The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 31, 1917, Page 12

N I3 49 ADVERTISEMENTS Annual Clearance Sale of Pianos WONDERFUL BARGAINS in famous makes now offered at re- duced prices. We have a large stock of exchanged piancs which we wish to close out be- fore our annual inventory and have marked them at special low prices. Stock includes Hallet & Davis $75, Hardman $48, Kimball §65, Fischer $100, Radle $90, Kranich & Bach $85, Decker Bros. $150, Mason & Hamlin $150, Chickering $175, Steinway $250, and many others. We will send com- plete list of these bargains and full information if you write us. Monthly payments can be-arranged. Pianos shipped anywhere. Satisfaction guar- anteed. Write at once if you would like to secure one of these special bargain pianos, before they are 51]1 sold. Ask for Bargain Bulletin No. 59. W. J. Dyer & Bro. - Dept. 88, ST. PAUL, MINN. _PUZZLE Here are 9 squares. Can you put a figure (no two alike) in each square so as to make a total of 15 by adding them up and down and crossways? As an advertisement we will deed a lot 25x100 ft. at Atlantic City, Md,, which has one of the finest beaches in the world, to any one (white race) solving this puzzle. Small fee for deed and expenses. Send your solution, with 4c in postage, for copy of prospectus to OCEAN BEACH DEVELOPMENT CO., 206 N. Calvert St. Baltimore, Md. . Get Your Traction Engine in Shape before the big commences. Rebore those cylinders and have your engine thoroughly overhauled now. Have the broken parts welded. We can send you a specialist and do yvour work at your farm if you want. Come in and see us or write us. We guarantee our work to give satisfac- tion. , Dakota Welding & Mfg. Co. 203-5th St. North, FARGO N. D. rush for threshing 2 the Little Pests Ruin ¢ Your Crops / We are selling agents for the N. D. ‘A. C. ex- periment station formula supplies. It gets them. $2 will clear a % section. Mail or- der today. Fout & Porterfield Fargo, N. 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Ior another number Hollis put down his own lecture “Making the Most of the Farm Boys and Girls,” which had proved so popular during the consolidation campaign. It was illustrated with a new set of lantern slides. Professor Hollis also donated his services. For the third number arrangements were made for Mrs. Clara Wooledge Wright, soprano in a leading church of Fargo, and Mrs. Blanche Boyden Hutchinson to travel together. Mrs. Hutchinson gave read- ings and also acted as accompanist for Mrs. Wright. Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Hutchinson were the only entertainers who received any compensation. During tie winter of 1915-1916 one hundred and eight engagements were filled by this talent. The difficulties of winter travel didn’'t discourage any of the entertainers, though they had no easy task. They traveled mostly by passenger train and automobile, but not altogether. Sometimes they had to take freight trains and-often they rode on sleds. The school busses, used to haul pupils to the consolidated schools, proved a great boon. No method of transportation was rejected. One time Mr. Hollis was hauled to a school in a cattle cage to give his lecture. The first year of the lyceum experi- ment was generally pronounced a great success_by all classes of the audience but one. Time after time Mr. Hollis would have this experience: He would be setting up his lantern, preliminary to beginning his lecture. He would be surrounded by a crowd of eager small boys, watching every move he made. Finally one of them would pipe up: WHERE THE MOVIES COME ON THE SCENE “Say, mister, are we going to have movies?” Hollis, like a diplomat, would tempo- rize 'and say: fine set of lantern views.” “Aw, c'mon kids,” the youngsfer would call out, “we don’t want to see no old lantern slides.” And then the juvenile members. of the prospective. audience, or such as were not restrained .by their elders, would file out. Here is where the movies come in, so Hollis believed in, the . theory of the ] § The Nonpartisan Leader PUBLISHED WEEKLY—EVERY THURSDAY Official Magazine of the National Nonpartisan League Entered as second-class matter September 3, 1915, at the post- office at Fargo, North Dakota, under the Act of March 3, 1879, OLIVER S. MORRIS, EDITOR Subscription, one year, in advance, $2.50; six months,. $1.50. Communications intended for the paper should be addressed to the Nonpar- tisan Leader, Box 941, Fargo, North Dakota, and not to any ipgllvxdual. The Leader is the supreme advertising medium through which to reach the MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. THE S. C. BECKWITH SPECIAL AGENCY Advertising Representatives St. Louis The Leader solicits advertisements of meritorious articles needed by farmers, Quack, fraudulent and irresponsible firms are not knowingly advertised, and we will take it as a favor if any readers will advise us promptly should they have occasion to doubt or question the reliability of any firm which patronizes our Copy for advertisements must reach the Leader office by Saturday previous to publication in order to insure insertion in current issue. Guaranteed Weekly Circulation in excess of 60,000 Copies Moving the Movies to the Country “Well, we're going to -have a very far as Professor Hollis' is concerned. - T Detroit Kansas City = Teacher at Sydna consolidated school with part of the livestock equipment of the The teacher and his wife also keep 300 chickens. great actor Edwin Booth, who took his tips from the way the gallery gods re- ceived his plays, rather than depend upon the attitude of the “high brows” in the high-priced orchestra seats. So since the =farmers couldn’'t get into town during the winter to see the movies, and since the movies were what appeared to be . wanted more than lantern slides, Hollis set to work to see if he couldn’t find a way of moving the movies out to the farmers. Now taking a motion picture ma- chine and a supply of films out into the country is a simple enough matter. The trouRle is to get the electric cur- rent to operate the lantern, a much higher degree of illumination being re- quired than with a lantern. The con- solidated schools, fine as most of them were, had no electricity. The use of gas could not be considered seriously because of the fire hazard. It was a hard problem that faced Hollis. Just about this time, though, Thomas A. Edison invented a locomotive head- light lamp that could be operated by a storage battery. This was a step toward the solution. Hollis got one of the lamps. He found that it would operate with an ordinary automobile storage battery, but that it gave only about 50 per cent of the light required for motion pictures. ENGINEERING INSTRUCTOR IMPROVES ON EDISON In this difficulty Hollis called upon Roy Corbett, an instructor in engineer- ing at the Agricultural college, for as- sistance. Corbett took the Edison lamp and carried on a series of experiments. These experiments were too technical to be told in detail, bt the long and short of it was that Corbett discovered a way of applying increased voltage by which twice as much illumination could* be secured from an ordinary storage battery as was planned when Edison put the lamp on the market. The new method used up more current and thes/lamp wore out more quickly, but it gave enough light to operate motion pictures, and that was what Hollis and Corbett were after. So when Hollis went to make up the program for his lyceum course for the 1916-17 season, which is just closing now, he was able to schedule motion pictures for one number. He used one film taken at the Agricultural college, showing views of various activities there, and another secured from the United States department of agricul- ture, dealing with the adventures of a country boy who abandoned the farm and was later won back by Uncle Sam. Mr. Hollis also gave a new lecture on ADVERTISEMENTS . 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