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VOL. XXXIV. NO. 25.
Chicago, Sept. 17.—Taking of testi
mony of the government suit to dis
solve the International Harvestei
company, -which as a $140,000,000 cor
poration Is charged with existing in
violation of the Sherman anti-trust
law, -was begun before Special Ex
aminer Robert S. Taylor, with Gen
eral Manager Clarence Funk as the
first witness. He appeared with books
and documents containing records ol
the company's business.
Edwin P. Grosvenor, special assist
ant to the attorney general, appeared
for the government. He announced at
the opening that the Chicago hearing
Is one of a number to be held in va
rious cities, following filing of th
suit in St. Paul last April.
The Slope fair promises to be one
of the biggest events in the state,
with the exception of the North Da
kota Industrial Exhibit to be held in
Bismarck, and it was considered fit
ting that Congressman Hanna, who
carried on the successful fight alone
for the assistance of the Mandan ex
perimental station, should speak to
and personally meet the many who
wiil enjoy the benefits of the big sta
tion.
Congressman Hanna is much re
freshed by a good rest in Maine, after
the long session of congress, and has
regained 'his health. In all probabil
ity he will make his plans'for conduct
ing his campaign upon his return from
Mandan.
TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.
There is much interst among the
teachers in the North Dakota (Educa
tional association, which meets in
Grand Forks Oct 23 to 25, as the pro
gram this year will be especially in
teresting. The la# provides that all
teachers who attend the association
meeting shall receive their regular
pay, although attendance is not oblig
atory, and this inducement is also an
attractive feature.
Make Home
Beautiful
SUIT TO DISSOLVE HARVESTER
TRUST BEGINS IN CHICAGO COURT
Clarence Funk, .General Manager of Big Concern
First Witness on Stand Tells of Big
$140,000,000 Corporation.
The defendants include George W.
Hanna Invited to
Speak at Slope Fair
MAN WHO OBTAINED FUNDS FOR
EXPERIMENTAL STATION IS
WANTED AT MANDAN.
Special to the Times-Record.
Fargo, N. D., Sept. 17.—Congress
man Li. B. Hanna has gone to Mandan
to deliver an address at the Slope
-fair, which begins today. Mr. Hanna
was specially invited to speak at the
fair in recognition of the fight lie
made* in congress for the appropria
tion for the government agricultural
..experiment station near that city. It
was a long drawn out fight, other con
gressmen fearing that the appropria
tion would set a precedent opening
wide the doors for all experimental
stations to beseige congress for as
sistance out of the ordinary aid given
the agricultural stations.-
At moderate expend
iture for Furniture by giv
ing jis an idea of what
you want for your various apartments and leting us aid
you with our free suggestions and advice and then show
ing you the Fur.iiture, Carpets. Rugs and Drapery itself.
We look to you to make our store bigger and
better.
Perkins, Cyrus H. McCcrmick, Elbert
H. Gary, president of the steel cor
poration George F. Baker, Norman
B. Ream, Charles Deering and Harold
F. McCorm'ck.
The government charges that the
corporation, by combining the five
largest agricultural implement manu
facturers in 1302, created a trust and
monopolized at that time 85 to 90 per
cent of the trade.
Mr. Funk testified that prior to the
combination of the large harvester
companies in 1902 they all were active
competitors. The general agencies ot
all the companies were turned over to
the new organization, he said.
The products of the present com
pany, Mr. Funk asserted, were sold to
the farmers through jobbers in the Pa
cific coast states and through genera]
agents in other states..
State University To
Open September 24th
Special to the Times-Record.
Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 18.—Tues
day, September 24th, is the date set
for opening at the state university, and
with that date now only a week dis
tant everything is in readiness to re
ceive the large gathering of students
who assemble there every year from
all parts of the state. In order to re
duce delays incident to getting every
one registered and started at work,
the University authorities have de
cided to open the offices for registra
tions four days before the date set for
the opening of the college year. Reg
istrations will be received every
forenoon, beginning with Friday this
week.
All of the rooms in the Wesley
college and the university dormitories
were spoken for some time ago and
there issure to be a scramble for the
most desirable rooming places in the
ity of Grand Forks.
(Land plowed early this fall will be
freer of weeds next year than if plow
ed later, says G. W. Randlett, direc
tor of college extension.
A straw ballot taken by the mayor
of New Rockford, indicates that the
people are in favor of taking over all
the public utilities.
Work has begun on the 320 acre
government experimental farm at
Mandan.
Coal mines of North 'Dakota report
a banner year.
LIGHTNING BORES
HOLE IN MAN'S HEAD
Bottineau, N. D., Sept. 17.—
Lightning bored two holes into
the head of Fred Champagne, kill
ing him instantly, when he was
caught in a storm five miles south
east of here. He was found sit
ting in the wagon seat, his right
side charred and his clothing
burned off. He had a wife and
three little children.
Your trade, your* suggestions, your good word
will make it possible to buy better for your needs. The
larger we grow the more service we can give. Your
loyalty to us cOmes back to you in better prices. You
KNOW our goods are right. Your good will is our best
advertisement, we want it.
JOHN HALVERSON
PHONE: 270-J Night Calls, 93-L and 397-K
WEEKLY
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School Children
To Have Exhibits
Bismarck, N. D„ Sept.. 18.—Nearly
every school and college in North Da
kota will be represented by exhibits
at the Second Annual Industrial Ex
position that will open at Bismarck
Oct. 1- The educational exhibits will
be in charge of a capable superintend
ent and will be a source of interest to
all parents. Manual training and do
mestic science are being taught in al
most every North Dakota high school,
and the exhibits from the industrial
college at Ellendale will show the pro*
gress that is made by the students in
various years.
With the'completion of the new ma
chinery hall annex to the main expo
sition building, farm implements and
other machinery used in agriculture
are now being set up and arranged for
display. Machinery hall will be one
of the principal sources of interest to
all exposition visitors, as it will also
house the automobile show. 1913
models of many of the best known
cars will be shown at this fair for
the first time.
CALL FOR EXHIBITS
AT INDUSTRIAL FAIR
All persons having exhibits of
any kind which they wish entered
at the North Dakota Industrial
Exposition at Bismarck, are re
quested to leave them at F. C.
'Reidman's implement store. Those
having exhibits which they desire
entered and have not the time to
deliver them or are unable to do
so, should telephone or write Prof.
M. C. James, who is supervising
the collection of the iBarnes coun
ty exhibit for the Valley City
Commercial club, and will send
flor them. •._
if ire's »w« it,
VALLEY CITY. NORTH DAKOTA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1912.
Men Who Are Building Great
Northwest With Seed Industry
Officers of the Northern Seed Company.
Top—Left to Tight, G. D. Kelsey, assistant manager, and C. W. Nelson,
vice president. Center—J. W# Murphy, secretary and general manager.
Bottom—Gen. A. P. Peake, president, and John Laird, treasurer.
Court Dismisses
Four Dletz Cases
Eau Claire, Wis., Sept. 17.—The
eases of the state of Wisconsin against
Hattie, Clarence, Leslie and Elmyra
Deitz were dismissed in circuit court
by Judge Wickham on motion of Dis
trict Attorney Williams of Sawyei
county. All the defendants were in
court, each accompanied by an attor
ney.
There were four cases charging as
sault with intent to kill John Rogich
In July, 1906.
The district attorney gave as his
reason for the dismissal of the cases
that one of the principal witnesses,
John Rogich, is now in Australia.
Hattie Deitz is the wife of John
Deitz.
The county board of Sawyer county,
the district attorney said, believed
that the law was being vindicated
with the serving of life imprisonment
by John Deitz, husband of Hattie and
father of the children.
Senior H. S. Class
Widely Dispersed
Since the senior class of the high
schol graduated last year there has
been a wide dispersion of its members.
Howard Anderson has gone to St. Paul
to attend the Hamline University.
Cuyler Anderson and Mildred Nolti
mier are in the state university at
Grand Forks. William Licking has
gone to far away Battle Creek, Nev.,
to teach school. Henrietta Holmes
has just returned from a trhee months
trip to the Pacific coast and will prob
ably take a post graduate course in
the high school this year. Grace Ellis
has already enrolled as a post grad
uate student. Vera Burgess is stenog
rapher in the office of Superintendnt
Hanna. Elsie Schultx, a graduate of
the commercial department, is stenog
rapher in the office of former Governor
Frank White- Gordon Vallandigham
is attending the Fargo Agricultural
college
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Among the various factors that
build up a country none are more im
portant than the distributors of seeds.
It is the plant life that gives vitality
to a community. James A. 'Hill has
rightly been called an. Empire build
er but there must be cultivation of
the soil, husbandry and the sowing of
seeds to make the narrow parallel of
two steel rails commercially profit
able. Production and transportation
are the two elements inseparable in
empire building and the Northern
Seed company, of Valley City, has
contributed a big share towar-i con
verting the prairies of the great
Northwest into a region of homes and
prosperous contentment.
The seed industry is one that at
tracts little attention, except when
the descriptive catalogues are distrib
uted. Selections of seeds are made,
ordered and planted, and then the
seed man is forgotten while the crops
grow to furnish food and clothing end
shelter for the dependent civilization.
Seed Garden Unnoticed.
At the outskirts of Valley City the
Northern Seed company has a plot of
ground, passed daily by hundreds un
noticed. But that plot furnishes sus
tenance for the body and money for
the purse for the empire of the North
west. There are now maturing on
that plot 468 varieties of seeds, a vast
galaxy of vegetables, hubers, garden
truck, grasses, grain provinder and
flowers.
The government and state agricul
tural schools and experimental sta
tions do much to advance rural indus
try but the seed distributors do more.
The seed man is in the business to
make it commercially profitable and
must grow the best, suitable to cli
mate and soil, to distribute among
their patrons. Seed that does not ro
duce quality and quantity would soon
put the seed house out of business, so
the best must be grown to hold pat
ronage. To accomplish this it is nec
essary for the seed man to do his
owh experimenting before placing the
seeds on the market.
Must Suit Soil and Climate.
The Northern Seed company has
been doing this and in a manner dif
ferent from methods adopted by gov
ernmental institutions. Their seed is
planted and grown in the same man­
Fruit Growing Is
Success at Sanborn
ORCHARDS NOW COMMERCIALLY
PROFITABLE INDUSTRY IN
NORTH DAKOTA.
Sanborn, N. D., Sept. 17.—Prominent
among those who have taken a leading
part in raising fruit in this locality is
Martin Jacobs, who is this year har
vesting the first crop from the fruit
trees set out on his farm just north
of town a few years ago. He has ap
ples of the Greening, Okabena and
Duchess varieties, two varieties of
Crab apples, and some fine plums and
cherries. The apples attained a large
size and are of delicious flavor.
Though the yield was not phenomenal
it was very good ?or the first crop, one
small tree in particular yielding a
half bushel of fine apples- Mr. Jacobs'
orchard shows what can be done with
a little effort.
Across the road from the Jacobs
place on the farm of J. F. Jaberg, the
apple, crab apple, plum and cherry
crees are bearing nicely this year, and
Pius Stroh south of town has a nice
crop of excellent crab apples and
plums from several thriving trees.
Farmers institutes
Number 231 Sessions
Bismarck, N. D., Sept. 17.—During
the year just closed the North Da
kota Farmers' institutes board held 94
institutes of 231 sessions. The at
tendance was 37,049. A farmers insti
tute train was also run by the North
ern Pacific Railroad. This made half
day stops at 41 towns and was visited
by 53,650 people. 25,000 copies of the
Fanners' Institute Annual were also
distributed.
SEED GARDEN IN VALLEY CITY
IS BUILDER Qf VAST EMPIRE
Northern Seed Company, Through Experimental
Plot Has Contributed Great Share In
Developing Great Northwest
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ner as in the average graden or field,
the experimental truck patch receiv
irg nothing more than ordinary car e„
When seeds are found to produce veil
in North Dakota climate and soil, just
as they would in an ordinary gar
cr field, they are then placed on the
market. Not one variety of plant seed
leaves the Northern Seed company's
warehouses until it has proved its
value in great Northwest. Thus
purchasers are assured success
planting home grown seed.
This institution has grown, with th®
development of the Northwest until
hundreds of thousands of packages an
nually find their way over the Da
kotas and Minnesota from the ware
houses to the fields. Just now the
company is harvesting onion sets. The
crop this fall is 700 bushels of sets,
enough to plant thousands of acres
in onions. This is a fair proportion of
the numerous varieties of vegetables*
plants and grasses raised by the
Northern Seed company, an empire
building industry that has grown up
with,the country in the limits fo Vat
ley City.
Grown by
Experts.
The entire seed producing station
is necessarily conducted along the
most advanced scientific lines and
under expert supervision. Before any
of the seeds are planted they are test
ed by the company and samples are
also sent to the state seed commis
sioner, who makes similar tests. If
they stand the tests to the satisfaction
of both they are then planted to as
certain what they will produce in this
section of the country. When they
show by their fruits that they are
particularly adopted to the soil and
climate they are then catalogued andL
grown for the market.
The farmer or gardner receiving ther
little packages of seed with a bright
label thinks little of the care and at
tention they have received. It is a
commercial proposition with him
they must show results, and the re-
sults are only obtained after tedious
experiment on the part of the seedf
grower. So the development has
gone on, unobtrusively, the little plot
of ground of the Northern Nursery
company contributing a lion's share*
toward the growth and prosperity of
the great Northwest.
Machine to Separate
Wild Oats on Market
In view of .the fact that the wild
oats among grain has become a detri
ment to farmers throughout this
country, it will be of greeat interest
to all farmers to learn that there is
a machine on the market now known
as the Hoiland Wild Oats Separator
that will perfectly separate wild oat&
from all grain, tame oats as Well as
wheat, flax, rye and barley.
This machine has been highly en
dorsed by Prof. H. L. Bolley, state
seed commissioner, of the agricultural
college at Fargo, and also by profes
sonal agriculturists in other states
Mr. P. Davidson, of Valley City, has.
the exclusive sale of these machines^
for Barnes county and has two car
loads of them already shipped to him_
They can be had at a small cost andE
no doubt many will be wanting then*
to clean their seed rye this fall or
prepare.their seed grain for next
year. There is only a certain limited
amount of them for each county. Al
though the factory is putting thens.
out on a large scale the demand for
them will be so great that those in
terested should order early.
TOTS MUST START TO
SCHOOL THIS WEEK
All parents having children six
years of age, or who will be elx
between now and the first of next
June, desiring to enter them In
school this year, must do so this
week. The enrollment of little
children has been hefttf open by
Superintendent Hanna longer
than required, and this will be
the last week. Unless the little
ones are entered by Friday they j*
can not go to school this year.
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