Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-06
More than 800 licenses have been

Chief Assistant Inspector ]. A. Nc
Govern announced.
Miss Harriet Schultz, who resigned
as teacher Of German in the Mandan
high school, writes to ask if the posi-
ton is still open. She declares that
it is almost impossible to find a posi-
ton as teacher of the German Ian
guage. Throughout the Northwest,
she says, high schools are abandoning
The Mandan high school has added
Spanish to it's curriculum and offers
a very limited course in German.
A telegram has been sent by Gov
ernor Frazier, Chairman A. Andahl
and Commissioners Bleck and John.
son of the state railway commission, Z
Commissioner Hagan, Attorney Gen.
eral LANCER and Secretary of State
Thomas Hall to the North Dakota rep
resentatives in Washington that if the
new food administration requires the j
elevators will only require thirty days
for grain storage will cause a depres.
sion in prices and will cripple the
loS111IIOO, SOASCoS va
minals and will take away from the
producer all the protection which pro.
visos in the law intended to give.
j. H. McInerny, president of the
East Grand Forks Brewery company,
and j. N. O'Keefe, secretary, have
been held to the district court by
Judge Phil Mclaughlin at Grand
Forks. They are charged with Grim
inal conspiracy in the various cases
growing out of the recent raid made
on the brewery by state officials of
North Dakota. Besides the criminal
conspiracy charge they were also held
to the district court charged with vjo-
lations of the North Dakota bootleg
ging law. They were held on twenty
nine of these cases, the state orig
inally charging forty-six violations, but
later dismissing seventeen.
On the basis of seventy-three re-
ports gathered from twelve counties
in Northern and Eastern North Da-
kota crop conditions are good and
much more satisfactory than last year
because of the higher prices obtain
ing. Thirty cities report conditions
fair; twelve reports say that the crops
are only about so per cent Of the
average, but generally much better
than last year. Seven are of the opin-
ion that the crop is pretty light andt
five maintain that it is just about av-
erage. In other instances reports say
conditions are fine; others again main
tain that two-thirds of a normal crop
will be the result. In two cases less
are estimated.
Thomas Cooper, director of the
North Dakota experiment station at
Fargo, is confident that the govern
ment call on this state for an increase
i'll rye of 100, 900 acres will be met.
On the basis Of the present govern
ment estimates, North Dakota has this
year produced 100000 bushels of rye,
Or twice the production in 1916 and
nearly four times as great as the 1915
production. The fact hat returns
from rye are nearly as great as those
from wheat, and the further fact that
the planting of rye comes at a time
when farmers are best able to do the
work, lends support to the hope that
the governments call on this state
will be answered favorably.
The North Dakota Federation of
Women's Clubs will hold it's twenty
first annual session in Dickinson on
Oct. /, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Club women of
Dickinson are planning an extensive
program of entertainment for the Wis,
itors and it is expected that one of
the largest assemblages of club women
to meet in the state will attend. The
great war question Of today as re-
CARDS women will be discussed. Notul
speakers will give addresses on GOOD
Conservation" and RED Cross Work"
Mrs. John Dickson Sherman of Chi
cago, chairman of the conservation de-
partment of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs, will speak, and Mrs.
Cyrus Perkins of Grand Rapids, Mich,
chairman of the art department of the
General Federation, will also speak.
The assessed valuation upon which
North Dakota will levy 1917 taxes will
be $3.50, 000, 1000, approximately $780,
000, 900 greater than in 1916, F. E.
Packard, chairman Of the state tax
commission, announced upon compile
ton of the work of the state board of
equalization. The principal gain is
SIS, 900, 900 in the assessed valuation
of North Dakota railways, which total
$40, 000, 900, against $4,000, 900 in 1916.
Telephone properties are raised 100
per cent and left at $500, 900, against
s415,483 in 1916. Telephones r
boosted 40 per cent to $1,90O,000; *
press companies are raised SO per cent
to $700,0O0; Pullman companies are
increased 300 per cent to 100000;
farm lands are left at $216, $1,000.
Personal property is valued at $67,-
100000 and town and city property at
approximately SD, 900, 900.
That at least seventy-five night
schools will be organized in North d.
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