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a •t County Line JVI i's. L. H. Bennett'lias been very poorly the past week. J. Charlson had in a ear of lignite last week, which he sold at $4.00 per ton, it was a fine lot of coal. (,«eo. Pilgard, one of our boys, who has been serving Uncle Sam on the waters, returned to Tagus las# week Monday, and on Wednesday an other one of our lads, Robt. Nelson, son of Mr. anu Mrs. Frank Nelson, re turned from New York, from where he would have sailed for France, November 15 hail the war not come to an end as it did. Needless to say we are all glad to see the boys 'come home, and we believe the boys «re equally glad. A large crowd attended the L. A. S. 'at the E. W. Parker home last Thursday afternoon, instead of at the H. L. Johnson home as we mentioned in last week's items by error, but tie next meeting will be at the John Ron home on the 20th. We understand that J. Charlson, Sost a (horse recently, tthe ihorse just and died, poor fellow. He likely knew that mill feeds have gone up to SO to $60 per ton, and the chances are he died of heart failure. C. R. Loegering was at Minot last Week Wednesday on business. Geo. Lindsay went to the coal mine for coal last Friday. Some of our young folks from here attended a dance at Blaisdell last Saturday night. The Norsk L. A. S. will meet at the H. J. Bugge home on Thursday the 27. A dance which was billed for the old Circle B. B. ranch last Friday friight wras postponed because of some of the Myer family being ill with what was supposed to be the flu. The Lutheran people had church services in the English tongue at school No. 3 last Sunday forenoon and at Tagus in the afternoon. Some of the Twin City papers are lamenting over the awful state of af fairs (politically) and wind up with a Thank God it is in North Dakota, but wfhy shouldn't they 'be thankful, \phen say, 90 per cent of North Da kota's population, is thankful fur the «ame reason. Drady Again the people of "Burt" gath ered for a good time. All eyes were on the hall, on the morning of Feb Sruary 8 and as soon as smoke was •seen ascending from the chimney, into their rigs the farmers bundled "their families and grub boxes and away to the second Community Day gathering. This was even better than the first one. In addition to everything else, thei-e was a very gwd program consisting of songs, dialogs, recitations and instrumental music. Harry Blom made the hit of the afternoon in his vocal solo. "We hope for a similar one at the next An meeting. Miss Heard's pupils pleased their audience with their dialog, "Where's My Cake?" and a drama tized story "The Pancake." Messrs. Richardson, Ranstrom, Warner, Erickson and Underdahl gave several vocal selections which were well re ceived. Misses Head, Underdahl, Thelma Tidje and Mrs. Tresland con tributed to the afternoon's enter tainment in their usual pleasing man ner. The president of the club in a few well chosen words announced the next meeting on February 22, when a program arranged by the same committee will be given. The dance in the evening was well attended and was a great success, old and young joining in the festivities. Among the returned soldiers in addition to those previously reported were Matt Young, Elvin Christensen, Mr. John son of Des Lacs and Myers of Logan. May we see you all again February 22, both in the afternoon and also in the evening. The Drady basketball team defeat ed Des Lacs, at Des Lacs last Fri day evening to the tune of 23 to 18 and a week previous they trimmed Norwich and are looking for more teams to conquer. Mr. and Mrs. Will Hunt and chil-: dren have returned from Oklahoma and ate settled again on the Hunt farm. Minot 19 Donnybrook 18 The basket ball game at the high school auditorium Friday night be tween the very fast Donnybrook team and the local team, resulted in a vic tory for the home boys 19 to 18. The game was so close that Minot is not doing a great deal of crowing and the visitors received many compliments for the excellent game they played. Donnybrook rather expected to beat Minot, inasmuch as Donnybrook beat Kenmare recently, and Kenmare de feated Minot. Burlington Man Building lip Fine Shorthorn Herd I Julius Rue. who owns a nice herd! of registered Shorthorn cattle at his I farm south of Burlington, is prepar-! ing to buy a Scotch Shorthorn heifer or two, paying up towards a thousand dollars apiece for them. Mr. Rue visited Iowa last year and bought a dandy Scotch Shorthorn sire, an animal that tips the scales at a ton and besides he has a number of high class Registered cows. He built a pit silo last year and the ensilage has kept perfectly. He put the pit down 20 feet and will build thirty feet on top of it next year. Mr. Rue plans on keeping a year's supply of feed' ahead all of the time in this way., Mr. Rue was raised in town but he takes to farming like a duck does to water. M. Samuelson has returned from Crane Valley, Sask., where he spent! two weeks at the home of Amund Balerud, a former Minot resident.' Amund is making money hand over fist in Canadla. Electric a Protects Your Child From Sudden Changes in Temperature You cannot afford to take chances with drafty corners or windows. The best and simplest way to keep your child strong and healthy, and to keep fit yourself, is to have a portable radiant electric heater in your home. Nothing like it for emergency —can be carried from room to room—at the twist of a switch sends a shaft of warm comfort jst where you wish it. Northern States Power Company 201 Main St., So. [^Telephone 70 Afifrfa if* as* t' lA ,*t4 In commenting upon the death of Mrs. Russell Sage, Chauncey M. De pew, who knew Mrs. Sage for 40 years and was nn intimate associate of her husband for a longer period, told how he made a $120,000 speech at her sug gestion. Mr. Depew stated that although Mr. Sage accumulated a vnst fortune he rarely gave away any money, adding that the rensou for this was the con fidence which he reposed in the judg ment of his wife as an able and ex perienced philanthropist. He said tlint years ago he received a letter from Mrs. Sage Inviting him to make an address at the Emma Wlllard school, at Troy, N. ¥., upon the occasion of the donation by Mr. Sage to the school of li large sum of money for use In erecting a building. This was the school of which Mrs. Sage was a grad uate. "I replied," said J^r. Depew, "that I was so overwhelmed with engage ments to speak that It would be Im possible for me to accept the Invita tion. In answer I received by special messenger a note from Mrs. Sage, saying: "Russell is going to give $120,000. He will not give one cent unless you make the speech. This Is Russell's first excursion Into this field. Don't you Reprisal on some weaker peasant will be Hie next step, and from that the flame will spread to virulent bor der warfare with whole villages on the trail to plunder the grain bins of others or Intrenched to protect their own. In some districts, even before I left, this most cruel form of civil strife had broken out. I contemplated returning from Pet rograd to Moscow by sleigh overland In case the German advance enveloped the railroad outlets. Careful investlga tlon, however, disclosed the fact that machine guns, brought home from the front, were mounted on all the roads leading into many villages and travel ers approached them at their peril. REQ0RD PRICE FOR SPEECH JAMES KNEW IT WAS COMING Chauncey Depew Telia of Occasion When a Few Spoken Words Wert Worth Much Money. think he ouj&t to be en couraged "My immediate reply was: 'I will make that speech.'" COMPLETE CHAOS IN RUSSIA Inevitable Anarchy as the Result of Insufficient Supplies of Food for the People. By far the most terrible toll of the Russian winter will be taken in the peasant villages, the home of nine tenths of Russia's 180,000,000, Oliver M. Sayler writes In the Saturday Eve-, Bin? Post. The sullen and defiant muzhik, who has planted for himself and only* for himself, hasn't taken In to account the possibility that superior force from the city or from his own or a neighboring village may seize his grain. When the calamity befalls, an endless train of disaster and bloodshed and starvation will follow in its wake. World's Greatest Troopship. One of the devoted women who have not spared themselves at the emer genc.v aid rooms told this story among the flying needles the other day to her co-workers. A letler from the front has brought the Intelligence: A pompous German major had fallen into the hands of our valorous Penn s#l vanin troops, and after they had questioned him, he ventured to ask them for information. "How many men have you on this side of the water?" he inquired. "Two million," answered a young lieutenant. "How did you get them over?" was the incredulous query of the-Hun. "One boat brought thetn all over," was t'-e answer. The German stared. "How so? What boat was that?" The American gave tin1 German a searching look. "The Lusitania," he answered, quietly.—Philadelphia Lead er. Tallow Dips in Denmark. Denmark has a lighting problem so serious that the Danish government re cently purchased 400 tons of tallow from which to make candles, Com mercial Agent Normal Anderson re ports from Copenhagen. "There is a scarcity of kerosene also, and electricity is, of course, not avail able to the Isolated farmhouse," says Mr. Anderson, who quotes from the Tidsskriff for Industri, which, in dis cussing the possibilities of acetylene and alcohol illumination, states: "Acetylene may now legally be used an/1 may be included In fire insurance risks. As a result the manufacture of acetylene lamps has flourished great ly and at the end of the year 180 types had been put on the market."— Exchange. Yperite, New Poison Gas. J. Bnndaline and J. de Pollakolf (Bulletin de l'Aeademle de Medicine) call the reader's attention to the effi ciency of hot air in the treatment of burns caused by yperite, gas used ty the Germans in their offensive of March, 1918. These burns, even when very small, cause extremely sharp pain and sleeplessness. A number of cases were rapidly healed by hot air after various treatments had failed. Oh, Boy! The war department recently Invited bids for the following to supply 125 regiments: Seventeen thousand five hundred sets of boxing gloves, 7.000 baseball bats. 34,100 baseballs, 35,000 playground balls,3,000 rugby footballs. 7,000 soccer footballs, 330 volley balls and 1.750 medicine balls. So, Contrary to All Precedent, He Pleaded With Hia Mother to Ad minister the "Dose." James, his mother called him, bat he preferred the name of Jlmmle, by which the neighborhood knew him. He also preferred rough-and-tumble clothes to starchy clean apparel—the movies to Sunday SCIIQOI—and almost anything to grade school, although be had given It only few weeks' trial, the Kansas City Star says. While his father is overseas with a government permit to hunt the Han, the mother adds to the family income by working In an office close to home. James had made It a custom to meet his mother at the closing hour and ac company her home. Early one morning Jnmes started far school pressed In a clean new salt. That evening an almost unrecognlia* ble six-year-old youngster awaited hla mother at the office. Immediately upon her appearance he. stepped forth with the explanation, forestalling any thing thnt might be .said or done on her part. "I didn't go to. school. I went riding with the coal man. I 'spect you're going to whip me." Plac ing a smudgy hand upon his mother's arm, he continued: "Come ou, let's huri-y home and get It over with." PROBLEM FOR ART EXPERTS How to Save Masterpieces of Painting Is Matter Which Puzzles Author ities in Italy. A heating apparatus powerful enough to force heat through a pile of sandbags 12 feet thick and to dry without scorching Ihe wall behind Is needed to preserve one of the world's masterpieces, "The Last Supper," of Leonardo dn Vlncl, which Is painted on the wall of the Church of Santa I Maria delle Grnzle at Milan, Italy. The dampness which accumulates in the sand necessary as a protection from nir raids is fast fading the colors of the picture, already damaged by time. The restoration necessary for Leonardo's picture Is unsulted to tile frescoes of Luini and other masters painted on the same wall. How to give' each set of masterpieces the treatment required is the problem. So far the e*perts of the Italian ministry of the arts have been unable to find a solution. Hereditary Hay Fever. Pr. W. Seheppegreil, president of the American Hay Fever Prevention association, has recently made an an alysis of 415 cases (rented in the hay fever clinic of the Charity hospital at New Orleans and elsewhere In that city in ordyr.to determine the Influ ence of heredity on this disease. He finds that in more than one-third of the cases the patients had father, mother, brother or sister who was a viclim of the disease. Probably the influence of heredity is even greater than indicated by these figures, as spe cific susceptibility may exist Indefi nitely without developing hay fever, by reason of insufficient exposure to the pollens that cause the malady. The question of the development of a nat ural immunity from continued expos ure ti) the specific pollens is, says Doc tor Seheppegreil, a difficult one to set tle, on account of the difficulty of elim inating the-question of decreased ex posure.—Scientific American. Japan Larger Than Germany. In the World's Work there is a chart which shows comparison of Germany and the Japanese empire. Japan is the greater of the two both in territory and population. Germany's area (ex clusive of colonies) is 'JOS.TSO square miles, while that of Japanese empire is 200,738 s(ffiare miles. This Includes the peninsula of Korea, which Is a part of the Japanese nation, but It does not Include Manchurian and oth er Asiatic territory In which Japan has secured ninety-nine-year leases of ports and railroads as well as busi ness advantages of all sorts and min ing rights. Germany's population at the beginning of the great war was about 07,000,000. There are now 71, 000.000 people living under the Jap anese flag, and there are also great numbers of thein scattered over the islands of the Pacific and In foreign countries. Material for Explosive.' As to the source of the toluol need ed for explosives, It l.s pointed out that there has been recently a great In crease in the number of by-product coke ovens in this country. However, says the Scientific American, if 20,000, 000 tons of coke are made in these ovens during the present year we shall get from this source only 10,000,000 gallons of toluol, which is about one fourth as much a^ the government es timated it would need for munitions. Another promising measure recently Inaugurated is the stripping of city gas of this mateilal, which can be spared without any serious detriment to the gas, and amounts, to about .04 gallon for each 1,000 feet of gas. It Is estimated that ten of the largest city gas plants of the country will yield about 10,000,000 gallons of toluol.. Talked Too Muoh. Joe had been Instructed that If he did not stop running away he could not go to the movies. Supposing the day's slate was clean, Joe's mother was tak ing him to a show. As the two reach ed the door Joe said: "Just running to the bridge wasn't far, was It, mother?" Joe was turned homeward, and put to bed. Hearing the little fellow talking to himself a few moments later, moth Mr eaves-dropped: "There's one time* •Id man, you talked too much." I H"V collars are worth from •oW'Oi Harness —extends its usefulness and saves the investment for new harness to take its place. We are prepared to take care of your Harness and Collar repairs. There being only one harness repair shop in Mi not, remember we can do a limited amount of harness work the last week before seeding starts. Look your stock of collars over now. If any need stuffing or repairing, bring'them in as soon as convenient. We ex pect a big lot.of collar repairs. When one considers that $3 to $4 more this year than in the spring of 1918, it will stand you in hand to g$** them looked after before we are too busy. Auto Upholstering We are also prepared to repair all auto upholster ing cjv^r new your auto t3p and mike new ide curtains or match up any you may need. Suit cases and hand bags repaired and remodeled^ ^Russet bags and grils dyed black if desired. Parmanenii black guaranteed. 'i'Un We sell all kinds of HARNESS HARDWARE and new HARNESS PARTS in stock We make up any harness extras needed to order and will take orders now lor new harness you care to have us make up. lis £3,- ynI' barn Waverly Harness Shop Fred F. Rowatt, Minot, North Dakota Subscribe for The Independent—$1.50 Per Year SAWYEIt I,3WS THEY DOWNED TWELVE HUN PLANES I 1.lout. (. I\ Johnson ol Des Moines, In., and Lieut. (. A. Uulston of Lin coln. Neb., two of Uncle Sum's lighting aviators, have returned to their native land after many experiences in France. Lieutenant Johnson is officially credited with downing five Hun planes and Tils pal gets seven to his credit. Sunday afternoon, February 2 at 5:30 p. m., occured a very quiet but solemnly beautiful wedding when Miss Mabel B. Moxness, the eldest daugh ter of Mr. and Mra. Gunder Moxness became the bride of Mr. Edward J, Booth. The marriage took place at the home of Rev. SpaCht. with only the near relatives toeing present. Miss Moxness' many natural charms were accentuate^ in,her love ly gown of palest pink silk crepe over silk-of same shade. The bride wore a becoming hat of pale pink. '»v,t'!\ 'w W' yA*:.'' i*r •, 4 The groom is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Booth who are numbered among the earliest set tlers of McHenry county. He as a prosperous farmer of that vicinity. At present Mr. and Mrs. Edward Booth will make their home on the groom's parent's home one and a half miles from Sawyer.?*'4 On Monday evening,^ Febmiary 4$^ 3rd Mr. and Mrs. Edward Booth gave a very enjoyable party to 28 guests^* Late in the evening a three cours^,, lunchfeon was served. Mr. and Mrs. Booth were assisted by the groom's parents. 'Mr. »nd Mrs.^ J. F. Booth. & 1 'V