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,• rfffw-Tfrr 'M. .. «a* ii S'* 35c per Pound 20c 1-2 lb. 10c 1-4 The best that can be bought From 50c to For spraying vines, plants and shrubbery Taylor's Drug Store Minot, North Dakota PURITAN MOTOR LUBRICANTS Dewey Dorman uses our Extra No. One Puritan and our Strain ed 68 Gasoline for his Bleriot Monoplane. Aak the man who knows. PURE OIL COMPANY NOT IN ANY TRUST MINOT, N. D. Phone 766 The Windsor Hotel Dining Room Better service than ever. The best meals in the city for the money. We John Hoellinger Know You'll Be Pleased The Windsor invites your patronage O I E O a The Optic scooped the other Minot papers on it's Get-Acquainted-Trip report. TfiSJ paper was supposed to have receive! a message from the boyts at Grano and Pres. A. M. Thompson was reported to have made an address. Fact of the matter Is the boys never visited Grano at all, -«U4i $3.50 1 0 0 and Mr. Thompson was not with the number. The Optic's wires were crossed, thafs all. FOR SAiLE—An elegant, four-year-old colt and buggy. This horse has ex ceptional qualities. T. B. Olsgard, Minot, N. D. 6 19 tf SMOKE HOME-MADE CIGARS* I- -7 A ''i- in- WteirfV? 1 vL ,v -J* "DAYS OF 49". in ii Ciiv« ii iii 1 2 a if I 1 3 STATEMENT—BANK OF PROSPER ITY, STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA At Close o' Business, June 28, 1911. Resources. Loans the crop. Reveries, cows, h')gs and poultrr. Cash, grrin, stock, butter a'd eggs. Liabilities. Capkal: Soil fertility buildings, sLock mid machinery. Surplus: Manure applied to land. Deposits: Corn, alfalfa and stock tease the deposit of fertility in soli and idlthy lucre in the pocket. Check: Every weed ir: a field draws a check again-t the crop. V2 pound of dried weeds to the sriunre yard reduc as the crop of wheat 20 bushels per acre. Bills Payable: Shallow plowing and: continual grain growing. "23" for "If" Discount the uncertainties of farm ing by: Preparing a good seed bed. Conserving the moisture. By selecting and treating the seed. By keeping good stock. By keeping up the fertility and humus of the soil. By keeping out weeds and plant diseases. Increase your deposits by wicour agimg: The Agricultural college. The Experiment station. The Farmers' Institute. Farmers' Clubs. The reading of bulletins of the ex periment station and agricultural pa pers. And secure an agricultural llbnif from Bismarck for your patrons. Nuggets. Interest: The plant in well tilled soil pays big interest. Clipping Coupons: Harvesting al falls tor bar sad Mi Security: Moisture stored in the soil. Sight Draft: Hot winds, never draw on crop grown on well tilled soil. Watered Stock: Spreading the work that should go on a quarter section. Velvet: Second and third crops of alfalfa. Insurance: Rotation of crops. Silent Partner: Alfalfa and clover germs. Convention: Getting together to learn from each other and usually finding that the fellow worker is an A No. 1 fellow and knows many things we do not. 5% Paid on Deposits This bank pays o% TIMELY FLY TALK. The position of the house-fly is unique. He is such a menace to health that thousands of newspapers have sounded a warning note. Denounced as a "scavanger" and a "spreader of filth and disease" medical experts re cently proclaimed him "the greatest enemy of mankind." Until a few years ago the house fly was simply regarded as a nuisance. Today the entire' civilized world i* engaged in a bitter warfare against if S, Twelfth prize semi- nnnual interest on SAVINGS Savings Deposit Bank -if'' A. scene from "The Flower of the n-h'' file beautiful m'i him. Science has sought to extermin ate this pe^J but in vain. As an termination ex is impossible, protection is omr best weapon. There is only one effective way to ward off the typhoid fly and the misquito—use screens. Our srreen windws fit tign We havf sizes to fit all ordinary outside indow.-. The wire cloth used in then his especial strength. Among our screen doors are some strong dur able patterns for the kitchen and for other places where strength and eco nomy are more essential th in beauty. These screens are "quality goods it you want screens that fit tight conio to us. Roers l.u,mbger company, H. ?. Johnson, anager. Happiest Girl lin Lincoln. A Lincoln, Neb., girl writes: "I had been ailing for some time with chronic constiuation and stomach trouble. I began taking Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and in three days 1 w.is able to be up and got better right along. I am the proudest girl in Lin coln to find such a good medicine.'' For sale by all dealers. GRAIN PRIZES The A-gricultural Department of the State, of N'erth Dakota oilers the fol lowing cash prizes for the largest F.no best collection of grains and grasse* raised in any one county during the year 1*911: First prize Second prize "•*r Third prize 7* Fourth prize Fifth prize Sixth prize 7-^0 5 Total prizes All entries must be made and ex hibits received on or before August 31, 1911. The quantity of each sample of grain vent should not be less than one half the size of the ordinary bundle of ffrain and should be carefully tied so as to prevent it getting damaged. There should be a full bundle of flax alfalfa and clover. These grains and grasses should be carefully packed in large boxes, w'th sufficient openings to permit plenty of air to circulate through ,so as to prevent the grain from becoming heat ed or molded while In transit. The larger the variety ,the more value is attached to it. Extreme care should be used in selecting, arranging and packing each exhibit. The department will simply take the exhibt from the boxes and display it, concealing from the judges the We want to lend out in $20,000 on farm securi ties good terms Call on us. We can save you some money. Dakota Montana Investment Co., Citizen's Bank Blk.. Minot, N. D. ., -Vijj 11* name jf the contestant and the county in which the exhibit was gathered. It may prove advan'ageous to the exhilbitor to have the wheat, oats, barley, rye speltz and other grains stripped. This will make the straw brighter and more attrnctlvt Have each bundle -securely tied with cord All urains and grasses should be shipped by express, so as to prevent the exhibit toeing kep: it. the boxes too lib Is 2 Seventh prize 20 Eighth prize 1° Ninth, prize 12 50 Tenth prize 10 Eleventh prize the Vours truly tf IW A O E O N 1 0 E N I A IVIlNlOT CIGAR CO./Manufacturers :,n mum*, u^yw^'.MjwK^tw w*v 'VTT om Campbell Sub-Surface Packer Headquarters lor AD Kinds of Up-to-Date Farm Machinery Spring Trip Cultivators We have a line of BUGGIES Wood Bar Lever Harrow P. & Q. MOGUL ENGINE GANGS Gas Traction Engines—up to 45 H. P. NICHOLS & SHEPARD STEAM RIGS PEERLESS SEPARATORS the tieveless machine A O O I E S & in a Champlin Imptt. Co. BOOST YOUR OWN CITY -*£t. a a a long and thus avoid having a mouldy appearance. The department will pay express charesg Consign all ship ments to W. C. Giibreath, Commission er of Agriculture, Bismarck, N. D. Thirty cents an acre will let you sleep at night. Its worth that. Just ask the wife. Jim Shaw, box 32, Lo gan. Sole representative, Town. 154 Ranges SI and 82.—Advt. original Campbell Sub-Surface Packer, designed by H. W. Campbell, the "father** of the Dry Fanning System. The P. ft O. Campbell Packer is the salvation of Dry Farming. Built in tb« most substantial manner, with large weight box, closed dust-proof boxes, heavy wheels, and the best implement ever designed for conserving the moisture and assuring bumper crops. It increases the yield wherever it is used. CANTON PLOWS CANTON PLOWS CANTON PLOWS CANTON PLOWS A A N I S JO die one FOOT-LIFT PLOWS .None Better that can't be beat The EMERSON and ROCKFORD THE BETTENDORF, STEEL KINO, WEBER AND COLUMBUS WAGONS Minot N. D. -'r rii iiti.iifSljL "-'-V mm*