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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-01

Grand total receipts for year.
%nclndins cash on hand July.
ExPENDirUREs
Amount paid during
year for school
houses. sites and \
p a ne mt i'm
Drovcments .......$ 1850
Amount paid during
ers' Salaries Gess
Teachers Retire
Amount paid during
year TO County
count of Teachers
Retirement Fund.-. $40
Amount paid during
year for salaries
and expenses Of
school officers -. 1890
Amount paid during,
year for interest ion
Amount paid during
year for library
Other expenses, in
c!dental ..-....... c15.01
Total expenditures during
Cast, on eI fand. in hands Of dir. '''"nt
triet treasurer including
sinking fund, at the end of
the year. June 80. 1s21...... 2ss.ss
Grand total expenditures and .
cash on hand to balance
above total receints. ..$1.44i.41
HENRY LARIVEE.
Treasurer Of Rye School
District" No. 80.
Approved this 18th day Of July. 1921
By order of the District School Board
MRS. D.. SAUMUR,
President.
Attest:
MRS. HENRY LARIVEE,
Clerk.
CLERKS STATEMENT OF IN.
DEBTEDNESS OF DISTRICT
Total mount Of bonds out-
standing June 80, 1921. SIT 900. OF
Total Indebtedness Of dis
trict June so. 1921.......s 81. 10000
Approved this 18th day of July. 1921
BY order Of the District school Board
MRS. HENRY LAR1vEE.
= Clerk.
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Total expenditures during. o.,,.
year .....% eA'
Cash on hand. lin hands OF dis
,-ict treasurer including
sinking fund. at the end of ~,
she year, June so, lecl....... loe.os
Grad total expenditures and
cas- OF rand to balance II,
above total receipts. ..:.. $l.Ul4.4o
Russell STEWART.
Treasurer of Lakeville
School District No. 29.
Approved this 18th day of July. 1921.
81 crdeg Of the District School Board:
=. G. HANSEN,
President.
Attsst:
q B. ITERsoE.
Clerk.
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Total receipts for year.

Grand total receipts for year. :
including cash on hand Ju%'s ,1.o14.4s
!. 1870
EXPENDITURES
mou paid during
scar for Teach
e-s. Salaries .1ess
Teachers Retire
nnent FUND.- .....-S t-.-9
Amour, Paid during
Sesr to court!
treasurer IN &C
coun. of Teachers
Retirement Fund. 6.eo
Amount paid during
yea. for salaries
z expenses OF 80,
school officers -. o1.ol
Anrorn. paid during ~
year for text books a".Vo
Other expenses. coal
and cleaning
school,. and sup
plies --...-....... S+.Vo
--- ~
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r1HAsu111's 1EPo1T
Report of treasurer Of Agnes School
District No. 26. County Of Grand Forks,
State OF North Dakota, for the year be-
ginning July ]. 1920, and ending June
RECEIPTS.
Cash on hand, including sink
ing fund. at beginning Of
school year. July !, 1S2o.....s 14l.7s
Total amount re-
ceived during year
from apportt on
ment Of State
Tuition Fund .....$ 138.45
Total rnoun re-
ceiyed during year
from apport.io on
ment of County
Tuition fund ..... 15s.48
Amount received dur
Ing yea from taxes
levied by District
School Board 800. 6S5.5"
Amount received dur
ing year from
state aid ......... $3.50
Total receipts for year. 1905. Is
Grand total receipts for. year.
including cash on hand July
ExpENDirUREs "
Am nos paid during
- er8 BAl2rteS tIe6S
Teachera' Retire
ment FUND.- .....3 $500
Amount paid during
year to county
count OF Teachers
Retirement Fund. TOO
Amount paid during
and Of
school officers $500
Amount paid during
year for tuition Of
pupils sent to other
Districts $500
Amount paid during
yea for text books 1919
Other expenses in-
cidental sexpenes 115.97
Total expenditures during
cash On hand, tin hands 81 dis. s'i
trict t%rsasnrerl Including
the year. June 80, 1s21...... i7s.2s
Grand total expenditures AM
cash, N hand 10 balance
above total receipts .tl,l4s.ol
Treasurer OF Agnes
HchooI District No. 20.
Approved this 13tb dsy Of July. 1891,
ANDREW JoRGE1SspN
Presidept.
A'' ;'''sssHsses d.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. nEEEs HFr4L
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1nronr

Report Of treasurer Of Levant School
District No. 81, County Of Grand Forks.
state or North Dakota, for the year4be,
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LEGAL NOTICES.
-....annrn,a RrPoaTI

penort Of treasurer Of Avon, school
District No. 90, County Of Grand FORKS.
stase f,'lyF T. 1890, and ending June 50,
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REPORT

Report of treasurer of . Strabane
School District No 81. County Of Grand
Forks, State of North Dakota, for year
beginning July I, 1920, and ending June
80 1921 I.l. H. 's.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-28

them day and night, until now there are
scarcely any left. But still there are fieas.
Of what use are feas, friend? If there is
God why should he make such things as flea!
How could God think of flea? That is what
| don't understand. Of what purpose is flea?
Born only to idleness, to eat and then to
pasear' Muy paseadores feas. Never sleep
nor let sleep Rats! mice! feas! What a
fight it has been to establish order here! Do
you not think, friend, you could send me some
sort of powders to serve these last"
"Surely I'll send you some flea powder, Don
Francisco. How much do you want?"
About fifty kilos.'
But that's enough to kill all the feas in
the world!"
"Well, we've got all the feas in the world!'
UNFORTUNATE prospect for bed.
1t was time-after 8. The Villa family.
like most Mexican families, retires early. The
children had gone long before.
1t seems l was to have the big brass bed in
state The Jefe and his sonora would hear Of
no other arrangement, declaring they would
find themselves very comfortable in the next
room with the children.
The young girl brought fresh water. The
sonora turned down the covers. Villa put
chair at the head and set the lamp on it. MAY
YOU rest well, senorta. Until tomorrow
undressed and slipped into Immediately
clean Sheets Over me white embroidered
counterpane. My tired, dusty head on an eX-
ouisitc handmade pillow slip
So this was the bed of Villa. I blew out
the light.
Soon the door opened softly. The senora's
gentle voice
The general says to leave the door to us
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open, that you may not feel alone or afraid
during the night"
MORNING. Seven o'clock. (No--not one
all night)
The sonora was waiting to take breakfast
The Jefe had long since been up 1t was his
custom to rise at a. There was much to be
looked after.
Soon Villa and Don Eduardo joined us.
They came from a TRIBUNAL" Afterward
Don Eduardo told me about it.
"You remember that little disturbance last
night, when Don Francisco ordered
bodys pistol taken away from him and the
man locked up? Well, the trial tins
morning. In the Office Very simple. The
Jefc sat at the desk and the man was
brought in. The Jefe asked him what he had
to say. The man said nada. Then the
Jefe said: 1T is necessary that there be order
here. Nothing but order The integrity of
all of us is involved. If you feel in your
heart that you are henceforth able to COM
ply, return to your work usual. But if
you feel in your heart that you are not able
to comply tell me now, and I shall arrange
to have you and your family transported this
very day to wherever you wish to go. What
mi general That is well. Go to your
house.
ME SPENT the morning going around the
hacienda. How endless it was. Not q
ranch. Not little town. But separate
state.
And over it a-never lifting for second
that unearthly sense of silent isolation.
Much activity-nien on horseback, mule
teams wagonloads of wheat, scrapers. But
all the work going very Silly. No jangling
Of harness. No clang Of tools. No talk Of
men. Silence. Shadows moving in dream.
How to explain this strange, unreal still
ness that hangs over the hacienda of Canu-
tillo? Is it but the natural hush of vast,
empty low hills stretching out endlessly in
clear high air? Or is there too, some curl
Gus repression in the souls Of these people
now living there? The repression of men NOV
Ing dumbly through unaccustomcd tasks7
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brought two and set them before us They
were for the rinds We ate with relish.
Hardly was this over when it supper
time The Jefc, it seems, never takes supper,
but he went with US to the table
A figure appeared outside in the dark.
Excuse me, mi general but Antonio is
angry against Ignacio Martinez and has gone
to his house for his pistol
Take it away from him immediate ly-you
and Felipe-and lock him up with the gallos
for tonight"
'Esta ben, mi general'--
The incident passed without comment.
AFTER, out in the patio, in the fresco What
profound stiffness! What an overwhem
ing sense Of isolation How many, many
stars!
''Tell ne, FRIEND" said the Jcfe suddenly to
Don Eduardo, "do you believe there is God?"
Eyes, do Don't you, Don francsco?'
q don't know. | wonder. Sometimes |
wonder very much. And then I look at the
stars, so many and mysterious. And tell
myself all these questions too big for the
little minds of men to answer" He stopped
and pondered. (That is another characters-
tic-a habit Of bordering heavily. When it is
light and you can see his face you can actually
in the strain of his expression the great
effort he is making to thinlS--to think out
whatever is battling him. After of these
queer silent inward efforts, he went on
But if there is Cod say if, my FRIEND
if!-and if he made the earth, surely he is
too good to have made anything mean a
HE'LL Don't you believe that, my friend?
There is no help
Don Eduardo agreed
More silence More bordering. Then
"But Of what good churches to God,
friend, or to men? We have turned our
church into warehouse and we arc all better
OFF. Why, the saints on the wall have
gotten fattcr Surely they have. Tomorrow
you look and you'll sec. Especially those on
the same side with tho potatoes. ! tell you
between the rats md the saints it is hard for
man to make living here
Are there many rats here, Don Francisco"
"Wholo armies OF them, We have fought
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the Jefe. They were working among the po-
tatoes and tomatoes and onions and garlic,
planted between the trees. Villa stepped up
20 three of them.
''Will you friends, have the kiqdness to go
to the lower field and bring US some water
melons," The men started off, eager to be
of service We sat on the ground to wal
The talk was Of different melons. Which
varieties were the better. (That was some
thing that was to impress me continually
during our vist--the so-called fierce and die
tatorial Villa asking our advice again and
again. on all sorts of subjects.) He said he
wished he could get hold Of some seeds Of
American melons.
Then the "friends" came with two fine big
ones. We took them with US to the house, the
Jefe carrying one, and Don Eduardo the other.
Back again to the sala. Villa seated him
self on straight backed chair, and we grouped
ourselves in little semi-crcle about him.
First he called for plates and knife. While
these were being brought he called for water
to wash his hands.
a young woman brought him the little
stand with the bowl and pitcher She poured
out the water for him and handed him the
soap. Then she poured clear water over.
This done, she handed him the towel. Louis
the Fourteenth, in all the grandeur of Yer
sailles, could not have accomplished his ablu
tions with more primitive formality.
The little washing outfit was then put be-
fore each Of us, and the general ccre-
mony gone through with, while Villa pro-
ceeded to cut the melon with great deftness.
He prOpOrtiOned the thin slices between us
and called for boxes. The young woman
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A 7 THE tine of siesta the sonora and l sat
together in the cool of the bedroom-sala
Sh, was sewing on bit Of thin pink silk.
What are you making, senora?'
She looked at me uneasily-"ua too1ito."
But of such fine material, dolly"
She blushed and murmured something
about it being for friend. We talked of
other things. The servant problem. Very
difficult to get good help on a ranch. She had
two women in the kitchen and Two men to do
nothing but grind for them everything corn
for tortillas, wheat for bread IS ground by
hand on a metate), and one man to wait
the table But neither the food nor the serv-
ice of it was as she wanted And two girls
to take care of the rooms But she must con-
stantly see to everything herself. They were
not to be trusted alone to keep everything per-
fectly clean.
We spoke of the Jefe.
"He seems very sad,' said ''Too sad
"How can it be otherwise, senorta, when
one has suffered so? Sometimes he tells me a
little of what he has endured, and it is more
than can bear-just the telling. l would like
you to know some of them, but he would not
wish it. There are things a real man does not
speak Of But perhaps if you would ask him,
senorita, for example, about his days hiding in
the cave when your army was hunting him
perhaps-I don't know-He might say little"
We were silent for while. l could feel her
looking at me. Then she got up and, opening
the wardrobe with of the usual many keys
Of the Mexican lady of the house, she shyly
brought out bundle Of tiny clothes and with
out word, put it my lap.
There were almost dozen little dresses Of
pink silk, and dozen of white linen. All the
same pattern, but each differently adorned
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one.
"Ths is for the beginners. You see, the
windows are high. That is my special idea.
so that no child can look out and be diverted
from his studies. Here all must be serious.
Here children must learn. When youngs.er
enters this school all he needs is inside these
walls The key can be turned, and nobody
can get out except to eat Children should
90 to school. ! shall sec to that" Again
the sigh.
u myself have never had one day in
school Not one day. I am very ignorant.
can read a little, and write listlc that is
all. And learned after l was How
ever" now the laugh, 81 can sign my name"
Serious again. But my shall be IN
s,ructcd. First here at Canutillo, where they
wi.l learn in the school from books and in
the life Of the ranch from natural things
That is important for man, most important
of all. Tomorrow you shall see at the
blanco how my Augustjn can shoot.
Later shall send them away to learn more
in the United States
'JWEN we saw the bodegas full Of wheat
"How many hcctolitcrs did we guess?"
Don Eduardo must sec if he could calculate.
Ten thousand? Close! Good! And see! Run
it through the fingers; was it not clean?
We saw the mowers, and the thrashcrs,
ard The plows, and the barrows-al Amer
iezn made.
We saw the carpenter shop.
We saw the blacksmith shop.
Then we saw the new stalls, with concrete
feed boxes, for the horses. We looked over
the Jefcs favortc mount and Augustns
pony, and many others.
We the cows. And the goats.
BY then it WAS almost dark. We crossed
small stream plank and went into tho
orchard. a wide path led under tho trees
The shadows wcrc long. 1t was beautiful
There many men just laying off work
They stepped aside wc passed. and sautcd
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HE ASKED US about the United States.
What sort Of man was Harding? What
sort Of man was this other one, Hughes? What
were their intentions to 1Ie~ico2 What Of the
pctroleros? This oil question should be set
power now in the capital "The oil question
must be settled first and with justice. Mexico
must keep friends with the United States.
We were neighbors. Ncghboring ranchers
stood together when there was trouble from the
outside. And so it was with countries. And
5nere might be trouble for the United States
from the cutside-who knows? Nov She was
powerful and all others were fattering and
pretending friendship. But in their hearts
there was envy and all were whispering to
themselves, Cnran,ba, que rcos estan estos
Gee how rich those people are) Envy is a
terrible force. II trouble should come, why
Mexico you'd fight for her neiehbor. OF
course. The creation Of false feeling between
the two countries all wrong. IT. was the
game 81 the po'iticos in both nations But the
2acolos under2tood. Especially did the Aner-
cen people understand Here was pueblo
culto IA cultured peoplc). A people that could
MT be iupoacd upon. That was the strength
II the United States-its pqseblo culto~whilc
ny poor peopc,-so ignorant, 80 holplcsa, 20
easily imposed upon" he sighed his strange,
thick sjQh and looked out the door into the
glorious Mexican sunshine.
We we're a still. n euaden Sadness,
ao1llcszness, seemed u pcrmcate everything.
Xhs J61es personality IL powerful that he
Great Falls tribune., 1921-11-14
MY MARRIAGE
III PROBLEMS.
Adele Garrison's
New Phase off,.
REVELATIONS
OFA WIFE
How Madge summoned Help at Last.

How Madge Summoned Help at Last
/ ! do not think l ever have faced 3
quandary SO puzzling as the one which
confronted me when / had finished
washing the blood from the face Of the
wounded young state trooper.
Even my limited knowledge told me
that surgeons aid was imperative.
had done all that any one save pro-
fessional could, do, and / could do no
good by remaining at his side.
! Yet l hated to leave him alone, and
apparently dying in that lonely place.
Suppose he regained consciousness,
wished to send some message, or sup
pose some prowling beast-harmless
enough if he were not helpless on the
ground-my brain ran the gamut of
the horrible possibilities my absence
might make realities
| Besides-I never have counted my
self more of coward than most wom-
en-but | confess that ! was afraid,
dcathly SO, to make the journey which
road where l had left the car-luckily
| had left a key to it in my pocket
, and from thence to some house where
| could get hold of telephone and
summon a surgeon.
l reflected anxiously that we had
come by so devious a way had no idea
which way to drive the car when
should reach it, and the hour was near
ly midnight. There would be but little
chance of meeting. another motor car,
even if / safely accomplished the trip
through the woods path which / must
take before reaching the place where
we had left our machine.
Quick Thinkinu.
A glance at the white face of the un-
conscious boy on the ground steeled my
courage with the thought of the pos
sible horrors which might come to my
own lad when he should have outgrown
my care and protection.
Yet so great was my terror of the
lurking menace between me and the
state road that for minute hesitated,
waited, straining my ears to hear if
there were one sound to indicate the
proximity of the rest of the fishing
party. Dicky, Bess Dean, Pa Cos
grove and the twins-they might have
been translated to some other sphere
for any indication / had of their near
ness.
If only had a revolver! 1t would
not only be a protection against the
possible return of the desperate who
had so lately crawled away into the
woods, but shot would also be sig
nal to Pa Cosgrove and the rest I
had not dared to scream for fear the
man who had threatened me might re-
turn. But a pistol shot was different.
1t would alarm him as much as it would
my friends.
But | had no revolver, and with a
clinching Of my teeth / started to crawl
up the path that led to the shelter Of
the woods, where would dare to stand
upright. And then sudden thought
Great Falls tribune., 1921-11-14

sent me back again to the wounded
troopers side. removed gently but
rapidly the blanket and coat had
wrapped around him, scanned his belt
for the heavy service revolver which
I knew officers like him were equipped
1t was not there, but even as a sob OF
disappointment tore from my throat,
noticed q protuberance in his blouse,
and, tearing it open, took out the gun,
wrapped in heavy cloth.
Flight Here."
No time to wonder now how it had
come there, or why it had been over
locked by the man who struck him
down. / seized it, broke it, saw that it
was fully loaded, and, with q little
wave of thankfulness for the few les
sons in the use Of firearms had been
gwen, | pointed the heavy gun into the
air and fired twice.
Then, trembling with nervous fear, I
crouched by the wounded trooper, my
face toward the direction in which his
assailant had crawled away, my nerves
quivering for the first sound which
should indicate that my shots had been
heard.
For a second or two there was but
the echo Of the shots. crashing away
into the mountains, and then / heard a
faint: "He-l-oy'
It was repeated at intervals of half
a minute, and soon heard the snap
ping of sticks, then the sound of run
ming footsteps, and the excited voices
of Pa Cosgrove and Fred.
Mrs. Graham! Ted! Mrs. Gra-
ham! Ted!' they were calling tensely.
excitedly, and l realized that they sup
posed Ted to be with me, and guessed
that they would never have wandered
SO far away if they had not counted
upon his protecting care Of me.
Here / am! Oh, please come
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she was seeking-the underwear coun-
ter. And this Is the. conversation that
ensued:
Honey she addressed the young
woman clerk, lis you got any black
underwear?'
mo, auntie." replied the salesgirl,
.but | have some very nice white ones.
Won't they do?'
mo. honey" replied the woman
with just q touch of sorrow. mo. they
don't do. When l mourn, / mourns
clean down to de skin. Ell. Paso
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