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The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-11-24
Obituary

Mrs. 1ngeborg Agnethe Olson, WHO
after two and one-haf months ILL
ness, passed away at the home Of her
daughter, Mrs. G. F. Grosshans Of
Glover, on Nov. is, was born at Biri,
Norway, May 20, 1850. Mrs. Olson
was married March Is, 1876, to o. A.
Olson Of Pigeon Falls, Wis, and to
this union were born seven children,
six of whom survive. Mr.. Olson pass
ed away Feb. 10, 1905. The Olson
family came to Glover, N. Dak., in
1889 and most Of the members have
made that place their home ever since,
Mrs. Olson and the youngest son hav-
ing spent some time in Minneapolis
during the past few years. Mrs. o.
son returned about four years ago.
She was a member of the st. Luke's
Free Lutheran church Of Minneapolis.
Funeral services were held at the
Glover M. E. church, Rev. ]. Lindland
Of Oakes and Rev. G. A. Jeffrey Of
Lidgerwood officiating. Interment
took place at the Glover cemetery.
Mrs. Olson is survived by four sons,
J. Oscar, c. Edwin, Arthur H. and
Odin L. Olson, and two daughters,
Mrs. G. F. Grosshans and Mrs. H. G.
FROZEN; also seven grandchildren and
sister, Mrs. j. H. Egeland Of Min
neapolis.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-11-24
Entered in Judging Contest

Five North Dakota young men are
competing against more than score
of live stock Judging teams from COL
leges of the United States and Can
ada, entered in the student stock judg-
ing contest at the International Expo
sition, Chicago.
The team Of five members and an
alternate include Harper Brush, Lis
bon; Elmer Darling, Thorne; Claude
Belden, Hayes; Percy Judd, Cando;
Earl Ferguson, East Grand Forks; and
Stanley Wilmer, Tower City. E. J..
Thompson, professor Of animal hus-
bandry, is coach of the team. The
contest takes place Saturday.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-11-24
SEAL SALE TO BE A SUCCESS
Workers Are Enthusiastic-All Rec.
ords to Be Broken

&AAA 4SSVANO WAAA OS OAVhVAA AAA SsAS
Christmas Seal sale put on by the
North Dakota Tuberculosis associa-
tion, commencing today, in the opin-
ion Of those who have studied the
situation, and it is anticipated that
every person in the state will buy the
Christmas Seals and Health Bonds.
People have now come to realize
that in buying Christmas Seals they
are not giving anything. They are
merely buying health insurance for
themselves and families, and the
Christmas Seal sale should not be
considered in the nature of drive to
raise. money for unfortunates across
the seas, for it is nothing Of the kind.
There isn't man, woman or child
in North Dakota who isn't in danger
Of contracting tuberculosis 80 long as
there are people in the state who have
the disease, and it is to cure those
whe already have It and prevent 9TH
-ers from having it that this money is
being raised.
Every penny person pays out for
Christmas Seals is just that much of
a guarantee against himself or some
dear one being caught in the clutches
Of the Great White Plague. :.
North Dakota was away down the
list last year in the sale Of Christmas
Seals. It is felt that the state will
make better showing this year.
It isn't giving-it is buying health
for the community.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-11-24
ELECTION WILL
Be CONTESTED
Action to Be Based ON League Claim
that Petitions Contain Many
Illegal Signatures
ROBINSON SAYS IT is TOO LATE
Jurist Holds that ,Petitioners Waited
too Long

That the league officials and prom
inent members are going to fight to
the last ditch to prevent Messrs. Mes
tos, johnson and Kitchen assuming the
positions to which they were elected
by the people is no longer doubted.
When the first news Of a possible
contest was sent out it was not taken
seriously as keen observers felt the
league had everything to lose and
nothing to gain by action Of that sort.
The supreme court now has before
it the challenge Of the league, the le-
gality Of the petitions. Mondays
hearing, participated in only by attor-
neys for the leaguers, developed the
fact that Justice Robinson holds the
opinion that the petitioners have no
cause for action because they had per-
mitted the time to pass within which
they could act.
Only two points are made. First,
that there are Implications on the pc
titions numbering 5000; second, that
voters who did not cast their ballots
for the office Of governor in the last
election were not qualified to sign the
recall petitions. The question Of whe-
ther the recall amendment to the con-
stitution had been adopted in legal
manner is not raised.
Plans for the inaugural progressed
in spite Of the pending action. Nestos
arrived in Bismarck Monday evening
and the retiring governor, Lynn ].
Frazier, has indicated that he expects
to leave this (Thursday) morning for
his farm home at Hoople, taking his
family by automobile to the farm he
left nearly five years ago to become
North Dakota's chief executive.
While it is impossible to learn. at
this time whether the new officials
have been inaugurated, the Times,
through the courtesy Of Agent Ber-
genital Of the 500, received the fol-
lowing wire from the dispatcher at
Bismarck early Wednesday morning:
"There is nothing to prevent Mes
tos taking Office, as the supreme court
has turned the petitioners down hard"
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-11-24
Reduce Taxes s7o,ooo,ooo

The house of Representatives at the
national capital has adopted the re-
port on the tax revision bill. The
measure now goes to the senate where
republicans plan to pass it at once.
Representative Mondell, republican
leader, says the bill will reduce taxes
SO, 0,000, 900 this calendar year and
$685., ,0O0, 900 in the next calendar year.
He praises the bill as splendid meas
ure, except that it did not reduce the
maximum surtax rates sufficiently.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-11-24
MANY EAT AT CLUB BANQUET
Four Hundred Fifty People Gorge
Themselves Thursday Evening

We are going to have a good athlet-
ic club in Oakes if enthusiasm and
the raising Of money are all there ID
to be done. The banquet held in the
Presbyterian church basement Thurs
day evening for the purpose Of rails
ing funds with which to purchase
equipment was attended by over four
hundred people. After all expenses
were paid it is said that something
like 5000 reposed safely in the club
treasury.
This would have been impossible,
however, without the hearty co-opera-
,tion of everybody connected with the
affair. Nearly everything set before
the hungry folks had been donated by
those anxious to help things along, the
walters served without compensation
and the high school orchestra volun-
teered to cheer up the guests with
choice musical selections while the
feast was in progress. There is No
use making any attempt to place oil
the credit, because so many people
helped that list Of their names would
resemble the city telephone directory.
Rev. Dierenfeld, who had worked
increasingly for a couple of weeks in
order to put across the gymnasium
idea, wears a smile that hangs clear
down below his collar button, and the
newly elected officers Of the organiza-
tion have good reason to be well
pleased and encouraged over the aus
picious beginning.
When the gym gets to going, the
fat boys may reduce and the skinniea
may pile on flesh within the confines
Of the church basement. Tired bust
ness men may bring back their youth
by systematic exercise, replace their
labby muscles with sinews Of iron,
and be better able to perform a good
days work.
The whole community will benefit
through this project if it is properly
conducted, and perusal Of the names
Of those in charge makes one believe
that it will be.
The youngsters of our city will have
place to go where they will be under
the watchful eye Of one who has their
welfare at heart.
The gyms the thing. We should
have had one long ago.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-11-24
WORLD EXPECTS
GREAT RESULTS
Nations Representatives at Confer
ence Aware that People Want
War Stopped
AGREEMENT MAY BE REACHED
Future of China Must be Determined
by Other Powers

Naval experts of the three major
powers, Great Britain, Japan and the
United States, are reviewing the high
ly technical questions that have arisen
in connection with the American pro-
posals for immediate reduction Of the
fleets and 10-year naval building
holiday. The British and japanese Of
ficers appear to have found some de-
tails Of the plan which will require
treatment before there is q final ac-
ceptance.
Consideration of Chinese aspects Of
the far eastern problem is being con-
tinued and subcommittee has been
appointed to study Chinese fiscal af-
fairs.
Opinions have been exchanged with
such unprecedented directness among
the arms delegates that with the con-
ference only ten days old some of the
experienced diplomatists in Washing
ton believe they can see what it will
and will not be able to accomplish.
Following the example of the Amer
lean delegation in laying down a most
sweeping naval reduction proposal at
the opening session, representatives of
the other powers have put aside, al
most without exception, the diplomatic
indirection that usually befogs such
negotiations.
With the respective heads of the
American, British and Japanese dele
cations working in direct personal con-
ference almost daily on the naval re-
duction plan, there are indications that
an agreement on all but details is
near at hand. In the same way, the
readiness of all the nations to commit
themselves to general principles re-
lating to the far east and the outspok-
en- objection Of Japan to discussing de-
tails of that situation, seem to have
quickened a conviction that adoption
Of a set of principles like the four
agreed upon Monday will be the out
come Of the far eastern end of the
negotiations.
In addition, the whole question Of
land ornaments appears to have been
pretty we'll settled by the frank pre-
sentation Of the case of France, deliv.
cred by Premier BRAND. The French
spokesman made it at once apparent
that definite readjustment of land
forces would be impossible in the view
Of France, because of the existing con.
ditions which she believes threaten he,
and the whole world.
There remains the important ques.
tion of Notifications, on which there
has been no expression, but which may
come to the fore when the discussion
of far eastern problems have reached
a satisfactory ending.
People all over the world are con
vinced that another war will mean thu
suicide of civilization, and they wan,
something done to prevent their owl
destruction. Delegates to the confer.
ence know this, and know they mus,
reach some sort of an agreement OF
lose their official, if not their physical
heads when, they 90 home.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-11-24
Legion Basketball Team

At a recent meeting Of the Ellen
dale post Of the American Legion,
plans for the post basketball team
were discussed and it was decided that
a quint will be again placed in the
running.
Among the candidates who reported
for the first practice after the meeting
were James Vandanacker, John s.
Crabtree, Clark White, George Brown,
w. F. Brown, E. L. Leavensworth, s.
]. Fleming and J. Jeska.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-11-24

Mr.. and Mrs. Reece Bartlett return
ed the first Of the week from Tyler,
Minn., and will again take up their
residence in the best town on earth.
Mr.. Bartlett has sold his interest in
the billiard parlor at Tyler to his part
ner, Ray McGovern.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-11-24
KEEP GOVERNMENT INSURANCE
Lapsed Policies May Be Reinstated Up
to Jan. 1, 1922

Every person formerly identified
with the military or naval service dur
ing the late war who has allowed his
government insurance to lapse for
more than eighteen months may re-
instate such insurance prior to Jan.
l, 1922, by paying two months pre-
miums on the amount of insurance he
wishes to reinstate, providing he can
pass the required physical examina-
ton.
Those who are unable to pass the
examination on account of a disability
received in or aggravated by military
or naval service may reinstate their
insurance by paying all premiums iue
from the date of lapse to the present
time, together with interest at five
per cent (5es) per annum, compounded
annually upon each premium from the
date. the said premium was due.
This means that if you were for.
merly identified with the service and
intend to reinstate your insurance and
can pass the physical examination
that you will have to attend to the
matter Immediately.
It also means that those who are
unable to pass the required physical
examination as stated above, will have
to arrange to pay up their back pre-
miums Immediately if they intend to
carry government insurance. This is
a matter Of utmost Importance and
should be taken care of before the
time set by the treasury department
expires. The government is equipped
to handle this matter with the utmost
expedition and any person interested
and entitled to consideration, as stated
above, should communicate with the
United States Veterans Bureau, dis
trict 10, Keith-Plaza building, Min
neapolis, MINI.
Term insurance, that is, war time in
surance which is now in force, may be
converted without medical examina-
tion to any of the following forms Of
insurance: 20-payment life, 30-pay-
ment life, 20-year endowment, 80
year endowment, endowment at the
age Of 62.
Conversion into any one of these
forms may be made at any time prior
to March 4, 1926, but. inasmuch as it
is to the advantage of the insured to
convert the insurance into one Of the
forms mentioned above, it should be
done as soon as possible if the per-
sons circumstances will permit.
There is at the present time an in
surance cashiers representative sta
toned in the district 10 Office of the
United States Veterans Bureau, Min
neapolis. Premiums may, therefore,
be paid from this time on in person,
or by mail, to the above mentioned
representative at the Keith-P Place
building, 100 Hennepin avenue, Min
neapolis, MINI. It will be of advan-
tage to every ex-service man or wo-
man, who has or has not kept up his
or her insurance, to apply to the vet
erans' bureau, and investigate the ben
efits which are obtainable to those in.
sured under the government plan: II
your insurance has lapsed do not fail
to reinstate the same before Jan. l.
1922.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-11-24
Will Represent Employers

w. j. Seifert has been appointed q
representative Of employers at con.
ference called by the North Dakota
Workmen's Compensation bureau to
meet at Bismarck Dec. 8. This con.
ference will consider and recommend
to the bureau minimum wages and
conditions of labor for women in mer-
camille establishments in the state. Al
this conference there will be repre-.
sented three each of employers, EN-.
ployees and the public.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-11-24

Hugh Moore, son of Dick Moore,
formerly Of Oakes, arrived last week
from Crete and will spend the winter
with his grandmother, Mrs. Emma
Moore, and attend the Cakes schools.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-11-24

The Epworth League entertained at
Backward party in the league rooms
of the Methodist church Thursday ev-
ening. There were about fifty pres
ent and all reported splendid time.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-11-24
| w. ]. Coulter Of Aberdeen left Mon
day for home after visit with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Coulter.

Miss Hazel Adams Of Glover. passed
through here Wednesday enroute to
Hecla, s. D., to spend Thanksgiving
with relatives.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-11-24

Mr.. and Mrs. J. h, Coulter left yes
terday afternoon for Aberdeen, 8. D.,
to eat turkey with their son, W. j.
Coulter, and family.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-11-24

Miss McNerney arrived Wednesday
from jamestown to spend Thanksgiv-
ing here with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. James McNerney.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-11-24

Oscar Grabeel, who spent the sum
mer here with his brother, John Gra-
beel, left Tuesday evening for his
home in Kentucky.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-11-24

Mr.. and Mrs. S. Risa and daughters
Of Valley City arrived Tuesday to
spend Thanksgiving at the G. A. Hol-
ley home.
The New York herald., 1921-02-27
New Conference Called in Effort to Offset
Effects of the Treaty of Sevres, First
Solution Offered

which must be the basis of the coming dis
cussion. BY this treaty all OF the Turkish
territories in Europe, save Constantinople
and its immediate suburbs on the European
side of the straits, were transferred from
Turkish to Greek sovereignty. Constan-
tinople was nominally left to the Turk, but
actually placed under Anglo French Italian
supervision. together with the guardianship
of the straits. In reality the Sultan OF Tur-
key was permitted to live in his old capital.
but only as prisoner. watched and guarded
by allied ships and garrisons, while the
straits were internationalized.
BY this arrangement the Greeks acquired
all of Turkish Thrace right up to the walls
of Constantinople exception being made for
the Derkos waterworks. They acquired
Adrianople and the entire region between
Constantinople and the city OF Adrianopie in
which was fought the decisive phase Of the
first Balkan war. In addition they were
allowed despite violent American protest
temporarily supported by Italy. to acquire
the shore of the 4cgean, which had been
conquered by Bulgaria in the first Balkan
war and held even after the unsuccessful
attack of Bulgaria upon her Greek and Ser
bian allies in the second Balkan war. Thus
Bulgaria was deprived of all outlet upon the
HIgean, save as a more or less illusory
promise of commercial rights was held out
to her.
At the same time Greek claims were rec
ognized TO the region north of her old
frontier on the west. described as northern
Epirus and constituting a portion of the
state of Albania as created by the Confer
ence of London Of 1912-13. All told, Greece
thus acquired some 10000 $4,000 square
miles in Europe at the expense Of Turkey,
Bulgaria and Albania, in all of which, aside
from the Turkish element. the Hellenic was
clearly the preponderating ethnic fraction.
Moreover there was, in addition, the implied
purpose that presently Constantinople itself
should pass to the Greek, thus reviving the
The New York herald., 1921-02-27

A FARMER in one OF the Middle West
"A ern States bought material for
house and then discovered that for
lack OF means he could not go on with IL
The stuff lay on the ground for months
when one day generous thought came into
the mind of contracting builder. He called
his men round him and asked for volunteers
to build the farmers cottage, telling them
he would undertake to do Il within one day
II they would contributes their work Twenty
six carpenters. masons and painters agreed
on the condition that the farmer would fur
nish chicken dinner. and "A time was fixed
for all to report at the site OF the proposed
building
Every man appeared on time and all went
at once to work. Each worker was assigned
to a particular part and the house began to
go up with a rush. When noon came the
framework was all up and the chimney was
started.
Then came dinner The wife of the farmer
had fried two dozen chickens There were
ten loaves of bread four dozen ears of corn
and nearly bushel of mashed potatoes The
dessert consisted OF cherry cobbler and vari-
Gus kinds of pie. The contractor had to call
Oft his men for fear they would eat 80 much
they would not be able to finish the job
The hurry began again Before the roof
was on the plasterers were NJ work, and at
exactly o'clock the cottage was finished, oil
but the second coat OF paint and the skim
plaster neither OF which could be put or
before the first coat dried. Everything eis,
even TO putting on the locks and hinges. was
done before the men were called Off, and done
we'll
The contractor complimented his me-
WHOM the Job was complete. He said that
although he had done hurry" work before
he had never known a house to be begun
and completed In a day.
The New York herald., 1921-02-27
LILIES FAR FROM CUTTING NEAR EAST SNARE

byzantine tradition and the Greek suprem-
acy in the Near East.
These gains by Greece represented the
triumph OF venizelos rather than the recog-
milton of his country's claims to the terri
tories thus acquired. Nor did the Greek
gains end in Europe. On the mainland of
Asia Minor Smyrna and deep hinterland
were allotted to Greece under an arrange
ment calling for plebiscite some fifteen
years hence. Finally the islands of the Dode-
canesus. seized by italy in her Turkish war
of 1911 and claimed by Greece over full
century, were also assigned to the Hellenes.
Only Rhodes was left to Italy, with the pro-
viso that 1t should be returned to Greece
after plebiscite, when Britain should SINH
larly surrender Cyprus.
Such in brief, was the Greek phase of the
treaty OF Sevres. In substance it placed
Greece In control of the Hgean and fore
shadowed the ultimate possession by that
country not alone of Constantinople but OF
the eastern shore of the A1gean all the way
from the entrance to the Dardanelles to the
Gulf of Samos. where an Italian sphere or
interest began. AS / have said. this was the
reward of venizelos, and the Greater Greece
which was thus created was nothing more
nor less than the recognition of his service
to the allied countries and cause.
BY this arrangement Turkey lost her
European estate despite a shadowy surviv-
ing title to her capital. In addition, she
lost all OF her Arabian and Armenian lands.
the former divided between the British and
the French the latter marked out an
independent State. originally with the no.
ton that the United States would become
the mandatory Power for that unhappy and
remote region in which no European State
cared to undertake colonial role. Italy for
her share was to have sphere of interest
extending from the Gulf of Samos round TO
the Gulf Of Alexandretta. France was TO
have all of Syria, with deep hinterland ex-
tending to the Euphrates Britain was to
hold Mesopotanlia and Palestine
Such partition II carried into effect
would leave the Turk little beyond the in
terror plateau of Anatola, with all the out
let's upon the seas held by Greek, British,
French and italian colonies. His Sultan. still
occupying his palace at the Golden Horn,
would be a prisoner, his ancient empire no
more than a hopeless fragment. This was,
in effect, a sentence of death and was
The New York herald., 1921-02-27
Bv FRANK vREELAND.

TLYING hardly appeals to the funny
r. bone, especially when your plane
dips and the whole terrestrial globe
seems suddenly rushing at your face You
think then Of every bone but that one. Yet
amusing incidents will crop up in spite of
army regulations and the law of gravitation
They are generally regarded with dismay by
the aviator at the time, and afterward for
that very reason are regarded by him as
ludicrous, after the swelling has been re-
duced and his jaw worked back into place.
Most OF the flying nowadays lie done by
aviators In the army, which has very strict
regulations against unauthorized stunt n.y.
ing, and also requires every aviator to return
discarded bits Of mechanism for the quar-
termaster's department to worry over Ii Is
these two regulations that have given avia-
tors some interesting head-spins.
The edict against risky tricks In the air
was issued not only to conserve lives but
10 conserve motors. The authorities wouldn't
mind so much stunts at a height OF 1000
feet but the aerial wildcats generally want
10 come down to $50 feet to show off so their
friends will see them, which sometimes en-
tails disaster The aviator knows that once
he has smashed a machine 1t will require
remarkable conversational powers in ex-
planning before he can take another boat
up So he generally goes above 1000 feet
before letting his nerve expand.