. Valentine Of Des Laos
and Is a young woman of many fine
qualities. The groom is one Of Bal
tours most highly respected young
men. The happy couple have gone
to Balfour to make their home on the
groom's farm. Many friends offer
best wishes.
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tended by Chas. Knuth, brother Of the
groom and Miss Rebecca Valentine,
the BRIDES sister. The bride was be-
ccmingly attired in gown of grey
Georgette and satin and the brides
maid wore dress of silver grey crepe
decline. The bride carried brides
roses and the bridesmaid carnations
and roses.
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CORRESPONDENCE
BLAISDELL

Mrs. Hunter Wagner has returned
from Pennsylvania where she attend
ed the funeral Of her mother, Mrs
Mary M. Ritter, who died Oct. 8, q
the home Of her daughter, Mrs. F. G
Shultz in st. Paul, MINI. The remain
were shipped to her former homo in
Exchange, Penn, where funeral ser
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-19
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS

The hen is now laying for US
but then, so is the owner Of the
bird!-Minneapolis Journal.
The Senate might be worse. It
didn't kill Americas two big lea
gEes.-Cleveland Press.
Some Of the daylight we've been
having lately would hardly have
been worth saving.-Manchester
Union.
Funny that Mitch Palmer affects
spats. Thought his Quaker religion
commanded him to keep out of
them-Greenyille Piedmont.
Congressman Randall. Of Califor-
MIA, proposes that parcel post pack
ages be enlarged, but he does not
say to how many gailons.--Albany
Argus.
All that the secretary Of state
needs to do before taking a vaca-
ton is TO sign lot of passports in
blank. Express.
Many of the Manhattan baseball
fans cannot understand why they
should have to pay an amusement
tax at the game when the Giants
lose-Sun and N. Y. Herald.
Fifty cities show an average in
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-19

be exceedingly bothersome to get
water to run up-hill-permanently
and universally. And onl perman-
ent and universal determination on
the part of the people to do without
things will cave in the h. c. OF l..
from this side.
We do not mean to imply, OF
course, that the overall has been
in the past the uniform of failure.
1t was exactly the diverse. 1t was
the uniform Of valuable effort. But
the idea underlying the fantastic
movement by which men-on whom
working overalls are vested as
completely as a soldiers uniform
would be on the most worthy cot
egenarian--hope to compel the. re-
duction Of prices for clothing by
balloning the prices for oYeralls
until the real workers cannot af-
ford them is the idea OF making
popular and fashionable" the wear
ing Of cheap clothing; in other
words, of doing without the clothing
to which they are accustomed. This
is but a degradation Of the overall.
Philadelphia Public Ledger Qnd.l
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-19
STOCK DIVIDENDS
AND WAR PROFITS.

Several more corporations an
nounce stock dividends. A tobacco
company will divide rs per cent.
A widely known mercantile com
pany will divide 80 per cent A file
company will divide 100 per cent
q tank-car company gao per cent.
These announcements come on a
single day. They are preceded by a
long list, including textile mills and
steel companies. motor concerns,
eael. gas an what rOt, with rates
division ranging from 20 to 500
~. cent.
such dividends are now we'll I'M
stood since the Supreme Courts
oision classifying them as distri-
buttons not OF income subject to in
come tax but of capital, They are
divisions among stockholders of Ii
lies to surplus earnings which have
not been distributed in cash but
have been retained in the business
as added capital
They reflect, therefore. the recent
or war accumulai1n of Surplus earn
ings OF profits above what have
been divided in cash, which in every
case Of a stock dividend are shown
70 he unoommonly large and in
MANY cases so enormous as to
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-19
SU M M ER HON ES
OF ESiDENTS.


Seeking a summer Whlte Rouse
IS nothing new except IN the changed
circumstances OF l4o years. WASH
lhgton spent as mucn tiine a' ne
could at Mount vernon pecau9e nc
was SO outrlgeousiy Ioi'oel ID LUIS
city. lie asked no salary, put $=o'-
0o0 year was allo"eu' because IL
was supposed tHat IHd. oDillo uh'
"eulo pay ms eApenses. mere was
always a delct, Jonn AdaiiiS anu
ms grandson ilel 70 quincy DIS oi'eii
as theE couiu' DiO oue ~ ~ on
WAC ruled lor t"enty'iour year )
IiVed not lar from tue capi.'iI anu
had comparatively easy 'iile "
II. =.
jackson uSed me hermitage ~
Tie because ne was 4 "iuo"ei' d3
WIS van buTens l1ar IiaoH uleo
soon ana iy'ei Hdu us 'uiiillei
nome nearby III VIZ ma, II "@a
not t1htil aller cne Ciyll =" a. "non
MOI tue4h men W. i0'i7 In "
cupiea lne "lilte l-0uoe! ei'1 d
summer HoIle '9S"iil2 an IN P ~ 'elt'
matter. ulaHt u 7'' long ID ' II
ana ikea 1t, ildSeS Went ~ re,
mont "here Iae |lnos rom i .a.A1
EiIe con7o4ed MN ioI 'ii9 o ,.,9I a,
olon ne feeeiVeu nom poii'io"i
IlleIlu7 rs wen dS ehei' ,eS'
1t WAS CIeVei"no VINO lLst clle4 a.. d
summer nome III NEoise'o H. put
ne mad no lmltalors' Laler ne , doanu
lhe NassacauSeets coast diiu i.lI"
ana most OF MS successors nave
haa Ihe sane view except i1 e
VINO 'fleo zap may foi"1 iof o"o
summer only.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-19
Mr.. TABLER LAID
TO HIS LAST REST

The funeral Of the late Mr.. May
berry G. Tabler, the well known
Queen street merchant, which took
place Sunday afternoon at 2.30
o'clock from his residence sol West
King street, was largely attended.
score of friends being present from
the surrounding county. Rev. DR..
F. r. Wagner, Of St. Johns Luth-
eran church, officiated and the re-
mains were laid to rest In Green
Hill cemetery. Pallbearers were
Messrs. A. C. Nadenbousch. A. NJ.
Gilbert. Dudley Harley, DR.. H. S.
Gardner, H. H. Emmert, president of
Old National Bank, in which the
deceased had long been director.
and A. B. Noll. The floral tributes
we're numerous and beautiful and in
addition to these lovely manifesto.
tions of high esteem the grave was
literally covered by a floral blanket.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-19

family mare pacing along with the
two-seated buggy. The railroad
centers are almost bare Of Weary
Willies and along the nearby high
ways the beware Of the dog
signs are not justifying a fresh coat
Of paint.
No tragedy turks in the back
ground and no pathos marks the
passing Of the once familiar knight
of the road. He has been transform
ed, that is all, and converted into
an industrial citizen. Where form
erly he beat his way from town to
town, working only when impeled
by the craving for food, doing his
period of days in the town lookup
occasionally, he IS now travelling
first class and putting UP at the no.
tel. Instead Of budding around a
Pickering blaze in the jungles of
the railroad yards, he is well clad,
in comfortable surroundings and
living on the fat Of the land.
The war has been chiefly respon-
sible for the passing of the old
American tramp. Many enlisted in
the army, emerging with a self-re-
spect and initiative that neved had
been known before. Others were
put to work in various factories
and the enforced habit OF industry
soon proved attractive. especially
the comforts which high wages
brought. If the hobo who still sur
wives is impelled by a circumstan-
ees to seek temporary employment,
he no longer slouches up to the
farmers door and bargain for a
weeks labor. but applies at some
industrial plant where he gets big
wages. His passing has made the
brakeman's life care-free exist
ence In New York hobo hotel
was closed for lack Of patronage If
the present prosperity remains I'M
checked he will probably exist only
in the columns Of the comic maya
zines.-Indianapolts Star Gnd. Rep)
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danger Of being stripped Of their
population, like Madrid in the prov
erb, If the exodus continued
The influx from abroad was add
ed to the increase Of the native pop
ulation and the few of the Mayflow-
er became the nation Of hundred
million that Is the America Of to-
day.
II seemed that the human exodus
toward North America must CON
tinue and even increase after the
war, in the face of threats Of more
armed conflict, considering the de-
strutCion of so many sources or
wealth and opportunities for Work,
the enormous loans and resulting
high taxes brought about by the
war and the imminent bankruptcy
OF even the most prosperous coun-
tries; and that thus the stream of
immigration, sweiled by so many
millions of men rendered miserable
in their new situation, would be
come a veritable inundation.
But it has not turned out so. Not
only has the flow ceased, but the
current has turned in the other di-
raction, and what threatened to be-
come a congestion has turned into
a hemorrage.
What is the trouble High cost
Of living? No, certainly. Living
costs have risen as much as more
abroad. New taxes2 Again, no.
Taxes continue to be lower in
North America than elsewhere.
Military service? Hardly. Military
burdens are far heavier in other
countries, and the pay is nowhere
so high as in our neighboring ma
ton.
A sentimental reason has been
suggested, foreigners residing in
ahe United States want to 20 back
70 their h0me-lands, some of which
are devastated by war and others
By anarchy. While there is no ac-
counting for tastes, this exDlana-
ten does not hold except for the
few who can indulge themselves in
the luxury of visiting ruins still
smoking. and fields still sown with
Skeletons.
The true reason is cutie other:
national prohibition. A moraliZing,
humanitarian, puritanical Tin short,
Wilsonian) law is depopuIating
those fair lands aud is supplying
Gustaye lie Bon an additional proof
Of his doctrine that there is nothing
more pernicious to humanity than
philanthropists, especially when
they are gIslators. Excelsior,
Mexico city.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-19
JOHNSON a
BIG FACTOR.

Il is evident that johnson has
become great factor in the Repub-
liCan campaign; those who thought
no such thing was possible We're
greatly mistaken. If Henry Cabot
Lodge, in the long fight against the
treaty, represented the real spirit
and purpose of the party, then Hi
ram johnson is, as we have always
said, the logical candidate of the
Republicans, since he stands for the
only two things that party can be
said to stand for under the Lodge
neutrality-suspicious. to the Peace
Treaty and hostility TO the Presi-
dent. He is, however, getting in
addition the paciGst. pfo4German
and radical vote so far as that vote
is cast within the Republican party,
and Cook county demonstrated THAI
hec an also get the support of a ma
chine-a curious mixture, especially
as johnson is always denounCing
machines and made mis- first reputa-
ton by fighting one. Further, the
San Francisco Chronicle makes the
assertion that in the west he is get
ting the support Of conservatives
and business men. though it admits
that in the east that kind Of support
is going to Wood and Lowden. The
Chronicle is supporting Johnson.
At any rate, he will be in a position
to make much trouble in the con
yeution.-NeW York Times (lnd.
Dem =.
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BERTY BOND
PROTECTION

Liberty and victory bonds are
just as well occurred as IS the cur
rency of the United States. The
chief difference is that the bonds
draw interest while currency does
not. Yet currency never goes below
par, while the market price of these
government bonds is something
like 10 per cent below par. The rea-
son is not hard 10 find.
Taking advantage of the desire
Of many persons who bought bonds
purely from patriotic motives, seal
Ders and brokers are keeping down
the price for the purpose Of buying
them at profit to themselves. 1t
would be interesting to know how
many Of the original investors, to-
falling 22,0G0,000 persons, have
sold out their holdings to traders
who well know that when the ring
of bond owners has narrowed sufIi-
GENTLY the securities will 90 to par
or above.
According to the Wall Street
Journal, government bonds out
standing on December q, 1919, ag-
gregated S20,236, 944,750. Their value
on the market at the<end of Febru-
airy was $1S,659, 674,099, SLOWING a
depreciation of 81 577,270,651. This
more than a billion and a half dol
lars is rapidly finding its way into
the hands of the brokers, bankers
and investors who viii hold the
bonds until the government re
deems them at par. with accrued in
terest.
Because the governments bonds
are subject to barter the small in
vestor is enriching those able to
buy. There should be some way to
keep the market value Of the bonds
at or near part AS long as holders
are willing to sell at discount and
brokers are willing to bay at a pro
fit. the people Will rocket the loss,
lei Paso Herald Qnd)
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PROHIBITION AND
IMMIGRATION.


Almost from IT'S }elf oes'hn!'l2s'
Tue Chiteu states pecaine d giant
suction pump Tor an lae surplus
laan-po"er Of me "oflo. FROM the
lour points OF the compass there
lo"ed 10 that sto,ehoase OF "eedt n,
mat cradIe OF ifoefues' tns1 lana
OIL peace an men OF an9olt'on ana
enterprise VINO 1a'led 10 ma on the
c!aSs-r'ddeh turoi an continent OPP
portdntles OF WORK ana prospects
OF retirement Su!ncieney or lloer-
y anu freedom from 7ufdeusome
'a%atlon' ana VINO moreover were
moved 10 eillsEate by compulsory
military service
Inc Aslatlc continent sent TO
America also me surplus OF heF
population. Ainea, reSasured by
t1e emaAclpat1on Of he blacks ane
~ the prosperity |A'rA so many OF
them-we might say all CT them
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last lime In Auqust tho President
secured p delay hy s+artirg a cam.
oaign against nroftoore in an effort
10 reducn thn cost of living If wac
admitted at that time that if nricns
could be lowered thev could NOT
fairly ask for biober wage scbcd-
nile. But tho governn9nnt's drive at
uricos was q dieynaI failure Tbon
came the long drIav in na4sing tho
railroad LEGISLATION :,
Further Drocrastinafion in tho an.
Dojntment oP tho Labor hoard is
nointed ont az an additional cauen
Tor discontent and the OUTLAW
gfrika" the RcnrbIican concludes
is "serjous warming against fur.
thcr nostponemnpt of railroad waoo
problems
While if declares thar tho etrik.
'ers are "dennly censurabla" tho he.
troit Free Press Gndl feels mat
tho urinary blarne rests on the Fed.
araI Administration " which If AZ
cgses Of bad fifth ASSERTING, that.
the DELAYS over tbe settIemenf of
the waga erieyance Of the men we're
.ineXcssaBle and we believe thev we're
deIiberafa The uunetfon az nav ad.
iustment was left at loose ends NV
the railroad administration 50 that
II could ba transferred ia tho avn.
crs of tbe roads when thev receiv.
ed back their Dropertjes and tbe
government thus be relieved Of y
task it did not care to tackle on the
eve of a presidential election. and
which If had rendered narticularlv
difficult by it's generally extravapant
method of operation. Since receiy.
ing back their lines in a very mix.
ed condition the owners of the rail.
road properties nave scarcely been
in POSITION TO give their undivided
attention to the vaage dpsstinn
Finally. the more impatient of The
railroad workers have repudiated
the wise and far.siebted leadership
of their grand officers aid resorted
to extreme measures in order to get
what they want"
The Fl. C. of l.. is another partner
in crime. according to the Trenton
Times NndD which calls attention
to the mems WILLINGNESS TO show
the iuadaal!a4y of their wage scoIes
TO meet the increased and increasing
cost of living" and the Wheeling
Register Dam1 finds that at is
natural that the switchmen have
come to the conclusion that as prices
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equal and to exceed by two or
three times the actual capital in
vested by stockholders.
The excess-profts tax was avow-
edly designed to reach these inor-
odinate profits growing out Of war
conditions and appropriate them in
large part for the public treasury.
But how far has this been the case?
Every one Of these stock dividends
IS evidence either Of the rankest
Kind Of war profteering or of evas-
ions of this tax or both. And Con-
gress is still dead to the fact. If it
had not brains enough to devise a
simple and effective war tax on ex-
cess profits in the first place, has it
not been able to acquire enough to
do something, however tardily, by
way Of correction New York
World Dem.).
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OVERALL COVERS a
MULTITUDE OF SHAMS

Those who propose to cure the
high cost of living by wearing
oyeralls are "pikers,' They can
only pin-prick the enemy thai way.
What they want to do Is TO ad.
vance on a far broader front and
make poverty Fashionable.
This will be easy. 1t only requires
that we completely change human
nature and keep it changed. let us
render failure" more desirable to
The human heart than success
and it will follow naturally and in
evitably that the insignia of fail.
ure will become the fashionable
wear. But until We have worked
this trifling miracle it is going to
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GOING ABROAD

Father Benedict and Brother Ig.
natius. of the Capuchin Monastery
at Cumberland. will ieave for Rome
late this month TO take part in the
election of a new superior-general
of the order. Father Benedict, who
had visited Rome biennially, was
last in that city for the same pur'
pose before the outbreak of the
war in 1914.
Read The MarrInsburg Journal.