The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1917, Page 6

wits ff Astor: Seoaesuerienmnecemeratert 2 nce en SCOOP OVERLAND AUTO SHOW 1S. EVENT FOR FEBRUARY’ Grand Showing of 1917 Models to be Held in Haggart Building Beginning Feb. 1. TEN DISTINCT TYPES OF CARS ON EXHIBIT ‘The grand opening of 117 Over- land and Willys-Knight models—un- f the greatest single ex- le concern in the ting consider- able interest to E marck and Missouri lope motordom. In a setting resplendent in. brill sts attention lighting and decorations, the various | types of machines will be displayed to / the public, Announcements of the date were | made this week by William FE. Li president of the Lahr Motor company of this city. Opening the afternoon of February 1, the dis- play of machines to the public with demonstrations, will continue — until the evening of February 5. The Hag- gart building on Third and Broadway, the Lahr the new show rooms for Motor Sales company, will be the stage for the show. Many Dealers. Dealers: in Ovefland and Willys- Knight automobiles from the country served by the ir Motor Sa company, as well as many prospect: ive bj are expected. The com- pany will put on a course of instruc- tion in.service for all dealers. Fac- tory representatives will be present during the entire show to discuss every question pertaining to the mechanism and other points of inter- W. Peters, representing the Wil- jys-Knight division of the great Over- ‘SPRING SUITINGS AND OVERCOATINGS In the Latest Patterns Fit and Workmanship Guaranteed H. J. Vivian & Co. ing so popular each motoring season. THE CUB REPORTER SCooP- DO You S| REMEMBER THIS SNOW MAKES ME WISH FORZ TH’ OLD SNOW BALL DAYS AGAIN- TH DAYS OF THROWING-— Per =: Bacts— md land factory will be in attendance at the ‘WillysKnight display, explain- ing and demonstrating the features of the Knight motor, which is becom- Ten Models to Be Exhibited, The exhibit will include 10 models, "i ig in price from $665 to $1,950, including the new closed cars and the new sport model, known as the “Country Club,” as well as delivery The new model No. 90, price $665, will be shown for the first time inj the West and is expected to create considerable interest with people who are interested in lower priced cars. This model has the Overland 30-horse power motor, with the beautiful line body, gasoline tank on ar and vacuum feed. It's an y riding car, is richly finished and; should be in the $1,000 class. The Lahr Motor Sales company antici- ata a great demand for this ma- chine during the coming season. The Famous Sport Model. _ The sport model, No. 90, with its r-passenger, clover leaf body in and red wire wheels is a s' tion in automobile ¢i te niftiest. model ever shown in the West. Since its debut in Bismarck many orders have been taken by the Lahr agency, both retail and whole- le. We are looking forward to a good year and have contracted for 1,500 Overland-W ars,” asserted Pres- ident Lahr this afternoon. “We ex- pect to dispose of them this season. Our show will be the greatest of the kind in North Dakota, the ten cars to be exhibited offering an oppor tunity for the prospective buyer to get within range of the price he wish- es to pay fora machine,” a machine.” ANOTHER CLEARING HOUSE “Queen City” Told Fourth House of Kind Will be Located There, By Maciadden Dickinson, N, D., Jan, 31.—A clear- ing house for Dickinson, making the fourth in the state, will be established this year, according to W. C. Macfad- den, retary of the North Dakota Bankers’ association, who was a visi- tor here last week, The three clear- ing houses in the state are located at Fargo, Grand Forks and Minot. DIGKINSON'S BIG BOOM Sum of $5,500,000 To Be Expended During 1917 for Buildings and Other Improvements Dickinson, N, D., Jan, $1.—Dickin- son, “Queen City of the Northwest,” is growing so rapidly and wonderful- ly that business men sought to figure out the amount which will be ex- pended in buildings this year. Figures compiled show that five and one-half million dollars will be spent this year, a period of prosperity dawning a (By Paul Purman. The harness racing world has been staggered by the announcement that Cc. K. G. Billings will dispose of his great breeding farm in Virginia, prac- tically all of his string of great trot- ters and pacers and retire from racing nd breeding. The retirement of Billings is certain to be a serious blow to the postime in which he has been interested for more than g ars as amateur reins- man, breeder and exhibitor. His stables include the greatest trot- ters of a generation, including Lou Dil- lon, mare and the first trotter to step a mile under two minutes; Uhlan, 1.5444, the fastest harness horse; i stallion; William, 1.5814, world’s fastest trotting The Har- 1, former champion trotting 1:58%, champion ester, 2: LOU - _ DILLON {trotting pacer and more than 100 other and speed. \ e Billings has announced his intention of keeping Lou Dillon and Uhlan when he sells hi: at Curls Neck, Va., but the rest of the in March. Billings became a figure in the trot- ting world as a matinee driver in the late nineti He has never raced horses professionally. In 1901 he built the Memphis, Tenn., racing plant and formed a racing asso- ciation which operated successfully until 1905 when the anti-betting law killed the game in that state. Several years ago he purchased the Curls Neck f Retirement of Billings Is Blow To Harness Racing World trotters and pacers of rare breeding |Champlon trotting gelding, and Lou $1,000,000 breeding farm } great stud headed by The Harvester. string will go on ‘the block sometime | Ed. Tipton, scoured the country for | brood mares of speed and breeding and ‘arm and gave the racing | Fields of Bismarck has supervision Over the show. Big Horned Ow! Shown. . Marvin. Magnus of Sterling, N. D. has entered a big horned ‘owl... He isn’t pretty at all, but he’s very‘inter- esting. The other birds are becoming jealous because of the attention which this owl is receiving. A revolt lin birdland is threatening. e White mice and rats..and guinea pigs, always of interest at a poultry show, are to be seen. Dibley Has Big ‘Exhibit. C. C, Dibley of Wolverton, Minn., has shipped direct from his Wilkin county farm, 14 light Brahmas and 12 single combed Rhode’ Island Reds. Mr. Dibley took the grand sweepstake at the Valley City show last week on the best light Brahma cockerel, At géneral TRG RECEPTION TO VISITORS AT “POULTRY SHOW Their Royal- Highness, the Ducks, Chickens and Geese, Are Very Talkative. Indeed. —_— JUDGING OF BIRDS __BEGAN THIS MORNING Don’t remain -away from the Mis- souri Slope. poultry show for fear of a cold reception. Don’t do it. Just go! |The warmest reception is assured. As ;80oN as. one enters the main door of the armory buflding greetings come from every . fowl being exhibited. Their royal highnesses are very talka- tive, indeed. Featuring an exhibit of 125 Barred Plymouth rocks, the Slope poultry show opened its doors at 8:30 o'clock this morning with a total of about 700 rare birds on exhibition, Officers Stated that.the Barred Plymouth Rocks exhibit-is the largest ever seen inthe state. At the state poultry show “twhich closed last week at Valley City | INTE ‘only 22 birds of this class were..en- tered. a Judging of fowls started this morn- ing at 10 o’clock by E. G, Roberts of Fort;,Atkinso#, Wis., one of the larg- est poultry breeders in that state and who -has' from+'$0. to /40 varieties on his farm, W. R.,Porter of the state agricultural college wi}l judge the dis- ‘| plays’ of cofn ‘and alfalfa which are in the basement of the armory. Wilbert Des Moines’ in 1914, he won the grand champion prizé of’ ‘his light’ Brahma cock. Wherévér Mr. Dibley has ex- hibited pe has won a good shate of we high prizes. O. A. Barton of Valley City has on display 11 White Plymouth Rocke;.He won first, second and fourth prizes on cock birds; first, second and fgurth on hens;. first and fourth on cdpker- els; first and fourth on pulleté}"% first and second on pens in a cla: 4 irds at the Valley City state bas The poultry show closes Frig@ay night. Exhibitors have entered birds from Montana, Minnesota, South: Da- kota and North Dakota, EREST ATTACHED 1 - NORTH DAKOTA to BIG SALE Fargo, Ni DaiJan. 31--Copsiderable North Dakota: interest: is:.attached. to the shiorthorn sale being held at Chi- cago, today. The dispersion of the.en- tire fine herd of Walter J. Hill, son of Janiés J. Hill; late empire builder, attracted principal interest in ‘sale. Hill recently operated’ a ‘fatm at Northeote, Minn., in. the Red River Valley. Following. the’ death’ of” his father, he found it necessary to: Sell. UHLAN (BILLINGS UP). 70! pipe, in- a yo’ cont pocket | means a trust friend” always at yo’ side, sf. “New” tobacco can’t give perfect, mellow satisfaction any move than a new ‘pipe ‘can. And“hurry-up” methods don’t age tobacco. “That’s why Velvet is aged two rents in wooden te 4 : C. K. Billings riding? Uhlan, world Dilton, fastest trotting mare, the only horses Billings will retain. game added impetus by. founding ‘a Experts on racing stock, headed by Billings had soon built up the most elaborate breeding farm the world had ever seen. The retirement of Billings marks the passing from the light harness racing game of two of its greatest fig- ures in less than a year, the otlidr, Henry W. Savage, having died lagt summer, it is said, of grief at the death of the great pacer, Dan Patch, which he owned. eads—the. slow, the expensive—but the right way. : the Iowa state poultry show held in. , =. c unparalleled in the history of this MERCHANT TAILORS city. ESTABLISHED 1878 EVIDENTLY S : NEAR ROUNDUP, MONT, Poundup, Mont., Jan. 31.—This is the season for finding lots of things under ground. Workmen claiming to have been excavating in this vi- cinity have made various reports. One rumor current today was that work- men at the city pumping station dug IRVING VIVIAN, Representative Opposite P. O. PHONE 741R Haggart Block Upstairs into a beaver dam believed hundreds of years old, and found a human arm. Employes of the St. Paul road reported finding the tusk of a masto- don, twenty-five feet below the earth, at Forsyth. An odd thing about these stove league reports is that the ground here is frozen 25 feet deep, and workmen are not doing much ex- cavating. ; STRUCK WIFE WITH SHOE Rugby Man Starts Seevinig ") Bijs For Unvallant Offense—Fine Amounts to $175 Rugby, N. ., Jan, 31.—Beeatise he You can, prove this ky trying Velvet yourself. Order a Load of KOO! Lump Coal Today ways right. ar Yon will like our service. ‘ t f Headquarters for all kinds of building material and fuel. We carry nothing but the wey best, and our prices are al- KILLED IN THE TRENCHES Brother of Mrs, T. A. Findlay of West- hope, Meets Death Fighting With Canadians Westhope, Jan. 31.—“Will kill- ed in the trenches.” This was the story of the European war brought to Mrs, T. A. Findlay of this city, last week. While fighting with his regi- ment, a Canadian contingent which he joined a year or so ago, Will Kinsel, a brother of Mrs. Findlay, was killed on the firing line. Kinsel’s father lives in Sherman brothers and two sisters also survive. JAMESTOWN HIGH WINS FROM CASSELTON 28 TO 1: Jamestown, N. D., Jan. 31—James town high won its fifth victory of the season Friday night, defeating Cassel- ton by a score of 28 to 16. smatiest man on the floor, did spectacular playing. the Machine Sorts Coffee Beans. one of several receptacles, M0Od. in. the:seaiom township. Five ! ‘ostello, A curious German invention is a ma- chine for sorting coffee beans by color. Each bean passes into a strong beam; of light, which it reflects to two sele- nium cells, and these, by electric con- trol of a hopper, deposit the bean tn The ac- tion depends on the different reflective powers of the differently cafored beans, by which varying resistances to the; @lectric current are successively ue struck his wife with his shoe, An- drew, Schwan was late last’ week sen- tenced to serve 60. days in the county jail and to pay a fine ‘and~ costs amounting in the aggregate to the sum of $175." The case was on trial here. The shoe was unlike Cindefella’s slip- per. It’ was big: work shoe. Instead of winning a heart, it divorted one. | Giant Apple. A remarkable apple was shown af the Royal Horticultural society's hall, Vincent square, Westminster, England, A small apple tree taken from thé ground and placed in an ordinary flow- erpot bore one apple only, but that ap- ple was 16 inches in circumference and 514 inches ia ‘depth. It is named after the secretary of the Royal Har ticultural society, the Rev. W. Wilka., “ship Sunk by Codfish. ‘ Codfish sank a ship. en, route for Gibraltar the other day. The schooner. Ponbrook was taking a fot of dried bees St. Johns, N..B., when, owiag to héavy weather, water reached cargo, which then swelled sufficiently to open the vessel’s seams and siak her. A Norwegian. ship rescued the erew and ianded them at the Azores. Mr. Pester’s Suggestion. , “Just a thought in passing,” eaid ole Festus. Pester. “If we are so petty and. picayunish that we must have:a 2%-cent piece, by alt means. let the contemptible coin. be adoraed with the head of. our poetical fellow: townsman,