The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 20, 1916, Page 9

THE NONPARTISAN LEADER : Body to assist us and in this way r g"“ F'“fl,fl}fen 14%53 Farmers Can Get lighten the burden imposed upon us FARMERS SUPP LY COMPAdNY 8 c:lgesrboo:age." 100 bs, box by the chamber of commerce of Min- A Farmers Company organize. £3.25; 501bs. $1.80. In Min- neapplis and its subsidiadies. - and operated by Golden Valley L] nesota 100 Ibs. in sacks $2.85. Serd ycur order. A B e T County farmers. Write us if you Quality as fine as any other dealer. y 8th win- rrec elg :S i . are interested in organizing a ¢ e S R o], e SO § OM RO, AU AV, Ty ’Mo t Farmers Mercantile Company. , : i e . W. . Beach, N.D. ' sy " ra o | Morton County Is Starting * €sota for 5. W BRINTOMN, Mir ot T =K . ion B ” , , . - 5 ° el v | Move Others Can Follow- Cooperatives|| = AL 1 ~ and weather froz-| Ask for Scales to Get Fair - : g PERTH HOSPITAL 3l en, carefully selected and handleg, pure an;i 2 3 R - ) wholesome. ~ Herring, 100 1bs. $3.25. ~Pickerel, Wezght Minnesota Strong for Co DR. THOR MOELLER }20;5:‘;:61&"’{ lbs_vzit'ttffe"f;’hfglbs‘ $750: SePacked Minnesota leads all states in the Physician and Surgeon JOHNSON and CARR, 570 Torrey Bldg., Duluth, States Attorney William Langer of union in the matter of farmers’ co- k Minn. Kef:—First Naticnal Bank. Morton county has injtiated a move- operative enterprises. The last Min- Perth - - North Dakota i '*_h'—_‘—. . t i = 2 s 5 8 Fresh Frozen Lake Supenor Herrmg inen in that county for the estab nesota legislature enacted a law re 9 49 e 6 PGP P S ishment of a public scale in charEe quiring" all cooperative institutions of a weieghmaster employed by the to make annual ‘reports, the results or common- PR county commissioners. The 'purpose of which are -interesting. 5,0, : R y known | . "0 ‘put a club in the hands of the Cooperati p : PR 2 oS ve creamerl lead i o G - %'SS’}E%;“ ily farmers that will 5 4 s st £ R O LF BR OS % assure them get- number with 614 and an annual vol- Buy your fish direet from our - wr s wm fisheries. titng lfairt weighfth don tgraixl'l1 deli]x:ered, ume of business of $21,675,252. Ele- Tailors of Olmllt}' Clothes X i . |at elevators. nd it will make it vators come next with 270 in num- g‘e};ee.}x):ls;. mfilsi?fiig\pe:& inssetr;gn}g)lxo:é- possible for farmers to weigh their ber and an annual business of $24,- 7 Bacon Block - N. 4th St. en boxes. Fresh Frozen Herring, per gm‘é’fiand.Shl’)P.'t‘ ‘{_’d]fpendegflw 000,000, Grand Forks, - N.D. 100-1b. boxes, $3.25. Fresh Frozen ‘th Dakoty whion hnder a law Stock shipping associations num- of North Dakota which has been on b Herring per 50-Ib. boxes, $2.00. 500- the books since 1895 and so far as }al:‘;a ll(zltg gg:qgrefi’fieogfcegé??l}bs'l‘ mli)‘mk is known has never been taken ad- Teper Ib: ~Reference: First State Bank | AEage of by any county. It is with. . 3 oy of Two. Harbors, Minn. . JOHNSON, | t},e state, through this law, toghave HENDRICKSON & CO., Two Har-{public scales established at points bors, Minn, . where they are needed. The Leader . is giving the facts in regard to the move in Morton county so that farm- ers in other localities desiring public scales. may know the procedure. organi- Law is Given - zations are 11 cow-testing associa- | _ The law, comprised in sections 3016, tions; 5 lJumber yards; 1 laundry; 3017, 3018, 3019 and 3020, compiled 2 egg-shipping associations; 60 cat- laws of North Dakota, 1913, is as fol- tle and hor.e-breeding associations; lO\XSI 1 terminal grain-marketing company; The board of county commissioners 1 butter-marketing association; 1 of any county is authorized in its dis- terminal fruit-and-produe-marketing cretion, when petitioned by 13 or association more residents and, actual farmers of :More than ‘one-fifth of the volume to establish and locate of er 113 with an annual business of $6,000,000. There are 120 coopera- tive stores doing an annual business of $4,250,00 and there are 154 fire in- surance companies doing a business of $696,732.. There are 600 telephone companjes, 34 cheese factories, 20 rotato warehouses and 86 miscellane- ous organizations. e 1] e 3 f s 13 s 8 e 11 cmmn ) 1 VALLEY HOTEL i Valley City, N. Dak. . ! The only first class European { I e ; Beaufort Hotel Minneapolis, Minn. | European Plan, Opposite Old Post ! Office. Rates, 75¢ to 1.50 single; { 1.00 to 2.50 Double. ‘‘Service’ ; is our Motto. “Special attegtion will be: given . =~ Mthe -members<of the Farmers Hotel in the City. ROOMS 50c to $1.50 a NIGHT We endeavor to give special service to the farmer, ; Our restaurant is tke best in the state. On Main St. South of N. P. Depot. ; s ] e 1 b e (21 s 1§ w1 cnmmmsn £ Other Cooperatives Among the miscellaneous I oo §§ § ] emmcsmme ] ¥ smntans §143 eacevese £ th% I_count?r, 4 i ; business of these miscellaneous FOR SALE cean Pnlit: public scales at suitable railway sta- companies was transacted by the . L Nonpartisan Political League of tm‘ns in the county. " terminal grain-marketing association. 50 Single Comb White Leghorn A North Dakota. “Such scales shall be purchased by ' The total amount of business done Cockrels, each ............ 1.60 i ... R.H..GREER Manager the county and shall be under cover the last fiscal year by all these co- 100 Single Comb White Leghorn, Gy o oy AN AR ANy and of not less than five tons weigh- perative organizations amounted to Pullets, each ..... ....... T5¢ e R R | ing “Gapacity, and shall be the prop- $60,760,000. 400 bushels Marquis Wheat, for local. customers, per bu....$1.25 500 bushels Red Fife Wheat, for local customers, per bu. ...$1.25 One Hoosier 20-disc Drill in run- ning order $30.00 One Monitor 16-in. Stubble Sul- key, 2 new lays .........,.$20.00 Call or write, E. E. KURTZ, MAINES’' CAFE For Ladies and Gentlemen—Selected for Farmers N. P. League Membgrs. Popular Prices—35¢ Meals a Specialty Open from 6 a.m. to 8 p. m. daily. Open Sundays. Opposite old Postoffice. I. W. Maines, Prop., 304 Marquette Ave., Minnneapolis, Minn. Schafer, N. D. SAVE YOUR GASOLINE Every Auto User Is Inter- ested in That. A Gas Pre-Heater Does It and Costs only $2.50 g Is equally as good or better than a carbur- eter thatheats gasoline and which costs $1.00 and $1.50 per day.§- Two persons in same room, ‘extra. ROOMS with private baths and toilets— Qne person $1.50 and $2.00 per day Twa persons in same room, $1.00 extra. Send postal card for colored blotters. .WE_AIM TO PLEASE _—_—— - Fadden’s. Restaurant - 442-444-446 Wabasha'St. - St. Paul, Minn. Selected for, the. Farmers N. P. League Members We serve the best meals in the city at 15c and up. “Never closed.” WALTER’ FADDEN, Proprietor erty of the county and at all times N s under its control 3a,md subject to re- Creampries important moval when the county commissioners _ Among the most importanat of shall so require. hese cooperative organizations, af- Name Weighmaster fecting the well-being of the farm- “The board shail also appoint at ers and the agricultural develop- each place where it establisges such ment of the state, are the coopera- scales a public weighmaster who shall tive creameries. : have the custody and, care of such _As stated above there are 614 in property, and wgo shall give a bond the state, which is nearly double the in the sum fo $500 conditioned for number in any other state and nearly : : A | the safe keeping of the same and for one-third the total number in the b New : - t I ;the. faithful and impartial discharge United States. 3 ewe (OYHSI 8B | of his duties. . Furthex:more, cooperative creamer- AR - “Each public weighmaster shall ies constitute 72 per cent of all 5';'5"/’9‘55[/;/\;77/7\/?\/' keep a stub record of all weighing, creameries in Minnesota and 42 per oo ST PA Spgining ~vmch record and the receipt of such cent or all farmers in the state are S OPPOSITE CITY HALL | weighmaster shall show for whom patrons ' of cooperative creameries MODERN . "EURQPEAN PLAN. HIS¥S erty was weighed and shall with ’lt};etre 1six no &fhezl; ix:lepor'taéxt tg;ir.y LOCATED N HEART OF BUSINESS DISTRICT _ such receipg, constltute prima facie S © Wiere e Dbutter indus 15 {RATES: | Rooms with detached bath and :v§dence of the facts therein contain- gggggéeghzg sillls:s.an extent by the ] “Such public weighmaster shall re- Slight Cost to Farmers {ceive such compensation and shall be 0 2 : |governed by such rules and regula- . One of the outstanding points of J tions.as may be adopted by the board interest in connection with the Min- of county commissioners and, may be nlgsota creamery —companies is the removed ‘at any time by such board Slight cost to the farmers for con- for cause.” verting butter-fat into butter. In Would Protect Farmers the year 1913 they produced, 74,934,- Where there are no farmers’ or 940 pounds of butter which brought equity:elevators or where weights of the farmer for butter-fat $19,988,321 old line levators are suspected it is 2t 2 total cost of $1,682,931 or 2.2 believed such a scale would be a great ©ents per pound. 5 benefit. It would be valuable to . Ihe total number of cooperative farmers in weighing produdets pur- ¢reamery patrons in the state reach- chased by them as we]Y as sold and it €4 65,181. The total number of cows would forever assure correct weights owréed by the patrons was 504,975 in the community where it was erect- OF 822 cows per creamery. {ed, even though, after its establish- ment, previously unfair scales were corrected. - States Attorney Langer has drawn up the following form of petition for use of the farmers start- ing the movement in that county, and the :same form of petition could be used by. farmers anywhere: o . Petition To the board of count sioners .of Morton county, ._Krorth Da- | kota, consisting 6f Charles O’Rourke, | chairman of rdid’ board, Don-Steven- ¢| Son, ‘John Ellison, Theodore Feland and Simon J. Nagel: ‘We, the undersigned residents and actual farmers of Morton county, | North Dakota, do heréeby earnestly pe- tition you to establish’ and locate a publis scalé at ........ , a suitable railway station in Morton county, North Dakota, do herehy earnestly pe- .| tition your Honorable Body to install said scales, which shall be of at least | five tons weighing cagacity, as soon commis- asked Menson the Trunk .7 Man,-“Can you make. - trunks-gs-eheaply as you can buy them?”’ We certainly-can and consid- erably cheaper. It costs the ‘manufacturer, 15 per cent to sell the goods and he must same and: for the faithful and im- four times as much as on'the raw g | rartial ‘performance of his duties as material. Trunksare madeby hand ‘Weare not competing against ma- chinery. Monson trunks are made | to last. , Try one. ‘Monson Trunk Factory 3018, 3019 and 3020 of the 1913 Re- | vised Codes of ‘the State of North Dakota. y We ‘believe: that it would redund aloogeodefordede ey choose, may weigh their o - | wheat and load it into carsgand shi i = ' “I'the same; or that the may weigh ‘A ‘movement.:has “been started aty their grain and thus check up with Carrington to have all the streets of!] the scales: iin the elevators; the “bown ‘oiled down. " {earnestly petition - your . Hon '| weighmaster and use of said scales s as provided for in Sections 3016, 3017; and we eultural industry—on the. whole: in- onorable dustrial field, = 2 One MNan, One Vote In 96% per cent of these coopera- tive creameries the one-man-vote principle prevails. Sixty-five per cent limited the number of shares that each member shall own. These limits vary from one share to 100. The average is practically 7 shares but the most frequent limit is one share. " The fact that only about 20 per cent .of these ceramery companies make- provision in their by-laws for the .distribution of profits on patron- age ‘basis does not indicate that they are not actually cooperative in char- acter.. A majority of these creamer- ies are operated - on the. ‘non-profit- sharing basis, deducting from the gross receipts enough to cover ex- penses and distributing the remain- der from month to month according to the amount of butter-fat brought by eaca person, . Of the numbsr of creameries re- as possible; and to immediately : ; 2 for $4.50 Post Paid oA a aias ioh. Fortitg on that basis nearly 80 per ER haveat least 15 per cent clear 31:;3&?& 1%%01::&8!(&}?&2; of e cent. pay monthly; 15 per cent pay|® All Goods New and First Class profit. ' The freight on trunksis % semi.monthly; 1.3 per cent weekly end: 3.5 per cent daily. ¢ A Big Step Forward Taking the matter as a whole the Minnesota farmers are to be congrat- || ulated for their wisdom and fore- ight in thus organizinfg industrially 0 protect -themselves from the rav- t g0 ‘backward. Speed the day when all farmers will see the value of such organization, noti only in the matter | of .creameries but in all lines of agri- 5 from $18.50 to ¥ $30. If Purchased at Once Combination No. 1 Two Champion Spark | Plugs and Foprd Gas Pre- Heater for $2.75 Combination No. 2 1 6-inch Pliers 1 Champion X Spark Plug Wrench 1 30x3 Blow Out Patch 1 30x31% Blow Out Patch 1.Can Radiator Stop-the-Leak 1 Large Ford Radiator Rubber ®@ 1 Small Ford Radiator Rubber @& A $3.25 Value for $2.20 or | Combinations No.1 and _ Cash with order and we will send postpaid, with. full direct- ions, . Satisfaction or Money Back ] Write us for further particulars and. D : :o ot}:r o};ri:aat& ‘benefit tand t(]: the i}?'- islgs‘ of organized capitafl. = "'eflé";‘z"%&": dggllill’waanpdm- : e . D. erest. orton, county to have the i Organization is a step forward. No | i s 6!8 Front Street, _Far‘o’ ; ffgm‘lth ecales' installed so that farmers, one who has taken thepstep wants to sa article on_every -quto. 7 +< New Rockford, N. D,