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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-28
LOCALS WIN PER
CENTAGE OF GAMES

Just to give the public an idea Of
what the local base ball team has ac-
complished this season the manage
ment has given us the percentage of
games won this season. Some Of the
fans seem to have the idea that the
boys have lost most of the games, but
according to the records they have
won 80 out Of So. This is as good
as can be expected from any team in
the state this year. The teams
around the state this season have been
fairly well matched, and in most of
the games the winning team could not
be picked until. the third man had
been put out in the ninth inning. OF
course Valley City was not at the
top of the list the first Of the season
as it, takes time to get these players
Most of them go to school during the
winter and do not get out of school
until rather late.
Now that the season is over for the
locals we don't want to think of all
the errors they made during the year
but start looking forward to next
years team and see if we can have as
good team at the beginning of the
season as we have had the latter part
Of this season. The management of
the base ball association has been
kept busy all season trying to give
the public the best they could and have
a great deal Of credit due them for
their good work.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-28

The following interesting letter has
been received by w. H. Mcpherson
from Mr.. Pray: sa5 ,.s
Friday, July %.
Friend William:
I Got your welcome letter and was
sure glad to hear from you. We had
a record run coming down, left there
on Thursday at 10:3O and got here
Sunday at l p. M: not drop of rain
or any, mud on the trip. .... d. IS !
{ Expect to take another road home
through Nebraska and South Dakota
and probably will not 60 through
Iowa or Minnesota at all. Nebraska
has the best roads of any state we
have been in. 5E.-
run on to man yesterday and he
promised to come up, he has section
Of land out west of Weyburn in Can
ada and wants to sell or trade it Off.
We leave here next Wednesday or
Thursday and should be home a week
from Sunday.
Corn is fine all the way down but
other grains do not amount to so very
much.
Our Valley City, N. D. sign attracts
good deal of attention and they think
we should be freezing to death up
there.
. I have had just two letters from
home so guess they don't miss me
much. am sure glad so far we came
and if we get home anywhere near as
quick as we came down Kansas will
not seem 50 far away.
Most all of the cities and towns of
any size have the tourists camps
Horton, Kansas, has a sign as big as
a house. Auto Tourist Camp Free.
Good shelter, kitchen with stoves and
fuel, lights, water and even police
protection.
It's sure nice way to travel.
Ortonville has as nice camp as we
have seen.
Will be glad to be back home.
Ida. Arthur and Orpha are in Kan
sas City, but I got enough driving and
stayed here to have the auto ready to
go home. - .t-n
Best to all, ETC.,
.g. . Harvey.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-28
BISMARCK WINS
ALL THREE GAMES

In the third game Of three game
series that was played on the local
diamond, the local team came out on
the short end Of the score last night
against the capital nine. All of the
games were good tight games, but the
Capital City nine seemed to have q
rabbit foot with them and came out
on the long end of a to z score last
night. The game was featured with
more errors than usually falls to the
lot of one game, but at the same time
there was some fine spectacular plays
made by some Of the men.
Dean, our second baseman, is al
ways on his feet and playing the
game. Much credit is due him for
stopping some mighty hot ones COM
ing his way. The game looked one
sided until Goheen sent ball over
the fence for home run with one man
on bases. This made the game lit
tie more even and the fans tried their
best to win the game for the boys
but it was no use. Just at the criti-
cal time where there was double
play to be made, an error spilled the
dope and both men were safe.
This game was the last of six
game series and was to decide the
winners of the series. Valley City
won two out Of three games at Bis
marck and Bismarck had won two
from the locals.
The game last evening was not lost
until the last man was sent to the
bench by the Capital pitcher. It came
almost being a tie game in the ninth.
when Dean sent one over the fence
with one man on bases, but it seemed
that the luck was with the visitors
again and the ball curved outside,
making it foul.
The three games were all very in
teresting games and some fine play
ing was demonstrated, although we
must admit there was some playing
that could have been better. The
coming. games with the fast N. P
team are being looked forward to by
some of the local fans as it will be
remembered they were fast bunch
and some good games are looked for
when they come.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-28
AUTO THIEVES
CAUGHT IN ACT

Fred Holland of St. Paul and Earl
Kyle giving his address as Kenmare,
N. D., were arrested last night by the
police when they were in the act of
stealing car in front of the city hall.
1t seems that the men had stolen
car belonging to D.. R. Farrell, of
Rogers and as the steering device was
locked on the car they ran into the
curbing near the Siegfried drug store.
Two girls noticed the men jump from
the car and run up the alley behind the
Peoples store. They became suspic-
ious Of the men and watched them.
They say the men came back around
the city hall near the dancing bow
cry where many cars were standing in
the middle Of the street, and again
tried their luck at taking another one.
The girls were still watching them and
notified the police who caught them
in the act Of stealing the second car.
The men were taken into custody and
will have their hearing this afternoon.
it is thought. They apparently are
two I. w, w. Both claim they were
under the influence Of liquor when
they stole the cars. They told Chief
of Police Swanson this morning that
they do not remember how they got in
Jail, or why they are there. They viii
probably tell it to the Judge this aft
ernoon.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-28
NO DECISION
ON JUDGESHlP

It is difficult to learn anything de-
finite concerning the North Dakota
judgeship appointment. Nothing has
happened since the senator's filed their
formal Endorsement and the committee
of North Dakotans left for home, ex-
cepting that protests against the ap-
pointment Of ndrew Miller have
been received at the White House
and attorney generals Office from
the branches Of the w. C. T. U. at
Fargo, Bismarck, Minot and other
local branches.
These written protests set forh
that members Of the w. C. T. u.
were not satisfied with the enforce
ment Of the prohibition law during
the holding Of the Office Of attorney
general by Miller.
The newspaper dispatches to the
Courier-News,. in which it was said
Congressman Young and Burtness
were believed to have indorsed Mil.
ler, is found to be without founda-
tion. Young and Burtness say that
they have not indorsed him. 4
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-28
ORGANIZED ACRlCULr.
TURE C0MPLlMENTED

President j. R. Howard Of the
American Farm Bureau Federation
declares that the raising Of quarter.
million dollars by certain interests at
the recent meeting in Cincinnati is q
high compliment to the effectiveness
of organized agriculture's efforts to
vitalize cooperative marketing.
II regard it as a special compli-
ment to the Farm Bureau movement
when the marketing interests which
have prospered so long at the farmers
expense band together and raise a war
chest to fight US. i am informed that
million will be raised if necessary,
to fight the cooperative marketing OF
grain. Presently, think the grain
interests will some to realize that eyens
a million is not enough Of slush
fund to stop the determined, Debated
farmers of America from marketing
their own products comparatively to
the best interests of both producer and
consumer. Ours is an economic move
ment. It has been steadily developing
for decades and tried time and again
by the fires of opposition. The Farm
Bureau has vitalized cooperative mar
keting in America. Every producer is
alive to the Importance of joining with
his neighbor to have something to say
about distributing what he grows.
The progress Of economic truth is not
to be turned aside by any slush fund
or war chest. The consuming public
is with the farmer, knowing that his
cooperative marketing plans will re-
suit in cheaper costs Of distribution
with the resulting advantage to the
buyer. The grain interests, contribut-
ing to the slush fund would better
save their money. They will need it:
because they will have to quit taking
it so essily by merely standing be-
tween the farmer and the consumer.
Nevertheless it is great compliment
to the whole farmers movement to see
the panicky efforts to stop it by rais-
ing a slush fund of quarter-million
and brazenly announcing that it will
be used to throttle the efforts of the
producers on whom they have lived all
these years." # HI
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-28
new BUILDING
FOR STATE A. c,

Il Accommodations necessary to pro-
vide for the increased number of stu
dents will be afforded by the erection
Of a new agricultural building. The
ground for which will be broken by the
time the fall term begins. Faced with
the necessity of. broadening new
plan for the future development of
buildings and grounds has been drawn
designers, and will be followed in
.,.acing the new building, according to
E. S. Keene, president Of the Agricul-
tural College. The plan calls for a
greater concentration of buildings on
the grounds.
The department of agriculture and
the extension division will occupy the
new three story building, according to
officials. A central portion Of the
building will be built with the funds
now available, with dimensions 80 by
SO feet, and plans call for additional
wings to the agricultural building in
the future. Whereas the buildings on.
the grounds now extend largely along
a single roadway, plans call for group
ing buildings that will be erected in
years to come with the present build
ings to fit the new landscape design.
Gradual changes in landscape gar
dening plans will be made according
to the new general policy, which al
ows for an indefinite extension of the
college grounds.
Indications point to a good attend
ance at the fall term, say college au-
thorities, and the new building plan is
only intended to meet an actual ne
cessity. Enrolment in the summer
session, which ends July 20, was close
to 300, total Of which is double the
number registered in the summer of
1920.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-28
HARVEY PRAY
WRITES OF TRIP

The following interesting letter has
been received by w. H. Mcpherson
from Mr.. Pray: sos s..s
.-.' ~. Er;Jo1, I1,1x, %
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-28
COUNTY
FIRST in CONTEST

Barnes county won first place in the
state demonstration contest, home
economics section, the Walsh county
team was second, and the Sargent
county team third, while in the crop
livestock section, the Sargent county
team was first, the Hettinger team
second, and Ward County third. The
contest was held at the state fair:
Grand Forks, last week, the judges
being T. A. Erickson, Minnesota club
leader, and Miss Hazel Spencer, food
specialist, North Dakota Agricultural
College extension division.
In the livestock judging contest
held the week previous at the inter-
state fair, Fargo, the Cass county
team won first place, Walsh county
second, and Grand Forks third.
The Barnes county team won the
demonstration contest, home econom-
les section, will represent the state in
the interstate contest at the Sioux
City, Iowa, fair in September. Men,
bers of the team are Edith Northridge.
Clara Nearing and Florence Noxon
all Of Grand Prairie, and coached by
Miss Helen Noxon, member of the
winning team in 1920. .-.
Individual winners in the various
home economics and livestock projects
follow: first year sewing, Anna Wick.
Hastings; second year sewing, Mil
dred Stenkie, Forman; canning, Lii
liam Olstad, Valley City; bread bak-
ing, Olive Perry, Nome; poultry, Otto
Perry, Nome; garden, Leona Hagenls-
ter, Ayr; potato, Clifford Olstad,. Val
ley City; corn, 1920, Dugman Falstad:
Hastings; corn stalks, Leroy Dunhom:
Stirum. The club winning the high
est total of points in the various
classes were: Hastings, IA points; !;
Cuba, 10 points; Velva Senior Agricul-
tural club, points; Velva Farm Boy
Cavalier club, 6 points; Green club 5
points.
The three highest members in the
various classes in the stock judging
contest will represent the state in var
ious interstate contests this fall. The
team to go to the dairy club contest
at the national dairy show in st. Paul
in October will include George Allison,
Grand Forks; James McKinnon, Cass;
and Glen Martin, Walsh. On the club
team to Sioux City will be found
James McKinnon, Gunder Midgarden:
Walsh county and George Allison. The
team to the International Exposition
contests in Chicago in November in
cludes Roy Anderson, Bottineau;
James McKinnon and Gunder Mid,
garden. E.'s'.r".ra-
The 10 high individuals in the stock
Judging contest were: James McKin-
non, first; Gunder Midgarten, second;
Charles Dewey, Sargent, third
George Allison, fourth; Allen Watt
Cass, fifth; Glen Martin, sixth; Wayne
Grippe, Cass, seventh; Theodore Grims-
rude, Sargent, eighth; Milton Drew
Walsh, ninth and Glen Moore, Dickey:
tenth. Roy Anderson was high man
in the beef class judging; George
Allison, winner in the dairy class;
Miss Ruth Stockstad, Sargent county:
winner in the draft horse class; Ben
Northridge, Barnes, sheep, and Allen
Watt, lard hogs. ..'
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-28
DISEASE
GOING AROUND

An epidemic OF meningitis, known
as polio-encephalitis, has invaded
Wadena county, Minnesota, 20 miles
east of Fargo, and already close to
300 cases have developed with a
death toll Of IL, according to DR..
o. J. Hagen Of the Fargo clinic, and
DR.. j. J. McKinnon, Wadena county
physician.
Z The epidemic has been found to
be most prevalent around Sebaka;
20 miles south of the city Of Wadena.
Five experts of the Minnesota state
board of health have been studying
the conditions in Wadena and ad-
joining counties for the last two
weeks in an effort to control the
disease and prevent its spread. It
is, feared that unless progresasis made
in the control campaign, the epi-
denis will spread over the state.
"The disease effects children most
ly," said DR.. Hagen today. "Some
are paralyzed as in the infantile par
alysis form; others develop delirium
and others dangerous brain symp-
toms that suggest the dreaded Ger
ebro-spinal meningitis. The serums
are effective in large percentage Of
the cases"
DR.. Hagen has been in Wadena
county most Of the time for the last
two weeks. He returned from Wa
dena last evening and he said that
Saturday and Sunday new cases of
the disease had been reported.
DR.. McKinnon, over the long dis
tance telephone today, said that it
was hoped now that the epidemic
had reached it's peak and that fewer
cases would be reported in the fut-
ure. He said that while the disease
had spread we'll over Wadena county
and to some extent in adjoining coun-
ties, conditions now appeared to be
improving.
Cases are mild at first and unless
noticed at once and steps taken to
cure, they become extremely serious:
Dr.. McKinnon said. Symptoms OF
the disease include high temperature
stiffness Of the neck, pain in legs:
unsettled stomach, headache, sore
throat, weakness and drowsiness.
It is stated that the unusual form
of the disease is being studied with
great care by both local doctors and
members of the state board of health.
No sure means have been found yet
to combat it but it has been found
that by proper treatment the disease
can be made less serious to an in
fected patient.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-28
.NONPARTY WRECKS
COUNTY FINANCES

Mandan, N. D., July 20.-A mass
convention Of farmers and business
men of Hettinger county was called
today at the courthouse at Mott by
County Auditor A. F. Noble as re-
suit of the critical condition caused
by tying up of practically all the
county money in the Bank of North
Dakota.
In the current issue Of the Hettinger
County Herald, Editor M. F. Connolly
declared the mass meeting Of all citi-
zens, Nonpartisan leaguers and anti
leaguers, was forced because "Het-
finger county is facing the. greatest
crisis in its history on account OF an
almost total crop failure of three Of
its banks" and the critical condition
Of the finances Of the state.
The Climax of the counyt's financial
embarrassn.en came with the closing
Of the State bank of Regent under or
ders Of the state bank examiners. APP
proximately $4,000 of the county
money was in this institution.
Schools in Hettinger County will not
open in the fall in practically every
district, it is asserted, unless some
means are devised to raise money for
their operation. s
According to ,semiof4icial figures
only Al per cent Of the taxes were
paid in Hettinger county last year.
Most of this money was tied up in the
Bank of North Dakota. I'LL.
With taxes unpaid from last year:
with three banks of the county closed
and the State Bank of North Dakota
holding money !, Of the county, the
school districts are penniless, the
county has no money to pay expenses
or salaries, it is said, and the mass
meeting was called to devise some
means Of relieving he poverty srick-
en- county departments.
It is expected that Hettinger county
will follow the example of Grant coun-
ty, adjoining, where the commissioners
have issued orders for the discharge
of all stenographers and clerks at the
courthouse, cut deputies salaries $35 a
month, affecting saving of $3.50.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-28
BILLY SUlV'D
HERI
tuesday,
( It is hard to esti

the general guess The crowd who
came to this city We day to hear the
noted evangelist is ed around four
thousands, some &c as high as five
thousand, whateveit. correct guess
there certainly was great audience.
The Chautauqua auditorium was
crowded to capacity and there were at
least several hundred standing on the
outside who were unable to get a seat.
The auditorium is supposed to seat
thirty-ive hundred people. They
came from all around the country
some as far away as seventy-five or
more miles. Mr.. Sunday was greatly
pleased at. the way the audience fol-
lowed his address. He said to the
writer that he never talked to an au-
dience that gave him better attention
and seemed to be interested in the
message he had to give them. Like
he always has been, MIR. Sunday was
not choice in his language and some
times bordered on the rough, so we
presume that is characteristic Of great
men with regulations like Sunday has.
If any preacher in Valley City or the
editor Of this paper used the same
kind of language that this evangelist
uses, CdCu dAO SVc1y VHc WOuu OS
bawled out of town, but then we have
not gained a reputation like unto Billy
Sunday-an and after all we must admit
that with all his rough stuff he has
done a wonderful work in revivals
Yesterday he did not talk on religion
but chose for his subject Safety
First" and those who heard him say
that it was great talk. He dwelt on
Americanism mostly, showing ur
Bolshevism, socialism, and it's kind.
red spirits with all the attendant evils
of the same, took slap at capital and
another at labor and in fact went aft
er everything without gloves. He did
not mince matters any, and hit at the
conditions in this state and pounded
into his audience the fact that the
state should get back to safety first
Mr. Sunday is a live wire talker and
gets worked up into real state Of
enthusiasm almost bordering on frenzy
He jumps up on chairs and tables
bangs the furniture around the stage
He taks about as fast as a machine
gun can shoot and unless you keep
very close tab on his talk you are. apt
to lose lot of it. Mr.. Sunday, per-
haps, has the reputation of being one
of the greatest platform evangelists
in this country. Many people do not
like his language or methods at times
yet they travel hundreds Of miles to
hear this man, who has been the
cause Of more alleged repentant sin
ners hitting the sawdust trail than
any other man in America. His talk
yesterday, according to the general
opinion, was crackerjack, and we
have heard it repeatedly said chat it
would do more good along political
lines than any talk we have had mere
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-28
ROzELLA BRUINS
WINS CONTEST

/. A very interesting township CALI
feeding contest has just lately been
concluded in Noltimier Township with
Miss Rozella Bruins the winner. Her
prize is a pure bred Holstein calf val
ued at 5000 and donated by DR.. Van
.Houten. The contest was staged un-
der the direction of Professor Schroed-
er, himself an ardent Holstein man.
with eleven students of the school en-
tering. Of these eleven, seven fin
ished the contest. The idea in the con-
test was to secure most weight at the
least cost and Miss Bruins calf show
ed a gain of IS pounds at the end Of
the month. The rations were hay:
milk, ground feed and some calf meal
Geneva Bruins came second in the con-
test with gain for her calf of 81.5
pounds. The young lady will have her
choice of three of the doctors calves.
Miss Rozella is at present in her Sec
ond year Of the High school.
DR.. Van Houten made this calf
feeding contest offer to quite a num-
ber of the other township schools of
the county but Noltimier was the only
school that responded. A calf valued
at SZVV IS certainly prize IudL ~
worth while and speaks well for the
generosity of the doctor, particularly
in view Of the fact that this offer was
made to other schools as we'll as Nolti-
nier. We are glad to see girl win
this contest for it shows that girls
an be just as good "agriculturists"
IS the boys. Contests of this kind
ire certainly worth while and it is to
e hoped that other enterprising men
# the county will follow the doctors
Example.