The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 24, 1926, Page 4

lA RRA _PAGE FOUR The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) |school bourd election. Two women were elected to! the board and a third woman who was unopposed was named to fill an unexpired term of one year. The popularity which Mr. Marks enjoyed as a citi zen of this city followed him to his new field. The |. aaa aha as as: ca see eee THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ee Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, | Fargo schools will find him a loyal and efficient Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck, as second class mail matter® George D. Mann... President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year... see Daily by mail, per year, (in Bismarck)... Daily by mail, per year, ‘ bite (in state outside Bismarck)............+. 6.00, bi " Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota, .....1. 6.00! (St. Cloud, Minn., Journal-Press) , Member Audit Bureau of Circulation | Somebody asked the Hibbing News: “Why is | automobile money turned into the state instead of Member of The Associated Press eer i i fa Hts “aR ore ie The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the | Ve" to the county in which it is paid?” To which the News replies that it is because of the law, and use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and alsu H then, hands out this uncynsidered and ill-advised the local news of spontaneous origin published here-|}it of decision: “There really isn’t any good reason.” in. All rights of republication of all other matter | herein are also reserved. | 3 a The reason is—and it is a mighty sound one— that pooling money in the trunk highway fund A Law Based on Sound Reason ied ath hatched reo eo Cee DIT eo Foreign TATE COE | | CHICAGD LOGAN PA SE COMP AN tntti builds roads that start somewhere and keep on Tower Bldg. Kresge Bldg. | £°ing. NEW Pore BURNS AND SMITH It is the backbone of the trunk highway system. Fifth Ave. Bldg. Divide the money into 87 separate funds, and there (Official City, State and County Newspaper) {will be just a patchwork system, a dab here and ja dab there, and no continuous plan. of America Dividing the money among the counties would tomorrow (April 25) and a/#¥olish the trunk highway system that has vlone April 25, 1507, in the | more toward lifting Minnesota out of the mud and Die, in the Lorrain’ |"Uts in ten years than was done in the fifty years was given to the New | Previous; and has accomplished it with much less money than is spent year by year by the towns ingmann, a German< and counties. era Secret ac. | CAMSAMGE® Reaboht: ta Chkes- Le TAnVIOM eatnip ANG |counties, Hennepin, St. Louis and Ramsey would {get about 40°per cent of the whole fund, and the poorer counties would have so small an amount that so honored. Of |%© constructive work would have been done. Under able criticism, both | Such a plan paving from the Twin: Cities in any with our country’s | direction outside Hennepin and Ramsey would have h Waldo Emerson wrote: |been impossible. Certainly counties like Anoka, t wear the name | Sherburne, Benton, Morrison, Crow Wing, Chisago, e pickle dealer at | Pine and Carlton, would not have been able to fin- Itern with Ho- | @"ce paved roads which are of direct benefit to all was boatswain’s | the people of this and several other states. Neither | would Stearns county, the fourth wealthiest in the They | State, have built a paved highway from St. Cloud the rep- , to Sauk Center. .andas| Under the trunk plan the three big cities get of Co-|none of the auto license money, because the legi majer | ature in its wisdom saw the necessity of providing wuathority [Paved roads where there is the heaviest traffic, | making it a continuous system, . for Columbus whe! St. Louis county, by the way, has no complaint. 1 of Darkness,” dis-'Its commissioners were elever enough to have scen | r Vespucci | What was coming and issued some millions in bonds, every of a|and got its paved highways ahead of most other Naming ¢ cur: to Cosmology,’ con- ame we bear. : that Amerigo evide ad beer consid eric New World and writings. | Counties, and these bonds are, being paid from the ES {state fund. Here's a Fad For You | If the next session of the legislature has the good An original expression of whims and fancies, fa-}Judgment to adopt the recommendations of Com- ‘ rultitude, is generally | ™issioner Babcock, Minnesota will have many more known as a fad. Popu « always in de-| Miles of paved highway, in the next two or three mand in this country, and the originator is usually | Years. It will save a tidy sum in the reduced cost | Worified through publicity ag jof maintenance over the interest on bonds, The A fad has no excuse for being, except, perhaps,! Present generation will have the benefit of better that it offers a change from the commaonplace. Like ; ads that will be a direct saving to every motor most changes which are ai only because they | Vehicle owner, and by putting the gasoline tax in “are “different” and not because they are important 4 sinking fund, all the county and state bonds will or necessary, the fad itself soon becomes common- ; be paid off within 20 or 25 years. place and is discarded. * We shall have the roads ‘when*you are alive to! The two Monongahela (Pa.) school girls who at-, Us? them and it will cost no man a cent more than ; tempted to start a fad by appearing at class with, if we do not get them. the hair on one side of their head slicked down and! Why not have them? on the other fluffed and wearing studded dog col- _-lars around their ne soon learned that not all fads live to a ripe old age because of, or in spite of, their freakishness. The fad of appearing and being natural seems to have become commonplace quite a long time ago. Until this “fad” is revived, dog collars, slave brace- lets and maybe horse collars will have their chance at center stage. vored and imitated cies. Bring Tourists Here | (Fargo Forum) The Greater North Dakota Association has un- ‘dertaken a campaign to bring tourists into the State during the summer months. This is one of |the most important features of its program of de- velopment, for it will do as much as anything to reveal to people outside the State the many re- sources and advantages for building businesses and homes in the commonwealth, From the strictly sight-seeing and outing stand- point, North Dakota has as much to offer as any | other Northwest State. There are no thousands of | lakes and far-reaching forests, no National parks and mountain. ranges, but it has beauty spots un- surpassed. ywhere and many places for enjoying a health ng vacation, There are the Bad Lands, for instance. Nowhere in America can the tourist find a more golden his- torical background, a place of such marvelous beauty and opportunities for exploring a country that still has not been kissed by the civilization that insists upon all modern improvements and con- veniences. One can ride over the grass-covered trails that Theodore Roosevelt once rode, seeing the while great vistas of color and varying horizon and feeling some of the thrill 6f romance and ad- jVenture that were the pioneers’ of the cattle days. jOne can ford the Missouri river at Peaceful Valley ranch and go into the greatest petrified forest in the world, and sce there the wonders that Nature wrought with trees that grew as large as Cali- fornia’s redwoods, 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 years ago. One can go gown into the southern part, down to the old logging camps with its cedars still grow- ing in great numbers and v the huge burning coal mine, one of the most awe-inspirjng sights imaginable. Here, one can sce the great sculptor, Nature, hewing out the gigantic and fantastic buttes, topped with their scoria. One ‘can visit with the picturesque characters of the yesteryears when Marquis de Mores and Theodore Roosevelt were the great figures of that section, and hear stories of those two men that excel any novel of adventure, for here ong comes face to face with truth and reality Robbing the Soil Modern farm methods of the last quarter of a ntury have been termed “not the cultivation of the soil but the extraction of its minerals,” according to a report just issued by the National Industrial Con- ference Board. It is contended that fertilization of the lor in| other words the replacement of the mineral content absorbed by vegetation and ¢: ing of crops has been neglected to as to form one of the gr: the United States. Decreasing acre yield attests the decreased vitality of the soil. Up to 1900 there | “was an increasing acre yield but since the trend has | been the other w: In many European countries where the land has been tilled for centuries, inten- sive cultivation has fertilized the soil until in many instances it shows greater productivity than the farm lands in the United States. ied away by harvest- such an extent Science? Or What? The Presbyterian denomination now has 2000 ‘churches without pastors, according to statistics that will be offered May 2 by the church’s board + of education to all the churches. The situation for » the future is really serious, according to Rev. Lewis “B. Hillis, secretary of student aid. -Previous to 1920, the report states, ministers were ‘ofdained in sufficient numbers to replace the gaps caused by the death of aged preachers. During the “ast five years the situation has been becoming more .neute, ** ‘The Presbyterian church is not alone in its need. 4 Ftom almost every other great church comes the ‘same call to youth. Is this shortage of pastors a Zresult of thd marked trend toward science? 20 | Editorial Comment | i HERQWN WAY COMING TO THE POINT yon.” He seemed satisfied with my explanation. “You see, sir, I was foolish enough to have all that money my dad had given me ir my bag.” He looked, toward the bag I had placed on his desk. “It was not that bag, sir, but fam coming to that one later. ‘1 left my old bag lying on the table while f was ordering my dinner. 1 expect T became so interested in the people| about me—I had neyer seen so many | women with their s all showing | in my life—-that I fo! ny money. | “When I came to bill 1 had} As though he were afraid that 1 would think he had‘a kindly thought in his brain, Mr. Hath drew his brows into a fre over his no ing about his er generation in regard to independence. 1 went steadily on with my story. He did not again interrupt until T said Thad gone the first night to his restaurant. “Why did you pick on the Beau Arts?” he asked suspiciously, “Did you not know it was the most expeny sive eating place in all the town? It certainly was no place’ where @ girl who to work for her living would eat unless someone else paid for her meal.” “I didn't know anything about it, sir, exeept that it looked like one of those stylish restaurants I had read about and I determined that for once in my life T would see what was ins side. I would taste what kind of food they served and look upon the beaus tiful ladies I had heard so much about.” I stopped a moment. ind how the young- strange ideas alled their e. clai . Hathaway | ineredulously. “Had there been any-j one at your tzble?” \ “Plenty of people had brushed by | me. You see, the head waiter, find- ing out that I was alone, ‘had given me a table which would not have been acceptable to his better patrons set their dirty dishes on one side. Mr. Hathaway, young women alone are not treated very kindly in your festaurant.” (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) TOMORROW: A Fearless Statement. te |from the top of the old dead tree |the whole way down to the ground. But fortunately he fell into a bed of | soft moss, and when the Twins reach- ed him he had quite come to. “Oh!” he gasped. “Oh! Oh! Oh? All is lost! The rent money and every- thing. Oh, those dreadful Gazook- umses! They are worse than Su’ tcher Snatch ever thought of being. Have they gone fi “Yes,” said Nick. “And they didn’t even leave a footprint behind them.” “They wouldn't,” groaned poor Mister Tingaling. (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) OLIVE ROBED?s BARTON Gazookumses are something like goblins only they usually go about in threes. Besides their eyes are pink and their ears are sharper. And I have, heard it said that their little tocs are made of solid silver. But of course one can’t be sure as they never take their shoes off. ‘There sat three of them, now, in the crow's nest in the old dead tree, stuffing themselves with lolly-pops and chocolate-buds and bon-bons and throwing the papers and sticks over- | board, you: might s: Attempts are being made to graft oranges. and lemons on the Aus- tral lime tree so'such fruit may be grown in dry regions. | Your waiters and other service ni] nO _—~ In New York | —-——__—4@ New York, April 24.1 saw her the other night at the Society of Ilustra-; tors ball. | Almost any woman from anywhere would have recognized her face at once. Pick up almost any peritdical-de- voted to women’s i to the advertising i see her photograph, In one she will be wearing a gown from Paris, the price of which is not even suggested; in another she will be wearing a chic hat from so-and-so; in another she will have a street dress that brings wistful sighs from the feminine mi "| lions, Her “magazine clothes” are last word in price and “class.” I saw her at the Illustrators’ the other night. She was wearing a home-made ning dress, the; ball eve- Speaking of the eternal’ ironies—I; happened in on a lunch gathering of “very modern” women. i Practically all of them are in busi- nesses and professions and they meet at a certain hotel.almost every goon ur. ; eral of them were “Lucy Ston- as they term warrieti women who retain their maiden names. I listened to several conversations. Not once did I hear any mention of business. At least 80 per cent of| them were discussing the difficulty of| getting good maids to clean up apart- ments or the va‘ous problems of spring house ‘cleaning. | A few talked books and plays—but the great majority were talking about things affecting the home. I don’t think there is much need for worry. I never did, for that matter, x ¢ To make this a 100 per cent fem- inine edition of this worthy depart-; ment—much has been. said of the respective differences of men and wo- men as “spenders.” The instinctive thrift that marks the woman will come out in such matters as lips and other gratuitous fees, it has been argued, man who has many coat room. concessions at dig hotels: tells me that the average tip of ‘3 woman to the coatroum flunkies is 10 cents the 25 cents, or more, from That was the way nei and the Twins found ou that they} were there. | “We'll get you!” shouted the fat} little fairyman. “Give back the rent} money you stole from the owl. Give] it back or we'll come up and, get you.” The three little gazookumses looked | over the edge of the nest, their sharp noses sticking out like bird bills. | “We don't care! Come on!” they! said. “The money’s all spent and the candy’s all gone. Come and get us if you cai ‘ : Mister Tingaling was getti mad about everything by this time, so he shouted, “Look out then, We're coming up this very minute.” And calling to Nancy and Nick to follow him, he started to climb up the tree as fast as he could go. -He didn’t take ‘he podsct-book ing pretty along begause he couldn't go so fast with it. And the Twins didn’t take ‘the rent-book and pencil along be- cause they couldn't go quite so fast, HERE, MY DEAR, |S SOMETHING ON] elther. All three of those precious things lay on the ground at the fout sof the tree. Up and up and up went the Twins | in their magic shoes. | At last they reached the big bare branch that held up the crow’s nest. And along it they all ran to catch the Gazookumses. + But the three noses were no longer to be seen. And upon-reaching the nest and peering over the edge, no 12 Billion to Travel ! _, Five years ago America spent 12 billion dollars ;$bn travel. This year the cost of gadding by family motor car, community bus or limited train will run ;£40°20 billions. Back in 1900 we thought travel had ¢¥eached a pretty high peak when the country took #@ billion dollars’ worth of jaunts. 2 Phe motor car and bus have been the great agent , “iinereasing travel. ‘The investment in automobiles cand busses exceeds that of the railroads now. Th: ual transportation bill on highways is twice that railroads are realizing that they must not ‘and the men’ who helped make history. The unfortunate part. of recommending the Bad Lunds to the many tourists\who come to the State is that so many, many North Dakota people do not mow what they are. The State’s own people have neglected them, going elsewhere for their outings. But this is being changed, thanks to the Roosevelt National Park Association, which is seeking to have that district designated as a National playground, and the Greater North Dakota Association. That is not the only section for the tourist, how- ever. There are the Turtle Mountains, the Pembina Mountains, and, here and there, a beautiful lake that fhas become something more than body of water. It is therefore,’ to call attention to, these beauty ahd historic spots. Couhtless tourists would visit them if they knew what they were. The Great- Dakota in. , shells. Z citizen, |¢ Gazookamses were to be’ seen, cither. Thy had disappeared, pink eyes, sil- ver toes and al) “Oh, sugar!” cried poor Mister Tingafing, stamping his foot so hard he almost snapped off the old dead branch. “Where did they go?” I'd like to) know,” said Nancy. { “Don’t ask me,” said Mister Tinga- ling. “They. must have wings 4» well a ver toes, for they never climbed down, I’m sure.” Suddenly they heard someone say, “Ooooh! A whole dollar and a quarter in fairy money, and « nice big book with a of lot names in it and a big pencil with a nice point! And a pocket-book, too! A present for each of us and enough money to co i aoe the whole candJ-store be- sides! Oh, thank you, sir! We’; sorry we threw lolly-pop sticks and allver-paper wads at you. We like your friends, too, even if they ha 4 eyes. Good-bye!” - “that | sot L HEARD You LAUGH IT, SOUR WOMEN IN POLITICS. YOU OUGHT To READ iy! ‘SAD 1T — Ta pg -HEALTH BY DR. HUGH 8. CUMMING Surgeon bea ws 8. Public Health ce Some time ago, in a study made of the causes of death in a group of normal children ander one year of age, it was found that more than one-half of the deaths that occurred in this particular group were due to disorders of nutrition. Such a study shows the great importance of nursing the baby if possible during the first year of life, It is-well worth while for the moth- er to make energetic. efforts to con- tinue giving her baby the food which nature intended for it to receive. A mother should not willingly sur- render this duty at the first oppor- tunity offered by: some slight dif- ficulty. Mother's Health In order properly to nurse the baby it is necessary that the mother keep herself in good health. This means that she must take sufficient sleep and.eat good food, including plenty of milk, meat once a day, eggs, fresh vegetables, ripe fruit, nourishing light food and drink plenty of water. SATURDAY, APRit » DISORDERS IN NUTRITION © KILL MANY INFANTS SERVICE- She should endeavor to eat only those foods which agree with her and she should. be careful not to-eat green fruit and other food which bg 4 set up digestive disturbances, nursing ‘mother should never take any drug without the advice of a physician. Alechol in any form should never be taken by the nurs- ing mother. It used t be a common pace for’ mothers to take malt jiquors to stimulate the flow of milk. . Malt Drinks While under proper medical su- pervision the use of malt drinks might have some slight value as a temporary measure, the safest rule has always been to avoid all alco- holic beverages. Good results may sometimes be secured by taking an increased amount of fluids in the form of cocoa, beef tea, buttermilk or pure cow's milk. ‘he mother should avoid all un- ‘usual excitement or those things whieh tend to an unusyal outburst of the emotions. Life should be so regulated as to protect mothers from weariness and fatigue during this pe- | riod. Waiters and taxi drivers and maids in dressing rooms will report ‘the same. Is this entirely thrift “Partly,” says my informer. “But the basis of it is that men have come to possess a gesture of the braggart. They are fearful of being considered cheap and want, to make a flash in front of their fellows particular! when there are women present. A woman is different. If there is any comment on the size of a tip she im- mediately becomes the — indign party, flares about and spouts ind! nation. And-she gets away with it 4 ILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) ° oe . . “® |. Court Decisions | —— -o FROM STUTSMAN COUNTY William ‘Blievernicht and ‘Alvena| Blievernicht, Plaintiffs and Appel- lants -V8,- 'N. E. Landeene, as Administrator of the Estate of August Peterson, De- ceased, ct al, Defendants, R. M. DePuy, L. A. Mielke, and the James River National Bank, a cor- poration, Defendants and Respond- ents. SYLLABUS: ‘ In an action to foreclose a real; estate mortgage, certain parties, who claimed ownership of the mortgage adverse to the plaintiffs, wére named parties defendant. The only con- | troversy dt the trial an ‘to the Supreme Court is as ownership of the ‘mortga; Tho evidence is examined, and it is held, for reasons: stated in the 0) on, that the plaintiffs are the owners. | Appeal from the District Court of Stutsman County, Hon. J. A. Coffey, Judge. . REVERSED AND REMANDED, Opinion of the court by Birdzell, J. ‘Carr & Rittgers, Jamestown, North! to the Dakota, Attorneys for Appellants. ; «| C.8. Buck, Jamestown, North Dako-. ta, Attorney for Respondents. | FROM BURLEIGH COUNTY State of North Dakota, doing busi- ness as The Bank of North Dakota, as Agent for the Treasurer of the “State of North Dakota, ct, al, Plain- tiffs and Respondents Frank J. Johnson, a8 County Auditor and G. L. Spear, as County Trea- surer, of the County of Burleigh, and State of North Dakota, Defend: ants and Appellants. BUS: A mortgage- executed "by the wner of land on the 6th day. of May, 920, is prior and superior to a hail indemnity tax lien created by an implied contract and which does not become a lien until after the 15th day of June, 1920, fi ‘ » The owner of said land acquired title thereto by the foreclosure of said mortgage and the execution of a deed in the foreclosure proceedings.’ and has a legal right to redeem, and is entitled to a certificate of redemp-, ‘tion from tax sales of said land where all the taxes have been tendered except the hail indemnity tax. for the yeats 1921, 1922 and 1923, and_man- damus will lie to compel the issuing of the certificate of redemption. t Appeal from a judgment: of the District Court of Burleigh County, awarding mandamus against defend- its above named. *PMRMED Necssle, J, being dis-| d, did hot partifigate, ice: tact y Burke, J.) qual Opinion of the Court i F. E. McCurdy, State's Attorney, Bismarck, North Dakota, Attorney for Appellants; O'Hare & Cox. and P. H. Butler, Bismarck, North Dakota, At- torneys for Respondents, ‘Charles L. Crum, Bismarck, N. D..,| filed brief amicus curiae. FROM STEELE COUNTY The Thompson Yards, Inc., a corpora- tion, Plaintiff and Appellant -V8.- J. Kinsley, et al, Defendants Albert Mustad. Willie Olson,’ and Jeff Long, Defendants and Res- penton SYLLABUS: oe Noe: (1) Section 6833 of. the: Compiled Laws for 1913 subjects officers and members of boards failing to take ‘bonds from contractors for public’ improvements to a liability substanti- ally the same as the liability of sure- ties on ‘a contractor’s bond, where such bond is given.as required by Section 6632. : (2) Section 6832 of the Compiled Laws for 1913, sequiring gublix of- ‘ficers or members of boards to take from contractors for public improve- ments bonds conditioned for the pay- ment of claims:on account of labor or materials furnished “to stan security for all such bills, claims and demands until the same are fully paid,” is construed and held to require the assumption ofa liability on be-| half. of a contractor for public im- provements in favor of laborers and materialmen ilar to the urity of a mpchat lien - for improve- ments of private property. (3) An extension of the time of payment of an account for labor or materials does not.relase the liabil- ity in favor of laborers and material- men ich the statute imposes upon contractors’ ‘bondsmen or, in the ‘ab- sence thereof, upon public officers or members of boards neglecting the statutory duty, >” i (4), One who stands in the relation of a guarantor or a surety upon an obligation which is: | i d_ upon. appeal + it] two ucts, wi ject and consistent with the avowed Purpose. ‘ 4 tage ee a ameitles leat of ele County, + Cole, Juige, REVERSED. een Opinion of the court by. Birdzell, J, ‘Chas. A. Lyche, Hatton, N. D., and B. F. Spalding, Fatgo, N. D., Attérneys for G Apion P. Sathre, Finley, N. D., C. S. Shipp; lope, N. D., and W. J. Court- ney, Page, N. D., Attorneys for Res- pondents. ORIGINAL Petitioned V8. : The State of North Dakota, and John i mene ie ee Fol aaa North Dakota, Respondents. SYLLABUS: oe _ 1. On habeas corpug the inquiry is limited to questions of jurisdiction; and the writ cannot be invoked for the purpose of reviewing the correct- ness of acts of courts or officers who ig within their jurisdiction. . 2. It isa rule of criminal procedure in this State (Section 11088, C. L. 1913) that “neither a departure from the form or mode prescribed x x in respect. to any pleadings or procecd- ing, nor an error or mistake therein, renders it invalid, unless it has ac- tually prejudiced the defendant or tended to his prejudice, in respect to » substantial right.” 3. A defendant sentenced to im- prisonment, who, after perfecting an appeal from the judgment of con- viction, obtains a stay of execution ‘and is permitted to remain at liberty pending the appeal, is not entitled to be discharged on habeas ¢orpus because the trial court in granting the stay, at the invitation of the de- fendant, erroncously accepted an im- proper or insufficient bail bond. Original application for a writ of habeas corpus to be directed to John C. Ross, as Sheriff of Cass County. WRIT DENI Anna Cook, Opinion of the court by Christian- son. Ch. J. Wood & Breaw, Fargo, N. D., af- geal for petitioner. of _H. F. Horner, State's Attorney, and V. R. Lovell, Assistant State’s At- tornev, both of Fargo, .N. D., and Geo. Shafer, Attorney General, Bis pak, N. D., attorneys for respond. ents. ‘ A ————___.__igy | CROP REPORT |! l | oo The weather in general throughout the northwest has been favorable for field work during the past weck,.and splendid progress is being made with seeding in all sections, says the week- ly crop report of the Van Dusen Har- rington company of Minneapolis. The round is still freezing at night in nothern districts, but this has not to any great extent delayed opcrations. Our reports indicating lack of mois- ture, however, are increasing. There have been a few jiocal showers throughout the territory, but the usual spring rains have not yct put in an appearance. In view of the general lack of subsoil moisture, ample precipitation is necessary for proper development of the crops, and this factor will be of tremendous im- portance during the next few weeks. In southern Minnesota and South Dakota wheat seeding is practically completed, und in some districts farmers are well along with the sced- ing of coarse grains. ‘Due to the small amount of moisture, spotted and un- even conditions are-developing. Some of the carly sown fields are already showing green in the low spots, while in the higher portions of the same fields the seed has not yet sprouted. Our reports indicate that in the Red Rivervalley district of Minne- sota and North Dakota, and in south- ern districts of North Dakota, wheat seeding is about seventy per cent completed, while in sections to the north it varies from 10 to 40 per cent of completion. In Montana our cor- respondents advise us that about 35 per cent of wheat seeding has been finished, Leg Winter rye is beginning to show an uneven condition and in general the prospects for this crop could hardly be called favorable at this time. From Montana reports indicate that up to the present winter wheat is ‘making a good showing. No serious winter killing in evidence, and moisture condftio: the winter wheat distriet are fsrily satisfactory. Our information. points to a small decrease in’ the< contemplated ‘broad sj Wheat acreage of the nDrthwest as compared with last scason, and a cor- responding increase in durum. As stated last week, somic areas, particularly in Minnesota and South Mdkota, are extremely dry. The Red River valley and the northern coun- ties of North Dakota and eastern Montana report sufficient: moisture for a satisftocry germination of sced and to carry the crop for a short time. Central arcas-generally should have rains very soon for sced to de- velop properly. Sevéral localities advise that high winds are drying the - top soil. It is very apparent that the most. important factor.in our crop situation at present is the ;question of moisture, and general ‘raihs are essential. 1]| MANDAN NEWS q “Polished Pebbles,” an operetta’ in acts resented test night at school iz + the Junior high 5 ‘the Biate Co font ae eit Ned hae and a sate m Ouse, t Sheil embrace gripe no subject, of 16 well fred eeooe ‘took which shall 0s M3 Se ae ie oe x pig of are. ‘satis! subject is be. used ‘band: lion be al in general | ments. : é eke 1 24, 1926 i