The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 8, 1930, Page 3

* TREK WEST OF 1830 30-1N OPENING REGION | TOBE CELEBRATED ad Colorful and Pretentious His- toric Pageant Planned to Be Given at Fargo ‘ SEVEN CITIES TO JOIN IN Howard Ellsworth, Potentate of Body, Says Dedication of 4 Bad Lands Is Feature Dedicated to the pioneers, ranchers nd cowboys of western North Da- kota, El Zagal temple of the Shrine on Friday, May 23. at Fargo, will con- duct a “Covered Wagon” ceremonial, Howard E. Ellsworth, of St. Paul. il- lustrious potentate of the Fargo temple, announced today. ‘The ceremonial, which will be color- ful and pretentious, will have as par- ticipants rept ntatives of Shrine temples from seven northwest cities, including Minneapolis and St. Paul. The entire event will be in keeping pases Oe El Zagal Potentate | | Howard H. Ellsworth, a son of Teddy | Roosevelt's West, will be the leading | figure in the El Zagal temple of Far- | 80 “Covered Wagon” ceremonial to; | be held in Fargo on May 23. Mr. Ells- | worth who is well known in Bismarck lis the first shriner from western North Dakota ever to be honored with the potentacy of the Fargo shrine. The May ceremonial will be dedicated to the pioneers, ranchers and cowboys of the state. with President Hoover's suggested 100th anniversary of the covered wagon, which commemorates the movement of the first caravan from Kansas City, April 10, 1830. Similar THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1930_- : : N.D. SCHOOL SYSTEM NEED FOR PROGRESS NAMED BY PARSONS { Sanitary Buildings, Distribution | of Costs, State Architect, Major Points Big advances were made in North Dakota’s school system in the 25 years from 1904 to 1929 but more are necessary if the state is to keep step with educational progress, according to W. E. Parsons, deputy state super- intendent of public instruction. Parsons’ observations are contained in an article pre} for the North 'Dakota teacher, publication of the | State teacher's organization. The major advances listed are: Better school buildings and better provision for housing teachers, 180 teacherages being in use in 1929; more interest in school problems by local school boards; higher standards of training for teachers; increase in the number of classified schools from practically none in 1904 to 1,989 or 35 per cent of the total number in the state, in 1929: an enrollment increase froth 95,224 in 1904 to 171,605 in 1929, a gain. of 80 per cent; increase in high school enrollment of 568 per cent, showing more children attend- ing school beyond the grades; in- crease in average daily attendance | from 62 to 82 per cent increase in average length of school term from {119 to 168 days; better salaries for celebrations are to be carried a VETERANS RETIRE | teachers; increased expenditures for throughout the country by various or- | school purposes from $2,682,107.49 in ganization during 1930. | ‘ Already El Zagal temple has plans} ,crease in value of school property for the observance well advanced, Mr. | from less than $4,000,000 to nearly /eral experiment station and weather grees in February was 10.9 eee | Mobridge, 8S. D., Mar. 8—The four Ellsworth said. This temple of the | | $40,000,000. observer here. Since weather records were started here in 1892 the greatest owfall was 14.3 it Secretary Thompson Succeeded | ation atin” safe and sanitary | February #0 See hi ‘Ancient and Arabic Order, the play- ground of Masons. in the forthcoming | ceremonial will lay particular em- phasis in the dedication to the Kill- deer mountains and the Bad Lands. Mr. Ellsworth was agent and teleg- | rapher for the Northern Pacific Rail- way company when the station at | Killdeer, N. D., was opened in 1914, | by Walter Clark, Joe Diet- rich by Geo. Upright | August W. Mellon became exalted + at which time the rails were extended | Tuler of Bismarck lodge, No. 1199, or- | west from Golden Valley. |der of Elks, by election at the regu- Was Picturesque Country lar meeting of the lodge, Friday Killdeer was a picturesque settle- | night, while Walter Sather passed to ment at that time, consisting of tar | "nk of the past rulers. paper shacks, erected overnight; grain | A notable change was the retire- elevators, rising from the ground to|™ent of L. K. Thompson from the house thousands of bushels of grain | Secretaryship of the lodge: after 12 = held in open bins; the frontier atmos- | Years service. His retirement was in phere everywhere, with cowboys. In- dians and typical westerners. Open hospitality prevailed throughout. In the largest open-air amphithe- atre in the west. El Zagal park, at Fargo, a spectacular frontier pageant is to be carried out. This will be headed by Indians and cowboys from the Slope country of North Dakota, followed by a parade in honor of the pioneers of the state in which will participate the colorful uniformed | | favor of Walter Clark, who becomes | both custodian of the building and | secretary of the lodge and will give | | more time to the duties than was | Possible for Mr. Thompson, occupied | | as he is with his activities as Soo Line | | agent here. Another change was the promotion {of Joseph Dietrich to tyler emeritus \ after 20 years service. In his place jas active tyler George Upright was | elected. Other officers chosen included Al bands, patrols, bugle and drum corps.' © Brink as leading knight; Charles chanters and other groups from Aad. Liesman, loyal knight; Joseph Clif- Kem, Osman, Zuhrah, Khartum, and | ford, lecturing knight; J. P. Wagner, Yelduz temples. located in Duluth. treasurer; J. C. Tayior, trustee for Grand Forks, St. Paul, Minneapolis, three years, Obert Olson, four years, ‘Winnipeg and Aberdeen. S. D. Includes Shrine Indians Eighteen El Zagal Shrine clubs from North Dakota, headed by the Man- dan Shriner Indians. already are making extensive plans for individual marching units wearing costumes of their own originality. cowboy attire prevailing. Ten-gallon hats and boots and spurs will be in evidence, Mr. Ellsworth said. A. G. Arvold, Fargo, and Major A. B. Welch, Mandan, are cooperating in arranging the details for the May ceremonial. “We will reincarnate for the grown- ups and the children of today the spirit of the West which is rapidly fading into more modernistic ideas of living in an age that still is synono- mous of frontier hospitality and a real welcome at the doormat,” Mr. Ells- ‘worth said. Mr. Ellsworth recently was elected {ilustrious potentate of the Fargo tem- ple. He now is assistant general freight agent of the Northern Pacific railway. Most of his life, was spent in North Dakota. The event at Fargo will mark the first ceremonial since the elevation of ‘Mr. Ellsworth to illustrious potentate. He is the twenty-fourth potentate of the temple in 40 years. Grain Stealer Given 30-Day Jail Sentence Dickinson, N. D., Mar. 8—Carrol Buckley, one of two young farmers arrested in the southwest part of this county last week on the charge of and L. K. Thompson, five years; Wal- ter Sather, representative to the grand lodge meeting at Atlantic City; Judge I. C. Davies, representative to the state convention. Fifteen applications for member- ship were received and will be passed cn at subsequent meetings. One of the items of the evening's business was discussion of the lodge’s Plan to build a cottage at Camp! Grassick, Lake Isabel. where the Elks | can join in the work of the North Da- | kota Tuberculosis association in car- ing for undernourished children in} the battle against tuberculosis. This cottage is to be built by the building talent in the lodge this coming sum- mer. It will add to the number of beds which the association will be} able to provide in its plan to increase the number of children given open- air and sunshine treatment during | the camp season. | ————____ ______¢/ are '| AT THE MOVIES | ——_—_—____—__—__ PARAMOUNT THEATRE Cecil B. De Mille inaugurated an en- | 1904 to $15,352,315.18 in 1929, and in- Parsons listed six immediate needs of the state school system as follows: 2. Better distribution of the cost of schools and equalization of school costs. 3. More stringent requirements for teacher certification: 4. Widespread school spirit and in- cae and interested school pa- 5. A state architect to approve School building plans. 6. Full cooperation of every citizen in creating and maintaining good schools. Sorkness Back from Gamble Store Rally Fred J. Sorkness, manager of the Bismarck Gamble store, has returned from Minneapolis where he attended the annual two-day convention of, Gamble Store's managers and stock- holders. More than 175 men repre- senting stores in eight states were in attendance. The program of the meeting was entirely educational in scope cover- ing such subjects as turnover, stock | control, salesmanship and chain store | Merchandising. Mr. Sorkness says that 1930 busi- ness shows an increase during Jan- uary and February of 65 per cent over the sam: period for 1929. Thirty new stores have been opened since January 1. Stark County Officers Request 4-Year Terms Dickinson, N. D., Mar. 8—Stark county officers are taking the initia- tive in the initiation of a constitu- tional amendment providing for the election of county and state officers only every four years. Each county officer is mailing copies of the petition and personal letters to all other county commis- sioners in the state, asking coopera- tion. | Dickinson’s February Snowfall Near Record Dickinson, N. D., Mar. 8—Twelve and nine-tenths inches of snow re- corded at Dickinson in was tirely new system in making his first talking picture “Dynamite,” which comes to the Paramount Theatre February the greatest amount recorded in that month with one exception during the to Monday for a two day showing. last 39 years, according Moomaw superintendent of the fed- It has been the custom for talking ‘Pictures to be rehearsed completely ‘before going on the stage. Mr. De | Mille, however, proceeded sequence by | Sequence, rehearsing a sequence, tak- ing it, then returning to the rehearsal stage for work on the next sequence. The first sequence of “Dynamite,” the Jeanie MacPherson original, en- grand larceny in the theft of 50 | Compasses the sentencing to death of ‘bushels of flax, pleaded guilty to pet- y larceny here. He admitted stealing Woman, 74, Succumbs the principal male character, Charles Bickford. Also in the sequence is Muriel McCormac, playing his little Kay Johnson, Bickford, Conrad Nagel and Julia Faye have | Casson Ferguson appeared in sev- \eral of the earlier De Mille produc- tions. Barton Hepburn is the grand- son of the late A. Barton New York financier. Leslie Fenton Dickinson, N. D., Mar. 8—Mrs.| appeared on the st in “An Amer- Catherine Cuskelly, 74, wife of M. S.| ican Tragedy” and “The Goose Hangs (Cuskelly and a pioneer of Dunn cow High.” William Holden has also been > ty where they ranched from 1887 un- prominent on the New York stage. til retirement to live here six years | ad ago, died at her home in Dickinson ‘Tuesday AIR TAXIS and was buried from _London.—Air taxi services is so ex- St. Patrick's Catholic church here tended now that you can taxi to any Jeaves her widower and a daughter, Ella, here, and a son, Ed- 100 miles an hour with 16 passeng ward, Oakdale an She Dunn county. : if part of England, the Continent, Asia or Africa. Special air cabs, flying at [aboard are now in active service. RI LEST FOR BIDS Department of State Highways Sealed proposals will be received by the North Dakota State Highway Commission at its office in the State Capitol, Bismarck, North Dakota, 1 Four Wheel Drive truck of a re ularly rated capacity of not less thi 10,000 pounds. Equipped as follo Electric starter and ts, e closed neumatic tires, towini hooks, trailer hook, fender front an reat, and tachometer, e truck is to be used for mount- ing 2 1000 gallon road oil distributor.) cab, ‘1.20 Horse Power Horizontal Boiler (for heating oil or tar in tank ca and will be mounted on truck chassii by b Department and shall furnish the com- plete description of each article of equipment, the price thereof, includ- ing transportation charges to point f delivery. Each bid shall be accom- panied by a bidder's bond in the full amount of contract and a. certified check of the bidder in an amount equal to five per cent of his bid. Upon he award of the contract, the suc- cessful bidder shall furnish a surety id in the full amount of the con~ t Commission reserv pt or reject any and all proposals must be addressed to Department of © Highways d marked on the outside of the en- jope “Proposal for Furnishing Equipment.” | STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION. By H.C. FI the right bide. El Zagal Shiners to Stage Covered Wagon Ceremonial on [ste GLANCES - - - By George Clark AIRPLANES MOVING | Bess Sauires Slowly | “Wot’s her gencral coloring, ma’am? Perhaps the emeralds would be a bit harsh.” | 1902. The mean temperature of 22.7 de- above normal for the month and was nearly 20 degrees warmer than Feb- ruary, 1929. This was the mildest February since 1926 when the mean! rette ‘Davis, Beadle school; Miss temperatures was 25 degrees. FROM OLD AIRPORT [U.N. D. Club Advised! Professor Vernon P. Squines, dean | of the College of Liberal Arts at the Bismarck Fleet Mobilizes on | University of North Dakota, is fe- i il- State Highway Tract in eee See Bik cee serious East End of Ctiy duties in another month. Pati olay eras. Bese icine! sage ‘The 11 planes ‘making Bismarck | x4, Davis, former vice president of the their home airport are moving off of| Bismarck-Mandan’. University the old field in the bottoms in fear of | North Dakota Alumni club-in answer high water possibly stranding them if|to a letter addressed to:the dean by they take chances and remain. all who attended the annual reunion So far eight of the craft have been | of the club here recently. flown off and parked on the state/ Mrs, Vernon P. Squires'said in the highway plot beyond the WeStern | letter: bakery at Sixteenth street. These in-| “My ht and I both appreciate clude the planes of Vincent Cavasino, | sincerely most unexpected greet- Andrew Chandler, E. W. Anderson, |Mandan U.N. D. club, It is messages Fred M. Roberts and Frank Richey. '|like that, from his “old boys and B. F. Irvitie, William Swanson and| girls,” that ‘have helped more than Jack Kappas ate preparing to move| medicines, I think, to “bring him outealso, but the fear which hastened | back” in his severe. illness, and I find the departure of the other flyers has fe hard to express my gratitude and been a bit allayed by the falling of the | 11s. | Missouri river in the last two days. had the time and Dickinson Normal’s President Returns [2s From A. A. T. C. Meet | ar you’ for us? i Dickinson, N. D., Mar. 8.—Dr. C. L. Kjerstad, president of Dickinson {State Normal school, recently re- | turned from the convention of Amer- |ican Association of Teachers Colleges jat Atlantic City, N. J., where he was elected toa four-year membership on/ strength and service. f | that association’s committee of stand- ‘ards and si . | He reports that the local school re- mains in “A” classification. RE-ELECT MOBRIDGE TEACHERS | oO © BANK CLOSES i principals of the Mobridge schools of the Security State Bank were re-elected for the ensuing year as follows: E. H. Korstad, senior high; S. M. Stockdale, junior high; Mrs. An- | d ent. ized at $15,000, had e surplue’ and deposits of $20,000. $2,600, | Kathrine Goodchild, Lincoln school. 65 HORSEP til, 10:60. o'clock A. M., March 28th, * eee the following equipment: Sandin-Wilde Motors, Inc. Lahr Building Retail Dealers : of erly protected by bond. School Treasurer Has Defence Against Claim for. Deposits fund by the clerk of ‘The claim is based on the fact that the Colgan State bank closed last year and that it contained the school district which were not prop- Riede contends that the board designated the bank as a de- positary for school district funds and assured him that the money was properly protected by a bond, as re- who is operating’ two, Harry Potter,|ing that came from the Bismarck- the quired by statute. ‘When the bank closed, however, it and not its general account. Riede contends that this was the fault of the school district directors. “The state bonding fund is examin- ing the claim. R. B. Murphy Is Back From Eastern Trip R. B. Murphy a member of the state board of administration, re- turned Thursday from a two week's eastern trip. He attended the. con- vention of the National Education as- sociation, held in Atlantic City, and reports an especially successful meet- ing. Addresses by nationally promi- nent speakers featured the sessions, and the attendance was the largest in years, Mr. Murphy also spent several days in Washi on official business with the department of agriculture. TAX CLIAM 18 PRESENTED Cldim for $206.12 on the bond of W. J. Hirning, former sheriff of Sheri- dan county, has been presented to the state bonding fund here. 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