Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-12-04
MARTIN AMENDS
FORMER OPINION
Cooperative Concerns Must
Set Permit to Sell Stock.
MINIMUM IS s1O0 A SHARE.
suffrasists at Nebraska Capita, Open
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Manager Fined
Under New Nine-Aour Law-Farm.
ers Get More Time to Pay.

Lincoln, Dec. 3.-Co-operatiye cor
porations must get a permit to sell
stock before they can do business in
Nebraska, according to an opinion by
Attorney General Grant Martin.
A former unofficial opinion coming
from that department had seemed to
be otherwise, hut the latest is official
and will stand. The same opinion
makes it illegal to isue stock in less
amounts than sl00 share.
suffragists Open Headquarters.
Headquarters of the Nebraska Equal
Suffrage league We're opened at the
Lindell hotel. Mrs. Ada Wallace Un-
ruh of Portland, Ore, was the guest
of the occasion and delivered an ad-
dress urging the women to get busy
and improve their opportunities. She
told Of the fight that the women of
Oregon had made to secure the ballot
end the part they had taken in clean
ing up the state politically. She said
the best argument for SURFACE was
the speeches made by the anti-suffrag.
lists and she urged the women to get
as many Of the anti-people to work as
they could. She told the women that
they must not expect to clean up
things the first year for the men had
taken 5000 years to bring about the
present conditions.
Fined Under Nine.Hour Law
Claude Currie, manager of the Brok-
en- Bow Telephone company at the
time complaint was made by State La
bor Commissioner Pool for working his
female operators overtime in viola.
tion of the labor law. was fined $50
and costs in the court Of County
Judge Charles Holcomb. The com
plaint was filed because girls who
slept in the Office nights and occasion
ally answered night calls were consid.
cred to be on the job and therefore
came under the provisions of the nine.
houra-day female employee law.
Phone Company to Lift Rates.
A hearing was ON before the rail
way commission in which the Sarpy
Telephone company, with headquar.
ters at Gretna. are asking for the right
to raise telephone rates from q "a
$3.50.
The 6hubert Telephone company
has appealed to the railway commits
sion on account OF q bill sent them
efor. SIS, which the Burlington railroad
insists they shall pay for space in the
depot at that place for their telephone
booth and for service Of operator an
swering phones for the year 1912.
Complies With Sleeping Car Order.
The Burlington railroad has notified
Food Commissioner Harman that II
has complied with his order which
prohibits chefs, porters and waiter.
in dining cars from sleeping in this
cars. The dining car people were moi
at first pleased with the order, but II
has been put into effect on all the
roads and the employees are immense
ly pleased with the situation.
More Time to Pay.
Farmers owning lands on the gov
eminent irrigation ditch in the north
west part of the state will be given 6
longer time to make their payments OF
water rights, according to letter re
ceived by Deputy Auditor Minor from
the Farmers and Merchants bank Al
Morrill,. The extensions have been
made from Dec. to March 1.
Articles Are Filed.
The Farmers Cooperative Elevator
company of Nebraska City has filet
articles Of Incorporation with the sec
retary of state. The company is in
corporated for 100000, with q board
Of directors consisting Of Patrick
Roddy. H. A. Winton, Henry Heisch
John Wirth and Martin Christensen.
DAVIS WINS HIS POINT