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AH Rubber Arctics Save yoorKlf'$2A0I Pure gum robber 4-Bnckle Arctics, with full snow excluding tongue and txira heavy soles and heels. Only J2.39 pins post age on arrival. A double-sired bargain that will pay you to get quick. We will quickly refund every penny if you are not genuinely satisfied. Sixes 7 to 12 Order by No. 448 A Snap for Men TURKEYS ADVERTISEMENTS Bargains for Quick Buyers! .Here .are four feature values that forcibly demonstrate how well It pays to buy from Gordon Bates Company. Honest, trustworthy merchandise ALWAYS—and ALWAYS at lower prices. Snap up these wonderful values NOW—while we are able to guarantee prompt shipment. Mo need to send money with order. Pay on arrival—and if not pleased, we will quickly refund every penny, including postage. SEND NO MONEY—PAY ON ARRIVAL .39 Phtt Pottag* Big-4 Combination Alt Wool Cap 2 pair All-Wool Sox Pair Wool Gloves all lor Plus Postage Sore) It's less than cost! Worth $2.00 of any man's money tight now only 99c. So reach out and snap up this astound ing bargain by return mall. Better order 2 or 3 sets—no more at this price when our present supply is gone! Send No Money Now —pay on arrival. Order No. 831—money bade if you're not pleased. GORDON BATES CO,, and ALL OTHER POULTRY PFPAIPQ I 10 S. Third Street WOOL Underwear By shipping to us than by seUing at home. We are the. largest Hide and Fur House is the N. W. Est. 30 yeara. prompt cash returns guaranteed. No commission. Aqnlck and tacky purchase of fine Wool Underwear, madefor the U.S. Army, Si" ana manufactured under rp army specifications. Cheap if l\ you paid $1.50 per garment, 3 and yon know it Yet right now we're able to turn them over to our customers at 79c per garment. Sizes 34 to 46. Yes— every penny back at once if you're' not pleased. Hurry your order if you want some at this price probably never again to sell around this price. HIDES TANNED INTO ROBES $2.50 to $10.00 We tan Harness. 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Write Today for tree Information, photo Btory and SpceialOffer. MINNEAPOLIS AUTO TRACTOR SCHOOL 221 Satind St. No.) Mlnn.apolls, Minn. Per Garment PhuPoMtagm Order Shirts by No. 570 Order Drawers by No. 571 Army Work Shoes Genuine Munson Last! Best grade wax veal leather, soft and pliable and guaranteed ma nure and acid proof. Double sewed seams. Double leather Insoles. Best wearing leather soles. A rare bargain at our slashed price. Stock up Now while you can. Order Quick Sm»6to 12 Order by No. 181 $1.97 Plat Pottage Dept. 1281, MINNEAPOLIS, WINN. FURS HIDES M9KAY COMPANY I ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA WRITE NOW JOT SPECIAL PRICES 1 CTFLVFQ £5IXE U. S. STOVE REPAIR CO. Minneapolis, Minn. VVLJ Don't Wear aTruss WE GUARANTEE YOUR COMFORT with every Brooks' Applance. New discovery. Wonderful. No obnoxious springs or pads. Auto matic Air Cushions. Binds and draws thft broken parts together as you would a broken limb. No salves. No plasters. No lies. Durable, cheap. Sent on trial to prove it Never on sale in stores, as every Appliance is made to order, the pcoper slze and shape of Air Cushion de pending on the: nature of *actt ca6e. Beware ofimitations. C. E. Brooks, Inventors** fit ttado-mark bearing portrait and signature of C, B,. Btoofcs which appears on every Appliance. None other genuine Full informa tion and booklet sent free in plain, sealed envelope. Crooks Appliance Go., 179-0 8tateSt, Marshall, Mleh, tated Omaha and attracted the at tention of the entire state. R. B. Howell never knew when he was "licked." Defeated once, he tried again blocked at one point, he found another route. In Omaha's municipal ownership campaign for its water plant, this situation developed time and again through 10 long years equally it was true in Mr. Howell's efforts, from 1912 to 1921,. to force the reduction of Omaha electric light rates. Meanwhile, in 1891, Mr. Howell dis covered that the Missouri river at Omaha was 256 feet below the Platte river at Freemont. This drew, in his engineering-trained mind, the picture of a water-power development that might unloose Omaha and eastern Nebraska from the chains that bound it to coal as the motive power of its industries. He made a survey and convinced many Omaha men of the practicability of the scheme. At this point, however, Mr. Howell was forced to devote his entire time to the state irrigation work hereto fore mentioned and the canal project was dropped. It is noteworthy of his persistence, however, that he revived his plan 20 years latex and appeared before successive state legislatures, from 1911 to 1921, with bills to make possible the state ownership and de velopment of^water power. This was a plank in his platform when he was the Republican nominee for governor in 1914 and it is still a part of his program for solving the economic problems of the state. MESSAGES PROM THE SENATORS To enable Nonpartisan leaguers to get better acquainted with the U. S. senators they have successfully supported for public office, the National Leader has arranged to publish a message from each of them in succeeding issues. In 1896, Mr. Howell, without solici tation, was offered appointment as city engineer of Omaha, under W. J. Broatch, mayor. He accepted and, by agreement with the state, served for. a time as both state and city engineer. While he was city engineer, the long fight for municipal ownership of the Omaha water plant began. The fran chise of the private company was about to expire and application had been made for a new franchise. Mr. Howell adviBed the mayor to veto the council's ordinance granting the fran chise, which he did. In this issue the Leader gives a brief sketch of Senator Elect Howell of Nebraska. From it the farmer can see that he is the type of mail he has long wished to have in public office. Nebraska farmers worked as well as wished. WINS PUBLIC WATER SERVICE CAMPAIGN Mr. Howell, at about this time, was called back to service in the navy during the war with Spain. He was a lieutenant on the U. S. S. "Prairie" in West Indian waters during that time. When he returned to Omaha he joined with W. A. Carter in an insurance business, which he later operated alone for a number of years. You will want to read what Howell, Frazier, Shipstead, Dill, Wheeler, La Follette and others have to say oil issues vital to farmers. This is a critical time in our nation's history. Your friends will be as interested in what these big men have to say as you are. Tfell them about it. Once this means of livelihood was established, Mr. Howell returned to the municipal ownership campaign. In 1902 he was elected state senator and introduced, as Senate File No. 1,. a bill for the purchase of the Omaha water plant by the city. In 13 days, the bill had been passed by both houses without a dissenting vote, had been signed by the governor and was a law. 1 Under authority of the bill, the governor appointed six members of the Omaha water board. Howell was not one. of them. In ^1904 he became a candidate, but failed of nomination. He ran as an independent and was elected. Suit was then brought to declare the water board law unconsti tutional the supreme court finally up held it. There were delays in the ap praisal of the plant and it was not until 1906 that the appraisement waa completed. Then again the case went into the court and it was 1911 before the litigation was-over. Meanwhile bonds were voted for the purchase price by a majority of 12 to 1 and finally, in 1912, the city, assumed. management of the plant. Mr. Howell was made general mana ger of the plant. MANAGER OF MOST SUCCESSFUL CITY BUSINESS Within six months, water rates had bfeen reduced and today the reduction amounts to 52% per cent of the rate charged the ordinary customer in 1912. That is what municipal ownership of the water plant did for Omaha. It is little wonder that Mark Sullivan, leading political writer of the country, said in last month's "World's Work" that R. B. Howell is manager of what is probably the most successful ex periment in municipal ownership in America. Inspired by this success, Mr. Howell sought authority from the state legis lature for the development of a mu nicipal owned electric light and power plant. The legislature passed a bill permitting the people to vote upon the question, but Governor Morehead vetoed .it. Again in 1919, Mr. Howell pressed the issue and again in 1921, both times unsuccessfully. Each time, however, the threat of municipal ownership threw a scare into the private monopoly. The result has been that electric rates have been cut from 14 cents to 5% cents per kilowatt hour. In 1917, the legislature authorized the municipal water plant to manu facture and sell ice. As a result, ice is now sold at 36 neighborhood stores at a rate approximately half the old rate charged by private com panies. In three years, the entire original cost of the plant—$287,000— has been paid off and a surplus of $25,000 has been accumulated. In the midst of all of this activity the people voted to buy the Omaha gas plant. Although Mr. Howell op posed the appraisal, as being exhorbi tant, the city council approved it and the plant was then turned over to the water board to be run under Mr. Howell's direction. Fuel, coke and oil supplies were at the peak of wartime prices and a 24 per cent increase in gas rates was found necessary. Since then, in two brief years, the price hias been cut 25 per cent to 90 per cent of the consumers and "other reductions are anticipated. Mr. Howell's service as a state