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Mm'" fillip ^01 PAGB SIX if/:. STUTSMAN CO. BAR FAREWELL BANQUET TO JUDGE NUESSLE i Attorneys Express Regret At jurist Leaving tne uistrici Bench and Tell of Confi dence in His Work and Fairness as Supreme Court Jlidge. A farewell banquet was given Judge W. L. Nuessle, of Bismarck, Satur day afternoon by the members of the Stutsman County Bar, as a testimon ial of the high esteem and apprecia tion in which the judge is held by the bar of this city and county: al so taking the opportunity to congrat ulate him, and the people of the state, on his elevation to the supreme bench. The dinner was at the Glad stone Hotel and after its conclusion Attorney Will Aylmer announced that the occasion was a special meeting of the local bar, for the purpose a bove noted. Judge S. E. Ellsworth presided as toastmaster, announcing that this of ficial meetiftg of the county bar as sociation was held with mingled feelings of regret and congratula tion. H-e stated that twelve years ago Mr. Nuessle, then a practising attorney at Washburn, was undergo ing the same difficulties engaged in the same endeavors for his clients, and working under the same condi tions, as the other lawyers of a rural community or small town. That his early course as an attorney was then marked with a distinct recognition by those who knew him, of the same high ideals and fairness which have emphasized his career after being elected to the bench of the district court. That the judge had establish ed a reputation among the attorneys of the district for being not only a and fairminded jurist, one capable .... wlio adhered closclv to the high stall dards of professional ethics, but who The Man for the Job J. W. Carr reiterated, in a few brief remarks, the same sentiments as those who preceeded him and told a little introductory story concern ing a client, Mr. Lutman, of Attor ney Edward P. Kelley, of Carrington and Minneapolis, who was also pres ent in company with the Stutsman County Bar. This story illustrated the tenacity of Mr. Kelley's client in defending his rights as a litigant, and equally illustrated his confi dence in the tenacity and ability of Mr. Kelley to faithfully represent his client under any and all circumstanc es. Mr. Carr stated that he had known Judge Nuessle for many' years be fore he was judge, and that he had learned to love and admire him. He fully realized the loss which the bar of the district would sustain in the election of the judge to the supreme bench. He said "While we are los ing much, the supreme bench of the state will gain much, and our be^t wishes go with Judge Nuessle and his work in the higher court." C. S. Buck echoed the same senti ments of the attorneys who had pre ceeded him, saying it was unneces sary to repeat the praise that had been given on the occasion of Judge Nuessle's retirement from the district bench. He referred to the respon sibilities that now rest upon both bench and bar in combatting the ten dency that exists thruout the coun try to weaken the courts, and to cast discredit upon the loyalty and fair ness of the judiciary. He believed that both the members of the bar and the bench should take steps to cor rect and remove such a feeling, which appears to'be a phase of the general unrest and uncertainty regarding the stability of our government as shown in the minds of so many peo ple of this country. He1emphasised the good fortune the which the state have in and well people of the judge with selection of a ability. high character grounded principles of jus tice that are seen in men of the type of Judge Nuessle and that such men need the support of the Tiar of the district. He referred to Judge Nues sle's genial personal qualities as a 3man in private lite, and the respect is best known. "While we regret Judge Nuessle's leaving the district we can do our part toward holding up the hands of our courts and in combatting the in clinaii*on and the tendency to decry the functions of our courts, and the justness of their decisions. Prac tice before Judge Nuessle has been education." More Clear and Direct Decisions Attorney Jorgenson introduced a Attorney jorgenson introduced a Inrifil' I Astvinor tlif* fWrirt few remarks with story which are also displayed the human side in his course upon the bench that he was most courteous in his attitude toward the bar and at all times was a gentle the bar and at all times was a geuuc man whom everyone was pleased to pressed concerning him Judge Nues man wnom lMf1„pNuessle's judge, of the right judicial temper ament that his elevation to the su preme bench was a matter of congrat ulation, and a source of gratification to the members of this bar, and would no doubt be so proved in the future to the people of North Dako ta generally. Others K.vpiesscd Sentiments Responses were made by other members of the bar in the same vein as stated by Judge Ellsworth. At torney Knauf referred to the fact that Stutsman County Bar would ex perience a great loss in the removal of Judge Nuessle from the district bench. Mr. Knauf stated he did not feel like congratulating Judge Nues sle as much as sympathizing with him 011 account of the work that was before him 011 the supreme bench. This he stated, was a task which would require the best efforts, and the most unremitting labor to suc cessfully perform, but he was satis fied that with the Judge's qualifica tions, his experience and his high es timation or the responsibility and the duties of the position, that the people of the state made 110 mistake in election of Judge Nuessle for the higher court. ten° years 'on the district bench, and rassment and diffidence in during the last lour years of which to the complimentary remaiks that he had presided at terms in the had been made, and he felt that it fourth district bis conduct had en- sounded almost like an obituary to Sml him .0 lawyers and to the people with whom he had come in contact. That he was a just r.another tman and Attorney -jconcerned Mr. Lutman and Attorney Kelley, and mentioned the wish that in the decisions of the supreme court points brought up for adjudication could be more directly and clearly de cided for the benefit of the younger lawyers as well as for the clients generally. He believed that fair criticism of our courts was justifia ble and was beneficial and that in all original proceedings in the su preme court an opinion should be fil ed. He was personally glad to add his testimony to the regret at the loss of Judge Nuessle from the dis trict Tiench but congratulated him on his election to the supreme bench. K. P. Kelley of Minneapolis whose firm is also represented at Carring ton, added his testimony to the voice of the lawyers preceding him. He said that in the seventeen years of his practice in North Dakota, he re viewed with great satisfaction his ac quaintance with Judge Nuessle, and that he had tried one of the first law suits after the judge had been elected to the district bench, and at the present term of this court, he had tried the last suit before the judge as a district judge. Mr. Kelley complimented the Jamestown bar and said that there was 110 better equipped and more gentlemanly group of attorneys with whom to practi(* than in this county and while he had been frequently defeat ed in his suits here, there was no ill feeling on either side. Mr. Kelley said there are three things in a court that really count, the element of the man, the lawyer and the judge, and all these were combined in Judge Nuessle. He regretted that Judge Nuessle was going on the higher court, but said the people of the state would be the gainers. Judge Nues sle was a real trial judge "and they not numerous said the speakei, whose remarks were shortened by a need of making a departing train. Judge Nuessle Responds Responding to the sentiments ex- sle said he was filled with embar- .hat had been expressed that he ex pected soon to take his position on the supreme bench, and he entered upon the dutfes with feelings of humility and anxiety at the task which was before him. He promised that in his work on the bench he would endeav or to be fair to both bar and to the litigants and give the best that was in him. But in taking the position be would not in any way lose his feeling of humanity, and he did not believe that man became different when placed in position of a judge that he would be liable to the same mistakes, but if he made them he wished his friends and the bar to believe that they would be of the head and not of the heart. He said he appreciated the pleas ure of holding court in Stutsman County, and the cordial way he had been welcomed here, and the enjoy ment he had had in mingling with the members of the bar and the com munity, and in the good fellowship that prevailed here. He referred to the need of upholding the hands of the courts in their efforts to preserve the constitutional guarantees of this government, and to the duty of law yers as well as judges in this respect. He thought that the judges should not be averse to fair criticism that public gossip concerning the courts was a good thing that it kept the courts right and that the fear of public opinion was the best means of preserving the rights of the public, and also upholding the dignity and responsibility of the courts. Judge Nuessle after the close of the present term in Stutsman County will return to Bismarck and on Jan uary next will take his place with the newly elected supreme court. CLUB MEMBER LEADERS GET TRIP TO FARGO Five club members of the Boy and Girls club of Stutsman County left Monday for Fargo to attend the Seventh Annual Achievement Instit ute for boys and girls club members for the state. This is an annual e vent under the direction of the Agri cultural College and the leaders of each project in the county are invit ed to Fargo for one week of instruc tion and recreation. The program is furnished by the faculty of the A.C. and consists of livestock work and the raising of crops for the boys and a course in Home Economics for the girls. The young people will be guests of the Fargo Chamber of Commerce one ev ening at a banquet and entertain ment. All other evenings during the week they will be entertained at the College. Those making the trip from Stuts man County are: Agnes Ballweg, Jamestown, N.D. Herman Knobel, Buchanan, N.D. Leland Knobel, Buchanan, N.D. Louis Thom, Eldridge, N.D. Kennedy Purcell, Woodworth, N. D. VALUABLE FOX SWIPED FROM S'TCLOUD FARM St. Cloud Minn., Dec. 13,— The Stearns county grand jury is inves tigating the theft of a female fox from* a s!lver fox farm located two miles southwest of Albany, valued at $1 500. The farm which was started yjiar, agO:.is owned by Herman Bier mdsenWatt of the St. Pant Hide & Fur company $t. Paul. DUCK, TAGGED IN ONTARIO, IS SHOT ATLONG LAKE History of Bird Related to E. G. Erbe of Bismarck by Naturalist Who Pleads For Game Preservation* E. G. Erbe, who conducts a barber shop on Fifth street. Bismarck, shot a duck at Long Lake, about 50 miles southeast of Bismarck on October 16, which bore a tag reading: "Write to Box 48. Kir.gsville, Ontario," and the date "1921." The duck was a beautiful mallard drake. Mr. Erbe wrote to the address, and yesterday received a letter from Jack Miner, naturalist, telling of the duck's history. Kingsville, Ontario, is a little town nestled on the^-north shore of Lake Erie, due ndrth of east of Detroit, Michigan. The town is several hundred miles east and a considerable distance south of Bis marck. I11 his letter Mr. Miner enclosed a printed statement of his work as a naturalist and tells how he has tag ged duck and of the replies re ceived. ^.Duck tags have been re turned from 33 states and providenc es, he says, the furthest south com ing from Guylan, Louisana and from east to west, from Long Island, New York to Englefield, Saskatche wan, thus)covering an area of about two thousand miles square. He lias, had tags of wild geese returned from points ranging from North Car olina to Baffinland, and forty-one from Hudson Bay. Indians, Eski mos and other residents have taken them to Hudson bay agents who have sent them. The ducks Mr. Erbe shot was tagged in 1921. Mr. Miner's printed statement bears pictures which would excite the interest of any duck, hunter ,or lover of wild game. Thousands of ducks are shown on a pond on his farm, and other pictures show a small child feeding young Mallards that migrate and return the follow ing spring ,and another showing a child feeding young pet robins who also migrate but return to the haven. Fully 40 percent of the birds tag ged by Mr. Miner in the fall return in the spring, he say. He has one wild mallard duck, hatched to- him for five springs and has raised four families in five summers—two eights and two nines. Mr. Miner says he loves wild game and tho some may call him "strong in beck and weak in mind" he gets much pleasure out of his life. For the la,st six or seven years, he says, he has fed during the months of March and April 1,000 to 2,000 bush els of ears of corn each year. Appeals to Sportsmen Appealing to sportsmen to pre serve wild game Mr. Miner says:' ''Now, my brother sportsman, please don't think that I am opposed to shooting a few ducks or geese, but will you please hglp us provide for next year's crop by turning down any opportunity to slaughter? Yes, I know you will agree with me that at the present day, we should be very considerate of what we are doing with the gun, when this one bird, whose ways are as old and as new as the world, gives millions of people thrilling enjoyment and recreation to see it alive, when its fall out of the air from your or my deadly weap on can only give enjoyment to one." Mr. Erbe believes there is much food for thought by North Dakota sportsmen in the remarks of Mr. Miner. GLENDIVE KEEPS OPEN HOUSE WEDNESDAY A good many railroad men from the Twin Cities to the coast are in terested in the entertainment' and exercises at Glendiye on the 20th irist., and a number of N. P. old tim ers and officials, have been heading towards Glendive for several days. An elaborate program has been ar ranged. The festivities will be Ren dered to all railway men and officials, and among the visitors will be Vice President Rapalje, J. M. Hannaford, vice chairman of the board, Chief Engineer Stephens and many others. Governor Dixon of Montana and Governor Nestos have been invited. Among the guests will be J. E. Spur ling of Billings. Old time railway men will meet at the Dawson County Club and the formal exercises will be held at the Rose Theatre, where the Glendive Womans Club has pre pared a program. During the after noon a reception will be given-at the new depot for school pupils and oth ers. The entertainment will close with public dances to which all visit ors are invited. Three special cars arrived in Jamestown today from St. Paul and were attached to N. P. No. 7. The cars were filled with railroad men bound for Glendive. LAST RITES FOR DR. R. T. CARROLL AT WADENA, MINN Jamestown friends who attended the last rrtes for Dr. Rae Tiffany Car-, roll, who died at the home of his par ents. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Carroll Wadena, Minn., Saturday, returned this morning. They were the Misses Ollie Ruud and Margaret Hood and Messrs Leroy Schmitz. Carl Ltndberg A. W. Mogren and Perry Johnson, the latter four being pall bearers. Funeral services wor6 jield Mon day afternoon at the Congregational church, with burial at the cemetery in that city, the Masonic lodge giv ing their ritual at the grave. Or. Carroll is survived, by big par* ents Mr and Mrs. E. T.'Carroll and by two sisters, (Mrs. Raymond Bene dict of Wadena and a twin tfieter lllftllItSillilii THE WEEKLY ALERT _L Mrs. Simonson of Pellicdn Rapids. The deceased was 27 years of age 011 May 15 last and after completing hrs high school course in Wadena, attended the Minnesota state univer sity and following his graduation from that institution came to James town to practice dentistry, residing here for seven years, with the ex ception of the trme he spent in the service during the World War. There were banks of flowers, many from Jamestown friends, the Ameri can Legion to which "Doc" belong ed, the Womens's Auxiliary and the dentists of Jamestown. His high type of young manhood had won gen eral recognition in Jamestown. Dr. Carroll went to hrs hom^ at Wadena just before Thanksgiving and had been ill in bed for a couple of day3 previous to his departure, and had been ailing for sometime, but his condition was hot thot seri ous and very few of his friends rn the city were aware of his illness' until word came that he was seriously ill. The Jamestown post of the Amer ican Legion, of^which Dr. Carroll was a member, cooperated with the Wad ena post in draping the casket and floral tributes. JOHN KANIATSST DIES AT AGE OF EIGHTY-FOUR: OLD STUTSMAN RESIDENT Just ten days after his wife's death, John Kania, Sr., died last Friday, Dec. 45, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John Skroch, north of Spiritwood Lake, death being caused by old age. Mr. Kania was 84 years old. He had been" ailing for nearly a year, tho had been up the morning before he died. Funeral services were held Sun day at Fried from the Sacred Heart Catholic church, the ceremony being conducted by Father Smolinski, with £urial at the Fried cemetery. The pall bearers, old friends of the de ceased, were Frank Wozny, Joe Cy sewski, Joe Nowatzek, John Lulai, Richard Boutch and Thomas Kokott. John Kania was born in Germany 1838. He came to the United Stat es 43 years ago and took up a home stead near Spiritwood Lake. He farmed for about twenty years and since that time has lived with his daughter Mrs. Skrotch, His wife pass ed away December 5. Surviving Mr. Kania are two daughters, Mrs. John Skroclc, and Mrs. Mary Collins of Jamestown and three sons. Michael Kania, Jamestown John. Kania, Jr. Fried, and Anton Kania, Courtenay. One scon, Peter Kania, died in 1900 at the age of eighteen from appendicitis, and an other son Frank Kania, was killed while working, ^s brakeman in 1905 at Carrington, being run over by cars while switching in the yards. In addition to the sons and daugh ters, there are' seventeen grand chil dren and three great grandchildren surviving Mr. Kania. THE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL HONOR ROLL FOR PAST SIX WEEKS Out of a total of two hundred and eight students in the senior high school .twenty-nine students have won places on the honor roll for the past six weeks, which means that the average of all their marks for the six weeks stand at 90 percent or a bove on a scale of one hundred points. Of the!s& twenty-nine 'pu pils, nine are boys and twenty are girls. The highest average in the group is 94.6 percent and the lowest is 90 percent. The average for the group as a whole is 91.2 percent. The entire list of those winning honors follows Harold Knight, Catherine Nash old, Gladys Fulton, Mary Johnson, Warren Hempstead, Richard Nierl ing, Harriet Birmingham, Mildred Eager, Fern Nolte, Wilma Perry, Irene Seiler, Wallace Joos, Marie Kovar, Byron Olson, Nellie Hayes, Eunice Murphy, Emanuel Seekins, Charlotte Bitner, Ethel Dahlstrom, Herbert Procter, Mary Schwaderer, Theodore Wernfer, Jean Posey, Mil dred Fried, Mildred Hein, Lucille Eastman, Edwin Carr, Margaret Richmond Lucy Geppert. CREAM REACHES HIGH POINT FOR YEAR RECEIPTS LOW The cold weather of the past week has interferred with the usual re ceipts of cream at the Bridgeman Russell creamery, and the week saw the low point of production in the year. The highest prices for cream dur ing 1922, however, are now paid mainly 54 cents. This price will no doubt increase the receipts materially as spon as weather and road condi tions improve. Manager^ Amundson states there will be an increase in the output of the creamery this year, oyer last year, of about 15 percent, indicating a gradual change from grain raising to dairying. This transition is the same asHhat-which has occurreS in south ern Minnesota, 'Wisconsin and Iowa. DIES AT HOME OF SON FOLLOWING PARALYTIC STROKE Mrs. Sarah L. R, Baxter, mother of C. Baxter, who is employed in the Central Meat«Market, died at 9:30 Monday evening at the Huffman home, 218 6th Ave. North, following a paralytic stroke which occured at about 6:30. Deceased was 63 years of age and had only been a resident of' Jamestown since October .when she came here with her son and fam ily. She had been in apparent good health for some time but had suffer ed, a stroke two yearq ago. She Was a widow arid made her home with her only living son., Funeral arrange ments await word from relatives. What most city governments need New TToi-k Tribttnei let of wadena and a twin sister wew^xora i-noune ,^ WHAT SCHOOL TEACHERS DO W1THTHEIR TIME Jamestown Is Considered on Par With Larger Cities and Figures Obtained For Na tional Compilation—Result of Local Survey. JaniSstown High School recently participated in a nation-wide survey which was conducted by the North Central Association of Colleges -and Secondary School. By way of ex planation,, it may be said that this as sociation operates in twenty-one states and that it has for its object, the improvement of high school in struction. In order for a school to be considered a. member o£ this as sociation, iE must meet dertain stan dards. To illustrate, it must employ none but college graduates on its teaching staff. It must have forty minute recitation periods thruout its day. Modern practice as regards ventilation, sanitation and janitor service must be followed. A high standard of scholarship is also a necessity. For a school to be list ed among the schools of this associ ation means about the.-samg as it means to an individual to be listed in "Who's Who in America" or for a person to find a place in the Hall of Fame. It is very important, if good work is po be done, that teachers have a school day that is not too heavy. In preparing for this investigation, each teacher was furnished with a blank on which she recorded from day to day the exact amount of time in min utes that she spent at her profession al duties and elsewhere. The re ports from twenty teachers have been tabulated and averaged with the following results as illustrated. More Than Eight Hours Required The average teacher in the James town High School teaches ninety two different pupils each day. She spends sixty-two minutes daily in preparing lessons for these ninety two pupils. She averages two hun dred twenty-eight minutes daily in meeting'her five classes and instruct ing them. Twenty-five minutes daily are spent outside the class-room in consulting pupils regarding their work. Fifty-two minutes are spent daily in correcting papers and twen ty-two minutes are spent daily with pupils who have missed school in an effort to help them to catch up with their classes. The average teacher spends a total of five hundred min utes daily, or somewhat better than eight hours in these required profes sional duties. In addition to this, the average Jamestown teacher con sumes almost an hour and one-half weekly in reading some form of lit erature connected with the teaching work, which she is not required to read by the school authorities. The Rest' of the Time Aside from the required profess ional duties, the average teacher spends four hundred seventy-three minutes daily in sleep, fifty minutes for making tTie toilet, twenty-five minutes in walking to and from school, seventy-nine minutes at meals thirty-three minute's reading for pleasure and forty-three minutes in walking or other form of physical recreation. Charity and church, oc cupy nearly one and one-half hours weekly of each teachers time. The association is compiling these figures with figures that are obtain ed from other cities belonging to the association in an effort to determine the ideal working day. If it is found that better work is done in those schools where the teacher has a lighter schedule of work. It is very likely that a recommendation will be made by the association to the ef fect that the teachers' schedules should be modified, accordingly. On the other hand, if present conditions seem to justify it, affairs will be per mitted to stand as they are. James town is fortunate to be classified a mong these schools. It is an hon or as well as a very practical matter to know that the work of the James town schools is recognized over so great a territory as being on a par with that of the largest cities of the middle west. TAX PAYERS' ASS'N INCORPORATES WITH WIDE LATITUDE Bismarck, N.D., Dec. 15—Articles of incorporation of the The State Tax Payers Association have been filed with the Secretary of State, the headquarters of the organization be ing iat Fargo. The men whose names are attached to the articles of agree ment are, J. G. Gunderson of Aiieta E. J. Weiser of Fargo W. C. McDow elk of Marion F. Wele of Velva and A. L. Martin of Sentinel Butte. The object of-the Association as set forth in the papers filed-gives the company latitude in investigating taxation mat ters in North Dakota and the spread ing of this information broadcast. The first effort of the' organiza tion will be to investigate taxation iQiposed, according to its articles. Having made certain of the basis of the taxation, the agreement,goes on to declare that the organization has a right to "disseminate accurate i information with a view of causing a material reduction in the heavy tax burden. The organization will also have the right' according to its incorporation, to "aid in promoting'and securing ef ficiency and economy in the admin istration of pubiW office, For the purpose of getting its in formation before the public the As-. sociation will have the right to, eaJJ public meetings, and promote atix^ iary organisations and cause to be* initiated and adopted legislation, which will further, the, object ,fP» which the association ijj.formed., Diamonds LOTS OF TALK ON FARM RELIEF AND EVEN THREATS USED Washington, Dec. 14.—Spokesmen for the federal government for tlie agricultural interests of the country appearing today in the senate double header hearing on rural credits join ed in recommending that congress do something to relieve the financial con ditions of the farmer. Eugene Meyer, director of the war finance corporation, told the banking committee that altho acute condi ditiong the livestock industry had passed, there must be legislation to expand the credit of farmers. At the same time R. H. Frazier, chairman of the republican state com mittee of North Dakota, was testi fying before the agricultural com mittee, that unless the farmers of his state were given enough, relief to enable them to pay their taxes, there should be a third party move ment "disagreeable to the govern ment." Mr. Frazier said the average in debtedness of farmers in North Da kota, was $7,500 c| which they must pay 10 percent interest.. He declar ed that in one county the number of suicides reached 18 last year, and at tributed the high suicide rate to the hopelessness of the farmer. Prediction that unless the gov ernment fixes a minimum price for grain the farmers of the northwest will be forced into bankruptcy was made by- Mr. Frazier before the agri cultural committee." He declared that growers of his state were "im poverished" and unable to pay taxes 75 per^int of the farm lands in one county 'having been sold last year for tax delinquencies. He advocated changes in the law to -permit the federal land bank to renew loans so that farmers will not be compelled to let their farms 'go for taxe^. Congress was criticized by Mr. Frazier for what he charged as its failure to legislate in the farmers' behalf, while the railroads "were get ting substantially all they wanted." W O One of the steps he advocated was thef£ny fixing of a price of $1.50 per bushel as a minimum for No. 1 northern wheat in North Dakota. McINTOSH COUNTY BEST TAXPAYING DAIRYING DOES IT Bismarck, N.D., Dec. 16—McIn osh county, which has long enjoyed a reputation with state officials as one of the best taxpaying counties is the best paid-up of the countieai on school land contracts, according to records of the Land Commissioner Kositzky. Altho this county has suf fered from the dry years as other western counties,.'the report shows that there are only 14 land contracts in the county on which the interest payments are delinquent one year, only one contract on which, there is a delinquency of more than one year. Logan county', a companion coun ty, ranks as the second best paid-up county in the state. Bottineau his the largest number of delinquencies. The value of school lands sold at a sale on Feb. 5, 1918, in Mcintosh county was $469,484.00. There was a total of 19,94* acres of land sold," at an .average of $23, ^7^ s^ an acre, some land being sold for as high as $150 per apre. Of the total number of land contracts, which is 150, there are but 15 delinquencies. The total number of land contracts in Logan county is 116. There are but nine on which interest payments are .delinquent one year and five on which interest payments. are delin quent more than' one year. These two counties are settled lar gely by Qerman-Russi£ns, and they have gone .in heavily far dairying, jnany' towns .having from on® to six cream, buying stations., Tf». resi dents of the county who visited the land department declared thiat^ scor es of farmers make dairying their business and farm for pleasure. Bottineau county 273 delinquents on a total of 287 land contracts. was pointed out frpm state that the amount oj mpney men in M^clntoth comity 4 Jf' s w ir (Gilts That Last) If You Are Gift^eeking, Consider THEAPPEALOFJEWELRY CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS Jewelry Watches Silver Ware Art Novelties Cordova Leather Ever-Sharp' Feticils and many, many other gifts —at— E. J. RHODES JEWELER and FLORIST Jamestown, N. D. -v V- S:.t 1! Mantle Clocks? Cut Glasi? Silver Toilet Sets s.oV thru cream stations was $344,783. Logan county $135,375 and Bottin eau county, which is considerably' larger than either of the other counties $131,636.86. Land Commissioner Kositzky as-1 serts that records show that 80 per-- cent of the people applying for farm loans who milk a number of cows owe no interest, taxes or store bills. MR. WELLS' REMINISCENCES The LaMoure County Chronicle has the following: Minneapolis. Minn, Nov. 26, 1922. Editor The Chronicle: Your recent notice of a notable an niversary of mine—notable to me because it was the first time I have been permitted to celebrate a 75th birthday—f-has recalled some of my, early day experience in LaMoure county. Perhaps I was never more inspir ed than on the day when we turned the firs£ furrow ever turned in that countyr—on my farm on Sec. 5-134 61—but I recall with something of the old feeling of elation the many" times thereafter when, afa long drive from Jamestown, the trail brot me to the bluff-line a mile west of my farm and I had the first glimpse of the beautiful James River Valley, stretching away to the south and east and ^lmost down to the later site of LaMoure. I thot then and I still think it was as attractive a view as could be found anywhere. The memory of those early days and of the incidents in the early days of that region and of the friendship with the early settlers stirs my blood and makes me dream young again. It was the most interesting period of my life and the one on which I oftenest dwell in memory.- I am writing in this personal way, in the hope that the good old Chron icle may continue to be edited by someone with whom I once enjoyed acquaintance. If happily so, I would be glad to have any of my old time frien,ds know that they are not for otten and that I have never found .... "'VJ 'gotten ana inai i uavo uovei wuuu 0ther friends qquite like the any other friends quite like the ways find-a'warm welcome at my home or at my office. I have so lit tle to look forward to that I live largSiy in memories of the past, and I enjoy reminiscing, like most old men. Yours very truly, E. P. Wells. TEACHERS, ATTENTION! When your County Superintendent or county chairman sends you an al lotment of Christmas Seals for your school will you kindly take a little time for a tuberculosis talk with your pupils? Our state workers have concluded that the only way to stamp out tuberculosis in North Dakota is to educate the school children to ob serve health rules &nd grow up heal thy. There are, however, hundreds of children and young people in our state who are suffering from tuber culosis thru no fault of their own, and who are helpless 4n caring for themselves, either bwjause they do_ not know how or .because of the lack of room at the Sanitarium. Impress upon your pupils that they have a responsibility in helping these chil dren by assisting in providing funds so that we may send doctors and nur ses to these people and help them in their homes. Every schpol child in North Dakota should buy at least one- Christmas Seal and sell five. The interest you take will either make or mar the sale in your school. A .banner is to be awarded by the N% V tional Tuberculosis Association to ,• the State selling the greatest number of seals per capita. North Dakota Tuberculosis Asso elation, Bismarck, N. D, 1. c. RIFLE TEAM TO .MiBOT, OTHERS IN PISTRItST ..-' /r i'' •«8