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HELP WANTED.
WANTED—Kitchen girl at ^Mer
chants Hotel. 647
WANTED—A good farm hand. Ap
ply at Willmar Green House. 633
WANTED—Two girls to take up
the practice of nursing at the Will
mar Hospital. 385
""WANTED—A good cook in family
where two girls are kept. Good wag
es permanent place. Inquire at Trib
une office. 659
HOU8E8 AND ROOMS.
FOR RENT—Five room cottage.
Call 198L. 654
WANTED TO RENT—House or up
stairs. Address Tribune. 664
FOR RENT—Furniihed room in
modern house. 510 3rd St. E. 619
FURNISHED ROOMS—For rent,
down stairs. 422 Second street. 655
FOR RENT—Rooms suitable for
light housekeeping. 'Phone 204J. 650
~FbR~RENT—Modern roomTMrs. C.
A. Nichols, 117 E. Litchfield Ave. 645
ROOM FOR RENT—(Unfurnished),
near high school, 912 Fifth St. Wm.
P. Elkjer. 646
FOR RENT—One furnished room in
modern house. Inquire at 721 Litch
field Ave. W. 469
ROOM WANTED—By gentleman.
Must be reasonably close to business
part of city. Inquire at this office.651
REAL E8TATE.
"FOR SALE OR TRADE—A very de
sirable 7-room house in the Larson
Tallman block. Inquire at Tribune
office. 501
CITY LOIS—Have Just platted
tome of finest building lots in city on
Third St. East (Mayson). Prices
reasonable. G. A. Erickson. 405
FOR SALE—On the installment
plan. Twenty-three lots, 7 blocks from
post-office. For further particulars.
Jxqulre of Anderson Land Co. 376
NORTHERN MINNESOTA LANDS
—112.50 to 115.00 per acre S2 per
acre cash, balance on easy terms at 6
per cent. For further particulars call
at our office or write Anderson Land
Co., Willmar, Minn. 660
HOUSES FOR SALE—On the~Tn
stallment plan. It interested in buy
ing a house it will pay you to call at
omr office and get full particulars.
Anderson Land Co., Willmar, Minne
sota. 635
GENUINE BARGAINS—If you are
looking for such in city property or
Improved farms in Kandiyohi county,
do not fail to call at the office and
look over the large list of properties
now for sale by Thorpe & Rykken,
Willmar, Minn. 414
WANTED—Farms to Sell—I have
buyers, but my list of farms is run
ning low. If you will list your farm
for what it is worth, you can sell
at your own price. I charge one doll
ar per acre commission. William Ol
son. Splcer, Minn. 347
FOR SALE—96 acre farm about 9
miles from Willmar good rolling
land, has fair house, outbuildings
poor, fine grove and apple orchard.
Prioe 945 per acre. This is a bar
gain. Have several good propositions
In booses in Willmar. Call or write,
A. H. Brown. tf
IDEAL STOCK FARM
A Big Bargain.
375 acre farm, partly improved,
mile from post office, and mile from
High School, heavy black loam, with
clay subsoil, 200 acres cultivated, bal
ance timber and pasture meadow, 75
acres fenced hog tight, east and west
fenced with four foot woven wire.
Water piped from lake chicken house
and hog shed, only buildings an ideal
grain and stock farm. A bargain for
quick sale. J. Dwight Hargreaves,
Saint John, N. D. Have improved and
unimproved land ranging from $10 per
acre up. Write me for full partic
ulars.
FOR 8ALE— MI3CELLANEOU8.
""FOR SALE—Second hand~self-feed
coal Btove. See M. H. Carey, Majestic
Theatre. 661
FOR SALE—At half price, a new
coal stove for wood and coal. Inquire
at 523 Third St. 642
~"FOR~SALE—Ford touring car in
good running order for $275. P. M.
Peterson, Willmar. 602
FOR SALE CHEAP—A 1913 Ford
6-passenger touring car, in first-class
condition. Lars Halvorson. 535
FOR SALE—One large size Radiant
double heater, almost new one Stew
art self-feeder medium size heater
one kitchen range. All in good condi
tion. Sold cheap. Apply at 221 Litch
field ave. E. 662
FOR SALE—One 2-horse power
gasoline engine with pumping jack,
new. For sale cheap for cash, as I
have no use for same, also one hay
rack and one running gear heavy
truck. Will sell way below cost if
taken at once. Inquire at Tribune of
fice. 601
FOR SALE—9 room duplex, full
basement, electric lights and fixtures,
city water, large cistern with air pump
pressure, cess-pool. Lot 75x150 feet,
all walks in. $500 cash, the balance
$40 a month at 7 per cent. For price
and further particulars inquire of An
derson Land Company, Willmar, Min
nesota. 605
8T0CK FOR SALE.
FOR SALE—One good work horse.
A."P. Reese, Splcer, Rt. 1. 490
FOR SALE—One pure bred Short
horn sire, 4 months old. Gustafson
Bros., Kandiyohi. 648
FOR SALE—One year old Berkshire
boars, eligible for registry. Swan Nel
son, Rt. 3, Willmar. 660
FOR SALE—Cheap, light driving
team, double harness, single and dou
ble buggy, saddle and cutter. Call
•Phone No. 381. 656
FOR SALE—100 well bred Barred
Rock cockerels from vigorous stock.
Your choice, $1.00 each. Fred Sten
berg, Lake Elisabeth, Rt. 1, Atwater,
Minn. MS
""J»0ft SALE—A number or good
young fefifteTtd Sfcortbor* trails. Al-
|£$^ », J^j^^^^^}^^0^A,v^^i0^^m
so some good young fresh milch cows.
'Phone line 16 call 17. James F. Cox,
Willmar, Minn. 658
MISCELLANEOUS.
WANTED—To take
620 Mayson St. E.
in washing at
653
WANTED—To take in plain sewing,
at 620 Mayson St. E. 653
WANTED TO TRADE—Registered
Shorthorn cows or heifers work hors
es or colts for a bunch of sheep. P.
J. Thorstenson, Willmar, Rt. 5. 652
PIANO TO~ TRADE—Have a new
$500 King grand upright piano taken
in a trade which I will trade for
cheap lots. May be seen at Tjosvoid's
Music Store. G. A. Erickson. 600
$20 CASH BUYS FINE REMING
ton, double-barrel, hammerless shot
gun (with case) gun is in first-class
condition. A bargain. Inquire at this
office. 633
MONEY TO LOAN—See S. L. Ben
ton for farm loans, on the optional
payment plan, and at low interest, as
he has charge of the loaning business
while I am away from home. A.
Adams. 562
LEARN TELEGRAPHY^Good sal
aries. Operators in demand. Free
catalogues. Actual railroad wires con
nected with class rooms. Earn board.
American Telegraph College, 1123
Produce Exch., Minneapolis. 637
MAKE YOUR HENS LAY—So far
as we know, Prescription No. 4 is the
only true laying stimulator that does
not in any way injure the delicate
organism of the laying hen.
Positive results are guaranteed by
the Nabob Remedy Co., and all their
poultry remedies are sold by W. M.
CHASE & Co.
LOST AND FOUND.
LOST—Small black purse contain
ing five dollar bill, Monday evening
between Majestic theatre and Semi
nary or at Majestic. Finder leave at
this office for reward. 657
Corrected Oct. 7, 181-1.
Prices on creamery butter,Bour, brsn, abort*
and apples are dealers' selling prices, all other
are prices paid to producers.
Wheat, No. 1 Northern 95c
Wheat, No. S 9lr
Wheat, No. S 86c
Wheat, No.4 77c to 81c
Wheat, rejected 68
Wheat, No. 1 Durum 85
Wheat, No. 3 Durum 82
Wheat, No. 8 Durum 76
Wheat, No. 4 Durum 73
Oats 33c to 37
Barley 34c to 4,2i
»j 68c to 71
Flax $1.05 to $1.18
Barcorn 54c
Plour, fane/ S3 40
Flour, straight $3 30
Sran $23 (K
Short* $24.0f
Potatoes 40c
Beans $3 SO per bushel
Cabbage, 3c per lb.
Onions 2c
Sgga 22c
Butter, separator 23c to 25c
Setter,dairy 21
Butter, creamery 26i to 28c
Lambs $7.00
Sheep $4.00 to $6.00
Chickens 9c to 12c
Seef cattle $5..0U to $6.00
Steers $6\00-to S7.CC
Visal calrss $5.50 to $8.0(
H'des 8c to 9
$7 25 to "7.40
GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES
Duluth Wheat and Flax.
Duluth, Oct. 5.—Wheat—On track
and to arrive, No. 1 hard, $1.08^ No.
1 Northern, $1.07% No. 2 Northern,
$1.04%. Flax—On track and to arrive,
$1.37.
South St. Paul Live Stock.
South St. Paul, Oct. 5.—Cattle
Steers, $5.00@9.00 cows and heifers,
$4.60@7.50 calves, $6.50@9.75 stack
ers and feeders, $4.75@7.25. Hogs—
$7.85@8.10. Sheep—Lambs, $4.00@
7.25 wethers, $4.00@5.25 ewes, $2.50
@4.75.
Chicago Grain and Provisions.
Chicago, Oct. 5.—Wheat—Dec, $1.
08 May, $1.14%. Corn—Dec, 68y8c
May, 70%c. Oats—Dec, 47%c May,
51%c Pork—Oct., $16.62 Jan., $19.
45. Butter—Creameries, 29c. Eggs—
19g22c. Poultry—Springs, 14@14%c
fowls, 14%c.
Minneapolis Grain.
Minneapolis, Oct. 5.—Wheat—Dec,
$1.07% May, $1.13J4. Cash close on
track: No. 1 hard, $1.09^4 No. 1
Northern, $1.06©1.081/4 No. 2 North
ern, $1.03@1.05% No. 3 Northern,
»7%c@S1.02% No. 3 yellow corn, 64%
@65%c No. 3 white oats, 43%@44c
Sax, $1.38.
Chicago Live Stock.
Chicago, Oct. 5.—Cattle—Beeves,
$6.50@11.00 steers, $6.15@9.00 stock
ers and feeders, $5.25@8.25 cows and
heifers, $3.40@9.00 calves, $7.50@
11.25. Hog3—Light, $8.35@8.90 mix
ed, $7.85@8.90 heavy, $7.50@8.70
rough, $7.50@7.70 pigs, $4.75@8.00.
Sheep—Native. $4.75@5.80 yearling*,
$5.50®6.25.
Absent, Yet Swarming.
"Some time ago Mr. T. P. O'Connor,
one of the best known Irishmen in the
house of commons, perpetrated an
amusing "bull."
"Are there as many absentee land
lords In Ireland as there used to be?"
he was asked.
"My dear sir." Mr. O'Connor replied
seriously, "Ireland Is swarming with
them!"—Loudon Tit-Bits.
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Office 309 Litchfield Av. W. 'Phoae
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Good Plumbing
Professional Cards
WILLMA BETHESDA HOSPITAL
Corner Third St, and Litchfield Ave.
'Phone 282.
Conducted By
Mrs. Caroline Ostlund.
•TA1TI
9*. M. a. rxost, Br. 9. O. JTaoosa
Or. Christian Johnson.
Doctor C.W. RICHES
MEDICAL AND OSTEOPATHIC
PHYSICIAN
Specialist In Old, Stubbsrn Ailments.
Such ailments as Appendicitis, Goi
tre, Enlarged Tonsils, Curable Exter
nal Cancerous Growths and many
complaints of women are treated
without the knife.
Consultation and correspondence free
Pleasant Home for such as desire
2832 2nd Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minn.
Dr. F. B. COLEMAN
Specialist.
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Glasses Fitted, 'Phone 41
Office over Palace Grocery
WILLMAR, MINNESOTA
DR. C. E. ANDERSON
E N I S
Bank of Willmar Building
Willmar, Minn.
Telephones: Office 528, Ret 661L
Office Hours: 9 to 12 a. m. 1 to 4 p. m.
Also by Appointment.
Dr. L. HARRISON
Licened Osteopathic Physician
Carlson B!dg. Willmar, Minn.
R. W. STANFORD
A W E
Real Estate, Insurance and
Collections.
Office In Postofflce Building.
WILLMAR, MINNESOTA
OLSON & GRUE
MONUMENTS
Factory and Office on Benson Ave.
between Oth and 6th Streets
•Phone 455J or I63L. Willmar, Minn.
A. R. Endersbe
LICENSED
Veterinary, Surgeon and Dentist
Special Attention given to Vaccination of
Hogs. I use only Government Inspected Se
rum. Also Castration of Animals
Office at Farmer's Feed Barn, Phone No J.2S
Res. 703 5th St. Phone 4,81J Willmar, Minn.
Dr. E. WANNER
VETERINARIAN
Office at Downs & Sanderson Feed Barn
Day 'phone No 46 night 'phone 13
Wlltaar. Minn.
AUCTIONEER
If you intend to hold a sale, kindly
come in and talk it over with me.
Give me a chance to show you my
work. Usual terms.
A. W. WALL, Pennock, Minn.
PARCEL DELIVERY
Trunks, parcels, packages, letters,
etc., called for and delivered to any
part of the city. Prompt service.
Charges moderate. Office Great
Northern Express. Telephone 92.
McCormick & McDonald
LIVER
Vbons 4*—One block south of dtvoi
(First publication Oct. 7-4t)
Citation for Hearing on Final Account
and for Distribution.
Estate of Nels Ekberg, also known as
Nels O. Ekberg.
State of Minnesota, County of Kandi
yohi, In Probate Court:
In the Matter of the Estate of Nels
Ekberg, also known as Nels O. Ek
berg, Decedent:
The State of Minnesota to all per
sons interested in the final account
and distribution of the estate of said
decedent: The representative of the
above named decedent, having filed in
this court her final account of the ad
ministration of the estate of said de
cedent, together with petition praying
for the adjustment and allowance of
said final account and for distribution
of the residue of said estate to the
persons thereunto entitled THERE
FORE, YOU, AND EACH OF YOU,
are hereby cited and required to show
cause, if any you have, before this
court at the Probate Court Rooms in
the Court House, in the City of Will
mar, in the County of Kandiyohi, State
of Minnesota, on the 9th day of No
vember, 1914, at 2 o'clock p. m., why
said petition should not be granted.
Witness, the Judge of said Court,
and the seal of said court, this 6th
day of October, 1914.
(COURT SEAL) T. O. GILBERT,
Probate Judge.
R. W. STANFORD,
Attorney for Petitioner,
Willmar, Minn.
END STOMACH TROUBLE,
OASES OB DYSPEPSIA
"Pape's Diapepsln" make* Sick, Sour,
Gassy Stomachs surely feel fine
in five minutes.
If what you just ate is souring on
your stomach or lies like a lump of
lead, refusing to digest, or you belch
gas and eructate sour, undigested
food, or have a feeling of dizziness,
heartburn, fullness, nausea,. bad taste
In mouth and stomach-headache, you
can blessed relief In five minutes.
Put an end to stomach trouble forever
by getting a large fifty-cent case of
Pape's Diapepsln from any drug store.
Tou realize in five minutes how need
less it is to suffer from indigestion,
dyspepsia or any stomach disorder.
It's the quickest, surest stomach doc
tor In the world. It's wonderful.
Photos by American Press Association.
They Figure In the Battles In the Air
At top is shown a French armored aeroplane. In the lower picture is a
unique gun used by the Germans to destroy aeroplanes. It Is mounted on a
truck, and it is claimed that it can be timed and aimed accurately enougk
to destroy the swiftest flying aircraft
SVEA.
Svea, Oct. 5—Services next Sunday
at 10:30 a. m. and Sunday school fol-j
lowing the services.
The Y. P. S. will meet Friday eve
ning, Oct. 16th. Professor Nelson of
New London will be one of the speak
ers. Everybody welcome.
Mr. and Mrs. Sandness and Elvira
Rasmusson visited school one day last
week.
Dr. Jacobs of Willmar was called
out to the E. R. Swenson home one
day last week on account of the ser
ious illness of their son, Sigfrid. He
is somewhat improved-at this writing.
Mr. and Mrs. Ole Rasmusson and
Mr. and Mrs. Sandness autoed to New
London Tuesday to visit with the O.
Kjos family.
Mrs. N. O. Nelson and nieces, Beul
ah and Blanche Benton and Mr. Peter
Hanson of Willmar visited at A. O.
Nelson's and E. R. Swenson's Satur
day.
P. O. Nelson and August Johnson
have invested in new automobiles-the
past week.
Nels Hallquist left last week for his
home in Montana.
Mrs. Anders Johnson and niece,
Dora Moline of Willmar visited at the
August Johnson home a few days the
past week.
Mrs. Harold Nelson and Miss Ebba
Person called at E. R. Swenson's Sat
urday,
P. N. Lindgren and daughter, Mabel
and A. P. Johnson and family visited
at the M. R. Swenson home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Faber and'two child
ren have left for a visit with relatives
in Iowa.
Miss Mamie Westerberg has been
dressmaking at Erick Moline's the
past week.
Mrs. Odell and Olive Nelson of Will
mar visited at P. O. Nelson's Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ole Rasmusson enter
tained some of their friends last
Thursday in honor of Mr. and Mrs. P.
M. Sandness of LaMoure, N. D.
Henry Bjelkengren and Peter
Strandberg and families .autoed to
Renville Sunday to visit with friends.
Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Sandness and
Elvira Rasmusson left Friday for La
Moure, N. D., where Mr. and Mrs.
Sandness will make their home while
Miss Elvira will teach at Kulm, N. D.
Dak.
Mr. and Mrs. August Lindblad and
son visited at A. O. Nelson's Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Johnson and son
Lowell visited at Swan Nelson's Sun
day.
Mrs. J. A. Jacobson went to Will
mar Friday after assisting at the Os
car Lundquist home.
NORWAY LAKE.
Norway Lake, Oct. 5—Services were
conducted in Synod church Sunday.
Confirmation services were conduct
ed in the Swedish Mission church last
Sunday by Rev. Moline. A class of
nine was confirmed.
The Ladies' Aid of the East Norway
Lake church will meet at Rev. Sot
endahl's place next Thursday after
noon.
Money Halvorson and Oscar New
land returned to Nevis, Minn., after
visiting at the Johannes Halvorson
home.
Rev. Strand of Albert Lea is visit
ing at Ole Hjerdet's place.
Mrs. Ole Stene of West Lake visit
ed at G. Stene's place last week.
Rev. I. A. Johanson conducted ser
vices in the Hauge church Sunday af
ternoon.
The Young People's Society of the
Synod church will have a social in
the church basement next Sunday
evening.
Mrs. Sethne and daughter, Mabel
are visiting with Carl Syverson's and
other relatives of this vicinity.
Miss Alida Sundstrom who has been
assisting Mrs. J. Halvorson the past
few months, is visiting with Mae
Stene.
Melvin Swenson who has been laid
up with a broken collar bone the past
week, is now again able to use both
hands.
Mr. and Mrs. M. Engen visited at
the L. H. Larson home Sunday after
.noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Henjum visited
at the P. Hatlestad home last Sunday.
The Ladies* Aid of the Synod
[church will meet at Olaf Negaard's
place next Sunday afternoon.
Drs. Qerretson A Hodgson, Dentists,
Lonty Block. Telephone 199.-^Adv.
STERLING
SECURITIES
ACCUSED
GRAND JURY IN
DICTS THREE
OFFICIALS
Late this afternoon the Grand Jury
of Kandiyohi County brot in four in
dictments in the Sterling Securities
Corporation matter, when worthless
stock was sold to New London people
on the promise of starting a new
bank.
Three indictments on the charge
of grand larceny in the first degree
were brought against James J. Wise,
H. J. Tremain and D. R. Morrow of
Minneapolis, the complaining witnes
ses in the three respective cases being
A. J. Smithson, C. A. Geer and M. O.
Oppegaard. -Another indictment was
found against James J. Wise alone
on the same charge, the complaining
witness being A. J. Smithson.
The accused were arraigned before
Judge Qvale and the indictments read.
The defendants pleaded not guilty
with privilege of withdrawing plea
and interposing a demurrer or motion
to squashHhe indictment on or before
Wednesday of next week.
The grand jury is still in session.
GRUE
Grue, Oct. 6—Mr. and Mrs. C. A.
Halvorson visited at O. Dengerud's
near Svea from Saturday until Mon
day.
And. Fagerland and family made a
call at A. Brecke's at Nest Lake Sun
day.
Miss Christine Olson left for Selby,
S. D., Saturday, where she is engaged
to teach school.
Chas. Olson and son, Herman left
for Osakis on business Monday.
Mr. Oscar Jacobson left last week
for Veblen, S. D., where he will remain
for some time.
Mrs. Chas. Olson and little daugh
ter, Anna are at present visiting
friends and relatives near Selby, S.
Dak.
Knut Thompson returned from Min
neapolis last week.
Mr. Oscar Larson from Willmar vis
ited at the Risdall home from Monday
until Thursday.
Mr. Arthur Risdall is at present as
sisting And. Fagerland with the farm
work.
The Misses Clara and Anna Olson,
Mattie and Agnes Peterson called at
the C. A. Halvorson home Sunday eve
ning.
Her Home.
Some years ago, when a part of the
Japanese imperial palare was burned
at Tokyo, the empress was forewi to
flee to one of the old daltnio bouses
near by. It was not at all coniform
ble, and. as the story goes, her niajes
ty. appreciating that her subjects
would be much concerned at her living
in sucb a mean place, sat down and
wrote them a little poem in which she
denied that she had changed ber rest
dence. The poem, which was in the
best Japanese language, stated that
her majesty's borne bad always been
In the hearts of the people and that
neither the flames nor the cold could
ever drive ber from that dear abode.
Bacon.
If bacon is soaked in water for a
few minutes before frying it will pre
rent the fat from running.
Co-Operative Farm
Products Marketing
How It Is Done in Europe and May Be Done
in America to the Profit of Both
Farmer and Consumer
By MATTHEW 8. DUDGEON.
(Copyright. 1914. WsstsA Newspaper union.
(Courtesy of F. W. Wozencraft.)
Inspection of a Danish Creamery.
WHY CO-OPERATION SOMETIMES FALS
Copenhagen, Denmark. Co-opera
tion is not foolproof, consequently it
does not always succeed. Inexperi
ence, incompetence, and dishonesty
will wreck any private business and
they will, of course, wreck any co
operative business. It is necessary
therefore, for enthusiasts to remem
ber that there is no mystic virtue in
co-operation which enables it to tri
umph at all times. Those of us who
are trying to record what we have
seen of co-operative business at home
and in Europe, would not be treating
the public fairly if we left the im
pression that there are no failures
among co-operative enterprises.
Both at home and abroad there have
been many failures. Certainly those
Interested are entitled to know as
much about its failures as about its
successes. They are entitled to know
also what causes have led to co-opera
tive failure.
Failures In America.
Many co-operative stores organized
with much promise have failed. Gen
erally speaking gross incompetence
has wrecked them. They are like
other mercantile establishments in
that they demand, as a condition
precedent to success, skilled manage
ment, good business methods, good ac
counting, cautious extension of credit,
as well as some special knowledge of
the goods dealt in. If these qualities
are absent failure Is inevitable. As
the average co-operative store in
America is organized its members are
seldom bound by any agreement to
do all their trading at the co-operative
concern. They patronize it when it is
to their Interest so to do. If the goods
offered are poor, or if bad manage
ment advances the price unduly, or if
frequent minor mistakes occur, the
members abandon the venture like a
sinking ship.
As I have said, co-operative stores
in order to succeed must have skilled
management, good business methods,
good accounting systems, and must ex
tend credit cautiously, all In addition
to the special knowledge essential in
every such enterprise. So far as I can
discover, however, the stores which
have failed have not only lacked one
or two of these essentials of success
but they seem often to have lacked all
of them. More than once it has hap
pened that a co-operative store com
pany is formed because some store
keeper has lost all his money in an
unsuccessful mercantile venture and
can secure capital for a new venture
only in this way. Sometimes an am
bitious farmer has organized a com
pany in order that a son who has been
away to business college and feels
above farming may have a chance to
earn a living without working upon
the farm. It is characteristic also of
co-operative American stores—and of
other co-operative concerns in Ameri
ca also—that they have seldom been
willing to pay a salary sufficient to
secure men of experience and skill as
managers.
When a co-operative store managed
by a man who has a history of noth
ing but business failures behind him,
or by a youthful and inexperienced
business college graduate, or by any
other man of the low grade implied in
the low salaries paid, comes into com
petition with a competent, up-to-date,
American storekeeper of the aggres
sive vigorous type often found in even
the smaller towns, the mere word "co
operative" upon the sign in front of
the store is not going to avert failure.
It Isn't fair to expect too much of co
operation.
Co-operative Fruit Failures.
Seldom, too, have so-called Ameri
can co-operative companies been co
operative in the true sense of the
word. I have in mind one co-operative
fruit marketing society which failed
largely because it was organized on
the joint stock basis and administered
as are other non-co-operative corpora
tions. A few ef the larger sharehold
ers controlled it. The interests of the
minority were ignored. They became
jealous and suspicious and accused
those in control of dishonesty. Finally
they demanded that the officers give
a full report of all their financial
transactions and that an auditing com*
Hamlat In South Africa.
It can hardly be expected that "post
Impressionism" will be confined to pic
tures in the future. A friend of mine
writes me from South Africa that some
genius out there has done "Hamlet" in
the Taal and quotes the following ex
ample, which seems to me extremely
post impressionistic. Here it is
Hamlet-Wie is u?
Ghost—Ik is enn spook.
Hamlet—Wies spook is u?
Ghost—Ik is yu papa's spook.—New
York Sun.
mlttee be appointed. The officers fool
ishly and arbitrarily refused to con
cede even an audit unless they them
selves selected the committee. Then,
these smaller storekeepers demanded
that the one man vote principle be
applied so that for the future they
might protect their own interests.
This also was denied them. The only
course possible seemed to be a separa
tion and the smaller stockholders
withdrew, the larger stockholders
buying out those who did not care to
stay in the concern. While this socie
ty did not fail from a financial stand
point, its record is of course to be
cited as that of a co-operative concern
which did not succeed in the best
sense of the term.
The small shareholders of this 60-s
ciety later formed another co-opera
tive society, organizing and adminis
tering it, you may be sure, upon a
purely co-operative basis, adopting the
one man vote plan, and providing that
no dividends be declared upon shares
but that all the profits go to those who
grew the fruit in proportion to the
amount furnished to thhe company by
each.
Greed Causes Another Failure.
The experience of a Minnesota co
operative warehouse elevator* was
somewhat different. As originally or
ganized and managed by the farmers,
it was a success, all the profits were
distributed back to the producers as.
an additional price upon the grain de
livered and the farmers loyally sup.
ported it. Later, however, the shares'
of stock became centered in a few
business men who were not grain
growers. These men held a major*
ity of the stock and were in ful)
control. They began squeezing down
the prices to the producer until they
were paying him no more than the
privately owned elevator companies
paid.
The trustful farmers continued to
deliver their grain for a time and the
business men in control received a
forty per cent dividend. At the end
of the year, however, the farmers real
ized that they were being imposed
upon and the next year abandoned the
project, and hauled their grain else
where. As a result this co-operative
effort which had been at first an exi
ceedingly profitable venture became
so absolute a failure that it was with
difficulty that the shareholders disc
posed of their building and equipment.
European Failures.
There have been failures in Euro
pean co-operation also. Tou cannot
talk co-operation in Germany long
with anyone familiar with the general
situation without having your atten
tion called to the fact that co-opera
tion has received one black eye. Tears
ago the government, anxious to aid in
the marketing of grain, devoted a.
considerable amount of money to the,
erection of elevators or "corn houses,"
loaning the money to local co-opera-i
tive concerns whose organization it
fostered and supervising the erection
in each case of a rather Imposing
structure. It would seem that the
government generously tempted the
promoters to unreasoning extrava
gance. "How could you expect our
people to calculate closely when they
had this heap of unearned money
forced upon them?" one man re
marked. Everything was done on a
costly scale. The storehouses were
too big. They were not carefully lo
cated. Into these concerns crept, also
a desire to speculate, to corner the
grain supply, to do in Germany what
Leiter was reported to have done,in
America,—to capture the grain mar
ket
Everyone persuaded himself, it Is
said, that he was going to grow rich
by appropriating by degrees the
wealth thus to be gained. They had
heard that there were great corners
in the United States, and by buying
and storing grain men had made enor
mous fortunes. There was to be gold
for everyone who wanted it A careful
study of the situation has revealed the
absurdity of the situation. Those who
controlled the warehouses could not
control to exceed, one-twentieth of the
supply of grain grown la Germany
alone.
COURAGE.
Cultivate the spirit of courage.
The timid man loses opportunities
and is almost always a failure. Do
not be timid. A great deal of tal
ent is lost in the world for the want
of a little courage. Every day
•ends to their graves a numbet of
obscure men who have remained
obscure only because their timidity
has prevented them from making a
first effort.
The general concensus of German
opinion seems to have been that two
eauses contributed to the failure first,
state aid, which seldom really helps
a co-operative society, ruined these
projects by encouraging the construe*
tlon of warehouses which were either
not needed or, which were bigger than
aeeded second, the members sought
to make money out of them instead of
using them simply to prevent waste
in shipping.
Bank at Nieder Mabau.
In 1874 at a German village of some
620 inhabitants local tradesmen
formed a loan and savings bank. From
the very first they forgot that cooper*
ative credit banks are primarily
formed to lend money only to those lo
cal members who will use it for lo
cal purposes. They were too anxious
to get rich quick. By a promise of ex
ceedingly high rates of interest they
attracted patrons from the most re
mote points until there was on de
posit in this little village cooperative
bank almost $1,000,000. Such an
amount of money was of course far in
excess Of any needs which the mem
bers themselves might have as bor
rowers. Consequently the bank be
gan to do business with outsiders.
Funds were so plentiful and the de
mands relatively so small that it grant
ed to its debtors extensive credits. It
became known that credit could easily
be obtained at that village bank and
speculators far and near flocked to it
It risked its money in financial
schemes outside the limits of the Til*.
lage.
The cashier, who had no particular
fitness for the position, also had charge
of church funds and other publlo
funds. Besides this, he was conduct
ing a large business in a hotel. There
seems to have been no one on the
board of managers of any particular
business judgment or ability. Even
integrity was not present for the cash
ier ended his year with forgery and
was sent to prison. It was not sur
prising, therefore, that in December,
1911, the Nieder Mabau Loans and
Savings bank was declared insolvent
the natural results of undue greed, of
the spirit of speculation, of incompe
tence, and of dishonesty.
Co-operative Bank at Darmsfed.
More recently the co-operative ag
ricultural bank at Darmsted, formed
in 1882, reached a point where it was
unable to meet its obligations. Its
situation was almost the same as
that of the Nieder Mabau bank, al
though it operated upon a much larger
scale. In connection with this bank
there was also either gross incompe
tency or dishonesty. In one case, for
example, over a million dollars was
invested in a mine that could not be
worked. Other equally hazardous en
terprises were financed by this con
cern contrary to all principles of co
operative credit and equally contrary
to all rules of sound finance. "Co
operative banks are not foolproof,"
and of course the co-operative bank
at Darmsted failed.
I Co-operation may fail even in Den
mark, the country in all Europe most
completely organized for rural busi
ness. There a brilliant public man
got in the good graces of those inter
ested in cooperation and promoted a
scheme for uniting many cooperative
societies in one big concern. Here
there was not so much incompetence
as dishonesty, and the venture ended
in financial failure for the members—*
and in imprisonment for the dishon
est promoter.
Causes of Failures In America.
Co-operative failures so far as Amer
ica is concerned are traceable large*
ly to these causes:
In the first place it has always been
difficult for the American to compre
hend the fact that cooperative con
cerns are not money making, divi
dend declaring, profit producing con
cerns. They do not seem to realize
that the sole excuse for the existence
of the cooperative organization as a
middleman is in order that a middle
man's function may be performed
without waste and without profit
In the second place the epirit of
the American farmer is not sufficient
ly unselfish. He has been operating
for so long oh the competitive basis
that it is difficult for him to acquire
a spirit of unselfish loyalty to the
spirit of the organization to which he
belongs. If an opportunity presents it
self under which he can net a profit
by abandoning the cooperative soci
ety and dealing with a private dealer,
he embraces it at once, without realiz
ing that in the end this will ruin hia
co-operative concern and leave him
in the hands of the privately owned
dealer who has been for generations
working him for large profits.
In the third place, practically all
the American concerns which have
failed have been organized on the joint
stock plan. With the voting power
distributed In proportion to the cap
ital invested it has often occurred
that the interests of those who were
in control of the majority of the stock
were antagonistic to the interests of
the smaller stockholders, who con
tributed to the success by bringing
in a large part of the produce handled
by tbe concern. As a result the pol
icy of the coopefhtive concern- has
often ignored the interests of the
producer if the concern was a market
ing one, or the interests of the dis
tributee if the concern was a distrib
uting organization.
In the fourth place, the American,
faimers have not yet had a sufficiently
far-seeing vision to realize that it often
pays to invest a considerable salary
in a skilled maanger. They hesitate
to pay a salary which would demand
the attention of anyone who had suffi
cient experience and skill successfully
to manage the business. As a result,
co-operation has suffered from ignor*.
ance and mismanagement
Judging a Cow.
A cow with a bright eye Is to be pre
ferred to one with a dull appearance.
She will tend to business more than
the other also the one with large nos
trils is to be preferred because the
large nostrils lndicate_ibat she will al
ways have a good supply of air to op
erate her lungs and so her other bodily
functions will be performed promptly
and regularly. A good cow will have
short legs, and they will be smooth
and without extra meat—Farm and
Fireside.
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