The Bowbells Tribune

Digest of Late
No. Dak. News
At an auction sale southwest of Kenmare, sows sold for $75 a head.

The Farmers' elevator at Antler proved to be a profitable investment.

Many spring millinery openings for this week and next are announced in the state papers.

Ray, at a recent election, adopted by a good majority, the commission form of government.

Trappers must have licences for the taking of muskrats and mink -the season for these closes April 15.

The Association of Commerce at Minot will petition the legislature to allow that city to employ a city manager.

The Grafton Potato Co. is busy shipping out 12,000 bushels of potatoes stored in the company's warehouse last fall.

The Steele Ozone says that Kidder county will not be second to any in the state in the matter of new settlers, who are beginning to arrive in large numbers.

At an auction sale near Brisbane horses sold fairly well, calves two weeks old were knocked down at $16.50, yearlings as high as $36 and oats 54 cents a bushel.

Increased business demands improvements in the Lyceum theatre at Kenmare.
The seating capacity will be doubled, an inclined floor and a larger stage will be installed.

There is a new state's attorney in Renville county and he just abhors people who fracture the prohibition law, and promises he will get them if they persist in their evil deeds.

Land owners may secure trees for planting free of charge from the school of forestry at Bottineau.
The school expects to have about 1,000,000 trees for distribution in 1915 and it has quite a large supply for distribution this year.

Visitors to the state are surprised at the high prices which farmers are willing to pay for high grade cows, hogs, horses, and sheep and they say it is not surprising that this commonwealth is making such strides as it is along the line of diversified farming.

Why is it a careless 17-year-old kid can drop a half burned match in an alley and burn up all the barns in the block, while an able bodied man has to use up a whole box of matches to get a wood fire started in a heater that has draft enough to draw all the furniture up the stove pipe?

Sheldon Progress:
Warden Talcott needs a good printer to take charge of The Mirror, the prison publication.
We would hate to see such a good scout at Editor Potter of The Enderlin Independent land the job, but if he doesn't quit violating the corrupt practice act and label those political announcements so they will pass inspection, he is liable to land it.

The teacher of the district school at Owego, Stanley Prideaux, promoted a visiting day for parents and friends, which turned out to be very much more successful than his best wishes hoped for.
There was a display of school work, which was an "eye-opener" for many of the visitors.
Consolidation is being agitated in this district, as the desire of many of the people is to have a well equipped high school, so that the children will not have to be sent away from home for their proper education.

The Wyndmere Pioneer: We have learned that the business of farming is at least one of the most scientific on earth, that the farmer needs to know more things, and know them well, than any man in almost any other line of activity: that farming is a business that requires for its success the application of business methods of as high a grade as any other business; and that it is possible, by the admixture of brains, industry and optimism, to make the life of the farm not merely tolerable but full to the brim of the things which make for the highest degree of happiness and usefulness.

Lidgerwood, N. D.,
March 27.-
Charging that they have been negligent in the enforcement of the prohibition law, a petition is being circulated here asking for the removal of Sheriff Frank Budack, States Attorney C. J. Kachelhoffer, and the assistant states attorney of Richland county, and of the mayor and two policemen of Lidgerwood.
It is said that this petition will be sent to Governor Hanna today.
The governor has power to remove delinquent officers, this power having been conferred upon him by the last legislature, and the petition will probably result in a thorough investigation of the charges by the governor.

The Glenburn Advance is opposed to the present method of conducting village, township and school elections.
The paper says as a rule one of two or more tickets is handed to the voters as the official ballot and is voted as such by most voters without even moving from the presence of the election judges.
This seriously handicaps the man who is running independent of the caucus ticket and often defeats the wishes of the voters. A caucus
is often controlled by a small percentage of the voters of a precinct and often does not represent their wishes but after a person gets his name on the caucus ticket, under the present system, he has a big advantage over any other candidate.

This is the open season for formaldehyde--according to the drug store ads.

Editor Streeter of Linton is sending his friends and neighbors sample boxes of strawberries and fragrant flowers from his winter home in Florida.

To interest parents and others the domestic science department of the public schools of Edgeley has prepared an exhibit of the different kinds of work done.

As a result of the corn campaign in Barnes county there are at the present time 3,000 bushels of well cured seed corn in the county to twenty bushels, a year ago.

A rattling good town without a hotel, is Lakota.
The business men are tusseling with the problem of who is to replace the hotel burned down a short time ago.

Wyndmere is proud of the pure-blood draft horses that are raised in that vicinity--they have a right to be when a team of youngsters commands $1,000 from the buyer.

One dealer has disposed of five car loads of Marquis seed wheat at Langdon. Some farmers in Cavalier county will seed their wheat land, this year, to the new variety of wheat exclusively.

Public school notes in The Kenmare News may well be used by many correspondents and superintendents as models of general interest and to show a journalistic ability in their preparation.

The state inspector of consolidated, rural and grade schools has placed at the disposal of the state papers a compact list, citing twenty-five benefits to be derived from the consolidated school system.

The new banking house of the Union State bank at Ashley had a narrow escape from destruction by fire a few days ago. A gasoline stove exploded on one of the upper floors. By the use of a handy fire extinguisher a bad fire was averted.

The school board in some of the districts tributary to Mott, are of the progressive kind--they allow the teachers two days at different periods for visiting other schools.
The officials deem it a wise move because it gives the pupils of one school an opportunity to see the methods pursued in another school.

John Wild a farmer southeast of Milton has accumulated a herd of sixty-five head of registered Short-horns from which he derives considerable profit and besides makes life on the farm practically interesting. He grows a considerable acreage of corn for fodder each year for feeding and finds it one of his best paying crops.

A child 3 years old sustained painful injuries in her home at Litchville a few days ago.
The youngster's hand was caught between the rollers of a wringer, which was run by a gas engine, and her whole arm pulled between the wringer where it remained about half an hour until the rollers were sawed apart. Fortunately no bones were broken.

If M. E. Watkins, candidate for superintendent of schools of Bottineau county, is not married, he soon will be if elected--he is a good looking fellow.
His political announcement says:
"Don't get me confused with Watkins the medicine man, nor Watkins the Enforcement league man: I am related to neither--but want to be superintendent of schools of this county and make no bones about asking for the position."

Senator Gronna has secured passage, by the senate of a bill granting settlers on the Fort Berthold and Standing Rock Indian reservations in North and South Dakota one year's extension of time in which to make payments for their land. The bill also gives the secretary of the interior authority to make further extensions in case of crop failures or other untoward happenings beyond the control of the entrymen.

Two school teachers at Hazen became infatuated with two strangers who secured teaching positions about the same time the young ladies arrived. The couples were married about Jan. 1 and all went well until some three weeks ago when the boys suddenly departed leaving a whole lot of unpaid bills and the girls destitute at Hazen.
The names of the men were Frank De Villiers and Stanley C. Davis, both confidence men who are now under arrest at Milwaukee, Wis., for alleged obtaining money under false pretences. The girls have been taken to the homes of their parents.

Belfield Times:
The time of making garden is near at hand and it is also time to pen up the chickens. There is, perhaps, nothing that causes as much hard feelings in a locality as for chickens to wander on a neighbor's premises and garden. Some say they do us no harm. That makes no difference, your neighbor does not want to be annoyed with your chickens and you should not cause trouble by allowing your fowls to run at large.
A hen that will not stay in the enclosure will usually make a fine Sunday dinner for the owner of the trespassing bird, returned to him a dead bird instead of a live one.

Farmers at Powers Lake are asking $1.25 a bushel for clean seed potatoes.

The First National Bank of Antler has been sold to the First State Bank and business will be continued under the management of the officers of the State bank.

The Noonan Miner:
We are informed that one of the "early bird" farmers started plowing this week, which marks the first activity in the fields this season.

Miss A. L. DeWitt is the editor and manager of the Ambrose Tribune, a paper with a good showing of neighborhood news, which means so much to an enterprising weekly and is a valuable asset.

It is said that capitalists at St. Thomas are considering the erection of a fire-proof brick block, at least 150 feet frontage, to house the business concerns in that were destroyed in the destructive fire a week ago.

The Pink Paper:
John Huffman, who sold his land west of town to Joseph Martindale, has just purchased eighty acres of corn land in Illinois for the modest sum of $28,000, or $350 an acre.
He sold better land here at a little less than $40 per acre.

Editor Packard of Rolla does not like the corrupt practices act, and therefore declines to support H. J. Bessessen of Harvey, who is candidate for lieutenant governor.
and there you are.
It is alleged that Mr. Bessessen is a close relative to the father of the act.

The News at Hansboro deplores the use by small-boys of grossly vulgar language in the streets at the least provocation, even in the presence of ladies, and the paper promises that if the swearing habit is not curbed the census figures in the state reform school will be made larger.

W. R. McKenzie of LaCrosse, Wis., has made a proposition to the business men of Bowman, to install an electric light plant to cost about $15,000. He will ask for a twenty-five year franchise from the village, the latter to have the privilege of buying the plant at any time.