The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 10, 1916, Page 8

L A R B 0 S D B P e ORI ‘delay of EIGHT THE NONPARTISAN LEADER Rt e e ¥ As Weather Man Lets Up Meetings Make; Gains No sooner did the weatherman stay the breath of the blizzard than the attendance at League meetings began to jump. Except in the northwest part of the state where railroad traffic is yet paralized correspondents are sending in most encouraging re- ports. Up to date more than 130 meet- ings have been held. Even during the worst weather of the winter, the last week in January, some meetings showed an attendance of over 200. Taking it as a whole it is conserva- tively estimated that the average throughout has been 100 persons for each meeting. On this basis more than 13,000 per- sons have been addressed, already by League speakers. At this rate more than 30,000 farmers will have heard our speakers by the first of March. Best Meeting Yet Cooperstown leads off in the matter af attendance, with a crowd, of 200 . Only one new member was added, but the correspondent explains that the country around, there is already well organized. He further reports that, even though the train was late, the crowd waited and interest ran high. 4 Will Do Better Next Time Grand Forks, notwithstanding the heavy snow on January 29, had a turnout of 150, ene new member and, much good feeling and interest was manifest among town people. The meeting was held in the court house and the report says that a larger hall will have to be secured for the next meeting. Twelve New Members From the standpoint of new mem- bers Mandan was a leader. There were 150 present and 12 new mem- bers were added. This meeting was on the stormy 28th of January and the correspondent advises that an- other meeting will be welcomed there. Conway Ties Park River Conway on the 3lst put up a crowd of 60, with three new subs and two six months advertising con- tracts. Park river followed on the next day with an attendance of 60 and one new member. The delay of the mails in this section, due to the paralization of traffic, resulted in the advertising matter, which, accounted for small crowds. : New Rockford Makes Good New Rockford on the 29th of Jan- uary, notwithstanding the storm, lived up to her reputation with a crowd of 140 present and five mem- bers, a high voltage of enthusiasm and a warm reception by the business men. New Rockford wants another meeting. At Sheyenne, the day before, with afstgél worse storm, there was a erowd D . Here’s. a Close Race ‘At Binford, there were 140 present and four new members joined, while Sutton nosed ahead with 150 in at- tendance and four new members, with Hannaford bringing up the rear with 127 present and two new members. ‘At these three meetings there was all the extra trimmings of enthusi- asm, interest -and booster spirit. Crowd Waits Two Hours Owing to slow progress in a.livery. rig the speakers were nearly two hours late getting into McHenry. Upon telephone information that he was coming, however, the crowd wait- ed until 3:30. There -were 150 pres- ent. A local attorney butted in and g YOU'RE' TO BLAME . FOR THE HIGH COST OF LIVING!! Except of the Northwest Part of the State Where Railroad Traffic Has Been Paralized League Meetings Have Shown Marked Increase in Attendance, ~ took issue with the speaker. The speaker gave him the floor for ten minutes. Five minutes. after the League speaker started in again the attforney got up and reversed him- self. Busy Feeding at Carpio At Carpio the farmers had taken advantage of the let-up in the storm to haul feed for stock and only about 30 attended the meeting. Three new subs were taken for the Leader. Twenty Below at Donnybrook At Donnybrook it was 20 below zero and yet 30 farmers were at the meeting. They insist ‘on another meeting when the weather is nice. One subscription was taken. Dates for Future Meetings--Be Sure and Attend Them Loma " Thursday “Feb. 10th Moscow Townshi ! Schoolhouse, East of ‘Munich, 8 p. m.. i i Willow City’ po T hame L 1 ~ ”» ~ -9 Heimdal g LA R Sawyer &t Rl Jud ” D T Munich Friday Feb. 11th Bottineau i 8 i Bowman 2 o £ Bremen L) o 1) Fullerton -~ Saturday Feb. 12th Carbury. - . e ” Gascoyne ' - BRE G L Manvel Morniday Feb. 14th Barton - ol e g W. Rain Butte 7 2 tAf Buffalo Springs ” A ” Leal { 2 2. 2 ~rdoch .Tuesday Feb. 15th Pleasant Lake 7 2 2 Dover School ” %, 1 1 p. m. Crosby ” ” ” Schafer » 2, » Reeder s ” AI! 5 Wimbledon & LT Grafton, Wednesday Feb. 16th Midway ” ” 22 Kensal 2. e 4 ” Farmers Club hall 4 miles north, 1p.m. L 2, 2 Knox » » 9 Ambrose 4 ” 2, Watford ” » ” Scranton ” Wy, M Kensal ” 2 ” Hoople Thursday Feb. 17th Desart ” ” ” York ” » » Noonan ” . ” Arnegard - 2 A ” Grifiin ” ” e i Carrington 4 R Cavalier Friday Feb. 18th New England %, o ATA Berwick ‘11 ” ” Coteau ” ” » gugyrus ST athay Walhalla Saturday Feb. 19th Fessenden g i o Niobe ” ” ” Alexander & g 4 Hettinger » TRy Tolley Monday Feb. 21st Grand Forks, 7 milef,s west,,, 8 p. m. - Turtle Lake » g 2 » Ty s » Coulee: " - " Grano Wedneesday Feb. 23rd Northwood, Al 200 0 Northwood, 7 miles ‘nor’east, 8 p.m. ” ¥ i Groulie School- House MecClusky i 2 McKenzie > 4 ¢ Aurelia 4 e 22 Buchanan - 4 22aiy oo Fingal »” RI » Forbes ” »” : ” 5 Eckman Thursday Feb. 24th Holmes ; ” - -9 » Sterling 2. ”. ” Goodrich ¥ ». i 2 Pingree 9 o » Nome ” » ” Ellendale ” Uz 2 Maxbass Friday Feb. 25th Portland ¥ 2 i White Earth 2 DR Driscoll o 4 2 Driscoll, T miles north, 8 p.m. ” ” 2 Chasely 2 ThE Mgt Hastings e il ’;' &4 Monango ” »” " = Bantry Saturday Feb. 26th Fergus ” ” ” Blaisdell i 2. » Dawson »” ” » Dawson, 9 miles south, Liberty School : 8 p. m. - ”w : Bowden 72 22 . Woodworth 2% Goiles ERAPE o Rs e Enderlin e it & Kulm ” ” ” Gardena Monday Feb. 28 Honeyford o 2 il Tap an ” ” ” Stan ey ” ” » Lostwood L2 2 g, Heaton = ” ” ” Mellville ” \ » Mellville 6 miles southwest 8 p. m. ” 2 . Walker School ” 2. 3 Ft. Ransom, 8 miles southwest, 1 p. m. ”” 2 2 Overly uesday Feb. 29th - - Larimore ’,’, ’,’, ’,: %1(-)3;5::1 Springs 4 o Jamestown 2 A 2 Ft. Ransom ” £ » e ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— FOSTER’S FORECAST Washington, D. C., Feb. 5.—Last bulletin gave forecasts of disturbance to cross continent -Feb. 9 to 13, warm wave Feb. 8 to 12, cool wave Feb. 11 to 16. This will cause a February thaw farther north than usual and the storms will be of more than us- Shifting the Blame--Now We Know Whose Responsible for the ual force but the heaviest }?recipita- tion is not expected, with this storm. Without these storms our precipita- tion would be in the form of very fine mist, very fine snow and would come down gradually. This storm is- expected to prepare the moisture in the atmosphere for excessive snows , and rains to come later and the snows - Fel in.some sectiones are expected:to melt and put the streams in condit- ions for floods when the rains come. Next disturbance will reach Pacific coast about Feb. 13, cross Pacifie slo by close of Feb. 14, central valleys Feb. 15 to 17, eastern sections Feb. 18. Warm wave will cross Pacific slope about Feb. 13, central valleys g. 15, eastern sections Feb. 17. Cool wave will cross Pacific slope about Feb. 16, central valleys Feb. 18, east- ern sections Feb. 20. This will cause severe storms from the Pacific to the ‘Atlantic and these will increase in force as they move eastward, reaching their greatest -force ‘in eastern sections. TO SPEAK ON LINGOLN Next Sunday. evening at 8 o’clock,. in the-Grand theatre, under the aus- ices: of the Grand -Free Lecture Jourse, Mr. David .C. Coates, manag- ing-editor of the Nonpartisan Leader, * . will speak-on “Abraham Lincoln and His ,Principles Applied to Modern Times and Conditions.” The ‘lecture is free and there should be a large . attendance. HELE, GOG) GOVRNMENT F. F. Vaughan, auditor of Towner county, was one of the many county auditors of North Dakota who called at. the officefof the Leader in Fargo _on their way to or from the recent convention at-Bismarck which con- sidered the new :personal property schedule when first rodered to follow .- equalization to consent to alteration of some of the injustices pointed out by - the: Leader. = Mr.. Vaughan protested against the schedule when first ordered to follow it by the state and -hélped to change the ’plan at. Bismarck. He believes the convention did all it could to rec- tify the blunders of the state boards of equalization. S g .. The Leader did not have opportun- ity to print all the views of county auditors concerning the schedule be- fore the convention met and the mat- ter settled, but just the same it wish- es to thank those who responded to. the request for opinions sent.out to ™ the auditors and whose replies were not published. s Among those who wrotethe Leader protests ‘against the schedule and -whose letters were received too late @ . »for_ publication were Mr., Vaughan, . Auditor J, A.-Kramer of Ramsey county;-J. S. Hume, auditor of Slo e county; O. P. Benson, auditor of Mec- Kenzie ‘eounty .and . Nels O. Lindaas, -~ auditor of "Traill county. Auditor James A. Beery also wrote the Leader at length -giving his -views. ~EQUITY CONVENES FEB. 16 The Américan Society of Equity of North :Dakota will hold its annual meeting at Minot, beginning Febru- ary 16. Among the important matters . to come before tke meeting is the co- operative packing house proposition. “ The committée appointed to select a location, which has been at work for" some“weeks, will be ready to re- * port at‘that time: :Prominent speak- ers. will discuss the marketing ques- tion in all its phases and many things of value will -he. on tap. ""WALDRON [S PROMOTED L."R. ‘Waldron, for nearly eleven years superinfendent of the Dickin- son sub-experiment station, it is un- .derstood will 'soon resign his position and move to Fargo, where he will be- come identified “with the executive work of the state experiment station, assuming charge 'of the plant breed- .ing "and’ propogation,” in addition to other experimental work. ! L HIIAM A RUBE, HI'AM '|BLAMED FOR EV'RY- THING BUT | NEVER SQGET THE MONEY. e