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The Ward County Land & Loan Co. owns five quarters of good land, well located which they will sell for $500 down, balance easy payments, at 6% interest. First fair offer takes this land as it must be sold at an early date See W. S. Shaw, Room 1, Lee Block, Minot. 10-5-2tc TERMS' The Only Turkish Bathrooms in the State Turkish Baths $1.00. Beds 50c. Open Day and Night Try one of our baths. Scientific massage by expert rubber. We have a modern, sanitary place and will guarantee satisfaction. Corns removed by our chiropodist. Erlckson's Barber Shop and Turkish Bath Parlors Phone 314. Minot, N. D. PERSON STOCK FARM Offers for sale DUROC SPRING PIGS, both sexes. We have never had such pigs aa are in our pens this year. If you are in need of a hire or a fev gilts you cannot afford to pass these up. Great, big, heavy boned spring pigs weighing up to 200 pounds now. Come and see for yourself. £. S. Person, Owner J. A. Soren8on, Mgr. The Great Northern Lumber Company Minot, North Dakota We have on hand a complete line of all kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL at prices that are right. Don't fail to get our figures before buying elsewhere The Independent Dealers The Great Northern Lumber Co. 10 HEAD OF HORSES One grey gelding, 9 years old, weight 1400 One grey mare, 10 years old, weight 1600 One grey mare 15 years old, weight 1100 One sorrel gelding, 8 years old, weight 1300 One bay mare (Hambletonian), 5 years old, weight 1100 One 2-yr.-old mare, black, weight about 1200 One sucking colt One dark bay driving mare, weight 900 One light bay driving mare, weight 900 Pure Bred Stallion We will offer at this sale the noted pure bred Percheron Black Champion, once a prize win ner in Illinois. 18 HEAD OF CATTLE Eight head of milk cows One 2-year-old heifer Three yearlings 2 extra good 2 year old steers Four calves One pure bred Durham bull These cattle are high grade Durham Ten Hogs, Sheep and Chickens. NOTICE FOR BIDS The Hiddenwood School District No. 92 will receive sealed bids for building a school house up to 7 p. m., Oct. 7, 1916. Plans and specifications can be seen at the Bovey-Shute lumber office, Makoti, N. D., or office of the clerk of this district. Every bid must be ac 1 Having sold my real estate I will offer for sale at the Rosedale Stock Farm, V-2 Mile North and 2 Miles East of Minot The following described property on Thursday, October 26 Sale to Commence at High Noon. Free Lunch at Noon. companied by certified check for $60 and sent to the clerk. The board reserves the right to re ject any or all bids. By order of Board. P. H. JOHANINGSMEIR, Clerk. Address RR No. 1, Makoti, N. D. 10-5-lt BRIEF STATE NEWS John C. Hunter, prominent North west wholesaler and majority stock holder in the Fargo Mercantile com pany, died last week of palsy. At McVille the curfew bell is due to ring at 8 o'clock from October 1st. A gentle reminder that 9 o'clock is too late and the time for the summer cur few to ring is over. Three weeks after giving birth to triplets Mrs. George Rey, living near LaMoure, died, the cause being blood poisoning. All three of the babies are living and are perfectly healthy. John Geissled of Mandan, who was injured last Tuesday evening in a dy namite explosion at New Salem at the time Arnold Lauerman of Alexandria, Minn., was blown to pieces, died this week from his injuries. Johlie Empey, charged by Miss An gelina Kary, 14, with compelling her to elope with him under threats, was bound over to the district court last week, charged with kidnapping, and with criminal assault. He could not furnish bail. Confessing a marriage at Virginia, Minn., in 1910, and a subsequent mar riage at Fargo three years later with out the formality of a divorce in the first instance, W. H. Nolan, alias W. H. Norton, was sentenced in district court at Fargo to five years' imprison ment. There was a rear end collision at Minto in which a cow, a buggy and an auto figured. It all came to pass in this wise: Pat Hughes and son Vet were coming down the road in a bug gy Sunday night, leading a cow. Fred Flanders in his Franklin car approach ed from the rear. Pat got out of the buggy to pacify the cow, leaving Vet to steer the horse and buggy. Flan ders' eyesight was bad or the lights were dim—or something. Anyway, All sums of $10 and under, cash. On sums over that amount time will be given until Oct 1st, 1917, with interest at 8%. 3% discount discount for cash on sums over $10. ROSEDALE STOCK FARM J. J. Beeghly, Prop. COL. H. J. HECHT, Auctioneer H. J. Halvorson and H. E. Shearn, Clerks he saw Pat and the cow all right, all right, but overlooked the buggy, and proceeded to slam right into the latter while jogging along at a fifteen-mile speed, anu strewed that contraption all along the roadside. Vet found him self sprawled out on the ground, jar red but unhurt, and wondering where ho was at. The Franklin got one of its eyes put out and a smashed foot board. The cow is feeling all right. James Sherr, while riding a freight train, was killed near Jamestown last week by holdup men who attacked him and his companion. Sherr had just escaped from the Jamestown jail after being held for some time for alleged participation in a train holdup near Medina. Thomas Waterhouse of Richland county, a pioneer farmer, died as the result of being kicked by a horse. Waterhouse entered the stable and as he was passing through one of the stalls a young horke kicked him just below the heart. Bones were broker and internal injuries resulted. He died four days later. There has been a change in the pro posed town of Shell Creek, west of Makoti. The name has been changed to "Wabek" and a postoffice petitioned for. A message received from the postoffice department Monday stated that the name "Wabek" had been ac cepted. The business houses are be ing built on the south side of the rail road track. Frank Wagner, formerly manager of the Lark Equity Exchange, was re cently arrested on complaint of the president of the exchange, who alleges that Wagner is short $498.57 in his accounts. Wagner has pleaded not guilty to the charge and furnished a cash bond of $1000 for his appearance at the preliminary hearing on October 3rd. During the past week or so miscre ants have entered the chicken coops at the S. A. Wilson residence in Gran ville and as a result Mr. and Mrs. Wil son are minus a number of their hens. After the first visit of the thieves a lock was put on the door but it failed to stop the marauders, as the place was again entered, the second time by way of the window. While this form of amusement may be interesting to those indulging in it, it would seem MACHINERY One 8-foot Minnesota binder One 10-foot Minnesota rake One Acme rake One 6-foot John Deere mower One 10-foot double disc Kentucky drill One 8-foot disc One 24-foot drag Two bob sleds Two wagons Two spring wagons One buggy One shovel plow One 14-in. gang plow One sulky plow One hay slide or stacker Two hay racks 25 tons of hay Some good oats straw 20 rods of movable fence OnQ 12x12 grain bin Three sets of work harness One set of double buggy harness One set of single buggy harness One cream separator One Home Comfort range stove Many household goods consisting of beds and dressers, etc. Oats, potatoes and seed wheat will be sold at this sale, and many other farm articles Woldnot Nome that no one would do it as a regular pastime.. It might be well also to add that any one caught in the act of en tering a place of this nature are liable to a penitentiary sentence. A tri-state conference on the con trol of Red river floods will be held in Fargo the latter part of this month. It will be attended by Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota officials. The purpose is to work out a definite scheme for combatting repeated floods in the Red river district, which are ex pected to assume increasing serious ness as more extensive drainage oper ations continue. Losses aggregating $50,000 were done by a prairie fire sweeping the dis trict along the border line between Slope and Bowman counties, an im mense crowd of volunteer fire fighters, carried to the scene in automobiles from surrounding towns and farms, fighting the flames for several hours. Considerable hay, several small farm buildings and some grain in the shock were destroyed. The Benton Transportation com pany's boats and barges have all been overhauled at Washburn and the last barge was put into commission this week. Two of the boats have gone up river to do work between Montana points and another one will be used in transporting winter supplies for the Standing Rock Indian agency. There is a large flax acreage on the Fort Berthold reservation this year and the wheat is good there so the grain traf fic is good on the river. Fargo is to. have another detective agency and offices will be established as soon as a suitable location can be secured. The new agency will be known as the Inter-State Detective as sociation, being a branch of the Inter State Detective association, an organ ization incorporated under the laws of Nebraska and having its headquarters in Omaha. The Fargo office will be in charge of H. W. Montgomery, who is making arrangements for the open ing of the office as soon as possible. Labor shortage is proving a big ob stacle for the Great Northern in the construction of its extension from Wildrose to Grenora, N. D. Only two miles of steel are being laid daily as a result of the shortage, being only a third of the usual track-laying opera tions. A great many men brought to this district by the railroad to work on the extension fail to carry out their contracts—only about a third of those hired in the cities actually going to work. P. O. Thorson, publisher of the Nor manden at Grand Forks, has complet ed a deal with O. J. Sorlie whereby he becomes the owner of the Observer Printing company, a weekly newspa per. Mr. Thorson will be the business manager of the concern and Peer SWomme will be the editor. The ar rival of Mr. Stromme is expected with in the next few weeks to take charge of the editorial department. The pa per will continue to be an English pub lication. S. L. Olson and James A. Brown of the board of control visited the state hospital for the insane, where a num ber of improvements and additions are hy plan to insure the comfort and security of your age Regular, systematic saving is the only sure way. We invite you to become a dividend-sharing part ner in a large successful enterprise, serving your community with helping to develop your town and state. You can save and invest at the same time through our 1% Preferred Stock. It has paid full dividends regularly every three months since the Company was organized in 1909. Five Dollars a month is all you need to begin. While you are acquiring the stock your money earns 6% thereafter you re ceive full 8% dividends. There is no mystery or red tape about becoming a stock holder. It is simple, easy and proof of your thrift and sound judg ment. An established market for Northern States Power Company's 7% Preferred Stock exists in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, St. Paul and other financial centers. This means you can sell your stock readily. Take a step toward financial independence by filling and mailing this coupon. Northern States Power Co. J. F. McGUIRE, Manager. 210 South Main St. Minot, N. D. Northern States Power Company, Minot, North Dakota. .1. F. MeOuire, Manager. ease semi me complete information regarding Northern States Powee Company's 7% Preferred .Stuck. Street. City. ftiiiM ti .1910 under way. These include a new wo men's ward, to cost $101,264 an office and dormitories, costing $53,308 new wings to the receiving ward, costing $51,285, and a dining hall costing $16, S27, which indicate that insanity is an expensive luxury for a state to enjoy. The state hospital dates back to terri torial days, having been established Mar. 1, 1885, only two years after the capital was moved to Bismarck. A majority of the present buildings date from 1893. S. E. BOSTWICK General Auctioneer RATES REASONABLE SATISFACTION GURANTTEED Leave Dates at First International Bank, Minot, N. D. Phone 911-9 South Prairie Postoffice Address DRADY, N. DAK. WARN At* SMP\ y« PER & Heating pipes are needless this nace heats whole bouse from one fur regis ter, and saves 36 per cent of your coal bill easy to install basement always cool. Adapted to modern cottages and old houses. No cutting: of walls for pip ing- Sample now set up in the Hodglns Second Hand Store. Call and get pamphlet and talk It OTtr with the agent at Boom S3, O. O. Vrank Boll dine Or Write P. ». Hester, Mfnot, V.