The Bottineau courant., October 13, 1905, Image 1

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COUNTY NEWS
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ITEMS OF INTEREST
Irom Westhope, Lands, Eldsvold, Antler,
•nd Amity. Will Hamilton, of
Westhope disappeared
Last Week.
WESTHOPE
By oar special correspondent.
Win. Collins of Bottineau was in
town this week.
Johnson and Morwood aie having
their store fixed up on the outside with
iron sheeting in imitation of brown
«tone.
The Westhope band is getting a new
instructor, and will engage him for a
year, if he proves satisfactory.
Jos. Hocking, a former employee of
the Standard, went to Bottineau Mon
day and has accepted a position on the
News.
M. L. Helgerson spent the first of
the week in town.
A reception and dance was given by
the lady friends of Mrs. F. H. Gaulke
on Monday prior to her departure for
Boss where her husband is in the bank
ing business.
The Catholics will hold their an
nual fair on November 2nd and 3d.
The first snow fell Monday night.
That is also the date of the first killing
frost.
Goe. Capes of Omemee was in town
over Sunday.
Dave Willimson was out Wednes
day posting notices for the first elec
tion of the new civil townshp of Ben
tinck.
Will Hamilton, living south of
iiere, disappeared about two weeks ago
and no trace of him has ever been
found since. Some of the neighbors
say he left on horse back and went to
Canada. As he only owed a trifle ©v
€r $200 and left grain and ctiattels
•enough to more than cover his indebt
ednss there is some doubts of his hav
ing skipped.
C. E. Johnson returned last week
from Minnesota with a car load of
horses and cattle.
The elevators here are filled full of
grain most of the time. Cars get here
altogether too slow.
EIDSVOLD
By oar special correspondent.
The first snow this fall was seen fly
ing about Tuesday and the northwest
wind was so strong that all threshing
rigs had a lay off.
P. O. Jestne lost one of his best
horses lately. His hired man had
been in town the day previous and the
animal showed no sign of being sick
whatever and the next morning was
lying dead in the stall.
A. T. Thompson bonght another
quarter section, being the S. W. of
Sec. 7 formerly owned by Edward
Aasheim. Consideration $3,300.
H. L. Lillestrand had one of his
spotted colts badly cut up aboat the
breast and throat last Sunday, in the
wire fence.
Another week or so will about wind
the threshing.
Miss Dina Cleven, who has been
working in A. T. Thompson's board
ing car, has been seriously ill but is
slowly improving.
The "Norden Threshing Co. had a
break down last Monday and they had
to send for Minneapolis for repaiis.
Bev. Beckstrom held a meeting at
F. O. Jesem's place last Thursday.
Chris. Thompson and H. J. Hanson
bought new wagons lately in order to
get their big crop to market.
AMITY
By oar special correspondent.
Mr. Charlie Wright and sons Hor
ace and Edgar who have been visiting
Mr. and Mrs. James Haskett left
Monday or their home in Kuskenook,
British Columbia.
Jim Haskett and Ben Brown spent
couple of days at Mouse Biver and
returned with one hundred and fifty
ducks.
Miss Buth Carhart closes a very suc
cesful term of teaching this week in
Amity No. 4.
Warren Moore is again suffering
with blood poison in the hand.
Mrs. McLean of Antler id visiting
with her neice, Mrs. Warren Moore.
Wilson & Moore's threshing rig was
up for repairs on Tuesday, hav
ing been smashed up somewhat
through getting stuck in a mudhole.
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LANDA
By our special correspondent.
E. A. Nelson, the optician, made a
professional visit here Wednesday.
Bev. Martin Teigen was a caller in
town Wednesday, announcing ser
vices for Sunday afternoon.
Mr. O. A. Linstad is slowly im
proving from his injuries.
Geo. Kellogg of the Amenia Ele
vator Co. was looking after business
interests here on Thursday.
Presiding Elder Munson of Duluth
and Bev. Beckstrom of Bugby were
visitors in town on Wednesday.
Ole Johnson of your city was a
caller in town Friday.
ANTLER
By our special correspondent.
Martin Helgerson was out here the
first of the week on business.
Mr. Philip Nelson is building a
big house on his farm a mile soulh
of town.
Mrs. Albert Newhouse came out on
Wednesday after a visit of a couple of
weeks with Bottineau friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Heide drove down
to Maxbass on Monday.
The Ladies aid met at Mrs. Wal
tons today, Thursday, and Mrs. W.
Hare entertained.
There are lots of new buildings go
ing up at Antler now.
Delia Carpentier was down to
Westhope the first of the week on
business. Delia is a strong candidate
in The Courant'a piano contest.
Mrs. B. H. Jones, who has been
spending a few weens at the Carpen
tier home near Antler has returned to
her home in Chicago.
Miss Ida Fisk, of Bottinean, vis
ited last week with Miss Delia Car
pentier.
COUNTY COURT
Has Been in Session
This Week.
FIGGERS GUILTY
Two of Those Charged With Fracturing
the Prohibitory Law are Found
Guilty. More Cases will be
Tried Next Week.
At the session of the county court
which occurred this week three blind
pig 3ases were taken up. The first
one called was State vs. Joseph Jenson,
charged with keeping and maintain
ing a common nuisance in Omemee.
The enforcement league 'spotter,''
Fred Howe figured prominently in the
case. This case occupied two days
and quite a mass of evidence was in
troduced. The jury were out seven
hoursand brought in a verdict of guil
ty.
The case of State vs. Wiliam Cas
sin, of Overly, charged with keeping
and maintaining a common nuisance
was next taken up. It was a short
case and was quickly finished. The
defendant was acquitted.
In the case of State vs. Fred Mader,
on the same charge, there was quite a
bulk of evidence and he drew a ver
dict of guilty.
Next week several cases of violations
of the prohibition law will be brought
down from Westhope for trial in coun
ty court.
SCHOOL LANDS
Will be Sold at Auction on the
29th of November.
The sale of the Bottineau county
school lands which were appraised a
short time ago by County Auditor
Brandjord, Supt. P. E. Christenson
and Commissioner David Clark will be
sold at public auction at the county
couit house in Bottineau on Wednes
day, the 29th day of November 1905.
No tract of land will be sold for less
than the appraised value which is from
$12.50 to $19.00 per acre. The terms
of sale are as follows: one-fifth of the
purchase price to be paid at the time
of sale, one-fifth at the end of five
year? one-fifth at the end of ten
years one-fifth at the end of fifteen
years and one-fifth at the end of twen
ty years, with interest at the rate of
six per cent per annum payable an
ntially in advance. A fee of $5 extra
is charged for the issuing of a con
tract.
Upon approval of state board of
school lands, the purchaser shall "pay
interest from date of sale to January
1st 1907 on deferred payments at the
rate of six per cent. The board re
serves the right to reject any and all
bids.
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This is praiseworthy. Too often
people are inclined to "knock" the
ome town, being unable to see any
thing good or beautiful about it until
they move away. Then they never
grow weary of boasting about the
splendor of the place they came from
and one often wonders why they mov
ed. Editor Boyden's joy in the beau
ty and greatness of Lisbon is so deep
that he is unable to refrain from
buroting into song:
LISBON ON THE SHEYENNE.
There's Lisbon on the Sheyenne, whose
people don't you know,
Dwell 'mid its scenic beauties, with
out any fuss or show.
But for downright solid worth one may
travel o'er the earth
Not finding better fellows—just take
them as they ?o.
Boll on, thou beauteous river, through
fine umbrageous groves
To meet the northern ocean,where ice
bergs come in droves
But let thy warm caresses make green
the land it blesses
And whisper tales of progress, of the
town through which it flows.
It may be that the umbrageous
groves of Lisbon are in fact mere
bunches of sagebrush and the beau
tous Sheyenne is probably nothing but
a muddy little creek that goes out of
business in dry spells but the spirit
of the poet is admirable. Let us try
to imitate his splendid enthusiasm.
Statesman Dink informs us that he
hs seen worse traction systems than
ours Pittsburg, we are reliably in
formed, is smokier than Chicago Par
is, according to recent advices, is a
more dangerous place at night than
is this splendid capital of the great
Northwest with all its boundless re
sources, and there is somewhere in
Turkey, we believe, a stream that
sends up a greater variety of stenches
than ascend from our purling North*
Branch. We Chicagoans have in the
past been too ready to belittle our
glorious city, to overlook its great
and rapidly increasing importance,
and to even sneer at some of its insti
tutions. Let us reform. Let us try
to cultivate enthusiasm. Let us boast,
if necessary. This will at first be a
difficult thing for most of us to do,
but with constant practice the ma
jority of us may become fairly pro
ficient in the noble art of magnify
ing Chicago's greatness and goodness
and beauty.
Thanks, thanks, to Hinky Dink and
the Lisbon poet for the lesson thy
have taught.—Chicago Becord-Herald.
Got Five Years.
The president of the defunct Minot
National Bank, J. A. Erickson* entered
a plea of guilty on two countsWednes
day afternoon before the Federal court
in Fargo. The first count was for
making a false report of the standing
of the bank and the second for abstrac
tion and misapplication of bank
funds. Judge Amidon gave him the
minimum sentence, five years in the
penitentiary at Sioux Falls, So. Dak.
When he received his sentence he wept
like a child. He spent Wednesday
night in the Cass county jail.
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fhe Bottineau Courant.
Vol. No. 21. Bottineau, Bottineau County, North Dakota, October 13, 1905. $1.50 a Year
Two Little Smacks
They sat on the beach one evening
And watched the tossing sea
The waves were breaking at their feet,
The winds were sporting free
And gazing away o'er the billowy deep,
In the evening's fading light.
She saw, on the dim horizon,
A little speck of white.
Then pointing a slender finger,
She asks, "What may it be?"
He looks, and laughing, answers,
'Tis a little smack at sea."
The gathering shadows deepen
As the soft light fades in the west,
The winds are whispering softly,
The waves are lulled to rest,
The stars are blinking dimly
From heaven's dome of blue
And darkness draws a curtain
Around the happy two-
Then a strong arm stealing 'round her
Draws her closer than before
Then a pressure sweet and tender
BOOSTING THE HOME TOWN.
C. E. Boyden, editor of the Lisbon,
N. D. Free Press, is evidently a man
who believes in standing up for his
home town. Like Hinky Dink, he is
willing to adimit that there may be
fine things elsewhere, but at the same
time he insists in the phraseology of
our Clark Street statesmen that 'the
little old home burg has them all
skinned four ways from the ace.''
And—a little smack on shore.
THE CONTEST
Candidates Make Big
Gains.
MISS WENOS LEADS
But Antler and Russell Candidates Are
Making Big Gains for First Place.
People are Taking Much In
terest.
The contestants have been at work
this week and even those who had re
mained inactive since the start have
made gains and are taking hold of the
work. With good lively hustling
there is even yet a chance for the "last
to be first.'' A good many people are
beginning to take a lively interest in
the contest and are inquiring as to the
standing of the young ladies in the
race. The following is the standing
of the candidates today:
Marie Wonos, Bottineau.... 36,000
Delia Carpentier, Antler .... 34.050
Emma Douglass. Bussell. .. 22,740
Lulu Crowder, Lake Metigoshe 8,000
Mollie Stanton, Souris 2,750
Mildred Douglas, Omemee... 1,840
Alice B. Kolstad, Lansford 1,000
Miss Wenos is still in the lead and
has made a gain of 7,300 votes this
week. Miss Carpentier has gained on
the coveted first place a little, hav
ing addeed 8,000 votes during the
week. Miss Emma Douglas, of Bus
sell, has made the strongest gain
since last issue her increase being
8,200. Miss Mollie Stanton has
gained 500 votes and is by no means
out of the race. Miss Mildred
Douglas has about concluded to be
gin an active campaign and sends
in 340 votes to start things moving.
She has a good field and ought to
gain votes rapidly with a little ef
fort. Miss Crowder and Miss Kol
stad have not reported this week.
We are endeavoring to secure
photographs of each candidate for use
in a future issue.
CATHOLIC FAIR
Will occur on October 31 and No
vember 1.
The ladies of the Catholic church
will hold their annual fair on October
31 and Nov. 1. Elaborate prepara
tions are being made to make the
fair a great success. It is expected
that the voting contest for the big
prize, a very fine leather rocking
chair will prove extremely interesting.
The candidates, we are informed, are
Ma
Martin L. Helgerson and Mr. Dan
Nero, two of Bottineau's most popular
young men. Both of these gentlemen
can count their friends by the score
and undoubtedly each of them has a
place all ready for that fine chair. The
place where the fair will be held has
not yet been determined but will be
announced later.
County Treasurer Scully informs us
that an additional penalty of five per
cent will be attached to all unpaid
real estate taxes on and after the first
day of November, 1905. All the real
estate on which the 1904 taxes remain
unpaid will be sold for taxes on the
first Tuesday following the first Mon
day in December.
THE SYMBOLISM
of the King Solomon's
Temple.
SERMON TO MASONS
Rev. Bradley Addresses the Willow City
Masonic Lodge and Draws Good
Lessons for the Temple
of King Solomon
We are fortunate in being able to
present to our readers the full text of
a sermon preached by Bev. Bradley of
Willow City last week. This sermon
was delivered in the presence of the
Willow City lodge of Masons. It is
well worthy of a more extended bear
ing because of the liberal, logical
treatment accorded this subject. Bev.
Bradley took for his text, II Chron.
33, 7. "God had said to David and
to Solomon his son in this house and
in Jerusalem which I have chosen
before all of the tribes of Israel will I
put my name forever.''
Before I enter upon my subject I
want to make a few preliminary re
marks in reference to secrets. Many
bad things are done in secret but be
cause a man or institution has secrets
does that fact prove that they are bad
Secrets like men are good and bad.
Secrets are everywhere, every store
keeper has his secret cost-mark, the
banker who tells all about his business
will soon have no business to attend
to, the doctor or lawyer who fails to
keep secrets fails to keep his practice
and the preacher who gossips fails to
lead his people, in fact there aie some
things we know, we would be better
off if we did not Know them. If a
man reveals to me a secret as a secret,
I am unmanly if I tell it. Christian
ity has been promoted by secrets. All
the forces of evil which the human
imagination could devise were sum
moned to blot out the message of God's
word from the mind of the people dur
ing the past. Bibles were at one time
secretly concealed under cover and
brought forth from their hiding place
and read with profit. Christian mis
sionaries caretully concealed their real
calling and worked ander cover of a
secular calling. The day of judg
ment alone will reveal the rich har
vest of souls gathered by the labor of
these men who practiced secrets. Not
only families, businesses, professions
and institutions have secrets but
churches have them and perhaps the
church that declaims the loudest
against secret societes has the most
secrets. The temple reveals God and
conceals God, every cnurch reveals
God and conceals God. Now I will say
I am not at liberty to say many things
but I am free to do my duty, as a
preacher of the gospel I must interpret
the bible. Masonry does not conflict
with any duty I owe to God, my
country, my neighbor, or myself to
interpret the bible is the duty I owe
to these.
The address I make tonight will not
be a Masonic lecture. Yet I believe
Masons will appreciate it, this is why
I announced and desired their atten
dance at this service, let it therefore
be boine in mind that this is not a
Masonic lecture. Nor is it a defence
of Masonry. Masonry needs no de
fense. You might notice that it is
from the Bible I take my theme and
not from Masonry. Now I am going
to make a few statements that can be
established without successful contra
diction. One is that no man can be a
christian or bible student much less a
biblical scholar or christian minister
without having some knowledge of
Masonry. Why? Because the sym
bolism of Masonry is founded on the
bible. That no man can grasp the
lessons taught by Masonry without
having a knowledge and reverence for
the bible. Now if these statements
are right and no man can contradict
them, no man can oppose the morality
of Masonry without opposing the mor
ality of Christianity and no Mason can
oppose the morality of Christianity
without opposing the morality of
Masonry.
I will speak of the symbolism of
Solomon's Temple. You will see at
the begining it is the symbolism of
Solomon's Temple and not the Temple
itself—It is the representation of the
Temple. I desire to give you the
spiritual meaning of one of the most
wondorful buildings ever constructed
by human hands. It was preeminently
God's House. While we call it Solo
mon's Temple it was God's Temple.
It was erected to God, that fact alone
shows that our theme is on the line
of religion and spiritual thought and
that it is biblical. Bemember it is
from the bible I take my theme and
not from Masonry. But why should
a Mason be more deeply interested in
anything appertaining to God's House
than any member of Christ's Church?
Jesus called Sojomon's Temple his
Father's House. Why is it not our
Father's House? Why should not
every piece of timber, every stone,
every gem and every piece of gold
have a meaning? God never planned
a useless thing. When He plants a
daisy in the meadow, a pebble in
the brook, a star in the heaven, &
Temple on Mt. Moriah. He puts on
it the seal of his divine approval
and purpose. God loves art. When
the Temple was finished it looked
more like a work of God than of man.
Mt. Moriah is where the temple was
built. It is a sacred place. Jerusalem
has always been dear to the hearts of
all true followers of God. David said,
"If I forget Thee O Jerusalem let my
right hand forget her cunning. If I
do not remember Thee let my tongue
clave to the roof of my mouth, if I
prefer not Jerusalem above my chief
joy. David could not forget Jerusa
lem because the temple was there. It
was God's local habitation. When the
Supreme Architect of the Universe
wanted an earthly temple to dwell in
He gave his plans to David, David
communicated them to Solomon, "Who
took due notice and governed himself
accordingly.'' Solomon in due time
by the help of Hiram, a widow's son
of the tribe of Naphalia erected the
temple to God.
Solomon was an operative Mason
and in a degree a speculative Mason,
Jesus Christ was a speculative Mason
and in a degree an operative Mason,
you and I are Free and Accepted
Masons. We are to talk of the sym
bolism of Solomon's Temple. Is not
its symbolism a part of the bible? Is
not biblical hermmeutics interested in
the interpretations of the symbolisms
of the bible? Can a man interpret
the bible and not interpret symbol
isms v Can we drop symbolisms out
and say they are useless There are
many symbols in the Old and New
Testament. Christianity finds many
of its best lessons in these symbols
while specuative Masonry is founded
in them. Now the temple symbolizes
the Spiritual Temple. As the work
was planned by God so God plans the
Spiritual Temple. That magnificent
temple on Mt. Moriah could never be
supported unless the builders dug down
deep to find a solid rock. The temple
could never be supported on a weak
foundation. You must have a foun
dation for everything. They had to
build upon a rock. This rock symbol
izes the Eternal God. God had prom
ised David, "That in strength He
would establish His Kingdom. God
is often called the Bock. David said,
"Thee Lord is my Bock and my
strength." This teaches two things.
First that Christ's Church is founded
upon a rock and therefore it will stand
because it is founded upon the rock of
eternal truth. Second, on the other
hand, any institution founded upon
the clay, sand or wood of human in
vention will crumble and decay. It
will never stand. Before the building
of the temple the inequalities were
leveled down the little hills and points
were cut ott, other holes filled up to
make it perfectly level. They had to
have a level foundation as well as a
solid one. What does this symoblize
It symbolizes the work of Christianity
which makes men brethren. You can
not unite men unless there is a feeling
of brotherhood. Christianity teaches
a common brotherhood, it places men
upon A level. Some people have ob
jected to Masonry because the Jew
might become a Mason. Is there any
thing wrong in allowing him member
ship in a Christian church Our Mas
ter Jesus Christ was a Jew. Did he
ever disgrace himself? He had no
place to lay his head, he was entirely
destitute. He was buried in a tomb
that belonged to another man. Chris
tianity teaches us that he was a man
for all that. Wealth, position, clothes,
nationality and blood never made a
man. 'A man is a man for all that.''
Christianity teaches and levels us all
to a common biotherhood. Judaism
was the parent of Christianity. It
was limited by the boundaries of one
nation but Christianity in its exten
tion and comprehension comes to all
men. Christianity and Masonry go
back to the same source. If we have
studied widely we have learned that
religions like languages have a life
history of birth, development and
transformation. Not only men bat
nations and religions have their capa
city to change. That which is no
longer susceptible to change may exist
but it ceases to live. Christianity is
broad enough to gather contributions
from all lands and weave them into
one ideal, large enough to include ail
people, tender enough to comfort all,
lofty enough to inspire *11 and vital
enough to uplift all. Do you judge a
river by its source Do you judge a
flower by its roots? No. You judge
a river by the width and strength of
the "stream. You judge a flower bvv
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