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if^'15®| pU Pi •,£ S PH PI ti-j mi tn K-gJAVv ppr I|3 •3. !w.: u. SiiiM if^r.",.' feSri?^•" »V^ Tv jff Items of Interest Picked Up AW Over the State. Seeding is being rushed generally, throughout the state. Friends ot Editor Tattle of the Mandan Pioneer report that he is to liave a consulship to Germany, at least so it is published. There are whole lot of North Da iota towns making goo-goo eyes at Andrew Carnegie, since l.e donated {20,000 to Fargo tor a library. M. H. Jewell of the Tribune de sires the city council of Bismarck to grant him a telephone franchise. Alexander Hughes also desires a similar franchise. N. F. Boucher has been reap pointed warden of the penitentiary board. The board evidently doesn't take much stock in the statement of exconvicts about poor grub and harsh treatment. The Fargo Forum says that if any body doubts the richness of our North Dakota soil let them inspect the streets of Fargo. And we al ways thought that the streets were paved in that town. The Harvey Advertiser is running a "Knox" column and it you ever Tead warm stuff in your life there is where you get it. They have to wet the paper to keep it from burning up as it goes through the press. The town of Buffalo, in which large portion of the business block Was wiped out by fire last fall, is ex periencing a building boom, several Dew buildings being in course of con struction and contracted for. Buffalo business men will build better than *ever. The election in Bismarck was close shave for the Patterson crowd, their candidate only bein? elected by -one majoriiy, and tne Tribune says that there were less fraudulent votes cast than at any election ever held in the city—which is honest of Jewell who was defeated. President Worstof the Agriculture al college at Fargo denies the report that students afflicted with smallpox have been sent home from the insti tution. The students became il Went home and smallpox appeared Had it been known that the students had smallpox they would have been sent to the Fargo pest house. Gen. W, D. Washburn has decided to extend the line of the Bismarck Washburn and Great Falls railway as far as Washburn this season. The distance is 17 miles and the new line will be completed in time to handle the new crop this year. The. sena tor will also establish a free' ferry across the river at Washburn Many of the teachers of North Da kakota are finding it hard to use the examination questions sent out by the department. There no doubt will be a tendency with some teach ers to drill the pupils especially for these examinations. Don't do it The questions are all right, but it will take some time to get your school in harmony with the course of study In the meantime educate, don't pour knowledge on the pupil and the questions will soon "fit."—Fingal Herald. The Soo railroad will probably be extended into Fargo this season, it is announced, and there is also talk of running a branch line through Cass, Steele, Griggs and Foster counties to Connect with the main line at Car rington. It is thought by some en fbnsiasts that if the Soo runs into Fargo, the main line will be made to ran through that place but we guess not The road would be obliged to make another crossing of the Sheyenne valley in that case and it Would cost too much.—Patriot. BALD HILL MasterArtbur Burns, of Coop er stown, who has been doing some pretty hard studying for the last few months, spent last week's school vacation with Geo. 1 dills. Arthur is a very diligent pupil and undoubtedly enjoyed he rest. County Superintendent Clara iering visited Geo. W. Graff's school last Tuesday, notwith standing the inclemency of the weather. Individuals with such exceptional learning as Miss Fier ing possesses are surely highly prized school visitors. Mr. and Mrs. Ole Bakke went to Hannaford last Wednesday to do their spring purchasing. Miss Mabel Mills was visiting with friends feorth of Coopers tcwn this week. We do not know much about the young lady as a hostess but as a skilled mathe matician we will be a voucher. The Misses Holland and Mi chealis and Otto Lemke were vis itors at school No. 2 last Friday. We can assure them that their visit was greatly appreciated. We think it would be a capital idea for the school board of Bald Hill to take steps toward provid ing the different schools in the district with libraries. A suita ble school library could be main tained at a very small expense,, and the time is not far away when a school without a library will be regarded as one now with out blackboards, maps, charts and other apparatus used for educational instruction. The benefits derived from a school li brary are manifold. For the sake of breyity we will quote but a few, which may be enumerated as follows: 1. It inculcates the habit of taking good care of pub lic property, a habit sorely neg lected by our citizens. 2. It leads the pupil to see that reading has other purposes than merely learning to recognize symbols. 3, It is essential to enable the teacher to cultivate the right habits in reading. 4. It fur nishes abundant material for supplementary reading. Just think of the idea of having a sim ple'reader furnishing the basis of a child's reading for a whole year! Why, it is enough to drive a child into imbecility, and it is no wonder that so many poor readers exist among the country pupils. They think that reading has no value outside the school room, and when they have dis continued to go to school they do not read, if at all, beyond the lo cal page of the county newspaper and then they manage to secure a misinterpretation of that. Is the teacher supposed to furnish this extra reading material? If he did he would surely be com pellecl to neglect his board bill and would be constrained to leave self improvement go unattended to for the lack of funds to pur chase necessary works on educa tion. Now if the school board would appropaiate $5 a year for the different schools in the town ship for the maintenance of a li brary I think in the course of time they would be possession of very good school libraries, and the small amount of extra taxes each patron would have to pay would sink into insignificance when compared with the benefits their children would derive from the use of the same. Come,gen tlemen, put your shoulder to the wheel. Mrs. O. Ashland called ou Mrs. Fugelstad last Thursday. Herman J. Michealis, an enter prising young farmer of this sec tion. took a vacation last Thurs day and visited School No. 2. He says he enjoyed the visit. They say that some of the girls of Bald HU1 do not like to waltz. Further information may be had from Sam for the asking. Mr. and Mrs. Michaelis visited their daughter, Mrs. Win. Trost, of Jessie. They report things kind of quiet in that part of the country. SAM VOL. 19 No. 13. COOPERSTOWN. GRIGGS COUNTY. N. D. THURSDAY APRIL 11, toot -rf^% ,V/*, Of the County Commission' *rs of Griggs County. Board met in accordance with law thhi 1st dav of April A D, 1901. All members of board present. The minutes Of last meeting we»e read and approved. On motion made, seconded and car ried the following bills were allowed: Gull River Lumber Co., for fuel $7: for cistern repai.-s $5.56, total .......... 12 56 Walker Bros, for blanks 3 40 W Martin, for repairing cistern, etc ••••••...*... 10 00 Ole Bakken, county treasurer. for clean nit- valves f810 expres8 $2.90, total 11 00 Nic Green, for clerk lure— treasurers and auditor* of flee 120 00 Clara Peiring, for mileage $32 13, for postage and express $9.35, total ... 41 48 N Brown, for service as engineer 49 16 Anton Enger for merchandise for courthouse 27 95 John Syverson, for office sup plies 82.60, for oil $9.00, for merchandise for poor $25.05 total 36 65 North Dakota Book Co., for session laws 4 50 Sathertw.aite & Knight, for as sessment supplies and record books 254 75 N A Bergstrom for services as coroner—case of Anna Kaus 3 20 A. M. Sinclair presented bills for burial caskets furnished Frank Mayer aud L. G. Ltrsou and expenses in curred in the burial of said parties, amounting in all to $95.20. It was moved and seconded that the bill be rejected, which said motion was carried. Moved and seconded that Howard Wilson be appointed appraisor of the value of 2 estray horses taken up Chris Erlandson. Motion carried. Moved and seconded that the follow ing plxces be established as the places fur holding chattel mortgage sales: at White and Baums schoolhouse in township of Dover, at Brekke's livery barn in the village of Hannaford at Thingelstad & Borgerson Bros livery barn in the village of Cooperstown at Homness postoffice in the town of Bomness and at Amundson's livery barn at Binford. Carried. On motion made, seconded and car ried John Ebentier was appointed road overseer in town 146, range 61. Moved and seconded that -each per son shall destroy upon all land which he shall own or occupy, all weeds of the kind kuown as Canada thistle, cocklebur, mustard, wild oats, French weed and Russian cactus, at such time and 'n such manner as shall effectu ally prevent their bearing seed. The time for destroying such weeds 6hall be between the 15tb day of June and the 1st day of September A. D. 1901, and the manner in which same shall be destroyed as follows to-wit: by pulling up, piling and burning or by plowing under. Motion carried. Thinglestad biil for jailor and janitor salary $78 for posting elec tion notices $7 boarding, washing for prisoners $69.90 for mileage to rela lives of Anna Kaasa $5.00, total $159. 90, was on motion allowed. On motion the following refund ments of school poll was made the s%me having been paid twice: Thomas Trueman $1.00: Thorn Olson $1.00. On motion board adjourned to meet April 2d, 1901 at 9 o'clock a. Board met pursuant to adjournment this 2d day »f April A. D. 1901 All members present. Moved and seconded that a bounty of $2.C0 be offered for each and every wolf or coyote killed within the coun ty. Motion carried. On motion the following bills were allowed: John Fosholdt services as county commissioner ...... 13 80 Chas Nelson services*, as coun ty commissioner .V. 7 50 Joe Buchheit services akcoun ty commissioner 19 00 Howard Wilson services as county commissioner 8 30 W A Adams digging grave. V. 6 00 On motion board adjourned to meet May 18th, 1901 at 9 o'clock a. P. A. C°UDty A\| Au tor. HANNAFORD. The following pupils have beek neither absent nor tardy during1 the month of March 1901: Advanced department—Isaoell Groven, Ella Jackson. Edgar 01 ton, Clara Jackson. &§&Sl Saturday. We had a groat surprise today When we sat down to dine, Wben floor was scrubbed and windows washed And work all done up fine. For who should come a stalking In But uncle Joe from Maine. He'd given up a sailor's life- And had come borne again. He said while he had been the cook, He worked out a new plan Of washing dishes by machine. That's run by boy or man. A11 engine small and toiler too. Was bolted to the stove, And when the thing had got -up steam. A stream of water drove. With such a force that dishes nil Were washed by steam you see, Aud were as clean and shiniiig bright. As dishes well could lie. He'd hud a wooden covered sink. With screen placed on below And on to this pipe wiis fixed That cnusHt the water's flow. The dishes nil were placed on edge With wire screens between. And tluis he said lie washed tliem up. And left them wondrous clean. Then mot her here commenced to speak. And she went on to suy, "How is it that you wipe them. .loo. When wushed in such way?" "Wipe them"? echoed uuclc Joe. 0::•..••• 'That's seen with half an eye. For when the dishes have cooled off •,, They're clean awlalso dry." r- Aud now the cycle of a week Of mother's labors hard. Has brought again our Saturday night Once sung by Scotland's bard. And ere we put our pen aside. And from our labors rest We ask that God may hear our prayer, And grant this one request: Deur Father, friend of those who work As well as those who mourn, Send other aids to lift the yoke! That mother love has born." II. Dazey Congregational Church Resolutions. Whereas, God in his infinite wisdom has seen fit to remove from our midst our beloved brother, William Curtis, Be it therefore Resolved, That in the death of our Brother Cur tis, the church JLoses a faithful member, the community a re spected, citizen and his family a loving father and husband. Be it also Resolved, That we extend our sympathy to the be reaved family in this their hour of affliction. 'f\ pV Be it further Resolved, That these resolutions be spread up on the minutes of our church register. L. S. PIERCE, ED. LADBURY, W, A. BAKER, E Taylor, Louise Kaas, Minnie Gunderson, Bertha Zimmerman, Mrs. L. A. Spicer. Misses McHugh, Guisness and Jennie Hagen visited with the teachers. The meeting was call ed for the purpose of deciding what work to pursue at the sum mer training school, and the best time of holding the school, it seems that three weeks during July will suit best. Prof. L. M. Abbott, of Cooperstown, will conduct the school assisted by some primary teacher not yet decided upon. ,'gr Among the things which will be insisted upon in the future is improvement through the per formance of reading circle work. This work must be done system atically and satisfactorily from year to year by all teachers. At Vihe summer school more d^f .'ute nnouncements will be made re ive to the reading circle work fo\- the coming school year. JOHN SYVERSON. President. isiiBii Committee. Teachers' Meeting. At the teachers' meeting held at the courthouse April 6th, the following teachers were present: Daisy Smithers, Thea Hagen, Caroline Halvorson, Frances Palmetier, Clara Greenland, Ada Piatt, Lillian Haskell, Nettie Haley, Alihea Haggerty, Edith Anderson, Grace Houghton, A Jones, A Mclnnes, Hagen, Winona Tipton, Anna Nelson, Clara Nelson, Mary Tollefson, #4llSpl Zx&r •$ rm I will have constantly on hand all varieties of Garden seeds, Grass seed, Millet, Corn, etc. Siberian Millet, Hungarian Millet, Southern Grown German Millet. Early Fortune Millet. Giant or Hog Millet. Early Mercer, Triumph, Minnesota King, King Phillip, White Flint and Giant Fodder corn. Timothy, Red and White Clover, Blue Grass and Red Top grass seeds. Bromo Inermus. Dwarf Essex Rape. All varieties Peas, Beans, etc, in bulk. D. M. Ferry 1900 onion seed the best frown onion sets. Northrup King & Co.'s garden seeds-2 pack ets for a nickel. 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