The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1916-03-23
MEAT HANDLING IS {
NOT SATISFACTORY
DECLINE REPORTED BY FOOD
COMMlssloNER-sLAUcATER
HOUSES CONDEMNED.
ITEMS FROM STATE CAPITOL
Bismarck Letter Giving important
and Interesting News Of Officials
and Departments OF North
Dakota Government,

Dakota Government.
Bismarck.
Meat handling in North Dakota 10
not on as satisfactory a basis at the
present time as it was two and three
years ago, according to the report Of
E. F. Ladd, commissioner of pure foods
for the state.
The average scores OF meat markets
In the state for the past year was
1888 per cent while the average a
year ago was 1913. and the year previ.
GUS 1t was 1873 per cent so there has
been gradual decline in the two
years.
Slaughter houses are also con.
demned by Commissioner Ladd, who
states that they also show decline in
condition. The average score OF the
slaughter houses for the past year was
64.S4 per cent; in 1914 the average
was 79 per cent, while in 1909, the
average for all slaughter houses was
only 30 per cent.
Commissioner Iadd reports that
restaurants in the state averaged
1926 per cent; the hotel kitchen aver.
age was 90.36 per cent; the average
for bakeries is placed at S4.7O per
cent. and the average for confection.
cries Is fixed at 8C.72 per cent.
X X X
Board Of Education Meets.
E. F. l.add, president Of the agricul.
tural college has returned from James.
town, where he attended, for the first
time, a meeting OF the state board of
education, of which he became mem.
Der by virtue of his recent election
as president of the agricultural col.
lege. Only routine business was car.
ed for by the board ut this session.
Members OF the board are President
Ladd, President McVey OF the Uni.
versity OF North Dakota, President
George A. Mcfarland OF Valley City
normal, N. c. Mcdonald, state in.
spector of the rural and consolidated
schools. President X. NJ. Black of the
Ellendale normal. E. j. Taylor, state
superintendent OF education, w. f.
Parsons. secretary Of the board. Mrs.
Mary B. Strand, county superintend.
ent OF Dickey county, H. NJ. Taber and
E. r. Edwards, state high school in.
spector of jamestown.
To Decide Status Of Funds.
Educational institutions of the state
that have heretofore been supported
j. hyy <t,r, l,l
provision was made through direct
appropriation at the last session of the
| legislature. are somewhat In a
Quandary, as is the board of regents,
as to just when the mill tax levy quit,
and the new levy began.
President Ladd OF the A. c., has
taken the matter up with the board OF
regents to determine the status OF the
appropriation. and it is believed that
the board of regents and the attorney
general are comforting on the question
Definite decision will be made by the
first or third Monday in April. when
the board OF regents will meet.
X X K
Opinion on 1ootleggIng Law.
A question which has occupied the
attention OF the public for nearly q
year. is the matter Of an attempt to
referend the Bootlegging Measure OF
House Bill III. The matter has been
discussed from every point and now
after great deal Of work. Attorney
General Llnde makes the following
statement in regard to the matter:
"A few months ago. asked couple
OF states attorneys to prosecute un,
der the law known az tho Bootleggine
law blouse Bill 114) to test the valid.
ity Of the referendum petitiLn.
have considered the petition very
carefully and have como to the con,
! clusion that there Ia grave doubt
whether the petition is valid. and II
the bootlesging law has been refer
cred. And will advise the etats's at.
torneys to disregard the referendum
petition and to prosecute az II no %
ulion had been filed"
Hanna In Race For Senator.
Il am a candidate for the nomina
ton for United States senator" stat
cd Governor Hanna here. II made the
anaounoement to that effect before
leaving for Europe in December, and
promised a statement of my position
some time after my return.
II will make q formal statement
soon after the conclusion of the prest.
Dental primaries this month. and be.
fore the June primaries for nomina.
tions In both branches OF tho national
| Congress"
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