The Hope pioneer., 1916-12-07
new BULLETIN ON
PATENT MEDICINE
LADD OPENS FIRE ON ALLEGED
"FAkEs"-PRoPosEs NEW
DAKOTA LAW.
NEWS OF STATES MILlTIAMEN
important Items From North Dakota
State Institutions and Officials
With Live Letters From Flick.
ertail Guardsmen at Border.

That 70 per cent of the socalled pat.
ent medicines or :.ostrums found on
the shelves of the average drug store
are virtually worthless or are simply
fakes" and means of drawing mo.
ney from suffering humanity without
giving any real benefit, is an assertion
made by DR.. E. F. Ladd, state pure
food commissioner and president of the
North Dakota Agricultural college, in
a bullHin issued here.
North Dakota is now tolerably free
from adulterated food products. Injuri.
GUS forms of adulteration have been
driven out. The food department of
North Dakota asks that there be enact.
ed law which shall do for patent
medicine and dishonest quackery what
has been done for food products, and
this without injury to any druggist who
is doing legitimate business; in fact,
q direct benefit to the public.
"The suggested law for North Da.
every product as patent medicine or
'cure-all' shall be registered"
DR.. Ladd proposes that the food com.
missioner pass upon the medicines, but
that board be created to review the
commissioners decisions in case of
question.
Carson Wins County Seat.
The hustling little city of Carson is
to be the first county seat of Grant
county. Governor l.. B. Hanna, an.
nounced the choice of three commits.
sioners for the new county of Grant as
follows: John D. Thompson of Al
mont, Thomas E. McDowall of Carson,
William E. Wade of Wade. Thompson
and McDowall are members of the
slate presented by Carson at the public
hearing and will be favorable to Carson
when the time comes to select a coun.
ty seat. Mr.. Wade was not committed
and he may bring in a minority report
on the county sect location.
Very important duties devolve upon
the commissioners. They must select
temporary county seat and full
complement of county officers to serve
for the ensuing two years, and they
must also supervise the transcription
OF Morton county records affecting the
new county; the transfer of property
belonging to Grant county, and the
collection of taxes with which to pro.
vide for the expense of government.
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Ask !! unds for New Normal.
With majority of almost 10000 on
official returns from all but Eddy,
Mercer and Oliver counties, and with
certainty that the lead will be en-.
hanced by the vote of the two miss.
ing counties from west of the river.
the Dickinson normal school is a Ger.
talnty. The fate of the Dickinson
normal definitely determined, the state
board of regents has presented to the
budget committee estimates of the
sums which will be required by the
institution for the ensuing two years
The total is $252,500,
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New Risk Firms Admitted. FM
Five new county mutual insur.
ance companies were admitted in
North Dakota during the fiscal wear
just closed. These were the Farmers
County Mutual company of Sheridan
county, McClusky; the Farmers AIutu.
al Fire Insurance company of Williams
county, Bonetrail; the Hettinger Coun.
ty Mutual Fire company of Mott: the
Mountrail County Mutual company of
Manitou, and the Wildrose Farmers
Mutual Fire and Lightning company
OF Wildrose.
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U. :. Conference Is Success.
Secretary Walter F.. Cushing
and Rate Expert J. A. Little,
who accompanied Chairman w. H,
stutsmann to Washington for the ma.
tlonal conference of state railroad com.
missions. are back at their desks.
They report the sessions as most prof.
table in the light which they shed
on the railroad situation in general.
While the national conference has ad.
journed and a majority of the state
commissioners have returned home.
committee has been left in Washington
to represent the states,