The Wahpeton times. [volume], March 28, 1918, Image 1

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SIUMNSS
ON CAMFH6N FUNDS
According to advices received in
Wahpeton from Bismarck this week
all war fund raising campaigns will
be
censored by the State Council of
Defense before solicitation is allowed
in North Dakota.
The purpose of the council in doing
this is not to hamper any worthy
cause it is announced, but to protect
the loyal citizens from unscrupulous
men and women who may try to capi
talize the patriotism of North Da
kotans.
The Indiana bulletin of the State
Council in its last issue has the fol
lowing regarding this censorship:
The wisdom of censoring the solici
tation of all moneys asked for al
leged war purposes is aptly illus
trated in the recently printed letter
from an Indiana soldier in France.
Ater making it clear that his reve
lations were in no sense to be con
strued as a complaint, the writer as
serted that careful inquiry among the
troops in his division disclosed that
not one of the American soldiers had
received more than a single sack of
smoking tobacco from a source to
which the person addressed and many
of his friends and neighbors had con
tributed with a proportionate gener
osity that must have guaranteed a
considerable sum of money.
This contribution, like scores of
similar enterprises, was in the hands
of wholly irresponsible people, and
there are good reasons Cor believing
much of the money realized went to
"overhead expenses."
County councils of defense are
awakening to the importance of
prompt action in the selection of an
approval committee, whose duty will
consist of a careful investigation of
all solicitations, especially those
which may smack more of a desire
for
personal emolument than of gen­|who
uine patriotic disinterestedness. The
State Council of Defense has taken
the
lead, by withholding official
sanction from any proposed canvass
for
funds that involves the least du
plication of effort, or waste through
excessive
charges.
otic
operating or administrative
It is but fair to the patri­
citizen who wants to help that
he
should be protested
from
the least
suggestion of graft or waste.
REV. E. L. HOBBS CONDUCT
ING PASSION SERVICES
Passion-Week services are in prog
ress at the Methodist church every
night this week. There is special
music by a chorus choir every night.
On Sunday evening there will be a
cantata entitled "The Eternal City"
by the Methodist church choir. You
are cordially invited. The services
will begin promptly at 7:30.
PER CAPATA TAX RATE
IN NORTH DAKOTA $26.42
Bismarck, N. D., March 28.—Frank
E. Packard, state tax commissioner,
announces that the total tax levied
for all purposes, both state and local,
and including special assessments
for 1917, aggregate $18,495,375. Es
timating the population to be 700,000
this would produce a per capita tax
of $26.42. and for a family of five
would total $132.10.
The average tax rate for the vear
1917 was 47.165 mills. For 1916,
the total tax levy was $16,545,928.
The increase for the year was SI,-1
949.433 or 11.77 per cent. The tax,1
in 1915 was $16,192,169 and the to
tal levy in 1914 was $14,027,674.
A returned Ransom county soldier
says that the Germans are losing
their "pep". Can't lose it any too
soon to suit the rest of us.
VOILES
40 inches wide
White and Stripes
Sotd regularly
at SOc
Our iPrice
per yard
35c
N. P. BRAKY VISITED TWIN
CITIES THE FIRST OF WEEK
N. P. Brahy, proprietor of the Won-1
red Store left Sunday night for the
Twin Cities and the Eastern mar
kets to purchase another stock of
millinery and "new style" coats and
suits, as the tremendous rush on his
store last week nearly exhausted his
supply. Mr. Brahy is a good business
man, a live wire booster and is a
firm believer in the liberal use of
printer's ink to inform the public cf
what he has on sale, and the results
are very gratifying to him. He be
lieves in persisting ,and after all,
that is a winner in advertising. Mr.
Brahy, by the way, was a former
Northern League base ball player,
and a member of Bob Unglaub's
Fargo team, where he won a good
reputation, lie is also an enthusi
astic bowler and has attended every
National Bowling meet for the past
ten years with the exception of the
one held this past winter at Colum
bus, Ohio. Mr. Brahy bought the
Wonder Store only last August, but
since he took charge the business has
more than doubled. When you1 want
to tie to a winner and where you
can depend on fair dealing and hon
est treatment you will make no mis
take in patronizing the Wonder
Store-—the leading store of its kin-.l
in Wahpeton.
DEPUTY MARSHAL ARRESTS
MINOT BUSINESS MAN
Deputy Marshal E. S. Cameron
was an over-Sunday visitor at his
home in Wahpeton and while here
reported that he had been at Minot
last week, where he placed under ar
rest D. H. Cady, member of the firm
of Cady Bros., of the Magic City,
made the remark that he would
rather wear the stripe of a convict
than the khaki of a soldier. He was
placed under $1,000 bonds by U. S.
Commissioner R. G. Hopkins and may
be wearing stripes yet. He also made
the statement that the Red Cross is
graft, otherwise it would be run by
the government.
NONPARTISANS ENDORSE
STATE LE6ISLATIVE TICKET
The Richland county Non-Parti
sans have endorsed the following
legislative ticket: .John R. Chezik
of Wahpeton and Joseph Bauer of
Hankinson for representatives and
John M. Hagen for state senator.
E. S. Cameron went out to Rut
land Sunday night and Monday morn
ing placed under arrest on a govern
ment charge, the Baptist preacher at
that place. The minister is reported
to have made the remark that the
Red Cross people are not fit for him
self and wife to associate with.
NIOTT WILL HAVE A VOCA
TIONAL HIGH SCHOOL!
Mott is in line for one of the twen
ty-four vocational high schools which
will be established in North Dakota
in the near future under the direc
tion of the state board of education.
The schools will be scattered all over
the state. Ten of these schools will
be agricultural institutions. 10 indus-I
trial and four wj)l specialize in home
economics. The first two classes of
schools will receive $500 a year fed
eral aid 'While the home economics
schools will get $250 federal aid an
nuallv.
David Jones, Jr. of Fornian. neph
ew of Dan R. Jones of Wahpeton,
leaves this week for Camp Dodge,
la., to enter military training.
VOLUME XLII WAHPETON, RICHLAND COUNTS, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 28,1918
ASKILLED
1 he simpler
and
cut
Dress up for Easter, we can help you and save you money at the same time
Stern's for Men and Boys' Clothes and Shoes
personal salesmanship.
Lilt
How to Write Advertising Copy
By HERBERT KAUFMAN
into more minds than big phrases.
lL
the
understood by
out elever phrases if
Publicity is costlier
from
in the
busy
out every word and every
omitting an important detail.
Newtons
explanation
impressions. Some people are
The writer knows nothing about a
•contemplated deal whereby the Non
partisan League is to purchase tin
Times, as reported in last week's
(•lobe-Gazette. If we "were to .-•••II
the Times seems like we ought
know it—but the Times isn't
sale. Perhaps, it was WilsorV j..i,
shop th.it. they meant.
A farmer from the Great IVMI
country called at the Times oft'ir•
Monday to register a good-sized
because eggs are so cheap. H*
ei that farmers have been eiiri,
a ed to keep hens, but that he
tually losing money by sellij)^ •••-v
at 30 cents per dozen and in tnnl-
SUITINGS
40 inches wide
ZPaim 3$each, Striped and
&iatn tPoyiins and Strip
ed Suitings, per yard
35c
Author of "Do Something! Be Something!" I
language the
the
than
$10
a line talk is not cheap,
world.
saying it that
you will
layer of mosaic works „i,h small fragments of ^'miS,nhISSS111'S^hS™iS
stone—they ht into more places than the larger chunks.
The skilled advertiser works with small words—they fit
greater
least intelligent reader.
The construction engineer plans his roadbed where there
minimum of grade—he works along the lines of least resistance.
The advertisement which runs
into
surveyed—all minds are not built for high grade thinking,
place as a ball dress at the breakfast table!
certainty that it will be
The buying public is only interested in facts. People read ad- 'SITS the^iScVS
vertisements to find out what you have to sell.
The advertiser who can fire the most facts in the shortest time
gets the most returns. Blank cartridges make noise but they do it
not hit—blank talk, however clever, is only wasted space.
You force your salesmen to keep to solid facts—you don't allow
them to sell muslin with quotations from Omar or trousers with
excerpts from Marie Corelli. You must not tolerate in your printed
selling talk anything that you are not willing to countenance in
they are
clear explanations—write copy as you talk. Only be more brief.
line
hat
of
boy's terse and homely "What
gravitation covers
Indefinite t&lk wastes space. It
copy that omits prices sacrifices
bound
goods are higher priced than in reality—others, by the same token,
are just as likely to infer that the prices are lower and go away think
ing that you have exaggerated your statements.
The reader must be search«d out by the copy. Big space is
cheapest because it doesn't waitc, a single eye. Publicity must be on
the offensive. There are far too many advertisers who keep theii
lights on top of their bushel—the average citizen hasn't time tc
overturn your bushel.
Small space is expensive. Like a one-flake snowstorm, there ii
not enough of it to lay.
Space is a comparative matter after all. It is not a case of how
much is used but how it is used. The passengers on the limited ex
press may realize that ones lias tacked a twelve-inch shingle or
every post and fence for a stretch of five miles, but they are going
too fast to make out what the shingles say,-vet the two-feet letters
of Brown's big bulletin board on top of the hill leap at them befort
they have a chance to dodge it. And at that it doesn't cost nearl
so much as the sum total of
Jones'
is
conversation—ranging in price downward
hut
Sketch in your ad to the stenographer. Then you
not
have
gewgaws of writing. Afterwards take the typewriten manuscript |n
a
mountainous style is badly
Advertising must be simple. When it is tricked out with theft 7h" con^any'foffiJe!'
jewelry and silks of literary expression, it looks as much out ol checks you should mail to the
.i .. following stock WHS sold: 8 short-
inserted to the sacrifice ol
that can be erased without
remains in the end is all that
really counted in the beginning. »and.
Cultivate brevity and simplicity. "Savon Francais'' may look ilric.es'
smarter, but more people will understand "French Soap." Sir Isaac
six pages but
goes
up must come down" clinches
the whole thing in six words. P™?1",
is
not 100% productive. The
half
to in ok in ad It of re at a
its pulling power—it has a|dW
to conceive the idea that the,
dinky display.
Just so advertisements attractively displayed every day or ever
week for a year in one newspaper will find the eve of all readers, nc
matter how rapidly they may be "going" through the advertising
pages, and prod ice more results than a dozen piking pieces of cop)
scattered ^through half a dozen papers.
(Copyright.)
lie has limned his price down fine
and says that it costs him 47Vi cents
a dozen to produce egKs. A lien will
••at on an average three bushels and
a half of grain in a year and this
does not take into account the feed
that, the roosters require. This far
mer's iens produce on the average,
.-even dozen egss a year.
The Ufoadaxe reports that C. II.
Kbel will be a candidate for county
treasurer on the republican ticket.,
against Frank iSudak. And this in
the (ace of the fact that he failed to
vote for the ratification of the pro
hibition amendment to the federal
constitution.
THE WONDER STORE
Wahpeton, North Dakota
GINGHAMS
j{pron Sing hams
in
Zftiue, Sftrown and ^ed
Checks, worth 25c
Our price
per yd.
/8c
ARRANGEMENTS TO GO
INTO EFFECT ON APRIL I
their local manager,
A. R.
,or the
have..been
the school- resented but did not bring nearly
Fairbanks.
convenience
of
those who
accustomed
to
caling per-
I sonally at their Wahpeton office, to
pay their accounts at the Citizens
National Bank, under the following
inal bill as the bank is not Authorized
re a
iuiTban? iTnoTaufhor"zed ^'settle
!any disputes: In cases of this kind
p.e(on
Tn
mailing
Wa-
office the same as usual.
a,'h"
ions.
so.*v'
the most expensive commodity 2t animal" "inSall
will
time to bother about the
1
Mr.
Of the compa. 'o make their pay
H'idge National
-iMijsiii? con-
SAI.K
The
Live stock Breeder's Association
|hu,(' '*s
lirKt
f!te
lll'CJK SVCCKSSI
Uichland County Registered!
sale on the 21st. The
horn bulls, Holstein cows. 2 Hol-
s,oin
''""lis. r. Duroc sows, Berk-
Chester White boar and
be so ^wice^s Person's
'"shorthorn^fuHs
were in big demand No doubt.
''cair
^brought
$202.no. As a class they were not
show condition Present feed
w°"S !,atter
11
I
Holstein cows were
iwhat 'heir breeding was worth.
s"ws
_s°Id,
^Taki'ng'lt all in all. this first sale
Much can be done in the way of
.securing farm help through this of
fice. In order that 1 may he of
service to you in this way, you must
put in your calls a week or two
ahead of time Good men can not
he guaranteed. This is war. We
must fake what we can get. If the
man proves entirely unsatisfactory,
the only thing that can lie done is
to let him go and get another one.
Ceo. I". Wolf, County Agricul
tural Agent
Svlvin ltieland left Saturday for
Kent, Minn., after completing the
winter term at. the State Science
school.
Miss i-orretta Ui
NUMBER 48
was
»Jn.JL. jlof
H«nry
Ohe/.ik's
fflCMDCOmUD
IT DESSINES BUTTLE
W. S. Bendixin, whose mother
Mrs. Ina Bendixin, resides on the
state line southwest of Hankinson,
visited Wahpeton last Saturday.
The young man returned recently
from France where he fought with
the Canadian forces for a year, be
ing in the Lewis machine gun pla
toon. He took part in the great bat
tle of Messines last June and saw
the blowing up of Hill 60. The
Germans had mined the hill and so
had the British. It was merely a
question of which one could toucli
off the hundreds of tons of dyna
mite first. The British beat the Huns
to it and after the big hill had been
leveled, not one German could be
found. The force of the explosion
was heard in London by King George
and others, who had been notified
when it was to take place. Mr. Ben
dixen was wounded in three places
battle of Messines. Ho gave
a graphic account, of the
.'"he British forces were
aile: lo wrest from the Gentians
their fir-st line trench taken previous
ly. The Canadian machine gun pla
toon consisting of a hundred selected
men. together with the lammis Black
Watch, and other noted forces, were
put into the atack. As they ad
vanced toward the trench a British
borage was played on the trench
held by the Germans, but the latter
had played their barrage on the Brit
'ish with telling effect. Out of the
100 Canadians in the platoon, only
two escaped, the captain, who was
wounded and Mr. Bendixen. Th»
lltltJU W11U mi.
„eilulxlM1.
sheI1 an1
rought good
Good cows
wa|st
"Pieterjie
„o?8teio bulf'"ShS' we™" well*
WW,L
Mr-
Hasty fine Chester White sow was
easily the best offering. Two splen
boars were sold at small figures. I
8 0
attendance ^_®®|the use of his limbs, but has a good
sized shell in his back close to the
spine and will never be able to do
any more fighting.
is a success. The
close to the 200 mark. Nearly
every one was favorably impressed.
Nearly all the stock was sold. Next
fall no doubt, we will have a much
bigger and better sale. The time
to begin to get ready la now. Pick
out the animals yon are to consign
and get them ready, so that they are
in perfect show condition when the
time comes. Do not consign any
thing out of season. Consign early
so that a catalogue can be gotten Arthur .1. Snyder, a Wahpeton
out. and the sale more widely adver- lad. who enlisted in the Navy some
tised. Above all get your neighbors
and friends interested so that there
will he two good auctions in Rich
land County each year. If this is
done, farmers will have plenty of
chance to dispose of breeding stock
on hand, as well as a chance to get
what stock they need. In this way
the Richland County Live Stock
Breeder'* Association can serve
every farmer in the County.
ard has accept-j date
ed a. position with the Northwest
ern Telephone Co.
Miss Hilda Morman of Abercrom
bie attended the Liberty Loan
meet
ing here last Saturday.
in„
struck in the knee, on the
jleg and in the back with fragment*
Paralyzed from the
^own He managed to draw
himself into a shell hole. Red Cross
stretcher bearers were sent out. after
him and others wounded, but the
Germans killed them all. He lay
there until dark when Allied stretch
er hearers rescued him. As he lay
in the shell hole, he could see the
battle raging about him. and saw
three Ge'rman waves pas^bva^, s£et
death. The British finally took the
trench. He remained In the hospit
al for seven months. He recovered
WAHPETON LAO ENMt
FOR FRANCE THIS WEEK
months »go, left March 20 for France
tile I'nited States Ship Moccasin.
He was employed in the lOlevated
oft ice in Brooklyn, N. Y. for some'
time air) is now employed in the of
fice of the ship, and has a higher
rating.
Clarence Movius of Lidxerwood re
lumed last week from Jefferson Bar
rack's Mo., having been found un
fit for military service.' This was
on account of an injury he received
(i lew years ago when he was thrown
by a horse upon which lie was riding.
Our soldier Ooys ,'n frame are not
getting much news from home, and
any,.North Dakot.au who lias been
east, and had a look at the huge
stacks ol mail piled up awaiting
shipipont across the Atlantic can tell
t.lio story of delay. A shake-up in
the postoti ire ile-iart iiMiit has already
been asked.
North Dakota now has 417 con
solidated. schools, and they are all
ooil ones at that.
secretary
lias issued
SILKS
a large assortment of
Stripes, iPlaids and
iPlain Colors
Tjaffeta#, 9/fessaltnes
J'oulards and Silk
Specially ^Priced at
the yard $/. 89
state's office to
"'t)i) automobile
licenses, equivalent, to the whole
number sold up to April 1, 1917.
The receipts are almost, double what
they were a year ago, owing to the
much higher graduated registration
fee.