The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-11-01
EXPECTS l08,s25
PLEDGES NSTATE
N. LApp rnlNko THAT MANY
EAMlLi1s WILL eloN eooD
COMBINATION pLaeos.
HAPPENINGS At STATE HOUSE
~hat herth Dakota oms,.,s AtszDs.
Inc In Administrator o. LaN6
IN the Different Ospart.
Gnsnts at Dtonparek.

TMF|E @~O II
IN the Dlhsrent osparA
msnts At DisMarek.
" North Dakotats lst,4sl fasniliss,
|aoSss26 families wiliahsys bsen expect.
q 10 sim the foeA conservation
pisdgs BY tho end. d tho campaim,
which ID to continue d Nov, 4, advisss
d. e. r. Ladd. federal FOOD adsnln1s..
traitor for tais state.
Hundreds. Of merchants. teachers,
preachers. station agents, members Of
wonnens' clubs, theatre mahagSrs,
postMasters and others who are In Z
issositfon to help, : taking m active
Interest in this food pledge car-
Dalgn," said the administrators.
lDr. Ladd finds that the average fam.
ily IN this state consists Of IS pr.
sons, father" no doubt, representing
the fraction, and that North Dakota:s
most recent accurate census populA-
ton Of 664,62S, would give the state
IN. l64 such families.
Fuel Administrators NAMED.
Z. p Baker, fuel administrators for
North Dakota, has named these dis.
tr1c4 administrators: b. A. sw1GGum,
Grafton; Robert D. B1aksmofs. Fargo;
v. W. Thomas. Wahpston; d. o.
Mann. Devils Lake; g.. b. Ellsworth.
Jamestown; Fred D. Mccartney,
Oakes;. August e. johnson, Wash
bsfp; J. b. Lyon. Williston, and W.. r.
nvsfett, Dickinson.
State Educators Meet
llebfe than 1900 instructors and "a.
ssEeors from all parts OF North Dako-
tGNere here for the, annual session
ofsthe North Dakota Educational ~
~sd1Ei&tion. which opened q three days
e6uyvention here.
The Municipal auditorium. the Com.
1letkeial club rooms, the high school
sddftofffids1niSaind three church buildings
were used for the several meetings
scheduled.
Governor Frazier welcomed the del.
egates to the capital city.
Domestic science workers. and tho
science aud mathematics divisions met
two days AZ the convention.
overeharess Being Collected.
Serving 4s . public trahic bureAu
eof the BENEFIT 6d6s Northxn Dakota ship.
rsrs. th55tate 7aifWay EFcoldRGtSsIon,,
through Rate Expert Little. 10 collect
Mx hundreds Of dollars II ~overscharg.
sand excess freight due to Improper
routing. This Is a feature a the com.
missions service which IL little known
Of appreciated, hut ofawhich shippers
~ more readily availing themselves
Aa they become familiar with It.
Attacks state Coal Rate.
The re-opening of all North Dake
ta's established coal rates and partic
ularly of those designed to encourage
the Ignite industry may result from
q complaint fled with the railway
commission by ]. n. Rosen. manage,
Of the Western Produce Co. at Man
dan, who alleges that present state
rates on soft coal unfairly discrimi
mated in favor of ignite.
Rosen is engaged in the jobbing o.
Wyoming coal, which he has con
signed to him In carload. lots at Man
dan or Bismarck, whence he recon
sigas it, under the North Dakot,
rate, to its final destination. The rat,
on soft coal shipments within TIL
state is considerably higher than tn
rate on Ignite, which is a tariff espe
cially adopted with a view to enabling
the Ignite mines of the state to mar
ket their product economically.
Collects From Car Lines.
With the receipt of a check 10
1852 from Swift & Co., in paymen
Of their private carline taxes, Stat
Auditor Kositzky announced that h
now has available for distribution t
the various counties more than $40
600 in private car taxes, a majorit
of which Is in the form Of bac
tax, distributed over a number
years.
Dealers Must Have License.
The attention of dealers in foo
products is called by DR.. e. F. Ladt
federal food administrator for Mort
Dakota, to the fact that a licens
must be procured prior to Novembe
/. Failure to procure such licens
on the part Of the dealer will co,
stitute a violation Of the food admir-
istration law and render the deale
liable to heavy fine. Application mus
be made direct to the food adminl
tration, licensing division, at Wasl
!. ington, D. G.. For the present, hotel
restaurants, confectioneries, ic
cream manufacturers and bakers wi
not require q license. All food product
must be sold at reasonable prices. 9
though there was q sufficient suppl
and the profits must be limited
those which prevailed in ordinar
years.
New Charters Issued.
Charters have been issued by Seer
tary of State Hall to the Mountra
Farmers Leader, at Stanley, capits
ICED at $11.400 by J. w. Arnold Of F.
worth, A. w. Youngquist of Powel
Lake, P. c. Olson, Belden, and JOSEF
Davidson. Belden; the Security A
stract company, Stanley, capitalize