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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-01-12
CORRESPONDENCE
BERTHOLD LOCALS

Mrs. Chas. Nickels (whose name we
spelled last week as Nicholson, through
an oversight was taken to Minot
Sunday, and was examined with X
Ray. and will be operated on Tuesday.
Prairie Grange, which is located
4 1/2 miles southwest Of Berthold in
Mandan Township, held their "big
Annual Event" last Saturday. The
program began at II a. m. and con-
tinued until midnight. The first
thing that invited and challenged the
crowd was a real feast for which the
ladies of that community have no
superiors in preparing, and the men
of the neighborhood are as promt-
nently noted in preserving through
the process Of eating. Public in
stallation of officers for the ensuing
year was the first order Of business.
The following are the principal Of
ficers: F. G. Kilbourne, Master; VIM.
Fisher, Jr. Overseer; Gertrude Fisher
Secretary; VIM. Metzdorf, Lecturer
The officers of Tolgen Grange. the
visiting Grange, are: J. w. Arnett,
Master; Jud Osbourne, Overseer;
Ralph Arnett, Secretary; Mrs. Jud
Osbourne, Lecturer. Miss Gertrude
Fisher, State Lecturer Of the Grange,
acted as installing officer, and she
has no superior among the State o.
fcers of the Grange, in making the
ceremony impressive and dignltled
There were several songs, recitations
and speeches made in the afternoon.
Among the speakers Mr.. Harry
Kretchfeld, representing the EQUITY
Exchange of St. Paul urged the organ
ization of local of the order, and the
patronage of the Equity. Henry
Finke, who has been member Of the
State Farm Bureau organization, dis
cussed at some length, the workings
and benefits to be derived from the
Farm Bureau.
Mrs. Henry Brinker of Passport
Township was taken to Minot Sunday
for medical attention.
Mrs. Emma Frunz and daughter
Miss Lima of Evergreen Township
were in Minot Monday shopping.
Burr johnson, one Of the most sue
cessful farmers OF Evergreen Town
ship was in our city Monday trans
acting business.
DR.. J.. H. Hills is in St. Paul this
week attending a convention of the
medicos.
John Jamison, a section hand, was
the victim of broken foot near Des
Laos Monday.
DR.. E. B. Weible, who has been tax.
ing a rest in Fargo during the past
month, returned Monday.
The citizens of the western part Of
Tolgen Township organized Saturda!
evening, Community Club at tn
Claude Burch school house.
Potato prices have advanced thi'
week here from 70 cents per bushe
for Green Mountains, to $1.60 pc
bushel for White Triumphs.
Following very poor crops for sew
eral years, a large number of farmer
in the country surrounding Berthold
failed to produce last year fit grail
for seed. o A large number have al
ready expressed their inability t
plant crop this year. A larg
number of farmers have been com
PEELED to sell large portion Of thei
feed as we'll as their poor grade o
wheat in order to live during tn
winter. It would appear that tn
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-01-12

most appropriate things for the Coun-
ty Farm Bureau to do is to send q
representative to every township, call
a meeting or canvass the township to
find out just who is in imperative need
of assistance to crop their land this
season. That was real good act of
Congress to look after the needy of
Russia, but it would be still better
for some organization to look after
the needy at home, most of whom have
too much pride to publicly confess
their real financially strained con-
dition ID
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-01-12

twentieth birthday. She was COM
pletely surprised. A fine lunch was
served as the evening progressed.
This was brought to a fitting climax
by Mr.. Paul Burns, who presented the
hostess with a beautiful mesh purse
from the guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. T. Dierdorff have
returned from their visit to Havre:
While there Mr.. Dierdorff contracted
a carbuncle which was operated upon
before he returned home. He was
unable to fill his place in the pulpit
last Sunday.
The Neidermeier girls have now
taken up their abode at the East Side
school house.
D. S. Petry and his son Wilbur.
were not at church Sunday. The for
mer was acting as nurse for the bene-
fit Of the latter.
Miss Anna Withers returned from
Fargo after a two weeks visit with
her sister, Mrs. S. A. Scheide. .
Miss Elsie Flat has also returned
from her home at Sheldon to her work
at Surrey. ="
Mrs. William Magg of Aurelia, was
visitor at her mothers home. Mrs.
P. Elker during the Christmas holi-
days.
Harry Burns has returned from
one year, but nevertheless very inter-
esting term in the Army. The COM
munity is glad that Harry is with us
again, his folks are gladder, and Har-
ry is gladdest of all. :,
The Young family was entertained
at the Lingofelt home for dinner last
Tuesday.
Judging from the letters that For
est Zook is writing to his friends IN
Surrey the family is crtainly enjoying
the visit back East.
Mrs. Mable Foster has not been
feeling so overly we'll the last few
days:
C. D. Lambert is busily engaged in
hauling hay from Granville these
days.
Miss Muriel Robson, former
teacher in Surrey, was visitor here
last Friday.
Friday evening the Parent-Teacher
association held its regular monthly
meeting in the school house. Supt.
L. A. White of Minot gave q very
interesting talk on the subject "Wear-
ing Our Handicaps". Handicaps do
not determine individual success but
success is won in spite of almost in
surmountable difficulties. Well cho-
sen illustrations from the lives of
many of our great men and women
were given to prove the point. Ma
tions as we'll as individuals have their
handicaps. Many interesting facts
were related indicating that the Unit
ed States is obliged to carry handi-
cap of large percentage of litter
ates. Our educational system, high
though it's ideals may be, is unable to
cope with such handicap at the pres
ent and yet as nation we are spend
ing less money for education than we
are for cosmetics, or for chewing gum,
or any one of several luxuries. AL
together Mr.. Whites remarks were
very SOLDERING and thought provoking.
We wonder if after all our schools are
costing us as much as they should.
Miss Martha Reishus sang a group
of songs in a pleasing and effective
manner. Seldom do we hear simple
little airs sung with such an interpre-
tation more impressive. Miss Rel
shus responded to an encore and sang
"Annie Laurie.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Cooks niece
of Calgary, Canada, has come to make
her home with them. Her home was
broken up on the death Of her mother.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-01-12
BENEDICT

H. o. Sethre made business trip
to Sawyer Saturday.
Alfred Burton called on Velva
friends Sunday evening.
Mr.. Ireland is the new clerk at the
Rosenzweig store.
Reuben Larson is at Noonan visit
ing his brother Elmer and family.
Hans Sundbakken took his son to
Minot Thursday to have his eyes ex-
amined by a specialist.
Miss Clara Nelson was in .Bene-
dict the first Of the week visiting
friends.
Miss Florence Carvell. q teacher in
the Russo school, visited q few days
last week with Miss Dorothy Kloster.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-01-12

The following persons went to Man
dan Monday where they were called
as witnesses in the Bartishevich-An-
derson trial: G. j. Sherry, C. J.
Snyder, Alvin Lillehaugen, J. E. Col
", Knut Christianson, John Rust and
two sons and r. Polsfut.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. N. Miller entertain
ed Mr.. and Mrs. G. J. Sherry and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. E. Rosenzweig
and family and Mr.. Ireland At din
ner Sunday.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-01-12
SURREY NEWS

D. Kughn has returned from Texas
to pay visit to his brother. Lee
Kughn. The latter is suffering in
one of the Minot hospitals as the
results or effects Of sore hand.
A birthday surprise was given I'M
der the auspices of the Pence family
in honor Of their daughter Mary's
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-01-12

Mrs. John Stoudt, who returned
from Rochester, Mimi, last week, FOL
lowing an operation, is improving
steadily and is now able to walk out
of the house.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-12-08
FARMER PLANS TO
MOVE. HIS BUILDINGS

Frank and Charles Gibbs now have
60 acres cleared on their 200aTe
farm six miles southeast of Ladysmith.
Frank lives just east of the railroad
and Charley lives on the corner east
of Frank.
Frank has good 16x24 two-story
house with kitchen 12x14 and his barn
is 32x36
Charles has a house. 16x24 and Tx
16, one story His barn is 16x30 with
lean-to of 19x30. The boys each
have a bunch of cows and Charles is
getting into the Guernsey breed.
They have one team between them.
Charles is planning on moving his
buildings to a point west of his pres
ent location where he has a good grove
for wind protection. He will clear
this land this winter, but will not
make the change for year or so.
When the farm editor asked Frank
how he made the most money his an
swer was "cloyer and cows" He
keeps his land in clover for two years,
then breaks it and sows it to oats and
reseeds to clover.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-12-08
A TALK ON WOOD;
GRADING MEANS MONEY

Several farmers have asked the
farm editor to write an article in re-
gard to wood shipped to Ladysmith
in car lots and used by Ladysmith bus
mess firms and others.
Business men have complained that
lots of wood brought in locally was
not up to standard and was not worth
the money asked. This is their ex-
cuse for buying carloads of uniformly
good wood that cost them no more
than the poorer wood offered locally.
Today the deal has changed. There
are fewer cars of wood shipped in and
the quality of wood being brought in
locally is much better than. in other
years.
Merchants and others living in La
dysmith prefer to buy wood locally
and will do so when they get fair
deal.
Grade Your Wood
Wood like any other commodity
should be graded carefully before be-
ing offered for SALE More money can
be made by cutting out the best maple,
ironwood, and birch and keeping it by
itself. Sixteen-inch lengths, full meas
ure, is the most profitable size for this
class of hardwood.
Poverty wood should not be handled
at all as it is very poor fuel and
unless the haul is short it does not
pay expenses This class of rotten
wood should be cut up and used to
burn out dead stumps. Down logs
and standing dead timber often have
good sound wood in them. That is
the kind it pays to work up into four
foot lengths and by keeping only the
best of it price of about $1.OO per
cord more can be secured and one
load of that grade of dry wood is
worth two loads of the rotten poverty
wood.
Careful grading of wood and prop
er seasoning means less hauling, more
money, and better satisfied customers.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-12-08
YOUNG FARMER is GET
TING READY TO BUILD

Orville Smith, the big congenial
bachelor, is busy clearing land on his
S0-acre farm a half mile east Of Shaw
Dam. He has about Is acres brushed
and most of it is logged and seeded.
He has his land all fenced and has
been pasturing his neighbors' cattle.
He said that there was nothing bet
ter for new land here than brushing,
seeding and pasturing. He sowed his
grass seed broadcast without cover
ing and got good stand.
He has 10000 feet of lumber that
he sawed from logs gathered on the
place. These will be put into a new
set of buildings some day. He has a
good shack that he, lives in and said
he would keep ON brushing until
snow covered the ground.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-12-08
WANTS 500 LINE EX-
TENSION AT WALRATH

Paul D. Miller, who owns a 40-acre
tract, three-quarters of a mile west
of Walrath, stopped at the News-Bud-
get office Saturday and stated that
he was leaving for his home at Mish-
awake to spend the winter.
He bought his forty year ago
and has three acres cleared and
stumped and six acres seeded to clover
He has a small house and barn and
keeps team, three cows and heifer.
His neighbor, Delbert Dunn, is tax
ing care of his stock this winter.
Mr.. Miller said that the people at
and near Walrath were anxious to
have the S. NJ & P. r. r. extended
and feel that it would be a good thing
for their territory for the 500 Line
to take the line over.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-12-08
GOOD RETURNS
FROM SHEEP
Reliable Farmer Tells of Exper.
fence With Four Prolific
Old Ewes

Alex Suffer, of Ladysmith, used to
keep sheep before he left Illinois for
Michigan, then moved to Iowa and
later to Rusk county.
Alex has reputation for truth and
veracity that is above reproach so
when we print the following sheep
story we do so believing it to be true
1t shows what few ewes can do for
a farmer
Mr.. Suffer paid $40 for four ewes
Two of these were old ones when he
bought them and they each had trip
let's; the other two had twins. One
of each sets of triplets was raised by
hand. This birth rate was repeated
year by year until the oldest ewes were
ten years old. A neighbor came over
to the Suffer farm and wanted to buy
a couple of sheep Mr. Suffer said
he had none to sell but if he wanted
these two old ewes he could have
them for $500 each. The deal was
made and in March, true to form,
they each gave birth to triplets Alex
tried to buy the lambs back, offering
$500 more than he had received for
the ewes, but the offer was declined
Alex said these sheep were Shrop-
shire Cross, and the lambs weighed
125 to $50 pounds in the early winter.
They sheared Is pounds when year
lings and the buck he owned weighed
2S5 pounds and sheared around 25
pounds of wool
If anyone has a true sheep story
that will beat this one we would like
to get it.
Mr.. Suffer now has 40 acres cleared
on his fine S0-acre farm, three miles
north of Ladysmith. The balance of
his land is nearly clear and is in pas
ture. He has a dozen high grade
Holstein cows and two 2-year-old
heifers. He has a good pure-bred
Holstein bull. One good team is
kept ON this farm.
Alex had the tops Of three hay
stacks blown off by the wind Thanks
giving day.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-12-08
POTATOES SHOULD
BE CAREFULLY GRADED

One reason potatoes did not bring
more money this fall was for lack
Of careful grading when shipped. Well
graded cars have brought the most
money while poorly graded or green
potatoes have often been rejected.
When a car is once rejected it often
does not bring enough money to pay
the freight and trimmings after leav-
ing the shipper.
Potatoes or anything else offered
for sale should be carefully graded and
if so graded will bring the highest
market price and sometimes a pre-
MUM Communities that cooperate
and raise one kind of certified pota-
to are selling for prices that are very
profitable.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-12-08
IN UNION THERE
Is STRENGTH
Strict Grading and Use of
Trade Mark Would Help
Potato Prices

Orland Chalfant, of Sheldon, writes
about why potatoes here being half
crop this year should sell for one
fourth of last years prices. He
writes:
Noticed your inquiry concerning
potato prices here Also noticed that
buyers were going to Dakota and pay
ing good prices for good potatoes.
Here is the reason why the price
is low in Rusk county. Last fall the
Farm Bureau plan of marketing was
turned down by Rusk county. farmers.
We must have our potatoes graded
according to law, but if some farm
ers can flood a grade and run all the
potatoes and part of the farm off onto
the buyer they do it and the rest wink
and say let him do it if he can get
away with it.
"A change of attitude would help
prices. A strong farmers organiza-
ton enforcing strict grading and sell
ing under a trade mark, and the trade
mark advertised when the produce is
to be sold and the produce sold under
an obligation to make good would
create some competition for Northern
Maine potatoes"
1t is a fact that the Farm Bureau
officers held a couple of meetings at
Sheldon and only secured eleven APP
plications for a cooperative shipping
association.
At Hawkins an association was
formed and the Anderson Bros were
in charge of shipping, They shipped
five carloads and got 4S cents per
bushel net after paying for grading
and loading.
Herb Turner, Farm Bureau Secre-
tary, said Monday that the reason a
lot of big fields of potatoes in Dakota
were not dug this year was because
the potatoes were too small. He got
his information from man who had
just returned from there
He said that the Farm Bureau price
was SO cents per cwt. f. o. b. cars Mon
day, and where farmers and Farm
Bureau shipping associations were OPP
Grating they were getting that price.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-12-08

w. S. Hart, Bruce farmer, was in
Ladysmith Saturday attending a
drainage meeting.
Mrs. Kate French, who lives in La
dysmith, set 106 eggs under Rhode
Island hens and raised SO chickens to
maturity from them this year. This
is very remarkable record.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-12-08

money from their farms. While you
are at it write us on any subject of
general interest to the farming pub
lie and tell us about your farm.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-12-08

Subscribe for the News-Budget.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-02-23

greatest return they made to the
government. 1t was approximately
$767, 1000 more money than they
made in 1918, but about $12, 1907, 900
less than they reported in 1917.
The number of Kentucky corpora
tions filing returns in 1919 was A.
ST., compared with 4,3O7 in 1918;
$3.50 in 1917, and 5,405 in 1916.
The 4,571 corporations in Kentucky
IT 1919 paid total tax to the gov
eminent for that year of $15,271,-
104. This amount is approximately
$8,700,OO0 less than they paid in
1918 and about $2,100,000 less than
they paid in 1917, their biggest year.
1t is nearly $14,0O0,000 more than
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-02-23
Plum Lick
BY Marguerite Crouch

Miss Edna Laughlin spent Satur.
day and Sunday with Misses Ger
trude and Wsnnie Kinney.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clint Williams
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Thompson.
e. H. Crouch is on the sick list
Mrs. John M. Crouch spent Mon
day with Mrs. S. S. Oldson.
Mrs. John Taul spent Sunday with
her daughter, Mrs. Buford Curtis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Potts Laughlin are
receiving congratulations over the
arrival of fine son, born on Febru-
airy IL.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harberg Taul spent
Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Sam
Stone.
Miss Ida Lou Crouch spent Sat-
urday and Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. f. L. Richie.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-02-23
MOVIE CENSOR BILL PASSED

The bill to create a state board
of moving picture censors was
passed in the state senate Tuesday
afternoon by vote Of "a to 5. The
senators who voted against the bill
were: B. t. Davis, Brig Harris, W.
L. Moss, William A. Perry and T.
ID. Watts, the last two named of
Louisville.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-02-23

A man Can't always bet on what
his wife is going to do. But he does
know that he will find about a pound
of her hair in the comb when he goes
to dress in the morning.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-02-23

A Kentucky lawmaker would pre-
vent beauties in bathing suits from
walking on the streets. This doesn't
come under the head of street i'm
provements.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-02-23

they paid in 1916.
Returning to the figures for the
entire country, the report shows
that of the total population of the
United States, subject to federal in
come tax, the proportion fling re-
turns was 500 per cent. The per
capita net income reported was
$1S7.32 and the per capita income
tax was $11.98. On the basis of re-
turns fled, the average net income
reported for 1919 was $3,72405, the
average amount of tax $238.08, and
the average tax $50 per cent.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-02-23

After man has been married for
while, when he buys his wife a
birthday present, he always selects
something the whole family can use.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-02-23

Any old time a man gets up in a
meeting and announces that he is
merely going to make brief brief
remarks you can settle down for a
two-hour talk.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-02-23

Men often practice dishonest bus
mess methods, and send men of les
ser crimes to jail.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-02-23

A slanderous listener makes a
slanderous talker; and the itching
ear is as bad as the forked tongue.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-02-23

Peace is a curious thing. Mer
fight in order that it may be main
tanned.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-02-23

Perish the thought! Salt river is
the only stream for which no con-
gressional appropriation has ever
been asked.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1922-02-23

From Bishop to Pope in about
two years time is the rise of his
Holiness Plus XII. who was Cardinal
Achille Ratti, Archbishop of Milan.
He was born in Italy. October IL.
1858, He received the Red Hat as
Casdiral only last year..
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1922-10-05
LOCAL NEWS AND
PERSONAL ITEMS
Geo H. Thompson, loans.

Geo H. Thompson, loans.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Crest were Ster-
ling visitors Monday.
Geo. H. Thompson. loans.
A trick pocket billiardist gave an
exhibition at the Phelps billiard and
pool hall last Monday evening.
See Deily for Insurance.
Messrs. Charles and George Skinner
left this Thursday morning for Den
yer via auto. They expect to remain
there during the winter.
TONIGHT. Bert Lytell at the Hip
podrome Theatre. 1t
Finley Dye returned the latter part
of last week from Akron, where he
had spent several days on business
matters.
TONIGHT. Bert Lytell at the Hip
podrome Theatre. 1t
]. H. Parker and Son shipped four
car loads of cattel to the Omaha mar
ket Sunday, Messrs. Horace Parker
and Joe Jankovsky of Ovid accom-
panying the shipment.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. S. Kinsman re-
turned last Saturday evening from
Denver and surrounding towns, from
a two weeks visit. Their daughter,
Mrs. D. L. Killenn of Denver, accom-
panied them home for visit.