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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21
HAIL STORM DOES
MUCH DAMAGE

Early this morning hail storm
passed over a section of Barnes coun-
ty in the neighborhood of Rogers, lay
ing out growing crops. The storm was
about three miles wide and seemed to
come from the direction of Leal and
passed southeast. In talking to M. O.
Grangaard this morning he says that
the hail damaged crops for sJohn
Agarn, Ole Palmquist, M. E. Mason
Yule's and the Springdale farm and
touched some of Frank Sanford's.
Others have been doubtless hit by the
hail storm but we were unable to get
the names at this time. On the
Agarn place it is reported the. crop is
. total loss.
Burl Carr was talking to P. A:
Pickett this morning at Leal and
Pickett says that Mr.. Carr's crop was
hit and damaged from 40 to so per
cent. We presume that Lannon and
others in that particular locality were
also hit by the hail storm but we have
received no, report from them.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21
.lST NATIONAL RE-
EXTENDS CHARTER

. Today the First National bank of
this city will have completed 40 years
in business, having been organized
July 10th, 1881, and under the re-
quirements of the National Bank Act
will now re-extend it's charter for 20
years. During its long business life
the First National has been one Of the
strongest and most conservative finan-
cial institutions in the state. Its
growth has been steady and substan-
tial and those who have been connect
ed with it during all these years in
the capacity of officials and directors
can look back with pride to the splen-
did record of this Institution. AS in
the past the bank will continue along
the line of safe and conservative bank
ing and it's friends will wish for it an,
other forty years of prosperity and
success in the financial world.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21

premium at the mill over the market
price. ...h.s.
The writer has been resident of
North Dakota for 40 years, and learn
ed years ago that it is best to cut
spring wheat on the green side, both
in respect to grade as well as to avoid
loss by shelling. There is tremen-
dous loss to farmers, or tremendous
loss to the state every year by farm
ers being afraid of cutting wheat too
soon. That fact applies to any year
regardless of crop conditions, but
more particularly when crops are
stricken with black rust.
This farmer also experimental with
Gaping the shocks. He has found out
that big money can be made by cutting
rusted wheat green and Ncapping the
shocks. By letting it finish in the
shock instead of allowing it to finish
on the top Of perforated stem which
gives no nourishment, and which is
very liable to buckle over: thus cast
ing its product to the ground;
Contributed.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21
BARNESC0. WINS
AT FARGO FAIR

A large number of boys and girls
who are members of clubs in Barns
County were prize winners at the In
ter-State Fair held in Fargo last
week. Barnes county exhibited in po.
tatoes, sewing, canning, corn, Bread,
vegetables and poultry. Owing to the
early date of this fair the exhibits
were not as numerous as would be in
the fall, however, an excellent show
ing was made by the boys and girls
of Barnes county. The following is a
list of the premiums awarded to
Barnes County boys and girls, the
amount Of which totaled over $4,000.
Potatoes 1st, Clifford Olstad
Cuba.
Sewing-1st, Anna Wick, Hastings;
End, Janna Jenson, Hastings; 3rd
Pearl McFarlane, Hastings; 4th:
Gladys Dahl, Hastings.
Canning-1st, Lillian Olstad, Cuba;
End, Clarice Hager, Green township;
3rd, Mabel 'Lundy, Leal.
Mature Corn from 1921--1st, Ingman
Folstad, Kathryn; End, Palmer Velure:
Kathryn; .3rd, Theodore Boon, Mar
ion; 4th, Myrtle Hundson, Marion.
Green Corn-2nd, Clinton Perry,
Nome; 3rd, Edwin Perry, Nome.
Vegetables-4th, Albert Lahlum:
Norma township.
Bread-1st, Olive Perry, Nome.
Bread-1st, Olive Perry, Nome; End
Almetta Sherman, Eckelson.
Poultry, pen of Young Chicks-2nd
Otto Perry, Nome.
Pair of Mature Fowls-2nd, Otto
Perry, Nome.
Pair of Turkeys-2nd, Otto Perry
Nome.
The Hastings Sewing Club ranked
highest in the state as club on it's
exhibits at Fargo. Cuba ranked third
and Greenland fourth. Very liberal
premiums were awarded for all of the
above places. The Hastings Sewing
Club deserves special mention for its
excellent sewing exhibit on which they
won all the places in the first year
sewing,
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21
VALLEY CITY LOSES
TO BISMARCK TEAM

In game that was full Of pep from
the first inning until the last local man
went to bat, the local team went down
to defeat at the hands of the capital
city nine, in the first of three game
series last evening on the local dia-
mond. The game was one of the best
games, if not the best, played on the
local diamond this. season. Both
teams were loaded for bear, and again
and again the score was tie. Along
in the sixth inning Wyatt, our first
left fielder, put over a circuit drive
which tied the score, but in the sew
enth the locals made an error, and a
pass to first which, it is believed, cost
them the game. ~ X
Both pitchers were in good form
and seemed to be able to control the
ball in good shape. At the beginning
of the game it looked as if it was go
ing to be a no hit, no run game, as the
pitchers did not allow hit until about
the third or fourth inning. From this
on the game belongs to the fans, until
the seventh when the error came and
cost Valley City the game. It was a
little dark and the overthrow on first
could not have been helped much.
NOluUc1S was Ou Lllc lOI LllS
locals and was pitching in good form
while Taylor was on the mound for
the visitors and pitched fine brand
Of ball. Much credit is due to both
of the pitchers for the good work they
did in getting themselves out of
"holes." At one time there was
Bismarck man on third and no men
out. Goldberg then settled down to
work, not allowing the visitors to
score. Conditions of this kind ex-
listed all through the game which kept
the fans on their feet for the greater
part Of the game. The Bismarck
pitcher is said to be one of the top
notchers Of the state and has not lost
a game out of %. It is no disgrace
to lose to man like him.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-21

October. The meeting to be held il
the City Hall and it is requested tha
every member will so arrange it thai
they will be present at that meeting
announcement Of which will be made
later through the various county ane
city papers. On motion the picnic ad
iourned to meet on the second Wed.
nesdav in October for the annua
meeting and dance. After the close
the members assembled outside the
auditorium and had their pictures
taken in group by Mr.: Tuttle.
There are still a good many mem
bers who have not sent in their data
to the secretary, Mr.. I. J: Moe, who
has worked hard to get it. Having
sent out three sets Of blanks to be I'LL,
ed in so that they can be entered in the
clubs membership book. What ne
wants to know is name, where born
when came to the u. S., when to "a
kota territory, where settled, also the
same history Of their children who
were born previous to statehood, 1889
The committee on arrangements
wants to thank the Valley City Groc-
cry Company for their gift OF fifteen
pounds of Minneopa coffee, which was
enjoyed bly, all who partook Of it, the
proof Of it's quality has been shown by
the repeated call for more coffee. The
committee also wish to thank Old Set
tiers Bernard Dahl for hauling, also
Amund jacobson for ice. the Elks and
K. P.,s for dishes and other utensils
and all others who helped, not forget
ling our young old settler Willie Mur.
,phy for hauling dishes, the good soak.
=ng he got partly paid him. and last
70 the lady members who were the
ones who made the coffee and saw to
It's serving. Mrs. John Tracy, Mrs
Anfnson, Mrs. Bloomberg, Sr., Mrs
Beacham, Mrs. Sim Maon and others
who helped to make the picnic sue
cess.
Until we meet again on the second
Wednesday in October.
VIM. H. Mcpherson,
John Maresh,
H. j. Bergan,
Committee on Arrangements
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-05-13

"They lived almost wholly with Clara,
and she made signs TO them and they
returned these signs. 1t wasn't until
the last several years that 1 came TO
see that they were not deaf and dumb
like Clara. Then / tried to do what
could for them"
The aged father purchased phono-
graph. The boys learned, he declared,
to sing my Old Kentucky Home" a
story of a Chinese "washee-washee"
man and q German song. These three
songs they reproduced with accurate
melodic effect, according to the father,
although he admitted that they did
not know the meaning OF the words
they repeated. Later on they made
their own photograph and installed
II In the little house they built in i'm
itation of their older brothers, an In
strument, however, as dumb as them.
selves.
81 could not send them TO school,
Koss declared. ''I knew that the 9th.
er children would laugh at them be
cause they could not talk and that the
teacher would lose patience with
them" he would not permit them
to "cross the river" which means e
civilization.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-05-13
BOYS YEARS OF
SILENCE ENDED
Youths Rescued From Mountain
Hut in Washington Had
Never Spoken.
MARVEL AT CITY LIFE
Brothers, Who Lived With Deaf Mute
Sister and Who Communicated in
Sgr Language, Learning
to Talk.

Seattle.-Enest and Herbert Kess,
ten and twelve years old, respective
ly. rescued from the cabin they built
In the Green river wilderness in Wash
ington with their nineteen-year-old
deaf mute sister. are in a children's
hospital at Seattle, learning the won
ders Of writing and speech. While
the lads are able TO build a house.
keep a fire. plant and till crops and
shoot squirrels out of tree tops, when
Juvenile court officers found them
they had never played nor spoken a
word.
The boys had grown up together.
communicating by the sign language
taught them by their silent sister.
Their father thought they. too. were
mutes. Loving by nature, healthy,
strong, pasSionately fond of each 9TH
er's company, clever at shooting and
fishing on the S0-acre homestead TAX
en- up by their father, William KOsS,
in the Cascade mountains. Ernest and
Herbert have seen for the first time
an automobile, street car and a
moving-picture show. Nurses in the
hospital are confident that the boys
will learn 10 talk.
Fathers Strange Story.
Born In the province of Westphalia,
Germany, William Koss, the father,
said he had spent three years In the
army. The major of his battalion
was the former kaiser, then Prince
William. The day following his. mar
riage he sailed for the United States
and, in 1888, settled on the eastern
shore of Green river. Eleven chill
dren were born.
Koss said the mother was Ill, nerv-
Gus and irritable during the last eight
or nine years of her life. This caused
her to pass the two small boys on TO
the care of the others very often.
Each member of the family, he said.
apparently preferred his or her own
solitude, and the two boys, Herbert
and Ernest, were left to the care of
their deaf mute sister.
Tried to Help Boys.
"And that's how they never learned
to talk" said the father earnestly.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-05-13

II GOTTA frien whOsa run show house
i and lasa week he aska me, 'Pietro,
how you lika veesit show on da stage
| say, ooh, all right, eef gotta gooda
seat / no care yer mooch-" You
know one time 1 rida stage coach
seexty miles and for tree week l not
sect down.
He say | no getta rida SOmating on
da stage. So weeth my frien i go
back for mebbe learna somating dun
no before.
But everything cen dat show ees no
straighta goods. Everything try be
somating wot amt. One tfrg wot looka
lika street ees jusa paint dat way. !
standa one side and watcha guy maka
love weeth hees wife. He smile jusa
how mocha he love- But jusa be-
tween you and me and no for spreada
round, when dey leava stage ees beega
fight breaka loose. She fighta heem
and he fighta her and both maka plen-
ta cuss each other.
but ees Somating on uat stage L no
underestimate yer good. l heara stage
manage telIa one guy upstairs droppa
tree borders. / tink mebbe upstairs
ees lunch house, and he droppa tree
borders, for no pay da bill l dunno.
BUT my frieH tella me / am wronga
idee. He say upstairs ees flies for
ds stage and ees no lunch house. But
/ know some lunch house wot gotta
plenta flies justa same.
When my frien tella me tree four
beega tings on dat stage ees da wings
/ tink he try foola me. too. l feegure
eef dat beega tings ees jusa wings
wot use 'em.
Wot you tink?
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-05-13
Jealous Girl Shot Fellow Student.

Columbus.-Blanche Davidson. nine
teen. an Ohio Wesleyan freshman, las
confessed. according TO the authorl-
ties. that she shot Gladys Racey. an
other student, on November Il Both
Miss Racey and Miss Davidson are
said TO have found favor in the eyes
OF a male student, and jealousy Is
given as the cause OF Miss Davidson's
act
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-05-13
IL wHI6ttaf M |
THE CHRISTMAS STOCKING.

THE custom of hanging up stock
i ings at Christmas comes from
Holland and Germany, where many Of
the people wore wooden shoes. On
Christmas Eve these shoes were left
by the fireplace, filed with hay for
the weary horses of ST. Nicholas as
he went his rounds. In the morning
the hay would he gone. and in its
place would be gift from the CRATE
tul saint.
(CopyrightO
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-05-13
A LINE O. CHEER
BY John kendrick Bangs.
NO SHORTAGE.
(Copyright.)

Sugars short. and so Is Coal.
But I've warmth stored I'm my soul
In such stores as carry me
Through whatever cold may be.
And for Sweetness I'm inclined
Unto that OF Spirit kind
That Invariably lies
In the depths OF loving eyes.
(Copyright)
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-05-13

NIId Fnutt Worth cuItivatino.

The presence OF wild fruit In To-
cality helps protect the cultivated
ones. particularly IL the former fruits
are similar 10 the latter and ripen
earlier. Among those best adapted are
mulberry. Wild blackberry, June bef-
II, Wild cherry and elderberry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-27

when he joked about the cage bars
breaking. She was courteous, but
there was not the gay sparkle IN heF
voice and eyes that generally enter
tanned him. When he suggested go
ing back to the boarding house she
agreed instantly, whereas it was her
custom to remark that another oeauu-
full Sunday was gone.
AS they rode back on the bus he
kept glancing at Gladys sidewise ~
some way he did not feel so sure OF
her as he had at the start of the day
Fervently he wished that the golden
girl had stayed safely within her home
until he and Gladys had left. He
would not hive minded at all if she
had tried to quarrel; twas her very
quiet that disturbed him.
On the boarding house porch sat the
golden girl. Tom stared and went
quickly up the steps. The golden girl
when seen closely was a gilded woman
of ripe age. Her hair was quite evil
IDENTIFY bleached and had been for
years. so dry and harsh was it. Her
face had tiny wrinkles that were well
filled with powder.
Say. girlie.'' greeted his golden girl
to Gladys I've gotta chance to go on
the road tonight if you can touch my
hair up bit. 1 phoned the woman
who runs the beauty shop and she
said that you were so obliging that
maybe you'd open up the store and fix
me up. I'll give you good tip, hon
ey, if youll do it. Course, at my age,
1 never expect nobody to do some
thing fer nothing Gosh. no. Not in
the city, anyhow" Her voice was
harsh and grating, and Tom cringed
as he realized that she had spoken so
loudly that passersby had heard her.
YES, Miss De Tourane, surely. I'll
be over there in a half hour" re-
sponded Gladys in a low tone.
yrf1fGnnrpd n
the golden girl trailed down the steps
clutching her dolman about her, 'I
had something that I wanted to ask
you today. If 1 come around to the
shop to get you % you-that is,
would you like me to come-and ask
you-the question:
And Gladys's Cupid's bow mouth.
that was pink from nature rather than
rouge stick, curved ever so slightly
as she nodded assent.
Copyright, 1921. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-27
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE

I was mad at my sister Gladdis on
account of her having told pop to look
how derty my hands was vile we was
eating suPpir, and pop sent me up to
wash them and wen l came down agen
the mash potatoes was all gone, spoil
ing my hole suppiR on account of me
ony having had 2 helping before I
was sent up, and after suppir Gladdis
went to the movies with Mr.. Perkins
and I went up in her room to look for
revendge, thinking, G, 1 know, Ill take
the stopper out of this bottle of per-
fume and hide it and the smell will
all leek out of the bottle and Gladdis
wont be able to find the stopper.
And 1 started to pull the stopper
out ony the more I pulled the more
it stayed in. Being a glass stopper
with a sharp top and sharp edges max
ing it hard to pull. and my fingers
started to bert like enything. me
thinking, Heck, this is a heck Of a
stopper, heck.
And I tried to get it out for about
a hour. and jest wen I was going to
give it up in diskusst wat did it do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-27
JUST FOLKS
THE BEST ARE BACK.
By EDGAR A. GUEST.


1t was easy in the old days and the bitter
days 70 shirk-
The best OF all the nation had been called
away from work
We could hold our various places with in
different service then.
But today the war is over and our best is
back again
We had little competition with our soldier
boys away:
a masters pay,
But the idler's days are over, We done
with methods slack.
For the finest of the country and the best
We have are back.
They who fought to save the nation have
returned to do its work;
There's a good man aud a true man now
to crowd out every shirk-
oh. l don't know how to say it but 1t
seems to me somehow
That it's mp to every one Of US to start
to nustle-now.
We must bend our backs TO labor and the
pleasures We must shun-
We must give the best that's in to the
duties to be done.
Now the test is one Of merit as it used to
be Of yOre
And it's goodbye to the Ioafers for our
best Is home once more
Copyright, 1921. by Edgar \ Guest-l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-27
HEART AND HOME PROBLEMS
81 y
Written for The State Journal
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a girl
man of 20. He is very nice young
man in all ways and I think a lot of
him. He says he does of me also.
OF course I have never told him any
thing about it, altho he has many
times asked me il 1 loved him.
would say mo- as I am not sure I
love him. He had not asked me for
week or more until last night.
again answered NO. and he said he
was pleased to think I would tell the
truth and not do as many girls have.
He asked to be engaged and did not
know what to say and so I told him
to wait a week and 1 would let him
know.
OF course really do care a lot for
him, but I thought Twas too young
to be engaged. Do you think it would
be all right to be engaged to this
young man or not?
My mother and father seen to think
a great deal of him. One reason they
like him is because he stays at my
house in the evenings ana seems to
take pleasure in talking to my mother
and father a great deal.
Shall do IS he wishes to?
HAPPINESS.
think you are too young to be en-
gagged. Tell the boy that you do care
for him, but you do not want to be
engaged until you are older and more
sure that your regard will be lasting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-27

With the passing of BAT" Master
son. whose death occurred in New
York this week, goes probably the last
- the spectacr'ai characters thac en-
liYened the west in the days of the
Texas cattle tail. Following the
building of the Kansas Pacific rail-
way, the end Of the trail was located
at Abilene, wh'le "Wild Bill' Tuckok,
a plainsman OF tho Kasterson type
was mado town marshal and beeame a
terrier to the dad" men, Follow ing
the building of the Santa Fe the trail
was shortened and ended at Dodge
City. and\the duty of keeping the
gamblers and riotous cowboys in order
fell to Pat" Masterson. Bat ana
wild Bill" furnished abundant ma
terial for the story writer's. Master
son probably Is the last of their kind.
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coupon interest amounting to more
than $7S0O,000. Government war is,
sues are held mainly by persons of
small means. according to treasury Of
ficials. Reports of the controller of
the currency show that savings banks
deposits total approximately $4,000
900, 900. Deposits during the period
of depression have exceeded this large
Withdrawals These figures take no
account of the immense sum invested
in municipal bonds. Were taxes re-
duced, doubtless much of this money
would find its way into Industrial
channels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-27

Financing the permanent improve
ments of American states, counties,
cities and smaller municipalities in the
calendar year 1920 absorbed about
S750.0O0,OOO of the funds of American
investors. according to the records Of
the Daily Bond Buyer" This amount
is Just short of the total for 1919, and
exceeds by over $25O.0OO,OOO the Dor
rowings of this character in any pre-
vious year. Turnout the year munich
pal bonds enjoyed an active market,
the demand from wealthy investors
seeking escape-from income taxes con-
tinuing to supply most of the strength
of the market. Prices, however, de-
clined along with other classes of
bonds. reaching their low level for
the year about the first of Septem-
Der, when the bonds of the largest
cities in the country were offered at
prices yielding the investor about II
per cent. In 1919 a 4 Il per cent yield
was about the best a buyer of high
grade city bonds could do Toward
the end of last year. the market ex-
hibited renewed strength and activity,
prices recovering about a third of the
gradual loss suffered during the first
three-quarters of the year. The re-
cent decline in interest rates has
driven the prices of bonds upward AMI
rendered them less profitable to the
purchaser.