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V, $ C, ••-0 Si M.: IT 1 Si I, vi. ^4«v 1" k* 4 1 •. p»-v S-}• Our Circulation is Larger Than |r-- That of Any Other Newspaper in IcLean Co. Best Ad Medium |s£:«i •.•$& VOL. XXII NO. 16 §#tl $P Eddy County Has I The Best Exhibit Stanley of Energy Wins the Sweep stakes on the Best Collection of Vegetables The judging of the connty ex hibits at the industrial exposition at Bismarck was made last Friday. Eddy county won the first prize of $500 Wells, the second, $300 Emmons, third, $200 Mercer, fourth, $100, and Morton, fifth, $50. Professor Holden of Iowa scored the booths and fixed the prizes. It was decided to judge the booths on points and the following precentage were fixed: Quantity, 30 points quality, 35 points, and artistic arrangement, 35 points. Not all the counties having ex hibits were in the contests but they hope to be next year. Three of the corn prizes were won by persons in this county. They were in class 1, lot 37, best ten ears of corn, Northwestern Dent raised in Mercer, McLean and Ward counties: First Mrs. F. O. Brewster, Energy second, August F. Einreich, Turtle Lake third, John A. Johnson, Dogden Tomorrow is the last day of the exposition. Soo and McLean County Day is said to have been the best attended during the ex position. T. L. Stanley of Energy won the sweepstakes on the best collec tion of vegetables. J. R. Mann of Energy won the second .prizes in the best dozen stalks of rhubarb, the best three late squash, best dozen red toma toes, and the third jprize in the best one-half bushel Michigan po tatoes. John A. Johnson of Dogden won first prizes in best dozen yel low- turnips, the best one-half bushel Burbank potatoes and best one-half bnshel Early Rose pota toes.. Mr. Stanley has been in the Energy booth since the opening of the exhibition and has done a great deal toward boosting Energy, Underwood and McLean county. Every one rejoices with him in the honor he receives by winning so large a prize. Commissioners' Proceedings Washburn, N. D. Sept. 27,1911. Board of County Commissioners met in special session. Members present: D. C. Wright. Chairman, and Commissioners Bergqnist and Mackey. '..iJ.: .. Special meeting was called for the purpose of determining the method to be employed in the eolleotion of moneys due the County on Seed Grain Liens, On motion the following reso $ lution was adopted: That each Commissioner deliver, to the ele vators and banks of their aspect 1 ive districts a oopy of names and amount of each seed grain con tract and farther that the Auditor furnish the clerks and. constables of each civil township aud^ pillage a list as above mentioned. ,Vk On motion the Board adjourned. Washburn, N. D. Oat. 2,1811. Board of County Commissioners met in regular quarterly session: Members present: D. C. Wright, Chairman, and Commissioners, Bergqnist and Maokey. On motion, the abatement of taxeis of Mabel E. Griffith on the of NEi, N WJ, of SEi and SWiof jeptiop 7149,81 not allowed. On motion the following bills •were allowed and ordered paid. stamped (D»elopN *nd miqcl... *,• ,39 94 .Henrietta' 0*Hars, claritf: i«r.of Ueds offl»..... 60 00 m&tfc :-'W~ ,• ,1 1 r' Picked Out Farm Plaza, N.D., Sept. 28—M. H. P. Glick, who drew No. 1 arrived in town yesterday with his team and looked over the reservation. He found many good claims and has probably made a mental choice. He was in southern Il linois at the home of his wife's parents when he received notice from the government of his good luck. He was rejoicing with his wife over the event when in about ten minutes' time she presented him with a tiny but lively momen to of the occasion tho she had never been so luckey before. Glick is said to be the German word for luck, though Mr. Glick says he was always unlucky vn til the land drawing took place. Mellie Gearhart, clerk, reg. of deeds office 50 00 Harry Wahl, clerk reg. of deeds office 43 05 Jennie Rudd, clerk reg. of deeds office 6 00 B. H. Peterson, bill of $13. allowed at 7 00 JohnL. Brekken. Institute instructor 25 00 John L. Brekken, clerk hire .. 8 00 John L. Brekken, mileage visiting schools 39 20 John L. Brekken, postage 7 50 John L. Brekken, Institute supplies 7 90 H. 8. Westmiller, dpty. co. auditor 100 00 C. E. Paul, dpty. co. treas. 100 00 T. E. Thompson, postage for Sept 5 00 Hilma Anderson, clerk co. treasurer's office 63 00 G. Olgeirson, clerk hire.. 11 50 A. S. Reitan, dpty. reg. of deeds 100 00 Fred Pfister, coal.... .... 25 12 S. E. Dabil, clerk auditor's office 65 00 S. E. Dahl. extra work... 2 00 H. L. Whitlock, janitor, Sept 50 00 On motion Board adjourned to meet Tuesday, Oct. 3, 1911 at 9 a. m. Washburn, N. D. Oct. 3,1911. Board met.pursuast to adjourn ment: All members present. On motion the bid of Fred Pfister for furnishing coal for the court house, jail and office build ings for the period of one year for $2.40 per ton was accepted. On motion the following" bills were allowed and ordered paid. H. O. Simon, jailor, Sept. 60 00 L. A. Wright, repair on plow for road work D. C. Wright, repairs on grader Washburn Tel. Co., tele phone rent Jacob Metz, road work. .. H. C. Hanson, postage and telephone calls......... A. Schulz & Sons, sweep ing compound Fahy Dilley, road work.. Herald Printing Co., rub ber stamp...... C. W. Harris, institute ex penses, Lecturer.... T. E. Thompson, type writer ribbons & pencils Haos Hultberg, road work Jenkin Williams, road work, applied on taxes.. John Bonne, road work.. Walker Bros. & Hardy, blanks........ C. A Brummond, coal and drayage............... Gottlieb Hummel, road work ................". Herald Printing Co. sup plies, Supt. of schools... W. F. Richard, work Op bridge *... •.... C. R. Calkins, work on bridge •... •...«•. ... W. H. lEtobinson, livery hire ...........•• •'v2Cl00 3 75 4 50 12 00 11 50 A 400 59 50 1 26 6 05 '•f 2 50 94 50 6 00 8 00 16 84 3 18 8 00 v-,. 17 25 10 65 Zmmim Slope Orgaoiution About Completed Karl Klein of Washburn Has Been Appointed President of De velopment League Development League. Karl Klein of Washburn was appointed presi dent Geo. Frye, Dickinson, vice president C. L. Timmerman, Man dan, treasurer and C. H. Olson, Bismarck, secretary. The committee on constitution and by-laws is as follows: F. L. Conkling, Bismarck Col. Tuttle, Dawson C. F. Ellis, Mandan L. H. Conradson, Burt and Frank J. Fox, Bismarck. This afternoon another meeting will be held when the constitution and by-laws will be adopted and the line of work planned. They will decide about sending an ex hibit to the land show at St Paul. This organization will represent about twenty-two of the western counties in the state. They ex pect to do the work the name im plies. Afraid to Sign Editor Stickley of the Kenmare Journal received an unsigned communication recently and this is the way that Brother Stickley writes up one of the neatest roasts ever given to the breed of cowards who are so ashamed of themselves that they are afraid to sign their names to letters written by them: "Come out on the side of right,"— God in an unguarded moment— or the Devil in his glory—at some time in the course of creation, in vented the thing to be most des pised by man. It. is the persoti in ambush. Thepusillanimus scamp full of suggestions, ever ready to tell what ehoold be done, criticiz ing others, professing to be full of the glory of God—yet born of an India rubber backbone, and the oonstitation of a jelly fish—never daring to stand for what be claims to be a conviotion. Ye gods And yet the puke who preaohes thusly is afraid to sign his name to the letter. How maoh would he contribute toward supporting a newspaper? We will bet oar chance on heaven he is one of the galoots that take a pa per as long as'the editor allows him to without paying—then msrks his paper "refused." There is only one way we feel that we oould get even yith a pup like this and that is to bump him, and if this fellow will present himself at this offioe during office hours, we will guarantee him a swift kick in the pants—even if we have to hire it done. God and man hates a ooward, and we wish this one would come out in the open. HOre Bard Luck pr?r, i»*ft' Sheriff. H. O. Simon returned from a business trip to Canada last week* He said some of the Very little has fields in the district which he traveled, in water and it looked winter would arrive crop w6nid be 14 SO 4 11 THE WASHBURN LEADER WASHBURN, N. D., OCT. 13 1911, Members of the commercial clubs in the different cities in the wsstern part of the state met at j, .... *rr they had been visiting the parent Bismarck Wednesday afternoon) and organized Missouri Slope'a Those who attended the first meeting from this unty were:' Karl Klein, Adolph Wacker, M. H. Sawyer and August H. Wahl of Washburn and T. L. Stanley of Energy. Mr. Klein is a booster and has always worked for the best inter ests of the county. He is capable of filling the position to which he has been appointed and will see that the Development League de velopes the slope from now on. }f^,f J, '.'r Emmet Correspondence Rev. Frank Peterson was unable to fill the pulpit Sunday on acj count of an attack of LaGrippe. J. G. Robinson and family spent Sunday with their daughter Mrs. Bert Porter. Geo. Snider made a business trip to Garrison Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Slagg return ed Sunday from Conkling where ome8. Sunday Sept.. 24th the Emmet Sunday school visited the Mower Sunday school and Oct., 1st. Mow er returned the visit. A pleasant and profitable time was had all partakers. Mr and Mrs. Ernest Tank of Garrison visited the latter's par ents Rev. Peterson and wife Sun day. Underwood Journal Mrs. J. M. Handy left Thursday for Michigan. She received the sad news of her father's illness. It is reported that 93 tickets were sold at Underwood Thursday for the exposition at Bismarck. 84 at Washburn, 71 at Wilton, 5 at Coleharbor, 7 at Max and 18 at Garrison. E. W. Ladd left Tuesday on a trip in the east. He will visit in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. On returning he will visit with his daughter Mrs. Willie Pritchard in Minnesota. He expects to be gone two months. Turtle Lake Wave Mrs. Jacob Kusler was oper ated on at St. *Paul last Thursday for appendicitis and is getting -along as well as could be expected. She was in the hospital at the tijne Jacob Kusler, her husband's store burned. Emil Wells is very sick with an attack of erysipelas ot the face brought on by the heat and ex posure while fighting the big fire last week. His face is badly swollen but he is somewhat better at present and on the improve. On Thursday of last week the three year old Martha Fried very near lost her life by playing in an ash pile. There was fire in the ashes sufficient tu start her skirts to blazing and when her mother rushed to her in answer to her screams, her skirts were literally burned off to- the waist belt. The mother doused her in a barrel of water and pat the fire out. The child is one continuous blister from her knees to her waist. Medical aid was called from Turtle Lake and she will recover. The child is a daughter of Fred Fried who lives about ten. miles south of town. Too Bbck ton Valley City, Oct. 10—It i9 esti mated that this county, Barnes, has a orop of 2,000,000 bushels aud the. problem confronting the farm er is what to do with it. Owing to the scarcity of feed last year ^11 kinds of stock were sold and there are fewer heads in the state than for a number of years. There is no market for corn in this state and unless some ooncerted aotion is taken by the business interests of the northwest, much of it will be used for ^fuel. Some etook is being shipped in for feeding pur poses but not enough to material ly relieve the situation. Threshing is nearly completed in this part of the state. Much late flax is yet in the fields and q^ay not be threshed for some time. Plowing is very backward. been done, owing ...v-'' through I to the oontinual rainfall whioh has were stiuidiDg retarded threshing. The ground will freeze up full of water this fall and the outlook for a first olass will be the best in'future in keeping Farmers' Wives Should Enjoy Life Monotony of Farm Life Should Be Broken Up By Women's Clubs or Societies re- While farms and farmers ceived most of the attention of the delegates to the recent Conserva tion congress at Kansas City, says the St. Paul Dispatch, perhaps one of the most helpful and encourag ing features of the session was the movement started looking to the conservation of the farm women and children. The subject was in troduced by Mrs. Harriet Wallace of Des Mosnes, who, in the course of a paper read before the con gress, said: Any movement for the promotion of the farmer's in terest must, if it is to be a success, receive the support not only of the farmer but also of the farmer's wife. The first problem of the farmer is how to increase farm products through better farming the first problem of the farmer's wife is how to improve the condi tions of the farm home. The mistakes of the husband in his sphere during one season may be corrected in the next the mistak es made by the wife in rearing her children are never entirely cor rected. Mrs. Wallace urged the union of farmers' wives 'in country wo men's clubs with the object of breaking up the monotonous rout ine of farm life and for the discus sion of anything and everything pertaiuing to the betterment of farm homes. This, we are con vinced, holds promise of being one of the most important elements in the advancement of the back-to the-faru movement in this count ry. The lot of the farmer's wife, particularly in the more sparsely settled countries, is far from be inga happy one. Thousands of farm-reared inea and women shud der when they remember the driv ing, slaving toil endured by their mothers on the farm and thou sands of them have left the farms because they wanted to escape sueh drudgery and to protect their daughters from it. It is true that conditions of farm life have been materially improved in. recent years, but there is still too much of the hard work and always too much of loneliness in the lives of the farmers' wives. When the wives and daughters and sisters of farmers who live on the farms get their organizations effected and learn to throw off the belief and theory that they cannot get away from home even for only a few hours without some dire disaster coming to the home or to the farm, a long foreward step will have been taken for the bet terment of the condition of the farm women and children. There is no dearth of problems for consideration by oountry wo men's clubs. The housing of the farm family, the selection of books and musie, the planning of whole some entertainments ane the study of the evils incidents to farm life and the framing of remedies for them offer a broader and more fer tile field for olub work than is found in the oity. We have heard much in recent years about the conversation of water and timber and octal and soil, and these are important, but the convesation of womanhood and childhood on the farm is far more important to present and future generations. If the countiy wo men's clubs, through 00-operation and organization, suooeed in break ing up the monotony in farm lift, there will be less difficulty in the the boys end the farms. y.t a mi ac Had Another Raid Valley City. N. D.. Oct. 11—An other chapter in the fight on the violatiors of tne prohibition law ia this county, was opened today when the store closed a few days ago, was again raided and some twenty gallons of whiskey secured. That place was raided early last week and closed but was opened in order that the owner might not lose his entire perishable stock. After running three days t.he place was again raided today and closed again. There are many warrants out and Executive Officer Watkina of the State Enforcement leagua says that the war has just begun. Cases will be made against three hotels, two or more drugstores, a half dozen pool balls, etc., besides the straight charges for selling or soliciting orders for liquor. In an address hereto the church es of the city, Mr. Watkins declar ed that the law of the state was ample to stamp out the traffic. He alleged that he would shortly move upon the club rooms of the fra ternal orders and close them for selling liquor. As this touches the Elks and Eagles, it is expected that there will be something doing' in the various towns in the state where the lodges have club rooma. Mr. Watkins said that the mayor* police the state's attorney and the sheriff were entirely responsible for the enforcement ofjthe law and that if cities and counties were open, it was the fault of the offici als. New Han Appointed Devils Lake, N. D., Oct. 11.—New» of the appointment of J. Sherman MoClory as register of the local United States landoffioe, was re ceived in Devils Lake yesterday. The document is dated Oct. 2*. but he will not take up the active duties of the offioe until his bond has been. approved by the depart ment. The appointment is made by President Tafttofill the vaoancy created by the resignation of Wil liam Miller who reoently resigned, the position to engage in the news paper business in Nebraska. Sherman MoClory, son of May or MoClory, is one of the most popular young men of De vile Lake. He was but reoently ad mitted to the bar, starting the praotioe of law in this city with his father. For some time prior to this he served as private secre tary to Cong. L. B. Hanna at Washington, continuing his study 1 of law at the capital city. Started on Homeward Journey Mrs. Sarah Brewer, who spent the last six months witn her daughter Mrs. John Fahlgren* left on Monday for Morning Snn«, la., for a short visit and then will go to Kansas where she will spendt the winter. She was by her daughter Mrs. who has alio been hen 1 ijfii ys| -V'*| The Leader Has in the Host Compete lob in the County. Get Our Mota~ $1.50 PER YEAR Is An Optimist Gunder Hill is a man with & checkered career, yet he is an op timist. He went through the hard times in South Dakota and those times were some hard, too. When the strain became so stenuous that Gunder thought lie could stand it no louger he sold his quarter sec tion of land and received for it a lean ox or a pig. Two years after that the land was sold for $4,000 and today it will bring $100 an ac re or more any day. Mr. Hill says the past poor season remind ed him forcibly of the similar epoch in South Dakota and that present weather is an exact count erpart of the season in that state previous to its succession of bump er crops that put that state among the best in the Union.—McClusky Gazette. f! «f $ 'J 'i 1 At •1" .VI feiA# *1Si^s. s3&