The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1916-11-23
BONDS ARE
REDUCED BY BOARD
NORTH DAkoTA's INDEBTEDNESS
REDUCED TO $4,000 FROM
$4,000 FOUR YEARS AGO.
NEWS OF STATES MILlTIAMEN
important Items From North Dakota
State Institutions and Officials
With Live Letters From Flick.
ertail Guardsmen at Border.

state bonds tOtallng $lO6,IOO nave
been retired at a joint meeting OF the
state board of university and school
lands and the state auditing board.
Governor Hanna is chairman of both
boards. State Treasurer John Steen.
Secretary of State Thomas Hall State
Auditor Carl Jorgenson and Attorney
General II. J. Linde are members of
the state auditing board. All OF the
above except State Treasurer Steen
and with the addition of State Super.
intendent of Public Instruction L. j..
Taylor, are members of the state board
Of university and school lands.
n bonds taken up were retired
from the sinking fund. They included
the complete issue of agricultural col.
lege state bonds due in 1921. 5000.
the complete issue of university and
school mines state bonds due in 1921.
$500 and $1,000 Of the university
state %refunding bonds, due in 1919.
The bonded debt of North Dakota is
now reduced to only $472,OOO. -Four
years ago the bonded indebtedness o.
the state was $937,3O0.
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Officials Plan Budgets.
Heads Of all the state departments
at the capitol are now carefully list.
ing their needs for the two years fol.
lowing June 80, 1917, for the consider.
alton Of the first state budget board,
which will meet at the state house
the third Tuesday in December. An
effort is being made to make the
acquisitions high enough, as two years
ago, when the budget system was
adopted, a number of important items,
including, for instance, the publica.
ton of the state Blue Book, were not
provided for.
The budget commission consists of
hve members, the governor, the state
auditor, the attorney general and the
chairmen of the appropriation com
mittees of the senate and the house
In the Fourteenth general assembly.
Treadwell Twichell was chairman of
the house committee and P. T. Kretsch.
mar headed the senate committee in
1915.
The board meets and epare a
budget under the provisions of chap.
ter 81 OF the session laws of 1915.
This budget goes to the a%ppropria.
ton committees Of the Fifteenth as.
sembly, which passes upon the items
before they are finally incorporated.
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Athletics Aids Few.
That interscholastic athletics have
a demoralizing influence on certain
high school work, was the assertion
OF ". B. Stebbins of Grand Forks, ad
dressing the secondary section Of the
North Dakota Educational association
IN the closing days program of the
anni:al convention here. Mr.. Stebbins
declared that the benefits are concen.
trated to a few students. He criti
, clZed the conduct of athletic teams
away from home.
A banquet to E. J. Taylor. retiring
state superintendent CT public ins,rnc
ton. closed the convention. Amen!
various propositions urged by the de
partment of rural education was q
oIoLC tedCllcIS employment agency
and state aid in transportation.
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Funds for State Schools.
The state superintendent of public
instruction has announced the fina
apDortionment of the income and in
terest funds among the public schools
Of North Dakota. The amount, 3;
cents per capita, is small, s it repre-
Sents merely the residue left in the
fund after the principal pyments have
been made.
The total for the state is sG7, 582. 20
Among the counties receiving the Iarp
est share are Cass, with 1O,174 pupils
S3,5Go.9O; Grand Forks, with 9,195 pu
pills, ~$3,218.25, and Burleigh, with 3.897
pupils, s1,361.S5. The apportionn,en,
is based on a total enrolment of 1913.
O92 pupils in the North Dakota rubli,
schools.
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All Institutions Inspected.
Chairman r 6 owic 10 ho,l, ~ -.