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Valley City Times Record
VALLEY CITY, NORTH DAKOTA.
L. P. HYDE
Editor and Manager.
Subscription, $1.50 a year, in advance
Entered at the ooatoffice in Valley City,
No. Dak., as second class mail matter.
Official Paper of City and County.
The advertisements are essentially
a newspaper themselves. No news
dispatch from Washington or London
comes home so closely as the things
affecting home life that are being
dnoe in our stores day by day.
Business has its events, it crises,
its opportunities, like the bigger life
played on the national stage. When
a merchant, after a tussle with man
ufacturers and importers, gets a
'block of goods at a low price that
has a high value, it is an event far
more intimately connected with home
life than most of the news that news
papers print.
'When he finds that through his own
error of judgment, or because of sea
sonal conditions beyond human con
trol, he has overstocked, and must
close out to turn his goods to cash,
that too is a (public event more im
portant to the housewife than some
far off earthquake or fire with all its
tragedy.
Discriminating buyers know very
well that there are always bargains in
every store. There are many condi
tions that compel merchants at var
ious times to offer goods at prices
below their real worth. No human
mind can estimate just what kind of
goods the public will take to. The
over stock on certain lines often
consists of the most substantial goods
which did not sell because not showy
enough. Notes must be paid, and
new stock must be put in, and the re
sult is a profit for the wary trailer of
bargains.
Years ago, the customer had to
come around and dig special valu.es
out iby her own persistence. Today,
the advertisement writer saves her,
all that bother, and she finds in her
favorite newspaper a full directory1
of special values.
Wherefore newspaper readers who
take the pains to go through the ad
vertising columns, almost invariably
find things meeting their needs, to be
had at a lower price for some good
reason.
MAKING BUSINESS OF ATHLETICS
One of the most marked character
istics of the American team of ath
letics now making such high marks at
Stockholm is the tendency of the men
from this county to take athletic
work very seriously.
With the British, athletics is al
ways a kind of side issue, a gentle
man's deversion, which he takes up
more or less incedentally to other
pursuits.
The American is too whole hearted
to consider even sport in this manner.
What is worth doing at all is worth
doing well. If he is going into ath
letics, he goes in to win, and no
means Qf winning will pass untried.
On the whole it is a fine spirit. With
some men it leads to the frittering
away of energy in pursuits disconnect
ed with the real ends of life. But
•with others it is a great training to
learn to do some one particular thing
better than anyone else, no matter if
it is merely running 100 yards. The
same spirit taken into business spells
a grand success.
Dry Goods
Simon's Gloves
Warner's Corsets
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ALWAYS BARGAINS IN THE
STORES.
'Newspaper readers who see only the
news columns are far from getting
the whole news,
Farmers' Mercantile Go.
General Merchandise
Selz and Gotzian Shoes
Fancy and Staple Groceries
Bour's Royal Garden Teas and Coffee
Marquette and A. C. Canned Goods
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iBarnes county has been remarkably
fortunate in the weather enjoyed to
date. Not in many years have con
ditions been so favorable, especially
in view of the fact that many coun
ties are suffering from heavy hail
losses. In many places the stand is
so heavy that it looks like lodged
grain.
The third party idea does not seem
to be making much progress. The
progressives of IMichigan and Minne
sota have adopted resolutions in
which they repudiate the third or
Roosevelt party idea.
Senator La Follette's argument
against the formation of a third party
is interesting reading. Both La Fol
lette and Roosevelt are good men, the
chief difference being that one seems
to know how to take defeat while the
other does not.
The Emmons County Republican
claims that in politics every knock
is a boost.
The editor of the Courier-News en
quiries, "should a man who finds his
trousers stolen from a Pullman and
has to send the porter out for another
pair tip the porter?" That's a point
of etiquette we can't decide but we
feel confident (Bro. Cushing found a
solution to the problem.
The Ellendale Record announces
that it will support the Republican
state and county tickets as nominated
at the June primaries.
The disposition on the part of the
state press to support L. B. Hanna's
candidacy regardless of faction
augurs well for his overwhelming
election in the fall.
Some places are getting too much
rain, and some places are not getting
enough, and now it remains to be de
termined whether the wicked Demo
ocrats or the dastardly Republicans
are too blame for such doings.
With great joy the small boy watch
es the garden drying up, which
means fewer potatoes for him to dig
by and by.
With a general reduction of fifteen
to twenty per cent in express rates,
the public will have some release.
This was ordered by the Interstate
Commerce Commissioners and it came
after one of the hardest and most
thorough examinations ever made by
the commissioners. Cheaper express
will bring the villages and rural dis
tricts closer to the large cities and
will make a still larger boost for the
mail order business.
STAFFORD LOSES ENTIRE CROP.
Seymour Stafford, the genial pro
prietor of the "tLittle Midway News
Stand" was one of the losers in the
heavy hail storm which swept Bow
man county July 11th. iHis loss is to
tal and the strip covered by the storm
which was 20 miles long and five miles
wide is as black as when it was seed
ed. "Staff" insured the 7th and was
wiped out the l'lth. That's going
some. He is trying to figure out now
whether he was lucky or unlucky, as
his crop was a fine stand. The hail
was two inches deep on the ground af
ter the storm.
PLAYS AT STATE FAIR.
•Prof. Perfect will play with the Put
man band during the state fair next
week at Fargo. This band is to be
congratulated in securing the services
of this talented musician. As a clari
net player Prof. Perfect ranks with
the. best in the country.
A. E. Lundy, of Leal, was transact
I ing business here Thursday.
Men's Furnishings
Patterson Hats
Hallmarck Shirts
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WKKKLY TIME»HECORP THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1912.
THE RETAILER AS A BUSINESS
MAN: AN APPRECIATION.
'The great mass of business is, of
cotirse, done by men whose business
is either small or of moderate size.
The middle-sized business men form
an element of strength which is of
literally incalculable value to the na
tion. Taken as a class, they are
among our best citizens. They have
not been Beekers after enormous for
tunes they have been moderately and
justly prosperous, by reason of deal
ing fairly with their customers, com
petitors, and employes. They are sat
isfied with a legitimate profit that will
pay their expenses of living and lay
by something for those who come af
ter, and the additional amount neces
sary for the betterment and improve
ment of their plants.
"The average business man of this
type is, as a rule, a leading citizen of
his community, foremost in every
thing that tells for its betterment, a
man whom his neighbors look up to
and respect an integral part of his
community, bone of its Ibone and flesh
of its flesh."—Theodore iRoosevelt.
The Small Town:
William Allen White in a eulogy of
the small town says:
'HSreat cities give much in alms, hut
little in justice. Only as we know
each other well can we treat each
other justly and the city is a wilder
ness* of careless strangers whose In
stincts of humanity are daily becom
ing more and more blunted to suffer
ing, because in the nature of things
suffering in cities must be impersonal.
"The American country town, the
town of from one hundred to one
hundred thousand people, preserves
better than the crowded city and
better than the lonely ranch and iso
lated farm life, the things that make
America great.
"The preservation of the home
trade to the home town carries witfc
it the preservation of many of our
American institutions."
If the communities of this country
are essential to its prosperity if the
preservation of the small town is con
ceded to be essential to the conserva
tion of then whatever menaces the
small town menaces the civilization of
this country.
We believe that a good live town,
with live merchants making some
thing more than a living, are as much
of a necessity in the commercialism
of our country afe is the farmer or the
manufacturer. For no sue. cag deny
that every acre of land has Increased
in value in proportion to its prox
imity to a good town or city, and de
preciates in value just In proportion
to its distance from a good town or
city.
And yet, though the trend of all this
argument is directed towards proving
that the preservation of the small
store, one fact must never be lost
sight of: The small town does not
exist for the sake of the stores which
form its back bone. Neither does the
country around it owe to the stores of
the town a sacrificial tribute.
We retailers must justify our
stores the town our stores have cre
ated the principle of ibuying across
the counter. We can only do this by
awakening to the nature of the re
sponsibility which we have assumed,
and by a realization of the nature of
the problems with which we are con
fronted. Otherwise, we will reserved
ly vanish from the face of the earth."
TAFT.
Colliers: He thought that the in
terpreting of statutes was all there
was of life or office. The spirit of the
times went by him. He lacked en
ergy in repleated public addresses he
used stronger words than Roosevelt
ever did concerning certain abuses of
the courts, but the beneficiaries of
those wrongs never worried but at a
single speech from Roosevelt in pri
vate life they flew into panic. Taft
"meant well feebly." The pulblic did
not feel strongly against him—he
never inspired so robust an emotion
as hate. People didn't think of him
as having the will to do evil rather
they felt sorry for him as an easy-go
ing man in a strenuous time, one to
whom ease and sleep were more at
tractive than the strife that was ne
cessary to keep his foothold. In the
unhurried quiet of some inferior bench
minutely comparing tweedledee and
tweedledum, his flaws might never
have come out, and he might have
ended-his years, not with any particu
lar glory, of course, but certainly with
out opprobhium. The country blam
ed his environments more than the
indolence which permitted those en
vironments to be what they were
Dolliver's epigram crystalized the
public conception of Taft: "A large
amiably body, closely surrounded by
persons who know exactly what they
want." Some pretty grave faults in
his character came out for example,
his participation ia-ihe forging of a
public document to escape the embar
rassing consequences of a false posi
tion but the public thought of this
as the petty subterfuge of a feeble
man rather than the big wickedness
of a malevolent one.
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The forenoon was spent comparing
the several assessment rolls of the
county.
On motion duly seconded and car
ried the board adjourned to meet at
nine o'clock a. m., July 2nd, 1912.
Attest
Uxbridge ... 6.32 (No (Chg.
Pierce 6.32 INo Chg.
Vil. of Rogers ... 7.63 INo Chg.
Vil. of Nome .... 7.95 iNo Chg.
Vil. of Sanborn .. 8.87 INo Chg.
Vil. of Dazey .... 9.20 (No iChg.
Vil. of Litchville 6.69 .No (Chg.
Vil of Wimbledon 8.23 iNo 'Chg.
•Decrease
On motion duly seconded and car
ried board adjourned to mee't at nine
o'clock a. m. July 3rd, 1912.
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COUNTY BOARD OF
EQUALIZATION
Valley City, .N. D., July 1st, 1912.
Board of Equalization met in ac
cordance with Section 1528 Revised
Codes of 1905.
Present Commissioners Cox, Jaberg,
Hanson and Kretschmer.
After taking the required oath of
office the board organized by electing
Commissioner Jaberg Chairman and
C. W. Nelson, clerk.
C. W. NIEHJSON, Clerk.
Valley City, N. D., July 2nd, 1912.
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
-All members present.
After comparing the several assess
ment rolls of the county that for the
purpose of equalizing the value of
lands in Barnes county the following
values be set and percentage of in
creases and decreases be made to
equalize the valuation:
Raritan $6.25 .05
Binghampton ... 6.59 INo Chg.
Spring Vale .... 6.48 No Chg.
Oriska 6.31 .05
Weimer 6.12 No Chg.
Minnie Lake .... 6.16 (No Chg.
Ellsbury ........ 5.90 No Chg.
Thordenskjold .. 6.72 No Chg
Norma 6.56 'No Chg.
Cuba 6.26 .05
Alta 5.03 .25
Noltimier 5.37 .10
Qrand Prairie ..4.91 .12
Baldwin 5.67 No Chg
Oakhill 5.69 'No Chg.
Nelson 5.41 No Chg.
Marsh 4.47 .25
Fourth Com 6.35 No Chg. 6.35
Getchell 6.85 No Chg. 6.84
Third Com 515 No Chg.
Silbey-trail 5.29 iNo Chg..
Spring Creek .... 5.79 iNo Chg,
Skandia 5.41 .08
Green 5.50 iNo Chg.
Hobart 5.30 .25
Stewart 5.88 .05
Rogers €.28 (No Chg.
Dazey 4.03 .65
Rosebud 5.80 .08
Svea 4.98 .10
Hemen 5.42 No Chg.
Potter 6.65 (No Chg.
Anderson 6.25 No Chg.
Edna 3.79 .70
Lake Town 5.86 .02
Greenland 6.22 *.01
Meadow Lake 5.47 iNo Chg.
'Mansfield 5.77 .03
Eckelson 3.96 .51
Brimer 5.W .04
S6.56
6.59
6.48
6.63
6.12
6.16
5.90
6.72
6.56
6.57
6.30
5.91
5.50
5.67
5.59
5.41
5.59
5.15
5.29
5.79
5.84
5.50
6.63
6.17
6.28
6.65
6.26
5.48
5.42
6.65
6.25
6.44
5.98
6.16
5.47
5.94
5.98
5.74
6.32
6.32
7.63
7.95
8.37
9.20
6.69
8.23
W. NEXiSON, Clerk.
Valley City, N. D., July 3rd, 1912.
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
All members present.
On motion duly seconded and car
ried the following changes were made
in the assessment of structures on
farm lands:
Raritan 17
Binghampton No Change
Spring Vale 20
Oriska 10
Weimer .331-3
Minnie Lake No Change
Ellsbury (No Change
Thordenskjold No Change
Norma .10
Culba 20
Alta 40
Noltimier .50
Grand Prairie 201
Baldwin 15
Oakhill No Change
Nelson 10
Marsh No Change
Fourth Com No Change
Getchell .10
Third Com (No (Change
Sibley-traiL 10
Spring Creek No Change
Skandia No Change
Green .15
Hobart
Stewart
Rogers
Dazey
Rosebud
Svea ..
Hemen
Potter
Anderson No Change
tfdna No Change.
Lake Town No Change
Greenland No Change
Meadow Lake No Change
Mansfield 70
Eckelson 50
Brimer No Change
Uxibfidge .10
Pierce 30
Village of Rogers 25
Village of Nome No Change
Village of Sanborn ...... No Change
Village of Dazey .125
Village of Litchville No Change
Village of Wimbledon .... 20
.Raritan
Oriska
Minnie Lake
Cub
a
Alta
Grand Prairie
'Marsh
Fourth Com.
Third Com. ...
Green
Hobart
Andferson
Edna
Lake Town ...
Greenland
Meadow Lake
Mansfield
Eckelson
.15
.10
.50
.150
.40
.50
.10
.10
On motion duly seconded and car
ried board adjourned to meet at two
o'clock p. m., July 3rd, 1912.
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C. W. NELSON, Clerk.
Valley City, N. ID., July 3rd, 1912
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
All members present.
On motion duly seconded and car
ried the following changes were made
in the assessment of Lots:
Leal, raised .300
(Litchville, raised .20
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Afraid of Ghosts
Many people are afraid of ghosts. Pew people
•re afraid of germs. Yet the ghost is a fancy and
the germ is a fact. If the germ could be magnified
to a sixe equal to its terrors it would appear more
terrible than any fire-breathing dragon. Germs
can't be avoided. They are in the air we breathe,
the water we drink. ..
The germ can only prosper when the condition
of the system gives it free scope to establish it
Mil and develop. When there a deficiency of
vital ibrn, languor, restlessness, a sallow cheek,
hollow eye, when the appetite i* poor and the
sleep is broken, it ie time to guard against the germ. Yon can
fortify the body against all germs by the use of Dr. Pierce's Gold
en Medical Discovery. It increases the vital power, cleanses the
system of dogging impurities*, enriches the blood, puts the stom
•eh and organs of digestion and nutrition in working condition, so
that the germ finds no weak or taintod spot in which to breed.
"Golden Medical Discovery" contains no alcohol, whi^icy or
habit-forming drugs. AH its ingredients printed on its outside
wrapper. It is not a seoret nostrum but a medicine or KNOWN
COMPOSITION and with a record of 40 ytars of cures. Aeeept no
substitute—there is nothing iiw ns don^." Ask your neighbors.
On motion duly seconded and car
ried the following changes were made
in the assessment of Structures on
Lots:
Lea}, raised 50
Rogers, raised 25
Litchville, raised .10
On motion duly seconded and car
ried the Structures of the Russell Mill
er Milling Company were reduced
from $46,000 to $42,000 as recommend
ed by City Assessor for reason of er
ror.
On motion duly seconded and car
ried board adjourned to meet at ten
o'clock a. m. July 5th, 1912,
Attest:
C. W. NELSON, Cleric.
Valley City, N. D., July 5th, 1912.
Board met .pursuant to adjournment.
Present Commissioner Jaberg, Mud
gett, Hanson and Kretschmer.
After comparing the several assess
ment rolls, the following changes
were made in the values of personal
praperty:
HORSES ONE YCEAlR OLD.
Oriska 07
Baldwin .04*
Potter
Lake Town
Village of Dazey
.10
.114
.07
OLD AMD
OVER.
Inc. Dec.
.23
.04
.02
.03
.05
.02
.02
.06
.14
.40
.02
.03
.08
.35
.03
.03
.06
.05
.40
.15
.05
.15
Village of Dazey
Village of Nomo
Village of Litchville ...
City Of Valley City .10
On motion duly seconded and car
ried the board adjourned to meet at
two o'clock p. m. July 5th, 1912.
(AltAfit
C. W. NELSON, Clerk.
Valley City, N. D., July 5th, 1912.
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
All members present.
On motion duly seconded and car
ried the following changes were made
in the assessment on Personal 'Prop
erty:
STAILLJONB.
Raritan
Binghamipton
(Minnie Lake
Cuba
Alta
Noltimier
'Nelson
Getchell
Third Com
Skandia 100
Green ...
Dazey ...
Rosebud
'Svea ....
Potter ..,
Anderson
Edna ....
Mansfield
Eckelson 100
"Uxbridge
Village of Nome
Village of Litchville
CATTLE ONE YEAR OLD.
Inc. Dec.
Raritan 85
'Minnie Lake 20
Cuba .20
Alta .10
Baldwin 10
IMarsh .03
Third Com. .10
Spring Creek 20
Rosebud 20
Hemen 20
Anderson .03
Lake Town .10
Mansfield 20
Eckelson .v.... .20
Brimer .20'
Uxbridge 20
Pierce .................... .03
Village of Sanborn 20
City of Valley City 20
C1ATTLE TWO YEARS OLD
Inc. Dec.
Raritan
lis
Oriska ,01
Grand Prairie .05
Third Com .20
Skandia
Svea
Lake Town 20
Uxbridge .25
'Pierce
Litchville
cow®
'Raritan
Oriska
(Minnie Lake
Grand Prairie
Getchell
Third Com. ..
Lake Town
Village of Dazey
OXBN
Oakhill
.03
.08
.50
HORSES TWO CEAR8 OLD.
Inc. Dec.
Raritan 25
Grand Prairie 03
Baldwin 08
Fourth Com. 06
Third Com 331-3
Potter -07
Lake Town 28
Greenland 02
(Meadow Lake 04
Eckelson 13
iBrimer 03
Pierce 02
Village of Sanborn 10
Village of Litchville ..
City of Valley City ....
Raritan
Oriska
IMinnie Lake
Thordenskjold
Alta
Noltimier
Baldwin
Oakhill
•Nelson
Marsh
iSibley-trail ...
'Green
Dazey
Rosebud
.Svea
Edna
Lake Town ..,
Greenland ...
Pierce
Inc. Dec.
.15
.100 Third Com
.14 (Sibley-trail
.35 'Slpring Creek
.45
.15
.70
.40
.10
.100
.40
.'20
.15
.15
70
.20 Greenland
.14
.14
.100
.35
.35
.14 Village of Litchville .05
Attpst*
.04
.07
.05
.10
(Inc.
.65
Dec.
.07
.04
.07
.02
.10
.08
.25
.05
Inc.
Dec.
.25
AtLL OTHER CATTLE.
Inc. Dec.
Raritan .145
Oriska 90
(Alta 331^
Noltimier .100
Grand Prairie 331-3
Baldwin 65
Fourth Com .100
Third Com .65
Spring Creek 10
(Skandia .75
Hobart 331-3
Dazey 331-3 4
Anderson 331-3
Mansfield 331-3
Uxlbridge 12
Pierce 331-3 iJQ
MULES 3 YEAIRlS OLD AND OVER.
Inc. Dec.
Raritan 150
Oriska
Minnie Lake
Grand Prairie
Dazey
Hemen
Edna
Greenland ...
Mansfield
Valley City ..
.05
.23
.02
.60
.50
.07
.05
.05
.10
SHEEP
Inc.
Dec.
.30
.25
.25
.10
..50
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.40
.25
.25
.25
HOGS
Raritan
Minnie Lake
Thordenskjold ..
Third Com
Skandia
Lake Town
Eckelson
Village of Dazey
(Minnie Lake
Ellsbury
Thordenskjold ..
Norma
'Cuba
Alta
Grand Prairie ...
Baldwin
Oakhill
Inc.
.30
Dec.
.20
.08
.07
.12
.07
.35
.30
.04
.10
.10
.10
.09
.10
.09
.03
.10
.10
.09
.10
.34
.10
.03
.09
.07
.10
.10
.10
.10
.08
.10
.10
.05
.10
.10
.06
.08
.10
25
Village of Wimbledon ..
On motion duly seconded and car
ried board adjourned to meet at nine
o'clock a. m. July 6th, 1912.
C. W. NELSON, Clerk.
Valley City, N. D„ July 6th, 1912.
'Board met pursuant to adjournment.
Present Commissioners Jaberg, Mud
gett, Kretschmer and Hanson.
On motion duly seconded and car
ried the following changes were
made in the assessment of personal
property:
MBLODEONS, ORGANS, ETC.
Inc. Dec.
•Raritan ..viiV
Grand Prairie
Marsh
Getchell
Skandia
Inc. Dec.
Raritan 120
Oriska .15
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