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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-14
FAMINE CAUSED
BY RED ARMY
And NO RAIN
Villages Only Places Where
Real Story Of Suffering
Can Be Obtained.

Samara on the Volga, Oct. H.
(By d Staf Correspondent Of The AS
saciated, Professionalism requisi-
tons Of grafn" by the Red army and
othef authorities. as well az the Jack
of rainfall. was a chief cause of the
great famine in this section of Rus
sia, according to the peasant farmers.
They say the Soviet, itself, helped kill
the goose that laid the golden eggs.
The story of the famine and its
most intense miseries cannot be haa
III the cities 1t Is only in, the little
and where the famine had lis orisin
that the truth, bare, bitter and crash
ing. can be ascertained.
SThe story of the village OF NoVO
Sgnikinoi.&16 miles from Sanara. is
tYptcal of many the correspondent
vRited up and down the Volga. Rid
iHgyout across the rich. rolling farm
land. swept by cold winds FROM the
cast, but still beautiful in the golden
ahtumn. the forests shot with deep
Blown, the grass yet green n upon
ibherds of cattle and horses, with
here and there patches of fields
pIowed and sowed with spring rye
and wheat, one arrives at this village
struggling for a half mile along the
two sides of the main road
Village Silent.
"A heavy silence cnvelops the VIII
aye Many of its one-storied. log
cabin homes, each shut off from the
other by high rail fences enclosing a
oiarter-acre plot for chickens. cows,
Wagons and barns. are shut, the win"
davis boarded and the doors locked.
midway in the village the corre-
spondent stopped. knocked at the
o of an occupied home. The peas.
ant said the village was composed OF
F. aS0 houses. SO Of which had been de-
serted by the owners going elsewhere
for food. Two years earlier h rich
Ell peasants had worked each about
$50 acres of land but now they
farmed but three acres. Normally,
the Weld was 60 to so bushels OF
Grain per each three acres, whereas
this summer, the harvest had oeen
bnt about 40 pounds. a year the
harvest had been about four bushels
of$grain to each three acres. =.
FAT that point, the peasant, a tall
raw boned man. thinned by lack OF
food, began to get angry. The Hed
army of Samara. had last December
ordered the village to contribute
about $500 bushels of grain, for
Vshich no payment was to be received.
The village hadn'ttbeen able to. supply
all this requisition but offered part.
So the Red soldiers came and took the
amount of requisition.
No Seed Grain.
The village was left without seed
grain. though it was promised from
Samara. and was also without food
for the winter. To get bread. in De
cember, the villagers began selling OF
their valuables, and eating their. cat
tie and sheep. AS the winter deep
ened, the famine set in. and the poor.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-14

struct,ye elements Developed dur,n d
the world war, Senator Boran ~
We're being preserved and perfected 10
m.ka them more effective. more ae.
strnctiye and more efficient 19f t ~
cause of human suffering ana tue
taking Of human lives"
"Will the Washington conlersn1
! hreak this spell of war;" he x 9
twill II relieve us from the creed OF
hr,ta force ana urn the world from
the road which is leading straight ~ 81
bankruptcy and to barbartsm? Let
,s Rave faith in the outcome"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-14
Receiver Appointed
For General Oil Co

Houston. Texas. Nov. 12.-Appoint-
ment Of a receiver for the General Oil
company, capitalized at $4,000 900,
and organized by s.. z. j. Cox; pro-
moter and airplane enthusiast. who
later lost control through court pro-
ceedings. is asked in a suit filed in
district court here today by the Lin
coin State bank Of West Pullman and
six individuals. all of Chicago.
The plaintiffs claim $4,000 worth
/ of notes past due and alleged in
solvency. Hearings in the case which
promises to be hard fought. was set
for next Friday.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-14
ADVERTISEMENT.
Be Beautiful,
You Can Be!
ADVERTISEMENT.
Stuart's Calcium Waters Have a Xnacl
Of Making the Complexion the
Kind You Rave Over

If after each meal you will take a
Stuart's Calcium Wafer there will soon
be discovered the coming Of a COM
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-14
TO BE

Superior, Tvs, Nov. 14.-DaYe
Bancroft. captain OF the New York
Normal-University of NorthN. Dakota
football game here Thanksgiving day.
Bancroft recently arrived at his
home here, and was given q great
reception by Superior baseball fans.
Plans are being formulated at the
school for the annual HOMECOMING,
which Will be featured BY the football
game
1T will be the biggest game of the
season an dalso the Fltckertails' first
appearance on the local gridiron.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-14
LORD MAYOR GIVEN FRUIT.

London. Nov. 14.-In accordance
with a c~entury-old custom, the Fruit
erers company of this city has jus,
presented the lord mayor with a
splendid array of English fruit.
In making the presentation, the
master of the Fruiterers company
said the lord mayor was entitled to a
sample from every package OF fruit
which entered the city, but that for
the past 40 years the company has
sent a supply annually to the Man
sion house instead Of the ancient toll.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-14
CATHOLIC WOMEN 70 MEET.

Minneapolis, Mimi, Nov. 1.-THE
Minnesota division of the National
Council of Catholic Women will meet
in its third annual conference here
on November is and 16. All organi-
cations in the state with a member
ship Of 100 or more will send three
delegates to the meeting, according to
Mrs. w. J. O'Toole Of st. Paul, presi-
dent Of the Minnesota division of the
organization: A reception for Arch
biahop Austin Bowling. of st. Paul, al
the Curtis hotel on Tuesday evening
will feature the conference.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-14

New York.-Thea third wees of tia
milk drivers strike opened without
any signs Of immediate relief.
ch,caeo.-The national convocation
OF colleges and universities on inter-
national disarmament opeheo heFe. i
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-14

plexion that will make you proud Of
yourself. You can wear your best
gowns and hats and feel at ease.
All you need to do to clear the skin Of
pimpies, biotches, liver spots, black
heads, muddy complexion aud skin erup-
tions 10 to use Stuart's Calcium Waters.
These troubles seek the kin as one of
h natural outlets OF the body. And if
you supply 1t with the proper materials
skin will pass of impurities through
the pores Of the skip instead Of retain
ing them in the forrh of ugly accumula-
tions. Get a box OF Stuart's Calcium
Waters in Ia drug store at 60 cents.
You will then realize how Easy it is to
be beautiful.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-14
Ed Ye.r cer.s vttA "c.nA,.

painless corn and Calls remover. Any
corn, no matter how deb rooted. departs
quickly when "Gets-It arrives. Won
derfully simple. yet simply wonderful,
because all soreness stops with the first
app,rca aSoes hat az T sv shae eo.n r ana
make corns grow bigge. Ydir money
back If "Gets-It" fails! Insiit on the
genuine. Cost but a tpde everywhere.
MID. by E. Lawrence & Co.. Chicago.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-14

Chicago.-The National Editorial
association selected Misoula. Mont.
and Salt Lake City as the places for
tho convention in July, 1922, through
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-05-05
MERCHANTS SPLAN
ANOTHER DAY

Valley City merchants are pleased
with the results of the first Dollar Day
sale put on last Saturday, according
to sentiment expressed at the Town
Griers monthly banquet at the Valley
Hotel, Monday evening and are going
''to put on another sale Of similar ma
ture, the exact date of which has not
been set. It will, be some time the lat
ter part of May. The merchants all
express their regret that the country
people were not able to participate
in the many bargains offered because
of the rainy weather, but it is be-
lieved that record sized crowd will
be in the city for the, next sale.
The Town Criers went on record as
willing to cooperate with County Sup
erintendent of Schools Johnson in
making Barnes County Play Day:
which comes on May % this year,
big success. A committee was ap-
pointed to confer with Mr.. Johnson.
The club also took a good step, it is
believed, when it voted to erect sign
boards on all the main thoroughfares
leading into Valley City, within a rad
dius of 30 miles, advertising the VAL
ley City tourist camp. These signs
will perhaps be erected between Buff
falo and Tower City on the east and
Eckelson and Sanborn on the west.
They will also be erected on other
main roads leading into the city.
President Herman Stern presided
at Monday nights meeting.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-05-05
SEC. TO
BEATLAKE MEET

Members Of the American Legion
auxiliary in Valley City will be in
terested to learn that Miss Pauline 0.
Curnick, national secretary Of the
Women's Auxiliary Of The American
Legion will represent national head
quarters Of The American Legion at
the first state convention Of The Won
ems Auxiliary to be held at Devils
Lake, May 11th and 18th. It is ex-
pected that all state officials Of the
American Legion will also be in at
tendance. The Valley City auxiliary
will also send delegates.
Delegates representing sixty-five
units Of the auxiliary in North Dako-
ia, will assemble at Devils Lake for
the purpose Of forming their own
state department, electing officers. etc.
It will Be one Of the most important
gatherings Of women in the state.
The Devils Lake unit, which is one
of the most active in North Dakota,
is receiving the cooperation Of the
civic and commercial associations Of
that city, to make the convention q
memorable one. In addition to the
regular program, visits will be made
to the State School for the Deaf,
Chautauqua grounds, North Dakota
military reservation and Fort Totten.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-05-05

The above picture is of a company
of jurors who in December, 1870, at
tended the first session Of the Uni
ted States District Court in Pembina,
Dakota territory. ~fst:@
Moses Prosper, owner of the train
was seen by the writer at Lidger-
wood, N. D., week ago. He came
from Fentonville, Michigan to Yank-
ton, D. T. in 1869. His companion
in service, John O.. Burbank, was
also seen in Wahpeton the same day,
where he was busily engaged as
county surveyor for Richland Coun-
ty. Mr.. Burbank came from Chica-
go to Yankton, D., T., in the spring
Of 1870. lin the picture he is
shown as standing by the rear wheel
of the wagon. The picture was taken
at Moorhead while they were en-
route to Pembina). The man at the
rear was D. Wilmot Smith, one of the
commissioners of Richlapd county,
and the man at the right Of Mr.. Bur-
bank was Ransom Phelps, the JUS
tice of the peace who was also ap-
pointed by Gov. John A. Burbank
in 1873 when Richland county was
organized.
Smith and Phelps were homestead
ers on the present site of Wahpeton.
Mr.. Phelps was also the first station
agent at Breckenridge, Minn., when
the St, Paul and Pacific (Now Great
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-05-05
LOCAL ARTISTS GIVE
PROGRAM IN s. OAK

The people Of Veblen, South Dakota.
had the privilege Of hearing this week
two members Of the faculty and one Of
our advanced students. Miss Peck
ham, of the Department of Voice, Miss
Waller from the Department of Pub
lie School Music, and Miss Lillian
Ford left Tuesday evening for Veblen
to give program which had been ar
ranged for by Dean Froysaa. Miss
Peckham sang, Miss Waller played
the piano numbers and also acted as
the accompanist, and Miss Lillian
Ford gave number of readings. The
trio were expected to return from
their trip Thursday night. We know
that these representatives of V. C. N.
helped to widen further its reputation
and good standing.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-05-05
Northern) entered there in Octobe,

Northern) entered there in October
1872. ~
Messrs. Prosper and Burbank were
members of q crew Of United States
surveyors at Yankton who surveyed
subdivided and established guide
lines throughout what is now North
Dakota. When they came to Rich
vile, now Wahpeton. they found NJ. T.
Rich the pioneer homesteader had a
quantity Of fine potatoes and at Fort
Abercrombie they found potatoes.
beets and other vegetables that were
produced in the military garden
Mr.. Burbank was detailed to return
to Chicago and give to meeting Of
the stockholders of the Northern Pa
cific railway a report on the lay Of the
land and quality of the soil. AS evil
dence upon the latter point he took
along to the nearest shipping point,
6 miles distant, quantity of veget-
ables and potatoes which it appears
made Dakota famous.
1t may be mentioned incidentally
that from that time to the present,
more than half a century, North Da-
kota's products have produced the
same results. The stockholders in
Chicago became so enthused by the
exhibit that they presented Mr.. Bur-
bank with a fine suit of clothes and
sent him on to New York with his
exhibit.
s& E, E. Saunders.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-05-05
GO SLOW MOVING
TOCALlFORNlA

The following letter to the James
town Daily Alert may open the eyes
of some who want to go to California:
Van Nuys, Calf,
as April ID, 1921.
TO The Alert ..% -,
4 This,sis a. cold windy, day and the
|airt hiess here jpst as bad as IN
NorthDakota. It blew 10 miles an
hour at the Beach yesterday. The
Santa Monica Mountains are white
with snow and the nights are cold.
The apricots and grapes have been
badly injured by the freeze. If any
one in good old North Dakota is plan
ming on leaving the state of oppor--
tunities to come to this paradise and
advertised state to better themselves
they had better wait and Investigate
before starting. have met a great
many dissatisfied people here. They
sacrifice their all to get here to find
that conditions were very must diff
ferent than they expected.
A man with a good trade or skill
ed workman can get work here at fair
wages, but rents are very high and
houses and rooms are hard to find.
The common laborer has to compete
with the Japs, Cinnamon and Mexi-
cans and they work cheap and live
cheap. One Jap told that he and his
family could live on fourteen cents a
day. When asked how that was he
said they made large kettle of soup
of rice and that was their living.
Van Nuys is twenty miles from Los
Angeles and is nice quite place
Los Angeles has been filled with
murderers, burglars, thieves and kid.
nappers and holdups occur night and
day. There were twenty-four hun
dred and sixty accidents by transfer in
the month Of March, twenty killed
outright and as many injured! Vege-
tables are cheap here and one can buy
a pail of oranges for twenty-five cents
and lemons at cents dozen. If /!
have Influenced one family to stay in
good old North Dakota l shall feel
we'll paid.
Talk of California and the golden
west-give me North Dakota think
it is the best. North Dakota with
her fields of grain 50 fair-give me
North Dakota my, heart is right
there. J
AN..... Lucia A. Buzzell.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-05-05
HUNDREDS SEEK
.J0BS0N FARMS

The American farmer needn't worry
over the hired man problem this har-
vest season. %trs
The "hired men" are here, waiting:
hat in nd-submissive. The shoe is
on the other foot this year. They
don't want Sc a day and extras
such as shelter, laundry and two
pieces of pie for dessert. All they ask
is anywhere from $50 to $45 month
and place to sleep. And they're not
saying word about the eight hour
day. " S @
|. It's an encouraging sign, say econ
omic experts, now that business has
turned its eye toward the farming
regions.
Il. The other afternoon West Madison
strset, Chicago, was lined for blocks
with potential hired men, all waiting
for the call from the country In four
or five weeks, when work begins in the
harvest fields, the throng will be
greatly diminished, it is expected, but
right now these SHRED men" are sun
ming themselves on the curbstones and
hoping for half as good job as they
had last year. =
H. E. Kenny, for ID years manager
of an employment agency, illustrated
the situation this way
"See that mob cycling me through
the window? About $50 men, aren't
there? I'll tell you why. This morn
ing let it be known that l had one
farm job open-that l was going to
ship the man out tonight. I'm really
tr0inp to shin ont 80
"But look at the mob. You come
back here tonight and if there aren't
a thousand after that one job I'll buy
you hat"
The agricultural labor situation, ac-
cording to Kenny, who during the war
was the governments supervisor of
civilian labor at Hog Island, is easier
than it has been for three years.
Wages have been greatly debated
and the prospect is for further de-
creases. In volume the requests for
men are below normal for this
period of the year, but the number
is growing. The demand, he says, is
larger than had been anticipated in
view of the declines farmers had
been forced to accept for their pro-
ducts in recent months.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-05-05
PLAN TO FIX PARK {.
IN FRONT OF DEPOT

The Valley City Park Board is con-
templating beautifying the city this
summer by fixing up the plot Of
ground in front Of the Northern Pa
cific depot. It is planned to fill this
in with dirt. and seed it to grass seed.
Kapresent plans carry through, shrub
berry may also be placed around the
plot. .% =" !.
A suggestion was made several
months ago by visitor in the city
that a flower bed be laid out on this
plot of ground, so as to spell the
words welcome to Valley City," A
stranger passing through on train
could not help seeing the flower bed
and the nifty way in which it was
laid out and it is believed that such
a thing would leave good impression
on the minds of people travelling thru
the city. Not only this, but it would
be a means of beautifying the city, in
which every citizen Of Valley City is
interested. Valley City has the name
of "The City Beautiful" and it will
be upholding that tradition if such
work is undertaken.
According to D. w. Clark, one of
the members of the board extensive
repair on the Chautauqua and City
parks will not be undertaken this
year, due to the shortage Of funds.
However, some minor repairs will be
made, including perhaps the filling in
of the road in the low places leading
to the Chautauqua park.
The wells at the Chautauqua park
have been cleaned out, and a few 9TH
er repairs made, to put every thing
in first class condition for entertain
ments there this summer.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-05-05

Mrs. Fred Fredrickson. curator Of
the museum, handed list of valuable
articles to the Budget Friday, which
contains the names Of things loaned
by Colonel and Mrs. Frank White.
The loan gifts are as follows and will
be known as the "White Collection"
Two colonial chairs. go. s~ ~. ., ..
One Japanese spear, very old.
One Filipino spear, used by the
Igorots, one Of the fiercest tribes in
the Philippine Islands.
One Spanish gun, an old flint lock.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-05-05
SMITHS BON siARE||
FlXE EAT $500

j. A. Smith, allf 6 Whlskey rum
ner, Of Omaha. N 8 who was shot
through the wrist b : neriff's deputies,
when he refused t alt his car when
intercepted on a sabout ten miles
northwest Of Val City, was given
a preliminary hearing before Justice
/. Moe Saturday afternoon. He
waved preliminary examination, and
was bound over the district under $500
bonds, which up to the time Of this
( writing he has not furnished. He is
still in the hospital, receiving treat
ment for his fractured wrist.
Frank Smith, who was taken into
custody at the same, time, was re-
leased Saturday after a hearing, in
which it developed that he was an in
nocent party in the alleged whiskey
running. His brother, C. Smith, who
was taken at the same time, is out un-
der $500 bonds to appear at the next
term Of district court to stand trial
for violation of the Volstead law. >.
The trio were captured several
weeks ago a few miles northwest of
Valley City. According to officials
they had about 25 cases Of liquor when
captured. They were driving two
cars, one Studebaker and the other
Buick. When Smith refused to halt
when orderedyby deputy sheriff's they
opened fire, one bullet piercing his
wrist. After driving his car over a
mile with bleeding wrist, he halted.
He has been in the hospital since.
Fines totaling $15,047 have been
collected from 127 of the 233 defend
ants arrested for violation of the Vol
stead dry law since the North Dakota
federal prohibition department was
established in January, 1920, accord
ing to information given out by Lane
Maloney, federal group chief of North
Dakota. Taxes amounting to $118,2 200
have been assessed against these vio-
lators Of the prohibition law, under
the internal revenue laws, Mr.. Ma
loney reports. Since the federal
agents began their work in Fargo, 73
automobiles found to be engaged in
the transportation of liquor have been
confscated, 10 of these have been sold
at auction, netting the government
$6,108 and the remainder are being
held in storage. by the government:
the group chiefs report shows. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Maloney. judging from
the figures quoted, the work Of run
ming down whiskey merchants in the
entire northwest department, which
consists of North and South Dakota:
Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska has
been self-sustaining up to January 16
1921. nn &
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-05-05
GUESTS OF THE
RO0SEVELTCTUB

Thursday evening, April 28th, an
impressive and inspirational program
was rendered by the Roosevelt Club at
the home of Master Clifford Simonson.
The club was honored by the pres
-ence of Col. and Mrs. White, just be-
fore their departure to Washington.
D. C. The boys are very much ;hter-
ested in his recent appointment as
United States treasurer.
Rev. Nugent explained in an inter-
esting way, some Of the duties OF the
United States treasurer and called at
tention to the fine personality Of Col.
White as well as his general fitness
for such an Office of public trust.
Miss Larson, County Club Agent
briefly mentioned the club program Of
work for 1921 as decided upon by the
Roosevelt Club. .ss....- .s s.
Col. White then addressed the club:
speaking particularly Of Theodore
Roosevelt as an ideal character for
young boys to follow. He told the
boys of some interesting incidents in
the life of Roosevelt in North Dakota
as he knew him personally. .N
Mrs. White told the boys Of Theo
dore Roosevelt's last public speech
which she had heard in New York.
COL and Mrs. White presented the
Roosevelt Club with beautiful franz
ed picture of Theodore Roosevelt.
Arthur Mcclure then expressed the
appreciation of the club for the kind
ness shown by Col. and Mrs. White.
The president of the club, Elliott
Myers, on behalf of the club, present
ed Mrs. White with box of candy.
Clifford Simonson, secretary OF the
club, presented Col. White with a
fountain pen, with the request that
this be used in signing some Of the
official papers at Washington.
\ Following the formal program ev-
cry. one joined in community singing:
after which ice cream and cake were
served.
Mrs. o. Simonson, leader and or
ganizer for the club, had charge OF
the meeting. 5 f."
The Roosevelt Club spent an evening
that will long be remembered in the
lives of its young members.
The club is very grateful to Col. and
Mrs. White for the inspiration they
have given. ~,
AS Col. and Mrs. White departed
the club passed out on the porch and
sang Goodnight" song fitting for
the occasion.