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THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. MONDAY, APRIL 4, eee Leaning Steeple in 100-Year-Old ’ sia bitin irem ne EL 3 Church Frightens New York Town BES ES SOS THAT BIM NA ONS i ] SS ec h° | MIRE ee, SSSR Gun, Bete, |And whenever the wind blows hard TO E ; 5 §,500-Pound Bell Would Crash jane tevee are: airected “upward. to REGULAR : FOR His > ; 5 Through Roof of Home If see if the crash expected almost mo- DEMON WITH ge mentarily will be heralded by a warn- THE LADIES i Belfry Falls | in cracking of timbers. ee | Across the strect in Frank Hobart's LOOK AT HIM « Apulia, N. ¥., Aprit 4—This little |Diacksmith shop, where the villagers IN HIS BIG aitage ct 160 porseris nestling im th. | forecather to talk about the problems LOUS INE. Onondaga hills 20 miles south of Syra-|°f the day, the steeple has been dis- TAKING MILLIE ‘cuse is beginning to feel like the man cussed oftencr than any other sub- AND MAMA SS tan sectd of Damocies icet. There is a possibility, too, that 3O THE BEARS elestls. of. tts 100-ye it may fall that way and if it does it THEATRE church leans now like: the famous | Wuldn’t be at all surprising if the big AGAIN MGwer of Pisaand the angle has be- bronze bell came hounding in the door —se Come so pronounced that residents |'0 startle Hobart as he stands at his AND MAMA fear it may topple any day. If that /@nvil, with sparks flying and the IS ALL FOR “happens the 1500-pound bell in the | CUnk-clink of his hammer a merry ac- BIMBO — belfry may crash through the roof of | COmPan! OT ieay Piette Metin | As many of the timbers and boards - | —- - - - Bates ‘i at in the building are rotted and fragile, Z a4 ° ae = = en aturally it has been suggested (hat the assumption is that the same con- GASOLINE ALLEY— THE CALL OF THE WILD euitiken he Nes practi BAG dition exists in the steeple. It is only ? = ' = — . oned for 40 years, nobody is ready to)* Shell, tugs 7. THINK advance the money to have it taken | ANd now, especially on dark nights Bie +6 ty) p 2 7 e WOULD YOU LOOK AND v0 EE KEO down. It would be something of an eked ae wind moans through the ID THENCE TO AT THAT! THERE ARE ) HOW I'VE engineering feat anyway, for erection ieee fee tear won vay BAKERSFIELD, y i] MILES AND MILES OF / TO GET A FLOWER | Wiy of derricks and scaffolding would be | vnusual, noise outside sends night- CALIFORNIA. PERHAPS f \ THEM JUST LIKE BED EIGHT FEET mar raga i iheey jshirted " figures to windows and NOUVE HEARD THEN AND NOW f THIS. & SQUARE TO GROW. YOU Under present conditions no one *#*Hed faces peer out into the night. ME OIL WELLS OF | [se WE MOST 7m E ; ' ; BUILD Your dares to climb the rickety ladder lead- FARM LIFE HEALTHY 4 HIGH TEST YOU] 5 meri HOUSE RIGHT ee OP Weenie testers’ ich ane | After examining: thousanés of ‘men| CAN POT THE RAW ANO DRIVE d HERE, ous. The steeple tecters when the my wind blows. a group of New York scientists con-} STOFF IN YOUR CAR OUT ANDO He » AUNTIE ae Aginied paeiieiiig cy oy nd cluded that early middle-aged farmers «| AND DRINE AWAY. SEE THE 4 xk im” y BLOSSOM? erected in about 1831, the lot havin! e LOM than any other class of PERHAPS WILD \ been bought the year before. Presby- | Men in the United States. HOWEVER, YOU FLOWERS. terlans and Congregationalists used it), lg ee ‘ |until 1876 when the Baptists moved | 45 5 > HAVEN'T HEARD THEY '4n. Thirteen years later it was incor-/| Stickler Solution — {| HAVE PRODUCED THE Porated as the Apulia Baptist church. | ¢———————_—_____@ RECORD YIELD OF ! y the vindled, ‘400 POUNDS, OR funds were available for upkeep and | A.AsAs7Ee 36 GALES OE the steeple commenced to droop as if | md in shame. AsrAcAvAseAé COTTON PER ACRE What Next? HERE. WELL Ce || ocd three umes andthe vowel once. : thse Ra SAG AE But now people are not surmising The vowel A was missing from the sec- ‘ LOE Ye - ol the ChiesgeTefune! h iS s as y are id word five times. — - s what caused it so much as they cl ond word five tumes. ERCRURSOAND His tn By BLOSSER waiting to see what will happen nex! es RET TLL HOLD JUMBO WELL SEE THAT : " E = UNIVERSITY HONORS FRENCH ENVOY Sie cutenen sup ap ) § roaveu.tac. 47 Tay START OFF ew (4M ject wonwee ) SoS owe JHE RIGHT DISTANCE ... 5 beri i j | Pree eae 4 MOM’N POP | a ae "GRABBING AT STRAWS! ome HAS BEEN HUNCH. TUL TAKE THAT Associated Press Photo ct ; i@ ABOUT “SLIM A CHANCE Paul Louls Claudel (left), French ambassador to the United States, ore reve ig : VEN f is shown with Dr. Walter Williams, president of the University of Mis. if Fl ‘SOME souri, which conferred upon him an honorary doctorate of lawa. Tene S434 LAND THE AYER COOK-STove W. C. T. U. LEADERS IN MIDWEST MEET CECE NTs Pno “THE BOSS, OLD MAN AEFEL, HAG ABOUT GIVEN UP HOPE, ALL BECAUSE AYER'S DAUGHTER,AGUSTA, ALWAYS. DRAGS HER Por AWAY, JUST WHEN AFFEL (SAGOuT TOLAND HIM— IN THE MEANTIME,GLAOYS AND MOM GET THeIe - HEADS TOGETHER SALESMAN SAM TOUNG MAN, WASHIN’ WINDOWS EROM Z AN' | SURE Hore You “TH SILL Looks DANGEROUS —('% AN, STER! ’ mae, tool 9 INSURANCE MAN—LEMME SELL YA . AN @cCIOENT PoLIcy ! Associated Press Photo Led by Mrs. Ella A. Boole (left) of Brooklyn, leaders of the Woiren's Christian Temperance Union held a midwest meeting In Chicago to rekindle the fires of prohibition preparatory to the presidential election. Mrs. Boole is president of the organization and Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith (right) of Des Moines, la, is vice president. | SIDE GLANCES - - - By George Clark 1 _SbWnuny By PICKIN A FIGHT ; “bas, WELL! FRIEDA'S) TT toua tm. VITA SVEN SAILOR! { j CRICH. TLL WRITE HER Ct BAe SOue AMATEUR. MHA "Be LeNuER, \i TWAT A GOAT ATE ‘EM Gd STARTIN' A ROWDY | SWELL TIMES TOGETHER—1| [ A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE. BISiDEs, ‘NW’ SHE MIN SEND US KUEY BRAWL, | STAY] JES ONE GRAM! FIGUT \ GET INTO ENOUGH TROUBLE; OUT. ae DON'T EVEN A AFTER ANOTHER. WITHOUT LOOKING FOR. MORE.