The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1913-04-22
News Notes From the State Capitol

Bismarck, n. D., April %. - The
Relden Finnish Farmers association
has been organized and articles of in
corporation filed with Secretary o1
| State Thomas Hall. The new organi.
zatiOn will build a hall to be known
as "Kansonkoti" and will engage il
the general merchandise, lumber anC
machinery business but the prinCipa
object Of the association is the uplifl
Of the community. There is a capital
stock Of $4,000 and the first board of
directors has as members: J. P. Husa
w j. Husa, John Ahonen, Matti Kuf-
laf, Ivar Husa and Matti Ylkanen, all
of Belden, and Nestor Wertnen of
BroOkland The articles of incorpOra-
ton state that the association is to OC-
Cupy the new hall and that it will be
used as a sort of a school and general
meeting place.
New Automobile Company.
The Canham Automobile Co., of
WahpetOn have filed their articles of
incorporation with the secretary of
state. The company is capitalized
at 1000 and will conduct a general
automobile sale and repair business.
The first board of directors consists
of Roland and Lizzie Canham and E.
S. Babcock, all of Wahpeton.
Hospital at CasseIton.
The parties back of the Casselton
Hospital Co., have incorporated and
filed their articles with the secretary
of state. The first board of directors
consists of C. r. Meridith, A. Tauberg,
II. l.. Rowe, Walter r. Reed. The
business Of the association will be
that of conducting a hospital at Cas-
selton in Cass county and they have
Two New Banks.
Fessenden parties are interested in
the formation of two new banks, the
Farmers State bank, of Stady, and
the First State bank, CharlsOn. E.
F. Volkman and B. H. Edminister are
Interested in both the banks and A.
I Volkman is interested with them in
the bank at Charlson and w. A. Preiss
of Ambrose in the one to be estab-
lshed at Stady. Both banks are to
have a capital stock Of $4,000.
Auto License Tags in Demand.
Up to last evening the automobile
license department of the office of the
secretary of state had issued 3,400
tags and they are coming in now at
the rate of a little more than 800 per
day.
Session Laws About Ready.
The unauthenticated edition of the
1913 session laws is about ready for
| distribution and will probably be
ready for shipment to the county aud
itors on Thursday. The distribution
of the laws is from the offices of the
various county auditors Of the state
| and Secretary Of State Thomas Hall
stated yesterday that while he did
not know exactly what they would
be sold to the public for thought that
it would be about 40 cents each. This
cheap edition Of the laws was provid-
ed for by a new law passed at the last
| session of the legislature.
Preparing Programme.
Deputy Superintendent of Public
Instruction Parson is in Grand Forks
this week where he is in consulta-
! tation with Professor Kelly who is
president of the state educational as
| sociation and the two gentlemen are
arranging the details of the annual
meeting that will be held during the
summer. There are a good many de-
! tails to be worked out and it is ex-
pected there will be large attend
ance this summer as there is more in
terest being evinced than ever before
| The programmes will probably be