The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1918, Page 2

TUESDAY, DEC.. 17;~1948- BISMARCK GAS COMPANY MAKES ANOTHER PLEA Corporation Asks That City Commission Name Invest- igating Committee FRONT STREET SEWERAGE No definite action was taken by the city commission last evening on a petition presented by the Bismack Gas Co. containing the signatures of more than 200 of the company’s 4 consumers, including those of Asso- ciate Justices L. E. Birdzell and A. M. Christianson, two of the members of the supreme court who concurred in Justice Rovinson’s opinion denying the gas company’s right to carry its rate problems direct to the state rail- way commission. This petition which President Frank B. Ployhar declared had been signed by all but six of the Established 1907 more readily. . = > WLES THE JEWELER) BISMARCK,N.DAK DIAMONDS “JEWELRY Knowles for Christmas Gifts Our Gift Shop presents this year the crowning gift event of its history in the col- lection of truly wonderful gifts that have been assembled for the Holiday Season. Gifts that are true in quality and true in price—this collection is the basis of all com- parison in the offerings of the Yuletide. And not the least attraction is the limit- less scope of the collection, for it includes everything handled by first class jewelers. Our display of diamonds surpasses any- thing we have ever shown. If contemplat- ing the purchase of a diamond, get posted on quality and prices, then you will buy F. A. KNOWLES * consumers to whom it was. presented, prayed that the city commission name an impartial committee to conduct an investigation ‘to determine whether in- creased expenses warrant the: sur- charge which the gas company recent. ly endeavored to add to its ‘bills. The petitions ask that the gas company’s surcharge rate be reviewed quarterly and reduced as conditions warant, al- ways poviding, of couse, that the or- iginal investigation should reveal such surcharge to ‘be warranted. The petition quoted the company as stating that coal has advanced in cost 55 per cent; labor 60 per cent, meters 100 per cent and purifying ma- terials 80 per cent since the Bismarck franchise was granted. The presenta- tion the petition by Alfred Zuger. répresenting the gas company, reopen- ed the entire question bf the city commission's powers to authorize the company to chatge for service a high- er price than specified in the fran- chise as the maximum. ttoney Zu- ger declared the contract one which could be altered by mutual agreement, and asserted that such change, if, made, would not invalidate the fran- chise. Commissioner Best insisted that if the franchise could be amended up- ward at the request.of the gas com- pany it could with equal ease be amended downward at the request of consumers. and that in the end the franchise would stand for nothingi ‘Mr. Best contended that the city was not responsible for the company’s fail- ure to make money during the ‘last two years, and that he had not ex- pected the company to make-money during this initial period. In response to Commissioner Best’s charge that the company had not ex tended its mains to give service as requested by prospective consumers. President Ployhar replied that if he had a million dollars in cash he could not have gone into the market dur- ing the last year and bought the pipe needed to make these extensions. An ntire evening was devotd to discussion and not a single vote was taken on th’ question. ‘ * Weigher Pays Way. The city weigher more than paid his way for the month ending De- cember 2, Weighing 2,196 loads and turning into the city treasury $219.60. - Front Street Sewer. The Front street sewer with its ob- noxious and troublesome lift at. Third street, again claimed attention last eyening when City Engineer Atkin son presented a written report advis- ing it would be impossible to carry the Front street sewer west to the river without a lift because Front, be tween iFrst- street and Washington avenue, is but two feet above the Baker reservoir, and only 13 feet hig! | er than the present water surface 01 the Missouri, 6,000 feet distant. The engineer expressed the opinion, how-} ever. that the Front street sewe: could be carried along the emank- ment of the Northern Pacific to the manhole on the main sewer 1,000 feet west of Washington avenue, on the north side of the Northern Pacific right of way, which is six feet lower than the bottom’ of the manhole at Third and Front streets. . GIANT WOULD SERVE ' Jeweler and Optician Store Open Evenings . oon Bismarck You Can Enroll at This competent or your tuition attend. Write. G. M. LANGUM, Pres., Bismarck, N. D. MODEL OFFICE PRACTICE school under. guarantee of a sat-|tnys eyes on the kaiser himself, oh, isfactory position as soon as | boy! there is going to be a funcral in Te-; Germany due to the strength displayed funded. Send for particulars. When you know more about this/the picture are B. D. Van Meter at céiteve and what it has done for | the left of the giant, and Samuel Wy- hundreds of the most successful business men and women, you’l! jed hand. Young Coyne has been There-tsn't'a trench deep enough on the battlefield to conceal all of the 'elght-feet one inch of Bernard Coyne, ; the twenty-one-year-old giant seen in | the photo, Of course young Coyne is | not worried overmuch about ‘it, be- cause he figures there will be no more trench fighting anyway. If he ever gets a wallop at “Jerry,” or if he ever j by the youngster. Young Coyne has | just registered at Des Moines, Ia. Iv ;mer of the United States revenue (office directly under the outstretch- | growing rapidly for several years. He was over six feet tall when he was eleven years old. His greatest year’s growth was 4% inches. He add- |ed 2% inches during the past year. ——————ooooaee a | Coyne wears No. 23 shoes, and other FURS aa ‘WE WILL CLOSE OUT OUR READY MADE FUR STOCK We have received from the well known fur dealers of New York a big assortment of late styles, and modes for your selection, : consisting of Black Fox Sets, Hudson Seal, Red Fox Sets, Racoon, Manchuria Wolf, Black Wolf, Mole Coney, French Lynx, Ete. Everything to be Sold at Absolute Bargain Prices Before idx Christmas - | Bismarck Fur Company articles of apparel equally ag large. Dib hr Hittites MAYOR AND FIRE CHIEF ENLIST IN <MARINES Kansas City, Mo—Lawrence Coy, mayor of Valley, Neb., and ‘Nelson E. Johnson, chief of the firé department of the same town, came here and enlisted in , the marine corps on the same day. Both men were chairmen of draft boards and in class 4. Coy, as. 2 draft board chairman, released Johnson from the draft to join the marines, and John- soa, a8 chairman of another board, released Coy so that he also could join. Then both-re- signed. RISONER DOES HIS BIT rced by Germans to Work in Munl- tions Factory He Finds Way to Help. \ Paris. — American. forces, pushing {their way toward the Ourcgq river; came \upon a Gernten field gun which had jbeen left in the middle of the road by the retreating Germans. There was a shell in the gun, so the | sighting jerked the hammer cord. But jthefe was no explosion. They tried jit again and again, but the shell (would not fire. Then they removed ithe shell and unscrew, the shell casing. In the casing they found the following note: “Iam an English soldier—prisoner {im Germany. They forced me to work in a munition factory, “But you see that I am still Engiish—and Tm | doing my bit!” Like this gun, the Americans cap- | tured many other cannon whith had |not been damaged by the Germans before they retreated. The breeches’ were in perfect condition, ‘as—were all of the sights. / if Call C. A. Finch Lum- ber Co., phone 17, for {old Hickory Lignite.” veal! HL es Victrola. VIL, $50, Oak Vietrola 1X, $60 Mabogany or cake 1 I = DT [CRED |Yanks/turned ft around, and _ after’ Victrola X, $99 Mahogany or oak | pas | Victrola Mahogany uroak : <8 Sacer Ser ai aways oat Cs Sees Of a re e Victor Talking Macht pice; co" can buy your Victrola in Bismarck today — Owing to the enormous demand it is highly probable some Victor dealers may not have in, stock just the style Victrola you want—but it is also just as reasonable to suppose the exact Victrola you want. will be found at one of the dealers whom we list for your information, “among those in Bismarck and vicinity: -¢. Hoskins Stationery Co.. 200 Fourth St. Vicinity of Bismarck Mandan Insist upon getting a genuine Victrola — the chosen instrument world’s greatest artists. Don’t accept a substitute. of the x1, $115 Maboyaay or cae 4 - Victrola XIV, $175 , 102 W. Main St. ms. Victrola XVI, $225 Victrela XVI, clectric, $282.50 Naungurer os Important Notice. victor Records and Victor Machines are scientifically coordinated and synchronized in the processes of manufacture, and their use, one with the other, is absolutely esseptial to a perfect reproduction. New Victor Records demonstrated at all dealers on the Ist of each month ‘ictrola “Victrola” is the Registered Trademark of the Victor Talkinz Machige Company designating the products OBJECTORS TO WORK Use Men Opposed to War in Food Production. Vexed Problem of Their Presence at Army Cantonments Is Now Solved. Washington.—After struggling for a long time with the knotty problem of conscientious objectors in army can- tonments, the‘war department now an- nounces that the difficulty has to a large degree been solved through the aid of the farm help specialists of the United States department of agricul- ture. In the various states, where there are farming communities. which include sects opposed to war, such as the Dunkards. and Mennonites, and. where additional farm help-is needed, these places are made. known to the canton- ment commanders, tgether with a rec ord of their farm labor needs. The plan has worked out so wel? thatjin the three camps where definite lists of objectors were compiled practi- cally all of. these men, have been pla¢ed. Camp Meade-had 88, all of them now at labor on farms; 100 of the 102 men nt Camp Lee have been placed and the majority of those at Camp Taylor. = ae 5 Tribune Want Ads Bring Results. Furniture Company 220 Main Street Furniture Uj Repaired, Re- 4intshed an Pat s € MMM ; ata 3 yaa RRR RENE of this Company only. | excellent tavestment. En An 4 %,, - anda patriotic duty y ft . eX ee my Oe pi ull | : a iN wy iwia= 4 \ ” Pens PATO ne ity s cal - VAT LAL Sy | TAR URRURNUINOTAUARURAUA ce an’ RAN Ws NEN, THE FN [= —= c= IS f —= Victrola XVI, $275~||l-4= Victrola XVU, electric, . $332.50 Mahogany or 02 = AN AMERICAN HABIT — Coming to the ‘relief of the. dis- tressed is not'a new. sensation to, us. Having sent shiplonds of food to the famine sufferers of India as offhand- edly as the. housewife hands out a cut of the loaf:te the wayfarer, it seemed succor Belgium, to take on the feeding | of a pation quite informally. The test-of peace is to summon. for the healing of nations devotion equal to that given the tasks of war. new. Eagle Tailoring Co. _ —_—SSSSSS—— _ THOROUGH WORK How a Bismarck Citizen Found Free- dom from Kidney Troubles. * If you suffer from backache— From urinary disorders— Use a tested kidney remedy. | Doan’s Kidney Pills have been test- ed by. thousands. ,' Bismarck. people testify. Can you a8k more convincing prooi of merit? D. Hill, 515 Broadway, Bismarc says: “My experience ‘with Doan’s Kidney Pills:has been: so satisfactory T recommend them to anyone suffer- ing from kidney and bladder: trouble. whenever I lifted anything. “My kid- heys were weak and I had to get up often at night to pdss the kidney se- ctetions. Qoan’s Kidney Pills quickly éured me.” = Price 60c- at all dealers. simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s. Kidney. Pills—the same that ‘Mr. Hill Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. ¥. Hats _reblocked. and. éleaned like} . Any curable disease of the kidneys,, Don’t’ THAT WAS EXPANDED. the most natural thing in the world to | - ! \ \ | i | i i I suffered from a stitch inymy back: had. Foster-Milburn Co.,! Not the Doctoi’s Fault. “She has been a steady custamer-of the beauty parlors,” remarked Felicta, descriptively, “for a, number of years. ‘The reason the results are not all that might be desired is that the beauty doctors had so little to start on. She |= was, you might say, wholly without preliminery training for the course.” G e i Womanly Intuition, Intuition is the faculty by virtue of | which a woman Can understand her husband without listening to what he ways. ANNUAL BAR BANQUET. The Burleigh County~ Bar associa- tion holds its annual banquet at the rand ~ Pacific vening. The HURLEYS Dance and Concert - _Orchestra 10 Main St. Phone 130K hotel at 6:39, this . HH HAS DONE HIS BIT! NOW: YOU DO. YOURS— ‘Keep Your Pledge—Buy ‘. Skow them to the Monitor When he calls’ to check you up ; “ s