The Weekly Times-Record from Valley City, North Dakota • Page 30

I 1 LITCHVIILE Litchville, situated on the CasseltonMarion branch of the Northern Pacilcj is tile third largest town in (Barnes county, having 484 inhabitants according to tjhe 1910 census and at present has about 520 persons within its borders. first person to start business in Litchville was H. J. Hanson, who ran a general store and post office when the town was located on the then buildline in the fall of Today there is a thriving center of trade With one drug store, three general stores, three hardware stores, three implement dealers, two doctors, one veterinary surgeon, two banks, two barber shops, a livery stable, a garage, two pool rooms, a jewelry store, an exclusive shoe store, a weekly newspaper, a third class post office, four rural routes, a postal savings bank, two hotels, a restaurant, two lumber yards, five grain elevators, two blacksmith shops, five churches, (Congregational, Dutch Reformed, Methodist, Norwegian Lutheran and one lawyer and one of the best school systems in Barhes county, farmers annually market 600,000 bushels of grain at Litchville. Litchville has men who have brought her into especial prominence in the development of Barnes county.

Ir. C. B. Spicer is serving his second term as president of the State Medical society and Hon. A.

(P. 'Hanson, member of the legislature for the south half of (Barnes county, was' one of the special counsel in the Cowan impeachment proceedings of two years ago. The location of the town gives her one of the largest trade areas in this section. She practically controls business in her section and no other large tSwns are in a position to compete with her. Valley City is twenty-eight miles, LaMoure twenty-four, Lisbon thirty-five, Nome twenty and Dickey twenty-two Rural mail carriers operating out of here cover 120 miles each day and their large amount of out-going mail has made the post office a third class office, Valley City having the only one of higher class in county.

Real estate here is advancing rapidly in price and there is practically no land that can be bought now for less than $35 an acre, whle much of it is being 'held as high as $60, depending upon location and improvements. One real estate firm, the Wells agency, sells land and writes insurance. tMany of the farms here are supplied with artesian wells and close to the town there are eleven silos in operation. Litchville has a high school course and employs five teachers to instruct the village students. She has one good artesian well for water arid Are protection and is bonding for $2,500 to put down another- this fall.

She cooperates with the Better Farming movement and has a number of experiment tracts near town. 'She has regular market days and at her annual fall day this year will have a public meeting for cq-operation with the Better Farming association of 'Barnes county. She has an independent telephone company managed by local men and has long distance consections with all principal points. She has one of the best and liveliest weekly newspapers in the state published by J. E.

Nelson, who also is post master and one of the influential men of his part of the county. She has an active commercial club that Is always working for the city's good. t- V'l V' She has a Masonic lodge with twentythree members, (Dr. Spicer, W. apd has a thriving Woodman lodgeShe has the only A.

M. lodge on the Cassekon branch and the only ih the county south of Valley City. She hag one of the two Dutch Reformed churches in the state. Litchville has a village government. Oscar Hanson is mayor and the other board members are: J.

H. 'Hanson, O. F. lEmbertson, N. Hanson, H.

O. with S. J. Sundet as village treasurer. A.

(P. Hanson is president of the 'Commercial club. This town is looking for any man who wants a good location for any kind of business that will be a credit to the own. Every citizen is a booster and the stranger as well as prospective citizen is assured a hearty welcome Litchville truly is a city of "'glad handers" Blue Balloons. In case you ever feel tempted to buy a balloon don't a blue one.

Red ones are the best. There is a scientific reason why. According to the researches of M. Iteynaud, caoutchouc is strongly attracted by the ultra violet rays from the mercury vapor lamp with a quartz tube, which is a powerful source of such rays. This fact has a practical bearing iu connection with balloon envelopes, which are treated with caoutchouc.

Aeronauts are familiar with the discovery that the envelopes suffer during ascensions, and this Is explained by the greater effect of ultra violet rays at high altitudes. Experiment had already led to using yellow coloring matter on the envelopes, and red balloons are sonaetimes seen, but never blue or violet. M. Reynaud considers that red is the best color to use. as it not only absorbs the ultra violet rays, but also the blue rays, and those last are likely to share in the bad action of the sun's rays upon York World.

Rock Salt Discovered by Accident. The great rock salt deposits of Louisiana were discovered by accident in May, 18G2. Salt was very scarce at that time, and the proprietor of the Island's salt works, John Marsh Avery, determined to profit by it With this, end in view he commenced to deepen his wells. One negro workman, after going down sixteen feet, came to Mr. Avery with the news that he had struck a sunken log, and could proceed no further.

Mr. Avery investigated and found, not a log. but the great rock salt deposit that has made Louisiana famous throughout the country. The discovery did not come altogether as a surprise, as Thomassy had predicted that a great rock salt deposit would one day be discovered in each of the five Gulf islands, and perhaps in other portions of the state. Since the close of the war.

rock salt has been an important contributing factor in the mineral wealth of the Magazine. Chewing the Crude Rubbor. About the first process rubber goes through on the way to become a tire or tube is mastication. After the crude Para is washed it is broken up into lumps and tossed into the crackers. These are machines with heavy rollers, which take the rubber in between them and chew it.

Entering the masticating room of a factory, the first impression is that there is a brush fire burning or else there is a den of snakes at hand. The rubber snaps and crackles like burning branches and then hisses ahudderingly. The staff Is kept at until it comes up in regular sheets, very thin and looking like a tort of cake dusted with crumbs. Then after thorough drying in vacuum chambers it is ready to be put in with the chemicals and other things that make up the York Sun. ied Drug Store Prescription Druggist A complete line 01 the very best Toilet Litchville, N.

D. i7 THE WEEKLY Tl THE WEEKLY TIMES-RECORD, ED AH L-iH A N.SON-STRI NDEN LITCHVILLE, N. D. a This concern is incorporated under the laws of North Dakota with-a capital stock, of $25,000:00. The men who are at the head of it are progressive business men who are well known throughout the county.

Mr. 'Hedahl lives at Mercer, where he is engaged in the hardware business. Mr. Hanson was formerly in business at Turtle Lake, while Mr. 'Strinden has been in the implement business in 'LiWhville for the past nine years.

'He sold his interests this spring and with the other men incorporated the new company May first. This firm occupies the S. IP. Nokken building on Main street, one of the largest in town, and have it well stocked with hardware and farming tools, while large machine sheds are filled with farming implements- This- firm handles the MarshallWells hardware and the Deere and Weber farm achinery and were the only firm outside the largest towns of the state that this year were able to sell their patrons the new John Deere binder. This firm stands high in financial circles and draws trade for a radius of fifteen miles about Litchville.

SIEGFRIED DRUG STORE, LITCHVILLE, N. D. J. 'G. has been the manager of this store since its (foundation in 1910.

It is owned by W. A. Siegfried of San'born, who has another store a't that place- This place is one of the great line of Rexall stores that cover the country and in addition to this line of goods handles a complete stock of drugs and sundries. It fills all prescriptions for the two physicians and veterinary of the city, carries a full line of school supplies, magazines, books, hand painted china and cut glass. A lage business is held in wall paper trade and durng the summer the larg est fountan in town is in opeation here with a complete stock of cold drinks and ices.

Mr. Bennett is active in affairs of the city and lends his support to any movement that looks toward the making of a bigger and better Litchville. His store is one of the best patronized places in the city. FIRST STATE BANK OF LITCHVILLE sooner was it certain that 'Litch-1 ville would be the name of the new town on the Casselton branch "than a number of energetic business men de-' cided to start a bank there. This was in, the fall of 1900 and the name given the new institution was the First State Bank of Litchville.

The incorporators were C. E. Bacheller, Nome, N. president L. A.

Bacheller, Nome, vice president, and Thomas Casey, Litchville, cashier. The capital stock was $5,000.00. In 1906 Mr. Casey sold his interest to John M. Olson and others and a general re-organization took place.

The year previous E. N. Headland had been made cashier and with the change in stockholders John M. Olson was elected president and L. M.

Olson vice president. H. L. Hanson was made cashier. In 1907 the capital stock of the bank was raised to $10,000 and in 1909 was increased to $25,000 and a new building erected This is one of the largest structures in the city and is located on a 'Main street corner in the center of town.

The total business the bank in 1906 was $35,000. At present her business is $170,000. The last quarterly statement showed banking house and fixtures worth and cash on hand $30,063.46. Loans and discounts were above while the capital stock and surplus were $31,500.00, deposits were $116,766.57. The Wagon Wheel Paradox.

very interesting paradox is the one concerning an ordinary wagon wheel, which is solid and rigid, yet, when fastened on its axle on a wagon, when the wagon moves part of the circumference of the wheel which is in contact with the ground is for an instant at absolute rest, while the point directly perpendicular to it is flying along at a high rate of speed. The two points horizontal with the center of the wheel are traveliug pretty fast, but only half as fast as the topmost point, and as the up going horizontal point increases in speed the down going one slows up until it is at rest for a moment when In contact with the ground. Yet the wheel is one solid piece and there are only two points going at the same rjite of speed at the same time. Yet if the wheel is taken off the axle and rolled down an incline every point of the circumference moves at the same rate ol Coercion. A old are you.

Ethel?" "I'm five, an' mamma says If I'm good eats lots o' ontmeal I'll be six Best THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1912. Graceful Woman of India. Describing the women of India, a writer says: "Even most with-, ered toil worn hag has a dignity of carriage and a grace of motion that the western Woman might envy. Thr sari is draped in an easy flowing styla and adjusted as it slips back with a graceful turn of the silver bangled arm, the skinny legs move rhythmical, ly and the small feet fall with a silent and pantherllke tread. It Is the beauty of natural and untrammeled motion and Bays much in favor of the abolition of the corset, for the Indian women retain their uprightness and suppleness of figure till bowed with age.

The commonest type Is the coolie woman, who undertakes all sorts of rough work, carrying heavy burdens On her head, and she is perhaps the least attractive, for her workaday garments are usually faded and dirty, yet even among this poor class of burden bearers we see many with handsome, straight features and supple, well proportioned figures. No matter how poor their garments, Jewelry of some sort Is of gold or beads, colored glass or silver bangles and heavy sliver The Asylum Debating Club. "This is a wonderful place," said a man in the grounds of a lunatic asylum near Edinburgh to a casual visitor. "Everything Is in such excellent order, so agreeable too. They have concerts and balls, and, more than that, what do you think? They have a debating society." "Indeed!" said the visitor.

"A de bating society?" "Yes. They are debating Just now, and If you like," suggested the man, "I will show you how they proceed. But when they see you take no particular notice. Should they address you merely say, 'Let me uot disturb you, gentlemen I am The such he really was the visitor into a room of the asylum and left him, not in the presence of lunatics, but with the board of governors of the institution, who were just then Answers. Capped.

Yankee, boasting of the great beat experienced in so hot it burns the wings off the flies'. That's nothing to what it is in Ireland! We have to feed bens on ice cream to keep them from laying boiled London Telegraph. Animals Attack the Lungs. Watch any flesh eating animal when It Is attacking its prey or watch two animals having a fight to the death. You will notice one remarkable fact, add that Is that they strike for -the lungs.

Most people, of cdurse, are well aware where their own lungs are, but they the slightest idea about any other fungs. Animals Instinctively know, however, the position of the lungs of almost every other animal. When a tiger or a lion attacks a man It does Its best to get just below the shoulder blades. If' It strikes without warning you will always find that its powerful paws have torn right through to the lungs. A cat has Just the same Instinct.

It goes for the vital spotJust the same as Its bigger brothers. Watch It stalk a sparrow and you will see how cleverly It maneuvers so as to get behind the unfortunate bird and pounce on Its back, where the lungs Graphic. John Olson, President Lewis M. Olson, Vice Prest. E.

H. Headland, Cashier H. 0. Hanson, Asst Cashier FIRST STATE BANK LITCHVILLE, N. D.

Capital $25,000,00 Surplus $6,500.00 General Banking ON TIME DEPOSITS Hedahl Hanson Go. BEDS, CASE GOODS IMPLEMENTS JOHN DEERE Binders Spreaders Wagons Plows LITCHVILLE, N. IN 1900) seven IS pmc f. Bedouin's Three yt There are always three things permost in the Bedouin's gun, his horse and his wives. The most modern arms of precision have replaced the primitive spear which, until a few years ago, was the usual weapon.

The Bedouin Is quick to zealIce the efficiency of modern weapote and soon becomes an expert marksman. So much has the spear fallen, out of favor that the bearer of would be ridiculed in his own Such pride has the Bedouin la weapons that even in his leisure he sits fully armed, examining cleaning each piece In turn, himself accustomed to carrying their weight No youth considers himself man until he has fully equipped Mp self. A sword is much esteemed, bat generally only as an heirloom and asgiving distinction to the bearer. That are to be found many excellent among (he sheiks, some with a history of hundreds of years, having banded down from father to ARID WARE PAINTS and OILS FURNITURE sr, lip.