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I have 640 acres of land, 8 miles from Alameda, Saskatchewan, Canada. It has never been broken. I will make good contract with anyone financially able to break and crop this land for three to five years starting: this com­ing spring. Address A. P. Kenyon, 3311 Holmes avenue. Minneapolis.

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Tailors Cleaners

The City Tailors and Cleaners

Suit* made to order—925.00 I* S6S.00 Dry Cleaning, Prculofl. Remodeling.

Silk Skirts made to order. W« call and deliver.

"Out-of-Town Customer*"--Send your work Parcel Post- Prompt delivery.

FhtirM Bld|. PHoac 979 MINOT, N. D.

BRIEF STATE NEWS

Your new car carries a considerable amount of elec­trical equipment—have you considered the fact that this equipment increases the dan­ger of "self-ignition"? and re­quires more than ever that you carry

Automobile Fire Insurauce NOW is the time to see us

—NOW before a wire's in­sulation is chafed through and causes a fire.

Reasonable rates—let us quote them.

Minot Insurance Company

A Farmers' institute will be held at Towner the early part of February.

Out in the slope country, the trees are budding. Such warm weather has been fooling nature herself.

The Wahpeton Times has been sold to Albert Weis and H. E. Wilson, both well known in Richland county. !

The income tax man will soon bej along- to collect his share of the pros-| perit.v resulting from the 1918 crop.

Two buck elks in the zoo at Valley j City fought a fierce fight the other' day with the result that the youngfr animal was killed.

Grant Hager of Grafton has sold his St. Thomas Times to a company made up from the young business men of -that city.

D. H. Warner of Roseglen, tells the Ryder News an electric line from Mi­not to Elbowoods, via Ryder and Rose­glen is a possibility.

The two telephone exchanges at Grand Forks will be consolidated by

| September 15 next, unless the work is I expedited by the state authorities. ! A whist tournament is on at Stan-j ley with sixteen players, any of whom say they will be glad to take on play­ers from other parts.

Williston is making elaborate plans to capture the proposed federal lignite briquetting plant, which is provided for in a bill before congress, the bill, however, not locating the plant.

Prof. J. F. McLain, for many years principal of the Towner schools and at one time a candidate for county superintendent, died at his home in Newburgr, Oregon, last week. j

"N. C. Macdonald, baby" was thej sign a t t a c h e d t o t h e i s t u f f e d f i g u r e o f j a man discovered hanging from a tele- I p h o n e p o l e n e a r t h e N . P . s t a t i o n a t ! Valley City last Friday. |

Andrew Maudal, of Crosby, is out j on bail charged with stabbing Hed-| man Knutson during a pool room row. j The latter has several deep cuts in j the shoulders and arms, but is not ser-! iously injured. !

The Trade Journals reports a big 6lump in the price of potato sacks. To just what extent this will affect the high cost of living is unknown by us so our readers can guess on the results.

Friends of Ross Zollinger of Beach, are grieved to hear of his death in I France. He was one of the most ac- j complished musicians ever residing in j the western part of the state, and was well known as a newspaper man, writ­er and poet. i

Congressman P. D. Norton of thej Third congressional district has sailed for Europe on official business and plans to return at the same time that President Wilson does, so as to be here for the closing days of the pre­sent session of congress.

Col. John H. Fraine, formerly com­mander of the First North Dakota regiment, is now acting mayor of Cob-

THE FRANK W. YOUNCMAN LAND CO.

13 First Street Southwest, Minot, N. D.

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ADD NO. 1.—This is our first advertising for the year 1919. We believe that we are on the threshold of a prosperous sea­son. Everything points to a good crop. The prices are right, the farmers are right, the soil is right, North Dakota is all right. We also believe that the political situation will be all right. We believe that our Legislature will pass just and equitable laws for the benefit of the people, and that time will tell wheth­er they are mistaken or not, but anyhow there isn't a finer state in. 3II the United States of America than North Dakota, there isn't a better money making state, there isn't better soil any­where, there isn't a better class of people anywhere. We be­lieve in North Dakota, that is why we are here.

We shall advertise from time to time a list of lands, and in doing so we endeavor to sell you l'and a little bit cheaper, and a little better than you can buy anywhere else.

So, with this announcement, we solicit your patronage, and ask you to list anything you wish to dispose of quickly, and invite you to transact your business at our office.—Frank W. Youngman Land Company.

ADD NO. 2.—We are offered three quarters in Burke County, cheap. We will exchange for city property, or sell on easy payments. These lands are unencumbered and we can make a very attractive proposition to you. This is an op­portunity to get a -cheap home on reasonable terms, or to ex­change your city house for a farm.—See Frank W. Youngman Land Company.

ADD NO. 3;—We have a quarter section, nicely improved, near Deering, with 'a good 'house and' barn, with 140 acres un­der cultivation, that we will srill for $27.50 per acre. A small payment down, balance on crop payments. This is unencum­bered and we can give the right terms.—S«e Frank W. Young­man Land Company.

ADD NO. 4.—We "have two quarter sections south of Sur­rey, of level, rich land that we can seM on crop payments. One quarter has a splendid large barn and a good well. This is a clascy property and we can sell it at the right price, $800 down on each quarter, balance on crop payments.—See Frank W. Youngman Land Company.

ADD NO. 5.—We have some cheap land in the hill dis­trict for stock raising purposes. Very'attractive propositions.

ADD NO. 6—1400 acre ranch with buildings, running water, 300 acres under cultivation. Fine property for stock raking, or general farming. ' We are instructed to sell this at a price that will move it.—See Frank W. Youngman Land Com­pany.

ADD NO. 7.—We have some splendid bargains that we are instructed not to advertise, but to sell on private offers. See us t> r business.

1 We also ask you to list your farms for sale as we expect to bo real live wires in land transactions.

THE FRANK W. YOUNGMAN LAND CO. j

13 First •M

Southwest, Minot, N. D.

Thanks to the opportunity given it by the War Department at home and abroad, a new spirit of good will has grown up around Dodge Brothers Motor Car.

Wherever soldiers meet, this car is spoken of in terms of admiration and even affection.

Soldiers grow to love the tools and weapons and implements that save them.

They admire especially the inani­mate thing that shows grit and en­durance in a tight place.

That is American—and tliat is the American soldier in particular—and that is the sort of glory being woven around Dodge Brothers Motor Car.

There will always be associated with it the remembrance of the work it did in the world war in army service on both sides of the ocean.

Thousands of American soldiers are coming back now from the camps in America and the battle-front in France, telling how well that work was done.

They are telling it to their fathers and mothers, their worshipping small brothers, their sisters, their sweet* hearts and their friends.

It is the central figure in many a stirring story told about the family fire-place.

To many a white-haired American mother it means something more, as it goes by, than just a motor car.

She li it, somehow, with what her own boy did, with what America did, and with what America stands for.

Dodge Brothers are proud that theirs was the one car of its type and class chosen by the War Department.

They are prouder still that it has been taken into the hearts and homes of the American people.

The old folks, and the little folks who don't forget, are spreading a leaven of good will which will endure for years to come.

Dodge Brothers cherish this new spirit of good will which has come cut of the world war as their most valued possession.

The gasoline consumption is unusually low

The tire mileage is unusually high

FULLER MOTOR COMPANY GRAND FORKS MINOT WILLISTON

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lenz, according to word received by friends. Col. Fraine is now with the Seventh army corps of the third Am­erican army of occupation. Major Manville H. Sprague, of Grafton, is acting as provost marshal at Coblenz.

A hemp factory has been tentative­ly located at Wahpeton, upon the showing of profit made by an agent of the International Harvester company. The plant will be large enough to han­dle two car loads of raw material a day and ship out one car load of the prepared fiber. The Wahpeton Com­mercial club is backing the industry.

Thos. Hall, secretary of_state, dis­courages the application for auto li­censes at present, saying he is positive the legislature will remedy the law with which there is much dis-satisfac-tion. He further states that if own­ers of cars really want their licenses at once he will have to send them out, of course.

ANNUAL MEETING OF STATE UATKHI

Builders and Traders Hold Annual Meeting of the State Exchange at

Grand Forks.

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The North Dakota State Association of Builders and Traders Exchange held their annual meeting in the Com­mercial Club rooms at Grand Porks, on January 22, 1919.

The president of the '(State Ex­change, W. J. Morrow of Grand Forks, opened the meeting and ap-pt^nted the following committees: Committee on Resolutions, Legislative Committee and Nominating Commit­tee. After the regular rountine busi­ness was disposed of the meeting ad­journed until 2 o'clock.

The afternoon meeting was attend^ ed by all members and a lively dis­cussion of current topics of interest to the members was entered into by nearly all those present. A very in­teresting discussion on the new com­pensation bill now before the legislat­ure was entered into by nearly every member present. After the report of the various committees the annual election of officers for the ensuing year occupied the remainder of the afternoon session.

The following officers were elected for 1919: President, Matt Camitsch of Fargo, 1st Vice President. Clarence

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D. See, Minot, 2nd Vice President, Peter Larson, Grand Forks, 3rd Vice President, B. F. Meinneke, Fargo, Sec­retary-Treasurer, Victor H. Leibey, Fargo. Those elected to serve on the Executive Board for 1919 are: A. G. Kenney and H. Barth of Fargo, W. B. Foster of Minot, and J. E. Nuss and Louis Kleven of Grand Forks.

At 6:15 a sumptuous banquet was served in the Commercial Club rooms. A very interesting and instructive program was arranged for the eve­ning. The speakers were as follows: Toastmaster, J. E. Nuss, Address of Welcome, Mayor H. M. Wheeler, "The State Exchange", response, Matt Camitsch. "Reconstruction Problems in North Dakota and building in 1919," E. A. Lander, "The Relation •between the Builder and the Archi­tect", Bert D. Keck, "The Contractor and the Law", Geo. A. Bangs. Gen­eral remarks by those present. Mus­ic was furnished by a Grand Forks orchestra.

There was a very large attendance at the meeting and about one hundred sat down to the banquet table. The whole day and evening was taken up with very interesting and instructive talks and those who did not attend this meeting missed a great deal.

Those in attendance from Minot were W. E. Holbein, Clarence D. See, P. J. Connolly and O. A. Peterson.

The next meeting will be held in Fargo some time in January, 1920.

Blacksmiths Adopt Cash System. The following resolution was passed

by the Mechanics' Mutual Benefit As­sociation, Minot Local No. 77:

Resolved, that we, as the Black­smiths of Local No. 11 of above or­ganization, do, on and after Jan. 7, 1919, adopt the cash system, and that a notice of said action be published in the Ward County Independent and other papers in towns adjacent to Mi­not in Ward county, for four consecu tive weeks. l-2-t4cg

Minot Curlers to Leave February 10

The Minot curlers expect to leave for their Canadian visit February 10, providing the ice is reported in good condition. They will visit Moosefaw, Regina, Weyburn and Portal, return­ing the middle of the -week.

Clarke Addressed Williams Officers

Pres. Clarke of the Minot Normal to Williston Monday to

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