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Trading Center of the Missouri Slope UNDERTAKERS A A. W. LUCAS CO. i sap arty a Uadertakers 72 ie -" ’Tis a fine thing to be able,to; look a a man band. oft roving: hors¢ traders who probably. Distributors aie Factory Distributors of j Funeral Directors in the eye when he says to you: “It's a bar- give you worse than they get. The home MAXWELL, “CHALMERS, REO cae gone ar atE ea a Day Phone 645 gain, and we stand back of it with our guar+ #busifiess man‘is in the’ same position that ‘AUTOMOBILES Bath Formte-tracsa (7) Night Phone 100 A. W. CRAIG Day Phone 50 literature. ’Tis seldom that one-ever.gets family. You are not liable to sell him a skit- ah Licensed Embal in Ch Night Phone 687 a glimpse of the boy or girl who wrote the tish bag of bones that’s going to kick the GREEN DRAGON Keer sthing for, the Acteu bile || . scam avee particular. bit of copy... With ‘the compiler whole family. into kingdom .come, for, like SPARK » PLUGS sae SSS DAIRY—MILK—CREAM SAFETY FIRST —Buy Only— PASTEURIZED MILK BISMARCK DAIRY CO. 210 Broadway Phone 348 ND EMBALMERS WEBB. BROS, Licensed Embalmer in Charge TAXI SERVICE Phone : 57 FOR A TAXI Fine Cars Always at Your Service DAY AND NIGHT Lambert’s Livery TRANSFER and STORAGE antee.”” One often reads this promide in mail order of the mail order catalog, 'tis all-in the day’s work. With the man who. says: it to your face, it means something, for he knows that ifthe doesn’t make good you'll come back, and he knows that if he does make good you're most likely’ to come back, and ’tis the lat- ter contingency that he’s counting on. For the man who does. business with you, face to face, has to rely upon come back or- ders and he needs your good will, because you’re his advertiser and his mail order cata- log. If you gohome and say: “By yimminy that coulter I got from Jones is all right, all right,” then your neighbor thinks of Jones the next time he comes:to town, figuring on a bit ofan electric washer for the missus. TIS MIGHTY COMFORTABLE TO LOOK YOUR MAN IN : THE EYE WHEN HE SYS‘4IT’S A BARGAIN FOR YOU “ines. - you are when a neighbor comes to you and i ‘a’ gentle,‘lady-broke, driver for the as. not, you have an idea that Mr. Naybur may. want a horse again some time, and a fair profit. on ‘two good, horses usually. is bigger: and more satisfactory generally than an‘unfair. profit on one bad one. When a man’s selling merchandise as. a ‘business, the first thing he does or’ seeks to do is to build up good will and a reputa- tion for honesty and fair-dealing. The man who accomplishes these results stays in bus- That is why the men whose busi- ness ‘is advertised in these columns are here; that’s why they were here last year, and year before last. With some of them your grandaddy: traded when he.came out here«in a prairie schooner; with some of their. grand- PORTAGE TIRES Automobile Acces- sories of All Kinds FILTERED GASOLINE Free Air and Water BATTERY _ SERVICE STATION BISMARCK MOTOR COMPANY Trading Center of the Missouri Slope \ AUTOMOBILES, ACCESSORIES AND SUPPLIES MISSOURI VALLEY MOTOR CO. ~ Smith Tractors... Kelly-Springfeld and Firestone “hires Within the law—More: light than plain glass. MOTOR CAR SUPPLY CO. ELECTRICAL But if’you say: “Be dad, that Jones feller, children you grandchildren will be trading now, ain’t he the skinner,” Jones knows he along time hence. ; Distributors of : ——T HE— TRANSFER AND can never expect'to repair the damage that’s A square deal with the home merchant is — “ : = 5 ELECTRIC -SHOP done him, and bein’ as Jones is in business a mere matter of ordinary business. good STUDEBAKER Automobile Trimming “ . STORAGE here for life, he isn’t likely to give you a sense. He knows that, even were he so in- | and and Top Work 3B. K. SKEELS ‘We have unequalled facill- chance to say bad things of him if he can clined—and we're proud to believe that we _ CADILLAC "BISMARCK FURNITURE CO. | Everything Electrical ties for moving storage and help it. : haven’t any of that brand in business in Bis- ‘Phone 689, '220'Main 8 Wiring Fixtures and Snpplies ||| Shipping of household ", That’s the whole idea of trading at home. marck—he couldn’t hook you today. and ex- Deloo Farm Light Plants Willard Service Battery Station Phone 870 @8 Broadway p ises. i fi Have You Heard the here under the gun and stare a man in the business on the square, without a beliefon PAINTS & OILS * FINE! BUGGIES fs Latest Music? eye and make promises and know by all that’s the part of his community that he’s honest - ‘Varnishes—Kalsomine ‘ t Hever this king’ ia a8 é KLEIN'S holy that you’ve got to make good those adn sincere and a man who wants to see his Brushes and Supplies. You to get our prices. at— i promises. neighbors do well, the goods on his shelf c Alb... FRENCH: & WELCH. . My Tailor One hates like thunder.to sell a neighbor wouldn’t be worth to him 75 cents on the dol- a lent CO. Hardware’ — Anes invlenels STEIN’S Expert Dry Cleaning a blind horse, for he knows that sooner or Jaron the purchase. price. : : 3 i Phone 770 later Mr. Naybur' will get hep: Tis quite Think it over, and see if it' isn’t pretty \Folsom’s Jewelry Store . another matter to pass off a bad one on a sound gospel. . \ am ‘414 Main St. Phone 562R ‘HOOVERIZE! Don’t\ buy a ‘new hat—let us clean your old one. You goods, Careful, experienced men. We also handle ice. WACHTER TRANSFER COMPANY 202 Fifth St. Phone. 62 ‘@HOE FITTERS Richmond sihitney MAIN STREET. Yow see the article, you see the man who stands behind it;-you know, most likely the next time you come to town you'll see him again, and he knows it too. ’Tis an easy thing fo make long distance conversation and to.sit beside a mahogany top desk, drawing on a 25-cent perfecto and dictate pretty prom- Tis another thing quite to sit right: ' BUSINESS TRAINING BISMARCK competent or funded: Send: You Can Enroll at This MODEL. OFFICE PRACTICE school under guarantee: of.a sat- isfactory position as soon as pect to catch your neighbor tomorrow. And when he says “bring it back if it isn’t satis- ,factory,” he means that, for he can much better afford to take a loss on you than to -have you dissatisfied. The biggest capital the average merchant has is his good will. Without good will, with- out a reputation for. playing fair and doing IRON and -JUNK _ HIGHEST PRICES PAID For Men's cast off Suits, Coates “and Shoes,” i WE ALSO BUY’ JUNK OF ALL KINDS IN HANDFUL oR CARLOAD LoTs. - ‘We have accepted the agency ~~ ‘for the Fargo Iron’ & Metal Co. ‘Inc., with a capital’ of $50,000.00 and ‘we can pay the highest ur tuition: re- ‘or ‘particulars. WALL PAPER Your Suen We are very particular about ‘he kind of printing’ we turn out. Nothing: but the beat workmanship leaves our plant. We have the largest union‘ printing ‘office in the tate and are in a position to give wo g00d cies When you know more about this college and: what it has done for hundreds of the most successful | business men and women, ‘you'll HEMSTITCHING will thus save $4 or $5 to ‘prices, Don't leave old iron around to rust but bring it to us or Phone 358) and we will call for it and pay” you the ‘high- buy Thrift Stamps with. HEMSTITCH ING AND PICOT- EAGLE HAT WORKS fi , 313’ Broadway i CLEANING and DYING - BARBIE'S . DRY CLEANING AND DYE WORKS Phone 394—409 Front St. | When thirsty drink— Mail Orders Filled, MRS..M.C. HUNT: | 114 Broadway. Phone 849. ———__—_—_—_ WHERE TO DINE HAMM’S EXCELSO Nothing is more refreshing than a cold glass‘ of good old Hamm’s Excelso on a hot day. Cc. M. Rosson C. R. Downing | “WHAT DO YOU REALLY KNOW | ABOUT OTHER MEN, ANYWAY?” % By Rev. Charles Stelzle ¥ You and I know mighty little about people, after all—in an intimate way. 1 mean. faa) I was seated in the hotel barber’s chair in a sinall western city, and thé ‘barber was telling me about the town’s jeading labor man. “You never heard of Jim Ander- son? He's the feller with the brown derby—there he is out in the lobby!” And he seemed very much disap , pointed that I had never met Jim, for to him Jim was the biggest labor leader in the movement—even though he had not yet been sent to a nation- al .convention,nor been mentioned in the news stories outside of the state. Jim was a big man to the barber because he had been active in the in- terest of the men in the town in which he lived—these national ‘leaders” were all right, no doubt, but they hadn't entered into the life of the barber, | {simply radiates prosperity and good er from the Pacific Coast, because he seemed so alone. + While the preacher - was talking ‘a cheery, siniling chap—the kind who fellowship. “Why, hello, old man!” the preach- er fairly shouted at him, “What are you'doing these days? Often wondered what, became of you—haven’t heard anything from-you in years, Fact is, you never struck your real gait since you left your church position. You were a big man in those days. Not ‘all in one sentence, but all) in about, three minutes conversation, the smiling one had this fired at him, by the preacher. And I looked at my friend as he smiled. broadly at me—for he was a bigger ‘man. than ever, not only \in New York, but throughout the entire. country, with: a broader influence and a finer outlook—but because he was! no longer within the ‘naarrower ‘field | with me, there came into my office) ° attend. Write Lo THESE CHAMPIONS AID THE AMERICAN G..M.. LANGUM, Pres., ee N. . 4 est’ price. COLEMAN'S New AND 2ND HAND STORE 109,.5th St. Opposite McKenzle ‘Clothes Cleaned and - Pressed. | “Hats Blocked and Cleaned. FINDS LATEST VARIETY OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR 3 Chicazo.—Chicago. has ‘pro- ¥ duced the latest variety. of “‘con- B scientious objector,” and, as a ¥ * result, John ‘Taylor, probably will 3 not serve Uncle Sam overseas. ¥ John, who had been called for ¥ & service, walked iato a. court- room here.and confessed to em- 9 F hezzling. more than $3,000 from ¥ & his employer during the last two E years. He said he objected to ¥ % going to the army with a black g B grand=jury. ‘BLUEGOWNS ARE BUSY Restoring Majmed Soldiers to Trades, Their Job, “Reconstruction Aide” Coax Wasted Muscles Back to Their Nor. mal State. Washington.—Teachers, nurses and heajers: too, are the. “Blue Gowns” of the army medical corps, at’ work now in the hospitals of the United States, and “over there.” - Reconstruction aids 1s their official name, but the cheery hue of their dis- handier name for. the special corps.of seventy women. whose membership treats.and teaches among the maimed soldiers brought back from: the battle front. Theirs is the-work of coaxing back the wasted muscles and. disused tinctive uniform already has won’a|>” limbs of wounded ‘men,: and later by ring oF mail ys Expert’ Dev loping: © FINNEY’S, DRUG STORE’ Bismarck, feanie,” says an-official description of their work. “The design was his.own We call for and deliver. Mail Agents & mark against him—so' he ‘con- ¥ : Is ?\-and the work wag his, first plece.. He orders promptly filled. Phone 895 fessed. He was held for the # was inclined to be clumsy because:he was_ using, his left hand. > A: ‘Blue Gown’ was ready to-guide and advise him. Ashe becomes adept ip left-hand- ed carving he is preparing: for the time when he again. will’ begin to draft, this time with hig left hand. This mental concentration upon @ new, task is be-: Heyed by ,docters and. psychologists: to be a valuable. etidote for , discourage, ment. 4 “At the same open-air, workshop oné: man was knitting a scarf. ‘ One ‘group, of. men, temporarily .crippled; were carving. designs .upon wooden blocks,| and several. were learning to Weave up- on hand leoms.” <I the treatment rooms.fuside the “Blue Gowns” were “guiding electrical appliances and administering the coui- Dlicated series of treatments that pet- fect the restoration work ‘started: by, the surgeon;at the front. 5 § No Longer Set Seede. = Sweet potatoes are an.example_ of the class.of plants that have been propagated vegetitively for so many generations that they. rarely set seeds. The common, potato is rapidly passing into the same class, while the banana, is-said to set no-seeds, no matter how Yesterday 1 talked with a “big”|of this partidulaar her's li " wat Hit vornble ‘conditions are. é preacher. ‘He was known through-|the ie eae one ni If there has, been:one thing Sat Practically every “gieat golfer, pro- "The “great Atlanta trio. of’ juvenile | patient: tutoring instilling deftness in ~ fqvora Hie amass is out the ‘country—but only among|he had simply dropped out tot the|has increased the: popularity’ of golt | fessional and amateur, has. gi hie} golfers... Bobby; Jones, --Perry.., Adair.) new arte andvocations which the hos- Chinese we Soldiers. . ; omen 1 the people of his own denomination. Those of other churches had scarce- ly heard his name. And it seemed to distress him that scarcely anyone the Jaymen of his own church. The preachers knew him because they read the church papers. in New York knéw him—even among|there are only four houses on my Few} big push. Come to think of it, I haven't ‘even SEEN the man who lives across the way from me in six months, although street. We ride to, town every day in the same train—but he’ rides to the train in an auto, while T walk, of the laymen did. And I felt sorry for the big preach- F Le and he sits in the smoker, while, 1 ism of golfers who: have “bgen’ playi games. for, the benefit of Cross: and: other, patriotic funds. don’t. He's a corking. good fellow, I other. men,- anyway? since the: war'it’has been thé patrio services in, this work ‘and’-huge:sums| and .’Miss' Alexa eee has en them le have been raised: <{n all. golf: cliibsa | woman’s. champion, certain fee has been charged” foy ‘all |.Miss the; money: used for the sam the Red|games played, know, ‘and I like shim: imminensely— AIS! but KNOW him ?: how .can. 1? aia s Bel What do ‘you: realy ‘know: about np PERRI ima eeies rman in SH MEDAL:FOR BB: VER London, July. 31. —Sergeant’ ser, of- the Australian’ fel Stirling, Red .Cross. Kai- ie ee jugout - ‘under, fire. national together with Elaine : Rosenthal ‘of ‘Chicago, being: have recently toured the east for the has been awarded the Distinguished Conduct. médal for bravery’ in’ extri- ating ‘three men from a demolished pital schools are planning for the re- turned soldier. : Most of ‘the “Blue Gowns’’ were re- cruited \from‘ the instruction, staffs of manual, training schools’ and ivillan hospitals. “Beside a table a young’ fellow in uniform was: carving a conyentional EARLE mani Gower border_on’ a ‘ wooden’ picture _ China had women soldiers: long, be fore they were known‘in Russia, Dut- sing the Tae Ping rebellion, 1850, wom- en aswell as men. served in ‘the ranks, In- Nanking. in 1853, an army of 5 000 women was recruited.” They were divided into brigades of 13,000 each - ‘and were commanded by women of- ~ficers, Pesce aniatiar oo