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THE BIGHT BANK
Your selection of a Hank is important not only
for the present but also for the years: to come.
The RIGHT bank connection will be a material
help to your every day business. This bank has a
successful record of safe, conservative banking
from the ay of its organization.
First Bank of Linton
Linton. North Dakota.
\V. E. IVtrte
A. (ruin
ii. A. Heroic,
W. o. Irwin
II. A. Armstrong
W. E. PETRIE,
Dealer in General Merchandise,
LINTON, NOR III DAKOTA
A New and Well-Selected Stock of Groceries, Dry Goods,
Clothing, and in Fact Everything Found in a Genera! Store.
EMMONS
Motto is "Fresh Goods and Right Prices."
FOR SALE.
GALLOWAY and ABERDEEN
ANGUS BULLS.
Yearlings and Two-Year-Olds. All Subject to
Registration. Terms to Suit.
At O. O. JOHNSON RANCH, 3i Miles East
The place where you get your money's worth, and the
place that has a fresh and well-selected stock of
Dry Goods,
Mi
Notions,
Overcoats,
"as
Suits,
u'
Hats and Caps,
Mittens and Gloves,
Boots and Shoes,
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J. W. JAMES
WOLFER'S
General Merchandise Store,
Underwear.
Sweaters,
Blankets,
Quilts,
Robes.
Hardware,
Groceries, Etc
Call and look over our Stock before purchasing.
CHRIST. WOLFER, LINTON, N, D.
W I E W E O A W E A E A S O 1
LUMBER
AM) OTHER
BUILDING MAT~HIAT
we want to figure on vour
bills, whether ili-i at i.
Get your Coal Bin filled
Hard Coal, Soft Coal and
NOW.
We have
Lignite Coal.
G00DRID6E-CALL LUMBER COMPANY, 11
DACOTIIH LUMBER COMPANY, (Igents.
NEGOTIATING A LOAN.
Mr. Bothert Learns Something New
About Banking Methods.
I.I I'liHKS had never tried to ne
-"i.atc a loan ri'. ai.d :t was
therefore ith considerable trep
:d..r.on that lit' entered the bank. lie
lia.l hail a pleasant a .piainta :ve with
Hi-- cashier in times past, tut they
"ore not a ail iitiuiate, and .'list bow
1" pproa liini on the subje -t of his
I- I'-biber- was ho.
iy unaware
ile'.evcr, ho walked boldly into the
alul paused before Mr. Snatch
en. do-1,
"Ah. good morning. Mr. Uluher"
sa:d Mr. Snat. hem. iva-hin^ Lis hand
orduiiy. "This is an unusual
'li p.o.isure. sir. 1 don't over remember
•1J
,y
1
',„i
s« .v"i in our bank before,
what :!ii 1 do for you this in .rn
ill
"W hy. hesitated Withers in consid
oral ie embarrassment, "I or -1 hap
pea to wan to
it
lii
AIM P.M. -T. 'I K.
1
-to borrow- about
i'1' about well, say
oinI
Mr. Snatch'-m. and thought inav
bo"
I .-.i-lred!" sa Mr. Snat.'hem.
'Is !i l:
11!y tia of you," murmured
Tti-.-'i-r-'.
i" !i. my dear Sir,' aid tlie
a hier. iakins out a la.te for him to
si 11
"All. h\ the wax," said Mr. Snateh
^m. pausia.' in hi \\..rk, "Mr. Hlitliers,
ju-t what er v. hat eoilaterai liave
you'-"
"What What:" asked lliitlni.
"What se-'iirities liave you to oil'er
for .!iis 1 .all: 1 ju-t waul to make a
111 '1 norm: lum ..n he note."
"Miy." said l'.liihers. his faee ^et
tii.L- rather pink, "why, 1 I haven't
any. Mr. Snateheni 1 thought that,
kno-.vina me as j.'U do as a r.'putalile
Ull'l res[.oiis ble person"
I "i.iuite o, 111iite so." said Snatehem.
"bin iiiif .ri iinalely tliis is a national
ban' and unless you have a p.oil in
derser for a pie. of two name pa
per"-
"I don't know ,,f an\body I eoi.ld
ask." said P.iithers,
"I urn's, »e eau ti\ it. l'.lilliers,"
said Suate!:eui. ".lust you ij::i thi-i
"o'e for I at per ,•:,. I wish
I niinht make you a lower rate of in
ten t. bat eonditions are stteh just
iii'V. that ean't. That oiuiei to .^."ii'O,"
said the ea~hier. "Throe linndreit dol
I.'I'.'S otf
S O .iioii
leaves -SI,Too not. quite
enough to o\or the note, but I'll take
ehmiee oil you. won't be
nun of a bailee at that."
".No if 1 keep my health." beamed
Hlitliers.
Mr. Stall hem tapped a bell, and
one of hi elerks responded.
"Sliinpson." he said, ".just draw a
to Mr. l'.lil hers' order for I,Tod
and let me have it the name in full
is Hiehard .1 Hlitliers. I believe':" he
added, turning pleasantly to liiithers.
"Itiehard \V.." said Hlitliers.
A lew .'neuts later Ihe clerk re
turned. v. i'h the elieek, uhi. Mr.
Siial. hem Mailed with a tloui'Nh.
"There it is," he said, reading it
over to make Mire that all was ri^lii
"Kiehard W. Hlitliers. .Sl.Too. i:ij ht.
Now, Mr. 1.1 i! hers. if you will just, in
dors
i?5.
'4
1
tliis he. o\ei' to the bank our
little traie-a. twa id be eouj]i|ete."
Hlithois li.d as lie was told. "I'm
very mil. obliged to yo :, Mr. Snateh
em," lie said, pi.-kinu lib: lia' up olf
$
11*.s all riijlit. iiiy lr,ir sir," re
Mr. Sa lit'iu, riving.
I
IIII.-IH,. ^I.IU io online Vol]. 1 lon't hes
.'•I. iiate to come in at any time when ou
(Uv-ire an aeeommodalioii. and we'll )..
all \\'e .-an to help otj oul."
j~*( "I'.ut er Mi-. Suateliein," said Itlith
vi? ers. his einbarrassment renewing it
T/. self soniev, hat painfully. "When an
J-V I er--wli.-n eau I have I tie vr 111
inoli'-y
lie blurted the last word out shame
Jj\ I facedlv
m"
'Money':" said Mr. Snatehem. "Motl
ey: What money do you refer to, Mr
I ii ii hers V"
"Why," smiled liiithers falteriiiKly,
"the er the Sl.Too."
"(Hi. iny d-ar fellow," laughed Mr.
Snalehein. and f-'ivint him a knowing
wink. "ila. ha. ha! You are quite a
iiri\
joker, Mr Hlitliers. (if .ourse yini
know y..u don't p't the
•V,
SI.T'hi
at all
the bank \\ill 1-.1 that as seeurity
for your Hole."
Wh-reupoii Hlitliers wandered dazed
!y out upon the hiahway. lie has been
.-••eratelling his le ad ever since, won
deria^- hat in thunder lie ^ot for thai
interest eharu-"1 of .s".on. -Harper's
Weeklv.i:.:.l:'v- r" I/':
'6b
Still on the Way.
"V..U deeei\ ed me." protested the
woman at the washtub. "When you
married me you said you had a job on
ill road
"And -o my dear." rejoined her
husband, who was hitting Ih- pipe in
an ",'i-y chair, "but it. hasn't arrived
yet-''—Chicago New s.
Proficiency Recognized.
Tlif ficruun juiM' i-a-hrr was wi
]•••?!vorinr I -''liu*. y» tnnhful.
„i",- i',1.. itti «l !t.::ijti-r
•Mr:t -s* !.
-M
v-
7
ii'^ k(*ys ufrasiunal-
l.y bui," h'.- ail«i»'"l with cmhusiasiu.
•Vl!" play:- 1* !*•t-i liii"."--\N'n«hiijtr1nu
Star.
Wants Longer Nights.
"Have you «i llir M'T"
r»ay
-n I' V" In* il
"i h"tiId -ay ii"t. It's al! I 'an
l-j ii"W }-i v't h'ini" [••'t'vro ilayliL ht
the hM naii»*I»*r. hciruii I'rcv
riv
"1 think I '.vol ki.-s ,\ oil.
"I »'•!,'! you over do things be
fore yuij hitd:St. I.cuis
Olobe-nemoerat.
LITTON. NORTH DAKOTA, TllUliSDAY, A I
SAW ITS STRONG POINT.
Story of Harriman's First Purchate of
a Railroad.
'.uie uiortiiiii in Ike early eijtlitles
Harriman walked into !-,-s otlioe ami
wi.hout any revious warutug an
iH'.Ji: ed the pur- liase of h.s tlrst rail
road.
"W hel'c'd you u'el tiie m\uie)' for it?"
asked his partners.
"Never lrdnd I cet -aid
Harrt
tn..n.
'The road was the S 'das Buy and
Southern, runniiiK from I.ake Otitario
to Stanley, N. V. ll w..s thirty-four
miles lorii and owned two trippled lo
eometives, two pa^sen^er ears and sev
en frc'fiUt cars.
"It Isn't even a real ood streak of
rust," said a man who looked over It
for lilui.
Harriman pulled out his map. He
was studying railroad maps even then.
"It's pot tin
1
for a year.
best harbor ou the
lake," he said. "The Pennsylvania
rond lias got to buy it."
Ite started to build a bi jirain ele
vator and to improve the track. A few
months later lie disappeared from hts
oflU'o for several days and returned
wi'li a cheek 'f S'Joo.ihm. ][,, ,i
sold his road to the l'ennsvlvatila rail
road.
"They had to ha\e It." he said
"They saw It as soon a« showed It to
them."
"Hut I saw it tlrst," he added—Mc
('h'fe's Masrazine.
THE SOUP PLATE.
A ocventecnth Century Cookbook
Tells Why It Was Invented.
A \alct of l.otiis XIV. published a
cookbook in ltjo.i In wTdeh he ^ivca us
follows the reason for the invention of
the hollow soup plate:
Ih- plates of the pioMs will be hol
low in order that they may help them
selves to as much soup as they may
want without lieiiiK obliged to take It
spoonful by spoonful because of thu
dNaust tliev may have one another
on seeinp: the sjioon go from the month
lo the tureen.
Hiiests, it will be seen, used their
own spoons to till their plates, the
lai'Ke spoon to be used for serving the
soap not beinu invente.l tin some lime
later.
et even hundred yeain after tho
invention of the soup plate (17-19) a
Work oil civility ailvised that all the
di-hes should be so placed on the table
that every one could reach them with
Ids spoon ami that if the soup was
served in a dish (tureen every one
should help himself with his own
spoon without seemini to bo lu a hurry.
A work on manners that appeared
just before the French revolution
deemed it best to advise Its readers
that it was Impolite to pass the spoon
back and forth between the mouth and
thi' tureen.
Difficult Horseback Teat.
'1 here are
bo
better horsemen In the
world than the cavalry otllcers of the
Italian army, yet even anions them
there tire very few who could perform
It)n feat achieved by one of them. To
run au ordinary foot race Is easy
enough, but to run at full speed for
several hundred yards holding In one
hand a mi whieli rests an
and to reach the^oal without, dropping
the effg is a feat which must lie prac
ticed carefully a I
ouk
time before It
can be performed successfully, and as
a result there an- not many who can
be sort? of accomplishing it whenever
they try. (Ireal, therefore, was the
surprise when an Italian ollicer mount
ed ori horseback performed this tlllll
cult feat. M.-reover, he selected a
course In which there were two or
three high fences, and these he cleared
»t full pallop without, losing the etri
Time For Stillness.
Mrs. Ma"I.a'• I:: a was kind to lie:
American board' !', tint -he did not |.r.
pose lo allow her to overstep the limits
of a boarder's privileges, and she made
it very clear. One Sunday the boarder
returning from a wall found the win
dows of her room, which she had left
wide open, tightly dosed.
"ill. Mrs. Macr.achlan, I don't like m\
room to get. stuffy," she said when she
went downstairs again. "I like plenty
of fresh air."
"Vour room will na' get stuffy in one
day," said her landlady tlrmly. 'T
5 3 1
1 1
GETTING EXACT flVE.
Very S:mp^ Matter. Accord.ng to
This Man's Idea.
Next he produced a second silver
watch from his trousers po. kct, looked
nt It and began to tignre out sonic
thing on the paper P-, ami by he
said.
"When you asked, sir, it were jest
twenty-se\eu minutes pal that's
exnet."
"Much obliged," .-..lid the
had been lingering his at
l.v. "lint will you please t.
you Were doing ail that
for?"
"Why, you sec," said III" old man.
"tills watch that 1 carry in my \ost Is
a mighty good watch, only It gains ten
minutes every day. And this one is a
mighty good one, to.., but It loses ten
minutes every day. So I Just look at
them both and then strike an average
You'd be surprised, sir. to see what a
Pimple matter It Is." Kxehange,
THRASHING SERVANTS.
Domestic Life In England In the Time
of Henry VIII.
lu thai ivtiKirUahly minute 'hr«ni' !r
of doinr.sM.- !if,. in Kn^laihl in Iho
time of Henry VIII., Tusicr's "Kivo
TIundnM Poltils (Join] llusluunlry,"
t!i»' h'anu'il an»l pious au'li-w stvms
t«» tnki* it Tor ^rantoM tlint tin* t»nly
way of iloallnK \v1111 niaWN» rv ants Ih
to thrash tloMii unmctvifully
H«' tolls us In his lnlmltahlo (h^T''''-!
that "a tuaM must lo to he
rh'anly" «r sh«» Is to tn» "made to «'ry
croak." Mistresses are al\isil "to
ahout with a holly nan«l in ihetr haul,
although they may not a!\va-i havo
O'-easion to it. ami to pay honu?
when they ti^ht" that is to say,
thrash "hut n-K to he always rhhl
Ing." As reganls the laundry, tho
(Inmostle serfs are "warned to take
lieed whoti they wash «»r run lu tho
lash and to wash well, wring well and
beat well, so that If any lack heat
tiijf It will ho tbemseh es."
A# for tho unlrupity rieely, the dairy
maid, she Is to rry "croak" -tliat Is In
say, to he thrashed If her heese Is
"hovon" or puffed up, ami If the
ehee.se l»e totigh richly I* to have "a
rrnsh." If the i-hoosi* he spotted
Cicely l*s h» he amended l.y the hayoa,
and If It ho too full of whey the
wrotehed dairymaid Is to have "a
drossing." Finally,
I
llulman Ilui.t, who life as a
ricrk to an atictluneer and estiito
QgDDt, was oiistanMy drawing" por
traits when he Khmild have t»een lra\v*
In^ up leases, and in his hosen pro
fe.sslon lie was never slow to sei/.o tho
llyln^ moment. The windows In his
room were made ground glass, alii!
as he had IHtle io do he spt-ut unu'li
of his time In drawing llies upon lis
roughened surface A Mot. .•!' ink' stif
flccd for tho !ody and some tlelh'atft
jeucil strokes for the wingn, and at a
distance the deception was peKo'-t.
ray hy day th number Increased, and
one morning his employer ••nine in.
stopped before the window* and ox
clalniod: "I oan'r maki* out how it Is.
Every day that I e..me Into this room
there serin to he and mole tlie::.'
And, taking out his handkerchief, Uo,
attempted to hrush them away
Patchwork.
The idra that pntrhworl had
origin In America not founded on
fact. A thousand yi:ar h»d'oro tlie
er:t a 'pie* I] of Kg) pt ejft
'hristhin
down h"
under a
that, were
a mosaic
wiis
IH", er our custom, miss, to hue fresh
dir rooshin' about the bouse on th
f-'awbath."
Too Strong.
".My boy tells me yon discharged
him," said the late ..ill. lxjy's mother
Von advertised for a strong boy, and
I certainly thought he was stroic.'
enough."
"Madam," replied the merchant, "he
wa too strong, lb' broke all the rub's
of Die ofliee and some of the furniture
In the two day- lie was with us."
His Fishiny Trips.
"Pa.Where ].. y.ei go fishing?"
"My son, I neier go fishing nowa
days."
"We!!, Mr. Snarier said last night,
you were always throwing a sprat to
Catch a mackerel."
Courage.
Courage that, grows from eon-litu
tion often forsakes the man when I
has occasion f..r It courage which
ii rises from a sense of duty acts in a
uniform manner. Addison...., ..
Madi Up by Herself.
Sillietis...\v,. hear of many self niadfi
men, but. seldom of self made wo
man. Cyi.ieiis How about the wo
man whose face is her forrune?- 1'hil
adelphia Iteeord.
Tho man who owes everything to his
fc'llc sc-ldum pay* it backerU+
Nile to her hist resting phe a
wonderful ennr,py of skins
dye-l and ph-f «-d together In
pattern. V'*ar" before this
work had p-a- h»ij perfec tion and ae
(]Ulml a deJinlte j.he nmoi.g tlie arts.
Then, too, patchwork ju!!fs were made
in England iu the igMe'*nth century,
afl witDess the lines written hy f'*w
P#*r to a Mrs King upon receipt of ":t
kind present of a patcliwork «pillt of
her own making'" -Woman's Home
Companion.
A Miyhty Man,
Topham, th-- piH ••-"•KngiMi
strong men, had knots of musi let
V-'here the armpits ar" lit th'* ordinary
man. He eoiiid take 1 »ir of Iron one
and one-half lie hes in diameter and
live feet Jong, pla"e the middle of It
'•ver the haeJc of liLs re'' I and 'hea
foree the ends f'.Hv/Lro' until tie-, met
before Ills fa *i* On h- deration lo*
called upon Uiage bla'-I-sndth and
made of him (•voria^tliik" onomy by
picking a j.'iimlier of hor-e^hoe.-*
and MiinfT'inL' ri -'i in two as enhy
If they had been pirn- MM *!,
A B-tc and Per.k.
Ills Wffi 'Jii paper tells'of a wo
man who MifiVprd two wee!-- from the
offeet „f .,- /julto b:te Her IT
l/and 'I'hn*'- notji'ri/ I knosv :i mnii
who has .^uffer'-d for year' from 'hit
effects of a h«*np»i»'k. t'hi-ago
Your Vocation.
It Is wr!l for a man to n-spe. his
own vocjilien, whatever is, and to
think himself bumid to uplioid lr, and
to clalin jr it the resist deserven,
Cbarlof ,ljlcliiiis.
c: I
having oiif
iN'aufs *.»!'
Kihm a
1
'.There is uethltK
timepiece to rre-'t the
another Those [coi.v..
clock lu every room ev tao
no doubt be glad to
pedletit adopted by au old
t'r iu mi ,,, 'build
t'ne day man li. se -til
tier thts janitor's .'iiat-. a-ked him If
he had the e\a. time, "Ju- a mo
meat, sir." lie said and pulled eat a
battered sll\,r watch from a vest
pocket, looked at it. put It back and
then took a pencil out of another
pocket and Jotted down s,.M!etbin^ on
tho back el' an cflVelopc.
its
I'h' .\
•a j.mt
un
li"
ru-rv.Mis
any maggot* are
found In the rhcese. "mistress is to b#
Cl^rlv hy /ind hy.",.
An Artist'c JoUe.
safe.
Ml I 11 ti :Oiif \'." ll I lix.-. 4 fi ,.
\N» .. v« j-i i'-r I.i \.-tij ijt j,i-i
fiir ilti'T fllrii'is .' ''I i»vv
Uo .M»itoiu-rci:il li inLhu?.
vv.
I'h
Light
*1.50 OK It YEA It, IN ADVA N(
No,Mr Burt|!ar. I've got
iBoney hi
1 ?7
ONLY ROBS
WHICH
•il mo what
arilhiufti.*
N I .-iu- if I In «.,• vs it !.i ill
THIEF
HOUSE IN
SE
Slf IS HIDDEN
~c
Make tH K' Knnk Ul Hunk.
GERMAN-AMERICAN STATE BANK,
UNToN, rsoiiTII DAKOTA
A PAIR
PROPOSITION.
Hill' Illofli'V ile|Misllei) itl tills lilink
niul pm.l nut iv elu'ck assures yoir
... uf un aivuriili ,'ifi'iniiititiK of all of-".
your inotiev 11 ansacl iniri, W« thus
Iiccihiu• vntir IlooK-Kci'iier anil ('on
Inlenlial I'lerk. We nivtt you a
."'-M at en ion of nccouiit monthly, or
lieneM-r on a-kit. liini iii lining
-o wo show von
jii
'sl"'iii every cent and reltirti you a
reeeipt I'or etch 11 an.'aet ion. It's
ea.-.v anl satisl'iielni'v. 'I'rv it.
Wo ha\i'I'slnlih-lieil a fully «*i|u111
pel I
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ii, iin-y In Ins fit
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Umi.v-
I 1 M.I i: I—
General Merchandise.
carry
iroeerie
miipli'lo line
', Klc., I'ile.
il'otls.
of our merdiati'liso I ho l/o.-i.
treat you cik1
:]t-,-.-.vyiii'T.
t. where you
Ilepm lmerit. l/iwest
rale- ami quick service. Wc irivit'
ii it a ia I applications.
Real-Estalc Loans] Negotiated.
CAP! I Al .iUo.iMHi un
i\ 'KP1.1 $ I I'.ooojmj.
First National BanH
of Lintoi).
of ClothiriK, .Slioeii, l)rv
Our prices are is low as the lowest,
nrid
LINTON "Hf\ZELTON
S Lf\ND
COMPf\NY
nl't'lchlS l.S f.l.YTo.Y, XMtTH U4h~0T.l
L'trgv i.ist. nj Int fintrril and 'nim [trowd Lant/s. si
I
tiirtthlr I!n nehes. I'rir.rs j'rutth $12 to S'2»rf ftf'.r arrt
(inw
ti null before
ft
the i|iialily
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Larvik, North Dakota
ill
no,
tit chasr. Latul shown
rlmrgr, whether or not 7otc hay
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Good Bread
is'tlieTt.ilf of lit'-. bread is
with good flour by exp'."
bakers, ir.'a
1
Iran vrtiiiiated shop.
••'A'hy nut t"nr it'.' 1 !.c preiudi'
a bakrr's
Bread and Cakes
a a
pear as si))U as our product-* »r'
'•.s^d, I hr '{uality is good ate!
'he 'pjaMity large. You will tiri
it chrap tou
Moore's Restaurant, Linton, N. D.