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M, tl ,^S^gj}liR!a!.Sl..j ,-..,.i,-.«.,. ..-J ,•*•......<p></p>THE 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 /'*A 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 J5».<p></p>TIMES-RECOR©.O• 1 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 1 »iu. a ®a fe" J, I ED 1S7H 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. Ml