The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 5, 1932, Page 3

ATO LIGENSE FEES COLLECTED IN 1934 TOTALED $1,799.120 $706,902.63 of Total Is Redis- tributed to 53 Counties in North Dakota Fees collected for motor vehicle li- censes during 1981 totaled $1,799,- 120.30, according to figures announced ‘Tuesday by the motor vehicle depart- ment. i Of this amount $706,902.63 went to the highway department for road con- struction, $706,902.63 was distributed among the state’s 53 counties, and $385,315 went for maintenance of the highway department and motor ve- = department, and into the bridge lund. ‘The largest collections were in Cass county, where the total was $167,885.65, of which $66,067.57 went back to the county. Ward county was next with total collections of $100,741.85, of which $39,607.62 was the county’s share, while Grand Forks county was third with a total ‘of $94,992.60, of which $37,785.79 was the county's share. Total receipts and the county’s share for the remainder of the state follow: Adams $19,253.70 McLean 45,102.65 Barnes 53,542.55 Mercer 21,647.85 Benson 30,373.60 Morton 51,513.00 Billings 5,366.40 M’trail 31,987.80. Bot’neau ‘39,347.50 Nelson — 26,520.10 Bowman 16,680.75 Oliver 8,921.85 Burke 24,159.65 Pembina 34,526.20 Burleigh 61,547.80 Pierce 21,743.25 Cavalier 32,619.90 Ramsey 45,990.75 30,655.60 Ransom 29,306.10 23,209.60 Renville 20,374.20 19,115.75 Richland Leer Eddy. 14,360.70 Rolette 18, Emmons 24,792.20 Sargent 23,663.25 Foster 16,126.50 Sheridan 17,653.75 G. Valley 12,983.20 Sioux 1,977.35 21,411.85 Slope 10,923.70 17,370.25 Stark 42,715.45, 27,311.40 Steele 17,002.20 Kidder 18,868.85 Stutsman 65,274.80 LaMoure 30,459.30 Towner 21,582.55 ‘Logan 16,528.15 Traill 35,750.80 McHenry 40;579.95 Walsh 47,253.80 McIntosh 22,280.40 Wells 33,768.40 McKenzie 25,996.60 Williams 52,011.90 I..0. 0. F. Officers Are Installed by A. W. Snow A. W. Snow, district deputy chief patriot for the Odd Fellows lodge, as- sisted by Charles L. Hanson, installed newly-elected officers of Custer En- campment, I. 0. O. F., at a meeting in the Odd Fellows hall Monday eve- ning. ‘Those taking office were P. G. Har- rington, chief patriot; Earle H. Schar- nowski, high priest; Joe A, Patera, senior warden; Hogan P. Erickson, junior warden; William Barneck, scribe; 8. S, McDonald, treasurer; Chris Nelson, guide; F. O. Anderson, inside sentinel; Charles J. Anderson, outside sentinel; Charles H. Gutman, first watch; G. G. Beithon, second watch; Elmer V. Scharnowski, third watch; Ray Hancock, fourth watch; H. H. Engen, first guard of the tent; and Frank Weymouth, second guard of the tent. Arguments Offered In Criminal Appeal Arguments were heard by the state supreme court Tuesday in the appeals taken by David, Fred and Henry Bos- sart, brothers, and John Ellingson, their brother-in-law, from convictions on criminal charges in Barnes county district court. ‘The arguments were on two appeals, one of which was from the conviction of Fred and Henry Bossart and El- lingson on chages of grand larnecy, | and the other by David Bossart and Ellingson from their conviction on a& charge of engaging in the liquor traf- fic. Fred and Henry Bossart and Elling- son are under sentence of two and a half years in the state penitentiary on the grand larceny: conviction, while David Bossart and Ellingson were sentenced to 18 months.on the liquor charge. New trials are sought by the four men, who were tried in Barnes coun- ty district court on a change of venue from Dickey county. The grand lar-] ceny charges grew out of the robbery of @ store at Merricourt. Survey of Bulls in Dickey County Made Ellendale, N. D., Jan. 5—(®)—A county-wide survey to determine the exact number of purebred, registered and scrub bulls on farms and to indi- cate where improvement is most needed, has-been begun in Dickey county by A. A. Penn, county agent. . Dickey Divide Dunn Grant Griggs Het’ger Six farmers in each township are, @ ting with Penn in the survey, ond it is expected that information will be obtained on every herd sire in ty. ine work is being done in an at- tempt to increase the returns to farm- ers from their beef and dairy cattle through the use of purebred sires and tetter feeding methods. A survey of cattle shipments from the county in 1930 showed that lack of quality and finish cost local: farmers $4 to $5 per head in market returns. Mother of Bismarck Woman Died Sunday mother of Mrs. L- A. Winter, 621 , died Sunday. night at her ‘Tenth ‘St. mad fo | format received here. Mrs. 3 {ormati het mother at the’ time of death. . ‘Funeral, services were held Tuesday Fae ley the Catholic church et Richardton. * $ : —_—___— “ AT WATFORD CITY | warts City, Jan. 5.—(#)}—Marie Mennenga, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mennenga, Watford City, and Score of Residents In Hazelton District Succumbed in 1931 Haselton, N. D., Jan. 5.—More than @ score of residents of the Hazelton. aad | district during 1931, a check-up shows, ‘Those who died during the year are listed as follows: Herbert J. Price, Gayton, Jin. 5; Andrew Weikum, Hazelton, Jan. 21; Simeon Opp, Hazelton, Feb. 10; John Elwiss, Moffit, Feb. 25; Mrs. Weaver Fowler, Glencoe, March 12; William Lambkin, Hazelton, April 12; Levi 8, Ekanger, May 10; M._E. Ryan, Braddock,’ June 1; Steve Od- burn and Louise. Odbutn, June 29; Mrs. Elizabeth Chapman, Hazelton, July 11; Mrs, Margaret Schenkenber- ger, Temvik, July 14; William H. ‘Rush, Hazelton pioneer, at. Fargo July 17, : Alex Macdonald, Glencoe, July Gerald _ Chilson, Temvik, Aug. Grover Liversage, Kintyre, Aug. Margaret L. Snively, Braddock, 21; Archie Nicholson, Moffit, Sept, F. W. Orthmeyer, Hazelton, Oct. 6; John Wendt, Hazelton, Oct. 9; James ©. Frederick, Hazelton pioneer, at Bismarck, Nov. Nels P. Olson, Braddock, Dec. 4; Mrs. Nels P. Olson, Braddock, Dec. 16; and Mrs. Alex Macdonald, Glencoe, Dec. 25, Selecting Jurors to Try Lakota Bankers’ Fargo, Jan.‘ 5.—(?)—Attorneys for both the state and defense proceeded with extreme caution Tuesday as the selection of a jury to try three of- ficers of the closed Farmers and Merchahts State Bank of Lakota on charges of making false entries and receiving deposits in an” insolvent bank got under way in Cass county district court. The entire forenoon was taken up in questioning the first 12 jurors called. The three former bank officials on trial are R. C. Chisholm, C. W. Lewis and James D. Gronna. Judge Fred Jansonius of Bismarck is presiding at the trial, which was transferred to Fargo from Nelson county after affidavits of prejudice were filed. George Bangs of Grand Forks: is assisting E. C. Boostrom, Nelson county state’s attorney, in prosecut- ing the case. Clyde Duffy of Devils Lake and William Langer of Bis- marck represent Chisholm and Gron- na, while Francis Murphy of Fargo is counsel for Lewis. Bangs was examining the jurors as to their qualifications on behalf of the state and Duffy and Langer were examining for the defendants. Mur- ceed waived his questioning of the jury. Sauvain Reelected To Head State Board Nelson Sauvain was reelected chair- man of the state board of adminis- tration at the board’s first 1932 meet- ing here Tuesday. ‘Two ex-officio members, who under 8 law declared passed by the 1931 leg- islature would have been removed from the board, .were present. They: continued in office under a ruling of the attorney general that the law was unconstitutional on the ground that it lacked a two-thirds vote necessary for passage of the act. The ex-officio members are Miss Bertha R. Palmer, superintendent of public instruction, and Joseph A. "}o’cloek ‘Tuesday M. SNELLENBERGER SUCCUMBS IN CITY to Man Formerly Associated With Hardware Company Melvin H, Snellenberger, asso- clated with the Jarrell Hardware company in Bismarck for five years, died in his apartment here at 5:45; morning. | He was 50 years old. Death was caused*by heart disease, from which | he had suffered since last summer. Snellenberger was with the hard-{ ware company here from 1926 until early in 1931, when’ he moved to Jamestown, He returned to Bis- marck to enter a hospital here: in November. Snellenberger was born in Owen ounty, Indiana, July 19, 1881. He moved with him family to Stark- weather, N. D., when he was 17 years old. After living in Stark- weather for seven years, he moved to Stanley, where he resided for several years before moving to Wil- liston. He lived at Williston for five years before moving to Bis- marck, i He was married to Miss Blanche leaves his widow and one daughter, Ione Snellenberger, both living in Bismarck. t Snellenberger was a member of; the Modern Woodmen of America and the Methodist Episcopal church. | Funeral services will be conducted j from Webb’s funeral parlors here at; 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, with Rev. Walter E. Vater, pastor of thet McCabe Methodist Episcopal church, in charge. Burial will be made here. Rallbearers will be se- lected from among his Bismarck friends. > Political Eyes Are Focused on Election Washington, Jan. 5—(?)—Unusual national political interest attached Tuesday to a special election in the first New Hampshire congressional district. Leaders in both major parties are hoping for victory, but expect the out- come to be close. The Democrats want the seat to swell their house membership to 220 and for the politi- cal effect in the presidential election. The Republicans are anxious to stem the invasion into their normal terri- tory which has,turned the house over to Democratic control. Candidates are John H. Bartlett, Republican, and William N. Rogers, Democrat, Rogers favors repeal of the 18th amendment, while Bartlett expressed himself as willing to vote for a refer- endum on prohibition. Flood Crises Wanes In Southern States Glendora, Miss.,'Jan. 5'—()—The Delta country considered its latest flood crisis-on the wane Tuesday but the matter of caring for more than 2,000 families, driven from their homes by high water, presented new prob- lems, Rains fell over the Tallahatchie ba- sin last night and, while they added little to the strain on the levees, brought added discomfort to refugees camping in the open. Kitchen, commissioner of agriculture and labor. Volstead Asked to . Beer Bill Hearing Washington, Jan. 5.—(#)—The au- thor of the prohibition enforcement act, Andrew J. Volstead of Minnesota, was invited Tuesday by Senator Bing- ham, Republican, Connectitcut, to ap- pear before the senate manufacturers’ committee this week on the hearings on his beer bill. WILL NOT ATTEND UNLESS SUBPOENAED St. Paul, Jan. 5.—(P)—Andrew J. Volstead, prohibition enforcement act author, Tuesday said he would not testify at a Washington hearing on a beer bill unless subpoenaed. Suspect Is Held in Minnesota Robbery Moorhead, Minn, Jan. 5.—(?)—A seventh suspect, whose name was withheld pending” further investiga- tion, was arrested Tuesday by Fargo police in connection with the robbery of the Sabin, Minn., State Bank last Tu esday. 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