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~--~. tion of a considerab! PAGES —7 RYE ACREAGE LESS THAN IT WAS YEAR AGO Patriotic Desire to Support Gov- ernment Food Program Is Shown by Farmers 3 RACE According to the December report of the U. S. Bureau of Crop Estimates the acreage of rye sown in North Di kota this fall is 2,068,000 acres ¢ pared with 2,200,000 ac sown a year ago. Unfavorable climutic conditions later reduced the heayy 1917 fall plani- ed to a harvested acreage this season of 2,000,000 acres, ‘Thus the ge this fall while 6 per than that of a year ago greater than this seas nereage. Rye acreage slightly ’s havested | a rather spectacular record in this state due to the tremendous increase in acreage in The 1918 acreage is prac-| tate S. x times as large as the in 1915, During the pust few ge which formerly was ly in the north central and to a lesser extent a few south cen- tral counties has spread out over most of the state. Rye Increase being es- pecially prominent in central and west- ern counties. Rye acreage shows a tendency this fall to decrease in the older rye counties which have carried an extremely heavy rye acreage the last two years, while numerous other counties which have had only a mod- ) erate acreage heretofore have hotice- LONDON, ably increased their acreage as a rule,| Who'll cross the ocean first plane, The tendency to decrease is quite | Briton or American, or Frenc marked in the extreme north central| British know that part of the state while the tendeney | Planning to be first, : to. inersense is most marked through| As & sporting proposition British are | the central part of the state running | out to beat them, | east and west, America's chances are best. | ‘The more prominent reasons for| Fer months to come the weathemaan planting the Jarge rye acreage again | throws his favor to U.S this season - notwithstanding the un-|_ The wind blows from, America to favorably dry fall were, Patriotic de- | England about nine months in the year | sire to support the government by|#nd from England to America about maintaining’ a large broad food acre-| three months of the yeur. age when dry fall, lack of labor and| © If you don't believe that, ask the influenza had heavily reduced the fall} Weatherman, or any naval or merchant plowed acreage. Farmers feared 1919/ marine man—or anybody who has been labor shortage with r¢ yery high priced and often unsatisfac- | flight. '. Wild oats caused numerous! An American aviator flying to Eng-| fields to be unfit for wheat and farm-| land in the next six months would be! ers were anxious to plant a profitable} likely to have the wind helping him|{ cleaning crop. Rye is considered a | ost of the way. <A British aviator | more Sure crop than wheat. Rust dam-| America would be likely to fight the) age to wheat was feared if planting|attempting the flight from England to} was delayed by spring plowing. Rye] Wind most of the way, _ | as a rule escapes both rust and hail} But Britain is determined to win the and divides up farm work to better| honor if she can. The London Daily} advantage for farmers who are short | Mail is conducting a “List of Entri¢ of. help especially. farmers who were j With prize of 0 for the first At- handling a large acreage. Rye is near-| lintic flight. ly all sown in the stubble.” Thus the} The, firs plowing expense! is climinated which | Atthur Pa. R.A. F., will attempt is an important factor with farmers the flight iy a’ Whitehead Aireratt bi- who are short’ of both money: and horse | Plane. | food: dye The Daily Mail says the machine, of | fhe fall condition of’ rye: is Hotice. | 1600 horsepow nearing completion | sibly:ameven and below ‘average forthe | #Nd that four liberty engines | state due to the dry fall “and uneven | may be used moisture.conditions. Part of the crop} Capt. Payze plans to take an assist- fs sown very late while dry soil con-| ut pilot, a navigator and one me- ditions. caused very uneven: germina-|Chanic. He phins to land, on the } part of the ently |foundland coust, about 18800 mile: tt} Payze is 27. and has flown 2500/ of the central and western counties, | hours or more, in 170 types of planes. Late: fall rains were followed so close. |H¢ hopes to make the trip in about! Jysby the freezeup that while it ger-|24 hours. \ ininated. part of the late sown irveit | 2 is entered in the prize con-| often: didnot get out of the gyotind, | lest of the Daily Mail under, the aus-| Numerous thin stands are looked for |Picies of the Royal Aero Club. The! again next season. This crop has gone} Mail also prints two Aerof Club o! into the winter with a slightly lower | America entrants, but without pilots : | condition than that of a year ago} JJandley-Page’) (British machine) | which resulted in 10 per cent of acre- |"! Caproni (Italian). | ege being plowed down this spring. “A machine, not yet built.” s he State condition is 75 per cent compared Mail, “offered by Henry wood. to 79 per cent a year ago and a ten{TePtesenting a group of capitalist year avernve of 88 per cent. The rye acreage for the United|Club of Ame! States i 6,822,000 aéres compared with |, “But when 6.708.000 acres sown a year ago ana | London. the condition is $9 per cent compared |, French airmen are with 84.1 per cent last December. for a tra The winter wheat acreage for the | 000 Northcliffe prize the induce- United States is 49,027,000 acres com. | ment. i pared with 42,201,000 acres sown a eRe year ago or an increase in acreage of |NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE BY; 15.9 per cent. The condition is 96 per ADVERTISEMENT, ' cent compared with 88 per cent last Notice is hereby given, that that year. Fall condition of winter wheat = for the U. S.-is very favorable. certain mortgage, executed and de- Dry fall, lack of help, and the in-|livered by C. H. Pherrill and K. M. fluenza epidemic seriously interfered | Pherrill, mortgagors, to Hans C. Chris- with plowing in the state this full.|tianson, mortgagee, dated the 17th Usually about half of the cultivated | day of May, A. D. nineten hundred-and acreage ts plowed in the fall. An aver-| Sixteen, and filed for record in the of- age of reports received from over the|fice of the Register of Deeds of.the entire state shows that only about 60| County of Burleigh, and state of North percent of the usual amount of fall | Dakota, on the 19th day of May, A. D. plowing is completed. Plowed acre-|1916, and recorded in Book 140 of age is especially small in the central | Mortgages, at page 54, will be fore- and -western. counties. closed by a sale of the premises in Owing to the scarcity of labor and|8uch mortgage ard hereinafter de- necessary competition with the unus-|Scribed, at the fro. : door of the court ual ‘wages paid in all lines of war| house in the city of Bismarck, in the work, farm wages this season are the| county of Burleigh and state of North highest on record and show an unns-| Dakota, at the hour of ten o'clock A. ual advance over last season. The|™M., on the 18th day of January, A. D. average annual wage per month with | 1919, to satisfy the amount due unon board in the state this year was $52 | said mortgage on the day of sale. The compared with $41 last year or an in-| premises described in said mortgage crease of about 28 per cent. Harvest|and which will be sold to satisfy the wages per day with board were $4.50| same, are situated in the county of compared with $3.40 last year or an| Burleigh, and state of North Dakota, increase of about 32 per cent. ; and described as follows, to-wit: A. J. SURRATT, Lots Fifteen (15), Sixteen (16), Sev- State Field Agent. enteen (17), Eighteen (18), Nineteen SUMMONG. (19) and Twenty (20) in Block Twelve . (12) in Coffins Addition to the City STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA, Coun-| of Bismarck, according to the official ty of Burleigh. In District Court,| plat thereof on file in the office of Sixth Judicial District. the register of deeds. | Farmers State Bank, a corporation, There will be due on such mortgage! pintntltt, vs. Frank Brabbit, defend-| at the date of sale the sum of $632.59 3 Dollars. . The State of North Dakota to the| Dated at Bismarck, N. D., this 10th , abdove named defendant: day of Dec., 1918. You are hereby summoned and re- HANS C. CHRISTIANSON, autred to answer the complaint of the Mortgagee. plaintiff herein, @ copy of which is|F. E. McCURDY. | hereto annexed and herewith: served Attorney ‘for Mortgagee, | upon you and ¢o serve a copy of your Bismarck, North Dakota. | answer unon ‘the subscriber’ at his|1°—12, 19, 26; 1-2 9 16. | office in the city of Bismarck, coun- | ty of Burleigh and state of North Da- kota within thirty days after the serv- ice of this summons upon. you, exclus- five of the dav of such service and in case of your failure so to appear and answer judgment will “be taken! Get the habit to ship your aeainst a . *, Gentandex tn ocomptaint fhe tenet hides, furs and junk to the firm Dated this 29th day of. October,|that pays the highest market 1918. price. Send for our price list F. BE. McCurdy. and tags. We pay the express Here they are. By HAROLD (European Manager of N. B.A.) Take your choice. | Americans are! Brjlisher _ entered: Capt. | ‘crop. This is especially true of m {to be entered in the name of the Aero! ” iF sk the Americans in} poles i} Attorney for the Plaintiff, Residence and P. 0. Address,|and postage on furs. . - ~~ Bismarck, Dak. “We also tan hides into Coats, Robes ¢. A. Finch Lum-| sisMARCK HIDE & FUR CO. 17, for) _ FOR AIR VICTORY ON ATLANTIC {| ]VINGSTON. . There are nearly a dozen possible air 2. BECHTOL { transient labor] Working on plans for a trans-Atlantic | i GET THE HABIT | > POSTMASTER REGRETS ACT Republicans Make First Statement. ! Livingston, -Mont., Dec. 26.—In_ the county jail last night Postmaster J. E. Swindlehurst, Who was arrested t night ih connection with the death of Republican State Chairman 0. M. Har-) vey, which oceurred following a fight between the two, issued the first ‘state- ment he has made’ sinee the tragedy, “Of course it was purely an accident. T had no intention of injuring him. 1 feel very, very badly. I couldn't feel worse,” he said: A coroner's jury which heard testi mony of witnesses and physicians for three hours this afternoon returned a verdict finding that Harvey “came to his death by a concussion of the brain or, hemorrhage caused by a blow or hlews administered by J. E. Swindle- hurst.” Results of:an autopsy performed by R.:D. Alton this afternoon and com- municated to the coroner's jury showed that Mr. Harvey, who was unus fleshy, had abnormally enlarged liver and fh routes across the Atlantic. Slayer of Chairman of Montana | y| notice and show it to any.others who :| ct least stop the misery of rupture and ni broken’ bones, but ound a smail Details of the fight which.resulted ia the death of one, of the state’s most RETURN HOME | prominent citizens were related by sev- |eral witnesses, none of whom reported haying seen the beginning of the com- Washington. Lists of units of the expeditionary es assigned for | early convoy home cabled today com- bat. ,All agreed that they saw Swindle-+ | prised G00 officers. and) nearly- 20,000! \ hurst strike Harvey and knock him down, men, They included the 44th, 60th and 6ith coast artillery regiments, and the | * d 29° LATE TO CLASSIFY FOR RENT—Furnished home com- 331st infant plete, modern. Inquire 218 2nd ee Street. Mrs, A. C. Witham. inam. "| Phone 75, City Fuel Co. street. 12 26 3t Cured His RUPTURE I was badly ruptured while lifting a trunk several years ago. Doctors said my only hope of cure was an operation. Trusses did me no good. Finally 1 got hold of something’ that quickly and completely cured me. Years have passed and the rupture has never returned, although I am doing hard work as a carpenter. There was no operation, no lost time, no trouble. I have nothing to sell, but will give full information about how you may find a complete cure without operation | if you write to me, Eugene M, Pullen, Manasquan, N. J. Better cut out this are ruptured—you may save a life or largely composed of fa ed finding no fracture of the skull and Ry FREDERICK M. KERRY N. EB. A. Staff Correspondent You'll soon be able to” take your choice of perhaps a dozen routes to fly to Europe. Air liners of from 5000 to 18,000 horsepower are planned or under con- struction, says Henry Woodhouse, edi- tor of the “Aeronautic Magazine.” Capt. Benjamin S. Lipsner, recently head of the government air mail serv: jee, heads a company to-put in opera- tion tran tlantie air service May 15, 1919, with a. fleet.of six 40-passenger plan His first, Bight is to. b the route of the George Wa: with President Wilson—New York to the Azores to Brest. “The 5000-horsepower constructed in the United St gland and Italy.” Woodhouse . Swill © 5 people in a non-stop flight a the Atlantic. “The .1)-horsepower will carry at least 50 start from any to any other ¢ United Stat “Transporting letters between — the continents in les than thirty hours, tha) ry liners ngers and y in Europe and fly in the interior of the ADMISSION 10 GLENDIVE HIGH Vs. BISMARCK HIGH FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27 | AT BISMARCK HIGH GYMNASIUM the worry and danger of an opera- tion. ; ning car. greater service. . GASOLINE. and 25 CENTS | | | | | it | | | + ir mail will compete with the and establish express del F “There are seven ways across the Atlantic and three fav route: “By airplanes capable of flying the 8,000 miles from New York to Ireland without stoppin: “By flyin bos 's and hydroairplanes from N ork to Ireland. taking fuel from ships every 300 miles. “By airplaines, lare or small, from Newfoundland to Jreland, 1860 mil taking gasoline from ships every mil “Py land machines, large or small, from Newfoundland to the Azores, 1 miles, thence to Portugal, 850 m 300 By. hydroairplanes,. Newfoundland to the Azores,, thence to.-Lrel ing fuel from ships eve “By flying bo: the A “Other 1 ple routes are: ‘To the Azores, Madiera and Spain or Africa. é “South America to Barbadoes to the aries, “Cape Orange, to Cape Verdes to African coast. 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