The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 5, 1919, Page 2

PAGE 2 COUNTY MONEY SQUANDERED ON MISFIT ROADS Enough Expended in Last Seven Years to Pave Trunk- ‘ Line Highways INEFFICIENCY IS RAMPANT Far Greater Results, It Is Con- tended, Would Come From Contract Plan Burleigh instituted a program. of road ‘improvement seven or eight years ago, in response to agitation from the Burleigh County Automobile association, the Bismarck Commercial club, and highway patrons gencrally. Since that time there has been ex- pended some $700,000 or $800,000. Bismarck has spent as much in the Jast three years on street improve- ment, and it has about ten miles of peranently payed thoroughfares which will last with ordinary care for twen- ty years or moro with little main- tenance expense. Burleigh county has to show for its expenditure not a single mile of even perfect dirt high- way. Several hundred dollars of the taxpayers money has been squand- ered, and the roads in most instances are in worse condition than they were when the county commission began to: tinker with them. This is espécially true of the Red Trail, no- torious for its string of expensive concrete bridges for its impassible sloughs, its treacherous seas of sand and its general delapidation. Every tourist knows that the first impression a city makes on an in- coming guest is that gained from the}, highways over which the city is ap- proached. Anyone compelled to drive over the Red Trail from McKenzie to Bismarck cannot enter the capital city with any very kindly feelings for it. A prairie trail would be a boule- vard compared with the thing that the county highway program has made of the Red Trail from the end of the McKenze slough fill to the beginning], of the penitentiary road. The great- er part of this strip of road is with- in the district of a commissioner who has‘ been elected and reelected on the false plea that he would give Bis- arck good roads. The Burleigh County Policy. The Burleigh county policy has deen to invest without reserve in tractors and other highway equip- ment; to build expensiye bridges wherever a pretext for one could be found; to scrape off the top soil from the roads so as to expose the gumbo; to build a grade or a fill at great ex- pense, and then to go away and leave it for a year or two years or more, until it had relapsed into a state far worse than it was found at the -be- ginning and then to repeat the pro- cess. It may pay to invest the taxpay- ers’ money year after year in extrav- agant road-building machines which is to be scrapped or sold for little or nothing the next year or the year following, but the taxpayer is begin- ning to feel that the profit does not accrue to him. The taxpayer is be- coming convinced that had the hun- dreds of thousands which Burleigh county has spent for bridges-and cul- verts and tractors and graders and road:building equipment generally been invested in contracts which were awarded to the lowest bidder in open comptition, Burligh might real- ly ‘shave some roads. McLean County Does It. Everyone who has toured McLean county during the last two years has returned enthusiastic over the good roads there. McLean county gets these roads at an average expense of $100 per mile, including investment in equipment and engineering expense. Even little Sheridan county has far better highways than has Burleigh. It has been suggested that if Bur- leigh county had McLean county's commissioners it might also have some McLean county roads. But, Burleigh county’s commission guring these last seven years has been un- der the same familiar domination, and thé.McLesan county idea of economy, and efficiency has not prevailed. May 1, 1917, the Burleigh county commission designated'the Red Trail and thé.Minot-to-South Dakota trail as state highways and set aside $5,300 of county funds to be used in connec- tion with a similar appropriation from the state in the improvement of these highways. Under the McLean county plan this fund would have provided Burleigh with more than 100 miles of good roads. Anyone who has had oc- casion to drive over either of these | trails knows ‘what has resulted from the Burleigh county plan. From June 30, 1916, to June 30, 1917, $27,711.51 was expended_in bridges and $72,670.60 on roads. Un- der the McLean county plan this should have given Burleigh county 726 miles of good highway. The appro- priation made for the year 1917 was $35,000 for bridges’ and $45,000 for roads. In-addition there was a spe- cial road appropriation of $25,000 and a fund of $5,000 for road work in unorganized townships. From June 80, 1917, to'June 30, 1918, war- rants drawn for road work totaled $65,397.27, and for bridges, $44,209.45, That should have meant, had Burleigh had a McLean county board of com- missioners, 653 miles of good roads. a8 How the Money Goes The appropriation for the fiscal year beginning June 30, 1918, was $35,000 for bridges and $40,000 for roads,.with an additional $7,000 .for ed often by’ the Nevens, “NEVENS CO. CLOTHES CLEANED OFTEN WEAR TWICE AS LONG d less money. for ‘new clothes:”’ H; : __ INeY Company “They'll, look like new. and satisfy too.’ Best work at vighospiitess) Minneapolis’ largest layndry and dry cleaning establishment,” x ic 203° Marquette Ave., MINNEAPOLIS | roads in congressional townships, November 9, 1918, there was appro- priated $30,000 to pay on certificate of the state engineer on state highway projects including twelve miles of river road past the farm of Commis- sioner Birlea Ward and his brother, Milan Ward. The state duplicates county appropriations on state ald projects, and it is presumed that any work on these roads will be done under state. supervision. Other counties have gone ahead with state highway work and have something to show for it, Burleigh county has appropriated liberally and often, enough to buil two thousand or more miles of road on the McLean county plan, and the principle visible results are neatly arranged stack of warrants paid’ out to county employes and to manufac- turers of bridges and road-building equipment. Certainly there are no roads which Burleigh county can lay down to contrast with those of Mc- Lean, or of Morton or Stark or of any other county which has .had a real road-building program and which has put its.money into real roads. This fall taxes in_ both: city and country promise to be higher, and there will be $70,000 to $100,000 more for road work, and the same county commission will expend these funds— on the same kind of “roads,” presum- ably. o N CITY NEWS Takes New Position Merle Montgomery, formrely with the J. I. Roop & Co. grocery, has taken a position at the Gussner grocery. At the Van Horn Mr. and Mrs. ‘J. L. Johnson ‘and Chester Johnson of Ralegih, were Bis- marck callers on Friday, and were guests at the Van Horn. : From Tuttle", E. J. Barney, August Martin, H. J. Kann and N. O., Lerdahl, were visitors in the capital city on Friday from Tut- tle, registering at the Van Horn, Enjoying Vacation Miss Lillian Thrams, stenographer in the state treasurer’s office, is en- joying a vacation with, friends in Grand Forks. To Tour Yellowstone Frank Harris and family leave soon for a trip to Idaho, where they will visit friends. From there the party will motor through Yellowstone park. Returns From Minot Mrs. F. EB. Luehe, 419 First street, has returned home from a visit at Minot. They will make this city their home after Aug. 1. Mr. Luehe has purchased a home in the Magic City. Arrived From Overseas: Word has been received that Henry Manson landed in the United States on June 26 fro moverseas. Mr. Han- son is now at Camp Sherman, O,, and is expected tg arrive here within a week or two. To:M. B. A. Convention Grant Marsh, R. W. Patzman and Miss Irma Henzler will leave this eve- ning for Wahpeton, where they go as delegates to the state convention of the Modern Brotherhood of America, rvhieh convenes at Wahpeton.on Mon- ay. Neiter Wins Handicap. A. H.-Neiter of New Leipzig won the handicap golf tournament at the Country club yesterday with a score of 83 for eighteen holes. It was a big day on the Bismarck links, with more than twenty entries for the our- nament and dozens of other players taking advantage of the perfec: gol wather. . Visiting in Bismarck Mrs. C. J. Carlson and little daugh- ter, Margaret, of Chicago, arrived in the capital city on Tuesday for a month or six weeks’ visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Dixon, 1708 Rosser street. Mrs. Carlson is a niece of Mrs. Dixon. Mrs. Tom Torgerson of Wilton, is also a guest at the Dixon ‘home, arriving on Thursday for a visit here for several days. _ «Here Friday Francis Parsons arrived in the city on Thursday evening from Coopers- town to visit over the Fourth at his home, 705 Sixth street, returning to Cooperstown today.. Mr. Parsons re- turned recently from a year’s service overseas. L. M. Parsons, who is with the North Dakota Independent Tele- phone C., returned to the city Thurs- day night from Fargo, where he spent a few days on matters of business. _. To Enter Mission Field Miss Inez Leid, daughter of Mra. Mary Leid, 18 Eighth street south, Fargo, recently returned from’ Blue Island, Ill., where she had been teach- ing the past, year, will enter the mis- sion field in Turkey. She'leayes New York about August 20, for Larasi, Turkey, where she will teach in a Gon- gregational Mission school for ‘five years. During her absence; Miss Leid will be supported by the First Con; gational church of Toledo, ‘0. Miss Leid is a-graduate of: Columbia uni- versity. ar Ress Tots Enjoy Picnic. Ensign J. C. Bell-and his devoted Salvation, ary corps made the Fourth a real event in the’lives of dozens ‘of Bismarck little tots, who were trans- ported yesterday jn hay-racks and au- toobiles to Ward’s grove, where’ the day was devoted to a genuine. old- time picnic. There was oodles’’of ice cream and pop and candy ‘and: oth- er eatables; plenty of fire-works and en interesting sports program’ in which prizes were awarded: to. the ost proficient. The little guests carile from th less favored ‘homes. of ‘the capital city and wre generally young- strs for whom the Fourth, but’ for’ the interest of the Salvation army, would have meant little, The local corps ‘as made this Fourth of July } : standgrd. = ; : eee lave. your old ones French dry } ATTEMPT ATT OCEAN FLIGHT MADE IN 1878 ‘Twas Americans Who First Dreamed of Crossing Sea in Lighter-Than-Air Craft. But Montgolfier’s First Balloon Was Little Improved Until Dirigibles of 20th Century Came. Stephen Montgolfier, a Frenchman, in 1768, made the‘ first balloon from which haye evolved airships like the giant R-34 with its nearly 700 feet length and the powerful motors which send it speeding across the Atlantic. _ One story of Montgolfier’s discovery is that he flung a paper bag into the fire and it filed with smoke and hung suspended n the chimney for a time, Another is that he was boiling water in a pot with a conical’ paper cover, pile filled with vapor and rose in the a g The Montgolfier’s. first successful ex- periment was with a silk ballocn of 50 cubie feet capacity, which roose to the ceiling of the room. Then they sent up a balloon 85 feet in diameter to a height of 6000 feet. It was made of pack cloth covered with paper aid wae inflated by burning 10 pounds of folst wool on a small 4 - Rear s 0 ll iron grate be- Henry Cavendish, in 76, had dis- covered that hydrogen gas is lighter than air, and Tiberius Cavallo, an Italian, had. floated soap bubbles filled with the. gas, The first hydrogen gas balloon was sent up in Paris in the same year of the Montgolfier experiments. The gas was then difficult to manufacture and it took four days to fill a bag 3 feet in diameter, ; Montgolfier’s next balloon was 72 feet high and 41 feet in diameter. A sheep, @ cock and a duck were the first living things to make a flight in a balloon, being placed in a basket attached to one of Montgolfier’s gas bags. , Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d’Arlandes were the first men to make a balloon fijght. They were in the air 25 minutes and crossed the Seine and a part of the city of Paris, All in the same year a hydrogen balloon as complete as any. used for more than d century after was built, It was of alternate red and yellow silk gores, varnished with caouachoug, A net supporting a car covered it and it had a valve, sand ballast and a bar- ometer. : ° c 1e first descent by ‘parachute was made by A. J. Garnerin in. 797. ‘The first ‘notable ‘long distance bal- loon flight covered a distance of 500 and-was made in 18 hours. It Was made in 1836, from “London . to Wellburg, Germany. , ¥ Johnny Wise in 1859, made the 809 miles from St. Louis, Mo., to Hender- son, Y., in 20 hours. The ‘balloon Centaure, qt the Paris expositon in 1900, set a’ record for dig- tance that stood for more than ten years—distance from Paris to Korosti- chev in Rugsia, 1193 miles, in 36 hours and'45 minutes, see The first attempt at ‘directing and Propelling a balloon instead of depend- i:g on the course of the wind wag made Ly the Robert Brothers in England who built the first elongated balloons and attempted to paddle them through: the air with silk covered oars. This was early in the 19th century. Giffard in France built a spindle-shaped gas bag 142 feet long in 1852, and squipped it with an 11-foot propellor screw con- nected with 9 3-horsepower steam en- gine. : An electrically driven dirigible was developed in France in 882, which was 91 feet long and was moved by twin Propellors, But if was the invention of the gas ergine that enabled Count Zeppelin of Germany. to develop the first practical rigid dirigible. His first: airship, in 1900, consisted of a row of 17 balloons confined in a cylindrical metal shell 416 feet long‘and with a capacity of 599,000 cubic feet. “Aluminum cars forward and aft carried crew and pas- schgers and’ Daimler’ engines of 16 horsepower each turned the screw pro- pellors. The record this machine made on its first flight was 3'3-4 miles in 17 minutes, Before the ‘war broke in 1914 there were 10 Zeppelins in service with over G00,000 feet gas capacity and tourist tickets were being sald for them in all the leading cities, ~~ : The development of the German dir- igibles from this point has been told in the stories of the. war, the most notable that‘of the machine ‘which traveled from a point in’ Bulgaria into. Egypt and. return, a distance of about 4000 miles, without’ landing. ‘Before ‘the recent unsuccessful at- tempt of thé American ‘blimp C5, at a traris-Atlantic balloon flight, two other such attempts were mgde by. Ameri- cans. : 3 The first was in charge of Prof. Wal- ter H. Donaldson in 1873. The ballooon Was thoroughly equipped, but it travel- ed only 100 miles and was in the. air but four hours, its three ogcupants. be- ing compelled by a heavy storm to, jump from the balloon near the ground, ‘They all escaped injury. This balloon hada diameter of :100. feet and stood 160, feet, fromthe ocean lifeboat that hung provisioned : below, ‘to, its. peak. It&'gas capacity. was 300,00) cubic. feet. The, flight was from Brooklyn to New Caanan, Conn. Carrier’ pigeons were taken .on board ‘to. give news; of ‘the fight, ‘ ty fi ‘The second. was that of Walter Well: man, Chicago.newspaper man, in 1910, in - the Aipigible / America, =" This. ship wag” 228 feet’ long and. had. a’ lifting power of 23,850 cubic feet, and. a: speed of. 26 miles an hour. The crew was etna tg chordsa the ship after it Boys Enjoying A’ Furlough Overseas ‘A letter has bean received. from Lieut: Arthur Brown, “who.7 is. stationed : at. La’ Mans, France, stating. that: Ineut, Herman’ Brockopp,: bot city: boys, are having a’two weeks’ fur- lough. Lieut. Brown: wrote from Lon- | don’ that’ from there ‘they would ‘go’ to This balloon with a crew of three men headed by Prof. Walter H. Donaldson started to make a first ever attempted. It came to 100 miles from its starting point, Brooklyn. transatlantic flight in 1873, the grief in a storm in Connecticut, It represents the height of advancement in lighter-than-air craft until the beginning of the twentieth century. Dublin. to spend four days, thence to Kilkeeny, and from there they would go to Kilarney, where Lieut. Brown will visit with relatives, Kilarney be- ing the birthplace and former home of Lieut, Brown’s mother, From there the boys. plan to visit Glasgow, Scot- land, and they will leave there for La Mans. Both young men left Bismarck with Go, A, and for a time were stationed at Camp Green, North Carolina. They spent two months there, leaving then for service overseas. They both were in service on the Mexican border prior to the outbreak ‘of the war. Lieut. Brown writes that they are both feel- ing fine, and at present are having a spléndid time.’ ~ GERMANY SEEKS TRADE CONTEST AMONG SERBIANS Belgrade, June 20. (By Matl)—The German and ‘Austrian peaceful infil- tration of Serbia has begun. The ho- tels of thig city harbor. guests whose identity is revealeg by their heavy Teutonic cast of features. They talk in German and laugh loudly over teir eer. Indeed if one does not speak erman in Belgrade one sometimes finds himself misunderstood. The| waiters do not know English or French in the majority of cases. “My friends in Basle told me would be mobbed in Belgraco if 1 spoke German there,” dectxred a self-styled Swiss salesman. “How- ever, I found that when I spoke Ital- ian I was treated with disrespect, that when I spoke French I was ig- nored and that when I spoke Eng- lish I was smilingly but politely told in German that I could be best serv- ed by speaking the tongue 1 know best.” Serbia from one end of the country to the other has been flooded with cheap Austrian and German goods. How they. got in one cannot learn but every shop window in the villages from "Uskub to, Semendria contains cheap mirrors, toilet articles, knives and gimcracks of every description “Made in Austria.” Many of the ar- ticles are backed with colored pic- tures under celluloid of the former Austrian and German Emperors in all their regalia. There seems to be little prejudice against German and Austrian goods among the peasants and village dwellers of Serbia. ‘Phe Serbian hates the Bulgarian as venomously as ever. but he does not. sing a morning hymn of. hate, ~ d 1008 -miles ‘in } 6 -and |7 capital against Germany or Austria. The courtry. is” flooded with’ pictures of atrocities. committed by Bulgarians upon Serbians. The former Emperor Charles’ picture still adorns the lo- cal police headquarters, In Belgrade there is _ bitterness against’ the Austrians, especially among the better class of people whose homes were systematically de- spoiled by Austrian officers: who ship- ped sixty trains of household goods from: Belgrade-across the Danube in- to ‘Austria Each train was compos- ed. of approximately thirty cars. ‘Three hundred pianos were included in‘ the loot. Belgrade and Northern Serbia are flooded with the depre- Giated Austrian currency, in ~ fact there’ apparently ‘is more Austrian money in‘ circulation than Serbian. The ‘Américan Red Cross employs number ‘of German’ prisoners in transporting its supplies... They are better clothed than many Serb sold- fers-and: go about the streets laugh- ing ‘and: joking: and: in’genéral quite at home. © > ‘The American Red, Cross has. for its warehouse the Palace . Hotel which,. just finished ‘before :the ‘war, was/intended ‘to be the best hotel ‘in Belgrade. When. the, Austrians en- tered ‘the town, however, ‘they delib- erately smashed” the ‘ plateglass .mir- rors, marble wainscoting and ‘stabled their horses in.the drawing-room and dining saloon. The woodwork was 'torn. out : for. firewood and the ma- hopany . furniture.” wantonly; hacked rwith axes. : :" Major “G. Ma HH. Edwarda’ of Orland, [Fla.,.who has been in charge of..the Here is the balloon and Prof. Donaldson, ern Serbia distributed help to local orphanages and hospitals, started workrooms for needy women, gave out supplies to hospitals and has equipped medical staffs which travel through northern Serbia. CONSUMERS’ MINE SOON TO COMMENCE PRODUCING COAL Dickinson, N. D., July 5—The Lig- nite Consumers’ Mining Co., hae prac- tically completed its development work and will be ready to begin pro- duction October 1, announces the home office of the company here. A locomotive and string of dump cars, a large steam shovel and other equip- ment have been ordered, and actual mining soon will begin on a 12-foot vein. The company is financed. through the sale of $100 certificates to members who are guaranteed coal f, 0. b. cars at the mine at not to ex- ceed $1.50 per ton. WINCHESTER ARITHMETIC CONTEST TUESDAY, JULY 8 The Winchester arithmetic contest will be held on Tuesday afternoon, July 8, at the Will school building. The three eighth grade pupils from the Bismarck schools who will com- pete in the examination are Robert Larson, Alice Strutz and Muriel Ba- ker. The six pupils from the rural schools of Burleigh county to take the examination are Emerson Burch, Man- ning district; Vera Stevens, McKenzie district; Edward Boelter, Harriet dis- trict; Johanna Herms, Frances dis- trict; Ennis Bailey, Richmond district, and Dora Monroe, Ecklund district. In memory of Walter H. Winches- ter, a trust ‘fund has been created by his family which furnishes the sum of twenty-five dollars each year, to be presented as a prize to the pupil in the schools of Burleigh county, who shall excel in arithmetic. Judge Winchester was a former county superintendent of schools for Burleigh county and during his long service as judge of the district court he never lost interest in the schools and in educational matters. The conditions of the contest for this prize each year are as follows: . The county superintendent of schools shall select in such manner as he may determine from those com- pleting the eighth grade work in the rural and village schools of Burleigh county, six pupils showing the great- est proficiency in arithmetic; and the city superintendent of schools of Bis- marck shall select three pupils from those completing the eighth grade work in the Bismarck schools showing the greatest proficiency in arithmetic. 2. The nine pupils thus selected shall compete in a special examination in arithmetic for the Winchester Memorial Prize. 3.. In grading the. papers the fol- lowing points shall be considered: _ (1) Clearness of expression (show- ing arithmetical reasoning). (2). Accuracy and care’ in details. (3) . Neatness. PORTUGAL HAS RAIL STRIKE ,Washington, July 5.—Advices from Lisbon to the state department today reported that. the . general : railroad strike called last Tuesday had affected the greater portion of train service in Portugal. Some sabotages have been reported, and troops are protecting a number of railroad stations.. The min- ister of labor told a meeting of strik- ers.and_ railroad representatives: that the. men need. expect no assistance from ithe government as long as they permitted sabotage. DEFEATS VALLEY CITY Jamestown, N. D., July 5.—James- town defeated Valley : City. on’ the Fourth’ 16 to 10. ‘Jamestown made eight runs in the third: inning. AMERICAN CREW DEFEATED Henley, Eng., July. 5.—The Leander Rowing club’ defeated ‘the American first crew in the final for the Leander Cup here today. Leander was one and one-half |lengths ahead at the finish. The time was seven minutes, forty-five seconds. FOR. SALE—An Overland and a Ford touring cars. both in >good condi- tion. Across the N. P.: Ry. tracks south of-the International Harvest- American Red ‘Cross work ‘in! North- ~er-Co,. Camped, ay : ; CONCRETE WILL PROBABLY FORM NEW PAVEMENT Growing Sentiment Apparent for New Type of Street Im- provement Here It seems very probable that Bis- marck’s third street improvement dis- trict, 41-2 miles in length, will be paved with reinforced concrete. There was considerable sentiment for con- crete before the bids were opened last Monday. Since the opening of these bids and the discovery that concrete was $22,500 cheaper than the next lowest-priced pavement, this senti- ment has grown. City Engineer At- kinson advised during the week that there appeared to be a general dispo- sition to favor concrete. No expres- sion on the subject has been gained from the city commission, which will either award the contract Monday evening or reject all of the bids. The réinforced concrete bid of the Haggart Construction Co. of Fargo is $338,519.08 for the job complete, This is for a concrete pavement, reinforced with three pounds of steel to the square yard and seven inches thick. Bismarck’s present pavement is laid on a concrete base in which gravel in- stead of crushed rock was used. The reinforced concrete bid. is, $22,559.66 less than that for asphaltic concrete, using the oil product; $34,968.30 lower than sheet asphalt, using the oil prod- uct; $38,204.38 lower than the asphal- tic concrete figured with natural lake asphalt, and $59,648.38 lower than the sheet asphalt with natural lake as- phalt. The low bids on asphalt paving. using the natural lake product are submitted by Hanlon & Okes of Min- neapolis, who did the bithulithic pav- ing in the down-town district. Difference in Terms The Ford: Paving Co. bids are held to be considerably higher than any of these for the reason that this com- pany is bidding on a cash basis, de- manding a five percent premium, if warrants are to be accepted, and in- sisting upon seven per cent warrants, which would be equivalent to an ad- dition of ten per cent for twenty years. These additions would make the Ford Co.5s bids from $408,359.62 to $421,274.69 figured on the six percent warrant basis upon which the Haggart Construction Co. has bid. The Hag- gart bid contemplates the acceptance of six-percent warrants with no addi- tional penalty, the price quoted being net. Concrete at Grand Forks Grand Forks called for bids on con- crete pavement alone this year. Des Moines is putting in 44-281 yards of concrete at $3.19 to $3.21 per square yard. The Haggart Construction Co. SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1919. |. arded low in view of the fact that eehed trap rock must be brought from Minnesota at a price of 10.5 cents per hundred, which makes the material cast hatter than $5 per. cubic ard laid down here. sf ‘Waseca, Minn., with crushed rock at the city limits, is paying $2.90 per yard for concrete paving contracted for in June, and it is to be simple con- crete with no steel reinforcing. Hib- bing, Minn., with an abundance of rock within teaming distance, is paying $2.95 per yard for reinforced concrete. Sioux City, with approximately 2,- 000,000 yards of reinforced concrete paving in service, is buying more, Attractive Paving ; Concrete makes a smooth surfaced, light-colored, bright appearing pav- ing. It has, all engineers agree, pags- ed the experimental stage, and it seems to be coming into more general use each year. St. Paul recently contracted for sev- eral miles of concrete, and this form of paving is being used almost exclu- sively in permanent highway improve- ment in Minnesota. TOPPING, OLD TOP, TOPS HIS MAXWELL FIELD Al Topping, Western Sales Co, salesman, famiilarly known as “Old Top”, has just received from the Max- well Automobile Co., a substantial check representing the third prize in a salesmanship contest which the com- pany recently conducted. Topping competed in his district with Minne- apolis, Fargo, Billings, Sioux Falls, Grand Forks Aberdeen and Minot and ifinished third in number of cars sold jto dealers. GUS BOOKS BIG SHOWS “DADDY LONG LEGS” COMING G. E. Wingreen who is in Minne- apolis booking his Bismarck theatre for the coming season has booked @ great many of the biggest and best regular programs as well as such noted features as “Mary Pickford” in “Daddy Long Legs” the noted play in which Ruth Chatterton is now star- ring at Powers theatre in Chicago for its third season in Chicago, “Auction of Souls,” called the Ten Dollar @ Seat picture, Anita Stewart in “In Old Kentucky” and Norma Talmadge in “Human Desire.” ; To Return to Bismarck. E. J. Taylor, former state superin- tendent of public instruction, and who for the last year has been engaged in educational work with the war de- partment opportunity school at the United States army general hspital No. 41, Fox Hills, Staten Island, N. Y., advises that he will be relieved from duty July 15, and that he wilf return to Bismarck after a brief visit with his father, aged 90, who resides in the northern part of New York state. Mr, Taylor returns to Bismarck to arrange for the removal of his household effects to \Hankinson, bid would give Bismarck concrete pavement at $3.20. The price is re- NATTA Sper "ALGOHOL~3 PER | AVegetablePreparationirAs: Eeierets by Regula- Cheerfulness an im, Me | neither ones M NARGOTIG * — , Yocsimite Signatore ot on —— ‘= GenTAUR COMPANE. NEW. "YORK. aths o le NTS At Ono Exact Copy of Wrapper. NOT To the Public: On and after July 10th, where he has accepted the superin- tendency of the public schools. \GASTORIA -For Infants and Children. . jMothers Know That Genuine Castoria For. Over _ Thirty Years CASTORIA ENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY. ICE The Motor Vehicle Depart: ment will expect me to rigidly. enforce the MOTOR VE- HICLE REGISTRATION LAW. No Motor Vehicle shall run upon the State Highway without conspicuously displaying two 1919 License Tags. A receipt showing that. Lice nse Tags have been applied for. will be considered sufficient evidence of intention to comply with the law. This includes Motorcycles. ‘All vio- lators of this act will be prosecuted. Do Not Fail to Take Warning, and Comply With the Law. ROLLIN WELCH, Sheriff, Burleigh .County, North Dakota. « z