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THE TEST OF TIME Will Tell the Tale! D URABILITY is the real test of a High Grade Piano. Almost any piano looks good when it is new. It also sounds good then. But time will tell the story. PIANO BUYING is not like buying meats or gro ceries. We realize this fact and protect our cus tomers with an iron-clad, one year exchange guarantee, which makes you absolutely safe in dealing with us. We have given the subject years of study and manufacture and represent only reliable makes of pianos, as we don't care to have our customers wake up to the fact (after their piano is several months old) that they have purchased only a tin panny box. It is our satisfied customers who bring us our enormous volume of business. We invite you to be one of them Notice the wonderful line of pianos we carry Steinway Weber Everett Sohmer Steck Knabe Bros. Co. Behr Bros. Fischer Chickering Bros. Bush & Gerts McPhail Stone Piano Co. Schiller Emerson Hobart M. Cable Sterling Wheelock Kohler & Campbell Merrifield Earstone Stuyvesant Laffargue Stroud Knight Brinkerhoff and the wonderful Pianola Player Pianos Stone Piano Co. Far£o, N. D. Established 1894 Grand Forks, N. D. The Silo Question! This cold weather when there is a good warm fire to sit by, is the time to make your plans for the coming season, and a gooe time to consider the Silo question. Drop into our office and let us show you the advantages of a Silo. Do not put this off from time to time, out do it now so you can arrange to put in you crop for ensilage this spring, and thus prepare for another winter's feed for your stock. Midland Coal Lumber Co. WIBAUX, MONTANA. f * * * * * * * Big Farmers institute WIBAUX. MONT. Saturday, March 8, 1913. % Mr. 0. C. Gregg, the Veteran Lecturer from Minnesota ►b and other prominent speaksrs will be here and give talks on this day a Everything is FREE so be sure and come—you may learn something in new ideas * __— * 4 * * Farmers Cordially Invited Flickertail Facts North Mwta State Hewe hi Sensed Ferae Mott.—A moTeneat to oa loot te or ganise farmer*' telephone U»ee i* thto eectioa. Diekimee.—The Vittard hotel i* be ing rased to make room for a mod ern business Mock. Sheldon.—Potato raising will be wore popular in ttois section of ttoe state than ever this year. Grand Pork*. —Large crowds attend ed the Grand Forks automobile shoer, last week, the fourth annual event of its kind, the suocess of which ex ceeded all expectations. The out-of town visitors were especially numer ous. Holla.—With neitiber county having enough paupers to make it worth while to construct a poorfhouse, there is now a proposition for ilolette and Town er counties to combine on one build ing to be erected .in the Turtle moun tains. Grand Forks.-—The C.rand Forks county commissioners have accepted the bid of the North Dakota board of school and university lands for the $200,000 bond issueautborlzed recently for the construction of a new court house. Dickinson.—The'body of Mrs. Ucelia Brooks, au aged homesteader, was found on the roadside near Oakdale. The woman had a claim near that village and was accustomed to take mail to a neighbor's house. She evi dently bad become lOBt and had frozen to death. Her thorn & was formerly in Minneapolis. A son liYes in Manning, this state. Devils Lake;—Seventy-five names will appear on the charier roll of the newly organized Devils Lake U. C. T. which will be formally instituted on Feb. 22, under the direction of Grand Counsellor W. W. Fegau of Grand Forks, who has appointed the follow ing institutional officials: Senior counsellor, J. A. Getty, Crookston. jMinn.; junior councilor, George Nel son, Grand Ftorks; past oounsellor, J. J. Kelly, Crookston.; secretary, Adam Common. Grand Forks; conductor. J. D. Stevens, Crookslonc page, Thoo dore D. Hughes. Williston.—Citizens of Willistoa are rejoicing because they see in the near future a possibility of practically cut ting in two the present electric rates. Since the city has been connected with the electric plaxit at the govern ment reclamation powerhouse the light bill for the city has been much less than it. cost to operate the old city plant. The average rate paid now is about 12 cents* As soon as some additional city equipment is installed., a substantial cut will be made in the rates, giving WiDisaton the cheapest electric rate of any city in the state. Bismarck.—In lu?r campaign against tuberculosis, directed by tbe North Dakota Anti-Tuberculostts association, Mrs. J. E. Stevens of Grand Forks, traveled 6,G17 miles dfuring tbe last two years, addressed 10C meetings in eighty-two cities and towns, and reached approximately 10,000 people directly. That report was made by Mrs. Stevens at the annual meeting held in this city. She showed that the largest anti-tuberculosds meeting was held in Carrington at the meeting of the Seventh Day Adventists, when she addressed several large crowds, speaks lng through interpreters to Gennaa and Russiau gatherings N. V. TYRRELL, Licensed Auctioneer and General Farm Salesman Leave Oates at Pioneer Office or write me at Wibaux, Mont. Cnal-T-encl, elei-tinn filed Fell, 4, tftl ' Serial No. U792 otttufio Notice for Publication First date of Publication 2-81-13 Department of the tnteiior, U. S. Land Office at Miles city, Sflontana, February 10. .1013. Notice ishereby uiven that Walter II. Bell. Sr., of Wibaux Montana who on October C, 190S, made Homestead Entry No. 07!)i, for SE'f NW 1 ,. Lota 3, 4, 5, Section (i. Town-hip 16 N, Range60E, n d February *1, 19W. made Additional Honie stead Entry No. ut3»50 for KL' NEVf, E!j SEL, Section 34. Township IT N Range 39 E M. 1*. Meridian, has filed notice o£ intention to make Three Year Proof to establish claim to the land above described, before Walter E. Vt illiamson, U.S. Commissioner, at Wibaux. Montana, on the 29th day of March, 1913. Claimant names as witnesses: Thomas J. Bushell. William P. Bold. E. V Oagf and Roy Cajfe all of Wibaux. Montana. A. K.IKOHEB, Register. Everybody reads the Pioneer because it gives the news every , , . , .. , week and IS always Oil tune H1M.1 never late. Popular Mechanics Magazine "WRITTEN SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND IT" A GREAT Continued Story of the World's Progress which you may begin reading at any time, and which will hold your interest forever. 250 PAGES EACH MONTH 333 PICTURES 200 ARTICLES OF GENERAL INTEREST The "Shop Notes" Department (20 paKes) gives easy ways to do iRings -how to make useful articles for home and r.hop, repairs, etc. "Amateur Mechanic*" (10 pages) tells how to make .Mission furniture, wireless out iits. boat.-., engines, magic, and all ihu things a Lo: lovvs. $1.50 PER YEAR. SINGLE COPIES 15 CENTS A: 1 ', your newsdealer, or WHITE FOR Utte aAMrU COPY TCOAV POFILAU MECHANICS CO. MICAUO i am w. w.,*h..s Chicago OF STORM SNOW AND WIND RAGES IN FOUR STATES—MINN., WIS. AND ILL. SWEPT. TELEGRAPH AND TRAINS HIT Wires Put Out of Commission and Schedule Hampered— Temper aturcs Are Nor mal. Minneapolis, Feb. 24.—Minneapolis got only a side portion of the driving enow storm which swept through sev eral states, hampering trains and put ting telegraph wires out .of commis sion. Wisconsin, according to re ports, received the brunt of the storm. Telegraph wires between .Minneapo lis and Milwaukee and Chicago were down and considerable trouble wa: had by railroad men as a result of the storm. Little Damage. Locally the snow, driven in a blind ing cloud by a lit mile wind, did lit tle damage. Street, cur service ran practically on time, although the com pany had plows out a part of f.ho night. The wind drifted the snow in heaps and sent it swirling against the few gasping pedestrians on the streets. The thermometer stayed up fairly well. Two persons were reported missing to tlie police. August \Y. Linton, 32d Fifteenth avenue southeast, Go years old, was said to have wandered away during the storm and it was feared he might, have become lost. Clara Oplo, 50 years old. was miss ing from her home, 2012 Twenty eigth avenue south, the police were told. It was said she was slightly demented and tea- for her safety was expressed. Chicago in Grip of Storm. Chicago.—Rain and sleet partially paralyzed street ear and elevated line traffic in Chicago for a time but the icy coating of the streets inter melted into disagreeable slush. Hundreds of telegraph and telephone lines were reported "down - ' not only in this city, but the surrounding country. Rail road trains had hard going over glassy rails and mails in consequent were delayed for hours. Railroad Traffic Is Hit Hard. Milwaukee.—One lone strand of cop per wire, stretching from St. Paul to Milwaukee and from this city to Chi cago was Milwaukee's only communi cation with the outside world for a time us the result of a wind and snow storm which raged since early yester day. Telephonic communication with tho cities to the south is unhampered as this service is handled by subterra nean cables. The storm hit all eastern Wisconsin, but its greatest force was felt in the southeastern part of the state. The snowfall here was six Inches, hut south of Milwaukee, at Ra cine and Kenosha, it was IS inches. Normal Weather at Jamestown. Jamestown. — No unusual weather conditions have prevailed in this sec tion. The temperature is normal. Huron .s. D.—Winter weather, with snow' and wind, prevailed over the central and northwest portion of South Dakota. Snow began falling early Fri day morning and at intervals until Saturday. The temperature ranged from eight to ten above zero. The snow fall in this section did not ex ceed three indies. A heavier fall was reported to the north and east MEDAL FOR PRESIDENT TAFT Hi* Efforts Toward International Peace Will Be Recognized at New York Banquet Tonight. New York, Feb. 24.—President Taft came up from Washington today to attend a banquet at Sherry's tonight, on which occasion he will lie presented with a gold medal in recognition of his efforts toward international peace Tlie banquet will be presided over by Henry Clews, the New York bank er. who is president of the American Peace and Arbitration league, under whose auspices the affair will be held. Joseph Choate will present the medal to Mr. Taft with an appropriate speeecb. Addresses will also be deliv ered by Prof. Benjamin lde Wheeler of Columbus university. Ambassador da Gama of Brazil and President Taft. The Taft medal is the joint gift of 23 peace and civic organizations throughout the country, represents tives of which will be present. The obverse shows the tigure of a woman with an arm clasped about a shield on which is emblazoned "National In stitute of Social Sciences,." The re verse bears a Latin inscription, with the name of Mr. Taft. On the rim of the modal is engraved the following inscription: ' Presented to President Taft for his efforts toward arbitration for universal peace." ---------- wss~ -Jt