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0 iv I The Editorial Page %+*4 0. D. Brault Dealer in GRAIN We pay the highest market price for all kinds of grain. Correct Weights and Dockage Fully equipped for clean ing and separating grain and make a specialty of this busi ness. And we pay for everything but wagon tracks. Adam Faris, Manager J. J. Gieiner Auto Livery GOOD CARS AND CAREFUL DRIVERS Phone No. 76 or call at our garage 2 doors west of State Line Hotel. We Handle Gasoline and Oils INSURE Your Farm PROPERTY In the COLUMBIA Of Omaha. Prompt and Satisfactory Ad justments J. A. I1AIGH, Agent Patronize Beach Institutions The^Beach Give Us a Share of Your business iGeo. Chrysler, Mgr. LEE ifiSAIN CO. BEACH, N. D. ES2E3 Will appreciate your Patronage in all kinds of GRAIN Electric Co. Home Institution Deserves Your Patronage Call Phone 107-2 and our Electrician will call and be at Your Service. Patronize the Beach Firms who are Co-operating with the Chronicle in the County Seat Campaign New York Restaurant Still Serving Square Meals at the Old Stand Board by the Day or Week LOUIS SUEY Proprietor. A GIFT A to strengthen friendship— Your portrait made at JOHNSON STUDIO FRIDAY OCTOBER 23, 1914. Kntrrftl a* the i*os:orfcce in Bcruh, Ciolden Valley Conrr.y. Norlh D.'iUo a as Jpcond C-lass mail mnt.t'i i-if. U-IKUMCLE, PRINTING CO (Incorporated} W RRINTON. Editor inscription price $1.50 per year in advancc. Advertising rates: One to ten inches, 25c per incch to thirty inches 20c per inch 30 inches and up I 5c per inch. Special rates on stand ing advertisements and yearly con tracts. N.D.RA The principal contention made by Sentinel Butte is the reference to her geographical central loca tion. In a county in which the country was of the same general character this might be one ele ment of an argument in her favor, but as the location of the cocnty seat is a question of convenience it can have but little weight in a county in which there is so great 0 variation of land and soil as there is in Golden Valley county. Beach does not envy Sentinel Bulte r.s a locality immediately at she outskirts cf the badlands. We believe they do envy Beach in her position of being centrally locat ed in this beautiful and fertile plain. If the lands east of Sen tinel Butte become valuable for 1 agricultural purposes the lands in the vicinity of Beach will at the same time, become far mere .so and naturally support a great er population than those about c-astwaid of Sentinel Butte. 1 h» central location of a coun ty seat is not always its most con venient locality. No better ar gument in that line can be given than that of the location of Me dora as the generally central lo cation of old Billings county. The county seat of Billings county at Medora did not aid or assist Me dora to any appreciable extent in the pa3t. We are told by old timers that Medora at one time had a population of 2500 but the county seat location there did not increase her population or her land value. There are two pos sibilities which would be consid ered in this campaign. The first is that the bad lands to the east of Sentinel Butte cannot be chang ed or ever expect to be rendered as valuable as those to the wsst ward another that whilst Beach has the benefit to a large extent of some twenty townships situat ed in Montana, the same can never be attached to Golden Val ley county, but thfese same town ships will tend to make of her the gem city of Golden Valley county. In this campaign for the coun ty seat many irrelevant or side issues are, if we judge from dis cussions being carried on and rreneral conversation with the el ectors, considered. These mat ters are simply matters of pre judice and every elector voting upon this question should, in a careful manner, size up, examine and fully realize the extent of and the true, real issue involved- A county seat cannot be con sidered as a matter of common industry, neither can it be con sidered as a necessary evil- It is, more nearly, a necessary intitu tion for which the taxpayer, be he rural or city, pays. This fact should be taken into considera tion by the elector, for the em phatic reason that it is a matter for which he pays, and in cast ing his vote should fully attempt to get the best return for his mon ey. This, under all circumstan ces would be good government and if, acting under prejudice, the result should be that the county seat would finally be lo cated at Sentinel Butte that elec tor must expect that for ten years to come the location of the coun ty seat will be a bone of conten tion between the two cities and in many ways, in the future, a disturbing element in the political situation. Beach being, as it is now and as it will be in the future the center of population, will necessarily expect a return. Af ter an election there will be a courthouse to build, bonds to be issued upon election, removal from present place, all of which will become a disturbing element in the political situation. Would the removal of the county seat form Beach give, un der such circumstances, to the taxpayers the best return for his money? This, we contend is a We Are Boosting For Beach For The County Seat A.IUiJl ,rh $ COMPILED T?e.cor?ot matter of sensible calculation and reason. BEACH, situated in the cen ter of this fertile valley can look to the north and with her capa cious elevators, her four banks, her numerous general stores, her modern machine shops. Invite the commerce of a rich agricul tural plain, all of which will tend to increase her population. With her water system, electric light and telephone plants, some of which are privately owned and others owned by the city, with the elaborate school system, em bracing the agricultural ischool, and her seven churches affording room for all religious people of different faiths, she will invite the retired farmer and retired ranch er as a desirable locality for his final home. This too, will tend to increase her population. She can look to the west and from the residents of many town ships expect an increase through her commerce with them, and al so a slight increase in population from those who. having placed their financial circumstances in life upon a desirable basis look for a congenial community in which to live. She can look to the south with the same expectation and she can Atty. C. L. Waldron Republican Candidate for State's Attorney We Solicit Your Support in the Coming County Seat Fight ©olden Galley Chronicle B^Lasia^ss An Argument Without Words For Beach For the County Seat 9 $ $ 1 W S 1 1 A INK:"'? $ & & WRBIBHWBI OKQ/1N1ZED TWP3 TOWNSHIP. & REPRESENTS $2,5,000.°° IN VALUATION OP PROPERTY, A Jr- INACCES3ABLE BUTTES. look to the east expecting, for the same reason, to draw from the remotest hamlet in the eastern portion of the county an increase to her population. She can expect that the emi gration from Sentinel Butte which commenced some time ago, will continue in the future long after the present factional emity is either destroyed by its own in tensity. forgotten or finally sup pressed, and be a city in which the spirits of friendship, kindli ness and love radiates from a thousand homes- EAGLE VALLEY NEWS The ladies aid will give a free supper at the Hubbard school house .on Thanksgiving as we un derstand it is free for all who will take a basket with something good in them. There is quite a lot of men batches and lady bat ches whose parents are away from home here and the aid ladies thought it would be nice t'j get up the supper for the young folks and all are invited hoping to have a nice time. The Callender brothers have fin ished their threshing for this year and have had a very pleasant season and no rain. VOTE FOR AND SMOKE DON CASS10 CIGARS W ccdward BROS'. %ADIES\ Ho GE.T YOUR FALL COAT OR SUIT FROM LEd. Perry, The Tailor. You do not pay me one cent until you see the garment I and it is entirely satisfactory, Get Your Hair Trimmed Before you get into the county seat campaign at The McCoIeman Barber Shop Two Door« East of Beach State Bank. —WE CUT TO PLEASE— J. McCoIeman, Prop. FARMERS' Feed and Livery Barn Under New Management Formerly conducted by Wildes Brothers Good Grain, Hay and Water and our Prices are reasonable I Let us feed and care for your Team While in Town ALBERT C0USER Proprietor -Y f» H. BEACH FOR COUNTY SEAT] Coal,Flour iDOERING! and Feed of all kinds always on hand RED LODGE, MONTANA LUMP and WASHED NUT Call up phone No. 6L and have order delivered promptly I South of Old Mill on Frazier st I H- !c A. M. WALLACE, Prep. Sample Room Steam Heat Electric Light Running Water Bath Golden Valley Farmers Co operative Co., BEACH, N. OAK. Receivers and shippers of Gol den Valley GRAIN A Co-operative company under the co-operative laws of North Dakota. LLOYD ELEVATOR Independent Grain Dealers Elevators at Beach and Lehigh Dealer* ia All Kindt of GRAIN A Share of Your Business is Solicited.