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Minot, North Dakota $600,000 Worth of Horses for the War. B. W. Elder, who has bought 6,000 head of horses in North Dakota and eastern Montana for the war, is in the city. Mr. Elder has bought about 2,000 head of bronchos and is doing the state a positive service in giving us a chance to get rid of the smaller horses that are not of a great deal of ase any longer. He has bought horses for England, France, Italy and Swit zerland. He will begin buying range horses in June, when they are in bet ter condition. The money spent for tie 6,000 horses amounts to about $600,000. How to Make Poultry PAY The home Poultry-Raising Course of the International Correspondence Schools is the first and last word on Successful Poultry Raising. Gives the beginner a better knowledge than the old-timer. Shows you how to raise poultry in the city, suburbs or country, and how to make money from tliestart. and on small Investment. You Learn at Home This Course represents the work of themostexpert and successful Poultry Raisers in the world, and explains how to select most profitable breeds feed ing marketing eggs and poultry for profit natural and artificial brooding natural and artificial incubation laying hens combination plant poultry appli ances enemies of poultry diseases of poultry poultry houses and manage ment turkeys water fowls squabs, etc., etc. For full information fill in and mail the attached coupon to-day. Proof of the value of this Course is the fact that the I. C. S. is associated with the largest egg farm in the world —the Rancocas Farm at Brown'sMills, in-the-Pincs, N. famous for Ran cocas Leghorns and DAY-OLD CHIX. This farm contains 10,000 layers hatches 1200 chickens daily—markets 30.000ej?RS weekly. Farm always open and expert demonstrators always on the ground. This is theCourse for which the whole Poultry-Raising world has been wait ing. For free circular fully describing if,Till in and mail the attached coupon. international Correspondence Schools Box I Scranton, Pa. Please send me free, and without further obligation on my part, circular describing the Poultry-Raising Course. Name Street and No City State N. R. McELFRESH Mgr. Box 994 Minot, N. D. The FREE will soon pay for itself with money you can save by making your own pretty olothei. We Bur your old mtchin* We Sell the FREE machine Only $1 a w«ek for a few week* pajri the difference An unusually liberal allow anoe will be paid for old ma chines while the 1915 model is beiDg Lidstrom Furniture (g. introduced. Com* to-day and fee how much. INTERESTING LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS DR. A. J. McCANNEL TELLS OF THE QUAINT OLD CITY WITH MANY PLACES OF HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE. New Orleans, La., March 27. I have intended ever since coming here to write you telling you some thing of this city and the enjoyable winter we have had in the "Sunny South." However there have been so many things to fill our time that I have put it off until now. I am busy every day from 8:30 a. m. until 8 p. m. in the hospital and in lectures and out door clinics. Charity Hospital, where most of our work is done, has room for one thousand pa tients and as it is entirely free, every patient can be used for teaching pur poses. For that reason there is an abundance of clinical material. There are also several other hospitals where teaching is done. Saturday afternoon and Sunday are our days for sight-seeing, and as the weather has been fine we have made good use of them and have seen most points of interest in and near the city. The city is well worth a visit. Canal street is the principal street and di vides the city into the "down-town," or French quarter, and "up-town," or modern quarter. In the French quar ter most of the streets are very nar row, many being only twenty feet from curb to curb, and the side walks only four or five feet wide. These sidewalks are overhung by odd metal balconies, such as you see in pictures of Spanish and other European cities. In this old section are the French Market, St. Louis Hotel, Napoleon's House, Jackson Square, St. Louis Cathedral, The Spanish Cabildo, The Presbytere and many other points of interest. At the French Market, which is three or four blocks long, you can buy anything in the shape of provisions. Meats are some cheaper here than in North Dakota, fish and oysters much cheaper and better, vegetables are all much cheaper with the exception of potatoes fruits are also cheaper, es pecially bananas. It is nothing to hear the banana men shouting "twenty-five fine, fresh yellow banan for a nickle." In walking through the French mar ket you could imagine yourself in a foreign land, as you hear more French, Spanish and Italian than you do Eng lish. The old St. Louis Hotel is being tori down, which is a pity, as it is one of the land-marks of the South. It was a four-story building and was the stopping place of all the wealthy planters on their visits to New Or leans. In the lobby of the hotel was the slave market in ante-bellum days and the platform on which they were sold can still be seen. This hotel was also the meeting place of the legisla ture in re-construction days and as the negroes were in the majority, it is a Common saying that "The white man sold the negro in the lobby while later the negro sold the white man in the legislature upstairs." Napoleon's House was built by friends of Emperor Napoleon, while he was in exile on the Island of St. Helena, and a plot was on foot to res cue him from St. Helena and set up an empire for him in Louisiana. Be-: fore this plan could be put into effect Napoleon died and only this house re mains to remind the descendants of his friends of what might have been. Fronting on Jackson Square on the left are St. Louis Cathedral, one of the oldest churches in America The Cabillo, which was the seat of the Spanish government The Presbytere, wnich was a sort of monastery and afterwards used as a court house and jail. These two buildings now con tain the Louisiana State Museum and they are well worth a visit. The old French Opera House also stands in this part of the city. It is not much used except for Grand Opera and for Carnival balls. It has a large seating capacity, but is far from being mod ern and is a fire trap. Canal street is 176 feet wide atid has 'five street car tracks. Every street car line in the city, with one exception, runs into Canal street. It is an ex tremely busy street and takes its name from the fact that it has a large drainage canal down the center of it. This used to be open, but is now cov ered and all street car tracks occupy the part of the street covering the canal. There are several other streets with the same arrangement. The question of drainage is an im portant one to the residents of this city and district. The annual rainfall is 59 inches, practically five feet, and as the city is below the level of the Mississippi river, all their drainage as well as sewage has to be pumped. TTie city is almost surrounded by water, as it has the Mississippi river on the east, south and west and Lake Pontchartrain on the north. This lake is a great help in the question of drainage and would add greatly to the safety of the city in case the levees should break along the Mississippi. For a while this spring the water in the river was at record height, There was never, however, any uneasiness in regard to the flood situation here, as the levees were absolutely safe here and any break higher up would drain into Lake Pontchartrain and out into the Gulf of Mexico. I had intended when I began, to write something about the great Mardi Gras Carnival, but this letter is already too long so I will not tire you longer. We expect to leave here a week from today for St Louis by boat. From there we will go to Chicago for a few days and we expect to arrive home about Easter ready to go to work again. We have been receiving the Inde pendent regularly while here and it was like a letter from home. You need not forward it any longer, as we will have no settled address. 27 of Cattie 27 One Milch Cow, 9 years old, bred. Two Milch Cows, 5 years old, one fresh in three weeks. One Red Milch Cow, 4 years old, fresh in January. Three Milch Cows, 3 years old, one fresh in April. Four Heifers, 2 years old, with calf. Five yearling Heifers. Three yearling Bulls. Three Heifer Calves. Four Bull Calves. One pedigree Shorthorn Bull, color dark red, with paper. II Head of Horses and Golfs One Black Mare, age 12 years, wt. 1400 lbs., with foal. One Black Mare, coming 5 years old, wt. 1400 lbs., with foal. One Bay Mare, age 11 years, wt. 1200 lbs. One Bay Gelding, age 11 years, wt. 1200 lbs. One Bay Mare, age 6 years, wt. 1350 lbs. One Gray Gelding, age 16 years, wt. 1500 lbs. One Chestnut Mare, wt. 1450 lbs. One Bay Horsecolt, age 1 year, wt. _1000 lbs. Two Horsecolts, roan and black, year old in June. One Mare Colt, 5 months old. JENSB. 71 1 Sincerely yours, A. J. McCANNEL. Whiskey Got Des Lacs Man in Trouble E. C. Pollock, assistant maintainer for the G. N. at Des Lacs, filled up on squirrel whiskey and drew a knife, threatening to decapitate and other wise injure Berry, the station agent. Pollock was held to the district court and was brot to Minot. All of his mail will be addressed to the county jail, for some time to come, it ap pears. Newlyweds Given Big Reception. Mr. and Mrs. W A Hunt, the Drady Newlyweds, were given a big recep tion at the Farmers' Club hall at Drady March 31, eighty of their friends gathering At 2 o'clock a big dinner was served and the afternoon was pleasantly spent in social inter course. The couple were presented two beautiful rocking chairs. Broyles-Durbin Nuptials. Patrick Durbin and Miss Ruby Broyles were united in marriage, Wed nesday, March 29, at the home of the bride's parents seven miles north of About Tke W f* Vi i" '4-. 00 J} JJ 6 Phone 103 R. D. 2 Burlington. Rev. T. U. Richmond, pastor of the Presbyterian church, of ficiated. Only the immediate relatives of the families were present. Miss Broyles is a charming young woman and the man of her choice is most worthy. The couple will reside at Des Lacs. Having rented my farm I will sell at public auction at my residence on Sec, 3-157-83, four miles south and seven miles west from Glenburn, and one mile north, and three miles west of the old Lynch postoffice, on Wednesday, April 12th, 1916 The following described personal property, to-wit: Sale to Start at 10 o'clock. Free Lunch at Noon Terms of Sale—«m« interest. 5% discount for cash on all sums oyer $10.00. All property must be settled for before being removed. Col. H. J. Hecht, Auctioneer. Ed. S. Healy, Clerk See Me Tke silotkais Tl^ht AS Dickey Silo CEE dbo* mi «tf 4m Hn •t priata, dmwnf* torn* ate, oa application ryoMc— wrin d» dfrct it pm wm* to—d* W. 5, Kmn*City. Mo. ttf Farm Machinery One Deering Binder, 8-ft., new in-1915. One Acme Binder, 8-ft. One McCormick Binder, 8-ft. One Best Ever Gang Plow, new in Spring of 1915. One Defiance Gang Plow. One Defiance Sulky. One VanBrunt Double Disc Drill. One Imperial Single Disc Drill. One 4-horse Harrow.. One Disc. One Harrow Cart. One Deering Mower, new in 1915. One Deering Mower, used three years. One Champion Mower. One McCormick Hay Rake. One Heavy Wagon, 125-bu. Grain Tank. One Wide Tire Wag One Buggy. One Narrow Wagon and Hay Rack. Two Bobsleds, one new in Fall of 1915. One 1-horse Cultivator. One David Bradley Corn Planter. One Blacksmith Outfit. Two 55-gallon Steel Barrels. Two Cream Churns. Three sets Work Harness. One Galloway Cream Separator. One Goodrich Sewing Machine. Some Household Goods and other Articles too numerous to mention. 'agon. sums of $10.00 and under, cash. On sums over that amount, will be given until Oct. 1.1916, on bankable paper bearing 10% 1 DicUjr Clap life Co, •THIS tht olo that lasU forever. Bull «l Vitrified, Salt-gUz«d. Mow OayRadul HkH Steel Reinforced. Fwr wait in Smooth waBi, Refrigerator doors, etc AIR-TIGHT, mouture-proof, acid-pioof, tform-proof, wind-proof, vennin-proof, proof. No painting or washing. /*\NCE built, always buik,Cttar- ^s_=_ anteed. No up-keep coat See The Dickey Silo *bout thu* Itathe best silo built ""RiUit as acJuk" O. K. SPIRES AGENT Burlington, N". D. Optic-Reporter Buys Large Press. The Minot Daily Optic-Reporter has ordered a large Cox Duplex press at a cost of $5,000, which will be installed within a few weeks. The Optic-Re porter will add a morning edition as soon as the press is installed and make other improvements. If r# S