The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 23, 1915, Page 5

¥ - forit. THE NONPARTISAN LEADER FIVH The State News in Short Paragraphs Johnny McPike has been endorsed by democrats of Cando for postmas- ter. Ryder is to have electric lights, a - franchise having been granted Ed. - Fredeen. Henry Beal, an old coldier, is out for election as register of de:ds of Barnes county. X The University Men’s Glee Club has left on its eleventh annual singing _ tour of the state. The western North Dakota butter _ makers held a successful meeting at Mandan last Friday. Arrangements are being made to hold a farmers’ institute at Charlson in-the near future. Plans for a big dairy meeting at Kathryn have been announced for - December 28 at 1 o’clock: James Orchard, prominent farmer . of Ramsey county, was buried last " week after an impressive funeral at Cary. The Girls’ Button Making Contest in Bottineau county resulted in Miss . Mina Bakkom of Harem township " taking first prize. Dr. L. S. Platou, former mayor of Valley City, has announced that he - is a candidate for governor on the . Demacratic ticket. White Ash and Grassland school districts, in Renville County, have each voted $7,000 for the purpose of erecting modern school buildings.s Experts announce that all seed - . corn planted in North Dakota must be carefully tested. This is made nec- essary by reason of the early frost. At a meeting of the Commercial club at Cérrington, C. B. Craven was elected president; C. W. Nash, vice - president; N. E. Landeene, treasurer. Frank B. Chapman, formerly a resi- dent of Minot and national bank ex- aminer for the northwest portion:of North Dakota, died last week at Dix- on, Mont. Construction work on the big steel bridge across the Little Missouri at Medora is proceeding rapidly and is expected to be completed by January 20. The Farmers’ Telephcne company is expected immediately to complete its line to Souris, where it will con- neet with the Northern Telephone company. 4 A federation of the farmers’ clubs of Walsh “county has been effected Golden, Crafton, Adams, Latonia and Fertile townships were repres:nted by delegates. The third Williams County Agri- cultural short course will ba held at Williston on February 8, 9, 10 and 11th, 1916. Co-operative marketing will bs discucsed. 5 The Commercial hotel, the Victor restaurant, the White Hcuse cafe, Thompson Brothers’ place and the Steve Coy is a Divide County farmer; He is strong on co-operation and says they are going to have that postoffice suffered severe damage by fire recently at Hatton. Tke overland mail route from Wil- liston to Schafer will be discontinued January 1, the mail brought by train to Watford City and: sent out by train daily from there in the future. “Rumor” has it that the Northern Pacific will extend its line from Mott west thru Sloge county rext Spring. The Milwaukee also threatens to ex- tend its line west from New Eng- land. John Krauch, a farm hand, because he didn’t like the grub served at the Plunket home -ncar Mott, drew a knife and seriously wounded John and Will Plunket. He is in jail at Mott. Starting back to Norway, sericusly ill, Lars Waage of Carrington died in mid-ocean on the ship Krist'anias- jords. The ship’s passengers raised $400 to send, back for the deceased’s destitute family. L. O. Odegaard, agent in charge of the new co-operative elevator at Portland, is receiving grain every day and, has shipped a number of cars. The elevator will be entirely complete shortly. The annual convention of the So- ciety of Equity of North Dakota will be held next year at a date yet to be decided, probably in February, ac- cording to action of the directors recently in St. Paul. At the meeting of the Democratic central committee of North Dakota last week a boom for John Burke for United States senator was start- ed. Burke has been governor of North Dakota three times. Bonds to the amount of $38,000, outstanding against Sargent county have been retired during the last week by the county treasurer. The bonds were issued in 1895 and bore 6 per cent interest. The North Dakota State Pcultry association has secured E. G. Rob- erts of Fort Atkinson, Wis., to judge the exhibits at the show of the asso- ciation in Fargo, January 28 to Feb- ruary 4. Ten fine shorthorn bulls have bezn purchased by County Commissioner Stevenson and Better Farming Agent, Johnson of McKenzie county to resell to the-farmers for the purpose of:im- proving the stock of the county. Four hundred and twenty-five cars of grain have been shipped from Glenburn already this fall. It is claimed there would have been at least a hundred thousand bushels more but for the shortage of cars. The so-called Burgett and West- dahl law, providing for the taxation of moneys and credits at a fractional value, passed by the la t legislature, has been declared unconstitutioral by the supreme court of North Dakota. The Mid-winter Fair association has fixed January 25, 26 and 27 as dates for the 1916 fair to be held at Devils Lake. President A. V. Haig and Secretary R. A. Young are pre- paring for a record in quality and quantity of exhibits and attendance. The North Dakota Retail Butchars’ association, meeting at Devils Lake, resolved last week to prohibit the sale of meats that will not stand a rigid inspection and to protect the public thru thoro sanitary methods in butcher shory. The Democratic County committee meeting at Wahpeton has made the following recomwendations for post- mastershiry: At Hankirson, F. O. Hunger; at Lidgerwood, John B. Wag- ner; at Wahpeton, C. D. Rittenhouse; at Fairmount, Emil Zilgitt. Six peorje—five boys and one man —were killed outright and one boy was probably fatally in’ured at Bert- hold about 4:45 o’clcck yesterday afternoon when Great Northern train No. 2 ran into the covered school bus in which reven boys and the driver were riding. . A big rodent .elimination contzst has just’ ended at Tower City. Two _—mm—m— OUR BOOK REVIEW. Fay, C. R.—“Co-operation at Home and Abroad.” ......eve0e0.. $1.35 The author who is an English uni- versity scholar and research student in the London School of Economics, gives in this volume a vast amount of valuable information covering the en- tire field of co-operative activity in European countriez—(1) in banking, (2) in agricultural societies for pro- duction, sale and land tenure, (3) in workers societies for production and sale, (4) in co-operative stores, social and industrial, concluding with an ac- count of the co-operative law, and a large bibliograrhy. Sold by Richard- son & Rimbach, Box 144, St. Paul Minn. “Co-operation in New Eng'and: Ur- ban and Rural.”—By J. Ford. Pub- lished by Survey Assg'n.’ The growing movement for social welfare in city and country will find a very practical and suggestive hand- bood in this volume. It is a history of ‘a truly democratic movement, a balance sheet of results, a p\rophecy of a day soon to coms when “a self- perpetuating source of social inviger- ation will b2 established in each town.” It ppsseses even more inter- est for tke farmer., In tbe buying of farm produrts, co-oneration has made its most substantial record. in New England. For this, the Grange de- serves the main credit, Dr. Ford writes. There have b-en corspicu- ous failures ,(h> discusses tkem and the reasons), but in co-operative buy- ing through the granges and local or- ganizatiors, and in co-orerative sell- ing by flower growers, market gard- ners, maple sugar makers, rotato growers, tobacco growers, fruit grow- ers, cranberry growers, general farm- ers and others, New. England farm- state terminal if ‘they have' to fight ers are saving many thousands of ~ 2 i dollars a year. A GUESSING CONTEST The Optic Reporter: “Some of the rapers which a few months ago were refusing to give the equity meetings in this state even news mention are now tickling the movement under the chin and telling the members how they have always loved it, but were just too bashful to say so. Politicians who want office more than equity are leaning up to the equity ppople like sick kittens to a kot brick and are declaring ‘they Fave always wanted to get in with the movement but never had time to do so till just now—since they de- cided to run for office. Men who criticised the Ogti-Re- porter in June for giving a fair news report of the meeting of the equity organization in this city, are now themselves hanging onto™ the move- ment like the man whom the .bear was chating around the tree. They want it so badly theéy can not let go. Meanwhile, the farmers are smil- ing and saying nothing. Just what they intend to do can not be fore- cast by the most astute politician. As one experieneed politician put the matter recently, “Tho:e farrers are mad all ‘through and they realize that they have the power to do as they please and they evidently in- tend to do it.” Aspirants for public favors, who a few months ago wera | slarping the equity movement in the face, are now brushing th2 'dust’_ from its choes. ‘And the farmers re-: fuse to be cajoled. The conferences:- of the leaders are largely guessing contests as to what the outcome will - be. It makes news about the poli- tical gatherings as scarce as vera- city about the state capitol. But the amusement is just that much better. —_— The Leader fights for the_ farmers. teams contested for a prize, the a- ward going to the team captained by S. J. Yager which dispozed of 536 mice, 177 rats and 6 weasels. Nearly as many were killed by the team cap- tained by ‘C. M. Thompson. At a meeting held at Park River members ‘of -the farmers - clubs of Walsh county formed a federation of clubs and elected the following offi- cers: 8. Thorblaa, Grafton, president; N. G. Grovom, Goldzn, vice presi- dent; Chris Levang, Adams, secre- tary; E. K. Gehrke, treasurer. Charles H. Clark of Cogswell has been arrested, charged with cashing checks issued by the Cooperative Grain company of St. Paul in paynent for two cars of grain from Brookland, billed by C. H. Clark but alleged to bave been stolen by Clark and divert- ed from the original destination. The Enderlin Independent has won the first prize for getting out the best special edition in North Dakota for Appreciation Week. The $100 award originally offered was divided, into four parts, the others winning besides the Independent, being the Williston Grarhie, the Bismarck Palladium and the Valley City Times-Record. A contest in which competitors will give the ten best reason for us- ing a purebred sire in raising stock has been instituted by the North Dakota department of agriculture and labor. Constestants are limited to 800 words and every citizen in the state is eligible. Letters must be in by February 1. Treadwell Twichell of Mapleton is generally believed to be figuring on orposing Congressman H-lgesen of the first district in the next election. In the third district Staale Hendrick will undertake to replace Congre-s- ~man Norton, according to report. It is_also intimated that J. H. Wishek of . Ashley. will oppose Congressman Young in th> second, district. H. H. Perry of ZEllendale was groomed last week at the Democratic State Central committe as a candi- date for national committeeman. F. O. Hellstrom, former. warden of the state penitentiary, will be a candi- date for delegate to the national convention. Other prominent candi- dates for convention honors are W. E. Byerly, Fred McLean and W. F: Robertson. The North Dakota rail commission has .received word, that the Great Northern next year will devote its at- tention to completing the New Rock- ford line. The district to be opened includes the territory from New Rockford to the Missouri river, which will be bridged during the winter of 1916-17. The Northern Pacifle will continue next year the extezs’on of its line west from Kildeer, Terry, Mont., bzing the objective. Robert Zelmar is a pioneer of Di- vide County, having homesteaded there in 1904. He is one of the strong boosters for the League. - He is a shareholder in the Faremrs. ele- vator at ‘Wildrose. W 4