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ft* pvl n-i zk the News yt.' ?, sp More Honey Was-Spent la Im proving the House the Wives Ws Would be Happy i« Farmers' wives more than any other class of women—more even than farm era themselves—waste their energies in unnecessary drudgery. We in this country have been wont to pity as miserable, unenlightened creature the peasant woman of European countries who performs long hours of labor in the fields in addition to such housewifely duties as are necessary to prepare food and raiment for her. family, and who upon occasion has even been used as a draft animal. Conditions of this kind imply what we are wont to call un-Am irican standards of living. It is true at our standards of living even for ^women on the fann are much higher fjftan this, but do we always live up to them? Hear what the Country Gentle man (Philadelphia) has to say upon this subject: ff The other day a g&s-engine man in stalled a gasoline engine on. an Eastehi farm, The farmer who bought it is fairly well-to-do and- presumably intel ligent. Yet his wife has always pumped water for the stock.. This work took two hours of her time every weekday, Sunday and holiday, and she had been doing it for years. The one-horsepower .: engine sold for the purpose has a jack that operates the old pump, as well as a pulley for running the grindstone, I' separator and other small machinery. It cost $37.50 delivered. Gasoline depreciation and interest come to less than $1 a month so this farmer's wife had been working for about a cent and Jf a half ah hour!. Yet her husband would probably consider it un-American to harness her to, a farrow or permit her to do any sorro&hard work in the fields. We may perhaps please ourselves by •V deciding that the incident here related occurred in a Dutch settlement in Penn ayivania, or a Swedish settlem Minnesota or Wisconsin, and pe: it did. But similar incidents ajre wholly unknown even in this We recall in this connection the some years ago of the wife of a' if serous farmer. He had been the orirtjer of 600 acres of land, well stock«f- and much of it in wheat. He and hisjnife began life together in theirearlyyouth, without other-capital thaui loyal affisct ion for each other and two sturdy pair of hands. From renters of a lmall farm they became owners) of many broad, well-watered acres. Ah «n usually heavy crop meant an addition to their farm lands or perhaps a new barn with a driven well and windmill attach meot to provide, water for the stock. 0{d house built in pioneer days had ^fatiloed all these years for their home. 7be only money ttiis prosperous fanner even felt able to spend .upm his dwel ling bouse w*f itit*t required to •reroot Itafter yearsn^F leaking which render^ -«ia it necessary to set pains and pails '^here and there, on the beds, in the corner of the living-room, on the kitch en table, everywhere about the house, If1to'catch the seepage from the oldjroof. With all of her hardship this t. p&t .* pt t*z4r:', &$w. VOLtTME xxiil, NUMBER 1. -v^'""' Farm Homes Can 1 P'A Comfortable woman Survived her husband a year, and .wken iibe died from heart trouble, from which she had long miffered, a sister ^rhom fhehad ootsieen for .many yea^scame |ti ber fonenl, and, gbitig to. witter witiiwhichtocookbrea^fastthe morn ing after her arrival, fMqd-.ttet 'll)e domestic inppty Was drawn from a well under the porch floor in sr rustjr ^tin bucket weighted with a horseshoe' at ssf llii tfui^iejr's wife had. been the inother' of' eleven diilcteeh, of whom liine stdwart sons stood beside her ^r, yet it hi^i seemingly never- oc ^cj^nMdtomie.of these,- »«ny more than it had to $hieir father, that this womanV labor in drawing water for -ber hobse liold needs represented pitifully wasted .soe^.eorraHhg a period of ibuiny toil- Mfme yeftri, and a false economy of re sources, *t onoenigg&rdlyanddisgrace- .tiontrain that^was in: wttek was a great eye nc farqiifni: .about' the ijfof these conviehces house. Witiitheswne 119s ,tltei ifeater for tM ^ats»„«u| be pat into the house !0hMS|ptUn the wash machine Hsattogand lighting plants ars just as necessary ymoro than many iJq :ba|W-,jind^ rA IHttf 4|int and Unofeum l^fS Hill fa W ^«J.y4W n-giV 11 V'-J.'M sees better prospects for the wheat crop in the United States and says: The wheat market is now impressed with the better crop prospects in the hard winter wheat area of the south west and the promising start of spring wheat in the northwest. The government is expected to record a June condition for fall sown wheat several points higher than shown in the last report and a spring wheat outlook close to par. For the last two weeks nature has done everything to insure a vigorous plant growth. The improvement in winter rfheat, however, is only relative to the very unfavorable report issued the first of the month. The remaining acreage is small and precludes a large production. At the best the June condition will hardly suggest more than 400,000,000 bushels, which is 30,000,000 bushels less than actually produced a year and the crop has still a most critical period to go through before maturity. In the northwestern states there has been a great deal of rain, but there have been no complaints from the Red river valley. This is very good evi dence that precipitation has not been excessive for the heavy soil of the val ley, yet insuring sufficient moisture for the lighter land in the western area. While the. spring wheat acreage in the three states will be smaller than last year the condition will be high in the first report of the season, next month. The crop promise shduld ap proximate 240,000,000 bushels, but the actual harvest will depend, of course, on the climatic conditions during the most important time of filling and head ing. The more optimistic crop news has caused a moderation of speculative ac tivity and lower prices for wheat. The decline has not been drastic as the quotations for the deferred future are quite high and there is still reflected in the pit a disposition to anticipate fur ther advances, rather than any perma nent downturn, in spite of the improved agricultural promise. 4 On River 50 .Years 1 The government snag boat Mandljgfi arrived from down river last Thursday and stopped a few days a1Ls Williston. A visit aboard found everything in its usual perfect order and brought about a pleasant visit with Captain Gould and purser Halloran. Captain' Gould who has seen close to a half century of river service, is able to relate much of interest concerning .the Missouri and the: history of the de velopment of its'vailey. He'ia acquaint ed with all the prominent old settlers fpm Fort Benton to St. Louis. He re sided for many years at Yankton, S. D. and he and the Herald man discovered that they had many mutual acquain tances there. The captain remarked that there was much similiarity be tween the sites of WDliston ana Yank ton. Both baying beautiful situations which lay the some' with reference' to the river, except that Williston is a little nearer to the stream. Yankton is one of thewery oldest towns in either of the Dakotas and has become beautiful because of its fine lawns and grand elms and niaples. Captain Gould recalls, coming up the river past the site of Williston. 44 years ago. He says that the channel of the stream then flowed close to the bluffs some three miles straight soutfe of here and after -flowing a Couple of miles- west made is sharp turn to the north to 'the high ground west of here. The. cap tain knows the old Muddy probably as well as any living man. He says that it is .evident that the main channel, is how on this side "good and atrong, th? best that I have ever .seen it." The revetment work put in by the govern? pent is of the greatest value, he says,, in holding the.river where it is.—Wil? liston Herald. Tax Goopdssioii Was Appointed tiovenior ^urke has announced the. 'hppoin&nents.of the new state tix,CKjnr' mission as authorised by legislative assembly. The board- composes the men who are named: E. Packard of Bismarck, term expires May 1,1917 Prof. L. l^' Biidsal] of Grand Forks, term exiMres .May 1,1015, and G. E. Wallace of Wsltpeton, terln e: Whfle Governor Burkersappoint wi)l hqldgoodtompo^ttiiy, the *i, meats i^ui^be c^rn^ed the legislative assembly provided by Uw •-j^.* i.*"- *c -r/\C"ia.» JHW once in a while and life not be such drudgery. on a farm will Better Crop Prospects The Minneapolis Tribune crop editor BWiil,«!|fflr'lf»^l'TV Ckv feK »*.W $6? J&k* SiVjt3 ^Y V4V VrfiJt? ".a-*%.., I Hi^mr v:«? President Renominated onfirst Bal lot Cast—Roosevelt Named By I# New Party and Accepts William Howard Taft for a second time was made the presidential nominee of the republican party at the national convention Saturday night. James Schoolcraft Sherman once more was selected as his running mate. Colonel Roosevelt's name was not presented at the covention and he re quested that the delegates who desired to remain with him sit in mute protest against all further proceedings. North Dakota, Wisconsin and South Dakota fulfilled their pledge and stay ed by LaFollette all through the con vention. LaFollette was given 41 votes, Roosevelt 107 and Taft 561 of the 1078 votes, 21 more than necessary to nominate. 344 of the Roosevelt dele gates refused to vote. A new party was organized at the close of the republican national conven tion Saturday night. Roosevelt was named by the party and said he would accept the progressive nomination on a progressive platform and fight the bat tle to the end. Election Laws Hamper Colonel By John & Monk .Chicago, June 22.—The Roosevelt people are engaged in collecting infor mation concerning the election laws of the various states, in order to find out Where they will stand in the matter of getting Presidential electors on the ticket for the third candidacy which has been proposed. Conditions are widely different in the various states. In some it would be a comparatively simple matter to get electors on the ticket, while in others it will be mighty difficult. In New York, for instance, the Levy election law is an obstacle in the way of inde pendent action. It will take about 50, 000 signatures to get Presidential electors placed .upon the ballot in that state for an independent candidate. These signatories must be divided pro portionately atnong the congressional districts. Further than that, no man who is enrolled republican, or democrat, is eligible to sign a .petition for an in dependent. -To find 50,000 voters who are not en rotted,.properly distributed among the districts and willing to sign Roosevelt petitions, will be no easy task. In some districts it is believed to be well nigh impossible. '-y.p ..j. In Indiana the Roosevelt people have been advised it will be comparatively simple to get electors for a ticket. In some other states it may be too late, All those questions have arisen among the Roosevelt folks and they are busy getting answer8.: :-^.^' ^F?^..:^g 1 A V'- V'V. i'.' .-.I.''' are many states where, the presidential electors have already been chosen by the Republicans, at the same popular primaries where they voted for, Roosevelt. In such states these electors will be claimed by the Roosevelt men. They will run, of course, as regular re publican candidate and that Taft is the poslMssor of a spurious nomination, if he gets it, obtained entirely by stolen votes in a convention which didT not do the iyiUof the .rank and file of the Thus, in some states it is figured that Roosevelt will get the Republican el ectors already luuhed, and be known as thf republican candidate. In other statesthe will have to run if he dbes run, as an independent progressive can didate, with electors yet to be nanfed. How to get these electors on the bal lots whats the Roosevelt backers are figuring upon how. Thls assumption that the Republican electors already nominated will Vote for Roosevelt, regardless of the fact of Who may be the oflicial candidate ol tile present convention, is talcing the electoral college bac^t tofirst principles. l%ere is no constitutional reason why •n elisctof may not yote for anybody he p|eases, no matter on' which ticket his name appears. Roosevelt counts upon many electors doing this very ti^ng. Mr. Taft. may Ifr* get tbo, nomination^ but the, colonel j»° fi^ured thathe will get the electors, May 1,1919. They are to. be «nmtti salary-of &000*nd will assume'^awr alrsady nominated by- primal their duties Jbly 1 lit,' I fin which gave him in tnany inabkhees The state tax commission, which' WiU .o^trwhdming majorities over the Pros nave offiees.nt the coital building, is Jdsat empowered to hir« a s«retary annual salary of 12,006 IosctktCarres|Wideial |er SpUen, the.onl^ h^ yeiur "ikwtt several "jof rfib 'tripslasf nday. A Si'J 4 1. ,IV Messrs. QUbertson and Qfannumud the 1 W£""f{' tc naw .* wA A* «ei$ u^'"1 *. VJf W Z, TWu I* £4 *•$ WASHBURN, &ORTH DAKOTA, JUNE 28, 1912. Taft And Sherman The Ticket Named r"' families were guests at Henry Hovey's Sunday Mrs. Liv4 Kolden and sona. and Mrs. E. E. KvalJ /ind sons were visitors at Peder BarsnKs'*last Sunday. The Lundjpt and Kolden crew came in from the sieservation Saturday even ing to spend'Sunday at home. Peder Kolclen will leave this week for Mayville Mipnesota where he is to act as a delegate for our Lutheran Synod church here?. He will also visit Oslo and Fonda, N. D., on his way home. Malcolm Correspondence Messrs. Nick Reuter, Wm. Edd and Arthur Hagberg, and Mrs. Reuter and Ella Edd left for Detroit, Minn., in their autos last Saturday. They ex pect to be gone about three weeks. They will camp near Detroit Lake and visit friends and relatives at other places. The*Leap Year dance Tuesday eve ning was a success. A large crowd was present* Mrs. Ben Johnson of Washburn has been visiting with her folks, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Olsom The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Tong was very sick last week but is on the road to recovery now. The dance at Pete Andersons was well attended and everybody had a good time. Mrs. Wm. Hyser of Minot has been visiting friends here for the past week. Mrs. Sutton of New Rockford who has been visiting with her sister Mrs. Evanson, left for Washburn last Thurs day. Conkfing Correspondence Henry Dahl was shopping in Wash burn Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Slagg went to Em met Tuesday to visit a few days with relatives. Darwin Barlow is helping Chas. Thompsen put in his flax this week. Mrs. H. C. Jones called on Mrs. Dahl Friday. 1 Rob.'t Morgan of Elm Point visited with Hy. Dahl Friday. He says he is arranging for a private sale to dispose of his household goods. He expects to go east for the summer. Mrs. Jno. Barlow went to Bismarck to enter a hospital for treatment Fri day. Mesdames Barlow and Hosch called on Mrs. Dahf Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. F. Tower, Mr. Nordene and Rev. John Dahlond from Seroco came across the river to the Jones home Sunday and.on Monday took jn the pic nic at Carlsons. Others who attended the Picinc were Hy. Dahl and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Nick Hosch and two lit tle girls, Jno. Barlow and family, Henry, Darwin and Kate Barlow, Thura Lu thander and brother John, Eroest Slaggx Wm. Partridge and wife, H. C. Jones and wife and Arthur Jones. The ladies made over $50.00 for dinner alone. The funds are to go toward laying a founda tion foir the new church. Every one seemed to enjoy themselves. The day being a hot one they sold lots of ice cream. In the afternoon the Under wood baseball team played against Basto. The latter were the winners. Frank Kortum was overcome by the heat Tuesday at noon. He says it was 103 in the shade during the hottest part of the day. Kate Barlow came home for a short vacation Friday. K':^'v^k'-ra v.. Ed. Furst and daughter Miss Nellie Were Washburn visitors Friday. Mrs. JohnFahlgrenisin the Bismarck hospital at Bismarck. She underwent ah. operation Monday and is getting along very nicely. Lena Furst is car ing for the children .during her absence. Frank and Nellie Furst, Guy Bixby, Harry Scholl, Herman Henrich and Frank Kortuin spent-Sunday afternoon at the H. C. 'Jones home. ,,, yt: Benedict Banner The Benedict Commercial Club is boostings things in this part of the .country, ttirough their ^efforts Bene has acquired a new bank and a first class physiciiui and surgeon and the dab is -negotiating with other en terprising parties with the view of drawing thenpi to Benedict,' (A tetrible accident occurred at the hdmC/O^ Isfiddr Em(M.about seven miles sppthtMt of town hiit Xfcoradty when tMr seyen year -old daughter. was instantly killed by a cow. It seems the dtiid had been to stake the cow i» picketed and some dogs attack the coiw hertotun aw^r. The diild in ss^ manner became tan^led in the \v •?, Election Retorns Are Not Completed Votes Light in This County as Many did not Register-Some Refused to Give Party The following is the official count in choice votes: STATE REPUBLICAN Congress (Third District) Alfred Blaisdell, 10 12: P. D. Norton, 84 5 L. A. Simpson,' 14 7 N. Davis, 10 9 Joseph M. Devine, 9 11. Governor—L. B. Hanna, 40 7 C. A. Johnson, 14 19 J. A. Buchanan, 74 8: H. N. Midtbo, 1 5. Lieutenant Governor—A. T. Kraabel, 67 John Flados, 37. Secretary of State—Frank S. Henry, 74 Thomas Hall, 48. State Auditor—Carl O. Jorgenson, 112. State Treasurer—Gunder Olson, 115. Attorney General—C. A. M. Spencer, 3 11 Andrew Miller, 89 2 B. W. Shaw, 17 10 Aaron J. Bessie, 8 8. Superintendent of Public Instruction —E. J. Taylor, 97 Thomas P. King, 21. Commissioner of Agriculture and La bor—W. C. Gilbreath, 74 A. E. Hut chinson, 43. Commissioner of Insurance—W. C.. Taylor, 110, Commissioners), of Railroads—W. H. Mann, 67 8 J. G. Brown, 8 6 Robert Clendening, 11 6 J. T. Purcell, 29 4 John T. Charm ley, 9 7 E. M. Nelson, 14 7 W. H. Stutsman, 40 4 O. P. N. Ander son, 36 5 Ambrose Olsen, 17 8. COUNTY REPUBLICAN Members of the House of Represent atives, 46th District—H. R. Freitag, 49 J. T. Hoge, 72 O. B. Wing, 95 Jerry O'Shea, 66 Nels Oleson, 46. Sheriff—H. O. Simon, 111. Auditor—E. C. Stocker, 91 T. E. Thompson., 1, ...... Treasurer—Gullick Jaastad, 42 Emil Anderson, 94. Clerk of Court—H. C. Hanson, 99. Register of Deeds—A. S. Reitan, 110. States Attorney—C. F. Maennel, 120. Judge—G. P. Gibson, 102 J. E. Nelson, 28 J. E. Wehr, 3. Superintendent of Schools—J. L. Brekken, 122.. Public Administrator—S. A. Falconer, 82 O. H. Lumry, 2S. JUDICIARY-NONPARTISAN Supreme Court—A. A. Bruce. 85 J. E. Robinson, 56. FOR DISTRICT COURT Sixth District—W. H. Winchester 34 W. L. Nuessle, 125 state Returns x- -No definite results can be obtained on the state ticket. It is estimated that Hanna. will lead by about 400. Johnson and Midtbo are low men. An drew Miller has a heavy lead for attor ney general: Henry and Hall are rim ing very close for secretary of state. Simpson ha* carried this district with Norton, second. Tuttle leads in the second district with Young second. Nuessle defeatee Winchester for the udge of the sixth judicial district Election Notes The hot! this week was hard on politici Nineteen' democrats voted in the Washburn precinct. The women did not take an interest in election and not one vote was Cfstby them in this precinct ... John Doe and ^John Roe received a number of seccwd choice votes. Many ballots would have been cast but if the siipreme court had not made the decision it did on the second choice, votes. v*. *•. The autohiobile liveries and cigar men will not get rich while the corrupt practice laiw is in effect They were noticeable absent on election day. It was easy to vote at this primary but when you look at the ballot in fall your heiid will swim. Eadi par^ may haye a j^ul] ticket There will be republicans, «emocr»ts, socialists, in* dependents |nd probitiooists and—if Roosevelt wmoot with his new-party, the .progressive*—all op one ballot The harTOw is the most useful tiUege cornfield, but itH ctive toot. wi ltttw quite mined with a .. ert inK the same yid* v# $• -tsv "*p'^''V?*3Pt after the Washburn precinct. The first figure1 Plants is the number who voted first choice and the following figure are second &4r%JHK^ viV W 'i Job Printeiy- in Connection SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER YEAR part of the man who used the harrow*. Corn should not be harrowed when the soil is wet and packed from the heavy rains. Neither should it be harrowed when the plants are just out of the ground because they are broken off very easily at.that stage of their growth, especially where the ground is wet and I hard. The best time to use the harrow amongst growing corn is immediately planting and again after the are Best harrow are smooth the'surface and work firm soil 1 amongst the plants as it destroys tiny weeds. There is no special advantage gained from the use' of the harrow when it will not destroy weeds, because it will injure more or less of the plants in spite of good care on the part of the driver. Corn will not break as badly in the afternoon as it will in the morning. This is due to the effects of the sun on the plants which partially wilts them, hence they are tough and resist the rustling about from the harrow teeth. Weeds are more readily destroyed in the afternoon because of the more in tense heat from the sun. Litter will not cling to the harrow teeth in the afternoon. In fact, there are many reasons why corn should be harrowed in the afternoon when the sun shines' brightly, rather than in the morning. Don't harrow your corn where the stand of plants is not sufficient for a full crop. The weeder is a decided im provement over the harrow in a field of growing corn or potatoes. Every farm should be equipped with a one, or two? horse weeder. Had a Painful Accident Miss Opal Snyder, a daughter of M. F. Snyder who owns a large farm north of Underw.ood, was thrown out of a buggy Sunday afternoon while trying to keep a team from running away. The horses started to run in front of the hotel and at one time it looked as though she had control of them but they turned a sharp corner throwing the buggy completely over. Miss Snyder was thrown violently to the ground and her knee badly sprained. She was taken to the hotel and the doctor called. He' found she- had no other injuries and the following mora-, ing was allowed to go home. It is thought it will be some time before she is able to walk. Miss Snyder was with five others who came down from near Underwood the day before and had beed visiting at the Melick farm east of Washburn. The occupants of the two other rig* had gone on ahead so did not hear of the accident to Miss Snyder until there reached home and was notified hr. 'phone. Shows Shortage of What and Con The crop reporting board of-one Bureau of Statistics of the United. States Department of Agriculture timates, from reports of correspondents and agents, that the quantity of wheat on farms March 1, 1912, waaabdut 122,— 025,000 bushels, or 19.6. per-Cent of lite 1911 env, against 162,705,000 bushels:, or 2Si.6 per cent, of the 1910' crop farms March 1, 191J., and bu shels, or 23.4 per-cent, of the 1909 crop on farms March 1, 1910. About 56.1. per cent of the crop will be ahipped oqit', of the counties where grownv. against 55.6 per cent of the I9i0 crop and 8L&. per cent of the 1909 crop so shipped. cent- MMflteLv Th» The' quantity of. corn on fahna'' March 1,1912, was about 884,089,0(i0' ii bushels, or 34.9 per cent of. the crop, against 1,165,87S,000 bushels 'ja 40.4 per cent of the 1910 crdp on thsr'i, ^1* farms March 1, 1911, and 977,561.000K/, bushels or 88.3 per cent, of the crop on farms March 1, 191Q, 20.5 per cent of the crop «i0 .be sWp«*.,t£. ped out of tiie countiea whet* and 24.9 per ceniof ^)e. 1909 np, shipped The proportion, .of the 1911 crop viiich is '.-qifsiduuitabl^ Ja' about 80.1 per cent-fs'against OM persf® cent of the 1910 cropland 82.8 of 'the 1909 crop.^ Mm? The quantity- -Mf: oats on farms. ^B^^fe^l March 1,1912, was about 289,988,00* bushels,' or 3i.4 per cent, "of the crop,, agMhst I&6tf,(j0(> bushels ior per cent of th^ 1910 oop. on tSe V^h.l,-191L and^^,4S^OOO^ bosfcetil, per Cent vt The quantity df-.Miir on Match' 1, 1912, was. ibout bushel^ or U.5 per emit of tb*3l crop, against 38,496,000 tmsbels4 or- llb0^L per cent of the 1910 'ctop, do- tikliipth Matth 1,1911i «nd 4MQ&0W or 24. per .cant of the farms liaidi 1,1910. cantwiUbs w!iiiiito'£r9*nr.agnkiit.Sjk.0' 7 '1A r\ «l «S, r# I established in the soil, results are obtained where the follows a cultivator which will "*4 yi 3f fit I *3 ojv fn y% it* AiiV b-* lo *r Vs 4 u* Si i' A t,"