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THE WARD COUNTY INDEPENDENT

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Minot, Kortk Dakota

Entered June 18. 1902, as Second Class Matter at the Post off Ice at

. Mlnot. N. P- »ndi?r.thie«7oCt Congress of March S» 1879.

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A LONGER WORK DAY THAN THE FARMER'S

(Kansas City Star) Thfcre has been much discussion in

the press and wherever /persons fore-giather regarding the unfairness of the demands of labor for a 6-hour worlfl day. Comparison has, constantly been made between this short day for the city workman and the long, hours of the workman on the farm.

In these discussions, however, the person whose work day is longest and most exhausting, the farm hovyewife, has been entirely overlooked. Ac­cording to a recent survey made by the United States department of 'ag­riculture the general farmer in Central Illinois spends in the field, exclusive of the time used in going to and re­turning from the field at morning, noon and night, and exclusive of the time required to do the farm chores, ten hours and ten minutes a day dur­ing the spring planting and cultr-vating setasons; nine h'curs and fifty-five minutes in haying a*id grain har­vesting; nine hours and thirty min­utes for fall plowing and preparing for wheat, and nine hours and twenty minues wihen gathering corn. This does not include rainy days, Sundays, election days, circus days and perio-ods of the year when farm work is sl&olc

The government made another sur­vey recently and discovered that the average farm woman's day was elev­en and one-half Incurs long. It was also found that 96 per cent of the farm women do tihe family washing

.and more than hailf of them still use the!-, old-fashioned washboard. In 61 percent of the farm homes visited, the women carry water an average of forty feet, 92 per cent do the fam­ily baking. And as though these tasks were not erocugh, there are the duties of canning and preserving for the family and perhaps a hired man or two, and looking after the chick­ens/ and part at least of the garden work thrown in for good measure Perhaps 90 per cent of the farm nomes are still lighted with kerosene lamps, heated by coal or wocd stoves, and have not one modern convenience. The mother must do all these things herself or with such help as the chil­dren can give. Hired man labor on the farm is short, but hired house heln-is impossible to get.

The farm is equipped up to the min-utV. The farm home is half a centry behind the tiroes. A hand washing machine which will cut the labor 'of blue Mondav in half costs less than half the difference in the price of a walking and a riding plow. Most far­mers ride while they plow, as they should, but half of the farm women still use the washboard of our grand­mothers. A kitphen sink and water boiler with necessary connections can be installed with- the proceeds from the sale -cf an acre of wheat or corn or alfalfa at present prices. An elec­tric -lighting system which will 'be used every day in the year "ctosts lit­tle rrorp than is paid for a self bind­er which is used not more than six days a year. A complete farm wait­er system, including electric lights, bathroom, power washer, vacuum cleaner, power separator and power churn can be installed on the farm for less than the cost of a farm trac­tor. which is used fewer than thirty days a year.

We lament the drift of the-young people from the farm to the1 city. - It is not altogether the fault of the young people or the city. A substan­tial part of the remedy is in the hands of the farmers themselves. Condi­tions under which women and children do not want to live will long at­tract good men.

COUNTV CANDIDATES ON NON­PARTISAN BALLOT

Under the provision of Chapter 117 of the 1919 Session laws of North Dakota, ihe n^mes of all candidates for county office will be placed. on a Nonpartisan baiiot without any iparty designation, ;»ie same as school officers and judges; The intention of the ieg's'ature was to have the peo­ple vote rnr the man best Qualified for the office regardless of party or­ganization to whicn he may belong. This is a very wise provision and the voters will undoubtedly scrutinize the candidates carefully and select only those with the best qualifications. Our county officials are the servants iof the people. They should be chosen with the same care that one would pick out a man he would employ for one's own business. /

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for naturally the credit of many had been aomewmat impaired by a series of poor crops, yet thru it all, tihe farmers gritted their teeth and work­ed early and late, displaying a brand of optimism that it nothing short of miraculous. And now just ahead of them they have a vie ion of bumper crops., The rains are falling just right. The weamer has 'been cool giving the grain a chance to become well root­ed and optimism prevails on j|very hand.

The little old red achooi house, while not occupying so conspicuous a place in the public eye as in former years is yet functioning in a manner which in no degree lessens its popularity with the great communities. In the graduating class of the Minot high school this year there is one student, Arthur Swanson, son of a Kirklie township farmer, who is graduating with the honors of his class notwith­standing the fact that he took but Jhree years to complete the course. Arthur comes from one of those lit­tle one-room schools up the Mouse valley. All honor to the young men and women from the rural districts who come to our city to complete or at least add to their educational equip­ment. They are built of the right stuff. They are the students with plenty 'of lime in their apyiail col­umns. They are not afraid of hard work, be it field work- or study. In this connection it is well'to give cred­it to the devoted teachers of our com-r. on schols, who, especially in the past have had so little appreciation shown them for their labors, to say nothing of the meagre compensation therefor.

Their greatest compensation lies in the greateful hearts of the students enjoying their instruction. Many an old time schcoil teacher looks in retro­spect over the years of his labors in the school room with considerable gra­titude that is due in part to his teach­ing so many bright, keen, young hien and women are now useful members of society and have taken their places with the best of men and women and are making good. The writer with 18 years of such service can number many who are now 'heads of families and respected members of the com­munities in which they live. Again let us thank heaven for the gift of true, devoted teachers for our children whether they hail from the graded schools of our cities or from the little one room schools of the country dis­tricts." '

The Douglas district has two can­didates for county office who deserve the unqualified support of every vot­er in this district at the coming prA maries. Andrew Johnson, prominent Douglas farmer is a candidate for •State Representative and Thomas Plaisance well known Douglas farmer is in the race for 4he office of county commissioner in the Fifth Commis­sioner's district. Both are well known and respected citizens and entitled to the support of the electors of the Fifth district as well as the voters of the 29th Legislative district. Doug­las is entitled to representation and both selections-are most excellent.

« Police Commissioner Bowker in­

forms^ the Independent that he has placed a special "moter cop" on the street and from now on will arrest violators of the speed ordinance and all others pertaining, to the operation ':f automobiles, trucks or^motorcycles on our. streets. Life and property are endangered by those who do not re­spect our ordinances and Mr. Bowk­er serves all drivers with fair warn­ing. It is hoped that he will' see that these ordinances are enforced without fear or favor.

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Flax seeding is in progress in this section of the state this week and prac­tically all seed will 'be in the ground by the end. of next week. This in­cludes millet, late oats for hay, and barley. Farmers will soon start to summer fallow and a large acreage of soil will be turned over for next year's crops. With high priced seed, for­mers are net very anxious to risk sawing seed late and hot as much seed is being wasted as usual on poor­ly prepared ground. The grain with hardly an exception looks better than it has since 1915 and barring unfore­seen and unexpected conditions, we ought to harvest a very good crop. We will all have to take our hats off to the North, Dakota farmers for, the way they went at their work this •soring and kept ait it. Neiver before were they confronted with so many obstacles,'conditions that would have tharoily discouraged the ordinary far­mer. \ They were short of hired help. The season Was very late. Little fall plowing had been done. The winter was one of the hardest and longest on record. Nearly every farmer had

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gone ipto the winter With a serious shortage of feed. The horse power was not in first class condition.

The seed was high ,«nd hard to get

Urges Tirnitrg to Fight the Grasshoppers

James Scofield has looked into the grasshopper situation and urges the Independent to call the farriers' at­tention to the necessity of getting ac­tion on the young grasshoppers at lonce., Mr. Scofield fears that a great deal of damage will be done unless the farmers can take concerted action. Mr. Scofield learns that John Pfeiffer from north of town has a field of . wheat tfown on disced soil, one corner of which has been ruined by the pests. Mr. Yoder of Surrey has a field, a part of which has been stripped to the stems by the pests. Other fields northeast of the city have been dam­aged, the grasshoppers cutting off the tops of the plants as tho cattle had been in the field.

Mr. Scofield believes that if the farmers can get action at once and poison the grasshoppers while they are yet small, they can save themselves a vast amount of damage. It is up to everybody to get busy now.

Carpio Man Suggests Methods of Fighting Grasshoppers

Henry Bitter of Carpio is in the city today. He informs the Inde­pendent that he visited a field on a farm operated by Peter Dinger three miles southwest of Grano yesterday, where the grasshoppers were at work along a half mile stretch. They had hatched out along the roadside and for two rods in the field were so num­erous that had there been more, they would have beeA piled one on another. They had left the field as bare as a floor,as far as they had wdxfced and thert were millions yet along the road­side. ""Mr. Bitter suggests that a deep furrow be plowed Just ahead of the grasshoppers which will soon fill the furrow. i Ploto another deep fur­row alone this one, covering the peats deep and keep this up, packing the ground. If the' grasshoppers are spiall, Mr. Bitter beliefres they will not be able to get out. x , f •

New Location for Exposition The Johnny J. Jones' Exposition

will open in this city Monday, June 14 and continue the balance of the week. This will make the third sea­son that this popular exposition, has visited the city, each succeeding sea­son attracting additional attendance. The^exposition will be located on the vacant lots west* of the Normal ¥chool grounds this year, as thegrounds near the Great Northern depot were inade­quate for the enlarged show which he is carrying this year. He tfill have four excellent bands of music, nine popular riding devices and 25 shows, making it one of the finest pro­ductions ever visiting the city. John­

ny Jones deserves- credit for the high moral character of his exhibits and the high grade personnel of all his employes and artists. '

Halvorson Returns from South America

'Halvor J. Halvorson, formerly con­nected with the Brush-McWilliams Co. of this city, recently returned from an extended tour of the South Ameri­can countries. Halvor was especially well pleased with Bolivia and Argen­tina. He says he got along very nice­ly notwithstanding his inability to speak Spanish or' Portugese. In Bolivia iMr. Halvorson took an option on several thousand acres of laiid which he expects to open for settle-

" of a Land Cor-tnent thru the medium poration which will be formed to han­dle the project. BvidepCIy* the clim­ate of the southern hemisphere agreed with Halvor as he is looking fine and "fit as a fiddle".

Train Smashes Minot Flour Mill Track

A truck owned by the Minot Flour Mill Co., and driven by S/Torgerson, was struck' by the engine of No. 29 on the G. N. Tuesday evening and badly smashed. The train was run­ning 20 miles an hour over the cross-in# at the mill. The truck was struck behind the cab and thrown for sixty feet and turned around. Torgerson was still hanging to the wheel and was not injured. The gateman rais­ed the gates after a switch engine had passed and did not see No. 29 ap­proaching' Torgerson hurried onto the track ^before the gateman could lower the gates.

PVrson's Brother-in-Law Died at Long s Prairie, Minn.

Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Perspn have re­turned from Long Prairie, v Minn., where they were called by the death of their brother-in-law, A. B. Church, a prominent attorney of that city, who passed away Tuesday, June 1, after an illnessj>f 24 hours from heart trouble. Mr. Church had chaTge of the Memorial Day exercises the pre­vious day, delivering the Memorial address and he appeared to be in the best of health. He was 50 years qf age.* He was a stockholder in the Union National Bank of this city and had visited Minot quite frequently.

Colored Woman Shot at Dusky Man Beulah Prentis, colored, was assess­

ed $83.70, firte and costs, in police court this afternoon, for taking a sh6t at Bobby Miller, colored, with_a re­volver. The woman was jealous be­cause Miller paid too much attention to a mulatto woman,-Marie Stahls, who has been living with Miller. The bullet we£nt wide of the mark. The Prentis woman, who is accused of saying that the Stahls woman ought to be run out of town, says the latter was coming towards her with a club. The shooting occurred on Third street S. W. ^fter the shooting, the two womin fought each other with rocks.

Dr. L. V. Parker Returns to Minot Dr. L. V. Parker, formerly in charge

of the state Laboratory in this city, arrived Saturday with his family from

Chicago, whe^e he recently graduated from the Rush Medical College, later going to the Presbyterian Hospital at Chicago as chief interne, in which position he acquitted himself with credit to himself and college. Dr. Parker will take up his residence in the city, having entered • partnership

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L. H. Kermott with offices Woolworth store on Main

Unique Window Display , „ Messrs. Dahle and Benson of the H.

L. Winters Co., are to be commended for the ingenious window_4isplay this

.to. A miniature church, cottage, etc., together with a bride and grooin, ringbearer, flower, girls and all the other paraphernalia wfiich make up an ideal wedding ecene are incorpor­ated in the display which is attract­ing many favorable comments from passers-fry.

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SECURE THE 'NEW OVERLAND FOUR on a sale from us and we will give free $260.00 in cash and your choice of $250.00 in merchan­dise from opr large stock.

Now Gomes the Season of White, FilmyFabrics

The time is here when the cool, dainty cotton.' frock be­comes a subject of paramount in­terest. Whether is be of voile, of

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ed materials, all are "here to 'ch)w8efrom, in charming and ex­clusive designs. ' ̂

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Smartest of New Styles in Low Shoes

Here are very new and dis­

tinctive styles in low footwear

for summer, conforming to our

own high standards of work­

manship and style. Patent

^leather, fine kid and calfskin in

Oxfords and pumps for street

and semi-dress wear, and low

shoes in the popular white fab­

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Economy Department Store

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Phone 272-273 Minot, No. Dak.

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A Great Clean-up Sale! From Friday, June llth to Saturday, June 19th

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A Clearance of Tricolet Blbuse: % $3.95

; The majority are exclusive models, representing all of the latest style points of the seasoji. Such exceptional values are sure to sell quickly, so bet­ter plan to come early.

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Offering a Clearance of Spring Suits and Coats

20 to 40 Per Cent Discount All the fabrics that are mosts in

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Prices Drastically Lowered on New Spring Dresses

20 Per Cent Discount t>resses of the type that will serve/

for every occasion. They are of taf­feta, satin, georgette, crepe de chine, besides many other novelty fabrics

~~new in this summer's modes. Smart and.becoming fashion .features, ap­proved shades and styles are all points to be noted. # , ,

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A Clearance of ̂ Figured Georgette

$£49 This includes all our figtired Georg-

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Special Clean Up Sale % of Silk Draperies

Voile Waists $1.29 and $1.95

Aprons Specially Priced I' * v. - for Clearance

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Boys' Suitd'10% Discount' This includes all boys' wool suit's

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Sizes 6 to 101/g *1.15 Sizes 11 to 2 —.—$1.25

Baby's Soft Sole Shoes 89c '

A Clearance Sale of Men'$ ̂7 One-button Union Suits

$2.50 Values, to clos^_ ̂ ^i,—$1.65 $1.00, values, to clofce 79c

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f;K'Undershirts 39c , Men's summer-weight undershirts,

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Work Shirts $129 Men's work shirts in blue and grey

chambray, regular prices $1.50.

<Dress Shirts $139 ,v*.

Men's dress shirts with collars at­tached,-all sizes, 14 to 17, regular price $1.75.. '• ~

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