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L..- TTHE fatui WARD COUNTY INDEPENDENT Pntn»b*ct Evsry Thunday If COICOIB Ktnot. Worti Dskot* '.rfti' ullt l». SW-. *e SeotMMi !iw»s Matter :it the PostofClce at Vlinot N t.. under the Act of onBrc(3 of Murch 3. 1879. 1? MY TOWN A LITTLE DULL TOWN? The following quotation from the National School Digest, January, 1921, oublished in Minneapolis, Minn: The tax payers in the little dull cown have been possessed with the delusion that the type of education THEY enoyed in THEIR day is good enough for their children and their neighbors' children. They have been tanging on to their lifeless dollars and have sent their far more precious treasure—the blood and brains of their best young people—to enrich the life of adjoining communities. But the neighboring cities—origin ally no richer, no larger than the little dull town—had faith to believe that THEIR young peopIe equipped with the science of the new day, could do more than they Kpd ever done, and 2 I £3 2 ,!Ui, A w.'UV~i is'j* wort' worthy of the best education their money could buy. They erected modern buildings. They equipped them with modern laboratories, librar ies, class rooms, athletic facilities, in dustrial shops, playgrounds and agri cultural opportunities. They paid good salaries for live teachers and wise leaders of youthful ideals. Thus, they not only kept at home, and rooted to the local environment the strength, the initiative, and enthusiasm of their own young people, but they annexed also the glory of the youths of the little dull town. The press of North Dakota are unit ed in extending thanks to the legisla ture" for the passage of Senate Bill 154 which increases to some extent the rate for publishing all notices. An increase in the rate was made impera tive by reasan of the greatly increased costs of publishing. At the time the old law, enacted in 1913, was adopted, printer? were receiving $18.00 or $20.00 a week. Today, the printers of North Dakota are getting $45.00 a week. Other printing costs have in creased from 200 to 300 per cent. Un til Senate Bill 154 was enacted, the rate for some of the legal publica- tions would scarcely pay for the comp osition. The new law simplifies the mode of figuring the cost of the vari ous legal notices and from henceforth there can be no question as to what constitutes matter that is to be con strued as straight, price and a half and double price matter. The Inde- J. PKNNEY COMPANY-A NATION-WIDE INSTITUTION J. C. PENNEY COMPANY A NATION-WIDE INSTITUTION fe 1 ,I fcOiJ.niIJ.SNI pendent prints the copy of the bill as enacted, in another column of this is sue. It might be well for those in terested to preserve it. f'armers are being urged to repair their old machinery this spring in or der to obviate the necessity of buying new machinery as much as possible. It is hoped in this way to bring the price of machinery down along with other things. It will be a contest be tween the farmers and the manufac turers. It's a good plan to take good care of farm machinery anytime and now more than .ever. There was a time when machinery was being im proved so rapidly that farmers con sidered it paid them better to discard the old and buy the new, even before it was worn out^ but there have been few improvements during the past five or ten years. Some farmers nave used binders for 25 years. It will pay you to take good care of your machin ery. Horses are going to be as scarce and as valuable as gold dollars in five years, is the prediction made by Dr. E. J. Walsh, well known Minot veter inarian. Farmers have quit breeding horses on account of low prices. Trac-r tors will never replace the horse on -the farm, the doctor predicts. Some farmers may make the tractor pay, but there are so many who will not give the tractor the proper care to make them a paying investment. The doctor urges the farmer to breed for A 3aiM"NOIXVJsI I a 1600-pound type. At t^iat he will get plenty of 1400-pound horseB which are ust about the right size for the North Dakota farms. Former President Wilson announces that after forty years he is to re-en gage in the practice of law. He has formed a partnership with Mr. Colby and they will maintain offices in New York City and Washington, D. O. Mr. Wilson will reside in the Capitol City. Most people had forgotten that Mr. Wilson had been admitted to the bar. The firm will make a specialty of in ternational law. The Volstead act was given a severe blow when outgoing Attorney General Palmer rendered a decision that beer, wine and whiskey may be manufac tured and sold on prescription in non prohibition territory for medicinal purposes. Breweries have already be^ gun to function. A limit of a pint of whiskey each ten days has been placed. That Harding dog may come in handy in keeping officeseekers away. TREATING POTATOES BRINGS BIGGER YIELD Agricultural College, N. D., March 15.—Average increase of 37 bushels an acre from potato seed treated with corrosive sublimate for diseases over potatoes not treated but grown in the same field under the same conditions, is reported for 1920 by eight Pembina county farmers who experimented with this treatment with the cooper ation of R. C. Dynes, county agent. Each farmer treated a plat in his potato field with sublimate, and kept account of the results. The average field yield of the eight farmers was 85 bushels while the av erage treated plat yield was 122 bush els, an increase of 43 per cent. Four ounces of corrosive sublimate (mercury chloride) to 30 gallons of if you use OCCIDENT FLOUR It is Guarantied by the Russell-Miller Milling Co. to make your bread cake, biscuit and pastry bettor, and make more of it to every sack. 11 it falls, we pay back yot'r money without argument. Will you try It this weekj J. C. PENNEY COMPANY-A NATION-WIDE INSTIYUTION water will treat from 12 to 16 bushels of potatoes. They should be soaked from 1% to 2 hours. The solution, which is poisonous, corrodes metal and should be used in wood containers. Having secured the agency of the Christian harrows, also rotary packers for either gang or triple plows, have the harrows now on hand for gang plows. E. E.^Diehl, Phone No. 5-F-2, Sawyer, N. D. 3-17-t2* You Can Bake Better Bread and More Bread Try a sack of OCCIDENT FLOUR COSTS MORE WORTH IT RUSSELL-MILLER MILLING CO. Minot, N, D. Wa ANVmO0 A3NN3J 'J *f NOIXOLIXSKI 3aiM-NOIXYN AM Yd WOO A1NN3(J *3 NOI4.ni.IXSN! §1 I ii C. PENNEY COMPANY A NATION-WIDK INSTITUTION AD-VENTS A weekly Bulletin Announcing the Activities of the Members and Friends of the Minot O W N I E S VOL. 1 March 17th, 1921 NO. 8 I am very sorry to say that ex tracting news from members of the Town Criers club is worse than trying to get oil from the Des Lacs oil well. 1 asked four of our best members to contribute' something last week, and then called them by phone and asked them again, but it is time to go to press and not a word of news from anyone, so don't blame me for the lack of it in this item, but I must fill the space for it any way, but if there is anything that I hate to dish out to the readers it is a lot of junk, but if the members of the Town Criers club won't take five minutes time in which to write up a little news, I will have to do the next best thing, so here goes. W. F. Gettleman, Thomas F. Lea therwood, C. R. Thatcher aAd V. E. Stenersen either do not read these items or else they are not interested in the Town Criers welfare. E aaiM-NOIXYN AMVdWOD A3MN3«{ *3 *f Now I may be talking plain about this business but you know I am an advocate of truthful advertising. I am like the girl, who, when asked by her sweetheart if she could learn to love him said, "Why John, I could give lessons at it." f,i To labor with zest, and to give of our best, 0 For the sweetness and joy of the giving To help folks along, with a hand and a song, Why, there's the real sunshine of living. Take especial note of the following and see if you don't think that they are more truth than prose: "Well, my dear," said he as he was dressing, "I s'pose you were right when you told me last night that there were burglars in the house." "Why?7' "Because all the money that was in my pockets when I went to bed is Ill g'one." "Well, if you'd been brave and got up and shot the wretch you'd have had your money this morning." "Possibly, but then I should have been a -widower." She gave him back half his money. "Sh-h-h!" exclaimed Tommy, listen ing at the door. "There's company in the parlor." "How do you know?" inquired the little brother. "Mamma's calling papa 'My dear.'" "And now," said the country cousin to the city girl, "I have showed you everything on the farm." "Oh, George, you haven't any such thing. I heard papa say before I started that you had a mortgage on it that covered nine-tenths of the land." 0 I have said so muah about the kill ing of Gus Gloom that I have just about run out of wind, but we got rid of him anyway, and if you will look over some of the rest of the pages you will find out how it was done, for this is one of the jfapers that always tells the truth ancr never exaggerates, only in a few cases (my own for in stance.) })t Politicians! If you are fool enough to think for a minute that you are to be elected to the office you are seek ing, and you do not belong to the Town Criers, you are plumb crazy. My advice to you woula be that you ihunt ut) Jones at Samuelson's shoe store and make out your application J-W-.J J.. II u. pit at once. I am going to annouiu-c next week all the Town Criers that are seeking office so you boys will know how to vote, so you better get busy fast, and take it from your Uncle Dudley, that if you don't you are beat. And this refers to those who seek re-election as well as new aspirants. Dollar Day has undoubtedly done more to impress our mer Hants that 1 thruthful and concentrated advertis ing will pay big, than any other one thing that has been done in the City of Minot for many day. We have not been able to find one advertiser but what was loud in his praise of the results obtained from this drive, and if there is one, let us hear him roar. We would be more than pleased to look into the reasons why it has not I paid, and we think that we can find the reason. Remember TRUTH was mentioned above. How many lawyers in the Town I Criers club? Make a guess. I will I let you know on eof these days. You I will be surprised, and so will the law yers. Will the following please send in a few words of NEWS for next week: A. F. Bacon, Secretary Jones, Bert Jacobson and Bert McEown (Auto mart.) Address, AD-VENTS, Box o8. citv. FARMERS DESIRINC SEED LOANS SHOL'L.L) SEE CO. A(IT. The following telegram from .-r«5»o 'Afc-v-v r. y~ I1 -J a*Mi I I I nn I Li. S. Senator Ladd was received by the In dependent Washington. I). March 12. U»21. Ward CountV Indepjendent. .Minot, N. Dak. Senator Ladd's latest informa tion from the Department of Ag "riculture is that Mr. ('. W. War burton left Washington Saturday noon for the west to take charge of field operations in connection with the distribution of the seed fund. Mr. Warburton will arrive at Fargo Tuesday evening and will immediately take steps to ward organizing his field forces. County agents will give the wid est publicity as to the tilling out of application blanks. Mr. War burton has full authority to ap prove the applications, also to is sue checks for the purchase'of the necessary seed. The Department of Agriculture has requested Sen ator Ladd to urge the farmers to submit all inquiries to the coun ty agents so as to expedite mat ters and relieve the head office of all unnecessarv detail. E. I,ADD. 10-20 Titan Tratfor 8-16 International (4 cylinder) 15-30 International (4 cylinder) Farm Hunan Met al Sawyer I am sending you a brief statement of an interesting meeting held at Saw yer March lli, under the auspices of the )Vard County Farm Bureau. Ad dresses were delivered by X. D. (ior man, county agent, wiho explained farm bureau work and the plan of the Committer of 17 for marketing small grain, his address being given in a very forceful manner which command ed rapt attention. Dr. Don McMahon represented the A. C. extension ser vice, speaking of the way in which the fartn bureau may avail themselves of the services of specialists. He is a specialist in live stock diseases and discussed preventive measures, analy sis and remedies for the following: Sore shoulders, sweeney, nosetly or I bott. bloat grubs or warbles and re tention of placenta or afterbirth of I cattle. His address teemed with val uable information. Thirty farmers were present. C. I. Booth was selected to represent Sawyer community in 'the county organization. I wish to take this opportunity of thanking the owner for the use of the 1 hall and ,1. E. McKinnon for his help in various ways, in behalf of the farm bureau. B. .1. SXYDER, Sawyer, R. 1. l.EACl E BOYCOTT IN RECAI.I. THREATENED Bottineau, X. D.. Mach 14. The, boycott will be used as a means of' preventing voters from signing the' initiative petitions of the antinonpar tisan forces being circulated in North I Dakota, according to the Bottineau Courant. The paper prints what is purported to be an announcement by Attoi^-y (Jeneral William I.cmkc declaring he $1000.00 TfWi We can now quote you the following prices and terms on the famous line of International Harvester Co.'s tradtors: A corresponding reduction on Tradtor Plows and tradtor-drawn implements. TERMS: 1-2 ash on delivery 1-2 approved notes due in 6 months The above announcement will b« of interest to farmers who are contemplating the pur chase of a tractor. It means that our tractors have reached the pre-war level and can be bought on better terms. In addition many important improve. .ents have been made which add to the value of the tractor. We can make immediate delivery and guarantee you real service. Reishus Implement Co. r~ will have the industrial coMMMnsion publish the names of all signer* of the initiative petition and :flso the sign ers of the 1 call petition, if kfce latter are circulated. The signers' names would be published in their home county, tlu announcement tutfr. Several -Nonpartisan leagac (allies are planned for Bottineau h»4 joining counties soon. ad i. V-.-' Professional Leaders Know tlu- UaJing auctioneer* of America will toil you then 15 on* real hoit\ callkt and laid anclioiuer and if you are goftw fo $cll either write or phone to H. J. HECHT Auctioneer Minot, N. D. I'ricc t" •'irst-clues clerk IjH I ASK OUR OPTOMETRIST How Much Nerve Energy is Waited in Over coming Bad Vision visi'iu is telt tl 1 raining nerve vitality in in other fTgan*. the ellii-iencv which in I Many e.iuc-oi'.ii-calleiI Ntomach trouble tie traei able in bad i.-ion. It your ey t. f'.'r your health'? sake turn 1.- impair' di/zii. •W -t 1 ain'' in the -.11'i tal a cliuiii' 11 olir J^ell eral health -ake Alt our I.ICIiNSKI) o|itniurtrist. f.ylr lifiasun H. L. WINTERS CO. $1000.00 $1000.00 $1950.00