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l&: f? iff BEAUTIFYING MINOT By JOHN H. LEWIS Fourth Article Bulbs and Perennials I spoke in the last article of an nuals, the flowers easiest to grow. With one exception, I should advise the person planting a flower garden for the first time to confine his ef forts to annuals. The one exception is a summer-flowering bulb, the gladi olus. There are several bulbs that will grow here, but the gladiolus plural gladioli is by far the best. It makes a tall spike, three to six feet high, with a dozen lily-like flowers all along the stalks. It grows very easi ly. The bulbs will cost you quite a bit more than annual seeds, but are well worth the price. They are about an inch in diameter, and should be planted with the top three to six inches below the surface of the soil. Be sure to plant them in full sunshine, away from the roots of trees, about May 1. Also, be sure to plant them right side up. The under side of the bulb has a little cup or depression. You can buy these in named varie ties, or in mixtures. The beginner had better try mixtures, which are cheaper and contain many beautiful kinds. Bought this way, they will cost you about five cents a piece. Try twenty-five of them for a starter the first year. Unless I am much mistaken, you will want more the second. I am planting nearly three thousand this year. The bulbs must be taken up in the fall and stored over winter. As to perennials, flowering plants that live year after year, my advice to the beginner is to gain experience with the more easily grown annuals THE WISE MAN IS ABLE TO SAY: "Yes, my property is fully covered by insurance." When he says "fully covered" he means protection against either fire or tornado as either danger is ever imminent. Are your property interests fully protected? MINOT INSURANCE AGENCY Jacobson Block Phone 44 Minot, N. D. DAKOTA HARDWARE CO. Distributors for Certainteed Products, Hickory Mechanic's Tools, Florence Cook Stoves. Complete line of Hardware and New and Second Hand Furniture MEANS BUSINESS by helping to make Minot a larger town, both to live in and to trade in. Some said there were enough hardware and furniture stores in Minot. That's small town stuff. MINOT IS A BIG TOWN. There's room for us all and more to follow. Competition is the life of trade. It means better service, and more complete lines and lower prices. It means a saving to the home builder in cheaper hard* ware, paints, mechanic's tools, garden tools and house fur nishings. It means the introduction of new and up-to-date products, featuring every article plainly marked, at prices way down low to insure quick turh-over—which means business for all of Minot. These prices tell the &ory: Two brand new Stoughton Wagons, each •60.00. These wagons are by 3 in. tire, trussed and clipped axles. Garden Rakes 50o Garden Plows S4.&0 Certainteed Screen Paints, per quart TOo Certainteed Floor Paints, per quart 95o. DAKOTA HARDWARE CO. Complete Line Hardware and New and Second-hand Furniture Opposite Daily News Building Phone 631 GUARANTEED TIRES Fresh From Our&ock of Fisks, Republics, McLeans and other tires at unheard-of prices 30 3. Plain tread XA 32x3''-, Non-skid 33x4 NORTHWESTERN BUILDERS SUPPLY CO. SMART BLOCKy 1. •£,. ... Flrft BoUdln* Weft ol Poiftafflce 7.75 $9.75 $14.75 $18.75 --P V* k«. first, but for those who have had this Injunction is Denied by Judge experience I give a list of the more' Bismarck, N. D., May 4.—An in easily grown perennials. None of junction against the state printing these are very easy to raise from .and publication commission, to re seed, and you will do best to buy the' strain it from awarding certain con plants, which will cost you on the tracts for printing to the Knight average of twenty-five cents a piece.1 Printing company of Fargo, applied Rudbeckia or golden glow, brilliant for by the Bismarck Tribune, was de yellow flowers on stalks five feet tall, nied today by W. L. Nuessle, district blooming in August and September.1 judge. This has the merit of being very The suit was begun as a friendly hardy and a great spreader, so that'action, to obtain an. interpretation of the plant will in a few years become' the law, the state printing commission an army, in fact, in time it will over- having asked bidders to brief their run the garden, and has to have, its contentions in the matter, and it be roots divided every few years. ing submitted to the court for inter- Platycodon, or Chinese bell-flower. About two feet high, blooming from July 1 for six weeks. Comes in blue tiawiain«ni«ui«ni«iii«iii«iiii«iiwiiiiBui«iii«iiii and white. Not nearly so well known as it ought to be. Hardy, and easy to raise, for a perennial. When un opened, the flowers look like a little balloon *ater they open and look somewhat like our wild crocus, but much more delicate. Aquilegia or columbine. Many varieties, of which I mention only two, the common, or Canadensis, red and yellow, and the Rocky Mountain, or Coerulea, a wonderful blue and white. This plant will grow best in partial shade, and is one of the ear liest bloomers, flowering normally in early June. German Iris. Don't get the Japa nese Iris, which are perhaps even more beautiful, but will not live here. A wonderfully delicate and beautiful flower in many colors, blooming in June. You will have difficulty, though, in getting it to flower the first year from spring planting. Peonies. One of the best, but I will say no more about them at this time, as they should be planted in the fall. Delphinium or perennial larkspur.' I hesitate to mention this, as it is none too easy to raise, but it is per haps our most beautiful perennial. In color it is a wonderful blue, four or five feet tall, with flowers running up the spike. Once established, it is hardy but it resents transplanting, and it is hard to start. I lose at least half of my plants when young, which makes it both expensive and discour aging. I would no more go without it, though, than I would go without peas in the vegetable garden. In general, plant the taller flowers at the back, the lower in front. My number can be found in the telephone book and I should be glad to give personal advice about matters not covered in these articles, or fur ther details, to anyone who cares to ask. De Molay Boys and Masons Visited Plaza. About fifty members of the Chapter of the De Molay for Boys were taken to Plaza, 45 miles southwest of Minot Thursday afternoon where the degrees ifat were exemplified on ten candidates from Plaza. The boys were taken in autoes bj the following Minot Masons: Frank W. Youngman, C. F. Truax, E. B. Mc Cutcheon, Dr. A. J. McCannel, Max Johnson, H. H. Westlie, Frank Taylor, L. J. Palda, Harry Winters. Other cars were driven by James Newlove, Raymond Truax and Paul Kemper, De Molay boys from Minot and Wm. Christianson, member of the order from Granville. Lyle Corey, L. A. White and Henry E. Byorum, Grand Master of the Grand Masonic lodge of North Dakota were also in the party. Arriving at Plaza at 6 o'clock, the party found an appetizing dinner awaiting them in the Opera house. Following this, the initiation took place. Addresses were given by Mr. Linder, Worshipful Master of the Plaza Masonic lodge, H. E By orum, Grand Master and Harold Gold berg, who is at the head of the De Molay Chapter for Boys of this city. A historical sketch of the De Molay Chapter was given by L. J. Palda. A dance was then held in the opera house, foHowed by a lunch and the Minot party returned at daylight. They report the roads excellent and were given the finest kind of enter tainment by the Plazaites. The De Molay Boys' quartette ac companied the party and sang several enjoyable numbers. John Burke May Come to State The statement that John Burke, former treasurer of the United States and former Governor of North Da kota, "has retired to Fargo to prac tice law," made in a news dispatch sent out from New York today, brought the comment from Fargo friends of the former governor that, while Mr. Burke had contemplated coming to North' Dakota, he had not made definite plans known here with in the past, week or two. The Associated Press .dispatch from New York reads: "Creditors of the bankrupt broker age firm of Kardos & Burke, which failed, owiijg nearly $2,000,000, have learned that Louis M. kardos, jr., has secretly gone to Europe without per mission of the court. A. Li Ross, at torney for Kardos, insists that his client will return with funds to again place the firm on its feet. "John, Burke, former treasurer of the United States and former gover nor of North Dakota, who has retired to Fargo, N. D., to practice law, has been reassured Dy his former partner that he will return and settle every thing, according to Mr. Ross. "It is the intention of Kardos to secure $200,000 from his father, a re tired banker now in Europe, and re turn to resume business with Mr. Burke on a smaller scale, with the aid of the present creditors and the supervision of a creditors'-committee, said Mr. Ross. He assured the credi tors that MrrBurke would be avail able for examination by creditors or for any purpose authorized by the court." "I do not think Mr.. Burke _is in North Dakota," .said a prominent Fargo Democrat, who has been closely in touch with Mr. Burke. "He may come to North Dakota, but the last time I heard from him, .about two weeks ago, he was still undecided." Fred Carr was arrested Saturday charged with making -intoxicating liquor. S-J-iXyiS^mC!ShieCashier. 191*2 48.366 1013 57,298 1014 69.240 1915 81.322 1916 35677 1Q17 110,137 m* 115,898 1019 131,003 1020 150.797 1021 166.177 •Sip S pretation. Scott Cameron, presenting the case for the Tribune company, said that bids on printing which were submitted by the Knight Printing company, were illegal, because it had not complied with the regulations of the commission, and the law, which, he said, required bidders to have the union label attached to the bid. Triple Injury Burns are Fatal Mandan, N. D., May 4.—Thrown from his horse, kicked xn the head, dragged and burned to death, was the strange fate dealt to Peter Gal lagher, 18, son of Charles Gallagher, DAIRYING IS PROFITABLE La& week we referred to the fadt that farmers, ju& like all manufacturers, have to address themselves to the problem of "finishing" their products, and we pointed out that DAIRYING is the mo& profitable kind of farming the world knows anything about and lends itself easily to the job of being "finished" right on the farm. Let us tell you what happened in Todd County, a small county of 28 townships in central Minnesota: Up to 1900 the county was almost exclusively a grain raising county. Farmers were not prosperous. Crops were not certain because they were at the mercy of the ele ments and the farmer has no control over the elements. The be& farm in the county could have been bought for from fifty to sixty dollars per acre. There were three banks in the entire county and their total deposits were $164,660.00. The county had then been farmed for more than forty years. It was not anew or a frontier county. Its failure to prosper was due to the fadt that agriculture was on the wrong basis,— the farmers were trying to produce and sell "raw material" and, like the producers of raw material generally, they were not getting anywhere. In 1900 the change to dairying began. Co-operative creameries were organized Herds were improved along dairy lines and gradually the production of butterfat be came the chief adtivity of the farmer. By 1921 there was hardly a grain elevator in the county. They had given way to the creameries, There were fourteen wholly within the county and eight more on the border line. Bank Statements published at the end of 1921 showed deposits of more than six million dollars. The county is wholly agricultural and the greater part of these deposits belonged to the farmers. A jump in savings from $164,000.00 to more than $6,000,000.00 in twenty*one years tells the Story of what dairying did for the farmers of Todd County, Minnesota. What dairying did for the farmers of Todd County, it can do for the farmers of this county. Conditions here are substantially the same. It is no harder to start here than it was to start there. Let's investigate this dairy business. The Union National Bank of Minot, N. D. OFFICERS and DIRECTORS E. S. PERSON, President. JOHN EHR C. H. ZEHRINGER, Vice-President. £NpREWJBALERUD k* B. A. BALERUD, Ass t. .-•..vr,:' ':£Jj *u-"s: Greater Service for More and More People Increases Customers Served^ NORTHERN STATES POWER CO. 1: Telephone 1200 Northern States Power Co. 21,000 Shareholders. 12 Years ol Steady Dividends farmer living 10 miles south of Rich ardton. The youth was thrown from a saddle horse but hung unto a rope in an effort to stop the animal from bolting. He was kicked and knocked unconscious, and while dragging on the ground a pocket full of matches was ignited. Practically all the clothes were burned from his body and he died of the burns, not of the kick, in the opinion of the coroner's jury, mem bers of which declared the tragedy was easily visualized by the mute evidence at the scene of the tragedy. J. ELLlIoN g.N. D. COLCORD imu is imam in aiun iiuaiina ........-oC.y"" ANPANY 10 WatOT 'arte ELECTRIC POWER COM that does not grow would be a liability to any community. This chart shows how the North ern States Power Company has carried the benefits of electricity to many thousands during the past 12 years. The services performed are vi tal to community development and to domestic welfare. The Company is helping more than 300 cities, towns, villages and districts to grow and prosper. Steadily advancing its sphere of usefulness, 'he CompBnv owes its suc cess to application of the square deal in utility operation. 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