The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 17, 1926, Page 8

\ by g Ese aoe oa ee cca 5 Peres: es | From ba Notth t CLUBS GET ~ DEMOCRATIC State Women’s Organizations | Branch Out to Take in Everybody the idea of being exc Dakota women’s clubs ed out to a point where the f every woman in the M ave of the and founders federation ever since When the first convention met Devils Lake in June. 18 recounts, it Was found t ed one more club in the requirements for federat Mrs Powell was appointed to organize it in au hurry, She did and it was a most exclusive ing of nothing but t Help Comm that time, howe have adopted the principl ited rship, qualifications asery being an terest in) cultural without cons: social posi retive in they need. | order to Since club untin purpo y beth study | | called on conven held at Wahpeton this! in the history of the | |. When the club: aake they 1 Powell mad which has tion, to be fall, to tell n plan to pay spe honor to the founders of the organ- ization and the past presidents at the Wahpeton convention. Only two of | the latter are dead. They ure the late Mrs. Jennie S. Tulle president, and the late Mrs. White of Valley City and Washing ton, who president in 1906-08, Noted Lay Mission. Workers Will Visit IRATES OUT BY HIGH LINES \ ' 'Cost of Electric Service Is Re- ; duced 16 to 25 Cents KWH on Average Reduced cost of ‘electric service; has followed the development of! | high-tension lines for the distribu-| tion of current in North Dakota, records of the state board of ad- ministration show. Board officials k in saying that the high- offers many small North Da- kota cities and towns their main] hope of getting electric power at | reasonable figure. Wherever the power distribution | companies have extended their lines, | ther show, reductions in the cost. of electric service has follow- ed because the lurge concerns ean operate their. plants full time and cun distribute their overhead co: over a larger number of consumers. ~- Don't: Make~#rofit The average small North Dakota ty now is paying 26 cents p@.ki watt. hour for current when it furnished by local plants, Even th the local compan w of the town’: ing citizens, cognize the need of clectric- ail to make a reasonable return on their investment. In a number of towns recently taken over by a high-line concern, electric rates were reduced from average of 25 cents to about 16, cents per kwh. Even at that rate the power companies are enabled to make a good return on their invest- { ment. | \ | \ | | | i \ | { cents per kwh or more the | high lines in the state and the fact } lower court in admitting that the { Although citizens of many towns P In What Month Is Your Birthday? Bink price for electricity ix paid by! residents aunty They pay 40 cents per kwh for ali the electricity they use. The Kin- tyre plant is operated by a company Which lists among its atockhelders| every householder in the city. but one. It was built to serve the com- munity and not to make a. profit, Tt hasn't. | Maerite of the rapid expansion of Federal Reserve Bank Re- that they are taking over the power! POFts July Volume 4 Per service in many cities, the railroad! board expects numerous applications; ent Greater Than June for rate adjustments in the near future. GAIN SHOWN IN BUSINESS Pe EY eth xolume of business in this dis- H. 8, DISTRICT GORS THROUGH) Rot, Myst, “iouke teats 2 Residents of the Coulfield School| seventeen representative cities, was district No. 11, Divide county, who on a par with @ yeat ago, and 4 per sought to enjoin the formation of aj cent larger than in June of this year, high school district failed to act in! reports the Federal Reserve Bank of] time, the supreme court has held in! Minneapolis. Substantial gains were the case of Jonas Olson and others| shown in the livestock receiving cities against the school -district trustees and in the group of eight wheat belt And others. nich reversed ul (ities Bote an: compared with the N's set a ii i iicevious deteenitution by tke Ward | Genie ce ee ee county district court, sustained the Carloadingn Gain Caploadings were 10 per cent larg. cordance with the law but held that/ neo over $9,000 had been spent in er than fast year, this gain bein due principally to heavier loadin, the work without objection by the plaintiffs the latter were estopped! ore and of miscellaneous me! ‘rom contesting the matter. ‘ i Poison Ivy Picry relieves almost instantly and when it fails your money organization of the high school dis- trict had not been carried out in ac- n-| inc 1 Mh: ARREARS AICP AIO NNN A HASAN SHAN TRE SE: APN RERE were less this year, but greater than | mals. in July of last year. Flour and lin- seed oil products shipments both were greater than in June of this year, but less ‘than in July of Mast year. Drought conditions in July in the eastern counties of Dakotas and in parte of Montana caused forced marketing of grassy cattle, including some foundation stock. This accounts for the increase shown in July in cattle receipts as compared with June when all other livestock receipts de- clined. Good rains in the first week in Ay, relieved the situation, ex- cept in eastern Montana the Musselshell River. In’ the latter region, the pressure to sell was not #3 great, owing to ie et of other sanges having sufficient feed, to which some of the herds were moved. lie HEIRESS IN HUMANE WORK Milwaukee, Aug. 17—()—Love for animals which twenty years pre weighed the prospects of a pl i able social life, gave the Wisconsin Humane dociety a “Lady Bountiful” in wker, rith heiress, ‘termina! June of ‘an operet- devoted stray ai two @ truck, an wmbulance, end ing room, besides the to the entertainment o: Miss Cawker, when @ young debu- pou a fence to keep ren from seeing ‘the animals kilted. Miss Cawker visited the pound and, immediately turning from social duties, she threw her entire en into the work of the Wiscon- lumane society. Among her first acts was the opening of a home fot in her” father’s spacious WEAKNESS A man was charged with having be a ton of _ i ; “Have you anything to nay in your defense?” as! the judge. = “Yes, I did it in a moment of weakness."—Buern Humor, Madrid. We Sell Our Rebuilt Automobiles. To Our Friends © Our own reputation is involved in every rebuilt automobile we sell, and we value the good will of this business more than any other asget in the insti- tution. .We can unqpalifiedly recom- mend many besides this one: 1925 Overland Sedan, Excellent Condition Balloon Equipped LAHR MOTOR SALES Mr. and Mrs. Franklin H. Warner of New York city will arrive in Bis- marek, Thursday, on their homeward journey, after @ 10,000 mile auto trip from Florida to the State of h ington. During their trip, they addresses under the auspices of tl commission on missions of the } tional Council of © i churches. with pictures taken by Mr. and ner on trips to Japan, ¢ and Ceylon and their visits mission fields in this country. Mrs. Warner have both been lay workers for missions. er, who is president of the er Chemical company ’ COMPANY. Biemarck, Minot, Mandan, Distributors of Mrs. Frances Hall leaves the Somerset county jail at Somerville, N. Ju. after giving $15,000 bail on the charge she murdered her husband, Rev. | Edward Hall, and the comely choir singer, . Eleanor Mills, four years ago. At her right iseAttorney Augustus Studer, and at her left, Attorney Timothy Pfeiffer, of her counsel. Inset is Rev. Mervin Petit, who succeeded to Rev. 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He is also a trustee of Talladega College for Negroes in Alabama, and treasurer of the National Council of the Con- gregational churches in the United * States. 7 Mrs. Warner 1s president of the Woman's Board of missions for the Congregational churches of the east ern states. She is giving her time | to represent the women of the de- nomination as associate secretary of the Congregational Commission © Missions, In June, Obe: College, Ohio, gave Mrs. Warner an honorary degree of M. nition “generous 1 the needs of all mankin | fested in her work for missions. ‘ Counties Seek to Push Tax Claims Whether or not counties may col lec} taxes on closed ba ferred claims or must take chances of getting their money as other creditors is the point at issue in two cases before Judge Charles M. Cooley, in charge of adjudicating matters with regard to closed banks, argued in district court here. 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