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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-27

I had q hard time getting the money
to buy cattle with. 1t was finally
through the aid Of c.. R. Hodge Of the
Citizens National bank. to whom I
went in my despair. that I secured the
money that made my success possible.
when I told my situation to Nh.
Hodge he said, How much would you
need to start WITH I told him I
figured could get a pure-bred sire
and some good heifers for $500. He
said. Would $500 fix you up then?'
and he deposited that amount to my
credit. and gave me a check book
II Cows and q Bank Account.
cit was the first check book I had
had nnce I left Wisconsin. If I'd
think I'd have owned one yet I in
vested practically all of that Ave
hundred dollars in cattle. Since then
I have had as many as $50 head on
the place at one. time. I owe all my
success to the proceeds from live
stock, milk and a The cattle
have done it all. At present I have
100 Hoisteins and so Herefords. I
began with 240 acres and now own
1850 acres, for which the cows have
paid.
Tn 1916 I built the dairy barn at
a cost Of about $4,000. I have spent
nearly SIS, 900 for equipment. 1 have
two silos. one of 140-ton capacity built
in 1915 for $425. and one 200-ton one
built in 1918 for $3.50. I feed silage
almost the yea round.
Could Wheat DO This?
81 am my wv herdsman and keep
two men the year round. and three
during the summer. I deliver milk in
town the e round. We r 10
miles from Jamestown, where We find
a ready market for the milk and
cream. My milk checks average over
$3.50 per month the year round. In
! June last year our checks ran over
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-27
Hand to Mouth Buv,,,e.

The general volume Of business, still
hangs on hand-to-mouth buying, for
futures find slow sale. Yet the senti-
ment of the many is not discouraged
as 1t has already discounted the quiet
OF times h a await US till spring
opens. Cotton, with its usual coqtra-
riness. went down in price when ev-
y expected 1t to 81 up, but the
grains. are showing sustained strength,
which is dis%concerting to those specu-
lators who prophesied lower figures as
the result OF SO seriously reducing
speculative activity in futures.
Lumber is waiting patiently for re-
auctions in freight, and for that in
creased building in the coming spring,
which all the factors in construction
are gradually tending to make a GER
tainty. The shoe industry continues
to hold its own. especially in the pro-
duction of less expensive types. Wage
adjustments are helping the situation
In New England. 53'7
Textiles are doing we'll on the whole,
more especially when compared with
some other industries, say iron and
steel manufactures which are Still
but partly employed. There is a lit
tie more activity in lead and zinc min
ing, but the Banquo's ghost which
hangs over the situation will not
uoWn Is the Stlll large surplus above
ground in this country and across the
water, especially in Australia This is
another phase of the irony Of the pre-
vailing economic situation, that our
chief trouble lies in too much actual
wealth on hand for which we are I'M
able to find demand. More hopeful
matters in copper are reflected in
somewhat higher prices and somewhat
increased activity in mining in the
southwest and northwest. Also stocks
on hand Showed ~appreciable reduction
during the past twelve months.
Despite much cold weather in north
ern latitudes, coal mining is In a,par-
lous state, with a much reduced out
put in the bitumipous field, with
spring coming on, and no. great in
dustrial revival yet in sight. Prices
of oil are on again, off again, after
the fashion of the Immortal Flana-
gan. Some increased production re-
suited in small price declines. But no
one doubts what the future holds. for
those who can hold on and can play
a long range game that is an immortal
clnch. 1t is no place, however, for
the piker. Just now the Mexia, Tex
as, field has the lead.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-27

in ways political by special tariff, and
the class legislation, all in the specious
guise of being for the general good.
Nor need we be greatly concerned by
any such d~ivergences on the farmers
part, should they occur, in view of
the prevailing sane, sober Of the
man next to; the soil, and the popular
constituencies against class privileges
for any set of men. It Is truly the case
today that the things the farmers
movements r most concerned in are
the very things that will soonest bring
us back to better conditions.
One Also learns what wrong con-
ceptions we get from those solemn fic-
tons which tell in engaging graphs
and rye howsthe cost of living de-
clined so many decimal points in the
past month, and yet the average
price" received by the producer OF
farm commodities advanced SO many
decimal points during the same thirty
days. Here is something I ran across
to illustrate what these same statis-
tics fail to record in many. thousand
instances. A farmer had some corr
to sell but could find no local demand
at,25 cents a bushel'or less, for all the
farmers around were in the same pre-
dicament as himself, having raised
corr than they could CELL or had
AvOSlOCA " Leu ". LIE nearest mar
ket of any consequence was a large
city some ITO miles away. The freight
and commission and other charges to
this city summed up about Is cents a
bushel for all expenses on the corn il
shipped in carload lots. Also the
farmer was off the railroad some lit
tie distance. On this basis he could
get 80 cents per bushel for his corn,
from which vas further to be deduct
ed the cost Of shocking and hauling
the 500 to 800 bushels, necessary to
make up the car to the railroad sta
ton. If. however, he had to ship
in leas than car lots, which IS not us
ually done. the increase in freight
rates would be so great that after ali
shipping and other charges were paid
he would have gotten eight cents PEI
bushel net for his corn. The farther
away the farmer is from a railroad
or from a masket where he can find
a sale for his products, the more the
prices he gets for his commodities re.
mindsyou of the attraction of gravita.
ton which decreases inversely as tho
square OF. the distance, and of the lin.
tied resemblance they bear to those
gravely quoted as the average" fig.
ures that the agriculturist receives fo1
his products. =.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-27
GREAT GRANDSON
OF ROBERT BURNS
DIES AT WINNIPEG

Winnipeg, Man, Feb. 27.-Robert
Turns Thomson a great grandson of
Robert Burns, Scottish poet, died
Wednesday morning at 1873 Ethelbert
street, Winnipeg. of heart failure.
In early life Mr.. Thomson was a
power-loom tenter, having served his
apprenticeship at. Thornliebank, un-
son.. who was mill-manager to Mr..
Scott, of Bridgeton, Glasgow. His
father and he went to Glasgow, and
begana business as mill furnishers.
Afterwards the business of BRUSH
making was added. Meeting with a
severe railway accident which inca
FACILITATED him for business for several
years, Mr.. Thomson in 1884 moved
with his wife and family of seven
children to Winnipeg where he re-
manned for about q year, then went
resided until in 1909 he retired and
made his home in Winnipeg.
Mr.. Thomson was born April s.
1847, in Pollockshawsr Scotland. His
grandmother was elizabeth Hyslop
Burns, the daughter Of Robert Burns
and Ann Park, Anna of the gowden
Pocks," niece of Mrs. Hyslop, land
lady Of the Globe Tavern, Dumfrtes.
Elizabeth never knew her mother, but
found \ ! and a~ffectionate
substitute in Mrs. Burns, and she
was brought up along with Burns
other children, with the tenderness
surprising ven the tenderness OF
woman"
Betty" as she was familiarly cali
ed, married John Thomson, then a
soldier located with his corps in
Dumfries. Later they settled down at
Pollockshaws. John on completing
his term of SERVICE I'm the militia, re-
turning to his original trade OF weav-
ing. They had eight children, the
best known Of whom were a daugh-
ter. the wife OF David Wingate, the
miner poet, James Glencairn Thorn
son, and Robert Burns Thomson,
father of the deceased.
Mr.. Thomson had the poetical gift,
and he has left a volume Of poena
= songs, which he intended to pub
fish. His CHEEKY sparkling wit stayed
With him to the end.
He leaves his widow and three
daughters and four sons: Mrs. e. J
WhitbreAd, OF Pine street; Mrs. Fair
Held, of sLockport, and Miss Lily
Thomson; r. b. Thomson, 8 Lang.
ruth, Man. and j.. G. Thomson, W. B
Thomson and j.. LIN. Thomson, OF
Winnipeg.
The funeral will be held today al
8 p. m. from the family residence On
Ethelbert street, to, Kildonan GENE.
terry.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-27
(By Archer Wall Douglas, Chairman,
Committee on Statistics and Stand
ards, Chamber of Commerce Of. the
United States.)

Business is more or less in a state
OF Information, and quiet times are
likely to continue until the Spring
comes. ..
This is the conclusion I reached
after travelling from the endless prai-
ries of the Great Plains states to the
financial capitals of the East, all
within the space OF a week.
On the one hand I found a financial
atmosphere, tense with worldwide
problems, great constructive plans,
and fraught with all name of hopes
and doubts and fears; and on the 9TH
er, the short and simple annals of the
countryside, where similar great prob
lens are silently and in homely fash
ion working themselves out under your
very Eyes.
You learn from those you meet that
the farmer is really after an equality
of opportunity rather than special
privilege. In ways financial, in times
past, he was distinctly handicapped as
to borrowing money, rather by cir
cumstances than by the fault Of any
one in particular. Likewise, in far.
tricts off the railroad, he suffered
from lack of adequate and economic.
al transportation whereby to market
his products. Want of educational ia.
c~ilities and opportunities was the worst
Of all. Often one-room school houses
with scant equipment, educational OF
sanitary. poorly paid teachers, chill.
dren walking miles to school through
snow INT ice and mud. The high
school usually a long way off IL
some large town. Country roads tina,
were clouds of dust in summer ant
impossible in winter. Such too otter
was the story, and those who stuck tt
the farm under such circumstance.
| did so because they could not get away
! or because they loved nature. rather
than the ease, comfort and social life
of the city.
So now that there are many gooc
roads and many more buildings, bet,
ter transportation, more equitable di
vision of the states money for educa.
ton, and constantly easier and moro
accessible borrowing facilities, nat.
urally the farmer is doing all he car
to improve his condition; if %perchancs
he should "slop over" somewhat. il
seeking class privileges, we need no,
wonder since we set him the example
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-27
SOUTH ST. PAUL.
LIVE STOCK.

South st. Paul, Feb. 27.-(U. S.
Bureau of Markets.)-Cattle receipts
uneven. mostly 25@50c higher; COM
mon to medium beef steers $4,000
8.25; bulk $6.5O@7.25; best load lots
today $500; butcher cows and heifers
$4.o0@7.5O; bulk $4.00@6.00; few up
to $500; Gamers and cutters $2.506
3.75; bulk $2.75 and up; bologna bulls
1926 @4.25; bulk $3.5O@4.00; stock
ers and feeders strong to Csc higher;
bulk $5.75@6.75; calves receipts 800;
market steady; practical packer top
on best lights $3.50; few up to 5000
seconds ,$5.50@6.50.
Hog receipts 5000; mostly Csc
higher; good light and light butchers
bid $10.75; best held higher; bulk
$l0.35 q 1875; pigs unevenly higher;
choice 120 pound pigs $11.25. f
Sheep receipts 1000; market slow;
weak to Csc lower; receipts mostly on
through billing; medium native lambs
$14.00; nething choice in early.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-27
Chauncey Depew Recalls
Days OF Hobnobbing;
With British Royalty

New York.-Days of hob-nohbing
with Queen Victoria, the Prince Of
Wales. who became King Edward
VII. and other notables OF England
are recalled by Chauncey M. Depew,
IN the fifth instalhnent OF his Leaves
from MY Autobiography. published in.
the March number of Scrtbner's
Magazine.
The famous New York railroad
q ex-senator and raconteur, tells
OF q conversation between Queen Vic
torta and Queen Idlioukalani of Ha-
wal during the formers jubilee, told
him at that time by a court officer.
to Queen Victoria: Your majesty, I
am q blood relative Of yours
"How so?" was the queens aston
why" said Liioukalani, my
grandfather ate your Captain Cook"
MI. Depew recounts many dinners,
luncheom and talks with the Prince
equerry awakened him one night at
Homburg, q German watering place.
saying the prince was on the terrace
and wanted to see him. What he de-
erred was to discuss American affairs,
and Mr.. Depew conversed with him
until daylight At table lit by one
candle.
Once Mr.. Depew went from HON.
burg to the nearby ~5nerve-curel OF
Nauhe:nn, where Mark Twain was ON
q yacauonswdth Doctor Joseph Twtch-
ell Of Hartford, Conn.,, his home town
pastor. Doctor Twichell was bright
humorist, and often furnished sinSthe
Mark Twain's workshop became per-
feet gems" MT. Depew reports.
The famous af~ter-dinner speaker
Invited Mark Twain toea dinner, and
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-27
CHEAPER EGGS FOR LENT,

Chicago. Feb. 27.-Cheap eggs for
Lent were s~ignalized today by q new
drop in quotations.. Today's prices
showed a fall of a cent a dozen per
day for the past tensdays.
The wholesale quotations for first
quality eggs here today was 24c, as
against SAC on the corresponding day
q year ago as we'll as Tor ten days
back this season. ge4ss ~, ~ I'd
Mild weather and big receipts were
the reason assigned for 2 decline.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-27
Hints on Sidewalk Construction
By w. G. KAISER.
Agricultural Engineer

n BROOM is one of the necessary
a pieces of equipment around the
house. 1t is usually detested because it is
such a back breaking job 10 use it..
Much necessary cleaning-up work about
the house is eliminated when walks are
built between the house and barn and
other buildings.
Of course the farmers wife will benefit
most by a walk, but it also appeals to
the men folks who get little pleasure from
wading through mud.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-27

crushed rock. A sack of cement holds I
cubic foot.
Bank-run gravel, or gravel as it comes
from The bank should not be used unless
it IS u over a Il inch mesh screen and
the sand and pebbles mixed with cement
in a ~ 4.prorortion as explained before.
The sand to be used should be clean
and range from The: Smallest particles
to these which will just pass through a
II inch screen. The pebbles or crushed
rock should be clean and should rang,
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-27
SELLS TEAM.

Augusta Ca, Ftsb. 27.-MArvihh
Wolfe. owner Of the Augusta baseball
club Of the South AtlAptic 1eaSue. am
nounced today he had sold the team
Eto 9 sroup of.lccal men, among them
Detroit Americans.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-27
pRODJrCE

Chicago, Feb. 27.-Butter, higher:
receipts 6,9s2 tubs; creamery extras
So IL; firsts 31@35 IL; seconds 2s@
80; standards 35. IT.
Cheese unchanged.
Eggs lower; receipts 21,647 cases:
firsts "a; ordinary firsts 20@21; mis-
cellaneous 22@23. .
Poultry alive unchanged; fowls q:
springs %; ROSTERS IS. -
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in size from Il to ~ inches. : Only
enough water should be used to give 4
quaky or jelly-like consistency, after
thorough mixing.
Concrete sidewalks may be made of
both m or two courses but the former
IS recommended. BY one course con-
sttuction we mean that the same con-
crete mixture IS placed the fun thickness
Of the walk at one time while in the
two course construction the walk is
made in two layers. The. lower layer
ksa lean mixture and four or FIVE inches
thick while the top, one inch, IS a rich
mixture. Due to the difficulty Of getting
e. good bond between. the two layers
there Is danger of the top layer crack
ing.
a few hours after the walk ha. been
finished It should be covered with moist
earth or straw and kept wet for at least
week. At the end Of this time the
walk cam be put into service.
Concrete sidewalks besides being at
tr1cdv and convenient and saving much
hard work for the farmers wife, are
permanent. In other words they WIN
not nerd anyS care in maintaining them.
~ ZEIELlL 10y 49, E4Ff. LLfTN HEHFf
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pR0nTIC

New York, Feb. 27.-Live poultry
steady; broilers 40@42; fowls 29@
go; chickens Is; ROSTERS IL; turkeys
10000. =
Dressed poultry firm; western
chickens 26@42; fowls 1901; old
ROSTERS 1903; turkeys 47@50.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-27
CHICAGO.
GRAM AVID PRoyIsIoNs3

-. J. E[W|g-N .s7N. .1Ns1.. 49, I. ". stftE ,TEU
Chicago, Feb. 27.---NNeW nigh Price
Q for the season were attained
today in h wheat market. May sde-
livery at h opening Jumped TO With
In half cent OF $3.50 q .bushei, n
goal to which bulls sometimes had;
directed their efforts. a fresh I'd
vance in quotations at Liverpool was
the principal reason for q ~
turn here. Free selling Ito realize
Profits ensued. The opening. which
ranged from IL to 2 5-Sc higher;
with May $1.48 to 1.4S 1-2 and July
S1.26 IL to 1.27, were followed by a
moderate setback from initial top
i1gures.
corn ana oats with wheat
70 .tne hlgnesl period yet TINS season.
A AT NO. ope so ~ ed ~; 70 aZs,cehes
up, way % - . q, corn lnarAet
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-27
GRAIN RECEIPTS.

Duluth, Feb. 27.-Elevator receipts,
domestic grain, flax $500.
Duluth Car Inspections: Wheat, No.
1 and 2 dark northern and NtAs1 and
No. 2 northern 4;HNo. 1 and 2famber
'.durum and No. i and 2 durum 1; No.
3 amber durum and No. 3 durum Q;
other durum 4; mixed A. all. wheat
Is; rye Z. All grains %; on track AZ.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-27
FoREIGN ExCHANGE RAISES.

New York, Feb. 27.-Foreign ex-.
&ange bills on London, Paris and
Milan. were at highest quotations in
several years here today presumably
on the outcome of Saturdays confer
ence between the British and French
premiers at Boulogne. ~.
Demand bills on London rose to
Sab 3-S, a gain of two cents from
last weeks final prices. Il r
Paris demand bills rose IA points to
921 1-2 and the Italian rate gained.
10 points at SIS. The Geremans mark
was depressed, however, selling at
45-100ths.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-27

At the age OF IL Mir Phoebe Gage,
Il London Eirl. has written - play and
ii has been produced with considerable
SUCCESS. a RI
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-27
NEW YORK
STOCKS

& New York, Feb. 27.-Trading be-
came faHerishly active on the stock
exchange today, the first hours sales
approaching $4,000 shares. Steel
continued their reactionary of
last week. Bethlehem Crucible, Gulf
States and LackaWanna losing 1 IL
to 2 points. This was more than off
rails oils. equipments, shippings and
prominent specialties.
Canadian Pacific. Texas and Pacific,
Missouri Pacific, common and pre-
ferred, Pere Marquette and Chicago
and Alton, gained 1 to 1 1-2 points.
Standard Oil Of New Jersey, Mexican
Petroleum, General Asphalt, Royal
Dutch, Shell Transport, Mercantile
Marine, preferred and American In
ternational rose L to 2 points and
Sears Roebuck, May Department
similar gains. Call money opened at
5 per cent.
Last weeks active and upward
movement of popular issues made
further substantial progress at the
opening Of today's stock market.
Rails, motors and oils continued to
feature the rise, several Of the sec
|Studebaker and Sinclair making new
high records for the year. American
Locomotive, General Electric, Ameri-
can Wooden and Market Street Rail-
way, prior preferred, rose. / to almost
2 points. Foreign exchanges We're
buoyant in the preliminary quotations,
rejecting latest developments in
An~glo-FTench relations.
Buying converged on the copper is
sues and they advanced 1 to ! 1-2
points. Their strength, however, was
seemingly utilized to effect distribu-
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~ H -
make a concrete walk, ~
providing they follow a ~
few simple instructions. In the y
first place the ground where the
walk is to be built should be drained,
leveled and well packed before the con-
crete is placed. O
Forms are most easily made Of 2 by
finch lumber set on edge and held in
place by stakes, as shown in the drawing.
Nothing could be more simple to make
than as sidewalk. It is laid IN q single
thickness and No reinforcing is required.
This viii make q walk 4 inches thick
which is ample under ordinary conditions.
Where driveways cross the walks it is =
good plan to increase the thickness to
s inches. In making forms the tons of
the 2 by IS should be the height Of the
walk so that they will serve as q guide,
for ? / bys4 straight edge to be used as
. tempSet IN leveling the concrete when
filling.
After the concrete has been carefully
struck of with . templet, the surface
should be finished with . wooden float
in order to give II a gritty surface. A
metal float makes . smooth slick sur
face which Is not desirable because It
IS Likely 70 become slippery ID wet
weather
For practically IN concrete sidewalk
construction, . 1874 mix is recon-
mended. This means that each sack Of
Cement Is mfxed with two cubic FEET q
sand and 4 cubic feet Of pebbles Q
n GAgEIHa.f slHIH a-&fEHi
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PRODUCE

New York, Feb. 27.-Butter firm;
receipts 6,631, creamery higher than
extras 37@37 1-2c: creamery extras
90 score, So 1-4@36 IL; creamery
firsts 88 to 81 score 80 1906. J.
\. Eggs, weak; receipts 1854; fresh
gathered extra frsts 81; ditto firsts %
@30.
Cheese, steady: receipts 1857;
whole milk flats, fresh specials. 20 1-2
OIL; do average III 10 5000;
state whole milk fresh twins specials
10000 IL; do average run - IL!
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-27

Minneapolis, Feb. 27.-F1our un,
changed: shipments 50;60s, barrels.
Bran $4,000. ..s
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Continued on Page 15.)
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The dr.wirs shows q
onder Or sr.vel base
under the walk. 1.-THE
soil is reasonably firm
the aabbsse en- b.
= omitted.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-03-30
Hamlet 3, Rham z.

Hamlet Highs won from Rock.
ingham Highs at James Field at
Hamlet Tuesday by score of 3-2,
1t was close game to lose, from
the locals standpoint. But they
have the satisfaction of feeling
that a return game can reverse
the score and even matters and
this they intend doing.
X The R'ham lineup was: Ernest
Coble, catcher; Bob Covington,
pitcher; Robert Covington lst;
Johnnie Webb End; Frank Eller-
be 3rd; Olen Smith short; Billy
Meacham RI; Harry West cf;
George Covington If. McCracken
sub for Meacham in 9Th. Hits,
triple and single Coble, singles
by Meacham, Webb and Bob
Covington. Rockingham 2 runs,
5 hits,k6 errors. Hamlet 3 runs,
6 hits, 6 errors.
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School Location Tied.

The matter of a location fol
the new high school building fo1
Rockingham is at present a tie
5 members of the School Board
voting Tuesday night for the
property owned by the Board
between Robinson and LeGrand
streets, adjoining the Park; and
5 voting for the proposed site at
the Fair Grounds.
Mrs. w. c. Leak was out of
town Tuesday night, and so was
unable to vote. Another meeting
of the Board will be held Friday
night at which she will be pres
ent and cast the deciding vote as
to the location of the building.
The eyes of the town, figuratively,
are now turned to her to break
the tie and by her one vote say
where the high school pupils
shall receive their education.