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f: 'v Vol. 20 No. 39 PRESIDENT MORRELL FAVORS INCREASED DUTY ON BUTTER J. W. Morrell, president of the North Dakota Dairymen's association, would have the Dairy association go on record as endorsing at least ten cents per pound duty on imported but ter because of the danger of making the United States a dumping ground for their butter whenever they find the English market, their natural out let, weakened. At the present time the United States is being a dumping ground for New Zealand, Australia, the South American republics and Denmark, who are putting their but ter, which is manufactured by ex tremely cheap labor, on the American market in competition to our home grown products. With regard to the Danish farmer, he is consolidating on the hog and dairy products and often times is able to sell butter really below the cost of production and makes up the difference in the value of his hogs. This, along With the difference in for eign money exchange, allows these foreign countries to ship their but ter across the ocean and after paying the present duty of six cents per pound make from 30 to 40 per cent profit on their butter *t the same time forcing the price of butterfat throughout the United States down at least 25c per pound to the actual producer. We wish to call your attention at the present time to a trainload of butter which is now enroute from San Francisco to the eastern part of the United States. This butter was shipped from Australia. A short time ago a large cbnsignment of but ter was received on the Pacific coast from New Zealand. These ship ments consist of solid refrigerator boat-loads. Argentine is flooding the eastern markets and claim that they can place their butter on the New York market and make a profit on it at 25c per pound. On January 7th there were a number of cars pass ed through Chicago for distribution to eastern and southern points. This butter W8B originally manufactured in Australia, and for the benefit of those mho have not followed the ship ping of butter, we wish to state that butter can be transported from Hol land and Denmark to New York City by boat load under refrigeration for one cent per pound, while it costs be tween "four and five cents per pound to transport butter by rail across the United States from coast to coast or in other words, it costs a shipper in Minot practically three times as much money to transport a pound of butter to New York as it does for the Danes to ship their butter across the Atlantic. The present condition of the but terfat market is entirely responsible to the heavy importation of butter at the present time, while with the gen eral deflation of the buying public, so many men being out of employment, the same buying power is not in the United States as has been in previous 'periods. The United States can sup .frith present production, all the dairy products necessary for home consumption and still have an export able surplus. At the present time American manufactured butter tf a 92-score is being sold at 34 %c per pound, New York, while the southern Following the meeting of the stock holders, the directors met and re elected all th£_officers as follows: E. S. Person, president C. H. Zehr inger, vice president O. R. Powell, cashier B. A. Balerud, Assistant Cashier. The condition of the bank was re ported as in splendid condition. This institution—which has been serving northwestern North Dakota for nearly twenty years, has been managed in such a conservative manner that it has weathered the years of general depression in fine shape. The de- ger osits which according to the Decern statement aggregate nearly a mil lion dollars, are larger than a year ago, the amount of loans has been re duced substantially and the bank does not owe the Federal Reserve bank, of which system it is a member, one dol lar, nor have they any other borrow ed money at this time. How the bank can better serve the community was discussed by the stockholders. Major Person, the pres ident, has taken an active interest in dairying for farmers of this section of the state for many years and the Union National is ever willing to back farmers who desire to add a few more milch cows to their herd or to substi tute dairying for grain farming. Mr. Person and the other members of the bank are anxious to work hand in hand with the farmers who contem plate growing potatoes on an exten sive scale. The Union National Bank with its capital of $100,000.00, is one of the solid financial institutions of North Dakota, and is ready and able to be of real -service to the community. republics are offering the same grade or better butter in New York at 33c duty paid. Today Chicago is paying 29c per pound, delivered Chicago, for 90-point standard cars of butter which is the average standard produced by the best North Dakota creameries. With this latest, price being quoted in Chicago, which at the present time is the logical butter market as the seaboard towns are flooded with im ported butter, we cannot expect the price of butterfat to range where it has' in previous years when at the same time last January Chicago was paying 48 %c for the same grade of butter. Kiwanian Interest Growing At their weekly luncheon yester day, and for some weeks past the attendance has been hovering around the 100 per cent mark. Prof. Everett Davis of the Normal acted as chairman. The Education committee of which he is chairman, was responsible for the fine program extracted from our leading educators of the city. J. H. Colton spoke on behalf of the Night school, the interest our citizens are showing in giving their support, and the wonderful opportunity pre sented here to Minot folks to take advantage of some of the courses of fered without charges. Roy Van Duzee read a paper on Industrial Arts. 1 F. C. Flug spoke briefly of what Physical Training means to the pu pils in our schools, and the advantage of a well developed boy physically. He again extended the invitation to the men who wish to join the class in' physical training that meets ev ery Monday and Wednesday evening. Dr. DeMots made fame for himself in delivering an address on the fun damental principles of the boy scout work, in oratorical form. 1 Roy Christenson, a boy scout of Troop No. 5, gave a masterly address from the scouts' standpoint, and as sured those present that they enjoyed the outing at Rice Lake last summer, even if it did rain, and closed by giv ing us the scout oath. The musical end of the program was furnished by Mr. and Mrs. L. El lithorpe. 1 The club give a prize every week to the member that happens to draw the lucky number. These prizes are donated by some member. This week John A. Corbett was the donor. 1 The Kiwanis club of Minot will eel ebrate Anniversary day, this is being done in all Kiwanis clubs of the Unit ed States and Canada. There will be I special guests and prizes. The Prd gram and Education Committee have the entertainment in charge, and we dare say the program will be a win ner. The club will show its appre ciation by a 100 per cent attendance. Rotary Members to Enjoy Wireless I Concert I Paul Kemper, son of Mr. and Mrs Geo. Kemper, has extended an in vitation to members of the Rotary club to meet at his home this evening, not later than 8:45 o'clock to listen to a wireless telephone Grand Opera .concert, to be sent out from Denver, Colorado. UNION NATL MAKES PLANS FOR EXTENDING COMMUNITY SERVICE The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Union National bank was held Tuesday afternoon, the old board of directors being re-elected as follows: E. S. Person, John Ehr, N. Ellison, Andrew Balerud, C. H. Zehringer, F. K. Jewett and G. D. Colcord. Lifer Back In Pen Cherishes Thought He Went To His Mother Harry Smith, back in the state pen itentiary for life, has one thought to cherish—he was with his mother when she died. He told Arland Stair, who brought him back from Ottumwa, Iowa, where he was captured, that he had gone to his mother as soon as he could after he escaped while with the prison ball team at Hebron, September 5, 1920, and had stayed with her every day. She died six weeks ago. Smith made a long, circuitous flight, after escaping while on his honor, but got to his aged mother at Ottumwa, for whom he always has professed deep devotion, as quickly as possible. He told officers he had been with her a year when she died. He remained in Ottumwa as a musical instructor when an officer recognized him from his photograph, having been asked by prison officials to watch for his ap pearance in Ottumwa. Daniel Noah, another escaped "lifer" captured in Hutchinson, Kan., and brought back with Smith, owes his downfall to "hootch" according to Stair. He was picked up for be ing disorderly, Stair said, and Hutch inson police identified him from a photograph. Noah had found no peace since es caping from prison in 1918. He had wandered over the country, although he refused to tell officers of his wan derings. They believe he wandered into Hutchinson in his continued flight and there was caught. Noah escaped in 1918. L. J. Palda Is Improving Atty. L. J. Palda, who is at a hos pital in Bismarck, is reported as much better. Mr. Palda has not been well for some time and while attend ing supreme court in Bismarck was advised to go through a clinic in a hospital there. 3 WTLOO* 32 Drouth Cases Are Bing Tried Judge Burr dismissed the jurors in district court from Mondav until Wed nesday morning, awaiting the arrival of Francis J. Murphy, who was in Fargo defending Heaton, former cash ier of the now defunct Scandinavian American bank of that city. Mr. Murphy appears for the defense in the 32 drouth insurance cases brot against the National Union Fire In surance Co. These cases were start ed Wednesday and it is expected that they will be concluded at the rate of eight a day. They are all very sim ilar. Some years ago, farmers thru out the county insured their crops against drouth. There was great damage from drouth and the company claims that the applications for in surance was made after much of the damage had actually resulted from drouth. A year or so ago a large number of Renville county farmers sued this company and collected ap proximately $90,000.00. E. R. Sink ier and J. W. Bryans of Mohall are appearing for the plaintiffs. I The case of the Williams County State Bank vs. Thos. B. Murphy was! decided in favor of the plaintiffs, who were given a judgment for $615.99. A judgment against A. Johanson in favor of E. A. Tompkins was ren dered for $397.44. Funeral of Chris Eide Held Saturday The funeral of Chris Eide, of Glen burn, who was found in a dying con dition along- the railroad track half a mile from Deering, was held at Glen burn Saturday, the remains being in terred in' the Fairview cemetery at that place. A brother, who is a prosperous farmer, arrived from the old home at Kenyon, Minn, to attend the funeral. Mr. Eide had missed the Sherwood train at Granville, en route home from Minot, and he start ed to walk home, a distance of 22 miles. He was crippled following paralysis several years ago, and was unable to walk more than a couple of miles an hour and the night being bit ter cold, he fell from cold and ex haustion. When found he was still conscious. He was not badly frozen. The toes on his paralyzed foot and hand and his nope were frozen but he died more from exhaustion than from the cold. How To Live Long John Botz, Sr., one of the few Democrats left in Ward County, visit ed the Independent office Monday. John is 85 years of age and very hearty. Asked by the writer for his recipe for long living, friend Botz stated: "If you will only vote the Democratic ticket and keep your conscience clear, I will guarantee you will live as long as I have." WARD COUNTY INDEPENDENT OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF WARD COUNTY AND THE CITY OF MINOT THE INDEPENDENT HAS THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY WEEKLY IN THE STATE WHAT HE IS UP AGAINST. MINOT BANKS TO FINANCE FAR MERS IN BUYING DAIRY CATTLE Major E. S. Person met with the directors of the Association of Com merce at their Tuesday luncheon and outlined a plan for increasing the interest in dairying in northwestern North Dakota. The Association of Commerce voted to back the plan morally and to furnish a meting place for the dairymen and the services of the Secretary in sending out publi city matter. On January 20, a big meeting of dairymen and farmers from this part of the state who are" interested' in securing more dairy cows will be held at the Association of Commerce rooms. If the farmers show a will ingness to purchase more dairy cows, the Minot banks have arranged to back them up in the purchase of good dairy cattle and will send a committee to Wisconsin to buy one or two car loads of these cows. Each bank is to finance its own customers. After the cows arrive, another meeting is to be called in Minot and bankers from the adjacent territory will be invited to come to Minot, each with one or two farmer customers and the plan of financing the farmers in the various communities will be dis cussed. Meetings will then be called in the smaller towns and cars of cattle will be shipped to those towns, to be financed by the banks. No effort will be made to make special dairymen out of the farmers, but when it is realized that the farmers who now have milk cows are the ones who are able to pay as they go, pay their taxes promptly and their other bills, all must realize the importance of dairy ing. The plan ought to make of northwestern North Dakota a great dairy center within ten years. The Extension Department of the Agricultural College since the National Dairy Show in October, has brought 18 car loads of cows into the state, none of which have, however, been brought to the immediate vicinity of Minot. Prior to that time, through the assistance of Major Person and others, a number of car loads of dairy cattle were shipped to Ward County. County Agent Huseby is working with the Association of Commerce and the Minot banks in the present im portant campaign. Many Montana Farms Have Been Abandoned Chas. Haskins, formerly connected with the Union National Bank of Mi not, arrived from Havre, Montana, Tuesday, bringing his daughter here to consult an eye specialist. Mr. Haskins has lived in Havre for a number of years and for three years was in charge of a bank. Two of the four Havre banks recently closed. Mr. Haskins is now connected with the P. B. Haber Investment Co., a concern that has loaned money on farms throughout Montana. A great many Montana farmers unable to make a living have abandoned their farms and his company is now com pelled to foreclose on the mortgages. Mr. Haskins will start a hundred fore closures within a short time. He states that the farmers who have di versified are making money, but the trouble is that too many people in experienced with farming have tried to farm the homesteads and they would not apply the proper methods Any number of Montana farms have been abandoned and the one big hope is to get the right class of farmers to occupy them. Good corn is grown around Havre and the farmers are doing considerable dairying, which they realize is their only hope. Farmer Commends Work of Asso ciation of Commerce John Mclsaac, one of the pioneer farmers of the county, was down from Lone Tree Saturday. John has not received returns on two car loads of potatoes which he shipped in October and made a trip to Minot Saturday to lay additional facts before the Mi not Association of Commerce. "I want to say that the farmers ap preciate the work of the Association of Commerce in taking the initiative to see that the potato growers are given a square deal. If the same spirit were shown everywhere, there would never be any friction between the town and country people," he said to a representative of the Inde pendent. Whiskey Business Reported Slow Bootleggers, home brew artists, whiskey runners and high jackers, all report business very dull. For the first time since national prohibition went into effect, the whiskey runners are broke, as far as cash is concerned. With plenty of stock on hand, the vendors find few purchasers, for very few people are financially able to spend eight or ten dollars for a quart of it. With the quality of whiskey growing poorer and poorer, there are not so many buyers even among those who have the money. Minot, Ward County, North Dakota, January 12, 1922 Subscription $2.00 Per Annum REMEDIES OAK PARK ICE CO. PUTTING UP ICE AT RATE OF TON A MINUTE Major and Mrs. Linder Entertained in Minot Dr. E. R. Linder and wife of Munich N. D. visited with Dr. and Mrs. A. J. McCanlnel over Sunday, enroute to Portland, Ore. to spend the winter. The doctors were Majors in the U. S. Army in the Hawaiian islands during the late war where they became the closest friends. Dr. Linder is a wide traveler, having visited nearly every country in the world. In company with Dr. McCannel, he was a guest at the Minot Rotary Monday and deliver ed a very interesting address. In Honolulu he had a fine opportunity of studying the Japanese, who he classes as the greatest bluffers in the world. They are forging their way to the front on organization and bluff and in his opinion the U. S. will never need to fear them. He is frank in saying that he does not like the Jap anese, but he has a great liking for the Chinese. The Japs in the Hawaiian Islands were instructed by the Japanese government to multiply and the doctor says that rabbits have nothing on the Japs when it comes to replenishing the race. He was able to visit the Leper colony near Hono lulu and says one does not need fear catching leprosy. In one room he visited 113 members of the colony and they looked as healthy as anybody. He expected to see victims with arms and legs wasting away, but he did not see any of them with sores. The leper is first characterized with swollen lobes of the ears. The doc tor would not be afraid to ride across the continent with a leper in a pas senger coach, he said. Apples Cost Too Much From Producer To Consumer E. A. Aspinwall, formerly employ ed as a printer in Minot, and his broth-1 er Will, are now engaged in raising apples at Rathdrum, Ida., and they are very successful. They shipped six cars they raised in their own orchard and from their packing plant sent out 21 cars averaging 756 boxes to the car. They received very good prices and expect to sell their product! direct next season. The best price' they received was $2.75 per box for: the extra fancy Delicious apples. It' costs far too much to get the apples from the producer to the consumer.j For instance a box of apples for which they received $1.25 brought $3.25 at a Montana point and the freight was only 70 cents on the box. A car of apples which they shipped to Chicago passed through five hands before it reached its destination, each concern taking its profits. State Poultry Show, Fargo Jan. 16-20 The 28th annual exhibition of the: North Dakota State Poultry Associ-1 ation will be held January 16to 20, inclusive, in connection with the Tri-! State Grain Growers Convention, Secretary Hatcher predicts the biggest show in the history of the Association, All poultry entries must be made by, the 13th, and birds must arrive by the I 14th. Liberal cash premiums are of fered, and there will be educational demonstrations which will be of great, value ta all breeders of poultry. An Independent representative was taken out to the plant of the Oak Park Ice Co. Wednesday morning to see the operations of putting up 7,-. 000 tons of ice to be used next sum mer in this city. The company has one of the best ice houses in the state erected on the bank of the river a yegr ago. The building is 200x60 feet with 22 foot posts and holds 7,000 tons of ice. For every two inches the building is high, there are 52 tons of ice. The wally are filled with saw dust, and the ice is covered with hay. This method prevents the loss of but a little ice, and is much Ibettjer than hovering with sawdust which is an expensive method and dirty. A well has been sunk on the river bank and water is pumped into a tank to be used in washing the ice. The product is pure and clean. One can tell the time of day by looking at the hands of a watch through 28 inches of the clear ice. Twenty-five men are at work put ting up the ice and the product is put into the house at the rate of a ton a minute when everything is working perfectly. Each cake weighs about 500 pounds. The ice is 22 inches thick at present and is cut in the river just above the ice house. A half mile of the ice on the river will be used in filling the house. The con tract for putting up the ice has been let to John McDougall, who will put up 75 cars besides to ship to other points. Mr. McDougall has a splendid out fit. The ice is sawed on the river with a huge circular ice saw which has been fastened to a sled pushed by three men An engine from a Dodge Bros, car fastened to one end of the sled furnishes the power for the saw and as the men pull the sled along the ice, the ice dust is thrown up high in the air and back a hundred feet or more. The saw cuts the ice to a depth of afoot and the cakes are then broken off in long sections and pushed down the river to the ice house. Herey it is lifted, two cakes at a time to a run way, finally finding its way into the house. An engine lifts the ice out of the river. The ice harvest will last about two weeks. Lewis C. Ellis and J. E. Harmon are the proprietors of the Oak Park Ice Co. They are doing a fine busi ness and keep four trucks busy de livering ice in the summer. Mrs. Steffan Victim of Purse Snatche? Purse snatchers are now at work in Minot. It has just become 'mown that Mrs. Steffan who resides near the Eastwood Park foot bridge, was the victim of a bold robbery a week ago last night. At about nine o'clock, she stepped into the Peoples Meat and Grocery store and as she left she. noticed that she was followed. When she was crossing the foot bridge, a young man ran and caught up with her, snatching her purse which con tained $2.00. Mrs. Steffan scream ed and attracted the attention of many living in that neighborhood. The police were notified but no trace of the fellow has been found. PRES. BARRON SAYS WORST OF DEPRESSION PERIOD HAS PASSED Nels Selfors Lost Barn With Loss of $5,000 A fine barn, 56x58 feet on the Nels Selfors farm seven miles north of Mi not, burned to the ground, Wednesday night, Jan. 4. Mr. Selfors had re turned frwom Minot that evening, and missing a cow, took a lantern to ths barn which he set on top of the feed trough. He went out to look for the cow and while gone, the barn caught fire, either from the explosion of the lantern or Mr. Selfors says it may be that the lantern was overturned by some estray horses that were hanging around the barn. Mrs. Selfors noticed the barn on fire but before anything could be gotten out, the whole building was ablaze. Mr. Selfors lost about 70 tons of hay and straw, two harnesses, some forks, and other tools and about 100 chickens. He considered the barn worth $3,500 and the total loss runs up to nearly $5,000. He carried some insurance, but not nearly enough to cover the loss. Two granaries located near the barn were saved. Vice President Kenney in Minot Sat nrdmy W. P. Kenney, vice president of the Great Northern Railway Co., passed thru Minot Saturday afternoon en route to the Pacific coast. A delegation representing the Minot Curling Association, called on Mr. Kenney at the G. N. station and in vited him to visit this city during the International Bonspiel Jan. 24-26. Mr. Kenney stated that he would endeavor to return from the west so he could be in Minot the last day of the Bon spiel. Among those who met Mr. Kenney were A. A. Robinson, R. W. Pence, R. M. Graham, M. F. Mulroy, W. S. Shaw, Hal S. Da vies. Dr. Kermott, Jas. Milloy and W. M. Smart and Richard F. Mills. The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Second National Bank was held Tuesday afternoon, the fol lowing directors being re-elected: James Johnson, chairman R. E. Bar ron, Archie D. McCannel, H. M. Wil son, A. A. Robinson and H. E. Byo rum. S. J. Rasmussen was elected a member of the board. The officers of the bank are: R. E. Barron, president James Johnson, vice president H. E. Byorum, cash iier W. E. Tooley and Henjry C. Dahl, assistant cashiers. The usual dividend was declared. The bank is well pleased with the re sult of last year's business, notwith standing that these are strenuous times for bankers as a whole. "The officers and directors of the Second National Bank believe that the country has gone through the worst of the period of depression, and they are looking into the future^with con fidence and optimism," President Bar ron stated. The Second National Bank is the oldest banking institution in Ward county and is one of the strongest banks of North Dakota. According to its last statement, its deposits were $1,871,826.69. The capital of the bank is $100,000.00 and its sur plus and undivided profits more than $100,000.00. Hard Times Dance Jan. 21 A Hard Times dance will be held at the Freedom township hall on the night of Saturday, Jan. 21. to which all are invited. The affair will be given by the South Prairie Commun ity club. They claim their hall is the finest in this section of the state and guarantee a fine time. The hall is being used frequently this winter. Plans are being made for a big jack rabbit hunt in the township, the losers to furnish an oyster supper. The hunt was scheduled to take place Sat urday but only a few braved the ele ments, the -day being stormy. i? lit