The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 27, 1916, Page 9

Y matlon The thousands who visited the state fair at Far wu taken while the mam program of amnsement% “New Supreme Court Totals EW totals on the supreme court primary vote, containing official - returns from nearly. all counties ~and with only three counties missing," show. increased leads for the three can- didates indorsed by the League, Robin- son, Birdzell” ‘and -~ Grace. Robinson’s total .vote has ‘reached 40,242, against |81,520_ for’ Burke, the highest of the present incumbents running. for .renom- Robinson’s lead will be 12,000 by the time all the returns are in. Grace, “Who ‘received the lowest vote of the . League candidates, is over 5,500 ahead "of the highest vole given the present Jndges. His lead will be 6000 when the returns are -all in. .Thé accompanying table gnles the re_tnr_ns for judges as compiled to date L with vande, Eddy and. Hettinger counhes missing_entirely, and , with only parhnl returns. on Sioux and a few of the other counties. “The rest. of the figures, .however, are all” complete "gnd’ practxcally ~all ofliaal canvass results. In the: compxlanon of the vote on mpenntmdent of pubhc msu-uchon 12 counties are still missing. An error of nearly 2000 in favor of Hoover was dis- covered in the unofficial returns from one of the counties in the Leader’s last totals for this office. Correcting that and adding some counties- hitherto mis- sing, the totals for this office, 12 counties out of 52 in the state missing, are as follows: Hoover, 23,467; 45,674, Later figures have made one other change in the legislative situjtion.. In the fifth district, part of Grand Forks county, A. J. Huso, indorsed by the League, formerly reported as beating Hanson in the race for the Republican nomination . for the lower _house, has been defeated the official canvass shows. The ofiicml vote is: 459, This . leaves the leg:slative situation as follows:” The League 'nominated 85 candidates “for the lower house and failed to nominate only 18:it indorsed. The League nominated 12'candidates for the senate and faued to nommabe five it mdorsed ' 661 360| . 536 279| 0591 376| 381 225| 450 . 348 . 928| 1335] .b27 156! - 882 207| "1132|. 449! 263| 169) 1848| = 462 ; 161| 290| 452 288| 1853| 1047| 243! Macdonald, - Huso, 363, Hanson, go last week patronized liberally the amusements and concessxons on the Mldway. was in progress on the track and stage m front of the grandstand. Potato (jr_owéi‘s Unite ‘0 years of effort on the part of Jtato growers and the Agricul- .ural college staff to organize a vtatewide potato growers’ association and county branches, culminated Wed- “nesday, July 19, at-the state fair at Fargo, in the formatlon of such an association. It will be known as the North Dakota State Potato associatien, and its mem- bership will include all persons, whether farmers or handlers, interestéd in the potato industry. The meeting was held in the balcony of the Agricultural build- ing, and was called to order by Professor Henry L. Bolley of the Agricultural college, who was "appointed chairman of “a' committee to draft a constitution and . bylaws at a gathering of potato growers a“year ago. Twenty to thirty persons attended and took part in the discussion and the election of officers. . Mr. Bolley, after calling the meeting to ‘order, outlined the ~study of the ‘sflb;ect made by his committee, stating that the constitutions of the several most progressive states in the potato mdustry, and some of the best county organizations, had been carefully con- sidered, and the best material em- bodied in the proposed constltutlon and bylaws. The resulting document wluch was adopted was brief and simple. It set forth the object of the orgamza— tion: to be the promotxon of interest in the potato mdustry in _North . ‘Dakota, and-in pure vafieties both for seed and commercial purposes;_the dissemination of the information on seed; improvement of: sorting and loading method5' cooper- ation. with the national association and “the adoption of standard grades; the elitnination of undesirable ' commercial types; and . dissemination of information on potato- diseases and pests, together with ‘the best known means for eradicat- ing them; and finally the securing of better market and transportation facilities "COUNTY ASSOCIATIONS TO BE FORMED Under the paragraphs dealmg with' “work of the association” provision was e.for one annual meeting’ and‘lspeclal meetings at call, the preparation of an annual program and potato exlubxt and the- printing of a full report of the pro- ceedings. The special work of the state organization will be the orgamzatxon of county - or:-.local:-associations, and. this phase of".the” work -was taken. up immediately “upon ad:oumment by ‘the. officers: named, with a view. to having a number of -such associations in work- ing order by November, "when the first armnal meetmg will be held *at - Devils Lake, " * " S LLvery county orgamzatlon will be | " éntitled to'a vice president in the state orgamzatton, and the same right will be . accorded ‘to “other loéals’that ‘desire to affiliate; but which 'are not formed as | . eounty units.. Until such county or local < units - are formed, vice presidents to ‘ represent unorganized .counties and. take 59| the mitiative in county organizing; will: _D. Hartwell of La be “appointed. by the. execitive . com- mittée, and 'as such a vice preudént, H. This picture of a thronged sidewalkJ officers will consist of president, and secretary-treasurer, and thrée memberg elected. by the state association will," with. these ‘officers, constitute the executive board. t The first executive committee named consisted of the following: President, j A. D. Andrews, of Mapleton; secretary« treasurer, H. O. Werner, Fargo, horti< culturist for -the 'state experiment station (who acted as temporary chair« man - and -secretary - respectively)y Walter Reed of Amenia; J. D. .Pfeifer, of ‘Larimore; and ‘Peter McLaughhn of i Hunter. Several members at * once | joined and - paid in-their $1 fees, a.nd‘ when the meeting adjourned it was on a working ‘basis. Besides .the regular ‘ membersh]ps at $1 a year; a life mem« bership ' at $20, and honorary member«t ships to. include persons' interested, but not commercmlly, in the potato mdustry (such as college professors and other J experts). were also provided. i It was ‘decided to affiliate this yea‘! with “the state pure 'seed conventlon, ‘ w!uch will be held at Devils Lake early, in’ November, and to have an exhibit there. Investigation to find favorable points for thg& immediate formation of locals will be taken up by the executive committee, and the hope was éxpressed that there will be a number of ‘such localg organized in the next few ‘ weeks, ) Professor ‘Bolley presented as part of hig committee report an outline constitu= ! tion of what were considered by the committée the best county locals in the United States, and- this ‘was mdorsed by the gathenng. EQUITY MEN INDORSE LEAGUI'] Editor Nonpartisan Leader: - - [ The district = convention of thé Farmers’ Equity Union, which was’held at ‘Lemmon, South Dakota, on June 14-156 ‘unanimously mdorsed the ' Nond partlsan Léague, 1 J;( ELWOOD.H. ECK. RANSOM FARMERS: JUBILANT '1 The. farmers of ‘Ransom county are jubilant over the success-of the farmers® candidates 'in the primaries and deters mined to-make an even better record in: the . Noyember election, said - Jo Wy Kaber of - Enderlin, ~who -was' in_ thd Leader office during the week ) | have heard: some’ of ‘the - farmerfi talkmg very iseriously * about the need for ‘banks .and’ possibly" stores.to . b owned by the farmers themselves in the towns where the present merchants and bankers are not their friends,” said Mry Kaber. - £Some - towns are already ' feelx ing'the effect of their unfriendly attitudd toward the farmers’ ticket. In some cases merchants pretended to favor the caiise of the farmers and then voted the other way. * The farmers wfll not forget this. fi ~ “Down ‘in our parl: ‘of the country’ the League has ~been helped rather than hurt” by the attacks of gang: papers; They just’ make the boys more’ deter< mmed to stick together. They don make any ‘enemies for us. They even ‘made us some friends. run.” e’repot won'ymg a bit, VW' havg