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Free city mail delivery has been In­augurated at Crosby.

Fifty young people of Cooperstown have enrolled as members of the local Bed Cross society.

The annual convention of the Cass County Sunday School association will be held at Fargo May 16 and 17.

The annual encampment of the North Dakota commandery of the 0. A. R. will be in Casselton June >12 and 13.

Lights for Sanborn, Dazey and Rog­ers, to be furnished by electricity from a high tension line from Valley City, are being planned by a committee.

Several buildings and more than 100 stacks of hay were destroyed in a prairie lire which swept over a large territory northwest of Golden Valley.

High school athletes of that part of the state are training for the field and track meet to be held at Minot May 12 under the direction of the normal school.

The Million Dollar Hotel company, •with headquarters at Huron, S. D., has incorporated at Bismarck under the laws of North Dakota to )>uild a hotel at Minot.

The Minot Farmers' Central bank, •with a $50,000 capital, has opened itb doors. The institution is backed by farmers; practically all of them mem­bers of the Nonpartisan league.

The City of Mondak, a Missouri Tiver steamer, was recently hit by a cake of Ice near Garrison, and the boat slowly sank. The loss to E. H. Sene-chal, the owner, is about $8,000.

Word has been received by N. D. Nelson, a Mayville merchant, that his son, David Nelson, a Rhodes scholar attending Oxford university, England, has enlisted in the English'army.

Bumped by a car driven by Floyd Harvey, Alex McGregor of Walhalla was knocked to the ground and died a few hours later from his injuries. Mc­Gregor was forty-eight years old.

Jack Serrln, a member of the 1912 baseball team of Ambrose, was elec­trocuted at Marlon, Ind., recently, ac­cording to word reaching- friends of the former ball player at Ambrose.

While repairing an automobile, the •wheels of which had been replaced by jacks, Clarence Kordahl, aged twenty-two, was killed at Stanley when the jacks gave way and' let the car down on him.

Dr. E. F. Ladd, president of the State Agricultural college, has been named state oil inspector for the term expiring July 1, to succeed Professor W. P. Washburn of the Agricultural college.

The sixteenth annual interscholastic track meet will be held at the Univer­sity of North Dakota at Grand Forks, Saturday] May 19, and many entries have been received and more are ex pected.

Vernon Lucas, a graduate of Pem-hina high school and one of Professor Curtis' pupils in wireless telegraphy, lias joined the aerial squadron of the United States government and gontf to St. Louis.

Four of Fargo college's best ipen have joined the American military service and several others will join soon. John Keye, third baseman and pitcher; L. Norby, shortstop; J. Nor-by, first baseman, and .Claude Baxter, pitcher, are the players who- have en­listed.

The English Lutheran synod of the Northwest, comprising churches in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, will.hold its annual con­vention In Fargo June 4 to 8. A fea­ture of the gathering will be observ­ance of the 400th anniversary of tho Reformation.

The Fargo college basebaill schedule will be carried out, athletic author­ities of that school announced. The proposed abandonment of baseball be­cause four star niembers of the squad had enlisted was not sanctioned by the athletic authorities and the carded games will be playfed.

Ferdinand M. King of Baldwlh, 'rep­resentative of the Equity Co-Operative Packing company of North Dakota and who served in E company, Elev­enth United States infantry, during the Spanish war, wired President Wil­son that Baldwin offers thirty men. King is a German by birth.

Because so many high school ath­letes throughout the Red River valley district have enlisted for military serv­ice the interstate high school track and field meet, scheduled . for Fargo May 25 and 26, has been cancelled. Other interscholastic events carded for the same dates also were aban­doned.

At a meeting at Fargo of the board of athletic control of .the North Da­kota Agricultural college it was decid­ed to abandon the spring ^athletic pro­gram at the college. Laok cf interest, owing to the departure of many stu­dents for farm Work and for military service, was, given as the reason tor the action of the~1>oard.

The Ugh cost of living has made It­self fell at the county jail at Grand Forks. 'Sheriff A. F. Turner asked an additional 25 cents a day for the board of each prisoner, which was granted.

The drawings of Berthold lands at Minot brought out 1,098 applications for about sixty homesteads. The lands comprise 10,000 acres. The first name drawn was that of Sarsfield Gallagher of Minot.

The man killed on May 5 when his automobile upset near Sterling, throw­ing him through the windshield; has been identified as T. H. Chambers, a grain solicitor of Bismarck, it was believed at first that he was a Minne­apolis man.

Because he. was one month too old Major E. S. Person,- who made an envi­able record as an officer in the Philip­pines, has been rejected by the Offi­cers' Training Camp association. Ma-jor Person is forty-four years and ten months old.

The fifth annual Brule county inter­scholastic track and field meet will be held at Flaxton on Saturday, May 26. The school winning the highest number of points will be awarded the silver trophy cup which was wqn by Bowbells last year.

C. H. Musser, B. E. Frederick and Jerry Foster have been named as a committee of three to finance a base­ball team at Shields for the coming season. F. A. Shipman will manage the squad. The team probably will consist of Indians.

The bodies of B. C. Phipps, cashier of the First National bank .at McHen-ry, and Henry Vadnie, druggist of the same town, were found in Red Willow lake, seven miles north of Binford, Griggs county. An overturned row-boat floated in the water nearby. The two were on a fishing trip. It Is known Vadnie could not swim.

Members of the North Dakota Mo­tion Picture Exhibitors' association, representing theaters in more than forty towns of the state, in conven­tion at Fargo, unanimously agreed to refrain from exhibiting features deal­ing with so called sex problems. The gathering was an adjourned session of the annual meeting at Mandan in March.

Farmers of Burleigh county, at a meeting last week, adopted a resolu­tion declaring that a fee of $1 is suffi­cient remuneration for dragging out an automobile mired in the mud and that a $5 fee is grossly excessive. The resolutions added that a farmer who tolerates a bad stretch of road near his farm should pull out mired auto­mobiles free of charge and apologize for the mud hole. i

Plans are under way'at La Moure for the construction of a new high school building to cost approximately $60,000. The board of education has commissioned Architect W. H. Kurke of Fargo to submit plans for remod­eling the present building for grade school purposes. The remodeling op­erations are to begin as soon as the school year closes.

Sam Clark and C. H. Crockard, ed­itor and business manager, respective ly, of the magazine Jim Jam Jems, published at Bismarck, were arraign­ed in federal court at Fargo following a grand jury indictment charging them with having sent obscene literature through the mails. Both entered pleas of not guilty. Ball was furnished In the sum of $5,000.

At a mass meeting held in McVille recently a resolution was unanimously adopted u/rging Henry M. Case, the ed­itor of the McVille Journal, to become a candidate for congress to succeed the late Hon. H. T. Helgesen. A com­mittee was appointed to wait upon Mr. Case and urge htm to announce his candidacy and to manage his cam­paign if he consents.

"No, there will be no baseball team in Underwood, not until the war has ceased and Old Glory shall have been honored and respected on land and sea the world over." This is the sub­stance of a letter which a baseball fan of Underwood has written to the secretary of the baseball team at Cale-harbor, who wrote for games with the Underwood team this year.

The first indictment ever returned in a federal court in North Dakota against the agent of a railroad com­pany, charging him with acting as the agent of a liquor house, has been re­turned at Fargo against G. W. Rol­lings, agent of the Soo line at Kulm. It is charged that Rollings took or­ders for liquor, delivered it and made collections. He has been arrested.

A series, of district bankers' conven­tions to aid the food production and food conservation movement will be held in the state from May 22 to 31: The meetings will be held as follows: Third district, Mayville, May 22; Northeast district, Grand Forks, May 23; Devils Lake district, Devils Lake, May 24; Northwestern district, Minot or Williston, May 25; Missouri Slope district, Beach, May 28 and 29; Fifth district, Carrlngton, May 30, and Southeast district, Lisbon, May 31.

A minimum price of $1 a bushel for potatoes and $2 for wheat, to be guar­anteed by the United States and Cana­dian governments to farmers, may be asked at a mass meeting of farmers in Fargo- May 23 and 24,. called the Equity Co-Operative exchange. Farm­ers' organizations of Western Canada have been invited to send representa­tives. The mass meeting will be ask­ed to petition congress and the Do­minion government-to determine what a fair price on foodstuffs Is .and then to fix a minimum price. The need for a' maximum price to consumers also will be-discussed and a resolution will be introduced asking the government to prohibit future trading la. grains. Labor needs of farmers win be dis­cussed. V

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UNDER ARREST AT OMAHA One Man Wanted for Alleged Murder

of Policeman. St. Paul, May 9.—With the Indict­

ment of Frank McCool by the Henne­pin grand jury for the murder of Pa­trolman George Connery at Minneap­olis, St. Paul police believe one of the two men wanted for complicity in the murder of\Mrs. Alice McQuillan Dunn is under arrest.

Reports from Omaha, Neb., where McCool is being held for. Mill City police, were to the cffect Detective Weare of Minneapolis identified Mc­Cool as one of Connery's kidnappers and that he also was one of the mur­derers of Mrs. Dunn April 26, thirty-six hours after the attack on Con­nery.

With McCool, St. Paul police say, was Joe Redenbaugh, white masked assassin of Mrs. Dunn.

THE VALUE OF FINE HIGHWAYS

MORE LIVE STOCK URGED Montana Ranchmen 'Asked to Provide

Meat Animals. Helena, Mont., May 9. — The com­

mittee on live stock and animal prod­ucts of the state council of defense at Its first meeting here urged all farm­ers and ranchmen to increase their live stock holdings, not only with the idea of greater yields of food this year, i but for- some years to come.

Farmers with whom the committee has communicated are ready to co­operate, but complain of the scarcity of feed, and - inquire whether the de­fense council can guarantee feed next winter.

Improva Social Conditions and Business Transactions.

BETTER SCHOOLATTENDANCE

GOMPERS ASKS RUSSIA TO CONTINUE WAR

Washington, May 9.—A plea against a premature peace for Russia and re­newed assurances American wage earners and the American people^ are in heavy sympathy with the Russian democratic movement are included in a long cablegram sent by President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor to the executive committee of the Council of Work­men's and Soldiers' Deputies at Petro-grad.

Speaking for organized labor in this country Mr. Gompers also expressed complete confidence in the purposes and opinions olj the American war mission soon to go to Russia.

Although he does not mention specifically the, recent attacks on Elihu Root, who will head the mission, the labor leader denounces as criminal and pro-German any suggestion the members will seek to interfere in Russia's internal affairs or will give any advice except with the purpose of combating the common enemy.

Forcible annexations are condemn­ed, but Mr. Gompers pleads every people affected by the war should in the end be free to choose their alle­giance.

V Good Winter Wheat Croi. Washington, May 9.—The winter

wheat crop planted last autumn on one of the largest acreages ever [sown to that grain, but which met disas­ter in several important producing states from severe winter conditions, now promises a harvest of 366,116,000 bushels this year.

GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES Duluth Wheat and Flax. '

Duluth May 9 . Wheat—On track and to arrive, No.

1 hard, $2.95%; No. 1( Northern, $2.-94%; No. 2 Northern, $2.88%. Flax— On track and to arrive, $3.40.

A 15 Per Cant Increase In the Propor­tion of the Available Children Attend­ing 8chools Took Place Following Construction of Good Road* In Eight \ v.-::'" ' -Counties. 4

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A 15 per cent increase in the propor­tion of the available chlldreu attend­ing schools took place following the construction of good roads in eight counties studied by the office of public roads nnd rural engineering of the de­partment of agriculture, it is shown, in a recent publication of the office. The improvement in roads was followed also in several <if I lie counties, the re­port shows, by consolidation of a num­ber of the little one room schools into graded schools, which give the pupils better educational advantages; by a de­velopment of various industries and by social improvements due to easier intercourse. These improvements are related closely to increases in land values and decreases in hauling costs, effects also traced to the construction of improved roads.

In Spotsylvania county, Va., the average daily school attendance in­creased from 57 per cent of the enroll­ment before the roads were improved to 77 per cent after. Several small schools were consolidated. Between 1009, the year preceding the building of good roads, and 1013. the year fol­lowing their completion, the shipment of forest products, the principal prod­ucts of the count?, increased more than 78 per cent. The Increase during this period In tiie poultry business in the county' was 77 per cent and in dairying 110 per cent

In Dinwiddle county. Va'.. tho aver­age dally attendance for children for thirteen schools on the improved roads was (KS.4 per cent of the enrollment in

South St. Paul Live Stock. South St. Paul, May 3.

Cattle—Receipts, 3,500; steers, $6.-25@ 10.50; cows and heifers, $8.00@9.-00; calves, $6.00@12.00. Hogs—Re­ceipts, 8,900; range, $15.00@15.25. Sheep—Receipts, 140; lambs, $8.00 @ 13.50; ewes, $7.00@12.00.

St. Paul Grain. St. Paul, May 9.

Wheat—No. 1 hard, $3.08%@3.10%; No. 1 Northern, $2.94%@3.08%; No. 2 Northern, $2.82%@3.00%; N<y 2 Mon­tana hard, $3.02% @3.05%; corn, $1.-54%@1.56%; oats, $69%@70%c; bar-ley, $1.16@1.56; ryek $2.05@2.07; flax, $3.36%. .

Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, May 9.

Wheat—May, $2.83%; July, $2.26%; Sept., $1.90%. Corn—May, $1.53%; July, $1.43%; Sept., $1.36. Oats—May, 67%c; July, 63%c; Sept., 54%c. Pork —May, $37.75; July, $38.05. Butter-Creameries, 36@37%c. Eggs—32%@ 33%c. Poultry—Fowls, 23c. ^

Minneapolis Grain. Minneapolis, May 9.

Wheat—May, $2.80; July, $2.38%; Sept., $1.87%. Cash close on track: No. 1 hard, $3.08@3.10; No. 1 North­ern, $2.94 @3.00; No. 2 Northern, $2.-82@3.00; No. 3 Northern, $2.70@2.90; No. 3 yellow corn, $1.54% @1.65; No. 3 white oats, 60%@70%c; flax, $3.36.

•&4»v $ Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, May 9.

Cattle—Receipts, 20,000; steers, $8.-90@13.30; cows and heifers, $6.25@11.-10; calves, $8.75@13.25. Hogfe—Re­ceipts, 50,000; light, $14.50@15.65; mixed, $15.15@15.70; heavy, $15.10@ 15.80; rough, $15.10@15.30; pigs, $9.-75@13.70. Sheep—Receipts, 14,000; native, 4U.25@13.75; lambs, $13,500 17.65..

tions have been effected, larger school buildings have been constructed, and pupils have been transported tu school at the expense of the educational sys­tem since the road Improvements were made.' Truck g.-iniching and dairying, which were prolitu lile only within ihree uiilcs of the principal market town of the county before the road Im­provement. are now carried on profit ably within a seven mile radius.

In I.ee couiiiy. Va., a considerable in-dustry lias been built up following the road improvements in the shipment of tanbark, extract wood and pulp wood, products which could not be profitably hauled over the unimproved roads. The improved highway system has attract­ed buyers of farm products who travel, from farm to farm and furnish a new cash market for the farmers. There has been a 25 per cent increase in bug­gies sold by a county vehicle factory.

In Wise county, Va., social conditions have been bettered since the good roads were constructed, many farmers along the improved highways having built new homes or Improved old ones, add­ing sanitary conveniences. School at­tendance has increased materially, but. since compulsory attendance regula­tions went into effect about the time the improved roads were completed the influence of the two factors could not be determined separately. Several school consolidations have been made.

Automobile registrations in Franklin county, N. Y., increased from ."',71 be­fore the road improvement in 1012 to 853 after road improvement in l!)ll, nnd two automobile bus lines connect­ing distant towns in the county were established as soon as the improved roads were opened.

There has been a notable stimulation of dairying and general diversification on tiie fawis of Dallas county, Ala., since the improvement of tne roads of that county.

In the section of Lauderdale county, Miss., where most of the roads have been improved, tiie school attendance increased from 72 |>er cent of the en­rollment in 1912, just after the road work started, to 81 per cent in 101.'!. after the completion of the work. Sev­eral school consolidations have been ef­fected.

Teeth In Their Stomachs. Whatever it may be that the lobster

and the crab, rapacious, never dainty, are eating they always see something else that.they want and can't wait un­til they iiaye masticated the first be­fore attacking the second. Itut they don't give up the first, not by any man­ner of means. Nature, humoring this rapacious bent, has fitted the lobster and the crab with teeth in their stom­ach, and they swallow their half mas­ticated food and finish the chewing process with their stomachs while they seize and chew tiie other thing that has attracted tlicin. Lobsters and crabs have no teeth in their mouths. They chew with their claws what they have time to and hand the unfinished job down to their stomachs to do the rest of the chewing.

KING'S CHEAP LUNCH.

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TIIE GRADED SCHOOL TAKES TIIE PLACE OF

A NUMBER OF LITTLE ONE BOOM COUN-TBY SCHOOLHOUSES.

1912-13, 'while the average attendance for ail other schools" in the county was QP. per. cent. Several school consolida-

Seated "Alongside the Humble," He Asks For a Second Helping.

Berlin.—King Ludwig of Bavaria, who is extremely popular with his peo­ple, not the least for his democratic habits, unexpectedly visited one of the cheap eating bouses which have been established In Munich and all the other large German cities since the begin­ning of the war.

Seated in the midst of the establish­ment at a table alongside the humble, the king remained fully one hour. He partook of all the dishes and even asked for a second helping.

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THE 8ALAD BOWL.

Abdullah salad.-pcci large white grapes. Cut them into halves, removing seeds. Pare

tangerines, removing pulp In sections. Mix fruit In equal quantities, season with a very little salt and iiepper, add enough olive oil mixed with a few drops of leinon Juice to cover the fruit. Serve very cold on a bed of crisp let­tuce leaves on Individual plates. In tho center of each portion place a small cream cheese bail rolled In finely chop­ped pistachio nuts. Carefully prepared this salad is delicious and lovely, ex­cellent for the company luncheon or dinner. Oranges may be substituted for tangerines.

Macedolne Salad. — Marinate cold cooked vegetables with French dress* lng, arrange in serving dishes and gar­nish with shredded lettuce.

French Dressing: Mix one-half tea-spoonful salt, one-quarter tcaspoonfut of pepper, two tablcspoonfuls vinegar and four tablcspoonfuls oil. Stir until well blended. If desired add a few drops of onion juice.

Celery Salad.—Boil a cupful of milk and thicken It with a tablcspoonful of cornstarch dissolved In a little cold milk. Mix well together a beaten egg. two teaspoonfuls of sugar, one of sale, one-half teaspoon ful of dry mustard nnd a small pinch of cayenne pepper. Pour this into hot milk a little at a time, stirring constantly. When quite* smooth take off tho fire nnd add a ta­blcspoonful or more If desired of olive oil nnd the same quantity of vinegar. Mix well together and when cold pour over celery which lias been cut In very small pieces.

Banana and Lcttuce Salad.—Wash a head of lettuce, line the dish wltU green leaves, shred tho rest of the let­tuce, mix with a large or two small pared sliced bananas and a chopped hard boiled e^g. Dissolve a table-spoonful of sugar and one-eighth tea-"spoonful of salt In sufficient vinegar. Ilijve all very cold. Mix and serve.

Walnut and Pea Salad.—Chop one pint of blanched English walnuts, then add to them a pint of cooked green peas, a lar;:e peyipcr finely chopped and a seasoning of salt. Arrange on a bed of crisp i.'itcce |.-:'.vo<<, dre-s with mayonnaise or boiled dressing and gar­nish with fresh mint.

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Classifying Him. A gentleman who d ined regularly nt

a certain resta'irant often ordcrcj a dozen clams. One day he counted them nnd found bnt clc.en. Still another day the dozen was one short. He called the waiter and asked him, "Why do you give ouly eleven clams when I order twelve?"

"Oh, sir," replied the waiter, "I didn't think you'd want to be sitting thirteen at table, sir."—Christian Herald.

Excluaiv*. "I was surprised to hear that yon

were Newcome's guest at his week end party. How can you associate with such a vulgar upstart?"

"I didn't. There were so many ntc« people among the guests that we didn't hare to associate with tne host at all." —New York World.

Costly Pleasure. "Some folks," said Uncle Eben,

"tries so hard to have a good time dat de effort worries 'en most to death."—Washington Star.

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