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Final May Clearance of All Suits and Coats

Commencing Saturday, May 18th, marks the final May Clearance of all Women's Tailored Suits., While our stock is limited, yet it contains some of the choicest styles of the season- They arrived too late for the rapid selling days. Here are values that you cannot very well pass by.

$J2— 5— $ 19- *22-Former Prices Were $19.50 to $37.50

Spring Coats at greatly reduced prices, earlier than usual. We are right in the midst of the season but our fixed policy of not carrying any garments over from one season to another forces us to offer these great price reductions. This special sale offering means dollars to you. These are the reduced prices:

$ 14 50 $22-

Little Sister

Dressy Coats for Little Sister

at Special Clearance Prices Now for a final Clearance of Children's Spring Coats.

Don't fail to take advantage of these Clearance Prices. This is the middle of the season and there are plenty op­portunities to wear these coats during cool summer eve­nings. All the styles are also good for Fall Wear, and then merchandise of all kinds will be higher. Here are four assortments that are wonderful in value.

$2.45 $2.95 $3.95 $4.85

Serviceable Wash Suits for Little Brother

Now is the time to save money on good clothes by put-ing the little fellows in washable play suits :

Khaki colored Play Suits at ' 95c

Blue Chambray Play Suits at 79c Dark Blue Play Suits at 89c One Piece Play Suits, fancy materials 85c Two Piece Play Suits at $1.50 and $1.75 Sailor Suits at $2.75 Soldier Suits, including Hat, Coat and Pants $3.50

LELAND DEPARTMENT STORE MINOT'S ECONOMY CENTRE

CITY IN BRIEF

Editor and Mrs. Francis of Velva •were in the city Monday.

Mirs. Ben Schroeder has gone to Froid, Mont., to visit her parents.

Ed King, prominent Donnybrook farmer was a visitor to the city to­day.

Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Monicken of Vel­va were in the city Monday evening 'the guest of friends.

J. H. Levy, prominent Granville businesman, was a visitor to the city •Saturday.

Ben Otterness of the Economy De­partment store, is enjoying a well-'earned vacation this week.

Phil Roach has disposed of his resi­dence in Eastwood Park to Marvin Solein.

A daughter was born Saturday morning to Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Gland-er, 612 East Central Ave.

Miss Bornholt of Glasgow, Mont., arrived for a visit with Mrs. M. P. Montgomery and Mrs. R. B. Woods.

B. J. Anderson, deputv sheriff, has returned from Marmarth, where he transacted business in connection with hio oITice.

J. W. Brinton, manager of the Con­sumers' Stores Co., was in the city •where one of the stores is being op­ened.

John Steen, candidate for governor, and Mr. George, candidate for state auditor, were in the city Saturday .night.

Henry Auslander, who has been loafing "around all spring, putting in 1140 acres of crop, was in the city

Tuesday looking for something tD do. M. G. Olson of Grand Forks who is

^principal owner of the M. G. Olson (Co, clothing store of this city was inere today for a conference with W. 1£. Borene.

'English services will be held at the TTririity church on North Prarie Sun-f'lay afternoon at 3 o'clock by Rev. J.

"YR. lifichaelson. '3wan M. Lindgren, candidate for

Sheriff, arrived from his Douglas farm '^Tuesday. He has invested in a car •and is making a house to house can-•wasTn the county.

'Swan M. Lindgren, well known Douglas farmer, has 22 sheep ami fy'rom the small flock clipped 170 pounds of wool, worth 75 cents a gpound.

Dr. Schell of Ambrose and A. B. 9flills of Burlington, delegates to the ^General Assembly of the Presbyterr-;ian church, left for Columbus, O., ^Tuesday to attend the convention.

'I. H. Peterson of Donnybrook pass-vd thru the city Friday on his way 'home from a trip to Glendive, Mont., •where he went to visit a son in busi­ness there. Mr. Peterson has a son In the service who is engaged in op­erating the guns used in shooting aer­oplanes. This son was recently pro­

moted from corporal to a Sargentcy in his company.

Miss Cora Hecker, a trained nurse from Minneapolis, is recuperating at the home of her brother at Logan. She recently submitted to a very difficult

farewell to E. L. Rowan, the secretary who leaves in a few days for New York to report for duty with the Red Cross in France.

A. J. Brunner is irrigating a little patch of 400 acres at his ranch be-

operation and is on the road to recov-i.yond Burlington, pumping the water ery. [from the faithful Murmuring Mouse

with a traction engine and a centri­fugal pump. The water is being pump­ed onto meadow land mostly and on four acres which will be planted to potatoes.

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Endresen from Grelland, and Postmaster Halvorson, were in the city on business Wednes­day. They were getting ready for the Red Cross meeting to be held Fri­day in the Zion Lutheran church at Grelland. The Ryder band and sev­eral four-minute speakers are expect­ed.

Dr. Griffin and Louis Peterson mo­tored over from Ryder last night. Louis informs the Independent that himself and brother Curtis have 1500 acres in crop, including 900 atjres of wheat and a large flax acreage. The Peterson Bros, have a fine herd of Herefords and this spring can show as fine a bunch of white face calves as are to be found in the state.

Dr. Archie D. McCannel, Rev. Er-ickson, E. C. Britten, Frank Taylor and Spero Manson motored to Max and Garrison last Sunday where Rev. Erickson and Dr. McCannel gave ad­dresses on the Red Cross work. The distance traveled by the party that day was around two hundred miles and some of the members have been having trouble ever si'nee trying to get their hair to lay flat, especially Mr. Manson.

Otto Bengston from near Parshall, Carling Kjelstrup, banker, and Mr. Hawkins, hardware dealer from Par-shall, were in the city last night at­tending a meeting of Tyrian Chap­ter, R. A. M. Mr. Bengston is one of the big farmers in the Plaza country. Twelve or thirteen years ago he filed on a homestead and many a time he has walked across the country from Berthold, a distance of nearly thirty miles, carrying his flour. Today he owns as fine a section of land as can be found in the state.

H. A. Monagin, from north of the city, says that four colts have been hanging around his farm for several days and thinks the owners would like to know where they are.

Mrs. Harry Myers, who returned re­cently from a visit at her. old home, Shakopee, Minn., brot back a nice lot of oak, maple and willow trees, be­sides many strawberry plants which are doing nicely at the Myers farm south of the city.

Lieut. J. R. Pence, after spen4ing a short furlough in this city, returned to Fort Riley, Kan., Friday. He ex­pects to go to New York, City in a short time to take up special X-Ray work, when Mrs. Pence will join him.

Frank Kirkelie, the man who orig­inated Norwegian whist—in Ward county—was in the city Tuesday. B'rank has been working hard, not out of choice, he says, and he came down to g°t a day's recreation.

John I.ee, from north of the city, was in town Wednesday. He is mourning the loss of 60 fine tomato plants frozen down Saturday night despite the fact that he had carefully covered them.

Wm. Hecker, old time Logan farm­er, was in the city Wednesday. He says the cold weather was so severe this week that even the buckberry leaves were frozen, yet he is optimis­tic over crop prospects. ESTRAYED—Sorrel gelding, two

years old, from the pasture on Wm. Dunnell farm, marked with a small

star in forehead. Minot Motor Sales Co. tl

Arthur Stevens of Epping, Williams county, who enlisted in the aerial ser­vice and went into training at San Antonio, Texas, in August and left overseas in December, died from scar­let fever, according to word reach­ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Stevens.

R. B. Woods, of the Empire Con­struction Co., who enlisted a short time ago, is now located at training school at Aristook, Va., where he is engaged in cantonment construction work. Mrs. Woods, who accompanied her husband to St. Paul, has been vis­iting an uncle at Princeton, Minn., and will return tomorrow.

Attorney Charles D. Kelso accom­panied by his mother, Mrs. Fanny Kelso, left Monday for their old home at Corydon, Towa. Mr. Kelso's mother had arrived the day prior to their de­parture from a visit at the home of ner daughter, Miss Nancy Kelso, who resides at Glasgow, Mont.

The Minot Lodge B. P. O. Elks held an interesting meeting Saturday night, two candidates being initiated. The meeting was in the nature of a

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Mr. and Mrs. Martin Skov returned to their home near Voltaire Monday after a few days visit with the lat-ter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Reil-ly.

Our agent, Mr. Chas. Kuhn, and his good wife are absent on a visit to the Twin Cities. Mr. Kuhn expects to purchase a new car an make the re­turn trip overland. Mrs. Kuhn will return by train.

Mrs. Frank Asher of Rugby was a visitor at the Frank Duckett - and Frank Lenton homes the past week. Mr. Asher was agent here some years ago.

Billy Wangncss pleasant face is

seen in our village once more. He spent the winter in Iowa and stayed so long we thought he had gone back on old Dakota.

The ladies of the Red Cross society got their heads together and'made two nice warm quilts and presented them to an unfortunate neighbor who had the misfortune to lose their household goods by fire. The Junior Girls and Girls' Ciub also did their share of re­lief work.

John Becker of the Deep River neighborhood has enlisted in the ser­vice of our country and starts for Jefferson Barracks Wednesday, the 15th. He took a thorough course in the Sweeney auto school at Kansas City last winter which will come in handy for him in the work he is now entering.

The stork made a flying trip to the Jake Luchsinger home May 6 and left a bouncing boy to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Luchsinger.

E. C. Duckett and E. W. Stubbins each took a load of young people to Minot Sunday evening to attend a young people's meeting.

Mrs. E. W. Stubbins entertained her sister, Miss Kate Mitchell, and a cou­ple of the Towner teachers Saturday and Sunday.

Prof. Spacht and family have moved to the Bradbury farm southeast of town and report living in the country being more favorable to their ideas than town life.

Mrs. Sylvester Murphy made a beautiful basket quilt and presented it to the Red Cross. The ladies will meet in the hall and A® the finishing touches, after which it will be sold for th.e benefit of the Red Cross. Ev­erybody come and buy a ticket.

Mr. and Mrs. Clint Smith KSve moved in .from the farm and are now occupying the Dicky property, which has lately been transferred to Mr. Pierce. Mrs. Smith will serve meals to the public so the weary travelers will welcome their coming to town, as it has been a difficult problem to get accommodations here in that line.

Alfred Lee has been appointed sec­tion foreman here in place of E. Lytle, who was removed to the sec­tion at Rugby.

There is a certain lady in this vi­cinity who undertook the art of mak­ing war bread, but she has decided that she is a failure in that line and if any one contemplates building a cement block she will undertake to furnish the bricks.

Burlington The Child's Welfare committee wish

to make the following announcement: Parents of children under school age are requested to bring said children to the town hall Wednesday, May 22, in order that their examination may be given as required by the govern­ment. Let us see that this order is complied with in the same spirit that Burlington people have always shown when anything pertaining to the gov­

ernment regulations have been asked of us.

Mrs. J. Y. Millar and Miss Irene Thomas spent the jgpeek end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ben McDonald of Minot.

Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Kluver and daughter Erma, Miss Hazel Hogy, George Johnson and Irving Wallace spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Johnson of Minot.

Misa Gladys Millar was the guest of the Trumbles on North Prairie last week-end.

Mrs. Louis Groshans and Mrs. Ar­thur Volkman entertained the mem-ben of Burlington Camp of Royal Neighbors at the Groshans home Wed­nesday evening. There was a large attendance and an unusually pleasant time was enjoyed.

The Ladies Aid will meet at the home of Mrs. Louis Groshans Thurs­day afternoon of this week.

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Jacobson and sons motored to Minot Sunday and spent the day with friends.

All are invited to attend the ser­vices at the Presbyterian church Sun­day morning at 11 o'clock. Rev. Mc-Ivor of Kenmare will preach.

Mr. and Mrs. I. Selken of South Prairie were guests at the Chapin home Friday after which they motor­ed to Minot for a short visit at the McLeod home, taking Mr. and Mrs. McLeod home with them.

Mr. and Mrs. Barney Schmidt were in Minot on business Wednesday.

Mrs. L. D. Colton and Alvin Colton motored to the Wonder City Tuesday.

Anthony Boschert was in Minot Fri­day. Anthony has lost three head of horses recently, two of them excep­tionally fine colts. They .strayed from the Boschert place recently and Mr. Boschert has been unable to lo­cate them.

Ruel Reiner and Tom Thorson left with the draft boys last Saturday. This leaves but four men of draft age within the confines of Burlington township—can any other township in Imperial Ward show a better record?

Henry Olson, John Halvorson and J. W. Johnson were business visitors to Minot Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Casteel and chil­dren, Mrs. J. S. Wallace, Mrs. E. B. Wallace and children and Mrs. J. P Wallace were among those who jour-rtfeyed to Minot Saturday to bid God­speed to the men who departed for the training camp.

E. A. Madson went to Minot on bus­iness today. Einar is making good this year with poultry and when the' season closes we expect to give an account of his success in that line that will surprise amateur fanciers. . Roger Lloyd and Hadley Graves of

the Lloyd Mining Co., were in Minot Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Verzatt were the guest? of Minot friends today.

B. A. Pratt is now superintendent and general manager of the Dakota Coal Co. at Tasker, succeeding C. H. Strong, who has resigned and return­ed to his home at Canton, N. Y.

C, L. Smith of the Midlewest Grain

Co. of Minneapolis, was a visitor bar* today. We are always glad to aefe Lou and when he has made a barrel of money in the grain business dewi there we hope he will come back to Burlingtqn and watch us (row.

Peter Questead Funeral Will be Friday Afternoon From Haage

Lutheran Church Peter Questad, aged sixty-eight

years died at his home, 902 Second Avenue, N. W., Monday night. He is survived by a wife. The fuaenl will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Hauge Latkoraa church. The services will bo ia charge of the pastor, Rev. T. J. Luad. The interment will be made ta the Lutheran cemetery in this city under the direction of Undertaker J. D. Taa Fleet.

Prominent St. Paul- Wholesale Man .Visits Minot.

D. H. Wright, vice president of the Wright, Barrett & Stilwell paper housje of St. Paul, was in the city this weelf^conf erring with Leo Gol-isch, manager of the Minot branch. Mr. Wright is well pleased with the way business has been coming with the Minot house and will soon have an important announcement to make. He represents one of the largest pa­per houses in the west and is a mighty live wire.

Bandit Buck to the Pen Arthur Buck, the confessed murder­

er of the two Minot officers and wfce was sentenced by Judge Leighton to serve a life sentence and J. H. Shirley sentenced to the pen for four years on a burglary charge were taken to the state penitentiary at Bismarck Satur­day, by State Transportation Officer Patrick Heeftan.

, Girls' Military Squad Dance. The Girls' Military Squad will gM

another of their popular dances at tfeo Anderson building Friday eveniag, May 24. The young ladies have at­tained an enviable reputation for tile excellent dances which they have sponsored in the past and it is to be hoped that their dance on the t4th will be well attended.

Good Shower Last NigkC Good showeifS^fell in northwestern

North Dakota last night which were most welcome. The weather is much warmer and everything is growing nicely. The rain was acc< " " " lightning.

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New Thrift Stamp Ad The advertisement of the Second Na­

tional bank in last week's issue at­tracted so much favorable comment that it is run again in this issue. Be sure to clip this ad and take the ad­vice to heart.

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