Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-09-22
EXCITING WEEK At
CAMP IN MERCEDES
NORTH DAKOTA GuARDsMEN ARE
HOSTS TO $50 TEXAS
SCHOOL TEACHERS.
NEWS OF STATES NILITIAMEN
Important Items From North Dakots
State Institutions and Officials
With Live Letters From Flick
ertail Guardsmen at Border.

State Institutions and Officials
With Live Letters From Flick
ertail Guardsmen at Border.
It has been a week of excitement. 1t
might almost be called a week of So
cial gaieties for the North Dakota regi
ment. The school teachers of Hidalgo
county, Texas, $50 strong, have held
their county institute here, and the
North Dakota men have been their
hosts. The 1000 men at Llano Gran
de also did their best to pose as hosts
to the pretty educators, but with three
miles distance between them and the
institute, and drills and hikes and camp
regulations interfering, they did not
have half the chance of the Dakotans.
Major F. S. Henry and Captain A. B.
WEIGH were appointed as masters of
entertainment, and a regimental par
ade and a formal guardmount were
among the features which drew the
battalion of school ma'rms" to the
Dakota drill field. The school teachers
kotans cheered the teachers.
Dozens of the school teachers re-
ceived invitations to mess with the
North Dakctans. The domestic science
teachers inspected the mess sheds, and
exclaimed in admiration when they
learned that beans were served in at
least six ways and that the coffee
had cream in it, and that jam forms
an important part in a soldiers menu.
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To Organize Rural Credits Groups.
County farm agents in North Dakota
will aid farmers in organizing to obtain
the benefits of the newly created Fed
eral farm loan banks, according to
Thomas Cooper, director of the North
Dakota experiment station.
The act which creates the banks pro-
vides the department of agriculture
shall assist the Federal farm loan
board in disseminating information
relative to the act and shall aid in
instructing farmers how to organize
and conduct farm loan associations,
Mr.. Cooper explains.
He says agents are joint employees
of the Federal Department Of Agri-
culture, the state agricultural college,
and the county employing them.
A general field meeting of county
agents will be held here soon when
instructions will be given relative to
the different features of the law and
the steps necessary to take in the
establishment of local loan associa-
tons.
Mr.. Cooper said it may be the county
agents as Federal employees, will be-
come the principal local agencies
whereby the Federal board will main
tain direct contract with the farmers
of the state. He pointed out the fact
that a county employs an agent may
mean great deal to farmers who wish
to take advantage of the provisions Of
this law.
Solve Farm Problems.
The work of personal service will
be carried on by the North Dakota ex-
pertinent station in the future. and ar
rangements are being made for send
ing out men who will give personal ser.
| vice on farm management, farm &C.
counting, drainage and road engineer
ing.
agent of Barnes county, will come to
the North Dakota Agricultural college
and will be in charge of the farm man.
agement and extension work under the
direction of Thos. Cooper, of the ex-
pertinent station. Mr.. Maryland will
have charge of a practically new de-
partment, and will give his entire atten.
ton to working out problems for the
farmers, going directly to the farms
and spending some time assisting the
farmers to solve the question that is
confronting them.
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Double Payday For Guards.
The North Dakota regiments luck
has been the envy of all brigades along
this part of the border since their
double pay day. For the pay bugle to
blow twice on one day seems fairy
tale to soldier, but that is what has
happened in the First North Dakota.
Pay for a portion of June was hand.
ed out in the morning. In the afternoon
the bugle sounded again, and wages
for July were handed out. Several
Bismarck soldiers were shaving, tidy
ing up for a visit to town to celebrate
pay day, when the dough bugle"
sounded the second time, and they fell
in with half their beard on and half
off. Some were down at the postoffice
buying money orders to send home
when the pleasantest of all bugle calls
was repeated.
School For Deaf Opens.
The fall term at the North Dakota
school for the deaf has just opened.
Indications are that there will be an in
crease in attendance this year, a con-
lition easily forecasted in that the SUI
perintendent is usually notified ahead.
The enrolment last year reached 104
and there will be at least fifteen more
this year. In order to assure the safe
arrival of the younger pupils, teachers
go to the junction points. Professor
Long goes to Jamestown, Miss Buch-
anan to Grand Forks and Professor
Sheridan to Fargo.
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Guards Health Good.
Everyone in the First Regiment is in
good health, declares Judge ]. M. Han
ley, who returned from the border.