Golden Valley chronicle., October 16, 1914, Image 4

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To My Farmer Friends and Voters Of
Golden Valley County, N. Dak.
We are on the eve of election,
and more or less of interest is
centered in our several candidates
No doubt there will be some mis
takes ide in our choosing the
men to the several offices to which
they are elected. But even if
that is true, time passes and the
change to remedy our mistakes
comes quickly in another elec
tion.
But all interest is now intense
in the fact that the voters of Gol
den Valley County are having
submitted to them the privilege
of selecting the town in which
shall be located the court house
for said county. Every voter
should study his own personal
advantage and exercise the right
of franchise accordingly.
We have in our choice of elec-1 privilege
tion. 'Beach and Sentinel Butte.
Sentinel Butle has the honor of
being a town of something like
thirty-five years of age, cradled
and reared in the lap of the cattle
men, somewhat set and staid in
its ways, nestling close to the
bad lands. It was a well chosen
location for the purpose for
which it was selected for it made
it approximately close to our rol
ling prairie lands in the western
part of what is known as Go'den
Valley county, also close to the
bad lands in the eastern part of
the county and hence the loca
tion was all that could be asked
for a town to transact the busi
ness for the ranchmen.
But nine years ago a transfor
mation began to take place in
what is now Golden Valley Co.
Th rous/h the efforts of the land
company the farmer was induced
to try his fortune on a farming
proposition and as if by magic
our fertile prairie land was trans
formed into farms with pleasant
farm homes and a contented peo
ple in the majority of cases.
And while this has been taking
place Beach has been brought in-|
to prominence. Why the ans
wer is simply this: because of the
location and environments it
needs.
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he very fact that Sentinel
Butte has remained dormant for
so leng a period of Beach's grow
th. shows conclusively that Sen
tinel Butte doe3 not measure up
to the farmer's needs to supply
our demands and it v/ould not
serve the people of the Golden
Valley county if the court house
should be located there.
I am surprised that Sentinel
Butte promoters should deem it xkidit
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good policy to try to make it
their strongest point why their,
town should be chosen for thej
cou'nty seat, simply because per-:
haps a dozen citizens in a town
of the size of Beach happen to
own a newspaper plant or have
access to a paper and can air
their grievences 1 hat all citi
zens should be placed under the
same catagory is nonsense and na
thinking voter is going to let this
controversy make one iota differ
ence in his vote. Any thinking
person will look into the future
and realize that after those con
tending parties have passed from
the stage of action and are for
gotten. the court house will be
where our vote places it, and not
alone will we personally have the
of the choice we m=»ke,
but our posterity after us.
It is alright to play the fife and
drum and get excited in the jokes
that can be told but that does
net serve our needs. I shall not
attempt to deal in this communi
cation, with the solid facts rela
tive to Beach's advantages over
Sentinel Butte. But we have
them good and plenty. In prop
erty valuation, in the center of
the population, a town with good
conveniences of fire protection,
water works etc. Our neighbors
lay lots of stress on the indebted
ness of Beach. What has that to
do with us farmers? Its their
property that stands for this and
not our farms.
DANCE!
We intend to thoroughly study
this matter together and then vote
the way that is for the interest of
each one of us. 1 offer no apology
for interesting myself in this mat
ter. I deem it every man's duty
to do so. I am interested in this
for myself and family, and am
williing to study this with all in
the light of the facts just as they
are.
BEACH OPERA HOUSE
Friday, October 23
Yours for the interest of all.
FRED A- POWERS.
CHICHESTER SPILLS
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SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS
Music by
Teorey's Famous Singing Dance Orchestra
EVERYWHERE
is not alone the youngsters
who are glad that Ivory
Soap floats. Everybody who uses it values this
quality next to Ivory's mildness and purity.
In the bathtub it means not only convenience
but freedom from possible injury to have the soap
always at hand and in sight instead of at the
bottom of the tub where it may be stepped on.
And in toilet or laundry use the floating cake is
a great economy because it reminds one
to take it from the water instead of
sinking out of sight and mind
to waste away.
IVORY SOAP
Sure to Have a Big Crowd Come Early
Admission $1.00 The Floor Is In Excellent Shape
"Jimmy" Power Floor Manager
IT FLOATS
Modern
Chivalry
By DONALD CHAMD'RLIN
r.OLDEN VALLEY CHRONICLE
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1 was Mttiiii on the porch \w:h
Fanner lirltfas, w.iile hi.i tinnulitc-:
l'liik..|iii, surnjiunlivi by a uroiip '.f cl.ii
dren, was reading to theiu stories or
the ace of chivalry. 11 lather and
could hoar her, and while she read
how Sir Somebody charged upon Sit
Somebody Klse in a contest tor the
Lady What's-her-iiauie 1 noticed that
the tariuer'.s eve lit up, and tie sveiued
to he rapt in reminiscence.
"Thi.y don't do sich things now that
n-way." lie said when tne story was
finished, "hut it's j.'st as nater.il tor
men to fi^'iit for women today as it
was then. Hut they're ^mirally youu»'
tellers, and the nals is youui too. I
tiad a scrap like that when I was a
younUer. I heani one day that there
was to be a dance ill a barn six or
seven mhos down the road. After sup
per I started to walk it."
"What." 1 interrupted, "wilk seven
mile*, dance all the evening and walk
seven miie.s bark!"
"Oh. didn't mii.d a little thins like
that then! 1 was youi:» and tou^h. I
needed to keep t:iv muscles active.
ttiere was so much vim in 'em. When
1 trot to the barn 'me tiddlers i
puttin' some hoard-, on barrels to make
music for the people to dance. While
they was tunin' up ttie dancers was
cumin' in.
"I'urty oon they be-_-::n to dance. hut
I didn't know any t'.e smls, and I
was ufeared to asl: 'em to danee with
me. After awhile a b.ark eyed --'al.
seein' that 1 was left out in the cold,
said to me. sinilin'. 'Why don't you
dati'-eV and I says. ''Cause I don't
know nobody to dance with.' And she
says, 'Won't I do?" And I says, 'Von
bet.' I put my arm around her waist,
and we spun around that barn Hour
like a flywheel of a cuttin' machine
with the beltin' off.
"When the music stopped wp went
off
into a dark corner and set till it eon:
nienced ac'in I fixed the pal if site
would dance with me some more, and
she said she didn't mi ml We was
pittin' up to start off when a feller
came tip and said the trnl was en rn.t id
to him for that dance. She said she
didn't remember any engagement with
him. so 1 put my arm around her, and
we sailed away.
"Not wishir.' to take np the hull of
her time, when the dance was over I
told tier I would (so and fret a cup o'
water—jist for an excuse, yon know—
though I would have liked to stay with I
her the rest of the even in". I hadn't
pone far before the feller that said the
jral was en traced to dan-e with him
come up to rne. and he said, says he:
•"See here, mister, if von want to
monopolize the belle o' this yere coun
ty you cot to flcht for her.'
"'I don't want to monopolize any
one." snvs I. 'leastways any one that
don't want to bo monopolized. l»ut I
don't want none o' your sass.'
"That wa'n't exactly like Sir Some
thing or Other in the story would put
it, but I meant jist what he did. The
feller didn't throw down his mailed
glove, neither, but he was sp'ilin' for
give me a jaw breaker. Then some
of the managers o' the ball that was
standin* by interfered and said we
couldn't tight there: we must go out
side. So we went out. and all the men
follered us. The gals, findin' their
seives without the men. thort they
might as well see the fun. and they
come out too.
"The moon was full that night and
shone like a big round silver dollar
The feller I was to fight—they called
him Buck-was sis feet high to my
five feet eight If the gal he was to
fight for was the belle o' the county
he was the bully. He'd licked every man
he could get to tight him just as that Sir
I What-d'ye-call-him in the story had
vanquished all the other knights. 1
wasn't so big as he was. but I was all
fired tough. My arms was like a wild
cat's fore legs. When I seen the gals
gatheriu' around I looked for the one
that the fight was about I saw her
standin' with her face squared to the
moon, and she give me a smile that
put enough vim In me to tackle a
grizzly.
"I couldn't give you much of an ac
count of the fight 'cause it was twen- I
ty-five years ago and a rough and tum
ble scrap anyway. Didn't neither of
us know how to bos, and we just
slammed at each other like two wind
mills whose wings had got mised from
beln' too close together. Onct in awhile
when 1 felt discouraged under a sledge
hammer blow the feller got in on ine
I'd look for a smile from the girl
She'd give me one, and I'd start ID
ag'in purty nigh as fresh as ever.
"The big feller was more ponderous
like than me. but be didn't have my
steel muscles, and he didn't have my
wind. After awhile he began to
breathe kind o' hard, and at last be
was hittiu' wild. 1 was as fresh na
ever, and when I saw lie was givin'
out 1 Jist waited awhile till lie Rot
well tuckered, then landed a blow on
hts jaw that sent him sprawlin' on
the dirt.
"Just then a rooster tuk it into his
head to crow in the middle o' th*
night, and everybody larfed We went
Into the haru, the fiddlers struck up.
and I danced with the gal I'd fought
for."
"What became.of her?" I asked.
"She's in the kitchen there boilin'
doughnuts."
"Oh. I see! Quite a romance."
"Not much like them tourneymentB,
but really the same thing after all."
Conundrums.
When are hunters and stars alike?
When shooting.
When is yeast like Chinese women's
feet? When compressed.
When are lieas like the winter wind?
When biting.
Why is a lady's evening gown like a
vine? It has to he trained
What sea would a man on a leaking
ship prefer? Adriatic (a dry attici.
When is a window like utar*' When
it la a skylight.
Crockford's
Wife
By SADIE OLCOTT
One day a tuan named Crooktord
wet.t to his bank, drew- and was
about to yo1 out wLiu he stepped and
said to the paying te.ier:
"I.ojs ruht over shoulder. You
see that young Italian looking fellow
with a striped waistooat and felt hat
with a fancy band? Well, when 1 got
through counting the money you paid
rne I turned suddeu.y and caught th*
fellow looking at the bills with a cov
etous expression on his face. You
know that there are a lot of robberie.s
committed by persons seeing some one
draw money from a bank."
"Why don't you call a policeman to
see you home or wherever you are
going'?"
"IJecause I don't believe I shall die
till my time couk-s. and when it does
nothing can save me."
The disappearance of Stephen Crock
ford was one of the great mysteries:
of the close of the nineteenth century.
The police had a very strong clew, but
were unable to follow it. A bank
clerk gave tin i:i the incident that has
been told above, and they did not
doubt that the Italian had murdered
Crock ford, but when or where or
what had been done with the body
they failed to discover. The only
or clew in the matter was furnished
by -Mrs. Crockfcrd. Her husband
when coming home from the city often
made it short cut over a path through
a wood. She searched the wood and
in a part so thick that few ever went
into it she found the remains of a fire,
and some wood corded near had visi
bly diminished. In the ashes she
found .some bits of bone and burned
Hesh. She picked up also an unburn
ed piece of a man's uff. This she took
to a laundry wLiere her husband was
used to ha\ ing his collars and culTs
laundered, nd the mark on it was
identified as having been put on a cuff
belonging to the missing man. This
indicating that the body had been
burned in the thicket, ended the infor
mation concerning the disposition of 1
Mr. Crockford's body. The police, get
ting no further clew, gave up the case.
Crockford was financial man for
Knglehart & Co.. importers of .lapa
nose goods. Mrs. Crockford after her
husband's disappearance went to the
head of the firm and asked for a posi
tion by which.she might support her
self. She was taken into his private
FOR THE CHILDREN
Boy Scout Camp Rules.
The following provisional rules have
been adopted for the government of the
Hoy Scout of America camps during
the season of 11*11. They are issued
by I-orillard Spencer, chief scout com
missioner:
fight, and first thing I knowed he campmaster or the assistant camp-
The camp will be in charge of the
master at all times.
All scouts shall report at camp head
quarters upon entering or leaving
camp except when on special detail.
Failure to register upon departure will
debar a scout from future camp priv
ileges.
No scout may leave the camp limits
without permission.
Swimming, except at regular hours
prescribed by the campmaster or with
his permission, is absolutely prohibit
ed. Scouts must wear bathing suits.
IJefore using boats permission must
be obtained on the proper form from
the campmaster and presented to the
boat guard.
Trees and shrubs are to be protected,
and the cutting of same except under
the direction of the campmaster will
be punished.
No scout ivho has his camp privileges
taken away may return to camp with
out the consent of the campmaster.
which must be filed in writing at these
headquarters.
Spending money shall be limited to
30 cents a week. No candy, soda or
food of any kind will be permitted in
the tents or in camp except what Is
officially provided or obtained with the
consent of the campmaster.
spectfully Cdl* wv.
an important pt,
not generally k*icr/
that a laxative should La\
a tonic element to success
fully meet constipation.
Jlr. John B. Capers, of CIO TVc.-.r
St„ Tort Worth, Texan, had a sig
nificant experience 111 this pc.r?lcu!a:\
He was afflicted with a severe ca.se of
constipation and bowel troub'c. Kc
spent a good deal of money in tryln
to find a remedy. To h:3 astonish
ment Peruna very qulehly relieved
him of his bad
This "Happened a
number of years
npo. Since then,
Mr. Capers states
that lie lias had
similar attacks of
trouble, the promi
nent symptom of
which is constipa
tion, and has al
a
prompt and effi
cient relief from
Ivruna. He says:
"I'p to the time I
started using your
TVruna I could
drink castor oil
like water. It did1
no As for
sails, they were of no use. Physics of
fd! kinds and classes were used, but
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had to call on the fountain syringe
for help." ^peruna was able to cor
rect this condition completely in .Mr.
Capers' case, and there is every rea
son to believe'that It was the tonic
qualities of Peruna", added to the laxa
tive qualities, that procured this very
desirable result
JUST RECEIVED
A Carload of Common
Boards that we are
selling at
GOLDEN VALLEY
LUMBER YARD
A. R. THOMPSON, Mgr.
LOOK AT OUR
WINDOW DISPLAY!
There Has Been Over 30,000 Pre
scriptions Filled at This Store
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It demonstrates that the doctors and the customers have confidence in our ability
to fill their subscriptions. Every prescription that comes to this store is cared for by
a Registered Druggist, a druggist that has had a wide experience in dispensing in
some of the best dispensories in several states and cities.
Our laboratory is equipped with the MOST COMPLETE LINE OF PURE
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS ON THE MARKET. This added .to our accurate
system of compounding, accounts for our large prescription business and is an as
surance to the customer that their prescription will be filled without having to sub
stitute-
We have a private prescription department and do not allow unnecessary by
standers carousing and interfering with the customers prescriptions and annoying
the druggist while prescriptions are being filled.
Next time you have your prescriptions to be filled bring them to us and you'll
be guaranteed careful compounding at a moderate price.
LEE & RICE
The Druggists
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16. 1914
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