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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-08-31
Ward Co. Fair-Sept

Wizard Co. Fair-sept. 1915 -
Lee Receives % Cents Premium on
Wheat
John J. Lee shipped two car loads
sof Marquis wheat raised on his farm
sone mile from Genoa. He received a
premium of % cents per bushel, the
wheat testing Is per cent gluten.
,-Ward Co. Fair-sept. i2-l5-
Ducks Feed in Grain Fields Early
Ducks appear to be more numerous
than ever in the lakes southwest of
Mmot. The writer saw them flying
10y the thousands Sunday evening,
eastward towards the grain fields to
feed. They are feeding two or three
weeks earlier than usual. Practically
AL OF them are nice big fat mallards
That will be in prime condition by the
lime the hunting season opens Sept.
-d6.
- Ward Co. Fair-sept. 1915 -
IFaris Purchases De Luxe Grocery
Will Faris, we'll known Minot gro
ceryman, has purchased the Deluxe
Grocery, on Second avenue N. W..
formerly known as Franklin street.
He VIII open for business Friday. This
is an excellent location and as Mr..
Faris' connection with various stores
'thruout the city has given him wide
acquaintance with the public he is
bound to enjoy good patronage. Mr..
Faris informs the Independent that he
will add materially to the stock and
will have equipment sufficient to ac-
sconmodate his trade in every partic-
sular. The Faris family have lived
in that quarter of the city for many
years
Ward Co. Pair-sept. 12-15-.
Fire at the Larson Candy Factory ,
Fire Friday night did considerable
damage to the building occupied by
the Larson Candy Co., South Main
street. The stove set fire to some
paper nearby and a can Of ether on
"a Shelf exploded The fire worked
Its way into the wall making it hard
for the firemen to put it out. Some
damage was done to the Larson stock
land fixtures.
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and | found that Oscar wasn't having
squeezed banana at 10 in the morning as my
dearest friends baby was. "No banana! Nc
squeezed banana at 10" she exclaimed. sYour
child will have ricketts, and colds in the head
II you don't give him bananas And they are
SO good for the eyes. DR.. Hurley Burley
says--- And in five minutes little book
was produced little larger than my Bolt. |
quoted Bolt; she quoted Burley; we got almost
mad. Then we calmed down and started all
over, but must confess that after nv dear
est friend went home | purchased Burlav
and Oscar began getting squeezed banana.
had noticed that my friends BurIey had been
revised two months after Bolts last revision.
SO was Convinced Burley was a bit more u,
to date
Five weeks later my sister wrote me from
Three Forks, Iowa, that all the babies in Three
Forks were getting peppered tomato Juice ne
New-York tribune., 1922-11-19

- YER since they were first invented
@ hotels have been exciting places. This
G~--s remains more than ever true to-day.
particularly in our great metropolitan
hastslries. Would my reader like TO Join nse
in a stroll through some Of our public palaces
df net, he has simply to skip this article alto
gether- But | hope he win accompany me-
a. least as far as the lobby, fer, once In, /
Jam sure the spell will grip him, the fascina-
ZION and animation of these enormous social
hives. Hotels have always fascinated me.
They are so lively and vivid. They stand In
q peculiar relation To life They are the point
of contact Of city with all the outside world.
Under one roof the ends of the earth are
brought together. On the hctei register Pinky
Glst, the COW puncher, rubs shoulders with the
Rajah Singh Pooch, of Singapore. The d.
vans of the lounge, the tea tables and dining
rooms assemble representatives of every race.
We know what the village hotel means in the
rural community. We know that it's proprietor
ds privileged person, man looked up to,
the keeper of keys of the city, in way, for
Through his portals must pass the stranger
who enters the local gates. 1t is he who knows
sthe name and designation of the slick-looking
3city fel!er who is even now picking his teeth
aon the front porch. Tde hotel proprietor is
80 power. He may stand in league with the
slaw and be close confdani of the sheriff,
thus protecting the community from the dep
redations of suspicious characters. His back
room, with its erstwhile open bar may stand
for strict legal Interpretation or be more hui
manely administered. have known few inn
Keepers of this simple type who seemed to
have suffered from dryness Their resorts re-
main the meeting place of the joyous and con-
8vivially minded. But the drama and movie
shaye sufficiently exploited the 'hick" hotel.
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"Stucce as Applied to Clients.o r...
win be dispensed during luncheon - ,aasM
hours, meals extra. The hotel libray, ss as sa
choice supply OF standard works Il have Ga
wondered who came to New York 10 reaa ss''a Nv.
lopez. In the evening there is choice .a0l
dancing with professional interludes 1ss.sen aq
matte performance by the Harvard so.,. wa. "a.
Buakin Club, twenty-five assorted b.s..e aaa
and moving pictures Of "Wild Animals 'alss y
Dodged," by Or. Walter e. Traprock r.s asys
day there is similar feast.
And all the time there is romance ~.
more than ever before our hotels a.. i
meeting places of soul mates, the Ysnds,,.a' -
OF romantics of all ages. The halls a.. sss -
creetly lighted. A dim atmosphere is The MAJ
ern node, artistic and conducive TO petsiss ,.
And they are so vast, these edifcex t..4
them a young lady may easily lose bers.,s =
nay, worse, she may easily lose her rnotbsv =
80 ana told, at times her husband, Alon. ~
comfortable lounges Of the high-ceilingad W.
one may sit and watch the developmsrs =
many an interesting affair, sometimes &.
dawn, sometimes the denouement, the has,.
ming or the end of quarrel Ny friend y
garth has drawn typical frieze ilustrass.
what goes on every day. His drawing Il ,.s
ticalarly interesting TO me, because sors !
the people in 1t happen to be friends Of M.
the men, that Is. The young man in the sa
die, who is looking so alertly at the cute Vi
in the sailor hat, is my country neighhor H.
gins. The older man on the right, who s ava
ing Wiggins so severely, is Mr. Plat ii.
father-in~law. But Mr.. Platt is not tbinkr,
of going over and speaking severely 10 Ms.
gins. Not at all. He Ia wondering how /,
can get himself and his own little friend eps .
that corridor without attracting son.in.law,
attention. / am constantly seeing lust sues
little domestic comedies as this taking olaea
amid the hustle and hustle Of our fascirata,
modern hotels.
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her shoulder at the little red book she was
reading. Instead of giving me d;rtv ,ooL
Wnlcn sne could SO easily have done, she i'm
Vised me TO Join her in the reading. "The
newest thing out in baby feeding she con.
flded' and at once was interested.
"Nettnet?' asked her, though the red
cover did not look familiar.
"oh. no! Not Nettnet! This is Plutra snS
IL is SO sensible. SO sane. Just read tbis J, arc
sad. And | read. 1t said: .It is not neeas.
sary TO cook cereals Eve hours. In fact. +ha
less Sney are cooked the better. Excent i,
extreme cases, / would never cook the cerea,
at all. Then only for minute.n
BESIDES being so sensible. said tho ,.dv
noaern mother, think how econonaicalv,
flutfa IS now an old story. Then car,e
"ssfes, then Jones, then HoW. tho Jarst,asa
s,O Wp.iasi. Oscar is almost year old and we
si'nost need another room, for the librarv {
sn1 'uss pain up 9 tree trying to figure opt
now much Oscar should weigh. Bv n;sfsre
.ast night picked up my old Bolt. Paa,;ve
.,s my error, ] went TO my Burlev iuss s,~
run ana nnally spent the whole NIGHT ;,,,,,,.
'iis 1rona one book to the other irving tn s;g4
science down ! worked hard. I usaa s,
oic Wfiting pad and several pencils. ara haa
- put IN new electric light bulh twica p.,s
ths aa you Deneve me, in all those books. IN ali
.noss pages Of all my scientific babv bf,aIs
shere was only one thing upon which all I,' -,
thorities agreed. ss'' Aaa Az
lney az said: "Let them cry ID out,
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warned me that as of old, an element Of
danger lurked at my side Once / wit
messed an incident Of theft and capture under
my very nose. 1t happened in the cafe. A
very swagger young man laid a $50 bill on
the counter and asked for change. AS the
cashier counted out four fives the youth seized
them with his own twenty and quietly but
swiftly made for the door. He was captured
at the street entrance by a stone-faced house
detective. How the cashier gave the signal /
do not know. The whole matter was attended
to with splendid silent precision. saw the
thief dragged back and subjected to rough
preliminary search, which yielded nothing more
valuable than ower-shaped cut glass vase.
| remember that at the time this struck me as
an absurd thing to steal and could only ac-e
count for it by presumng that the poor chaps
taste had been hopelessly perverted by the
bronze cat-o'-nine-tals with electric bulbs for
cats or whatever it is you call the fuzzy part,
and the malachite tables with gold legs which
surrounded him in all parts of the hotel Con-
sldered in that light, the. act of stealing any
thing as sensible as $50 seemed positively meri-
torious.
The only historian who could ever describe
httingly the gorgeousness of that particular
period of New York hotel design would be that
eminent author, P. T. Barnum! Alas! he
lived too early to do it Justice, but in
his autobiography, in describing the glories
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country are responding to peppered tomato
9uice. Don't tell me you have never heard
OF Nettnet. Graciousp'
~ ofoer not to appear backwoodsy to nv
iowa sister sent for a eNettnet MannaIn
oscar mad done fairly well on BurIey's ba-
nanas. And he did only fairly well on Nett
lsa nes peppered tomato. It took him SO long to
ssl accustomed to the taste. Nettnet declared
.a. 10y ossaF would have no taste in the matter.
that Oscar did, 'fss'4ss
For the most part, Oscar did do we,I u,,aa,.
Nettnet. BY that / mean that hs slent ha
laughed and he cried and gained Now and
ehen I had TO call In the nearby doctor !,
stralghten him out with little medic;ne MA
ON the whole he did well. ~
Then, by chance, one day / got Is talking
70 mother in a streetcar We were a;tt;,s.
side by sides and could not help loo;xirg ova,.
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mercial' in spite of having torn out some OF
locked like Victorian widow, trying TO
appear young.
Just about the time the Baker House began
to skid / moved definitely to the metropolitan
area, just at the beginning of the decade Of
lavishness which suddenly flung itself on New
York. The tragic Buckingham fire and the
tearing down of the old Grand Union were iso-
lated examples of the gradual ending Of the
cid bowl-and- pitcher period What followed
in the way of hotel architecture is almost too
terrible to be described Various piles were
erected for hotel use. bearing the names of
illustrious knickerbockor families which the
designer sought to glorify in terms of red
and yellow marbles, bronze, gold, mahogany
and other colorfu compounds. The net result
almost everywhere was chaos. Probably moth
ing ever set American taste further back on
it's launches than this riotous outbreak of
style which has been described as being that
of Louis the Limit.
Hotels at that time began to increase enor-
nlously in size, occasionally finding their linn
its only with those of a city block. They took
unto themselves interior streets. But they
never lost their fascination. Wide-eyed, used
TO walk the length of Peacock Alley, drinking
in the intoxicating atmosphere of luxury, the
soft, sweet perfumes, the distant strains of
music, the soft glances of sirens, which
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fnere H0s only thing which oil authorities ogreed
They all agreed: lie thens cry il our

A GREAT deal has been said and great
"a deal contradicted upon the subject of
- -aA- The Care of Children and person
ally am up tree. / don't know
how other mothers and fathers feel about it
(provided the fathers feel at all), but an,
up tree.
When little Oscar was born ran. like most
modern mothers, to science "A scientific
baby was what all babies were being, and as
was modern mother little Oscar had no
choice He was to be q DR.. Bolt baby, and
our library was increased by one small
volume should say our library was in
creased By two volumes. ] bought two copies.
In case one ever got misplaced / would al
ways have the other to look for.
! planned great deal on Oscars perfec-
tion. he would be perfect and become Presi-
dent in 1876. Scientific mothers have wav
of knowing what's going to happen. For in
stance, Bolt says that teeth first appear in
the baby's mouth from the fourth to tenth
month. After that you can look for them most
any time and anywhere. Along about the
sixth year ycu may even find them embedded
IN baseball or tied to string.
knew my Bolt inside and out could even
catch Bolt in few contradictions in his own
book For example, on page 90. in the second
paragraph, upon the question of What TO do
when baby first laughs" he saya: leave the
room at once In no way recognize the laugh
And on page 66, in the first paragraph, he
says bearing directly upon the same question:
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tired bartender. "It woulda been aw-
full embarrassin' fer him to die Of eatin' poi
soned candy that was sent him in the mail.
He'd feel like motorcycle cop that got run
over by hearse.
.'As it was, he got lotta advertiser out Of
it that he wouldn't never of ordered an
prob'ly won't do him no good. Candy-eatin'
is vice cop had oughta try to hide If he's
got it an here the cables have been spreadin'
the news all over the world that the head
of Scotland Yard is candy addict.
at amt only that, but poison candy is in
the same class with the gold brick; there
don't nobody that pretends to be dope art
ist try to poison anybody with candy any
more. Why even the poor, ignorant foreign
er that was out to kill an innocent old bird
( of an archbishop few years ago didn't risk
Mtryin' poison candy on him.
M "Either it plain nut or else awful
clever crook that had his nerve with him
that sent them chocolates to the Scotland
8 Yard chief If it was a crook it musta been
one that was wise to the mans secret vice. He
cert'n'y musta known he had yen fer choco-
iates.
"He musta had it in fer him somethin'
fierce, too. He didn't aim just to kill the
man, he aimed to kill his reputation. He is
the sort of bird that would have gone out
TO the cemetery at night wit cold chisel
after they had buried the cop an cut on his
tombstone: Died Of Eatin' Poison Candy
''If they don't catch him, it's cinch that
they'll announce he was q nut. If they ever
catch him. it's good night nurse fer him
he'll be a desperate criminal wit long record
and an awful crouch against the cops. At
least if 1t don't turn out that way, cops is
different in England from what they are here.
Crooks is good deal the same everywhere
though, from what I've seen of EN-, an some
slick New York gun is likely TO take leaf
outa that Britisher's book an lay fer Enright
or General du Pont or some of our other prize
cops.
t'You couldn't catch Enright prob'iy wit
poison candy--not after all that's been printed
about the Scotland Yard case, anyhow, but
some wise gun might get to him, at that, wit
somethin' that would be just as embarrassin
TO die of.
.sThey might send him almost any kind of
gift labeled From the King of Denmark
or some OF them other birds he pals around
with an he'd prob'ly tear it right open an
wear 1t on the lapel OF his dress suit at every
dinner he went to till it poisoned him.
S'0r, IL they could find millionaire that
hadn't been appointed Special Deputy Police
Commissioner. they could inject smallpox or
vapcuac plague or somethin' like that into him
an just sit back an wait for Enright TO pin
lis gold badge on him.
IF Il felIa ain't in hurry though an wants
ID get all the glory there il out of H. he psob'ls
will wait until Enright has organized all the
police Of the world into one force an is at the
head Of II an then send him a bottle Of poison
-. fI1f,ssY.u. z,
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A Medley Of Music,
People and Canoyies

love to frequent them, to taste their focd
smell their strange odors, hear their corfuseS
babel of music, people and canaries, watb
their ever-changing casts in the daily acts d
the "Comedie Humaine.n
OF course, don't know any Of the ladies'
of the company, such as Mr.. Hogarth has de.
picted, ] am strict observer of the curfew
hour. and at promptly o'clock go straight
home--nearly always.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-19
Theater, Concert, Dance, Coli,
All in His Hotel

A friend of mine from Little Rock, Ark,
wrote me recently that he had swell visit to
New York, spent week, went to the theater,
concerts, dances, played golf, ETC., and never
went out of his hotel. It was literally true.
Gardens are brought 70 roof tops or even with
IN doors; golf links are planned with amazing
ingenuity amid the roof spaces between light
shafts and pent houses. Even foreign coun-
tries are cleverly simulated by fancy and as
sorted tearoons, the Corean Garden, the Turk
ish Garden and SO on. We used to wonder
what was going on in the city. Now we only
have to consult the morning bulletin to learn
that all sorts of entertainment are within our
reach inside the very walls which house us.
At II a. m. Nine. Yelpi will give recital in
the Blue Room. AT the same hour the serious
minded may attend lecture given by the
Home Builders Association on the subject of
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moment that this atmosphere Of refinement has
done away with any of the delightful deviltry
of the old regime On the contrary, hotel life
III the present era is more complicated and ex-
citing than ever before. The managers appar-
emily realize that il the architectural surround
ings are to be more simple they must furnish
diversion in other forms. This they do in
abundance. Little by little all the activities of
the city are being absorbed by the hotels.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-19
The Broi,ed Chop Motif
Was All PyeuailiRg

! happen to have been brought up in a some
what larger community, in which there were
several hotels, dominated by the Baker House,
"a red brick structure, which smelled strongly
|of broiled chops. In every part of it,
from the black-and-whte marble floors
lobby to the walnut-trimmed reception
rooms and deeply carpeted corridors, the
nose was constantly assailed by broiled chops.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-19

Of his visit to Wind
sor Castle. when he
presented Tom Thumb
to Queen Victoria, he
gives us some idea Of
his descriptive powers
and his sensitiveness TO
material splendor. The
very chairs, he notes,
''were incrusted with
pearls and emeralds, and
the entire room blazed
with jewels of every do
scription." It doesn't;
sound comfortable, but it
sounds exactly like the
early attempts at mag
nificance in our local
palaces.
An era OF simplicity
has set In. II invariably
does after excesses. Ho-
tel architects evidently
have decided TO lead bet
ter lives, with the result
that we see the old gold
and-glltter school fall
ing by the wayside. This
is for the public good.
Our most recent hotels
are refreshingly simple.
They are not all clutter
ed up with Jars and eIec-
troliers. There is more
wall space, more plain
gray plaster and less
onyx and marble. How
ever, do not think for a
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Laugh back! Show
the baby that you
understand what he
has DONE" But on
the whole Bolt was
SO very consistent
and Oscar was do
ing so nicely that
] was not one to find
fault.
Then one bright
day m Y dearest
friend came to visit
with her baby just
about Oscars age.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-19

mans" On a holiday, and more especially
during the week marked by the college ooat
races, its lobby was crowded with exciting
people, collegans in vivid blazers, vendors of
flags and souvenirs, professional gamblers!
Oh, thrill of thrills! I actually saw betting
going on and once in a while drunken man,
over whom / gloated rapturously. Whatever
can replace the keenness of our simple joys,
Joys made the more delightful by having
tang Of the wicked and forbidden about them
There has always been that smack of the devil
about places where people convene to have a
good time. 1t is very noticeable in hotels,
which is probably why like them.
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"o panama! NO squeezed banana 1Og' she exclaimed
nc wtN haze colds If you don't gve hins bananas"

3 in the afternoon,
as advised by Nett
net. | replied in1me-
lately, spoofing the
idea. and quoted
Burley. Gracious
my sister wrote back
TO me, "the children
of yesteryear were
Burley babies. Nett
net is the baby man
now. His book came
off the press just
3 month ago, and
babies ali over +ha
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A id-Vicsorian Widow.
Trying 10 Look Young

Many o. US have doubtless watched the
gradual passing of an old hotel, hotel we
have grown to think. Of as a friend a member
OF the family. felt quite pathetic about the
Baker House. During four years absence
from home some large, impudent interests
from New York sneaked in and built a new
hotel, with three elevators, instead of one. and
white marble in place Of black walnut and
worst of all, no odor of broiled chops-iust a
queer, antiseptic smell, sort of effeminate
smell, | thought. 1t wasn't the same at all.
but the Baker Houses nose was out of joint
and it has had to take back seat. believe
It has slipped into the class called "con,-
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| never discovered the
kitchen Of the Baker
House, but presumed
from the fearful shout
iags In the pantry dur
ing the course of q meal,
that 1t was located at
an incredible depth in
the basement. The aura
Of broiled chops was
waited up the elevator
shaft, wherein a single
ear, after q number of
downward pulls on a ca
BILE, moved slowly and
none too surely upward,
distributing q { o 0 d y
aroma In all parts Of the
building. This peculiar
dominance Of broiled
chops Is also true of din
ing cars. All dining cars
smell Of broiled chops,
No other food. seems to
have the same olfactory
punch.
But it was not merely
I h is sensory appeal
which drew me in my
younger days to the
Baker House. In itself
~ was a gay, divert
ing place. 1t represent
ed the come and go of
life. In the evening it's
large rooms were the
scene Of balls and
the then popular ger
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THE FINE ART
OF POISONING
By ROBERT B. PECK

<<T'L LII BET that Scotland Yard chief is
h glad he amt goin' to croak this trip"
Il remarked Marty Mcmahon. the re-
tired hartendar MIf Wo,IlLa beer aMs
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-01-17
Mavbe You've Got a Bad Eve .?

In bringing down those figures 70.
Gently complied by tho Hoover com
mittee ON tho elimination OF waste In
industry"
degrading thons fiEuren Twenty.
nvo par cent. they aay. of United
States school children have vision Ia
nrad Of correction. Seattle does not
como up 10 the average. yet Seattle.
IL In claimed. has many children
whose syos today need care.
but we'rs reaching them" DIR.
Brown rcpeatA "we're helping them
Ia the schools. Those whom we nIlas
are the 'gro~n.ups' who don't wear
specs when they should. ia suggest
this for every one-tast your own
oyea
Test one eye nj q time. placing
something over the eye not in use.
Hold a Newspaper 10 inches distant.
and see what You can zee. IL the
words ara plain. distinct and black.
the eye In pulling right. " not II
isn't Mayba.- says Dr. Brown. IF
we can Interest people IN their own
eyes. and then convince the opticians
that they must say TO tho ladder,
oh. ycs. they're no becoming we'u
sec longer and with much more casa"
About DR. Brown himssiff
Well" says he. thoughtfuiIy
smoothing back the snow.~hite locks.
"besn wearing specs ever since my
last year In college. and been seeing
good ever since"