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ih waid County indtpendan Published Every Thursday By TainX&COL.ORO Minot, North Dakota. September 12 191 MINOT'S NEEDS. Paved street 8. Improved highways. Great White Way. MOPD goo\ houses for rent. Another laundry. More well kept lawns. Lees dlrtv alleys and vacant lots Improvements at our parks. Less talking and more acting. Street cars iji 191?!. A haJf dozen well conducted fun erals. iSctores of laborers not afraid to work. We doubt very much the advisa fbLJity b£ the progijeasive partiyi of this state nominating a complete state ticket as was dome at the Fargo convention. We attended this con vention, not as a delegate but as a 9 representative of the press, and took considerable pains 'before the con vention opened to sound a number of delegates ou the subject. Out of a score or more with whom we talked not more than one or two thought it best to nominate a complete state tictoctt. We don't know just who it was that mixed the political medi cine but suspect that it was none other than Judge Lauder. If Col onel Roosevelt advised this, we be lieve that he did not understand lo ?al conditions very well, for it would have been far easier to carry the state for him without the third state ticket in the field, than with it. The Independent, Ifke most of the other newspapers of the state took a stand before the primaries for certain re publican candidate's and the editor of this paper, like thousands of others who participated in the primaries, does not propose at this time to turn down the nominees without good cause. Mr. Hanna was nominated for governor most fairly and we be lieve that he will be elected with an overwhelming majority. Uncle Sam is going into the ex press business on a small scale Jan. l, 1913, when the new parcel post bill goes into effect. Country mer chants are protected from the mail oTder houses for merchandise is to Te carried according to weight and distance. 'Sieved pautnds is to he the limit, and when packages are sent out on a rural route, the charge is to be five cents for the first pound or fraction thereof, and one cent for each additional pound or fraction thereof. The maximum charge for elte-ven pounds is $1.32. This re duces the cost of shipping small mer chandise, and increases the size of parr.efls which may be carried. This will undoubtedly have a tendency to reduce express rates. If you want a loan on your land and cannot call and see -iu nouiu paper iroui 'dawu the country," which has been tilted viih aavke to its readers to attend ihe i.ih.maricis and "vote for the fa vorite son of Valley Township for register of deeds," has discarded its election news for the present and is now printing the news of the county fair. That is news worth while. It draws on the hearts of the folks in tho big cities to read that the date for the old home fair is at hand and they regret that they worked themselves into such a splutter about tailing that vacation in the early summer. The picture of the fair grounds, wtth the tents and the r?. freshment stands the "Floral Hall' and the side shows the peni of fat cattle and hogs and the blooded horses the race track and the crowds that were always there comeg before the hard working city man as he reads the old home paper and makes him discontented with the ad justment of prosperity which keeps him from enjoying the luxury of two visits a year to the old home town Nothing in th# advice which the old home paper hurled at its readers in big, black type to attend the polls and "save the ticket" ever caused the folks from the city a single re gret that they were not back in tho eld home town to vote for the favor, ite son from Valley Township. Put when it comes to reading the news of the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Walnut Valley Fair association— Well, that's the news to inspire a longing among the City folks who have moved in from the country places to become charter members 'n a bacfk-to.the-soil movement The stale penitentiary is run ac cording to the honor system, afi. crdingly, Robinson and Irwin, two of the prisoners who made their es cape, and who were subsequently cap tured, were given a trial by their fellow prisoners. They were found guilty of scaling the walls and sen tenced to serve 20 days solitary confinement, on bread and water They will have no bed in their ce ment floored cells during that time, not a line to read, no tobacco, and no riting marteriall. When they ace out of their solitary confinement, they ill lose their hair and for sixty days ilil be decorated with the zebra ripes that all prisoners hate so uch. This seems to be punishment en lore for 24 hours' freedom Threshermen should reraemher that the law is very strict, which provides for their taoklng a copy of the new noxious seed lawup in a conspicu ous place on each separator. If the thresher neglects this, he is liable to a fine of from ten to fifty dollars, or a jail sentence or both. We note that as soon as Mr Arch bold called Mr. Roosevelt a liar, Mr. Archbold sailed immediately for Eur ope. A O A N S us—write us a let ter stating where your land is located what improvements and how much of a loan you want. We will then let you know by return mail what our best ttrrhi arfc. E. J. LANDER & CO. 6md Forks Rvgly Mlfltt Willlstii H. C. LADDER, Mniigir Minot Offiei fMtf. USE THE PRY BLOCK. Have you ever tried to raiBe Bome heavy bulk by using a lever? There are many merchants who fail to use Ws pry Mock. They lav it away on tho shelf, figurat'veiy speaking, and try to comi'Ste n'th the big feHow on an equal footing. I won't do. It is up to the merchant who expects to he successful to 'ak^ advantage Of peirsonal contact offsrod him by virtue of his location Get the ibest possible lever in the shape of good goods by careful merchandis. ing. This coupled with service means success. But don't forget to use th: pry block. See to It that your cus oustomers are satisfied and then you can laugh at competition from afar. He hasn't the pry The Reflector regrets that the four prisoners made a break for liberty and trusts 'that the public will not censure the honor system. The risoners have been better behaved since this rule was adopted last Feb ruary and this is the first attempt at escape that has been made. The Re. Hector hopfS that the other lfiO fol ates will not have *o suffer for the sins of the four. Under the lienor s-stem. thousands of dollars fsrr, mm fa 'r- Helen and Robert Taft, daughter and son of President Taft, are now about one hundred miles inland from the railroad in the heart of Glacier National Park, Uncle Sam's newMt playground which was created' by congress in 1910, the bill for whiefc WM signed by President Taft himself 1 There are In the Taft party, Mrs. tf:Wi|^f W*'1 I If «o you know how important is the erv ice rendered by the pry block. On Its use depends the success of your efforts. The mail order house h-is alout the same lever us the local I merchant in its effort to secure busi.' ness. nut the pry block of personal ontact is lacking. Whatever ad van-' tage may accrue from a stronger ever' 'a lost because that small bi:t pri mary feature of the whole operation —the pry Mock—is not available. block President Halvor L. Ualvorson, who is the democratic nominee from the Third district, made a rousing political addresses before the Wood-! row Wilson club at Fargo last Friday night. The Forum in soirip' manner however, credited a speech that Cot Hildreath had made to Mr. Halvor son, in which ThcO. Roosevelt was given decidedly the worst of it. Mr. Halvorson has no apologies to make for what he said, but we know that the Forum misquoted him and we farther beflieve that it did so unin-1 tentionally. 7 ho Willow Citv Eagle is sore at the j.opticians who ordered political advertising, and then neglected to vay for same. Never'mind, Tbad. Every paper gets stung by some cheap guy once^r. a while.. Bide your time for sooner or later, he'll want another faror. Considerable threshing has been are done in the Red River valley. As «Z- ~'JPrt- l^jgigK a Mr account makes the difference To buy your own farm—or slave for another man from early morn till late at night, is the question you should answer right now. A Ibank account makes the differ ence. Start savin** now. We will help you to purchase the farm. Come in i'i in I 1 c* ii Ml v«* now. Scandinavian-American Bank iV in ERIK R. RAMSTAD, President. ii *r A- Geo. E. Vincent, wife of the presi dent of the Unverslty of Minnesota and a number of young people includ. iuz Martha Bowers, daughter of the late attorney l. M. K. PORTER Cashier saved in guards' wages every year we travelled from Fargo to Grand r.d the inmates do more efficient! Forks Saturday night, we saw hun- than is this year, work. c'r.ds of straw piles ablaze and the night will be lighted up in this rnan ner for weeks to come. It seems a shame that so much good straw has to be consumed. Some day, paper tn'Jls wild be clamoring for Jt. It jjs next to impossible for piumt' 'r or. There are plenty of idle men standing about the streets of Minot but some of them don't care to work &•?/'>? iBK, general her brother. Lloyd W, J. Bowers, who recently re turned from Europe, and Ml as Isa-j telle Vincent, who was at Bryn Mawr with Mils Taft. I irs and others to hire men for dig- I g'rg and other forms of common la- WD I 41 When ii" .the party arrived at Medicine"Lake, the first stop in Qla cier National Park, the? *ere treeu ed by a band of about two hundred Bladkfeet Indians, whose reservation adjoins the .park. The Indians en. tertalned the party with exhibition* of their (gun Dance and (Medtelne Iodge ceremonies. CUaeler National Mpipp«WBi for any price, while others want to get "back to naturef" and get a Job threshing^out on the farm at three dollars per day "and keep." L. B. Hanna will ba North Dako ta's next governor. Paste this state ment up where you can read it the day after election. Mr. Fanna has tlio1 strongest personal following of any of the candidates, and they will :s"ck to h'm thru thick and thin. No matter how many opponents take the flp'd, it will be hard to divide his o'itical friends. 4 A local politician who is thinking making some stump spsecheg in the locail campaign, says that poli tics are in a very badly muddled con dition, but he thanks a kind Provi tlcn«? that he can still talk about the Stars and Stripes and our forefathers without any danger. O. O. Hill, one of the readers of th? Lansford Journal, writes an in teresting article on his success with hogs. He fed the young pigg man gels ,skim mink and slopv/rom the house, beside® a small grain ration. One sow hd a litter of ten pigs that at 8 months averaged him $15 apiece. He has a nioe alfalfa field that ia helping out on the feed question, too. Lasit month was the wettest August "n five years the precipitation for the month in the state being 5.02 inches. Aug. Henka of Hillsfcoro, who ex perimented with one of Jim Hill's plats threshed oats that yielded 101 bushels per acre. HUNflNG GOOD. The hunting Beason opened Satur day and chickens and dudes have been arriving in the city by the score. Hunting was never WITH LAND CO. Miss Ethel Haffey owes her splendid position with the Brown Danskin Land Co., of Graud Forks, to the Union Commercial College of Grand Forks, N. D. Miss Haffey strongly advises all young peo ple to attend the Union if they want to get a thorough train ing and a good position. Send for their free catalog. Park Is replete with Indian legend and full of scientific Interest on ac count of the geological formations. President Taft is setting a good example to every American Cltisen by introdncng to. his family fhe beau ties of American scenery. The "See America First" slogan has made an impression on our Chief Executive.