The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 27, 1925, Page 3

ERIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1925) Just Why Every Voter in Bismarck. Is Interested in Reducing Tax Load Which Is Growing Year By Year Furniture Sale Sam has collected these figures for} nish the average per ite debt for} cities of over 30,000 poputation and| each group and for all guch cities: Net Debt For Cities For 30,000 and Over This sale at WEBB’S features many special values on “Every Room Needs” that will prove doubly attractive to the busy homemaker planning new things at Spring house cleaning: time. THE’ BISMARCK TRIBUNE PAGE: THREE Special Rug Values Everyone knows the dependability of Ax- minster Rugs. This group so unusually low priced includes ‘ » excellent patterns, Population No. in Group . 500,000. and over 12 . 300,000 to 500,000 il 100,000 to 300,000 50,000 to 100,000 30,000 to 50,000 Net De Group 1... 1 Group II Group II . Group IV . Group V .. “All Groups The general table tells only half] Kokomo, Ind. .. the story. Therefore, the following] Evanston, Il. cities have been culled from Group] Auburn, N. Y. . Vv, that group more nearly ap-| Moline, Ill. ... proximates Bismarck in population.| Ft. ith, Ark, Te otf of t 107 cities have the high-| Rock Island, Ik est per capita of their group and the} Quincy, Ill. remaining ten the lowest per capita of the same group, TWENTY SELECTED CITIES GROUP V Highest Per Capita Debt: 15.79! 15.74 | 15.00) 13.67 | 12.441 4.61 | from | nsus report on “Financial tics of Cities” having a.Popula- tion of Over 30,000.) It must be borne in mind that these s' tics are for cities with a} Population ‘of from 30,000 to. 50,000 inhabitants. In other words, for! cities from four to nearly seven times larger than Bismarck. It should also be recalled that the larger the city, the heavier are its expenses per capita. Whether the city government and the school district are making amp provision for the redemption of th debt matter not now under sideration and must be left for er thorough examination ind exposi- tion. Parlor Suites Beautiful two and three piece overstuffed Velour parlor suites are priced surprisingly low for this sale: 8144x1014 Axminster Rug. Value $49. 00. Now 814x104 Axminster Rug. Value $52.50. Now...... 81%4x10!4 Axminster Rug. Value $57 Now : 9x12 Axminster Rug. Value $52.50. Now 9x12 Axminster Rug. Value $62.50. Now 9x12 Velvet Rug. Value $60.00. Now 8'4.x1014 Body Brussels Rug. Value $64.50. Now $37.00 $39.75 We have just a few odd pieces in over- stuffed chairs and , Davenports to clese out quickly at very attractive prices. In Two Picce Brown Embossed 186.52 z 162.41 Velour Suite 153.66 135.87 . 129.71 . 11121 110.34 110.00 107.23 105.27 Phoenix, Ariz. Warran, 0. Lakewood, 0. Lorain, O. . Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Pontiac, Mich, Woonsocket, R. Shreveport, La. Lowest Per Capita Del Hazelton, West Hoboken, N. J. Springfield, Mo, MARKET NEWS Wire Markets By Aseociated Press WHEAT RISES EARLY TODAY Good Advance Is Made on Chicago Market $149.00 $139.00) . $139.00 Three Piece Brown Embossed Velour Suite. Two Piece Blue Velour Suite : Two Piece Brown Jacquard Velour Suite. .. n- 19.83 19.16 18.17 Dining Room Suites One can refurnish the dining room beautifully ; and at little cost with a high grade Walnut set. They're unusually low priced during this Feb- x $150.00 $119.00 $115.00 i Bed Room Furniture These Ivory and Walnut three piece suites are extrarodinary values at the extremely low prices for this sale. Good styles from nationally known furniture makers. 15 cents higher. Good weight butchers mostly $11.7 top $11.90. Lighter weights $7.00 to $11.50, Packing sows around $10.75 to $11.00. Pigs scarce. Few good; pigs $10.75. Average cost Thursday $11.37. Weight 206, / Sheep reccipts 1,000. weak to 25c lower. lambs $16.75. ers. medium arly | Suites — Bed, $79.00 3 piece Dresser, Chiffonier Ivory piece Walnut Suite — Bed, | i .. $79.00 Chiff onier 8 Piece Walnut Suite, Duco fiinsh 8 Piece Walnut Suite 8 Piece Flemish Oak Suite Fat lambs Two double fat averaging 76 to 78 pounds | Two double direct to pack- Sheep scarce, steady. MENNEAPOLIS FLOUR Minneapolis, Feb. 27.—Flour ten to twenty cents higher. In carload lots family patents quoted at $10.20 to $10.38 a barrel in 98-pound cotton ; sacks. Shipments 40,050 $23.00. MIRRORS You'll surely need one for the dressing room or the buffet, at these me tre € 795 $11.50 Odd Dressers, Dress- ing Tables, and Chif- foniers greatly re- duced. Some as low at %4Price. Chicag b. 27.—(By the A. P.)— barrels.’ Bran} All deliveries of wheat scored sharp carly upturns in price today with continuing to lead the advance. Polychrome Frame Long Buffet Mirror, 12x24. . — — Mirrors MINNEAPOLIS GRAIN Minneapolis, Feb. 27W—Wheat re- Lack of rain in Texas, together with ceipts 118 cars comparéd with 179 more or less unfavorable crop .re-|cars a year ago. ports trom some other sections of] Cash No. 1 northern $1.87% the winter wheat belt, were the|$1.89%; No. 1 dark northern strengthening influence on values,|choice to fancy $2 s was word of liberal new export|good to choice $1 Heavy profit-taking sales;ordinary to good $ at one time to a pronounced reac-| No. 1 hard spring $: » but the effect failed to last.)No. 1 dark hard Montana on track | Opening prices, which varied from|$1.84% to $2.07%; to arrive $1.84% |. unchanged figures to 1 1-4 cents|to $2.074; May $1.87%; July $1.854 higher with May $1.94 3-4 to $1.95] Corn No, 3 yellow $1.20 to $1.25; |» 1-4 and July $1.67 to $1.67 1-2, were| oats No. 3 white 49%c to 50c; barley | followed by numerous rapid changes | 83 to 96c; rye No. 2, $1.56 to $1.5814; and then by a rise all around to| flax $3.17 to $3.23 more than two cents above yester- July touching $1.69. On the whole the market was less active than yesterday, but with per- sistent commission house buying, the day's top prices, including July at were reached shortly before There was a nervous fin- ce to 2% cents net advance. $1.95% to $1.96% and July $1.67 “4 CHICAGO LIVESTOCK Chicago, Feb. 27—Hog receipts } Da 29,000. Fairly active, 10 to 20 cents ' It; higher than Thursday’s best prices. | Top $2.40. Cattle receipts 4,000. Most killing classes steady. Buk fed steers and yearlings $8.75 to $10.50. Sheep receipts 10,000. Desirable fat lanrbs actve. Fully steady. Oth- ers dull. Bulk $17.25 to $17.75. ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK . Paul, Feb. 27.—(U. S. Dept. .)—Gattle receipts 1200, Active. Ajl classes firm. Run largely steers. Bulk steers and yearlings $7.00 to $8.50. One load handweights. $8.90. Several loads held at $9.00 to $9.50. Fat she stock strong, slightly high- er. Bulk fat cows $3.75 to $5.25. Fat heifers $5.00 to $6.75. Canners and cutters $2.75 to $3.25. Bologna bulls dull, $4.00 to $4.50. Stockers and feeders in light supply. Nominally steady. Calve receipts 1,500, Fully steady. Top sorts to packers $10.50 to $10.75, bulk at the end side fig- ure, Hog receipts 7,500. CHICAGO POULTRY Chicago, Feb. 27.—Poultry alive, lower. Fowls 24 to 25 cents; springs 28 cents; roosters 18 cents; turkeys 23. cents; ducks 27 cents; geese 14 cents. Butter higher. Receipts 7,014 tubs. Creamery extras 5 standards 42% cents; extra firsts 41 to 42 cents; firsts 37% to 39% cents; seconds 33 to 32% cents. Eggs lower. Receipts 27,294 cases. Firsts 29 cents; ordinary firsts 28 cents. Don’t fail to call tomorrow at the Bismarck Cloak Shop, and look over the wonderful display of Fur Coats. .ELICIOUS” AINTIES FANCY COOKIES—all, kinds—per dozen........ 20¢ CINNAMON ROLLS—“like mother tse to make” per dozen -20c DELICIOUS BUTTER ROLLS. . Our good “PARKER-HOUSE” ROLLS. SANDWICH BUNS ...... : “VIENNA” ROLLS—none better. | SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY | Cream Puffs with' Pure Whipped Cream. . Apple Turn-Overs ....... Chocolate Marshmallow ‘Rolls. . Jelly Roll, per-cut.... Honey Cream Cakes Devils Food Cake..... Special Angel Food 'Cake, large. size. Apple Coffee Cakes..... Date Cookies, per dozen. Slow. Around 6 ‘Our entire line of hand: tmade-bread and pastolen invites’ comparison.‘ They're made with such painstaking care, and are so. wonderfully. good, that. they,are in 4 class by. themselves. (Furnished sed uray Miller Co.) \No. | No. yNo. 2 No. | following: Oa 55 lb. Ear corn 6 cents under shell. Sample grade ... Hear the latest song and dance hits on the Brunswick. the talk. of Bismarck. BISMARCK GRAIN |GAVIN DEFENDS | FIGURES MADE ON ROAD WORK(' orthern spring . amber durum mixed durum "(Continued fom: page one) 1 red durum job at various times, were not called | before the board. He added that two engineers, Knutson and ‘Thor- berg, were called. vi Mr. Black was on the stand early in the morning. He was asked about employment of W. F. Reko of Man dan at $200 a month in maintenance’ work, Black said Reko’s work was principally with regard to road mark- | ing, and insisted it was a: good in-| vestment since Reko, with a large} acquaintance, could arrange with the boards of county commissioners to] take on road marking. | “Did he take the ambassador to} Germany over the western part of the state?” Black“was asked. | “I believe he did take him to St.) Anthony, that is hearsay with me,” ye ark Hard Winter urd Winter We quote but do not handle the ats CORN Yellow White & Mixed 1 cent per pound discount under Electric Cookery Is Better Cookery Richholt’ s Cash and Car | ~ The Origin Original Cash and ae. Store. Sugar, 12 .pounds.... Eggs, strictly fresh, 5 lb, jar butter, per pound. . 1 pound prints Picnic Hams, sugar cured; 6 to 8lbs, per peund... Fancy lot of chiekens, per pound | Questions were Veerning the Rie Turkeys, per pound R.L, Washing Powder, regular 10c seller— One RIAGEAIO Sse Asie wie aievsteaessalers 376 6 0 so aR a 25c nos Quality Coffee 5 pounds. .. 1.6: Quality guaranteed or money refu 5 large. cans California Peaches... . No. 2 Tomatoes, National Biscuit Flake Butter Crackers. ... Deletes They’re answer Black, The a ry per month of all employed neers was about $150 «a month, Black said. Richland County Again asked again con- land county project, with re. nce to au- ‘thority of the Highway Commis: ‘to act in the road matters. Biack aid there had been # blanket appro- priation of $150,000. Asked if he ‘did not know that part of the blan- xt resolution was rescinded, he e had not been informed. He at he did not believe the board ad authority to change the contract, after being shown a copy of minutes of the board rescinding the resolu- tion in part. Rep. Halcrow, a member of the committee, said he thought there was some confusion as to whether sup- plomental agreements had been ask- ed on projects 58 to 59, in Richland éounty. Black said that the trans- eript showed that some of his ans- wers applied to project 59 when they particu PASS” should hs Black plied to 58, ed concerning in- struction ¢ on the ground to the contractor, and declared that he told the contractor abandon one pit from which mati 1 was being taken, on the ground that it was too sandy, and take material from along the road, at a ing of “IT ALONG “I have been suffering with a_fis- tula for the past twenty years. Dur-| ing that time I have tried numerous{ remedies, all of which have failed. “Two months ago I determined to ve Peterson's Ointment a trial. The improvement was so decided after using one box, that I continued, and ‘on the completion of the fifth box am now entirely cared. “This is written with the view of passing along the good word to other sufferers. Very truly yours, Chas. E. Caswell, 282 Third Street, Albany, N.| Y.” Big box 60 cents at all druggists. HUMPTY DUMPTY (Split Top) Mail orders from ent Co. Buffalo, N. Peterson Oint-| Northern Fur Co. which are being sold at less than whole- sale prices. Bismarck Cloak Shop. —Adv. Stop at the Bismarck Cloak Shop tomorrow and see the wonderful display of sales- pane samples from the Great Cook By Wire Instead of by fire. DON’T FAIL TO SEE Mrs. Wallace Reid In her big Dramatic Triumph “BROKEN LAWS” Capitol Theatre — Commencing Monday BLUE RIBBON - (Plain Top) Better Than Mother Made Mother’s bread. was good—there’s no doubt about it. You enjoy- ed eating the bread she peadueed then. It was. the best you could get It is different today. co production men are experts, carefully trained in that art. Our modern shop contains equipment whige has made baking a science. With such a combigation our b. ead ‘6a par excellence and we be- lieve, even better than mothed used to make. / Try a loaf today.