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ADVERTISE People are advertising: read en because they know these live wires of advertising car ry the news that keeps them up to date. VOL. XIX. NO. 29. CELEBRATED TWELFTH NIGHT QPOK AND THIMBLE CLUB LA ''-DIES ENTERTAIN HUSBANDS AND FRIENDS AT HALL In accordance with the quaint old English custom of keeping twelfth Night, or "Little Christmas," which .is supposed to close the season of ^holiday festivities, a motely crew as sembled at Library Hall on Tuesday evening to carry out many of the ancient ceremonies. Soldiers brave and blushing maid ens, Mother Goose characters and Dresden sheperdesses, Japanese and Indians, schoolboys in pinafores and stately dames in patchy and powder, •wall were gathered by nine-thirty, at 7 which time the grand march was foriqed. The music was furnished by a Hardanger maid at the piano. The eoolc and Priscilla led the march, the cook bearing aloft the cake which is one of the essential features of Twelfth Night revels, for in it are concealed a pea, a bean and a clove. The man who finds the bean is king of the revels, the pea designates his Se ieen, while the spicy clove points out king's jester. These dignitaries being duly appointed by fate, they donned their royal apparel and were crowned with much state and cere tmony, the queen by the court jester ^and the king by one of his blind-fold ed subjects, after various attempts. Seated upon their thrones, the royal ptir received the homage of their subjects and to the one who bestow ed upon him the most flowery com pliment the king awarded the posi tion of Lord High Chamberlain. I For the rest of the evening the /king and queen mingled in gracious condescension with their subjects, whose duty it was never to turn their backs to either of the royal pair. For such discourtesy a forfeit must be paid. The Lord High Chamberlain and the jester collected the forfeits, and were kept more than busy. Upon each guest's back there was pinned the name of a day, either a holiday or one of the days of the week, and as soon as he had guessed )his from the pantomime and gestures of neighbors what day it was he was allowed to unmask. Then the leaves of the New Year, the ones we turned over when the year began, were dis tributed from the bough on which they grew, and on each leaf a New Year's resolution had to be inscribed in rhyme. The masculine resolutions •Vppre read aloud by the king and to thtf most successful rhymester he awarded the proud position of Poet Laureate. The feminine resolutions wereplafi ed in a basket from which each man iflrew one, thus discovering his fair partner for the supper hour. .The supper on Twelfth night must have upon its menu meat pie, cider and doughnuts. After justice had been done to these and other good things the feminine resolutions TCaa aloud, and it is to be hbpetl that these leaves will stay turned over. A little tripping of the light fan tastic followed the supper, "tripping" being especially descriptive of some of the guests. Then an impromptu game of base-ball was organized and Ty Cobb and Christy Mathewson per formed marvels with a big new broom for a bat. Such home runs, such slides to base, have seldom been^ wit nessed, even by the most enthusiastic fan. It was well past Twelfth Night and on into the next day when the revels broke up and the guests were accord ed gracious permission to depart. The Committee of the Book and Thimble Club who planned this jolly evening deserve high honors and a prominent placc in the court records. THREE MILLION LESS IN DUTIES FALLING OFF IN RECEIPTS TO GOVERNMENT AT NEW YORK HOUSE i* New York, Jan. 1.—The customs revenues and other receipts at the port of New Y^rk were $3,267806 less thari this year than in 1912, is shfeWri by a statement made public by Dudley Field Malone, collector of the port. The total for 1913 reaches $209,694,182, as against $212,961,988 last year. Of the total revenues for 1913, $204,261,126 was derived from import duties. Exports and imports handled through the port in 1913 are reported as follows: ,, Gold and silver imports, $44,532, 336, as against $48,693,499 in 1912 domestic bullion exorts, 1913, $115, 854,330 1912, $86,546,694 gold and silver of foreign origin, 1913, $3,091, 851 1912, $7,399,638. Merchandise imports in 1913 had a total value of $991,100,438 as against $1,068,296,330 in 1912. Ex orts of domestic merchandise for the year amounted to $899,070,148. The total value of this in *1912 was $849, 102,494. Merchandise of foreign, or igin handled ythe port in transit is valued at $18,096,822 as against $17, 200,612 in 1912. Goods withdrawn from bonded store houses during the year are valued at $121,180,713. Last year this item reached a total of $92,247,864. TRUAX FARMERS CLUB ORGANIZED FARMERS CLUB ORGANIZED AT MEETING AT BARNEY HOLE FARM—47 MEMBERS The farmers in the Truax neigh borhood had an enthusiastic meeting Monday evening at the home of Bar ney Hole which resulted in the organi zation of a Farmers club with a mem bership of forty seven. The organi zation will be known as the Truax Farmers' Club. The officers elected follow: President, Chas. C. Gimberling Vice President, Magnus Bean Secre tary Chas. J. Johnson Treasurer, C. C. Hopkins. A committee consisting of Messrs Adams, Bingeman and Ken ney was appointed to act as a sort of board of general managers. Barney Hole was elected as a dele gate to the convention to be held in Medicine, Wis., February 22nd. Mr. Hall states that this club is the largest in the county at this time. The next meeting will be held in the school house one mile south of the Barney Hole farm on January 20th and Mr. Hall will meet with the club. RAY FARMER IS DROWNED IN WELL UNFORTUNATE MAN ALONE ON FARM AT THE TIME—BODY DISCOVERED BY BROTHER Ray, N. D., Jan. 5.—The body of Peter Haugen, a young farmer living north of town, was found floating in the water at the bottom of the well on his place. This is the awful scene which confronted his brother when he went to the well about 9 o'clock to water his horses. Mr. Haogen and his brother were on the farm as they were living to gether and the brother left the latter part of the afternoon to visit some neighbors and did not return until the next morning. Upon returning to the home and not finding his brother Pe ter, he thought that Peter had gone visiting and did not think much of the absence and started to do the work on the farm. Upon going to the well which was about 12 feet deep he saw the body floating on the water. The supposition is that Mr. Haugen was watering the horses the evening before and as there was no curbing in the well he probably slipped in and drowned. His watch had stopped at 9 o'clock which would probably be the time he drowned. MAKE WINDOWS DUST PROOF WOLFE BROTHERS HERE WITH EXCELLENT STOPS FOR DOORS AND WINDOWS Ray A. Wolfe and brother are in the city this week and are fitting up several houses with a new patent window and door stop which they guarantee will make the doors and windows practically dust and wind proof. They do not use the old fash ioned felt strip in this work but have a thin brass strip which is placed around the door or window at every spot exposed to the entrance or wind or dust and from inspection of work already put in it looks as if they have the proper idea. Making the windows proof against wind and dust would also do away with the need of storm windows which Would mean a great saving in time and money. WANTED A sheet for the bed of the river. A ring for the finger ofscorn. A glove for the hand of fate. A boot for the foot of a mountain. A sleeve for the arm of the law.. A set of teeth for the mouth of a A lock for the trunk of an elephant. A feather for the wings of the wind. Scales for the weight of years. Buttons for a coat of paint. A rung for the ladder of fMlne. Reins for the bridal tour. A medicine to keep the ink well. To know what makes the weather Vane and the roads cross. A key for the lock of Thought. GREAT WEATHER OF DECEMBER STILL WITH US—MONDAY RECORD BREAKER The excellent weather continues and with the exception of New Years day when it was stormy we haven't had a windy day so far in January. The thermometer keeps soaring all the time and Monday it was fifty above. This is within two degrees of the farmest fifth of January in the history of the local weather bureau. In the weather report for the past week it will be noted that the average temperature for the week ending last night was 27 degrees above or nine teen degrees above the normal. Williston Graphic STATE BANKS TO JOIN THE SYSTEM MAKE APPLICATION FOR MEM BERSHIP UNDER FEDERAL RESERVE CURRENCY PLAN Washington, Jan. 1.—Seven hun dred and sixty-seven banking institu tions, scattered over forty-five states and having an aggregate capital ex clusive of approximately $300,000,000 have informed the federal authorities of their intention to enter the new currency system. This was announced graphed the department last night one week since the currency reform law was enacted. The department's statement said: "Six hundred and ninety-five appli cations have been received from na tional banks with an aggregate capi tal of about $250,000,000 so that up to this time national banks represent ing appproximately one-fourth of the total national banking capital of the country have already signified their intention to enter the system. "Forty-nine state banks and twen ty-three trust companies have also notified the department of their in tention to become members. Of the 635 national banks applying 53 are in the New England states! 112 in the eastern states, 191 in the southern states 227 in the middle states, 69 in the western states and 43 in the Pa cific states. "Of the national banks, 69 have a capital of $1,000,000 or more, 142 have a capital of from $250,000 to $1,000,000 270 have a capital of from $100,000 to $250,000 and 214 have a capital of less than $100,000. "Two of the trust companies ap plying have a capital of $5,000,000 or more and four trust companies have a capital of from $1,000,000 to $5, 000,000. P. W. Hall, secretary of the Iowa State Bankers' association, telegraph ed the department last night that the general opinion in Iowa was favor able to membership in the federal reserve system and that the organiza tion committee could reply on the co operation of the banks of that state. DECEMBER 1913 THE FINEST DECEMBER CLEAR AND DRY WARMEST 50—ONLY BELOW ZERO THREE TIMES The month of December just past was about the finest ever seen in this section of the state and according to the government records as furnished by John Craig, weather bureau ob server, it was the finest month, every thing considered, in the history of the Icca] bureau and its records go back thirty five years. There was almost a total lack of storms of any kind and almost a total lack of wind as the average hourly velocity was only 5.5 miles. The highest temperature recorded was on the tenth when it was fifty above and the lowest was on the 24th and 25th when it was two degrees be low zero. There were only three days during the entire month when the temperature went below the zero mark and then only two degrees. This is not the warmest December however in the history of our bureau as we have the mean for 1881 as 24 above, 1885 24 above, 1890 26 above, and 1912 24 above, while the mean for this month is 23 above. Consider ing the lack of wind and storms how ever, it ranks as the finest in the history of the weather bureau. The record for the month follows: a hair.—Merry GOOD WEATHER WITH US YET Maximum. Minimum. Dec. 1 35 10 2 26 15 3 88 IS 4 40 17 5 44 19 6 30 10 7 32 5 8. 40 21 9..............44 19 10..,,v,,»v....W 19 ft 47 18 12 46 24 13 .43 17 14 34 10 15 45 23 16 .....42 18 17 42 12 18 35 12 19 17 6 20 28 0 21 22 10 22 30 2 23 18 -1 24 10 -2 25 23 -2 26 21 2 27 23 1 28 40 16 29 42 14 30 37 7 31 32 15 HAVE SNOWBALL DANCE The local order of Elks hold one of their series of dances in the I. O. O. F. hall tomorrow night. This one is to be a snowball dance and members and their ladies are looking forward to a very pleasant evening. DANCE POSTPONED The fourth party advertised for Fri day night by the men of the Episcopal church has been postponed until Fri day evening, January 16th. The party will be held in the former Hamre building and everyone is assured of an excellent time if they attend. I WILLISTON, WILLIAMS COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1914. $1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE SAVAGE BATTLE ON SATURDAY HALF STARVED WOMEN AND CHILDREN SPREAD ALONG THE RIVER FRONT Presidio, Jan. 3.—Savage fighting between the rebels and federals at Ojinaga continued throughout the night and is still in progress. The be sieged federals, who were thrown into a panic at the first onslaught of the rebels, are resisting stubbornly all at tempts by the attacking party to drive them from town. The artillery fire of the rebels, which continued all night, became more furious this morning. Wounded soldiers who crossed the river, told the American Red Cross officials that the federal losses were heavy. Rebel machine guns whipped back with severe losses a body of several hundred federals who attempted a sortie irom the river bottoms a half mile out of Ojinaga. The rebels now number near 7,000. Two thousand Mexican refugees, in cluding half starved women and children and some federal deserters rushed ^across the river to American territq^y seeking protection from the battle of Ojinaga. The refugees are scattered without shelter, along the river bank for two miles, while heavy artilery and ma chine guns firing continued less than a mile back from the American bor der. The arrival of so many unfed and ragged people imposed an arduous task on the American border patrol and the few red cross officials here. As many as could be induced to at tempt it set out to walk to Marfa, Texas, sixty-seven miles distant. The little mission church and other structures at Presidio are crowded with wounded and dying. Instructions came from Washington to hold as prisoners all deserters who crossed the river. Heretofore the border pa trol has disarmed and sent back all unwounded deserters. HELD MEETING LAST MONDAY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AN NUAL MEETING HELD—MUCH ENTHUSIASM SHOWN Those who missed the reports at the annual meeting of the Congrega tional church Monday evening will not have the opportunity again but the next best thing the pastor thinks is to be able to read it in the Graphic and so the summary is given. Inci dentally they missed a splendid lunch and a general good time which cannot be fully reported. The reports all showed a steady progress of the work in each depart ment all bills paid to date and all payments due the contractor made promptly and a small balance on the right side of the ledger. The year has been an important one in the his tory of the church on account of the sale and removal of the old church and parsonage the moving to tempor ary quarters the purchase of two lots for tennis courts and the begin ning of the new house of worship— now enclosed and securing of sub scriptions locally and an appropria tion from the National Church So ciety that will enable the contractors —to go ahead and finish the building so that it can be turned over in early Spring—probably about Easter time. It is certain that the church will be ready for use long before the time specified in the contract, Sept. 1st, 1914, Treasurers The report of the Treasurer—which was one of the best ever presented showed that for the cUrirettt expense fund 2140.58 had been received and 2132.48 ha* the bills been expended in meeting of the year, passed and that $8460.12 thrathe building fund and that there was 167.62 in the treasury,— making a grand total handled by the treasurer curing the year of $10, 608.32. The report was so good and in such splendid shape that the church reluctantly accepted Mr. Schollander's decision not to act an other year. He felt that on account of living out, the work required more of his time than he felt able to give to it. Benevolences The report of the benevolent com mittee presented by Miss Baldwin showed $223.58 had been raised and expended for Missionary work—keep ing up in spite of the building enter prise the record of former years. Great credit is due Miss Baldwin for her work on this committee and to the members of the church fdr their hearty support of the work for oth ers. The Ladies Aid" The work of the Aid has been very successful. $930.13 have been raised and expended for all purposes. The chief items of expense being, mis sions, the current expense fund of the church and the building fund. $2.40 still remains in the treasury to begin the new year with. The first meeting of the year is being held at the home of the President Mrs Brown son, this afternoon. Continued on page '4) COUNT CONTEST VOTE TUESDAYS CONTEST MANAGER DECIDES TO CHANGE DATE FROM WED NESDAY TO TUESDAY Owing to the delay caused the pa per in waiting until Wednesday after noons to make the count in the votes in the piano contest it has been de cided to change the day of counting from Wednesday afternoon to Tues day afternoon. Contestants will note therefore that from now on the count will be made on Tuesdays. Regarding the count this week the contest manager was unable to get the judges together and the vote will be given next week including both weeks. This will not make any dif ference to the contestants as there were no prizes offered. KELLAR-MAGUIRE WEDDING Mr. William Kellar and Miss Rose Maguire were united in marriage yes terday morning. The ceremoy was performed in St. Joseph's church by Rev. Father O'Neil. BURNED IN HOUSE FIRE FORMER RESIDENT OF WIL LIAMS COUNTY MEETS DEATH IN BURNING BUILDING W. W. Keltner received word re cently of the death of Mrs. T. A. Courtney, in afire in the city of La Junta, Colorado. The fire occurred on the 17th of December in the house where she was rooming, and it was thought at the time that everyone was out and it was not until a couple of days afterward that Mrs. Court ney's remains were discovered. The deceased had been with friends in iDenver but had gone south a couple of weeks before her death on account of the big snow storm there. She was troubled with lheumatism and went south to LaJunta on that ac count. Mrs. Courtney was an ordained Minister but at the time of her death was working for the Collier Publish ing company establishing libraries. She formerly lived about ten miles west of Williston and also resided at Ray for some time. COMMERCIAL CLUB The annual meeting of the Com mercial Club will be held Tuesday, January 13th at which time there will be an election of six new directors. CONDEMNATION SUIT IS RECORD SAN FRANCISCO SEEKS TO AC QUIRE CONTROL OF $35,000,000 PROPERTY San Francisco, Jan. 1.—In further ance of her ambitious plans for a wa ter supply, following the acquisition of the Hetch Hetchy water shed, San Francisco filed yesterday with the city attorney what is said to be the largest condemnation suit of its kind in the history of American litigation. The city seeks to acquire at a just {ey rice Report the property of the Spring Val Water company, valued at be tween $35,000,000 and $40,000,000, and comprising 8,000 acres. One time in the preliminary negotiations, which failed, the city and the company were within $50,000 of each other's fig ures, which hovered around $37,000, 000. Both were obstinate and no com promise could be arranged, A BETTER WAY' Last week the fire team made 6 run out on west Broadway fetid un loaded a load of manurfe around one of the hydrants. And hOW one of the tax payers out there registers a kick, not against placing the manure around the hyarant to keep it from freezing but against the .way it was left. He believes that it would be better to have some sort of a box around the hydrant to hold it than to have the manure scattered all over the sidewalk. CLEAR ISSUE IS MADE ON GUARD MUST CONFORM TO REQUIRE MENTS OF REGULAR ARMY OR LOSE SUPPORT Washington, Jan. 5.—A clean issue was made by the war department against the National Guard associa tion upon the point of the organiza tion of the militia forces of the coun try. By direction of Secretary Garrison, General Wood, chief of staff of the army, issued a circular announcing a decision of the judge advocate, Gen eral Crowder, that the militia must conform in organization to the stand ards of the regular army, else they will be deprived of all federal finan cial support. Few of the state na tional guards will be able to meet the requirements. ^ADVERTISE vv ArtisinK is like the co, «e .'wire thut carrits the elec from ttit' tlynnmo and urns the wheels. Are you on rapper wire circuit. MONEY TRUST IS DISSOLVED^ MORGAN & CO., VOLUNTARILY: WITHDRAWN FROM SEVERAL, GREAT CORPORATIONS New York, N. Y., Jan. 2.—J. Pt Morgan & Co., announced today that it had severed connections with some of the greatest corporations in the country, with which it long has bee*, connected. This step, the firm an nounced, was taken voluntarily in re sponse to "an apparent change in pub lic sentiment" on account of "some oT the problems and criticisms having to do with so-called interlocking director-r ates." Among the companies from which.', the Morgan firm retired is the New York Central and New Haven rail— roads. J. P. Morgan made this statements "The necessity of attending manjr board meetings has been so serious & burden upon our time that we have: long wished to withdraw from the di rectorates of many corporations. libati: of these directorships we have accept ed with reluctance, and only because we felt constrained to keep in touch with the properties which we had re organized, or whose securities we had7 recommended to the public, both* hem and abroad. An apparent change in public sen timent in regard to the directorships: seems now to warrant us in seeking te resign from some of these connections^ Inded, it may be, in view of the change in sentiment upon the sub ject, that we shall be in a better posi tion to serve such properties and their security holders, if we are not direc tors. We have already resigned from the companies mentioned, and we ex— pect from time to time to withdraw from the other boards upon which we feel there is" no special obligation t«v remain." The companies to which the Morgan company referred, from which the board members resigned, include the New York Central, the Hudson River railway, the West Shore railway, the Lake Shore, the Michigan Southern, the Michigan Central the New York Chicago & St. Louis the Big Four, the New Haven, the Central New England the New York, West Ches ter & Boston the Harlem River, the Port Chester, the Milbrook Co., the New Haven Navigation Co., the New England Steamship Co., the Rhode Island Co., the Rutland railway the Hartford, Connecticut & Western the New York, Ontario & Western rail way the Western Union Telegraph* Members of the firm retired from.' many companies including the United' States Steel corporation, the Ameri- can Telephone & Telegraph, the Wes- tinghouse Electric, and various trust: companies, copper companies, and na tional banks in New York. By withdrawing from these corpor ations, J. P. Morgan & Co., have cut the strings that have held together in many countries the most important corporations in community interests,., which have been assailed from within* and without congress. The house of" Morgan feels that it has kept within the law, in all the complex operations^ no legal necessity or threatened com plications with Washington authori ties made it necessary to adopt the sweeping change policy. Attorney General McReynolds, whose presence here the last few day» was supposed to be in connection with negotiations for the dissolution of several large corporations, did not seem to be surprised at the news. He did not intimate that he had any ad vance information on the subject and refused to make a statement. MEETS DEATH IN MISSOURI MAN CROSSING RIVER NEAR BUFORD FALLS THROUGH HOLE IN ICE AND DROWNS A stranger crossing the Yellowstone and Missouri where they join near Willow Island Friday, walked into an air hole near the Island and was car ried under the ice by the current Some on the bank noticed him and' called but the stranger was unable to answer except to endeavor to give his name which they thought was Carl Dean. The body has not been re covered, as it is under the ice and it may never be found. NOTICE OF ELECTION Notice is hereby given that there will be a meeting of the members of the Williston Commercial Club at the I. O. O. F. building Monday, January 12, at 8 P. M., for the purpose of electing directors for the ensuing year and for the transaction ofi' such other business as may come 'before the club. W. C. Rawson Presidents C. Ellithorpe,. Secretary. THE MILITARY BALL The Company E Military ball New Year's eve was a great success and everyone was well pleased with the new hall. The boys had the floor well cleaned and waxed and within a short time it resembled an old dano ing floor. It is well to change the sheep occa sionally into different pastures..