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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-04
LUCKY HALF
DOLLAR UNDER
SHIPS MAST
Ceremony at Bath, Me-,
Shows Sailors Super
stitions.

Bangor, Me-, Nov. 4.-Odd fancies
of sailors, commonly classified as sup
erstitions of the sea, still persist in
this very practical age. as was demon
strated at Bath the other day when a
silver half dollar was placed under a
new mast stepped in the schooner
Gardiner G.. Deering to bring the YES
sci good luck. True. the Deering needs
a change of luck for the better, she
having been through all sorts of trou-
BILE on her last voyage, including the
murder OF her master by a negro
cook, but the placing Of the silver
under the reel of her new mast was
not h act of any Of the crew, but
of n of the owners, who is generally
accredited with an abundance Of good
This practice of putting silver coins
under vessels masts Is an old n and
was in high favor in Maine when the
state was turning out the square rig
gers that won fame and wealth for
their owners in the heydey Of Ameri-
a deep water shipping before the
civil war. Old time sailors believed
that the silver pieces brought luck
as sincerely as they believed that
Friday, black cats and escaping rats
were unlucky. Some of the old-timers
went further and made 1t a point to
carry a Bible along with them on ev-
cry voyage, while the extxeme of faith
in luck tokens was illustrated in the
person of salt who, when a
schooner was built for him at Bangor,
insisted not only upon putting silver
dollars under her masts, but upon
carrying the Bible and a portrait of
Abraham Lincoln in her cabin, while
he carefully arranged for the launch
ing to take place on an IL o'clock tide
on the Fourth NJ .Tnlv
"She's got the silver dollars under
her masts and Abe Lincoln and the
Bible in her cabin. besides the Amer
lean eagle with both claws full of
arrows for a figurehead, and If all
those and fairly good handling won't
bring her luck, then, b'gosh, there
amt no! luck" declared the ancient
mariner.
No genuine old time californian
looks with favor upon blue paint any
where on a vessel. Crews have been
cause Of her forecastle being painted
blue. and it is we'll remembered that
a three masted schooner, gaudily dec
GRATED in blue, WaS roundly cursed as
a breeder of fogs and head winds no
longer g than 1890. Scientists may
demonstrate to the satisfaction Of ev-
erybody else that the moon has no in
f1uence whatever upon the weather,
but they can't make sailormen believe
it. ~
With them the moon is to be con
suited on all occasions and everything
arranged according to the signs
One old salt used to declare hat all
transforms of any account began on
the ebb tide-that If rain began to
fall on the flood tide it would be only
a brief shower.
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BLIND 81 YEARS
YET BUILT CITY
One of the Figures of Civil
War Still is Hard at
Work.

Austin, Texas, Nov. 4.-Blindness is
a serious impeachment to most men,
but it did not prevent General A. r.
johnson Of Burnet, Texas, from &C
colnplishing whatever purpose he had
in mind-and he has had many pur-
poses. After he had lost the sight of
both eyes the general built the city
east to interest capital and succeed
ed; built a water power plant, a
school house, a shoe factory, a cotton
mill. secured a railroad for his town,
fought Indians and raised and edu-
Gated six children he never has seen.
He also has taken a prominent part
in Texas politics and civic work since
losing his sight. The general is now
SO years old and is as enterprising as
ever.
Johnson's record in the war be-
tween the states was as brilliant as
his work after the conflict had closed.
1t was along in 1864 that he lost his
sight from explosion of a shell. John
son is one OF the few remaining gen
erals Of the Confederacy and has been
a resident of Texas for more than six
ty years.
When johnson came to Texas be-
fore the civil a Kentucky being his
native state, he had charge of a sec
ton of the Overland Mail route, one
Of the links in the Butterheld Mai
Francisco. The Comanche Indians Of
ten attacked and killed the station ag.
ents, and in the fights with them
Johnson always took a hand.
When the war came he hurried tc
Kentucky and Joined Gen. Forrest
Johnson had two brothers in the fed
eral army and having beer absent in
Texas SO long it was supposed his
sentiments were similar and so he OBJ
tanned valuable information for For
rest. 1t was at this time h a johnson
earned the sobriquet ~"Stovepipe John
SON." Learning that there were soc
stands of guns at Newberg, Ind, he
took but thirty men across the Ohio
river, found some. broken down WAC;
ons and joints of stoveptpe. Mounting
the pipe on the wagon wheels he was
able to deceive the people at Newbere
into thinking that he had severa
powerful annon trained upon theil
town and when he demadned Of the
their, supplies they did 80 promptly.
The general lost his eyes during Aht
fight at Grubbs Cross Roads. Ken
lucky, and was left for dead upor
the battlefield. His obituary was pub
lished all over the south, but the fed
erals picked him up with othel
wounded and sent him to Boston Har
Dor prison. Later he was exchanged
and spent the remainder Of the wal
period filing cartridges. After Lei
surrendered Johnson and his wife re
turned to Texas, where he still found
his old enemy. the Comanches, on thu
war path, and he accompanied severa
expeditions against them. Then he be
gan his plans to build MarbleFalls
liking the location because Of thu
falls in the Colorado river at tina
point and the natural dam. Thus thu
Blind Mans Town" with it's fine wa
ter power plant and factories became
a reality.
The general, though living at Bur
net. a short distance from Marble
Falls, takes great interest In the wei
fare Of the projects begun by him, ant
is still planning new enterprises.
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0. P. Olson, Argyle. Minn....
Alvin Freierickson. Climax.
"PRETTY MEN"
ADVERTISEMENTS
ARE NOT LIKED

|. New York. Nov. 4.-The farmer
boy. the printers devil and the work.
aday clerk are going to have their
pictures on the billboards and maya
zine pages this winter. They will re-
place some of the swaEEer young men
for the artists hired by collar and
clothes manufacturers. Not a few OF
these concerns have concluded that
the orchid Is not the flower OF younR
American manhood, and they ARE go
ing in for sunflowers.
They say the buying public doesn't
like the pink-cheeked men who have
been showing the readers of adver-
ttsements what to wear They SEEM
polo ponies, indinerently peer al
yachts in the cove or ignore the foot
ball players on the field below them
IN order to swap small talk with girls
in vivid sweaters and sport skirts.
People began calling them pretty
boys. cake eaters. lounge lizards.
~sissies. Humorists poked fun at them
bought most of the collars and suits
said III that's tho kind Of q face you
have to have to be well dressed, I'll
kgo through life q slouch."
But now they are going to show the
public that one can be q regular
everyday fellow with a Job and still
be smartly clothed. Last winter there
was a warm discussion within the Ma
tional Association OF Retail Clothiers
as to the public attitude toward the
pretty mem in advertisements. This
fall the result OF this discussion Is
apparent. Recently the new cata-
logue OF a acknowledgements clothing
house was published without a single
ballroom scene. bridge party or club
house etching. Virfle settings CUR
planted them.
There was a drawing Of an old tar
talking to two sturdy youths beside
q ships q freighter. II was, not Z pala-
|tfal passenger carrier. Another
showed q wel1-dressed ONCE worker
working. lie was within sound OF a
printing press. Al third pictured a
farmer dressed up for q trip into,
town. He bore 4 b~uaness-like mien
and apparently was just swing some
nnaI Instructions TO the hired mantcn
the tractor whom the artist happened
XtS. EY~&Af nL--B
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drug store and purchased pain. for

drug store and purchased paint for
the Ontario store.
David Geddes, who homesteaded
near East Grand Forks, sang a
Scotch song. and NJ. w Spaulding
who settled at Larimore and lived
there till he was elected clerk OF
court, paid a splendid tribute to Mr..
Griffith.
Frank Gilby, both an old customer
and for many years a netghbor OF
Mr.. Griffith, told of unloading the
first shipment Of freight for the On
tario store. He said he had lived
next door to Mr.. Griffith for more
than 20 years and in that time they
had to call the police but twice.
Don Mcdonald spoke of Mr..
Grif1th's success in business and the
things hat contributed to it..
DR.. S. Paige johnson also spoke
of the early days and the things that
had contributed to the success of the
Ontario store.
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Herald wasn't Ads Bring Rssulss
Evening star., 1921-09-12
GEN. BANDHOLTZ LEAVES
WEST VIRGINIA MINES
Starts for Washington After
Thanking Governor and State
for Reception.

CHARLESTON. w. Va. September
12.-Brig. Gen. H. H. Bandholtz, COM
manding troops in the southern West
Virginia coal fields. where recently
disturbances and clashes occurred be-
tween armed men on the border of
Logan and Boone counties, left to-
day for his headquarters at Wash
ington. The 10th. 18th and 4Oth Regi-
ments remain in the fields. under the
command of their respective colonels.
The 10Th, however. has been desig-
mated as headquarters outfit. with
City. near Charleston. 1t is COM
manded by Col. q. A. Martin. with
Capt. John NJ. Hite. chief of staff
The regiment allocated to the Coal
River fields has seen service in the
southern West Virginia fields before
having been on duty there for sew
eral months under the command OF
Col. Herman Hall. when martial law
was declared in Mingo county in No
vember. 1920.
Before his departure Gen. Band
holtz addressed a letter to Gov. MoS-
gan, thanking him and the residents s
Of West Virginia for the manner in
which they received the federal sol.
diers during military occupation
.'The federal troops have been shown
only the utmost courtesy" Gen. Band
holtz remarked in his letter to the
governor.
Evening star., 1921-09-12

NEW. YORK, September H.
Half a million men will be idle In
New York this winter. in the opin-
ion of reliable Investigators. and
the city has set machinery in mo-
ton to meet this situation.
In addition to relief measures
planned by special city commit
tee named by Mayor Hylan, fifty
three charity organizations aave
decided to pool their resources and
establish general clearing house
in order to avoid duplication of
effort and handle the problem ef-
iciently.
The Merchants Association of
New York and the Brooklyn
Chamber of Commerce have Joined
hands with the Central Trades and
Labor Council and the Building
Trades Council TO formulate a
practical program. These 0rgani-
cations believe the situation can
be met partly by pushing building
projects, thus-giving employment
TO thousands.
The problem of the ex-service
man is at the heart of the entire
situation, said Maj. William p.
Deegan of the American Legion.
one of the members of the mayors
Evening star., 1921-09-12

NEW ORLEANS. September IL
jamie Miller. a New Orleans wom-
an, and Rev. C. ]. w. Boyd Of
Nashville. Tenn. were shot and
fatally wounded at last nights
closing session of the national
Baptist convention of negroes. and
a number of persons barely missed
serious injury in the panic that en-
sued among the 1000 persons
crowded into the auditorium.
David Miller. the woman's hus-
oand, is held flr the shooting, the
motive of which. the police say.
was jealousy. According to their
reports, all the five bullets fired by
Miller were intended for his wife.
and Boyd was the victim of a stray
shot. Rev. c. J. w. Boyd is secre-
tary of the Baptist Training
School. He is wounded in the
breast and at Charity Hospital was
said to have no chance of recovery.
The big chorus of singers. which
has played a prominent part in the
convention, sang to quiet the
Evening star., 1921-09-12
NAVY YARD MEN SEEK PRESIDENT
AS FINAL APPEAL IN WAGE CUT
Representatives, Bearing Resolutions
Adopted by 5000 at Mass Meeting, Try
IND to See Executive In Atlantic CITY.

since the signing of the armistice.
bringing the weekly earnings for
skilled mechanics down to the $500
per week, which is $14.48 per week
less than the minimum required to
support a family of five in health and
decency as determined by the Depart
ment of Labor. or $14 per week be-
low the figure necessary to maintain
family of five in accordance with
pre-war standards obtaining for navy
yard mechanics:
Therefore, Members of Columbia
Lodge, ia, l. A of NJ. in mass meet
ing assembled, September II, 1921.
hereby earnestly and emphatically
protest against this apparent disre-
gard of previous governmental policies.
unjust Interpretation Of the wage law
and disregard of facts and figures fa-
, Vorable to the employees; and resolve
to call upon the President of the
United States to direct the adoption
OF a wage schedule commensurate
with the facts as herein set forth or
at least allow the. present scale to
remain in effect until the cost of liv-
| ing, is actually reduced, which the
wage board has admitted is abnor-
! mally high and on the increase, and
| thus carry out the real wishes of the
| masses of the people of the United
States as against the insistent and
| well defined plans of minorities of
our population who desire apparent
ly tG see the wage Garner reduced
to poverty. want and subserviency;
and be it
Resolved further. That our protest
and the detailed reasons therefor be
given publicity throughout the United
States in order that the workers of
the nation and the public at large
may know the real injustices which
are being imposed upon navy yard
employees under the guise of economy,
and that copies of these resolutions
be sent to the President of the United
States. members of the cabinet, to
the Speaker of the House of Repre-.
Evening star., 1921-09-12
NEW YORK TACKLES PROBLEM
OF HALF-MILLION TO BE IDLE

committee. He said $4,000 former
soldiers were out of work during
the summer and he fears the num-
ber will be increased to 100000 or
125.000 by midwinter.
I'VE nave no funds 20 help
them" ne said. but we never let
a man go away without help. even
If we have to dig in our own pock-
cts to help them"
Down on the crowded East Side
the Bowery lodging houses are
already filled to capacity each
night Men out of work are
sleeping everywhere in the open,
in every park, on every pier. in al
leys. in storeyards and any place
they car huddle out Of the way
and rest p said Maj. Underwood Of
the salv alton Army. They can.
not do 30 when 1t becomes cold.
Evening star., 1921-09-12

Oysters can only live in water that
contains at least thirty seven parts
of salt TO every 900 parts of water.
Evening star., 1921-09-12

Privilege Is giOen to exchange
any time sOitliin one year from,
date of purchase for any piano
or player Of equal or greater
ualue, and all payments made on
first credited in full on the sec
ond.
Evening star., 1921-09-12
SINGERS QUIET CROWD WHEN
TRAGEDY STTRS BAPTIST SESSION

crowd, and officers of the organiza-
tion circulated among the thronG
exhorting all to be calm.
At the hospital the dying woman
made a statement that her hus-
band had been following her all
day and that she went to the tab
eInacle to escape him.
Evening star., 1921-09-12

sentatives and the President of the
United States Senate"
A committee. representing the ma
the resolutions today to Secretaries
DENLY, Hoover and Davis, The COM
mittee was composed Of John Ander-
son, f. c., Dawson, Edward r. Will
liams. James L. Johnston, Hugh F.
Rankin. T. J. Hughes. b. L. Rhine
hart. William w. Keeler, r. D. Cole
man and William Mcintosh.
Evening star., 1921-09-12
KILLED BY SNAKE BITE.

MOBILE, Ala. September IL
Barney Waters. thirty-five, a farmer,
died. here yesterday from the result
of the bite of a five-foot rattlesnake.
He was bitten Saturday morning
and every known remedy to science
was applied without result.
Evening star., 1921-09-12
BURGLARS KILL MARSHAL.

LYONS. Ca. September 12.-Andrew
j. Collins. city marshal, was shot and
killed yesterday in a pitched battle
with a gang of burglars who were
ooting a local store.
Evening star., 1921-09-12
CHARLES is TAx-ExEMPT.
Swiss Council Accords ex-Emperor
Special Rights.

GENEVA, September 1.-THE Swiss
federal council has accorded extra
territorial rights TO former Emperor
Charles of Hungary whereby he VIII
be exempt from taxation
1t is stated that the former hum
garian monarch's annual expenditures
in Switzerland amount to Sl.223.O0o
Swiss francs.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1921-08-18
SARGENT FARMERS BUY
DAIRY HERD FOUNDATION

Forman, N. D. Aug. ia car
load of dairy cattle for every COM
munity in Sargent county, is the pro-
gram worked out for the county by
the farm bureau, bankers of the
county, and Mr.. Greenwood, county
agricultural agent. As a start on
the program, Mr.. Greenwood, two
farmers and one banker have made a
trip to Wisconsin and purchased two
carloads of grade Holstein heifers.
Just as the party were ready to
start on the trip,made by automobile
q third community reported it was
ready to purchase a carload Of dairy
cattle also. The necessary credit
arrangements could not be perfect
ed in the short time, however, and
this community will receive it's car
load in the next lot purchased.
The dairy COW program was adopt
ed as the result of meetings held in
the county by County Agent Green
wood and Max Morgan, extension
livestock specialist of the Agricul-
tura College. Bankers who at
tended these meetings agreed to fl
nance the purchase of one carload of
dairy cattle each. Several counties
in the state are working out similar
programs.
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COLLEGE SHEEP WIN
AT GRAND FORKS FAIR

Fargo, N. D. Aug. 17-Thirty-seven
of the Agricultural College flock Of
$50 sheep won 16 first prizes, two
championships, and six special prizes
awarded by breed associations at the
State Fair held last month at Grand
Forks. The first prize included
seven awards on flocks, and the rest
on individual animals, and were made
by Frank Kleinheinz, well-known
veteran Wisconsin sheep specialist.
Hampshires, Oxfords, Shropshires,
and Southdowns were included in the
entries made by the college. An
Oxford eve lamb won the award
for champion eve, and Hampshire
ram shown by the college won
championship in it's class. The sheep
bred under the general direction Of J.
H. Shepherd, animal husbandman,
and D. J. Geiken, herdsman, are used
for Institutional and experimental
work. The surplus stock is sold to
breeders at moderate prices.
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SEPT. S TO 10 SEED CORN WEEK

Fargo, N. d. Aug. 17-"Picking
seed corn from your field Of standing
corn during Seed Corn Week means
dollars in your pocket" is the slogan
for North Dakota corn growers dur
ing the week of September 5 to TO-.
This week has been selected as Seed
Corn Week by the extension division
and the agronomy department OF the
Agricultural College, as an aid to Sc
curing the maximum yield per acre
next year at a minimum expense.
Because of unusually good weather
conditions for corn growing this year
this crop promises to produce a
large yield of mature corn, from one
to two weeks before the usual har-
vesting time.
Picking seed ears from the stand
ing corn will save the farmer money
in at least three distinct ways, ex-
tension workers point out. It will
increase his yield per acre next year
by giving him the most healthy, Wig
orous, thrifty corn from which to
grow next years crop; it will increase
his yield per acre by providing proven
acclimated seed, instead of seed
grown under different climatic con-
ditions, and it will save him from 81
to 81 per bushel on the price he
would pay if he bought it from COM
mercial seed men.
A sack hauled in a boys express
wagon or wheel barrow is the method
recommended for gathering the corn.
Haul the sack thru the field, taking
four rows at time, picking the best
ears from the stalk.
First, select the most healthy, Wig
orous, we'll developed stalks; then if
it bears a good sized, well formed,
mature ear of corn we'll up on the
stalk, pull the ear and put it in the
sack. Husk the ear and spread it
out on floor to dry, or hang it up by
the husks.
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The plateau in

ment Satisfaction. The plateau in
the northeastern part of the state
Immediately west of the valley Of the
Red River, seems to be practically the
only locality in the state where corn
does not thrive, and experiments with
other forage crops are being made
with the view Of finding salts
factory substitute for corn.
Failure of corn to thrive on the
plateau is attributed to the shorter
growing season and the average lower
temperature, which averages five de-
grees lower for every day of the year
than it does at the central station at
Fargb, approximately 125 miles
farther south, while frost sometimes
occurs in August.
Potatoes are being tried in place
of corn because Of the shorter grow
ing season required to mature this
crop. Sunfowers are being expert
mented with as forage crop because
they thrive under lower temperature
than corn, and will stand a slight
frost without being damaged.
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at the Hettinger substation while
Holstein herds are maintained also
at Dickinson and Williston.
In the northeastern part OF the
state, beef cattle breeds have become
we'll established, and the Langdon
substation is developing herd Of
purebred Shorthorns. The milking
type Of Shorthorn is favorite in the
pasture and hay lands district south
Of the Sheyenne river and Richland
and Ransom counties, and the Mcleod
demonstration farm is developing q
herd of purebreds of this breed.
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FARMS HELP WORK OUT
LOCAL PROBLEMS

Fargo, N. D. Aug. 1.-THE manner
in which the agricultural experiment
supstations and the demonstration
farms are concentrating on the prob
lens encountered by farmers in the
various localities is exhibited in the
record of the livestock herds main
tanned at the stations.
At the substations in the western
part of the state, where dairying
has been given prominence, dairy
herds are maintained. A herd OF
purebred Holsteins has been purchased
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$50, 100000 Fire at Eckman.

Fire destroyed the 500 depot, the
Canton and Northwestern elevators
and several box cars at Eckman last
Thursday night. The fire started
in one of the elevators and soon
spread to the other structures. F.
L. Petit, the 500 agent was lying
in his rooms in the depot, sick and
unable to move, and was taken out
after the fire had reached the building
His household goods were all de-
stroyed. Mrs. Petit was not at
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SUNFLOWERS TRIED ON
NORTHERN PLATEAU

Langdon, N. D. Aug. 17-Sun-
flowers and potatoes are being SUBJ
stituted this season for a large part
of the corn in the rotation system in
the Langdon Agricultural Expert
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home at the time. No cause is given
for the fire as the elevator was unused
and had been for some time. The
damage is estimated at 100000.
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A small blaze started in the plant
of the Minot Battery Co. located in
the Smart Block Friday morning.
The fire was put out without much
difficulty.
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COUNTY WARRANTS
Notice ID hereby given that all
Ward County Warrants issued on the
Poor Fund registered prior to Novem.
Der LIST. 1920, are hereby called for
payment.
Interest ceases on same August Is,
1921.
Dated at Minot, North Dakota, this
10th day Of August, 1921.
ALFRED MOSTAD,
S/11-3t Ward County Treasurer.