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K- l! li 'H if i: A *?JP I or WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER By Congressman P. D. Norton Washington, D. C., March 14. 1918. Advances in Prices of Grain The Department of Agriculture pre sents statistics showing that the av erage price received by farmers for wheat during the three years preced ing the war was $.859 a bushel. The present average price received by far mers is $2,006 a bushel. The present price is an increase of 131 per cent over the average price for the three AV Farmer Now is the time at least to begin investigating about ELECTRIC LIGHT FOR THE FARM The farm buildings ought to be wired first, for the cost is not great. The plant is secondary when the CROP arrives, Write us. MINOT ELECTRIC CO. Everything Electrical 116 Main St., So. Minot, N. D. ELECTRICITY FOR ANYONE ANYWHERE An Extra Hand for Farm Work Delco-Light is the busiest and most ef ficient workman on the farm. It not only furnishes an abundance of clean, safe and economical electric light for house and barn, but— It furnishes power to pump the water, operate the separator and churn, wash the clothes and grind the tools— It lengthens the working day by making it possible to do the barn chores safely and easily after dark— It pays for itself in time and labor saved— And at the same time it adds greatly to the comfort and convenience of farm life. Delco-Light is a simple, compact, highly efficient electric plant that requires little or no attention, and that runs on gasoline. OetCO-UOHT kerosene, gas FROSAKER BROS. Distributors TODD ELECTRIC CO. Sales Afente 15 First Ave. S. W. MINOT, N. D. Geo. State Auctioneer a Let George Do It years preceding the war. The aver age price received by the farmer for corn during the same pre-war period was $.665 a bushel. The average price now received by the farmer for corn is $1,388 a bushel. This is an increase of 109 per cent. The aver age price received for oats during the pre-war period is shown to be $.404 a bushel. The present average price received for oats is $.787. This is an increase of 105 per cent over the pre war period price. The same percent- age ot increase in price is shown for barley as for o^ts. The difficulties of transportation and the failure of the railroads to get grain to the ter minal markets as fast as the demand for export and for domestic use ab sorbed the supply have been two prin cipal factors in maintaining an un usual'y high differential between the price paid the farmer and the cost to the consumer. The War to be Decidcd on West Front The easy success Germany is hav ing in overrunning Russia and the Balkan States has not changed and will not change the final field of bat tle in the war. Germany is now anxi ously trying to shift the center of equilibrium of the war away from the western front. If this center could be changed by Germany to Russia or to India or to the Balkan Peninsula, it would altogether to the likimr and to the strategical advantage of Ger many. But German autocracy and frightfulness has been called to a final accounting on the western front. Her tiger-like attempts to bounce upon and rend and cursh Belgium and France in the first few days of the war fail ed. Her later attempts at Verdun to slowly and steadily hack and burn France to death, failed. Her. unres tricted submarine campaign to starve to death England, France's principal ally, failed. Her present efforts to shift the battle ground from the west ern front will fail. France. Ene land, and the United -States have drown the sword of Democracy and free government against German Au tocracy and Militarism and it will not be sheathed until these dreadful and degrading influences have been de feated and have ceased for all time to disturb the peace of the world. Do what she may, Germany cannot shake off France, England, and the United States from her western front. There the Allies are massed against her. and there her power finally will be brok en. There the peace terms will bo: dictated. There will she be forced to surrender up what her nlottinsr. her intrigues, her spies, and her militarv machine have won for her in other places. Railroad Bill Finally Passed The House and Senate this week approved the conference report on the Railroad Bill. The bill will re ceive the signature of the President within a day or two. As passed the bill authorizes the President to agree! with and guarantee any railroad or! transportation company taken over bv the federal government that durimr: the period of federal control it shall! receive as just compensation an an nual sum payable from time to time in reasonable installments for each year and pro rata for any fractional year not exceeding a sum Equivalent! as nearly hs may be to its average annual railway operating income for the three years endinnr June 30. 1917. The President is authorized to take" over short line railroads and guaran tee them just and fair compensation. The federal control of railroads is to continue dtiring the period of the war and may continue for a neriod not ex ceeding one year and nine months fol lowing the date of the oroclamation by the President of ratifications of the treaty of peace. Young Does Good Work Through some strenuous and heroic work done last week bv Congressman George M. Young, who is a member of the House Committee on Agriculture, the bill introduced by Congressman John M. Baer for an appropriation of fifty million dollars for feed and seed grain was again taken up and favor ably recommended to the House in an amended form, wherein $2,500,000.00 is proposed to be provided for the mo bilization of farm labor, and $7,500, 000.00 for the purchase of seed wheat, oats and barley, to be sold to farm ers on time. Congressman Young is entitled to great credit for the very diplomatic and effective work done bv him in getting the bill favorably re ported out of the Committee on Ag riculture where it had met with strong opposition both from members on the Committee as well as from the Secre tary of Agriculture. Ordered Big Drilling Outfit. The Des Lacs Western Oil Co. has placed an order for a $9,000 modern drilling outfit which will be here in a few weeks. The machine was ordered from Denver and will sink the largest sized hole and go right down into the bowels of the earth. The fifth test well is being drilled by Mr. Anderson, who is down 380 feet. He struck oil at 377 feet this time. SHBBSrr'S SUE CaS of State of North Dakota, County Ward, ss. Harve P. Beehn, Plaintiff, VB. O. O. Adams. Defendant. NOTICE TS HEREBY GIVEN. That by virtue of an execution to me directed and delivered, and now in my hands, issued out of the Clerk's office of the Eighth Judicial District Court. State of North Dakota, in and for the County of Ward, upon a judgment rendered in said Court in favor of Harve F. Beehn, Plain tiff, and against O. O. Adams, Defendant, I have levied upon the following des cribed real property of said Defendant, to-wlt: Lots 1, 2. and 3. of Block 14 of Tolley's Plat of the City of Kenmare. Ward County. North Dakota. And that I shall, on Monday, the 25th day of March A. D. 1918, at the hour of 2 o'clock P. M., of said day, at the front door of the Court House, in said County and State, proceed to sell the right, title and interest of the above named Defendant, O. O. Adams, in and to the above described property, to satisfy said Judgment and costs, amounting to $226.40, Two Hundred Twenty Six Dol lars and 40 Cents, together with all ac cruing costs of sale, and interest on the same from the 19th day of October 1917, at the rate of 6 per cent per annum, at public auction to the highest bidder for JOHN J. NEDRBLOE, Sheriff of Ward County, N. D. A. W- Gray, Plaintiff's Attorney. Dated Minot, N. D., Feb. 15th, 1918. 2-21-tB NOTICE or 8 AXE. rOBECLOSUBE OT BEAXi ESTATE MOBTOAOE BY ASTOBTXSEKZNT Notice is hereby given that that cer tain mortgage, made, executed and de livered by Myrtle B. Wenner and Mil ton H. Wenner, husband and wife, mort gagors to Lavllla D. Himes, mortgagee, dated the 18th day of November. A. D. 1916, and filed for record in the office of the Register of Deeds of the County of Ward and state of North Dakota on the 27th day of November A. D. 1910 and there recorded in book 258 of mort gages at page 15, with a power of sale therein contained, and which said power of sale has become operative because of. I it Copper Zinc Rubber the failure and refusal of the said mort gagors to pay the interest upon the debt secured by the eald mortgage due and payable on March 1st. A. D. 1918, will be foreclosed by a sale of the premises in such mortgage and hereinafter des cribed, at the front door of the court house in the city of Minot, county of Ward and state of North Dakota, at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon on the thirteenth day of April A. D., 1918, to satisfy the amount due upon such mortgage on the day of sale. The premises described in such mort gage and which will be sold to satisfy the same, are located in the County of Ward and state of North Dakota and are described as follows: The north half of the south east quar ter of section thirty three and the north half of the south west quarter of sec tion thirty-four, all in township one hundred fifty-four, north of range eighty one. west of the flfth principal meridian, together with the hereditaments and ap purtenances thereunto belonging or ap pertaining. That the said mortgagee has paid the taxes on said premises for the year A. D. 1916, which with interest thereon will, on the day of sale amount to $34.39, which sum is included in the amount hereinafter claimed to be due at the time of sale There will be due on such mortgage at the date of sale the sum of Thirty two hundred sixty eight dollars and eighty-nine cents, besides attorney's fees and the costs of this foreclosure. Dated at Minot, N. D., March 6, A. D. 1918. LAVILLA D. HIMES, Mortgagee. JOHN J. NEDRELOE. Sheriff of Ward County, N. D. C. Aurland, Attorney for Mortgagee, Residence and Fost Office Address: Minot, N. D. 3-7-#t NOTICE AND CITATION XEABINO OF rarAI ACCOUNT AND 9ISTBX BVTZON or ESTATE State of North Dakota, County of Ward, ss. In County Court, before Hon. Wil liam Murray, County Judge. In the matter of the Estate of George Vix. deceased. Theodore Johnson, Petitioner, vs. Elizabeth Haas, Caroline Bolander, Chrlstena Miller, Lucy Schueler, and Christian Vix, Respondents. NOTICE AND CITATION HEARING OF FINAL. ACCOUNT AND DISTRIBU TION OF ESTATE. The State of North Dakota to the above named Respondents: Tou the said respondents are hereby notified that the final account of the Administrator of the estate of George Vix, late of the vicinity of Sawyer In the County of Ward and State of North Dakota, deceased, has been rendered to this Court, therein showing that the es tate of said deceased is ready for final settlement and distribution, and peti tioning that his account be allowed, the residue of said estate be distributed to the persons thereunto entitled, his ad ministration closed and that he be dis charged that Monday the 8th day of April, A. D. 1918, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of that day, at the Court Rooms of this Court, in the Court House, in the city of Minot, County of Ward and State of North Dakota, has been duly appointed by this Court for the settlement thereof, at which time and place any person interested in said estate may appear and file his excep tions, in writing, to said account and petition and contest the same. And you, the above named respond ents, and each of you. are hereby cited and required then anT there to be and appear before this Court, and show cause if any you have, why said account shall not be allowed, the residue of said es tate distributed, the administration of said estate closed and, said Theodore Johnson, Administrator be discharged. Dated the 4th day of March, A. D., 1918. 1 By the Court: 3-7-14 WILLIAM MURRAY, Judge of th* County Court. -^4 This is the time when plow shares are being beat en into swords/' The Government needs copper, brass, lead, zinc, etc.. to make munitions. There is plenty of this lying idle around the homes of the American people, which under the present condi tions should be rushed to the smelters, etc., at once. Last season we handled hundreds of carloads of metal. This alone is evidence that people are beginning to realize what a "patriotic movement this is," and are co-operating in the gather ing together of all old junk possible. On account of the shortage of metal, prices are very good this season and it will be a paying proposition for everyone interested.. The following may be shipped in to us by local freight. Shipping tags will be furnished upon request: 1 'rTT-astxsrvm' Brass Aluminum Hides CriPPidl* We want 5,000 tons of country OpccidltB"mixed scrap iron in a hurry, and will pay from $14.00 to $ 15.00 per ton. Iron mu& be shipped in carload lots, 25 tons in car. But we buy any amount, nothing: too small or nothing too large YOUR NEAREST SATISFACTORY MARKET Northwestern Hide & Fur Company Minot, N. Dak. Across the street from the Dakotah Hotel Lead Rags Fur Cut Your Feeding Costs, With a hungry world looking to American farmers for food and the price of corn sky high, it is almost criminal waste to allow corn: to be tramped in the mud. A concrete feeding floor lets you market more pork and beef with a smaller corn ration. It makes feeding easy in freezing or wet weather. It is easy to build and will pay for itself in a season or less. Maybe you need a new concrete hog house, too. You can fatten hogs for the high winter market in a modern, warm house. Ask us for plans. A bushel of corn or 100 pounds of beef or pork will buy more UNIVERSAL cement and other building supplies today than ever before. We have every material you need for building. Ask us how to make the floor or for the name of a reliable contractor. Now Is the Time to Build Cox-Emmerson Lumber Co. PHONE 915 ought to be worth some thing to you. NOW, if you are going to have a Sale this Spring, yoti want an auctioneer with some experience. Come in and let us talk it over. I can give you some pointers about the sale business that will do vou good. Get a man that un derstands the business. Twenty years in business H. J. HECHT Minot, N. D. tfvna-V c. .*.t vv 7' gj$ 3§fi wk A &