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Vol. 19 Number 47 E. ELLISON, PROMINENT MINOT MERCHANT, DIED WEDNESDAY FUNERAL TO BE HELD FRIDAY Engie B. Ellison, senior member of E. Ellison & Sons, owners of The Fair Store, died at 2 a. m. Wednesday at the Ellison home, 16 Fifth avenue southwest, after an illness of some three months. He went to Roches ter, Minn., some three months ago seeking relief thru an operation/ re turning to Minot the fore part of January. For a time it was hoped that he might recover but his advanc ed age served as a handicap and he gradually grew worse. His condition became serious last week and death this morning was not unexpected. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon, services at the First Lutheran church at 3 p. m., with the Rev. T. F. Gul lixson officiating. Interment will take place in the Lutheran cemetery. Mr. Ellison was born in Norway, in 1847, coming Aa this country with his parents when three years old. and settling near Decorah, Iowa. When 18 years old he went to Chatfield, Minn., and- enlisted in Co. H, Fourth Minnesota Volunteers in the spring of 1804. He was a member of the Fifth Army Corps of the army of the Mis sissippi and was a member of Sher man's army on its march to the sea. He served with distinction and was honorably discharged June 12, I860, when he was mustered out at Fort Snelling. He was married to Miss Olivia Hoft'os June 14, 1879, at De corah and the same yetr they moved to Fargo, then^ in Dakota Territory. Mr. Ellison entered business in Fargo and was one of the first merchants in the Red River alley section of North Dakota. In February, 1902, Mr. El lison disposed of his interests in Far go and came to Minot, where he and his sons established The Fair Store. While of late years Mr. Ellison turn ed the responsibilities of his business in Minot over to his sons he retained an active interest and until taken ser iously ill spent most of his time in his office. Few citizens have been more fortu nate in business ventures in Minot than Mr. Ellison and* his aim was to fccrnp his store well up to the demands ofMinot people despite the city's rap id growth. His personality had much to do with his success and his passing is almost a personal bereavement to people of Minot and this section of the state whose friendship he cultivat ed during the years he spent in this city. He was a valued member of the First Lutheran church. Mrs. Ellison who had shared with him the trials of pioneer, days in Da ota Territory and the success which marked his business in Minot, died Jan. 17, last. She had accompanied Mr. Ellison to Rochester, Minn., and contracted a severe cold while there. Pneumonia developed on their return to Minot and caused her death a few days later. Two sons, Dr. Edward Ellison and Wilhelm Ellison pre-de ceased their parents and are buried in the Lutheran cemetery in Minot where their mother was buried and where Mr. Ellison will be buried Fri day. SuMving are two daughters and three soiis. The daughters are Mrs. Gertrude Elisabeth Davick, wife of The Rev. C. Davick of Wyndmere, N. D., and Mrs. Ruth Claire Mac Gregor- wife of Donald MacGregor of Hooper, Wash. Both daughters and their husbands are now in Minot. The sons are J* Norman Ellison, Otto C. laillMin and Hildor B. Ellison, all of Minot. Mr. BUison was elected commander of Minot's Abraham Lincoln G. A. R. post at a recent meeting. Members of tiie G. A. R. post will attend the funeral in a body. PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURA TION IN MAGIC CITY Event Will Be Staged in Minot Fri day Night—Professional and Bus iness Men Will Impersonate the Parts. An event of unique and unusual in terest is planned for Friday 1 night, March 4—a date of striking signifi cance in American affairs. The in auguration taking place in Washing ton that day is to be reproduced, and played with variations. Leading bus iness and professional men of the community will impersonate the characters who are now coming into national prominence. Men for these parts have been selected because of physical likeness to the character tliey impersonate and also their abil ity to represent the office they are supposed to fill. Ike Chief Justice, which office will be filled by Attorney C. "B. Bach, will administer the oath-of office to the President and Vice-President and they will make inaugural addresses. He ^11 then introduce the members of the President's cabinet, who will give short speeches of acceptance and spill a bit of their wisdom as to what they think should be done in'their de partments. Wit and wisdom will in. termingle, and it will be a night long to be remembered. It is expected that R. A. Nestos will take the part of President Harding, though he is Gut of the city and can not be seen today. Attorney Verne Stenersen will impersonate Vice Pres ident Coolidge. Attorney John E. Greene will appear as Secretary of State, M. R. Porter of the Scandinav ian-American bank will act as Secre- E. ELLISON tary of the Treasury and tell us what should be done in the financial situa tion. Attorney Thomas Murphy will assume the responsibilities of Attor ney General. Attorney Jim Johnson will be our next Secretary of War. G. D. Colcord of the Independent will play Haover's popular part as Secre tary of Commerce. The position of Postmaster General will be well fill ed by our own Postmaster, Fred An derson. C. W. Mason, editor of the Daily News, will assume the important position of Secretary of Agriculture. W. M. Smart will put across a pro gram for the Secretary of Labor. The position of Secretary of the Interior will be well taken care of by the prin cipal of the high school, Prof. J. H. Colton. It is expected the High School band, under the leadership of Prof. John Howard, will provide the music. If the high school team draws for a basket ball game Friday night, other music will be provided. Mr. Ira Rush is organizing i\. .eompany of soldiers and sailors who in uniform %ill give dignity to the ceremonies. Miss Hazel McCulloch of the Nor mal school faculty will head a group of women who will make demands for the recognition of the modern woman in government. There will be other features introduced in the nature of surprises which will add pep and fun to the program. J. K. Woodward, decorator for the Fair Store, is superintending a group of assistants in erecting a platform and putting up appropriate decora tions for this unusual event, in the auditorium |of Vincent Mjethqdist church, where the program is to be put on. This coming event is creating a great deal of interest thruout the community, and no doubt hundreds of people will avail themselves of the opportunity of witnessing a Presiden tial inauguration. The Home Mak ers, which is a group of nearly a hun dred young married people in the Methodist church, are promoting the enterprise and they are anxious to make it a real community event. Celebrated Golden Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. White The W. R. C. held an unusually in teresting meeting Tuesday, Mrs. Ida Youngman presiding. Sixteen appli cations for membership were receiv ed. After the business session a so cial hour was enjoyed. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. White having been married 50 years, a Golden Wedding program was enjoyed. Mrs. May Palda acted as the parson. Messrs. H. C. Bemis and T. C. Conklin supported the groom while Mrs. Conklin and Mrs. Marie Olson were the bridesmaids. Mrs. W. D. Wilson and Mrs. Minnie Bakeman were the little flower girls and scattered flowers. Mrs. R. H. Emerson, in behalf of the W. R. C., presented the bride with a gold brooch and the groom with a gold pencil. Mr. White thanked the Corps in a very pleasing manner. Mrs. Luehe sang "I Love You Truly," and, "Silver Threads Among the Gold," with Mrs. Hancock at the piano. Mrs. Hancock also gave a reading which was thoroly enjoyed by all. At the close, of the program, the hostesses, Mesdames Dell Dennis, Hurd, Lytle, Bertha Edwards, Ida Youngman, Pearl Bragg and Maud Mouck served a delicious luncheon. Five veterans were present, H. C. Bemis, T. A. Callahan, Rev. H. W. A. Mergel, T. C. Conklin and J. D. White. The next regular meeting will be on Tuesday, Mar. 15, with Mrs. O. P. Stewart, Margaret West, Marie Ol son and Delia Hunt as hostesses. French War Bride Likes Minot Mrs. Jim Y. Robey, a French war bride, and her husband are now resi dents of Minot, her husband having been employed by one of the railroads for some time. Mr. Robey, form erly of Mohall, while with the over seas forces, met a charming little French lady in Paris and married her. She accompanied Mr. Robey to Amer ica and has learned to speak Eng lish in 1 1/2 years quite well. Shi is delighted with America, and has never been homesick for "gay Pares". Minot, msVM OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF WARD COUNTY AND THE CITY OF MINOT THE WARD COUNTY INDEPENDENT This Issue 16 Pages THE INDEPENDENT HAS THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY WEEKLY IN THE STATE FIRST SECTION Ward County, North Dakota, WOT MERCHANTS WILL GIVE GREAT BARGAINS ON DOLLAR DAY MARCH 12 1 The businessmen of Minot will give the greatest bargains since the pre war period at the big Dollar Day celebration to- be held here Satur day- March 12. Practically every store, restaurant, hotel, bank, plumbing shop, etc. haa arranged to give some exceedingly irood bargains for that day, as you will note by watching the advertising columns of the Independent this week. Many of the merchants who have not prepared their Dollar Day advertis ing copy for this week's-Independent will do so for our issue next week, which will go into the mails early in order that it may reach the rural districts in good time to acquaint everybody with the splendid bargains offered. The windows of the places offering Dollar Day bargains will carry appro priate banners. There will be many interesting displays. There will be many unique offerings. The Town Criers Club of Minot are the sponsors for the Dollar Day cele Sueur on a good many things, his let ter sounds very reasonable and we print it in hopes that it may be of as sistance in bringing the state out of its present state of financial chaos: One faction of the Independent Vot I ers' association claims that the trou I ble North Dakota is in today js caus ed by the Nonpartisan program, that it must be abandoned, lock, stock and barrel. Another faction of the In dependent Voters association con tends that the program, if strictly managed by honest men instead of by the Nonpartisans, who, they claim, have been utterly dishonest as well as incompetent. A third major con tention is made by the Nonpartisans that all of the difficulties experienced by North Dakota are caused by op position and attacks of the I. V. A. and "Big Business"—whatever that is. I wish to call the attention of the people of North Dakota as widely as possible to this fact that the trouble which North Dakota is experiencing now is. in the main, due—not to the program so far as it relates to mills, elevators, b&nlc and hail insurance in themselves—but is caused by two things in connection with this: First, the program is being con trolled and managed by politicians and not by experts or businessmen, 4nd as heretofore pointed out, when ever an attempt is made to operate industries or actively administer them by politicians, one of two things must happen, either parties in charge of the industries, when they are put there as politicians, will be bad poli ticians and be kicked out because they are bad administrators. Apparently, they have been good politicians in North Dakota, so far, but bad admin istrators. To be good politicians, they must be bad administrators. The Results of political administration which have been exposed, (bat not cause) by the I. V. .A., were fore told two years ago when I tried to prevent the adoption of that policy. There is only one solution which will permit of a fair trial of the pro gram and at the same time remedy the intolerable conditions that exist in the state, first, let the legislature stop playing politics on both sides and get together to take the bank and the industries out of politics,. to be administeted hereafter by impartial boards of experts governing the dif ferent industries, that is to say, one board for the mills, if the^mills are continued, one board for the elevators, and one bdard for the bank. If the legislature canno\ agree upon allow ing either, the governor or the indus trial commission to appoint the boards, let them be appointed by the governor alone, subject to approval by the joint bration. Every Dollar Day adver tisement will be carefully read by a committee from the club so the pub lic will he sur of getting exactly ths bargains advertised. The Dollar of late years has not had a very large buying value, but the prices of many things have re turned very close to the pre-war stan dard. An- immense crowd will undoubted ly visit Minot on Saturday, March 12. The merchants naturally are making a bid for your business, but they are meeting you in the open, placing their wares before you and offering to give you the best trade in years for your dollars. It will surprise you to learn what a dollar will buy for you in Minot on Saturday, March 12. John Howard has arranged to be out with his band duing the day, giv ing concerts in front of the stores ad vertising Dollar Day bargains. More complete detail3 of the big Dollar Day celebration wil! appear in our next issue. LE SUEUR'S PLANS TO CONTINUE PROGRAM AND FIX FINANCES The Independent prints 9 letter written by Arthur LeSueur, former Minot lawyer and President of the city commission and for years a North I Dakota Socialist. LeSueur has been one of Townley's chief supporters un til a year or so ago when he broke with him because of a difference in opinion. LeSueur is now as much in favor of the Nonpartisan league pro gram as he ever was. While the In dependent has disagreed with Mr. Le vote of the house and senate. If this cannot be agreed upon, then let the house and the senate in joint session appoint these boards and put them in for long terms of office subject to I removal for cause only. Second, limit by law the activities of the Bank of North Dakota, as fol lows: To a land loan bank with the right to do an unlimited business in real estate loans. To handle the state funds but not other public funds, and act as fiscal agent of the state's industries. For the time being no other indus tries should be launched or attempted, until such time as the mill and ele vator at Grand Forks and the bank have been put on a sound, self-sus taining basis of proven success. There should be absolute separation of the management of the mill and" elevator systems, the mills not being nearly as likely to succeed as the elevators, and the facts in reference to this should specifically agree to this. With this as the declared policy of the state in which all the factions agree, there will be no question about the rehabilitation of the credit of the state. North Dakota's acres are as fertile as heretofore her people are as sober and industrious, and as cap able of creating wealth, and the real cause of her difficulties lies in the bitter and insane factional fight that has been carried to such extremes, to gether with the utterly mistaken pol icy of having industries administer ed by politicians. Any member of the house or senate, or any public officer, who refuses to meet this sort of a proposition is guilty of the most grievous offense against the interests of the epople of the State of North Dakota and will merit the utter at tempt of every citizen in the state. Take your industries out of .poli tics. Give the people of your state a chance to live. The I. V. A. members know that the people demand a trial of this program on a san, conserva tive basis. If it fails, Jreryone will be satisfied to abandon it if it suc ceeds, no one will want to destroy it, and if it is abandoned now without a fair trial, the farmers of the state will never rest until some method of giving it a fair trial has been arrived at. Why not recognize these plain facts and act upon them as rational human beings should? Arthur LeSueur. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 16. North Dakota Elks Association Or ganized The North Dakota Elks Association was organized in Minot Saturday. The conference was called by John J. Coyle, of Minot, district deputy of the B. P. 0. Elks of North Dakota. A constitution was adopted and the fol lowing officers elected: President—C. P. Brown, Fargo. Secretary-Treasurer—R. W. Bas sett, Valley City. Trustees Frank Brown, Grand Forks Chas. Doyon, Devils Lake J. B. Atkinson, Minot. Each lodge will be assessed 10 cents a. year per capita to sustain the state organization. The purpose of the state organization Is to coordinate the work of the various Elks lodges. Thursday, March 3, 1921 Subscription $2.00 Per Annum ROTARY CELEBRATES 16TH BIRTHDAY OF ORGANIZATION Virginian Visits Native State The following from the Green Coun ty Record, Standardsville, Va., will be read by Mr. Miller's many friends in this section of the state: "Lieut. Lee Miller, of Granville, North Dakota, who has been a most welcome guest to this, his native county, left this week for his home. While here Lieut. Miller found the latchstrings of both relatives and friends hanging outside conspicuous ly for him. He is a remarkably well preserved man for his years he will be 81 years April 14. He does not show the slightest feebleness and did a good deal of walking while on his visit from choice. He said when remonstrated with on this score that he felt better when he stirred about some. Mr. Miller left here in 186 and went to Missouri, and from there he went to North Dakota and now I lives only 40 miles from the Canadian* I line. While visiting here his wife visited her mother at Marshall, Mo. Mr. Miller will stop for her on his way back home. Mr. Miller left Green with the first military company that entereil the civil war from Greene. Capt. Frank McMullan was at its head. Later ('apt. Finks Cattertou was in com I mand and afterwards Capt. New combe McMullan. Mr. Miller enter ed the service as a sergeant and rose to first lieutenant. He was in the first battle of Manassas, was wound ed through both legs just below the thighs at the second Bull Run serim mage, which kept him home a year, and yet went back and served with his company until the close of the war, having been in many battles in Virginia and North Carolina. His brother, Theodore, a njember of the same company, was killed at the bat fie of the Wilderness in which he himself participated. Mr. Miller has three sons, Robert Lee, in North Dakota C. I)., in Ar kansas, and Theodore, in California. It has been 27 years since he had been on a visit to his old home. All unite in the wish that he may come soot again. He is the type of the fine: iold Virginia gentleman, the lustre of which has not worn off in the slight est by his choice of a home in a dis tant state." "Colored Trade -Not Solicite'i." Editor Independent: It seems by an article in Tuesday's Daily News that someone in Minot is catering for cheap notoriety in making a campaign against the "Col ored Trade Not Solicited" signs dis played in some of the restaurants in our* city. The News Reporter puts it this way: "Why make sport of our police department by openly defying their order to take down such signs?" Our question: Why make such ai. order! What/ one of our city com missioners would give a public invi tation to the colored people to me into their homes and sit at their ta ble and eat with their family? I ven ture to say not one. Now there are many of our citizens that have 110 other place to eat except in our res taurants, and they are surely entitled to a little consideration. & Further, the restaurant in question has a considerable patronage who ex press themselves as perfectly satisfied to see such sign displayed, and who openly say that if the sign comes down they will go elsewhere to be served. So that the whole matter! goes back to the complaint of one sin gle individual, who has not even the record of being a good law-abiding 6it-, izen, but is at the present time under I indictment for a statutory charge. I Furthermore it seems that if such a mild hint is offensive to the colored citizen he will take his patronage elsewhere, for by no stretch of the imagination can the colored citizen be compelled to go into a place where such a sign is exhibited. Very respectfully, THOMAS HECKER. Yeggs Blow Safe of Blaisdell State Bank Monday Night Yeggs entered the Blaisdell State Bank at Blaisdell, Mountrail county, shortlyi after midnight Monday night, by .prying open the front door, then blew off the door of the big safe with nitro-glycerine, escaping with their booty. The safe contained $1,200 in cash and $10,500.00 in securities and it is believed the yeggs got away with all of this, altho the cashier, E. O. Lukkasson, would not make an inves tigation until the arrival of C. W. Mc Fadden, secretary of the North Da kota Bankers Association. A woman living near the bank heard an explos ion at 12:30 o'clock. At 6:30 that evening three men in a Cadillac car entered Blaisdell and bought gasoline. It is believed that these men blew the safe. Jourgen Olson of Minot is president of the bank and John Werner of Bur lington is vice president. Walter Anderson Arrested Ford Buried in Strawstack Walter Anderson was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Vandeftoever at the place where he worked three miles northwest of Benedict, charged with stealing a Ford roadster from Mr. Zimmerman of Minot, from in front of the Orpheum theatre in December. Anderson and the car were brot Minot. It is' said that the car was hidden in a straw stack all winter and was not injured in the least. Ander son tried to sell the car in Sawyer for $200. *,. The Minot Rotary Club celebrated the 16th anniversary of Rotary at the Association of Commerce rooms Tuesday, Rotarians and wives to the number of eighty attending. The banquet was served by the Episcopal ladies who had arranged the table very prettily with garlands. Sixteen candles adorned the tables. Dr. Archie 1). McCannel, president of the Minot "Rotary, was chairman America was sung and the invocation given by Rev. Peter W. Erickson. The sergeant-at-arms collected several fines from Rotarians coming in late, or neglecting to call others by then first names or for refusing to do some stunt. The tines will be used fot Hoys' Work. Ed A. Shirley introduced the new member, Soren J. Rasmussen. Ira I. Jones read a carefully prepared papet on Rotary as instruction for the can didate and Winfield M. Smart deliver ed a masterful address o"n the prin ciples of the organization. Every man has some talent, which permits him to do a certain work better than any other man in the world. Rotary heljjs him to discover that talent, he said*, and to make good use of it, for the common good. Mrs. Leslie A. White spoke 011 "A Woman's Impression of Rotary" Mrs. White is a delightful speaker, her stories being apropos and hei witticisms very clever. This was on of the best numbers of the evening Glenn Colcord gave a verbal chalk talk, calling attention to the traits of certain Rotarians. Rev. Peter W. Erickson delivered an eloquent ad dress on "The Heart of Rotary" Music numbers were given by Mis: Martha Reishus who sang two num bers, one of them "Out where tin west begins", a very appropriate sel ection. Miss Reishus is one of Mi not's favockg* singers. J. Herbert Colton sang two numbers, accompa nied by Mrs. Colton. John Howard gave a violin solo with his usual pep. playing "On the back seat of the ol' Henry Ford", with such effect that he was compelled to go round the block again. A group of Rotary songy were sung, the solo work being ren dered by Harry Winters, Aksel Brats berg, and Dave Mair, the Rotarians joining in the singing. Fred Upton sang "'Little Brown .Jug",-with violin obligato. A feature of the evening was tin presentation of a picture of President McCannel by Henry Wilson, a chair man. of the Boys' Work Committee. The frame had been built from fence boards by some jack-knife carpenter. Miss Agnes O'Connor, dramatic teacher in the city schools contribut ed much to the efltertainment with her pretty aesthetic dancing. Wni Clarke gave the ladies the Rotary mental toast, pronouncing them al most equal to the men. A feature of the evening was the cutting of the immense Rotary birth day cake. It was a beautiful affair prepared by the Episcopal ladies. Six teen little candles adorned it and it made one's mouth water. President McCannel was given the honor of cut ting the cake but passed it along to the new candidate. The cake prov ed to be a big pasteboard box, beauti fully frosted. President. McCannel stated that the Rotary now comprises over 800 clubs with 65,000 members, many of the clubs being in foreign counties. It. was organized in Chicago 16 years ago and was called "Rotary" because the club "rotated" their meetings among the business offices of the members. No Rotary club has evei yet surrendered its charter. They have a higher percentage of attend ance than any other organization made up of business and professional men, the average attendance in the clubs of the United States and Canada for December being 77.40. The Mi not Rotary was organized three years next May and has 51 members. The limited membership plan is one of the founHr.tions of "Rotary's strength. The Rotary motto is "He Profits Most who Serves Best". Old Friend of Bratsberg Secures Nobel 1 Prize Aksel Bratsberg of the Union In surance Agency, received a personal card from his old friend, Knut Ham sum, who has just received the Nobel prize for literature. Mr. Hamsuni I resides A Norholmen, near Christi ania and Mr. Bratsberg knew him I well in Norway. Mr. Bratsberg says that Mr. Hamsum went thru more hardships in his early days than per haps any other writer known. He came to America in the early 90's and worked on a farm near Fargo, N. studying American rural life. He held a job but a short time as he ap peared to be the victim of wanderlust I He has written many of our best books which have been translated into the Russian, French, German, English and I Spanish languages. He writes main ly of his own experiences. He has written several plays. Mr. Brats berg has received his latest book, I printed in Norwegian. Five Nobel prizes of $48,000 are given each year 'for literature, chemistry, peace work and medicine. John Trulson of Coulee, N. D., was in the city Wednesday. He formerly resided in Minot, working in. the Mar 1 tin Jacobson hardware store for two I years.. Mr. Trulson was one of the (owners of the Baden townsite when ,that town as first started.