The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 10, 1929, Page 2

PAGETWO __ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1929 New Styles of Merchandising to Occupy State Retailers Meeting DEALERS 10 WEIGH DECLINE OF SMALL TOWN AS PROBLEM Three-Day Session to Be Held Here This Week on Tax, Fire, Chains and Other Topics EGG BOOST FOR FARMERS, Will Seek Methods to Grade Up Hen Products; Governor to Be Banquet Toastmaster Organized North Dakota retail mer- | chants will weigh problems, instead of | merchandise, and take measure of various phases of the new style of merchandising, instead of goods, at a three-day convention to be held here by their association, beginning Tues- day. They are to consider the possibility of the small town disappearing, the new demands entailed by the tendency toward general mass buying and chain selling, fire hazards and prevention, tax problems, freight rates, and eggs as a means of putting several million dollars more into the pockets of North Dakota farmers by bringing the out- put of their hens to top grade. What methods will put a premium on Da- okta eggs will be sought out in dis- cussion and comparison of experi- ences. Other issues of vital impor- tance to mercantile welfare will be dealt with by members who are com- ing from every section of the state, according to W. D. Powell, secretary of the association. ‘Will Open in Elks Hall ‘Tuesday forenoon will be devoted to registration of visitors at Elks hall. For the early comers who love to chase the little white sphere over the hillside, the local reception committee has arranged an informal gol session. T. B. Garnaas of Sheyenne, presi- dent, will call the convention to order ‘Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The afternoon will be devoted to group meetings for the general merchants and grocers. Methods of better retail- ing are to be introduced, making the convention one of unusual educational merit. In the evening the merchants will attend as a body the showing of a motion picture, “Bettery Grocery Stores,” at the Capitol theatre. Wednesday morning there will be a continuation of the group meetings. R. O. Baird, state food commissioner, will have an active part in the pure food discussion. Business discussions will follow and there will be several short addresses, one to be on insur- ance. Completing the day's activities will be a drive about Bismarck, which will be followed by a banquet, at which Governor George F. Shafer is to preside as toastmaster. Thursday subjects that will be brought up for discussion include tax- ation, freight rates, the small town and fire prevention. Election of of- ficers will bring the convention to a close. Following will be the program of the convention: Tuesday Morning, Elks Hall 9 until noon—Registration. 9:30—Golf game, to be arranged. Tuesday Afternoon—Group Meetings 2:00—Call to order. Election of chairmen of groups. 2:15—Round-table discussion. Fol- lowing subjects to be considered: Mass Merchandising: What Is Its Future? (1) What advantages are gained by consolidating chains of dis- tributors in various lines? (2) Will the retail store of the future be a com- posite of different types? Wholesaler, Retailer, Cooperatives. (1) Does the present tendency toward group action by retailers, and whole- salers and retailers combined, indicate ultimate chain organization distribu- tion? (2) Will the individual whole- saler or retailer, operating independ- ently of others, survive? Chain Organizations and the Future. (1) Do chains tend to improve inde- Pendent retail methods? (2) How will the increasing competition between chains affect the growth of such or- tions? jass Buying and Selling Methods. (2) What effect does mass buying have on the manufacturer? (2) What should manufacturers estab- film to be f the Capitol theatre, to be followed by a special feature picture. ‘4 ACROSS 1, Father Fifer Mother of Peer Gyat 68. Foss 65. Precise 69. . Rate of ti decimal sys- tem . Mother i Silence forel- [ais |alalols] [ale Mmo|n{slelr) O00 o0000 Si: Scotch river Bird’s “home DOWN 7, tate 38. Worthless oo, Famous care toonist if s 62, Place 65, Concerning committee. Report of secretary. Re- Port of treasurer. 3:00—Address by G. Host of G. Host & Sons, Leeds, N. D., president of the National Merchants association. 3:30—Discussion on group life in- surance. Arrangements have been made for an expert to be present and handle the topic. 4:00—Adjournment for visit places of interest around city. 7:00—Annual banquet, Grand Pa- cific dining room. Governor George F. Shafer, toastmaster. Invocation by the Rev. O. S. Rindahl. Thursday Morning 9:00—Call to order. Subject, “The Influence of Consumer Demand.” (1) How can the distributor and pro- ducer cooperate to meet consumer de- mand? (2) How can conflicting styles and standardization tendencies be harmonized? 9:30—Taxation. (1) Would the gross earnings tax plan be more equitable in the taxation of goods and mer- chandise? The action necessary to in- fluence a measure of this kind. (3) Discussion of taxation of goods and merchandise. 10:00—Freight rates. The commod- ity rate for carlot shipments. 10:15— Will the Average Small Town Disappear? Discussion. The publicity plan as a major project of the association will be shown and discussed by C. E. Brown, president of the Advertising club of Fargo. 10:45—Fire Prevention. Is there an opportunity for trade associations in reducing fire waste? Informal ques- tion box on new problems. 11:00—The “Fair Trade” Bill. Copies of Representative Kelly's address in congress January 18 in support of the measure will be distributed for study. Thursday Afternoon 2:00—Call to order. Subject, “Store Closing Rules.” (1) Should stores close at 6 or 6:30 cach evening except Sat- urday throughout the year? to Paul. perfectly Worthless advertising schemes for filching merchants of their money. 2:30—Consideration of matters left over from previous sessions. Commit- tee reports. Resolutions. Special com- mittees. Nominations. Election of of- ficers. Adjournment. Still Time for Flax Sowing on Unoccupied Land, St. Paul, June 10.—(#)—While it is too late to decrease wheat acreage this year in favor of flax, there still is time to sow flax on unoccupied land, according to Dr. Andrew Boss, vice director of the Minnesota experi- ment station, and other Says Director University farm, St. Flax may be seeded up to June 15 or 20 with normal assurance of suc- cess, he says, and adds that the flax crop should hold a larger place than it does in the cropping system of the Northwest. Flax is known to be a more profit- able crop in the areas to which it is adapted and the additional tariff pro- posed by congress gives added assur- ance of continued favorable prices for American grown flax, Dr. Boss stated. URBANA GRADUATES N. DA- KOTANS Urbana, Ill, June 10—(4)—When the University of Illinois grants 2,300 of its degrees during week, residents of states other than Illinois will become members of the alumni group of the Among these will be Sabra Felita Cay- lor, Carrington, and Henry Mathew Fallon, Sheldon. Agile porkers may be photographed the coming Illini family. through a device to hold them invented by Gus Boshstedt of 2:15 — Schemes and Schemers. | Wisconsin university. OUT OUR WAY HAVE To GO Viou't Bom weir 100 You THINK I LIKE T' HAFTA GO T' TH KINDA SrHows’ SHE Picks OvT, ALL FOLLA Kissin’ AN" MOOSHY, GOOW-EYED Daily Cross-word Puzzle Solution to Saturday's Puzzle SYNOPSIS: Nearly frantic in her efforts to prove that her fi- ance, Jerry Ogden, did not mur- der his father, Lucy defies the law and takes the fight into her own hands. She learns that Jerry was seen speeding toward Skull Valley, probably to the deserted Ogden mine at Torridity. De- termined to reach Jerry before he is arrested, she locks Henry Dea- con, chief of police, into a clesct, takes his automobile and starts on a mad dash to the desert to save her lover. CHAPTER 18 THE CITY OF SILENCE What was I going to do, you ask? Well, I might smash in my English door—and let Deacon out. He would stop Lucy by telephone. Or I might leave Deacon and take after Lucy. ‘The first was what I ought to do, and the second was what I was going to do. Lucy’s argument had impressed me. It seemed vitally necessary to, Jerry’s well-being that he give him- self up before he was arrested. If Lucy had the courage to take the law into her own hands, so had I. Yes, even though it cost me Henry's friendship! And, besides, she wasn’t going down to that devil's cemetery alone. Slipping quietly into the house, I listened for a moment to the terrific uproar Deacon was making. Fortu- nately, the room was remote from the avenue. I made my way out to the garage, feeling uncomfortable about leaving him behind. Filling a couple of water canteens at a faucet, I took them into my car with me. Two mountain ranges lay between me and my destination. The first 40 miles of road would be paved or good dirt, the next 20 would fall by degrees from poor to dreadful. Lucy would make for Pitchfork Canyon, the only possible approach to Tor- ridity from the west, and I hoped to reach her before she began the de- scent. That road down into the Skull is a madman’s nightmare and I didn't fancy her making it alone. The San Felipe Valley was drenched in sunlight and the sweet scent of orange blossoms hung like incense. This morning I had little time for sentimentalizing, however, and when, some short while later, the r! throb of the engine fell steeply into silence, I had even less. I got .out and looked in the tank. It was empty! The nearest filling station ‘was seven miles behind me! Raging at my carelessness, I flung my coat into the car and set off down the scorching road. When I finally got my hand on the wheel again Lucy was some three hours ahead of me. Likely enough she was at Torridity. Skull Valley lies between the Skel- eton Mountains and the Red Gold Range. From the west you descend into it by Shinbone Canyon and on the east you ascend from it by the Devil's Mouth. A road of sorts spans the valley from Shinbone to the Dev- il’s Mouth and if you want a taste of the grim terror of the place you may cross it by car. But Torridity is ten miles south of the road which spans the valley and the intervening stretch of desert is impassable. Another road, a miserable affair, leads into thé valley by way of Pitchfork Can- yon, passes through Torridity, and joins the main road at Devil's Mouth on the east. This is the only road into the town from the west. I sup- Pesed Jerry and Lucy had taken it and I purposed following it myself. It was just one o'clock when 1 reached the summit of the Skeletons. |- Time was precious—my fears for Lucy had increased with every mile Thad come—but nothing on earth could have driven me down Pitchfork until my eyes had had their desire of that sardonic masterpiece below. Never before had the valley gripped my soul with so violent a sense of unholy horror and sleek and tawny beauty. The valley blazed with light and color. But as I looked upon this be- witching opalescence it seemed to me that something alive and watchful lurked beneath it. Something sleek | ©: as seal skin, vital as a young ti alluring as a perfumed goddess. Va- Porous arms reached out to me and tried to cloud my senses—and I knew that its beauty masked a spirit as venomous as Satan. My eyes leaped to the saffron flanks WELL TLL Nor GO TO “THE ONES WE PICKS OUT, With A MURDER IN EVERY FLICKER, StuUrr Uke THE BUTKHERS REVENGE, WHAT CoES HE THINK ZT YAM? of the Red Gold Range, then fell again into the rainbow sea below. A and I started down the Pitchfork. The road had been blasted out of the side of the canyon 40 years ago. Millions in silver, gold and borax had been mule-teamed around its last look hairpin curves. But with the clos- ing down of the Torridity mining Properties the road had fallen into disuse. Little repair work had been done on the road of recent years and the spring freshets had made a ruin of it. Below me fell a 1000-foot drop and as I crawled around the sharp curves I looked at death a score of times. Nor did I fcr a moment forget that the next. bend might show me Deacon's car upside down and Lucy’s broken ly. In two hours I reached the bottom. The opalescent beauty of the desert had vanished. Grim and terrible, it seemed to say, “I've got you, fool!” The trail to Torridity lay before me, and I was cheered. Ah! There were car tracks. Several of them. Lucy was ahead of me. I would be with her in half an hour! The trail was vile, but I got along fairly well. The empty desolation op- pressed my spirit and again I was seized by that profound melancholy I had felt in the canyon. The air seemed charged with sinister potency. Out of a sky as hard as a metal bell poured a ferocious blinding heat that made me thankful for my water canteens. A light hot wind blew and @ faint moaning sound was in the air. Perhaps I was running into one of the shrilling windstorms for which the valley is notorious. ‘They come in a twinkling, sometimes last for days, and cease as suddenly as they begin. dust then Torridity lifted its sun- bleacIted bones into view and I blared on my horn. In the heydey of its glory it had been a typical western mining town of 1500 population. The present hopeless desolation of the town shocked me. I have been in a few “ghost cities” of the west, but none of them had seemed quite so abandoned as this one did. And here it was that the candle of my friend’s life had burned with such hectic brilliance that its reflection shone up through the dust of 30 years. What tragedy had dimmed its light? In the crooked main street, I stopped the car and with head bared listened reverently. A window rattled. A door creaked. That was all. Again I sotinded the horn. “Lucy!” I shouted. “Lucy! Lucy!” And then: “Jerry, where are you? Lucy! Lucy! Jerry!” No res) . I got out of the car. Nowhere there sign of human life. Here and there on the rutted street were the faint imprints of car tires. I tried to follow them, but the ground was unyielding and the trail soon ended. They had been here. Getting in the car, I drove up and down the street, blaring my horn and calling the children by name. (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) What has happened to Lucy and Jerry in this desert tomb? Continue the story tomorrow. (By The Associated Press) MONDAY Senate debates farm bill con- ference report. House takes up conference re- td on census-reapportionment committee Lowest last night | Precipitation to 7 a. Highest. wind velocity a national stallion By Williams - || scape BE “I wouldn’t mind endorsing your I'd been smoking them.” f Additional Sports i Blue Larkspur Is Best in Belmont E. R. Bradley's Great Colt, Ken- tucky Derby Failure, Is Year's Best By ORLO L. ROBERTSON New York, June 10.—(?)—Shades of the Kentucky derby, shadows of a great two year old duel flashed around muddy Belmont park Satur- day as Blue Larkspur splashed way to victory in the Belmont stakes '—America’s premier three year old race. Running on a turf that resembled more slippery than muddy, made so by rain of the last 12 hours, found Blue Larkspur at his best. He stepped the mile and half route in 2:32 4-5, only 2-5 of @ second off the sensa- tional time hung up by Chance in 1927 and by Crusader the preved. ing year. One length back of the bs Astride the mighty son of Servant was Mack Garner, who has home winners for more likes. . Beacon Hill tired rapidly and fell Jength back of Jack leading three year old Payne Whitney's Crasy Coot erations fg Hq SH [vee champlonenip by "taking. the venile cham} ip z 2 stakes from a field i ZB jot 13 two year olds. W. R. Coe’s ~ Keep pte mm ge y H. M ‘Walker's race was $5 85 06 Cloudy 740 to the winner. - 87 58 = lear Or Aa : ° usin os |Konichek gia aor (Ki Heads. - 83 53° 0 Clear ° 87 58 45 Clear a # ¢ ce | Bison Track Men 93 58 0 PtCldy — -, 83 46 22 Clear ’ 81 56 21 Clear Dorland Konichek of Bowdon, N. D., . 89 65 1.00 Clear |crack quarter- and half-miler on the 85 52 0 Clear 88 57 0 Clear | team, has been named captain of the 82 47 85 Clear | 1930 Bison track and field aggrega- 93 54 04 Clear | tion. 89 64 04 Clear Konichek his 85 57 .07 Clear | junior year at the college and, coming $2 40 0 PeClay taperiente, developed to a remarkable + 86 58 © Clear | degree of efficiency at the middle dis- + 85 37 29 Cloudy | tance runs. A + 91 58 0 Clear Eleven members of the Bison team Williston ...... 84 S56 42 Cloudy|were given variety letters for their Moorheed, Minn. 8 88 0 Clear | performances during the recent cam- WEATHER FORECASTS are Sand, Cy Jeschel,. Roy Jodre, Fer Bismarck and vicinity: Un-| Walter Nelson, Russell Weiser, Leon- Fe gg al yooh ome Prob- | ard Wollan, Joe Blakeslee, Leo May, ably local or thunderstorms. | Clarence Shephard, and Jack Pemble. ‘Cooler ‘Tuesday. ‘The Bison scored triumphs in dual For North Dakota: Unsettled to-| meets with the Valley City state on age mone local | teachers college and North Dakota or Cooler | university, and finished in third place don tenignt Por | Championship. The showing is consid Poescsecad ered remarkable in’ that only two ef Geveloped low pressure area | May, experience before entering is centered over northern college. Leonard Saalwaechter, Bison and the north-| track coach, has handled the squad ern border states and in the western | since the revival of the spring sport Heavy rain fell| three years ago, and bids fair to have at some places in northern North|» squad which will make a great bid Dakota’ Saturday nistt. Generally | for the North Central ‘loop honors weather prevails in the central | in 1930. * and southern states. ‘Temperatures| Ten members of the Bison fresh- cigarets if the coach wouldn't think Jack Ghronke, Leo Thomasson, Blair | "MH Seitz, Rod McMillan, Sam Lay Blunt, Thor Johnson, N.C. Conference Scores Transfer Athletes Moving From One Loop School to Another Are ineligible Westgate, ‘and Dolson Grand Forks, June 10.—Athletes who transfer fram one school to an- other North Central confer- ence ‘will not be eligible for inter- collegiate competition. This ruling has just been approved by members his of th nce according e conference acco! to an. nouncement made by R. D. Cole of the wed chipeaese of hard cree: secretary of the organization. It dates from June 1. Athletic directors of the loop ap- proved the measure at a meeting Sioux City, May 31, but as all the faculty representatives were not ‘present at that time, Dr.’Cole was forced to take a mail vote to deter- mine the attitude of the absent ones. The rule will not be ret: ive, according to Dr. Cole. There are at present athletes in practically every school of the conference who have transferred to their present location from another member. These will be poem to compete on teams until they have finished school. The new legislation does not af- fect athletes in schools outside the conference who many transfer to! schools within the organization. ° Wolverines and je @ e Illini Dominate June 10.—(#)—Illinois sid aia autism me Ten in major athletic Winning their second consecutive championship in the recent campaign, gave the Wolverines two titles, while Illinois gained its second in winning the outdoor track crown two weeks ago. conference baseball ! BSE .% fa 8 i ® i ly i ep dy i i Th BACK 10 OLD MAINE: WASS2 YEARS WEST Remembers Days of Golden Spike and Jamestown Surveying weet, Minn, june 10—Eawin back to live temporarily at Pemneone Me,, in his picturesque old hom the northeastern corner of the United Pacific in the position of chief fire Prevention inspector, with headquar- ters in St. Paul, he is known today by employes along the entire 7,000-mile system. On Friday, May 31, Mr. Os- borne’s name was written on the honor rolls of the Northern Pacific railway after nearly 47 years of con- tinuous service. With Mrs. Osborne, he leaves to take up a summer's resi- dence in the old homestead, which MS he . There, in pictur- esque surroundings, they will recall the days prior to his eighteenth birth- day, when he left home permanently. Mr. graduated from the University of Maine in the engineer- ing course with the class of 1881. 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