The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 8, 1918, Page 6

1 ees - eC of requirements. FRECKLES AND HIS __ FRIENDS NO HOPE FOR FRECKLES By Blosser cpnanignngy at i} 8 wT + alien rose TRIBUNE ~~ : 5 WONDER! HERE ('M : IMING HOME FROM WORK ND FROM SCHOOL ~~ TROUBLE j7--— SOMEWHERE J) FRECKLES JUST COMING | NOSIR Pop. S-Sul | M-MADE ME STAY A-A WHOLE Houle _, AFTER $-SCHOOL) WELL- WELL- THAT'S ALL RieHT—NHAT Do You WANT To “CRY FoR 2 («1 COULDN'T B-G-BE- FIRST IN ‘RITHMETIC +> TW STOREKEEPER'S — SON S-S-SuBTRACTED ) SQUIRREL FOOD IT’S A WONDER BENNY DID- N’T ASK FOR A TOOTHPOCK, 00 By Ahern A NICE DRINK oF MILK WOULONT LISTEN. BAD WOULD IT BENNY? NO— \T WOULO Go Fine! How MUCH 19 MILK A QUART MR. MILKMAN 2 AW oawan! COULD You GiVE ME A QUART IN DIFFERENCE ! HOW DO WE STAND NOW CHESTNUT CHARLIE "By Blosser VD PUR REAL DITTIES! PLAY Vou SOME SPEAKIN' OF PIANOS; WHY Do PIANOS REAR THE NOBLEST CHARACTERS . wY DowT Nes Nou know. 4, T BECAUSE THEX (= ARE GRAND, UPRIGHT AND NO CALL 10 STATE BANKS; STAMPS ARE GOSTING 100 MUCH Fifty Per Cent Increase in Post- age Expense Necessitates Great Economy.- SOUND FINANCIAL CONDITION Institutions Report Big Gain in -Denosits Over Novem- : ber, 1916. : __ ! ‘North Dakota state-banks will not be called upon for a statement of their condition as of December 31, for which a call was sent out by the Unit- ed States comptroller of currency to- day. ‘When the state bank examiner’s postgge expense was budgeted in the omnibus bill last February, there was not taken into consideration the pos- sibilfty of war anda fifty per cent in- |’ crease in first class postage rates. 6 slepartment was given an allow- ance’omple to cover its postage needs at the old two-cent rate, but with half of the biennium still to come, Uncle Sam.chas boosted this expense fifty per cent. “We are compelled to pass up this call, £said Assistant State Bank Exam- iner E, A. Thorberg this morning, “for fear that we will entirely exhaust our pestage allowance if we send out no- tices_of every call to all ofthe state banks.” ‘This explanation through the press is the only one which state banks will receive of the ommission.' ’Tis self- evident that it would cost the depart- ment as much to advise each individu-, al bank that the call would not be made as it would to make the call. No Poverty Shown. ‘None of the poverty so often refer- red to in political agitation of. the last few months is indicated in an abstract of the reports showing the condition of 701 state banks and four trust companies as of Nov. 20, 1917, which has just been completed by the state bank examiner. From ‘November 17, 1916, to Nov. 20, 1917, depdsits subject to check in- creased $2,988,273.76,:and from Sept. 11, 1917, to Nov. 20, 1917, a gain of $6,- $50,823.41 is shown. It was during this last-named period that North Da- kota oversubscribed 74 per cent its quota for the second Liberty loan- Savings deposits, from which many of the small Liberty loan investments ang. increased during the year $592,- 576.96, and time certificates of depos- iti mgde a gain of $9,009,371.80. istate banks for the year show an incrgase of $880,000 in capital and of $452)929.63.in surplus. Total deposits} Nov..20, 1917, were $104,589,629.01, as, Bred with $96,572,959.01 Sept. 11, 1917, and $91)558.330.54 8 °$24,236,900.49, Of $7,887,365.53 in Sthte bank loans Nov. 20 totaled 6,339,489.79, an increase of $12,324,- 409.36 for the year. Value of banking houses, furnfiure and fixtures, showed an igicrease of $305,058.73. as — Spiis ig the time of year’most try- ing on HES etre to. be constipat- a ‘Many dread winter because of it. Dont worry, just take Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea, naturé’s gift of wondrous herbs, so scientifically blended, “reaalts are guaranteed. Nov. 17, i . »! of improvement of main market roads, 1916). The total regervé Nov. 20, 1917,|‘ncregse in the sell are: TELL EXEMPTED ALIENS, “IT : ‘ ~IS TIME TO. VOLUNTEER”. i | { | ‘ | tion by making easier the consolida- tion of small school buildings. In general, the experience of one county, demonstrating that the benefi- cial effects of road improvements more than justified the cash expendi- ture, is typical of all the counties, the survey showed. t Spotsylvania county, Va., the in. vestigators found that the sum of $173,000 expended for good roads was less than one-tighth the increase in ‘taxable property valuations. In 1910 the county tax rates for all | purposes, including © state tax of 35 | cents, averaged $1.20 and produced a {total 71. In 1915, the j verage rate had increased to $1.70, ; producing a total revenue of $59,100. In other words, while the tax rate in- creased 41 per cent, the revenue in- creased 87.2 per cent. The resulting increases in property values found the people paying taxes at a somewhat higher rate but at the same time ob- taining far more in the form of reve- nue for public purposes than the in- crease in the tax rate ordinarily would have yielded. i Land Values. To get in detail the effect of road improvement ‘on the county land, values, a careful record was made in| 1910 of the actual market value of 35 farms on roads which were to be im- proved. Fourteen sales, embracing 1,- 451 acres, that were made after the road improvements were completed were laver noted. The original value of these farms, as recorded, was $67,- 300. After the roads were improved the value was $115,900, showing an average value per acre before im- provement of $20.48 and an average | yalue after improvement of $35.27. For example: A farm 3 miles from Fredericksburg, “Finding the alien slacker” was, 000 Canadians and Britons inthe | containing 129 acres valued at $2,500 ade part of New Year merriment by the example of the Illinois Coun-| ‘cil of Defense in urging all patriotic nd business organizations to go the limit in aiding the volunteer enlist- ‘ment of men who claimed exemption from Uncle Sam’s draft. Similar * laction by defense councils of other states is predicted. i Federal Judge Landis also went jafter the alien who “slacked,” say-, ling there were of military age 500,-' country, of whom 175,000. claimed exemption. The State Council of Defense pledged its assistance in the work of getting volunteer recruits for the British and other forces overseas and elsewhere among the men exempted from the United States draft by rea- son of alien citizenship claims. Facts submitted Le the British- Canadian Recruiting Mission, which reported 14,000 enlistments, were the basis for the Illinois Council’s action. EXHAUSTIVE ECONOMIC SURVEYS — PROVE VALUE OF GOOD ROADS | in 1999, was sold in 1912 for $5,000, an increase over the 1910 valuation of 43 ) per cent. Another farm, three miles from the city, containing 100 acres, valued at i $3,009 in 1910, was sold for $10,000 in | 1912, an increase of 58 per cent. Similarly improvement of a road in- creased the value of a 475-acre farm | from $5,000 in 1910 to $12,500 in 1911. Saving in Hauling. The saving in hauling costs, as dis- closed by the survey, averages 16.3 cents per ton-mile, or a total annual saving to the county of $150,120.15. Af- ter the year’s maintenance and inter- SIMPLE MATTER OF DOLLARS) Druggist’s Twenty-Y ears This is the first of a series of articles on good roads especially ' prepared for publication in The | Tribune. Exhaustive economical surveys of highway improvements in eight coun-; ties, conducted over a period of five years by the United States depart- ment of agriculture, just about settle the question of the wisdom of spend- ing large sums of money in building good roads. For example: The government's study of increases in farm land values in the eight coun- ties reveals the fact that as result the selling price has amounted to from one.to three times the total cost of improvements. The survey reports, now on file in Washington, D. C., cover five years of road construction in the counties of Spotsylvania, Dinwiddie, Lee and Wise in Virginia, Franklin in New York, Dallas in Alabama, Lauderdale in Mississippi, and Manatee in Flor- ida. Government experts and engineers from the United States office of pub- lic roads conducted the investigations, studying-the counties’ resources, the &chools, land values and hauling costs. Experience With. This Kidney Remedy Effect on Road Improvement. In dealing with the effect of road improvement upon hauling of commod- ities, actual traffic counts were taken to determine the tonnage and cost of hauling. The average gross saving per ton-mile for all eight counties was found to be 17.8 cents, indicated by comparing ‘the average cost of 33.5 cents for hauling one ton one mile be- fore the roads were improved with the average cost of 15:7 cents after the roads were improved. Considering the eight counties in the aggregate, the gross annual sav- ing due to these counties’ good-road systems was $627,409 for a total traf- fic of 3,489,652 ton-miles. The Country Schools. country schools affords ‘more com- plete vindication of the cash outlay than even the material advantages, the government investigators report- ed. In all the counties, before the roads were improved 1 character, extent and cost of road im- —Advt.| provements under taken, tax rates, Effect of road improvement upon | Some “tfenty-five or thirty years ago 1 began to sell Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root and L am satisfied that there is not a superior kidney, liver and bladder medicine on the market. I enjoy @ steady and satisfactory sale on the remedy and my customers have nothing but praises in behalf of the merits of Swamp-Root. I am so favor- ably impressed with the preparation that 1 recommend it to those in need of such a medicine because I firmly believe it is a valuable and. reliable proprietary. Very truly yours, C. M. COBB, Druggist, 2008 South 16th Street, Sept. 21, 1916. Lincoln, Nebr. j Leterto | Dr, Kilmer & €o., | i}) Binghamton, N.. Y...[ ’ [err memes ree . Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For ‘ You. Send ten.cents to vr. Kilmer & Co., Binghanston, N. Y., for « sample size the average ie school attendance was 66 pupils of Bote wy deh arrays eae each 100 enrolled, as compared with| bens Rcliene te 76 after the roads were improved. In! 30 information, telling Bbout |e other words good roads were respons- Kidneys sad madden en ee ible for the education of 10 children pgijy Tri ly Tribune. Regulur fifty-cent and Soeur Gis a tanner cbt 00d. one-dollar size bottles for sale at all }roads lifte ie of |: struc-- drug -stores. be sure and mention the Bismarck Rit fe Bs Sieg ing is $130,6670.15. The average school attendance in the county before the roads were im- proved was 57 per cent. For the school term 1913-14, the average a tendance had increased to 77 p cent. MANDAN NEWS. & A LIEUT. SEITZ WEDS. Lieut. R. P. Seitz,( spn of City Audi- tor and Mrs. W. H: Seitz of this city, was wedded recently to Miss Hazel I. Tornton, Livingston, Mont., school teacher. The wedding was solemnized at the Vancouver, Wash., barracks, where Lieut. Seitz is .stationed. An- nouncements were received today by relatives and friends of Mr. Seitz. TEACHERS’ CERTIFICATE Twenty-nine school teachers receiv- ed state teachers’ certificates from Supt. N. C. Macdonald, superintendent of public instruction, through County Supt. H. K. Jensen yesterday. All but three of the certificates received are fourth grade teachers’ certificates | and go to rural school teachers. Three are for third grade school teachers. ASSUMES NEW DUTIES. Albert I. Goeshall, formerly princi- pal of the Woodworth public schools, was recently appointed deputy school superintendent for Morton county by County Supt. Jensen. Mr. Goeshall, assumed his new and important duties yesterday. His work will principally be field work. MANDAN IMPROVEMENTS, Four hundred fifty thousand dollars worth of new buildings represent the building improvements and achieve- ments in Mandan. during the year 1917. The amount exceeds the build- ing achievements by one hundred fif- ty thousand dollars. City Auditor + oy | mits in 1917. Mrs. Borberg IIl—Mrs. Borberg of Second avenue Northwest, was quite ill at her home the middle of this week, Mrs. Ashworth to Hazen—Mrs. Gil- bert Ashworth went to Hazen yester- day afternoon tao spend a few days visiting with friends. Will Entertain—The Royal Neigh- bors will on Monday evening me with Miss Hazel Henke and Mrs. C. Parker at the Henke home. Miss Dooley to Leave—Miss Flor- Dooley departed yesterday for i enry, this state, where she has accepted a position as teacher of the fifth and sixth grades of the McHenry public school. Mrs. Jack Parker Here—Mrs. Jack Parker of Glendive arrived in the city yesterday morning and is spend-! ing a few days at the home of Mr. Parker's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred ‘Parker. Here from Great Falls—Mrs. J. P.| McDonald and children, Roger and Lauretta, will arrive this evening from Great Falls, Mont., for a few weeks’ est charges are deducted, the net sav-' Seitz recorded fifty-eight building per- \ L. Mackin, also with her parents, Mr. . and Mrs. Martin Dahl of Huff. Mrs. McDonald formerly lived in Mandan. Prune Peddlers to Dance.—The Prune Peddlers will give a dance at the Maccabee hall Wednesday eve- ning. The boys have about twenty members in the new organization and ‘the dance will be a private affair. Burns Here—H. O. Burns, popular Mott merchant, returned yesterday from the twin cities, where he had been on a purchasing trip. He left | today for his home at Mott. Mr. Burns was a former traveling man for the Missouri Valley Grocery Co. DICKINSON POSTAL SALES GROW DESPITE LACK OF BOOZE MAIL Dickinson, N. D., Jan. 8.—Dickinson postage sales for December, 1917, were $2,665 as compared with $2,015 in Decembgr, 1916, and $1,872 in Decem- ber, 1915. Hundreds of dollars worth of savings stamps and thrift certifi- cates were sold during the month. The sale of war revenue stamps _ totaled $100. A noticeable feature of the re- port for the holidays was the absence of a great flood of “booze” orders to visit with the former's sister, Mrs. R. swell the total receipts. All Traces of Scrofula _ Eradicated from the System By the greatest of ali purifiers. A common mistake in the treat- ment of scrofula has been the use of mercury and other mineral mix~- tures, the effect of which is to bot- tie up the impurities in the blood, and hide them from the: surface, The impurities and dangers are, only added to in this way. For more than fifty years S. S. S. has been the one recornized reliable blood remedy that has been used with highly. satisfactory results for Scrofula. Being made of the zoots and herbs of the forest, it is guaran- teed purely vegetable, and absolutely free from all mineral ingredients. You can obtain S. S. S. from any drugstore, Our chief medical adviser is an expert on all blood: disorders, and will cheerfully give you full advice as to the treatment of your own case. Address Swift Specific Co., Dept. F Atlanta, Ga. Handsome Wall War Map , Including maps of North Dakota and United States. Up-to-the- minute statistical matter in this fine war chart. You can follow the boys “over there” better if you have this map in your home or upon the walls of your office. Only a few of them left but 4s long as they last only Cc Fill Out Coupon and Mail to Circulation Department SPECIAL WAR MAP OFFER -TO TRIBUNE READERS Enclosed please find Fifty Cents in stamps for which mail to my ad- dress War Map. ee = em Rens ee