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I®- • ' AUJli J&LUUT -v g THE OOUKiJSK-DEMOGHAT. THUKBDAI. MARCH T, 1»12.

SEEING MAY BE BELIEVING BUT

A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE YOU OF THE

TRUTH MORE FORCIBLY THAT

Ours is the best equipped YARD to supply your wants for that New Building or the repairing of old ones

BECAUSE

Quality, Service a Price Make satisfied customers. Call and see us; our time is

at your disposal.

Cavalier County Lumber Co. J. E. POCKRANDT, Proprietor.

LANGDON, N. DAK.

(EASBY, WALES and HANNAH.

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CORRESPONDENCE

HANNAH Jjust a few notes from Hannah and in

the first place we will make ibention of tltie'fcct that there is still quite a lot C«h4diah' grain bfeing marketed here. A. W. Thompson, the hardware man is itow-a-days having a big sale of hard­ware and furniture,which looks good for business prospects here during the sea­son which is getting ready to open up. Also quite a number of automobiles are already sold to parties of Hannah and vicinity in advance of the good year upon which we have just got nicely started. . C. J. Davis, the hotelman has purchased a 36 horsepower Maxwell

_*ftom Messrs McLauchlin & Stranger of I«angdon; James Moffatt has atiqe new

>£*i M. I\( car bought of the Farmers Implement Co., at this place. But in the auto line the Ford seems to be real­ly in the lead with local buyers, for which Thos. King has the local agency. This early in the seison he has Hiready sold five cars, the purchasers being Albert Morris, John Rose, James Mc-Guire, Russell Balfour and Dr. J. P. Schwinghammer, the dentist, who will use his in making professional trip over the county as his practice out of this town now includes Wales, Sarles, Calvin and Clyde.

10MA. tiiss Hang, of Fairdale, has spent the

past week hete visiting with the Sopef' family.

frill Sopfet is Spending several weeks 4£tiitfhg at hiis home before going back tii'bjfe farm in the Canadian Northwest.; ' i^anager F. Hensel, of the Cavalier Co. Implement Co's., business here, re­turned Saturday after spending the week in the Twin Cities.

The Sunday school classes were again 'organized last Sunday at the school house. Quite a number of the little iglks were present. All appearing to top anxious to start in on their work again.;

Mr. Merriam, wife and son, Willard, returned to their home at Derrick on

: Monday after an.over Sunday visit with the Thompson family. Edna Merri-3am, who has been visiting for the past two week here also returned home with them.

The following are the names of the pupils in school who were neither tardy nor absent during the past month.

Lower Grades; Avery lowers, Dun­can Powers, Harry Jersey, John Engen, William Morben, Mildred Morben, Mild­red Miller,. Clara Engen. Hazen Orpe and Fritz Gulbrandson.

Upper Grades':'! Willie Jersey. Following are the natnes of pupils

having the highest standing in the pri­mary grade: Fritz Gulbrandson, Orley Dedrich. ^

First Grade: Frank Gurley, Audrey Soper.

Second Grade: Elizabeth Gurley, Mildred Miller. '<

Third Grade: Clara Engen, Selmer Sorenson.

Fourth Grade: William Morben, Duncan Power.

MT. CARMEl.

There will be another of the popular card parties to which everybody is in­vited, held Sunday evening at the Mac-cabee hall.

Monday of this week another little daughter was given a joyous welcome at tha home of Louis Schneider and the neighbors are extending hearty con-, gratulations to the happy parents.

Andrew Fath and family left* here dur­ing the past week to make their future home at Champion, Alta., where Mr. Fath will file on a homestead in a neigh­borhood where he has several relatives living,

Louis Gumper was the purchaser of » horse at the auction sale held during the week at the Bester farm over near Wales. This is the second horse that he has bought at an auction sale during the past month.

. The Old Mike Dosman farm has changed hands and will be farmed this' spring by its-new owner, Matt Meizer, who bought the same lately of Rev. Father Schulte, of Calio. The purchase pr iceis understood as having been $26.00 per acre.

Jos. Stroeder now has five quarter section of farm land all in a bunch since recently buying the sputhwest quarter of section 34. A piece of land that has for a number of years paBt been owned by outside parties. It is all practically new land and will be broken up by Mr. Stroeder this season.

Schools Nos. 2 and 3 of the Mt. Car-mel school district, known as the Kartes

ROYAL BAKING POWDER

Absolutely Pure Absolutely has no substitute

Many mixtures are offered as , . substitutes for Royal. No other.. baking powder is the satme in composition or effectiveness, or so wholesome and economical, * nor will make such fine food.-

Royal is the only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar

and Schwinghammer schools, open for .the spring term Monday of next week, the 11th inBt., with Miss Lucy Chisholm ^and sister as teachers.The former taught in the Maida district last year giving line satisfaction. Their home is in Minnesota.

A letter from Tiffin, Ohio now the home of the Boyers, tells of a blizzard experienced during the week which was all to the good as a true imitation of the North Dakota variety, and some­thing that we have so far not experi­enced this winter. It looks as if the blizzard now goes south to spend the winter. So mote it be.

Prof. N. P. Schneider will re-open the Mt. Carmel village schools for the spring term in two weeks, at which time the private school, which he has been successfully conducting during the winter months, will close. His teaching and system of conducting the school generally has given all round satisfac­tion to the people of the vicinity

Several of the large farmers around here have about decided that from now on they will do with less horseflesh and invest in gas tractor engines Louis Schneider was the first to demonstrate that this is the modern idea of big farm­ing at small cost. Joseph Nowatzki come next and has a ggs tractor order­ed for spring delivery. Now we may look to see many of the big Mt. Carmel farmers follow suit.

The news has reached friends here by telegram during the week that Frank Kartes is quite low in a hospital at Sas­katoon with an attack of typhoid fever. Relatives of the family here are await­ing with considerable anxiety further particulars. His home is at Asquith, Saek,, where he has been doing well in the bakery and confectionery business since selling thefarm on which he home-steaded, when he left here tot the west several years ago.

William Schefter, of Mildmay, Ont., has been visiting the past week at the home of his brother-in-law* John, L Kartes. He decided to rent the Ed. Godfrey farm in this township for a term of years and will come here with his family in the fall to make his home in this settlement. After having looked around he will no doubt buy a farm. He is a brother of Simon Schefter, the Langdon clothier, and has a number of old friends among the people of Mt. Carm 1 and vicinity.

WALES, Wm. Powell transacted business in

Langdon last Friday and Saturday. C. J. Nickel was a business visito'r to

Langdon last Friday returning Satur­day.

Sam Samuelson spent Friday and Saturday in Dresden on business matters.

Quite a number of our citizens wfcre courting at Langdon last Friday and Saturday.

.. Mrs. Gharity returned to Wales last Saturday after having spent the wihter on the Pacific coast.

Mr. and Mrs. J, F. Schneider are visifttig the twin cities this week, where Mr. Schneider is buying his spring stock of g6ods,

The town board met with the justice of the peacB last Saturday as an appoin­tive board and appointed Joe Uhrich as a member of the township board of supervisors to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Peter Bester, who is moving to Canada,

Ab. Montgomery, Jr, and Fred Orton son and son in law of Geo. Montgomery Sr., Btarted for-Star City, Sask., Monday with several loads of household furniture and a number of head of horses after spending most of the winter here, ^hey will go overland' to Snowflake "from where they will ship.

At the meeting of the board ..of directors of the Wales Cooperative creamery ov^r $1000 worth of stock wan sold and everybody expressed a determi­nation to boost for the creamery and make this the banner year. The spirit shown by the farmers Hnd business men is bound to win.

Mr. and Mrs, Peter Bester old resi­dents of Dresden township leave this week for their new home in Canada-Mr. and Mrs. Bester will be missed by their many friends here who r^ret to see them leave but Mr. Bester decided it to be his duty to go and take care of his aged parents during their remaining years.

Prof. Swartz who lectured on "Stars and Stripes" also on "Ten Nights in a Bar Room" about two months ago will give three more lectures with Etereoptican yiews. Two in the church and one in the school house; 25 per cent of each lecture to go to the school. On ! Friday evening, March 15 he will lecture in the church, his subject being "Ben Hur." On Saturday evening March 16, at the church, his subject being "The Passion Play." On Sunday evening at the school house, either "Throw out the Life Line" or "The Fall of Babylon," Price of admission 15,25, 35 cents, or if bought in advance the three lectures for the price of one. Prof. Swartz is a fine speaker, his views are of the best and it is hoped he will be greeted by crowded houses.

the public school, at Wales for the month ending February 23rd, 1912.

EIGHTH GRADE. No. of pupils enrolled 9

Highest in Rank—Louie Smith. Soootid in Rank—Paul Qroaolaod, Third in Rank—Buell Soott The following pupils were neither tardy nor

absent during the month: Bnell Seott Paul Grosclaude Louie Smith Cecil Sooti Hilbert Bell Stella Kjose Per cent of attendance 99 per cent

SEVENTH GRADE No. of pupils enrolled . 8

Highest in Rank—Hilda Harder and Olive Plata (tie)

Second in Rank—Lawrence Smith Third in Rank—Melvin Halls The following pupils were neither tardy nor

absent during the month: Olive Plata Lawrence Smith Hilda Harder Robert Dew Melvin Halls Per cent of attendance 99 per cent

SIXTH GRADE No. of pupils onrolled 8

Highest in Rank—Teddy Setchell Second in Rank—Emil Henning and Hazel

Bell, (tie) Third in Rank—Willie Davidson The following pupils were neithor tardy nor

absent during the month: Emil Henning Hazel Bell Archie Halls Teddy Getchell Margaret Nickel Per cent of attendance, 99 per cent

FIFTH GRADE No. of pupils enrolled

Highest in Rank—Ernest ChriBtie Second in Rank—Halinda Borho Third in Rank—Julieta Schiestel The following pupils were neither tardy nor

absent during the month: Alex Koehmstedt Leo Stevens Heinie Eickenbrock Johnny Platz Per cent of attendance 99 per cent

FOURTH GRADE No. of pupils enrolled 4

Highest in Rank' Mary Schuyler Second in Rank—Oscar Diemert

Per cent of attendance - 95 per cent THIRD GRADE.

No. of pupils enrolled 13 Highest in Rank—Stanley Koehmstedt Second in Rank—Catherine Gherrity The following pnpils were neither tardy nor

absent during the month: Adolph Zotzman Donald Tapson Cora Frank Catherine Gherrity Rosa Morauge Per cent of attendance 88 per cent

SECOND GRADE No,s-of pupils enrolled.... li

Highert in Rank—Delina Beanlieu Second in Rank— Hattie Frank The following pnpils were neither tardy nor

absent during the month: Leo Fisoher Ruby Bennes' Lillie Nickel Lottie Halls Delinia Beaulieu Per cent of attendance 84 per cent

FIRST GRADE No. of pupils enrolled 13 • Highest in Rank—Joseph Heille Willie Pen-gilley, (tie)

Second in Rank—Frances Koehmstedt The following pupils were neither tardy nor

absent during the month: Agnes Schuyler Willie Pengllley Lula Beaulieu Harold Pengiley Joseph Heilli Per cent of attendance 86 per cent

The banner was given this month for the highest class standing in attendance and punctuality and was won by the sixth grade There was not a case of tardiness in the grade during the month and only one caBe of absence and that due to sickness. So close was the race that every grade in the upper room had 100 per cent in punctuality, except the seventh and in that there were but two cases of tardiness. In the seventh grade there was but one case of absence. In the eighth two and in the sixth one and the fifth four. So close was the contest for the banner that- all four grades had an average of oyer 99 per cent {Tor attendance and punctuality and the banner went to the sixth grade won out by 5 76th of one per cent over the eighth grade.

The new pictures have at last been framed and hung in the school rooms and they make a decided improvement in the appearance ©f the room.

Mrs. Scott has resigned ax teacher in the lower room her resignation to take effect as soon as another teacher can be secnred.

Peter Beauleau, John Platz, Ernest, and Eddie Christe and Ambrose Borho have been obliged to leave school to prepare for spring work.

The attendance in both rooms has been (ar below normal the past two weeks on account of the prevalence of colds and sore throat, which very few are escaping.

VAN BRUNT

DRILLS:

Have made their way by the way they are made NOTE OUR COMPLETE LINE FOR 1912

Van Brunt Grain Drills Harrow Carts John Deere Plows , „ Disc Harows

Boss Harrows in ftood and Steel Litchfield Spreaders

Stoughton Wagons Velie Vehicles Superior Fanning Mills

New Way Air Cooled Engines R. & V. Hopper Cooled Engines

FOR SALE BY

HUNTER & STEVENSON THE MACHINE MEN

LANGDON, - - . . N. DAK.

DEATH OF A HEROINE WHO SAVED 200 LIVES.

Kate Skelly Crawled Over Trestle In Terrific Storm to Warn Train.

Kate Skelly, to whose conra^o anil self possession 200 train passengers owed their lives twenty years ago, died recently at Boone, la.

When Miss Skelly was sixteen years old her father was a section foreman employed by the Chicago and North­western railroad. Heavy rains on the evening of July G, 1891, caused the Des Moines river to rise, and the rush of the water was so terrific that eleven out of twenty-one of the railroad bridges and trestles were swept away.

Miss Skelly was arguing with her mother for permission to go out in search of her father when they heard a crash. Looking out, they saw that a helper engine had fallen through a trestle close to their home and was buried in the bayou beneath.

Grasping a lantern, the girl ran to the scene of the accident. Two of the crew of four men on the engine had been, drowned. The others were bad­ly hurt.>

The girl made her way up a bluff and started for Moingona, four miles away. She knew a passenger train was due. The wind extinguished her lantern before she reached the trestle, half a mile long, over which in the darkness she was compelled to creep.

Reaching the station at Moingona just as the passenjp* train arrived there, she gave the warning, then col­lapsed. When she recovered she led a bnndtof rescuers back, over the peril­ous rojute. she had just traversed, saved the two injured trainmen and was car­ried home to her mother.

Subsequently the legislature voted her a fund of $5,000.

Seed Potatoes for Sate

I have for sale and delivery at any time 500 bushels of carefully selected hand picked seed potatoes of the Early Kose, Early Ohio and Mountain Beauty varieties. This is choice seed and will be sold at reasonable prices while they last.

31-34 JOHN BODDY, 1'he Market Gardner

Post Office: Mona, N. Dak,

[WiSI CfiSfi A DVEBTISEMENTO wiii oe inserted in this

column for One Cent a Word each insertion No advertisement inserted for less than fifteen cents. Cash mnst always accompany out of town orders. The rate for the insertion Oi business locals among pure reading matter will hereafter be ten cents nerlino each insertion,

GIRL WANTED—For general housework steady position, good wages. Apply to Mrs. Li. Schoenbeckler. 33.36

GIBL WANTED—At ouce, good capable girl for general Housework; small family, good wages n»d steady pasition offered. Apply to

. Mrs. W. A. McIntyre. Langdon, N. D' 83-tf

LOST- -In Langdon a Dulnth Elevator Coal Re­ceipt Book. Finder please return to Otto Platz, Wales, N. D, 32-.J3

PENSIONS FOR SERVICE.

WALES SCHOOL NOTES

Below is given the monthly report of the attendance and class averages of

Wouldn't Use Tables. There are no tables in the houses of

the Eskimos, and the women are, therefore, in the habit of placing every­thing on the floor. A Danish lady employed several Eskimo women to do some washing. Entering the wash house, she saw them all bending over some waslitubs placed on the floor. To make them more comfortable she had some stools brought in. and by and by she looked in to see how they were getting 011 and. to her astonishment, discovered the women standing 011 the stools and stooping still more labori­ously over the tubs, which still re­mained 011 the floor.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

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"I'd cheerfully lend you my whistle if I had one, Charlie," said' the Kiiest.. "but I haven't such a thing."

"Well, papa says you have." replied Charlie, "and that you wet It a dozen times a day."—New York Times.

A ManlyuMan. He—You say you like a manly man.

What is your ideif of a manly man? She—Well, for instance, one who doesn't stay and stay and stay just because he knows the girl isn't strong enough to throw him out.

Head the DEMOCRAT'S wane ads.

Qeneral Torrance Insists That Rewards Should Be Based on That Alone.

General Eli Torrance of Minneapolis, chairman of the legislative committee of the G. A. K., told the pension com­mittee of the senate that the Grand Army favored a pension bill based on both age and service, carrying about $30,000,000 annually. Representative Isaac Sherwood of Ohio, author of the service pension bill bearing his name that recently passed the house, said that he was not wedded tor any par­ticular bill, but he insisted that service alone should be the test of reward.

The plan advocated by General Tor­rance for tlie Grand Army is covered by a proposition originally suggested by Senator McCumber, chairman of the senate committee on pensions. It proposes that pensions for veterans sixty-two years of age shall vary from $12 a mouth for ninety days' service to $21 a month for three years' sen-ice; that sixty-six-year-old veterans shall have $15 a month for ninety days and $24 a month for three years' service; that seventy-year-old veterans shall receive $18 for ninety days' serv­ice and $27 for three years' service; that veterans seventy-five years old shall receive $21 a month for ninety days' service and $30 for three years' service. It is estimated that under this scheme there would be 387,957 pensioners, receiving in the aggregate $30,984,420.

GIRL WANTED—A competent girl for general housework; small family and good wages. Apply to Mrs. H. L. Francis. 32- tf

WATCH LOST.—On Tuesday afternoon OB the-streets in Langdon, one Elgin gold watch, open face. Finder will please leave same at the Democrat office or notify Leu Heapy, Langdon, N. Oak. 32-33*

MAN AND WIFE—Wanted a place on a farm. Address R. S. Jones, care of B. Keating, or inquire of B. Keating, Ltingdon, N. D. 31-tf

QIRL WANTED—At once for general house­work^ small family: good wages to capable girl. Ai>ply 10 Mrs, C. Orto'n,'Langdon. 27-tf

WANTED—Regular correspondents in every locality in Cavalier county. Stationery, poet-age, etc,, furnished. Call at or writeCourier-Democrat. l.ariWoij. N. D.

.K WJ^AT MARKET.

Price* corrected nuto noon Thursday. Mar. 7, 1912, by Agent H. O. Sorenson, of the Farmers Elevatoi Co., Langdon, N. Dak. Wheat No. 1 Northern $ .95

No 2... 93 Macaroni wheat 93 Oats. 42 Barley 82 Flax 1.81

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See King Corn on front cover.

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