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MANDAN NEWS BENEFIT CONCERT) MANDAN LOSES 10 BEUNUSUAL! FIRST GAME TO MUSICAL BYENT| STA The henefit concert which is to -he Presented the evening of May 25th a: the Presbyterian church promises t» be an exceptionally fine one. There will be a a-b number by Mrs. Lish of Dickinson, whose voice has been much pri d, and perhaps some other offerings irom the St. Cecelia club of that city. Local musical tal- ent will have a prominent place on the program which = will include a Piano number hy Helen Stabler, a group of very tine three-voive songs by Celia ‘and Florence Connolly and F. W. Gale; an organ prelude and se- lection by E. H. Tostevin, solo by Scott Conyne and other numbers not as yet announced, < The chorus of thé Mandan Musica! club will sing an arrangement of one of the Strauss waltzes and Lohr's “Where ‘My Caravan Has Rested,” with piano accompahim: it by Mrs. Domeyer, the Beethoven “Hymn to Night” with organ accompaniment by Mr. Tostevin and “The Heavens Are Telling” trom the Creation, with both piano and pipe organ - support. Mrs. E.R. Griffen and her commit- tee, who are in charge of the concer., feel that they will have a very worthy program to offer Mandan music lovers ‘and visiting club women. RECEPTION FOR MR. AND MRS, P. A. SMITH A reception will, be given Monday evening at the Presbyterian church for Mr. and Mrs. Philip A. Smith, The affair, which is in the, nature of a farewell is tendered (o Mr. and Mrs. Smith ‘by the various church. societies with which they have been associated during their: residence here.~ Mr. Smith whg has been the local manager of the Thompson Yards at Mandan, has been chosen for a larger field of responsibilities in the Minne- apolis offices and the family will leave on the first of June for that city. They will be greatly missed by their many friends and the severa: organizations which have been profited by their mem- bership. “BABIES’ DAY.” Saturday was certainly “babies’ day” at the Deaconess hgspital. A baby born was born to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Reynolds of Mandan, a baby boy to Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Fogarty of Fort Rice and a baby girl to Mr. and Mrs. © NTON TEAM Mandon lost the first game of the season at Stanton Sunday afternoon by a score of six.to five | The game was hard fought.and Man. ! dan apparently had the game on. icy j with a two run lead when Stanton) came to bat in the ninth inning. Wi! the ninth the Stanton. staged # rea | batting rally. ton batting ace led the attack with 9/ two ply blow and before the smoke! cleared away, three counters iadj crossed the rubber. 5 . Mandan fans who saw the game are not discouraged by the showing made and feel that the material is there for @ real ball team. COMMUNITY SING AFFAIR SUCCESS A very fair audience attended the community sing ut the Palace theater! on Sunday afternoon. Some excellent piano numbers were given by Miss Helen Stabler and Miss Catherine Val- | lancey in solo and duet, and Jos. M.! Devine gave a most inspiring talk on} the influence of music. | - A group of the old songs was-very pleasingly interpreted by the Musical | club chorus and the rest of the pro-/ gram was devoted to community sing-| ing by the audience . Mr. Frabk Gale? led the singers in a short study of! Mandan’s song “Where the West Bi gins,” and of his own composition t “Hymn of North : Dakota”. and. Mrs.! Emma G. Wheeler directed the sing-| ing of well loved songs and hymns. « LACERATED, Freddie Hendrickson, a lad of four- | teen years who lives on a farm ne: Mandan was the victim of a paint horse he was riding crowded him t< mediately brought to the Mandan hos- | pital and the wounds dressed. His hurts are not expecteu to prove seri- ous. leg was badly lacerated. He was i1a- { ! / POPULAR PASTIME, | Fishing was a very popular pastime | with Mandan people Sunday. One day} during the last week a party consist- | ing of J. H. Newton, C. F, Ellis and| Louis Lyman returned: from_an. early | morning fish on the lower Heart with! a fine string of pike, jand a number of| local anglers are out to beat their rec e ord. Ray Siekert the Stan accident on Sunday afternoon, when ae ed to put Constantine hack on throne of Greece and who: ma close to a barbed wire fence and itis; Princess Vlora, who is using her millions to help put her husband on the throne of Albania. | pO EEEEEEE—————e—e—eeeOOem >" | explained. “If you want to hire a} team at that time of the year you THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE AMERICAN PRINCESS IN NEW YORK TO PRESS FIGHT FOR THRONE OF ALBANIA Widow of Ralplr Thomas Bids Fair to Attain Title. Higher than That Held by Former Mrs. Leeds. BY RoW, WHIPS New York, May 23.—I have just talk- ed with a woman who may be the first American to be addressed as “Your majesty.” She is the Princess Vlora, | Two American women who are king-makers: at left, Princes: “If- he wants the throne he can have it. ““T am very much in love with him and will heap lam ail ft can, but Lb think I would prefer to spend most of my time in' Paris, “My mission here is to rest and to see certain friends on certain matters ot importance.” FARMERS KBEP Anastasia of Greece, whose mifions help- his brother, Prince Christopher; and at righ’, cannot fo it. "Yet my ure the cost of th season.” 4 JAPAN TO GIVE UP SIBERIA any farmers fig-; ir teams on the; basis of team hire during® the dull NORTH DAKOTA WINS SUIT ON | FLOOD CONTROL ‘Reports Received at State Of- fices Says Co-operation of States Favored Fargo, N. .D., May 23.—"North Da- kot has practically won the $1,500,- {000.00 drainage lawsuit before the U. |S. Supreme court” was the statement | received -in a letter from St. Paul yes- terday at the-North Dakota Flood ‘Commission at thelr’ offices inthe | Merbst building, Fargo, This: letter ‘fram Geo, Ralph tg State Engine | Hard was also confirmed by long dis | tance conversation with Commissioner | Lindquist. | “If this report is well founded it jmeans that the farmers of Richland ;county will be amply compensated for their losses sustained in the floods of. 1915-1 > “It is remembered that the case grew out of the flooding of farm lands in Richland.and Roberts (S. 1D.) coun- it was alleged, through ion. of extensive hes in Traverse county, M ich hurried the ¢lood waters down | too rapidly to be carried away“by the | Red-Bois rivers.” |. Although the final hearings were jheld before the Supreme Court, one of the most striking later develop- {Ments is its decision to hear further | testimopy as to the possibility of im- | proving the flood conditions of the Bois, or upper Red, by means other i than injunction against drainage proj- ects. This puts the- U.\S. Supreme Court squarely back of the flood pro- tection plans which have been fav- ored by the stdtes and for which sur- veys, designs and cost estimates are now being made by North Dakota.’ In fact-as stated in the Engineering News of May 12, the identical plans are recommended, namely, a long earthen dam with concrete control at the north end of Lake Traverse, converting that lake.into a $65 mile reservoir capable of stopping its greatest likely flood; dredging the Bois (upper Red) to make it large enough to carry its Joad.” \ “The court also asks for ‘evidence concerning the proper equitable basis for apportioning the expenses of the projects between the states,’ ” ‘The vast amount of data compiled in the eys of the North Dakota ‘Flood Commission and the special engineers has been used as « basis for the suit ind Will he the ground work in prep- aration of the projects recommended by the U. $ Supreme Court, and strongly show the importance of the state’s completing these plans at the lest possible date. » BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA Known all over the Northwest for Quality & MAIL US your FILMS © ASK Your Grocer For Hampty Dumpty Bread Produced BARKER BAKERY Bad Blood Disfigures Young Faces With Unsightly Eruptions The mortifying and unsightly |ties must be cast out and the vital skin and facial disfigurements onj fluid enriched before the disfigure- young bodies are unger- going important changes, and the blood stream is temporarily disordered— often filled with poison- ous waste matter. In such cases only in- ternal blood remedies can velieve. The impuri- j i i | \ FOR SKI It Is Now Time for Planting Plain seets and setting out of vegetable plants. Our stock of Geraniums, Helitropes, Petunias, Marguerites, Pansies, etc., is the best we have ever had and at prices that are right. ine table, plants we grow only e ariet young people from 14 to 20 years} ments are cleared up. For this you old are seldom due to anything} naturally want an efficient, tested worse than impure blood. The| blood remedy—like S.S.S., the fa- USED 5() YEARS SSS IN TROUBLES tous old herb medicine. Btart the young folks with S.S.S. today (your druggist has it), and write us about their con- dition, addressing Chief Medical Advisor, 841 Swift Laboratory, At- lanta, Georgia, J" - transplanted |formerly Mrs. Helen Kelly Gould and | Edgar Elgar of Mandan. Mrs, Frances McDonald and Mrs. W. H. Vallancey were in Bismarck Sunday at the initiation ceremonies of the Daughters of Isabela. It is an- ticipated that Mandan will be repre- ‘sented by a fair contingent at thé ban- quent which will be served Monday night. Discharged Sunday. George Goodman, who has been a patient in the Mandan hospital for some little-time was discharged Sun- day and left for his home in Pretty Rock, Visit In Chicago. Mrs. Thane Sponsel was a passen- ger on No.°2 Monday morning ep route for Chicago, where she will re- main for a month's visit. Mr, and Mrs. J. ee Bismarck over Sunday visiting: with relatives, CAMP DODGE ~ TOBEMARKED Des Moines, May 21.—Camp Dodge, where thousands of soldiers were trained for their part in the world war has passed away as a military camp, but the highway which led to and from Des.Moines will he marked for future generations to remember not only the camp, but Merle Hay, the first Iowan killed in the war. Largely through the efforts of La- fayette Young, former United States senator and publisher of the Des Moines Capital, the Merle Hay road was paved, and named. On Memorial day a sixteen ton boulder inscribed “Merle Hay Road, 1917,” will be ded- icated with formal and appropriate ceremonies. Before the war the highway now ASPIRIN - Name “Bayer” on Genuine —E—E—EE Leaves for Home. Mrs. John Helfrick left Sunday for | her home in St. Anthony. Miss, Hel- frick, who was ill for several weeks | at the Deaconess hospitak4s now con-! valescing nicely. Join Bismarck Fi There being no game-on the home, diamond Sunday, a large number ‘ot! Mandan baseball enthusiasts went to; Bismarck to witness the Bismarck- Wilton game. LEAVE FOR CHICAGO. Mrs, Walter Renden and little son left Monday for Chicago. rreturn about July 15th. They wil i Guest of Mandan Friends, Mrs. Eddie Wells of Cannonball is the guest of Mandan friends for the; week-end. ' { Mrs. George Koch of Robinson was operated for an appendectomy Satur- day at the local hospital. named after Merle Hay was just an ordinary Iowa country road, at times | in rather poor condition. After Camp ‘Dodge was located near the city Mr.! Young with a few others became ac: | tive tn having it paved. that day and night’ traffic was* per-! mitted at a speed of 50 miles an hour. | the year around, between the camp and ; the city. { The paved part of the highway is about 41-2 miles in length. The, marker will stand about equal dis- tance from each end of the paved! section, on the highest spot, from ; which the state capitol and Camp. Dodge both are visible. November 3, 1917, Merle Hay was killed in a raid near Bethelmont, France. He was one of three Ameri-| cans killed at the time. | At the sug-, gestion of Mr. Young it was decide? | to name a highway after the young man. Before the city named a street Merle Hay, the board of supervisors of Polk county gave the highway leading to Camp Dodge that name. The city council on the same day tdok the same action. | i | i j leaders. more recently Mrs, Ralph Thomas, If she attaing the throne of Albania as seems possible, she ‘bids fair to eclipse socially Princess Anastaia of Greece, formerly Mrs. William B. Leeds, who through her marriage to Prince Chrjstopher of Greece has climbed the royal ladder higher than any other American woman. Princess Vlora is in New York “on business,” while her royal consort, Prince Vlora, is at their house in Paris, artanging plang to ascend the throne of his grandfather. The father of Vlora, Ferid Pasha, is prime minister to Abdul Hamid land fs working quietly with Turkish Prefers Paris. “what will you do in Albania where most‘of the men are polyga mists and addicted to bloody feuds?” 1 asked her in her apartment in the }.’ ; Hotel Lenorie. “1 don’t know,” she said, smiling, | “perhaps remain most of the time in! —Helen, who's 19,-and Dorothy, who's | 17—who are now in school in Switze land.” The princess was Helen Marcaret Kelly, granddaughter of the million- aire New York banker, Eugene Kelly. | She was married at 18 to Frank Jay! and assembled. at the college, here Gould and afteg.divorcing him mar-' died suddenly ‘in 1914, leaving her sev eral millions. Served as War Nurse. During the war she sailed for Paris, ! where she became a war nurse. While recuperating in Switzerland, she told} me, she met Prince Vlora, ‘who was brooding over the fate of Albania and meditating schemes for its restora “He bania,” she continued. “of its wild) scenery and the picturesqueness of; its people. He was a delightful chap and I confess that I lost my heart to, him. We were married quietly. “Whether the prince will becom king of Albania isnot certain. It i well known in diplomatic circles that; the problem of finding a satisfactory ruler is a hard one. The prince is: the natural ruler and ig mapping out his course in Paris and London now. Pietare of Albania. | my Paris home with my two children | state agricultural college, re | have county farm agents, from ; 10 (and' in sone ¢: | ers are noting the | and. material and ; bense of producing wheat, It was hard | ried Ralph Thomas, son of the sugar! ance of. correctly estimating overhead surfaced with brick, and so arranged King. After a brief married life, he! expense. j ing the seeding and harvest time,” he i told me sad. stories of Al-i5 TAB ON COST OF PRODUCTION Fargo, N.~D.,. May 23.—How much does it cost to produce a bushel of spring wheat ? ‘Nearly, 300 farmers chroughout North Dakota have taken to keeping books to answer this ques- tion, Lo “The farmer should know what his products cost him and should make his prices accordingly,” says H. B. Fuller, secretary of the North Dakota Farm Bureau federation. “Then there would be fewer farmers who fail.” With costs ¢ nined and with the; national sales agency established, prices fair to both producer and con- sumer can be put into practice, he be- lieves, The present campaign to establish wheat production costs is bemg di- rected by the federation and by the In each of the 22 counties in North Dakota which | 5 to ses more)! farm- ost of all labor all overhead ex- These fig- ures will be turned over to the.agents Mr. Fuller emphasized the import- “A horse, for example, must be fed all winter to have him on hand dur- LE. 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We ¢alimste at any time and guarantee all work to satialy you./ Repaig jobs given prompt attention, BISMARCK GETS | “Albania is the roughest country in} | the Balkans, a country of wild moun- | tains, entirely without railroads. ‘The |S yssqqqqquaeeqnnnsnsngesstizetovenu4estentii C. E, CONVENTION Mrs, W. E. Butler Heads Church B ATTER Bs SERVICE only towns are situated om the coast {of the Adriatic. The entire popula-| {tion is less than 1:500,000. “The people consist mainly of fierce | mountaineers, walking arsenals of {rifles and knives. They are Moham- jmedans in religion and- confirmed, | polygamists.” { The princess explained that shortly! Jamestown, May 23.—Officers of the| before the war Prince William of; North Dakota Christian ‘ Endeavor! Wied, with- German and Austrian Union were elected here Sunday as backing, succeeded in getting installed | follows: as king of Albania at Durazzo. President—Mrs; W. E. Butler, of) Never succeeded, she said, in Bismarck, _ the allegiance of the mountaineers, Vice president—Miss Ethel L, Hause| because Essad Pasha and local chief- er, of Jamestown. |tains were hostile to him. So he re- Secretary—Miss R. E. Beach, of Bis-/|turned.to Germany. marck. Since then the Italians have occupied ; Treasurer—T. H. Crittenden, of Ink-; more of Albania and. joined “hands ster. | with the allies, operating from Salon- The convention next year goes to| iki. | Bismarck, - TRIBUNE WANTS — FOR RESUITS! EXCLUSIVE ELECTRICAL SPECIALISTS Service and par{s for Delco, Remy, Northeast and Auto Lite starters, Bosch, Eisemann and K-W Magnetos, Exide and Minnesota bat- teries, and KJaxon horns. \ ELECTRIC SERVICE & TIRE CO. Bismarck, No. Dak. The days are coming when the Bath Tub and shower call often—the summer days when night time finds us tired, sticky and uncomfortable. 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