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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-30
FARMERS REFUSE TO sCAB

Reports are coming in from sever
al parts Of the state that some bank
ers, despite the good advice given
them by the meeting of bankers and
officials recently held in Bismarck,
have started out to try and force the
farmers to sell their wheat by fore
closure proceedings. In instance
reported to us, a banker. seized a far
mer's cattle and proceeded to auction
them off; but, sad to relate, on the
day the sale took place about 1000
farmers were on the scene and yet
there was not a SINGLE BID for the
herd. So the banker told the farmer
to take his cattle back and take them
home, which was no sooner agreed
than DONE. From all we al hear,
like instances have occurred in sever
al other places, proving that the farm
ers won't scab and know the miracles
solidarity can work. We'll stickl Well
Win! You bet!
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-30

W - @-E F-E L- E 80 ~ hr-
Otto H. Kahn, one Of the few real
big businessmen and bankers Of the
United States, closes a letter to Sena-
tor Medill Mccormick on the problems
confronting the Republican party with
the following pregnant sentence: 1.-THE
way to preserve the vigor, vitality
and prosperity of an old established
business, is to infuse new blood from
time to time and. to be hospitable to
new ideas. The same holds true Of the
established order of things in the
State. True conservatism consists not
in barring liberal tendencies and novel
conceptions; on the contrary, it seeks
to make a helpmate Of progress" We
commend this letter, and especially
this sentence, to those businessmen
who have been so ,blindly opposing the
Farmers Nonpartisan League and the
Labor Unions in their struggle for a
freer life and a higher standard of liv-
ing, for ut is written in the stars"
that the coming age is the -~Age of
the INDUSTRIAL MAN."
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-30

The Backward" peoples have a
childlike way Of calling things by their
right names. For instance, down
South they make a distinction between
a Planter and a Farmer. A Planter
may be either a Tenant Landlord or
a Capitalist engaged in farming. In
either last the Planter does no work
himself, except probably general SUI
pervision and often not ven that. He
is farming the farmers, as. the Dix
lie farmers put it. On the other hand,
a Farmer down South is a man. who
actually works the land with his own
hands, one who "farms the farm, and
who hires no labor except at harvest
time or when he gets behind in "chop-
ping out" the crop. Hence the Plant
ers look down on the Farmers and
other Workers as the "mudsills of
society,"" while the two last look upon
the Planters, Landlords and Credit
Monopolists as so many human-boll-
wevils eating up the products Of their
toll and producing nothing but power
ty and pellagra. The trouble seems to
be that the backward" peoples still
live too close to nature to know that
things that amt so are, which prob
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-30
LUTHERAN CHURCH

Morning service neN Sunday at
Bottineau Lutheran church 1O:45 a.
M. Norwegian.
Sunday School IL M. Evening SER
vice Bottineau church at 1880 p. M. in
English.
New Years Day morning service at
Salems- Church at IL A. M.
The choir will meet next Saturday
at the church for practice.
The annual business meeting will
be held at Nordland's church Jan. 4,
/ p. M.
The Ladies Aid Of Vinje church
will meet Jan. 9th at Mrs. Andrew
T~orgerson's.
The Ladies Aid Of Bottineau Luth-
eran church will meet at Mrs. Fem
nern's, entertained by Mesdames Ro-
land and Mcmillan.
T. T. Carlson, Pastor.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-30
CIVIL WAR IN IVAPOLIS

There is civil was in 1vapolis, my
friends and countrymen, and the
leaders, saints" and "purists'" of
the independence, strange to- relate,
are goring each other over such gross
ly material things as spoils of office,
place and power. :
The Tower City Topics, said to be
the official organ of ex-attorney gen
eral LANCER, has turned it Opening
gun" loose on "the self-elected heads
of the forces supposed to be aligned
against the League Bosses" which
"heads", Everson and Nelson, their
halos a little the worse from over-ex-
hibition and kinder dim and dinky
from too much exposure, r fighting
back like tomcats or. a moonlit sum-
mel night.
1t seems that there has long been
slumbering a bigger fued between the
"Bigheads" Of the Ivabund, and that
these Headers" not "bosses", are now
accusing each other of embarrassing
each other and about everybody else,
which is just as the "Reds" told you
it was; and, so, now the "saviours of
North Dakota" are out to save them
selves from each other and, to do
this, control of the Legislature is alb
solutely necessary
Therefore a life-and-death struggle
is on between the "DeBuilers" and the
"Twobitites" to decide which set of
bosses, beg pardon, "leaders' shall or
ganize and control the Legislature,
for on this control depends the boss
ship, no, leadership" Of the "Inde-
pendents".
Confirming what we have told you
all along, "The Topics" says: "they
(the I. V. A.. "leaders") have fathered
and fostered a few laws, referred a
few measures, but outside Of that have
made a mess of the entire state cam
paign for the last four or five tries
against the foe,"i j. e., the Nonpartisan
League. Thus speak the Langerites,
and the Eversonites, return the COM
pliment.
Well, how do you fellows who thot
you were really independent like the
~all-around mess the credit-blockaders
led you into? Just think of "Inde-
pendent" Legislators having to stand
up and swallow "DeBulls" echo or
1.-TWO Bits" office boy as Speaker of
the House! O me! O NV!
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-30

John D. Rockefeller recently "gave
away" $64, 100000, bringing his total
"gifts" to charity" up to around
$500, 1000, 900. Where did he get it?
Steinmetz, one of the greatest cleo
trical engineers in the World draws
down a salary Of only 100000 a year,
and Steinmetz is worth more to
the Race than all the Rockefellers,
Goulds, Morgans, Armours, DuPonts,
Weyerhousers, Hills, Gugenheims and
Rothschflds that ever lived. It is the
Steinmetzs, Edisons and Burbanks
who really GIVE. The others only
TAKE. But always the Race has re-
'warded the TAKERS far more liber-
ally than it has it's GIVERS.. Sensible
Race!
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-30
TRUST FARMING

Why isn't it already here? There.
can be but n main reason and that
is because there is still a large ele-
iment of chance in the raising of crops
and, SO, the Plutocracy prefers to let
somebody else wrestle with agricul-
tural production, but, just as o a
science is far enough advanced to pre-
dict weather conditions a few months
ahead and to control pests, we will e
it,-trustified farming-provided, the
present game Of "you-rob-me-and-I-
rob-you" lasts~that long.
AS a matter Of fact two great crops
sugar and tobacco, r practically
trustified and wheat, orr and cotton.
will soon be marked for classification,
also. For, the only way the Plutocracy
can hold on to power and prevent the
establishment Of Industrial Democracy
will be by general classification, by
the establishment Of an imperialistic
socialism; and this is true because
the present system Of production, mar
ketfng and banking has become too
expensive to function efficiently aand,4
just as serfdom and chattel slavery
fell because they were too expensive,
Just 70 will the so-called competitive
system, fall and be scrapped.
There is . large measure Of truth
in the statement that I've Americans
no longer have . choice as to whether
or not We VIII have socialism; our
only choice Is TO say whether the So
cialism that Is already here shall be
an Industrial Despohsm OF an Indus
trial Democracy" whittier goest
thou
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-30
HANK RIGHT

The principal crops Of the United
States are valued by the department
of agriculture, at the present time, at
S9,148,519,0OO. The same crops were
valued last year at $14,O87, O00, 900.
While the crops raised this year are
considerably larger than those Of last
year the aggregate value is thus near
ly five billions less.
!, Hank says: "Them prophets who
were tellin' eight months ago that all
we needed wuz more production, amt
maxim a lot of >noize explainin' these
days" y
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-30
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

H@&ZE3@E SAl&h8HE# %G5%[ A&EE#| N#SEH#& ~
w. Fl. Lackey to Sadie Lackey, w.
D. 81 Lots % and "a Block 1 City Of
Westhope, N. D.
Peoples State Bank to Ross NJ.
Trimble, w. D. $1.00 SEA & Ek
SWA 10 161 81. ].
Peoples State Bank to j. M. Schroe-
der, w. D. $1.0O SWH A 161 81.
Mouse River Valley Bank to Anton.
Lallum, w. D. 81 Lots |, 2 and 8 Ell
NWA, VIZ NEA and NEA NE
Y Sec 81 1853 ~.
Mouse River Valley Bank to Theo.
E. Wilson, w. D. 81 81 SWK & NV
& SWA 20 1853 SO.
Herman Carrie and wife to Evald
Carrie w. D. $1.O0 81 NWA Lots 8
& A, VIZ SWK 2 100 70.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-30

A. E.. F..

There will be a rusty gun on the wall,
sweetheart,
The rifle grooves curling with flakes
Of rust.
A spider will make a silver string nest
in the darkest, warmest corner of it,
The trigger and the range-finder, they
too will be rusty,
And no hands will polish the gun, and
it will hang on the wall,
Forefingers and thumbs will point alb
sently and casually toward it.
It will be spoken among half-forgot-
ten, Acknowledgements things.
They will tell the spider, Go on you're
doing good work.
Carl Sandburg.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-30

If our credit system extends to the
farmer the same facilities for borrow
ing money on warehouse and elevator
receipts that it extends to the middle
men, the farmer will be able to meet
his current obligations while holding
back his produce from a temporarily
oversupplied market.
A proper system Of storage facilities
and loans on storage receipts for the
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-30

Railroad congestion is being re-
lieved by closing down mills, and re-
ducing traffic. Thanks to the folly
of congress, there will shortly be more
cars than are needed.-Gunnison
(Col.) Empire.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-30
The Courant wishes all it's readers
a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
ASK FOR RAISE

Through our big business comtem.
porary, The Farmers Advocate, we
learn that the Northwestern Tele.
phone Exchange Co., will ask for q
raise in rates for this exchange and
which The Advocate feels they are
entitled to. Now what we would like
to know is, are they entitled to a raise
in the telephone rates at the Bottineau
exchange. The reaso for the change
in rates is given as "installation of a
new switchboard and moving into new
quarters"
For at least the last three years the
telephone service in this city has been
such that users were On the verge of
disseminating the service entirely and
only kept from doing so by the re-
peated promise from the telephone
management that "Bottineau would
soon have a new switchboard" In the
meantime the telephone company
raised their rates and now-after
three years of practically no service
the. telephone company, with the as
sistance of the Advocate-will ask the
Railroad Commission to grant the
raise. And by the way, telephone op-
orators in this city are paid from
$1,000 to $500 per week. AS for the
petition Mr.. O'Daniels of Rugby is
supposed to have circulated among pa
irons Of the Bottineau exchange, we
know nothing, % do w know Of any
n who has see the petition. T.
Another reason given by The Adj
vocate in supporting the raise is
with operating costs where they are
at the present time it is easy to see
where the increase asked for is justi-
fled"
The whole proposition hinges right
herewith material and operating~ex-
penses DOWN at the present time
the telephone company asks for a
raise, but while the operating expens-
es were up the same old switchboard
was in use.
The Courant feels satisfied that the
majority of the people supporting the
B%ottineau exchange m opposed to
this increase, especially so in face Of
the poor service this city has had for
a number Of years.
However Mr.. Advocate man keep
the good work up-support any big
business proposition you get a chance
to, it might later involve a little adj
vertisinR.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-30

The sins which used to be commit
ted in the name Of liberty are now
committed In the name of education.
Every crooked deal>of any size is pre-
coded by a campaign Of Education"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-30
N. P. L. CLUB MEETS

The Woman's Nonpartisan Club No.
GO of Newburg, will meet at the home
Of Mrs. O. T. Strom on. Thursday,
Jan. 6. All ladies cordially invited to
attend.-Mildred Slattery, Sec'y.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-30
CARD OF THANKS

I desire to thank all those who 50
heartily contributed towards the purse
Of money given me recently.-Mrs.
Anna Carlson. !
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-30

farmers will do more TO keep Iegiti-
mate business going than yelling at
the farmers to bring in their produce
at half price tospay their current
bills.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-30

ably explains the dfectness and dis
tastefulness Of their definitions to the
roundabouters, the highly civilized
and the know-it-all,ers.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-12-30
&nea
THE Uk1vs CAR
The UniDersanFord After-Ser1ice

The most reliable afer-service wh1ch>is ever behind Ford
cars, trucks and Fordson tractors is positive assurance to
the owners of Ford cars Of the constant use and service
of their cars. Ms
: Our skilled Ford mechanics know how to adjust, or re-.
pair Ford products so that they will serve to the maxi
mum Of their efficiency. They understand the Ford
mechanism thoroughly, and can make adjustments or re-
placements quicker than other repairmen who lack Ford
training. There is a standardized way for making every
repair and adjustment on a Ford car. It is the quickest,
vsurest way; and in all their work our mechanics follow the
methods recommended by the Ford Service School at the
Ford factory. The standardized repair jobs are covered
By. reasonable Ford charges. Thus you are assured Of
having your work done properly promptly and at a reason
able price. Genuine Ford parts, Ford mechanics, Ford
special tools and machinery and Ford. charges are an un--
beatable combination.
mand.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-03-13
DO coLoRED EDITORS MEAN TO
PUSSYFOOT?

indianapolis, Indiana, March 9, 1920.
AS have been constant reader of
your splendid paper for over a year
would like to submit to you the follow
ing statement which l hope you will
hnd space in your paper to print.
have received one hundred and two
letters from editors all over the coun-
try which on the whole expressed this
sentiment, am not particularly inter-
ested in who is the nominee of the
Republican party. It matters not
what his name may be or what his
vocation may be, if he is right on the
question affecting my race and the
business of this country, he is my Cal
didate."
l am in complete sympathy with the
thought that he (candidate) must be
right on the race question, l would be
a traitor if l were not, and I, also, be-
lieve that the candidate of the Repub-
lican party must be an out and out
American concerned primarily with
the business of this country like Lin.
coin of old and the late Theodore
Roosevelt.
I take direct exception to the state
ment that it matters not what his (the
candidate's) name may be; because
first this statement means nothing but
evasion of the issue and savors of the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-03-13

usual political pussyfooting, and sec
ondly because back of a candidates
name is the man and his record. both
Of which can be studied
One hundred and twenty-three edi.
tors have fearlessly chosen General
Wood as the champion of the Square
deal to all men. What is the matte,
with the one hundred and two? The
facts, the past records. and the presen
utterances, and platform of General
Leonard Wood are open to all alik'
Are we to forever go on leading only
where there is darkness?
I think the colored people of the
United States are entitled to know
that General Wood is right on our
<auestiany. -that~he- is the only candidate
up to date to openly champion the
cause Of every American white or
black who is in trouble and that it
does matter to two million colored
voters what the candidates name is
for president Of the greatest Democracy
in the world.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-03-13
FTed.m. Truax
Candidate For
Councilman
AhoTHER x DAY

Funeral service for Mrs. Alice
Mitchell. wife of Mr.. Arnie Mitchell
937 St. Anthony Ave., who passed
away Wednesday was held from
Memorial Baptist Church on Friday
afternoon at 2:30. Interment at For
est cemetery.
Be on the qui vive for the presenta-
ton of the musical comedy, THE Tale
of the Hat" under the management
of Mesdames Cora Grissom and Emma
Archer, for the benefit of the Ground
Breaking Rally at St. James Church
Tuesday evening, March %. Admits
sion Is cents. Don't miss it,
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The Parsons Poor Donation Party

The Parsons Poor Donation Party
Company No. 10 of the Ground
Breaking Rally of St. James church on
Tuesday evening, April g. stage a
comedy drama entitled: 1.-The Par
sons Poor Donation Party" The play.
let is veritable scream, go and have
a hearty laugh.
The performance will begin prompt
ly at eight o'clock in order to make
way for the song birds: Mesdames S.
l.. Maxwell C. w. Oliver and E. O.
James
Tickets only Is cents for the whole
show.
w.: Lola Anderson, Capt.
I 49, Elizabeth Williams, Sec.
Mary Black, Treas.
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B. G. NoVak
Candidate For
Councilman

The regular meeting of Gopher
Lodge, Elks, was held Wednesday eve
ming and was one of the most interest
ing meetings the lodge ever held.
There was a large attendance and
much routine business done Twenty
three new members were elected and
thirty-five applications for membership
were received. The total membership
is now over 200. The annual joint
memorial services of Gopher and
Ames Lodges will be held in Minneap-
oils Sunday. April 18th, and will be
held in the Assembly room of the
Court House as none of the churches
could hold the large crowd that is ex.
pected to attend.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-03-13
LAB0R'S CANDIDATES
POLITICAL POINTERS.

TUESDAY,
MARCH 10th
Is PRIMARY ELECTION DAY
DON'T you FORGET THAT.
The primary election will be held
next Tuesday. March 10th. Don't fail
to vote.
You will vote for one for Mayor,
six for Councilmen and two for JUS
tees of the Peace.
In selecting your candidates to vote
for next Tuesday don't fail to give
especial consideration to those w
showed by advertising in THE AP-
PEAL that they thought your votes
worth soliciting through your organ.
You can't vote for all of them, o.
course, but you can make your choice
from them.
G. w. Cummins, chairman, Ramsey
county Republican committee has is
sued a call for county and district
convention at noon March 10 at the
Ryan hotel to name delegates to the
state convention and select district
delegates to the national convention.
Inc Republlcan state convention
will be held in the St. Paul Auditorium
Saturday, March 20 to choose dele
gates to the national convention in
Chicago in June.
District conventions will be held in
the various congressional districts Fri
day, March 10.
County conventions will be held in
the various counties on Wednesday,
March II.
Precinct caucuses will be held in
each precinct Of the state Monday,
March Is.
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PLATFORM

Honest elections rejecting
the will of the citizens.
Employment in public SER
vice based on efficiency and
personal merit.
Strict enforcement of the
law against lawbreakers with
out fear or favor.
Equitable assessment and
taxation to support govern
1nent.
Public utilities to be oper-
ated primarily for public ser
vice..
An economical and pro-
gressive system of public i'm
prOVementS.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-03-13

Mr.. John H. Hayes has been made
manager of the Twentieth Century
Tonsorial and Billiard Parlors, 80 E.
to see thai every customer is prompt
Fourth street, and will be on hand
ly and properly provided for.
DR.. O. 2. Howard and Mr.. O. C. Hall
have been appointed as members of
the Advisory Committee of the cam
paign of Mr.. J. F. Sperry as candi-
date for nomination for Councilman
at the coming primaries, March 10th
Mr.. w. J. Donahower is chairman of
the committee and Mr.. JOS. Mahoney,
campaign manager. .
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-03-13

On certain farm of four acres in
the Lake Phalen district in 1918 crop
of 400 bushels of navy beans was
raised, harvested and sold at $500 per
bushel; in 1919 owing to certain condi-
tions, only 200 bushels were raised
which sold for $3.50 per bushel. The
owner of this little farm is unable to
work it this year, and wishes to Sc
cure a man who understands raising
beans to work the land. The owner
will furnish the land the machinery
and the seed and divide the proceeds
on a $3.50 basis All the man will
have to do is to perform the work
necessary to raise the beans If this
interests anyone apply at TILE AP-
PEAL Office for further information.
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PAID ADVERTISEMENT

Prepared and issued by the l.. r.. S..
Ferguson Campaign Committee, How
ard Wheeler, Manager, $40 Guardian
Life Bldg, St. Paul, for which $1.00
per inch is to be paid.
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PAID ADVERTISEMENT F.. Sperry
for inch
Prepared Mahoney is to be
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$500 PER YEAR

FAlD Nelson, 912
Gilbert Ave.,
Prepared inch is to be nd
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PAID ADVERTISEMENT
Prepared and issued by Edgar G.
Brown, $40 N. West street; Indian
apolls, Ind, for Leonard Wood, for
which $1.O0 per inch is to be paid.
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PAID ADVERTISEMENT

Prepared by anl issued for NJ. N.
Goss, Al w. Isabel street, for which
$1.0O per inch is to be paid.
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named
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-03-13

Prepared and issued by the j. H. Mcdonald Campaign Com
mittee j. A. Caldwell. Treasurer, 276 Dayton Ave-.
St. Paul, MINI.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-03-13
JOHN H. MCDONALD

PAID ADVERTISEMENT Arundel street. for which
Prepared for and paid
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MAYOR L.C.HODGSO
CANDIDATE
FOR REELECTION

LAURENCE HOGSON
OF the city
before his constituents
believer EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
friends his city He
term WE'LL one good term deserves