The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-10-29

headquarters for educators" and
they We're there and everywhere in
large quantities and variety that
would furnish supply for the most
exacting taste. Practically the entire
faculty Of the Normal school was
present and appeared to be very ac-
tive. Last evening the governor ad-
dressed them and during the day he
was receiving many of the visiting
teachers at his office.
At the capitol those formerly of Val
ley City were all in happy frame of
. mind, Miss Tess Henry, says next to
Valley City Bismarck is the best town
in the history of the state, and that
, she is working hard and having a
/ good time when of duty. Capt. Frank
was at Mandan for the day but Ernie
Wanner, secretary to the Board of
, Control was busy and very much in.
/ terested in several plans being work
ed out for proposed improvements in
conditions at the various institutions.
Judge Burke actually shows the ef-
feet of passing years and the exacting
work of his office, which he is filling
with the same marked ability with
which he handled the duties of Dis
trict Judge. To him several of tho
Barnes County visitors are under
obligations for ride about the city as
we'll as trip to the penitentiary, the
Times-Record representative being
among the number. At this great in
stitution wonderful improvements
have been made within the past year
or since Warden Talcott took the po-
stion he now holds. In contrast to
the former methods of handling the
prisoners when they were fed on tin
plates, sitting on crude and unsani-
tary wood benches, the men now eat
at a regular table spread with spotless
linen, and use about the same sort of
dishes and cutlery as is used in the !
average home and fed with only the
best foods obtainable. One might visit !
the factories where the men are en-
ployed, and if not told that he was in !
a prison, might easily mistake it for an
ordinary factory as everything posi-
bic is done to make for better condi-
tons for the unfortunates.
There is not room here to give a de-
tailed story of the great institution
that is gradually being changed from
a filthy prison., to a home for "the
where everything is done
with a. view of making the place home.
like. There are 247 inmates at this
time which is very large number and
several different forms of amusement
are provided for the men, large au.
dltorium with comfortable seats dur
ing the winter months is supplied WITH
moving pictures every Wednesday,
while almost every week travelling
shows come out in the afternoons and
give their show, the men being taken
from the work during the performance.
Each alternate Sunday a Catholic
priest and Protestant minister speak
to the men in the auditorium. The
North Dakota penitentiary is truly
wonderful institution and enough
praise will never be given those men
who have made the recent changes
and made home out of place here.
tofore considered "a hell hole"
The business men of Bismarck are
boosters, live town where things are
done is the impression one gets when
first stepping from the cars there this
week. The great exposition, financed
by local people, was in full swing and
showed some of the most wonder
full exhibits ever shown in the worlc.
Corn is King" with alfalfa running al
close second, while North Dakota
grown apples and all kinds of fruit is
to be seen in the exhibits of several
counties and even walnuts were no.
ticed.