The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 29, 1917, Page 8

RIGHT BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE . ane Re WEDNESDAY, AUG, 29, 1917." CONSOLIDATION PROVES SUCCESS IN NORTH DAKOTA State Superintendent N. C. Mac- Donald Telis of Progress of Rural Education 24,000 PUPILS TRAVEL LONG DISTANCES DAILY Average Tran:portation From Four to Six Miles—Cold Weather No Bar St. Paul, Aug. 29.—Eleven north central stat epresented by 179 del- egates joined in a patriotic demon- stration, which marked the opening of the national conference on Rural education in session here at the Uni- versity of Minnesota Farm school. J. L. McBrien, school extension agent, of the United States Lureau of Edu- cation, Washington, p! Governor Burnquis the delegates, stamp of dis any price propaganda,” by as the delegates draw up plutions ap- proving President Wilson's order to the peace proposals of His Holiness Pope Benedict. N. ©. MacDonald, state superin- tendent of public instruction, Bis- marck, was one of the speakers to address the convention. He “Twenty-four thousand rural school children are transported at public ex- pense from four to miles a day to 502 consolidated schools in North Da- kota, and the county which has the record for being one of two having the coldest and longest winter weather ranks as No. 1 on the p ntage basis among North Dakota consolidat- ed schools,” stated N. C. Macdonald, state superintendent of public instruc- tion, in add ing the national con- ference on rural education in St. Paul today. Mr. Macdonald's subject was “The Present Status and Futw Prospects of Consolidation of Rura Schools in ‘North Dakota.” 30,125 Enrolled. “There were enrolled in the consoli- dated schools of North Dakota year farmer boys and girls as against 5,625 six years ago. Of the number enrolled, 3,675 did high school work, as against 450 in 1911, giving an increase per year of 102 per cent, com- pared with two per cent under the old system. Six years ago there were 95/ farm boys and girls doing high work in all classes of public " This last year there were 4,120, This gives a grand total increase of 3,466, whereas under the old system there would e been an increase of only about 115. This increase of 2,466 would represent an increase in the popula- tion of Fargo, the largest city in North Dakota, of at least 169,000. Now £02 Schools. “There are now 50? consolidatea schools in the state, 176 being in the open country, and 326 being in the towns and villages. In a‘ldition, there are 105 partially consolidated schools which in some states would be listed as fully consolidated. This number o. 502 consolidated schools represents an increase of 388 in six years, or a gain of 340 percent. It also repre: sents an average increase of 65 schools per year, as against an in crease of less than six per year when there was no state aid and no specia! campaign to further the growth o7 consolidation” ANNOUNCEMENT. The benefit dance to take place at Faker Hall Wednesday night, Aug. 29 has been postponed owing to the street dance given by Co. 1. Stimulating Brain Waves, Saturday is usually an anxious time for ministers, To live with them on! this day is not on unmixed blessing, says the Liverpool Post. They are fidgety and uneasy, worrled over those ttle finishing touches which go to the making of a good sermon. It is doubt- ful, however, if many are so nervous ag one of the leading provincial divines who carefully takes his sermon up te bed on Saturday night in order that there may be no fear of its destruc- tion by fire. Whether he also fancies that somebody may steal the precious docuraent {s another point—one on which he has never expressed an opin- fon. He says, however, that on more than one occasion he has had a brain wave during the night, with the result that a brilliant sentence has been add- ed to his discourse the Inst minute, How to Lead an Unruly Horse. I will describe a plan T have found to te excellent for leading unruly horses, says a writer In Farm and Fire- side. Tie a ring tn halter of horse to be led. Then take a half-inch Tope | about 20 fect long, and having tied one! end of the rope to the halter, run the other around rear axle, then back} through the ring In halter, and then! to the wagon seat or to anyone in the) ‘wagon. With this you ean draw the horse | in or let him ont without danger of | upsetting the rig. you can let go cf the rope gnd free Tn an emergency | 2 Ye INDIANS ON WARPATH! GERMANS TO HEAR REOWEN'S SCALPING GRY son eve sts) RERNINNS - In the shadow of the feathered serves the fighting spirit of his diaus training for the United Sta with the fighting Indians of the tion of His Hearers. ”” Spinner of Yarns, Always More Re markable. Than Those Told by Others, Is Beaten at His Own Game. Sour John Marvin glanced out of the window of the shop where he was mak- ing an afternoon call, “Cy Pelton ts headed this way,” he announced, “and I will make a prediction. If anyone here present ventures to speak ‘of any- thing out of the ordinary that he has heard. or read. about, Cy will follow with something in the. same line, only }@ little more remarkable, that he has been an eyewltness of, and he'll be sure to place it in some place pretty far from thls town,, But Cy, Pelton needn’t flatter himself that he. ever fools me. I have sense enough to know that he always makes up his story as he goes along, and I live in yore of seeing him tripped up some lay.” At that moment the door opened’ and the reputed spinner of “yarns” walked in. At his heels came Uncle Noah Briggs, the acknowledged oldest in- habitant. “I’ve Just been reading an inter- esting piece about Abraham Lincoln,” Uncle Nonh began, as-he accepted the easiest chalr, f “When he was @ young man clerk- ing In a store, someone stumped him one day to pick up a barrel of rum off the floor and hold it up to his mouth and drink out of the bunghole; and he did {t. But after he laid the barrel down again, he spit every drop war headdress and the painted ancestors. ilere is how the In-) tes army look today, compared early days. KEEP FOOD FROM GOING TO WASTE Secretary Houston Makes Strong Appeal to the Housewives of the Country. - LARGE SUPPLIES IN DANGER: Women Urged to Expend Energy in, Canning, Preserving, Pickling, Ory. Ing and: Storing Products for Local Consumption, Washington—In order to avoid waste of surplus fruits and vegetables and conserve the food supply, Secre- tary of Agriculture Houston asks “mothers” and “daughters” of every state to organize and expend all avail- able energy in canning, preserving, | Pickling, drying and storing these prod- ucts for local consumption, Secretary Houston is of the firm be- Nef that this problem may best be solved locally. No federal or state government, he believes, can do any- thing unless women in every city and town do what they can to help. The woman who has no garden {8 asked to purchase full supplies for her own immediate and future use. Telegraphic reports from 24 states which are in distress were made public by Secretary Houston, showing that; Jarge surpluses of food will go to waste unless women act immediately. | The states particularly affected are Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Caro- lina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin, Direct Appeal to Women. This ts the direct appeal to each individual woman, “mothers and daughters,” by President Wilson him- self, and here are the localities af- fected: New England—Unusually large sur- pluses of vegetables are reported. Ex- ceptional yields of fruits and vege- tables are promised in Rhode Island, | and the state demonstration leader there reports hundreds of requests for demonstrations in canning and drying which it cannot meet with its present ! corps of workers, Vermont, M: chusetts and Connecticut all de that help is needed to carry out their programs. of, instruction, ; Community outfits for canning and New York basa large surplus of vegetables, and, according to the state: leader, extraordinary efforts to pro- mote home and community food preser- | vation in the next few -weeks will be necessary to handle the situation, The situation In New Jersey is reported as serious by reason of an unusually high acreage and consequent large surplus. drying are needed to handle the situa- tion properly, Pennsylvania hopes to: be able to handle the situation if em- ergency funds are soon.available, West | in asks for help to take care of the surplus of fruits ‘in. the castern part of the state and a small surplus of vegetables on the farms, Yanning and drying in the homes show a larg? Inerease in Ohio, where a ‘vigorous campaign has been carricd | on, Illinois reports extraordinary ac tivities In canning and preserving, but there the frult is-well taken care of. Indiana: has a large: surplus in both vegetables and fruit, fmd more demon- stration help is needed. The garden surpluses in Michigan are large and much greater effort must be made to take care of them, a report. says, WIs- consin and Minnesota declare that help is needed in demonstration work. One) or more food conservation meetings In’ every township in Iowa will be held to urge housewives to care for a large surplus of vegetables and fruit. Big Increase Reported. A 100 per cent increase in garden’ crops is reported from Nebraska and a large surplus is expected. Large! crops of vegetables also are reported from South Dakota, while in Kansas the amount of fruits and vegetables, has been reduced somewhat by dry weather, In most of the Southern states the height of the vegetable season has passed, but North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky vegetables and_ fruits are plentiful and unusual efforts are being made by workers in each state to save the surptuscs, Large crops of fruits and vegetables are coming on In the Western states, but with the exception of California, inadequate facilities and equipment are hindering canning and drying oper: ations. In Utah a big food-conserya- tion campaign is on, backed by many organizations, To mect the shortage of equipment, 270 steam canners are being distributed, as fs also much dry- ing apparatus. Twelve field workers are demonstreting, but 15 more are needed. irivune want ads will bring results Virei t All Suppositien. Twenty-one is supposed to be the age of dl . but some women live | to be sixty renrs ol before they are discrect enough to wear comfortable shocs,—Houston Duily Post. of the Hquor out of his mouth. ‘That goes to show how strong Mr. Lincoln re, and in the echo of the sesiping warhoop, the new indian pres, was fn his arms and also how strong temperance he was.” Uncle Noah would have continued, but he made a fatal pause, and Cyrus Pelton got the floor. “T had an uncle, on my mother's side,” he sald, “that I guess was full as strong in his arms as ever Mr. Lin- coln ‘was, and even stronger in tem- perance. He was a blacksmith in the town of Industry. “One time, when T was 2 small boy, Hiram Quint, one of Uncle Lifé’s near neighbors, was buflding'n big barn, and he had asked a.lot'of men to the rais- Ing. . “In those days almost everyone drank hard: elder, sid thought nothing of it, but Uncle Life’was dead set against It. When he enme along that day and saw the big barrel of cider that Mr. Quint had ‘provided for .re- freshment, he says, ‘Hiram, your rats- Ing would come on full as well, and some chaps here would be better off, If you Would carry that cider down to the brook and“dump“it. aoe “I saw Hiram wink dt the bystand- ers, and says ‘he, ‘I'm! hardly: strong enough, But if you ‘are,’ says he, ‘you're at liberty to do it? “Alright. says Uncle Life, and he made for his blacksmith shop. In a few minutes back he came, bringing a horseshoe that he had’hammered out in such a way that he could make the heel calks fit into the bunghole of the barrel as itlay there 6h the ground. ‘Then, with the horseshoé as a handle, he lifted that barrel of cider as if ft had been a carpetbag and carried it to the brook und emptied ft.” “Now, If you will give me a chance, I should like to put in a word,” said Uncle Noah, with a show of .fmpa- tlence. “It so happened that I was at the raising of Hiram Quint’s barn.” “I didn't know that you were ac- quainted in the town of Industry,” said Cyrus in evident surprise. John Marvin’s eyes sparkled. “So there was sucha raising,” he sald. “Well, that bears out Cy's story, so far. 1 suppose the rest of It was equally correct, Uncle Noah?” “No, It wasn’t,’ replied the old man emphatically; whereupon ofie‘of, John Marvin's rare smiles Hghted up bis grim features, “Now, Tatways try to be accurate,” sald Cyrus, hitching uneasily in his chair, “but I was only a little shaver at the time, and mebbe my recollection fs a little at faut.” “No, you were wrong, Cy,” sald Uncle Nonh firraly. “When you brake in on me, I was about to tell the story, and tell it as ‘twas, It wasn't a barrel of cider that.your uncle carried down and dumped ‘in the brook in the way and manner. that. you described ft. It was two barrels of cider—one In each hand.”—Youth’s Companion. , " Skiclency, Willis—Bump has a very: up-to-date office, Gillis—Yes, He has one of these ottice systems where you can find just what you want when you don't want it by looking where it wouldn't be if you did want ft.—Life, MULES AND MEN MAY the animal entirely. It Worked Too Well. “Yes, you see she told him her fa- ther had lost ell his money, just to test his love for her.” “And then?” “Well, she will know better next time.” ‘The Authority. “Tell me,my man, do you exercise your tearital prerogative and domi- nate your wife?” “Better ask her, sir. | She's the ! G0 TO WAR-SIRLS DRIVE ELCPHANT TO PLOW New York girls have volunteered to. take care of the animals in New York's park* zoos, in place of the men attendants ¢: ° ed for army service. They have started training, to be ready when called. Picture shows three girls learning to handle a plow drawn’ by“one of the city elephants. | time; TRIPPING UP “Cy"HT 8 ation at the Paris Opera House. arrangements, Mourning js baur under his supervision. HE GETS RFADY 10 DIE BY HAVING (Millliam 'T, Ficklin and his tombstone. A brass band will head William T. Fieklin’s funeral procession and a prominent Cincinnati agnostie will deliver the funeral or- All, of course, when Ficklin dies. At, 90, he thinks it is about time 10 prepare. tombstone, designed at his ‘lirce-tion and erected in the cemetery It bears his likeness. He has made all ned. He is shown here with his President Pennington, who foresees and realizes the various problems! that must be contended with by the, transportation companies of the nortn west during the coming winter, di-/ rects me to call the attention of the people of North Dakota, and especial- ly those living in Soo Line territory, | to the question of fuel, with special | reference to the native coal of the state. In a rigorous climate such as ours, one of the greatest economic questions is always that of fuel. Plen- tifulness and accessibility of coal in an agricultural state is a great asset. | You have observed the drastic but} apparently pecessary steps taken by! the government during the past weeks regarding” the handling, transporta-| bituminous and anthracite coal. Wheit you realize: that up, to. this time! (avout September 1st) for the year 1917, legs.than'65 percent of the usual coal. shpply. deliyered at, lake head points & distribution over the north-, west, haw’ beéndelivered this year, you will’ conclude that the sonsible activity’ of thé vic organizations of the Twin .Citiésand Minnesota gen erally in inducing ‘the government to act in the coal,. situation, was the thing. to do.. ‘A ‘fuel famine in ‘the midst of.a northwest winter with. the railroads tied: up and crippled, may be, is not a pleasant thing to contem- plate ,even in the month of August. / Undoubtedly the situation generally will improve somewhat from now. on, but we can hardly expect the normal. and usual supply of coal at the head of the lakes, or in the hands of deal- ers and consumers where navigation closes in adout 9) days hence. Close observers are convinced that in spite df the best efforts on the part of the government, a shortage in the fuel supply of the northwest is bound to result. For reasons which I will not enter into at this time, the railroads dur- ing the past few years have heen of- fectually estopped from furnishing the improvements and equipment neces- sary to the end that the railroads may be enabled to keep in step with other industries and the progress and expansion of the country generally. The history of last winter demonstrat- ed‘ the ina ility of the railroads to meet the demands placed upon them during the days of stress and conges- tion:"f mention those things to call attention to the possible inability of the railroads traversing North Dakota lo furnish an adequate supply of east- ern coai:on short notice. North Dakota has according to gov- ernment ‘geologists, more tons of coal underlying its surface than any other state. And, while this fuel is known as lighité? itis, nevertheless, among the best qualities of its kind, and a knowledge‘ fits "use always makes friends far"{Es ‘The writer predicts that the time'ts not long distant when the coal fndustr of North Dakota will have advanced several hundred per cent from its presént status. Lack of capital, slipshod methods and ineffi- ciency generally, regarding the min- ing of coal in North Dakota, up ‘to this time, has retarded. the; progress of that industry. Ofcourse, there have been many mines in the state like those at Wilton that have. been handled in’ a business-like manner, and when so handled, I believe they have been successful from a financial standpoint. I asked Professor Tabcock, dean of the college of mining engineering uf the state university, and recoznized bythe government as the greatest au- thority on lignite coal and its proper utilization, to write something regard- ing this article of fuel, and its hand- ling. I quote below for the informa- tion of the public generally, some 6x- cerpts from Dean Badcock’s letter: ‘North Dakota has good reasons to be proud of the position which she occupies in the agricultural and stock raising industries. Indeed, the great prominence and wonderful develop-! ment enjoyed by this state in these industries have caused most people to} overldok the possibilities which exist in the development of other natural resources and industries. “While North Dakota may never) appear as a metal producing or a} great’ mining state, yet it certainly possesses some mineral resources, es- pecially its great coal and clay de-; posits, which are sure to become more| extensively used and to prove of great economic value. } ‘4 “The discovery. investigation an pronesiitione for development- and utifizattom of ‘these resources require ‘hard work and tech, MOBILIZATION OF LIGNITE. INDUSTRY OF NORTH DAKOTA WAY BE NECESSARY | deposits of {enough coal, if properly used, to sup- nical skill, but these efforts are grad- ually leading to the wider utiliza- tion of these undeveloped resources and to the establishing of associated industries. “Something is known of the vast lignite coal which are found within the state of North Dake ta ,but it is surprising how little the immense value of these deposits is appreciated. There is a very large, area in the western part of this state which is underlaid with thick deposits of lignite coal. .North Dakota has ilizing the lignite industry of ‘North Dakota should be taken up without delay. The governor could pick out ditions regarding this industry, trans- portation, etc.,.and arouse capital to the possidilities involved in the fur- nishing of coal to our own people. 1 Rave no desire to play the roll of alarmist, but from information before this company at this time, | would not like to have the people of North Dakota depending entirely on the bit- uminous and anthracite coal for the. coming season. I am confident thas the railroad:companies would -be. will- ling to do their full share in helping | Mobilize the coal industry of North Dakota. It is not tog early to begin a sensidle discussion of this import- ant matter. The state should not be compelled to depend on the eastern supply of coal at this time—it is too dangerous. Very truly yours, J. S. MURPHY, Immigation Agent, Soo Line Railway. BURLEIGH COUNTY LOSES PIONEER IN DEATH WERE OF RS, BARBARA GABEL Deceased Had Resided on Gibbs Township Farm Since 1886 —funeral ‘fomorrow Burleigh county lost one of its pl- oneer women, the mother of one ot its most prominent farmer families, wuen ‘irs. Barbara Gabel, a resident of Gibbs township since 1886, passed away at 3 oclock yesterday morning at st. Alexius hospital. The deceased, althougn sne was within six weeks of «9 years old, had been in excellent health until very recently, when she was seized with an attack which ne- cessitated her coming to the hospital heie for treatment. ‘The funeral ser- j vices will be held at 9:30 tomorrow morning at St. Mary's pro-cathedral, and interment will be made in St. ‘Mary's cemetery. The Very Rev. M. J. Hiltner, vicar general of the 2-is- marck diocese, will officiate at solemn requiem mass. ‘ fsarbara Mareja Gabel was born in Switzerland in 1838. At the age of 14 she came to America, taking up her home in New York city, where as @ young woman she was united in ply her fuel;needs for ages. “North Dakota has one of tue larg- est coal areas of the states of the union, estimated at 32,000 square £00,000,000,000 tons. “It is evident from the investiga- tions which have been carreid on-at the school of mines that the heat value or calorific power of the uver- age lignite of North Dakota, when en- tirely dry, is about 65 percent of that of the Hocking Valley coal,,and about 60 percent of that of the Pocahontas goal. The analyses which*have been mode show that the fixed, carbon in the samples of North Dakota coal (dried) usually runs from 48 to 5! percent; that of West Virginia bitum- marriage with Valentine Gabel, who preceded her to the grave 17 ‘years ago.. The family resided in New York until 1886 ,when they came'to Dako- tion, price-and general control of, both miles, capable of producing probably ta territory, purchasing a farm in Gibbs township, where Mrs. Gabel re- sider until the time of ‘her death. The sons of the family, as they arrived ac manhood, purchased farms in the vi- cinity of the old homestead, wher all of them still reside. ‘There survive two daughters and five. sons—Mrs. Lydia Graves, Jamestown and Mrs. Hattie Steinmetz of Bismarck, and’ John, George, Frank, Joseph and William Gabel, all’ of Gibbs township. . William Gabel, the youngest of the family, resided on the old home place, and his mother had inous coals about 67 percent; that of .nade her home with him since-the the. better grades of semi-bituminous dry. coals of Maryland, 75 percent; ;{ and that of the fine, dry, close-burning Dituminous coals of Pennsylvania 70 percent. In a general way it may be said that the heating power of one, ton of North Dakota coal will equal} about 65 percent of a ton (1,300 Ibs.) of bituminous coal. | “The purity of a fuel is a very im portant element in determining its value. A difference of two or three percent in the earthy matter of two coals may be the source of a very ser- ious difference in their final value. North Dakota coals are almost always very free from earthy matter, as seen: from the amount and character of their ash. . ( “By these comparisons it will be seen that North Dakota lignite ranks, |! so far as its heat-producing power is concerned, between the lower grades of lignite and a bituminous coal, and that it is far superior to the lignite mined in some ‘other countries. “It is largely due to a lack of famil- iarity with the character of lignite coal and toa lack of knowledge of the best methods of burning it, that this coal is,not being more generally used. However, the use is gradually j being extended as from time to time more perfect methods of burning ap- pear. “At the present time lignite coal is chiefly used in lumps in heating and cooking stoves and it: engines for power. It is generally used in the most simple manner and very few spe- cial methods have been adopted for burning or utilizing this coal or for preparing it for the market. But there can be little doubt that for gen- eral stove and furnace use briquetted Ngnite would prove a most economic and profitable fuel.” As a matter of fact, North Dakota could, if she had to, furnish the coal for all its 700,000 people. This could not be done in a day or in a month,| but it could be done. There are to- day commercial mines enough in the state if properly worked to furnish all the coal needed. The word mobilization and all it stands for, has today a wider. signifi- cance than ever before. The mobiltz- ation of a nation’s energies and re- sources to meet the exigencies of war, gives us a glimpse of what mobiliz- ation really means. death of. her husband. Mrs. Gabel was a woman whom her community had learned to love and her death will ve mourne? vy many sincere friends. PEACE IN 24 HOURS. for Stomach Suferers, who take May’s Wonderful Remedy. Don’t neég- lect your Stomach Ailments another minute. What appears to be only m!nor Stomach disorders may vufiea be symptoms of Cancer and Ulcers of the Stomach ‘and Intestines, Call Stones, Acute Indigestion, Gastritis, Autointoxication, Yellow Jaundice, and other dangerous ailments, of which the sufferer is not aware until too late. An ideal prescription for overcoming quickly Stomach, Liver and Intestinal Trouble is Mayr's Wonderful Remedy. Millions of peo- ple have been restored hy it. One dose will PROVE that it will help you. Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy. is for sale by Lenhart Drug Co. We do good work reasonable. 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