Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-11
SCHOOL MONEY IS
DIVIDED BY BOARD
COUNTIES GET SHARE OF STATE
APPROPRIATION FOR RURAL
SCHOOLS.
HAPPENINGS AT STATE HOUSE
What North Dakota Officials Are %.
ing in Administration of Laws
In the Different Depart
ments at Bismarck.
HAPPENINGS AT STATE HOUSE
Bismarck.

The sum of $112,500 appropriated by
the last legislature to provide aid for
each of the years 1917 and 1918 to
rural graded and consolidated schools
was apportioned for the current year
by the board Of education at a meet
ing which it has concluded here.
Amounts received by the various coun-
ties range from $50 for Sioux county,
with one-room school profiting from
the fund, to $4,163.32 in Williams coun-
ty, which has 81 schools of different
standards participating in the disburse-
ment, and 81, 743.S SO in B%ottineau, which
has four less schools benefting, but
has ten consolidated schools as COM
pared with six in Williams.
Walsh county, with 80 schools par
cial state aid; Nelson county, with 23
schools, gets $4,000; Grand Forks, with
q classified schools, gets s2,524.77; Di-
vide, % classified schools, $3,032.97;
Cass, IL classified schools, $1,415.51;
Ransom, % schools, $3,1S3.2O; Towner,
10 schools, $2,929,21; McHenry, IS
schools, $~3,911.5S; Barnes, 20 schools,
$4,116.77; Burleigh county, with a clas-
sified schools, $603.24; Adams county,
$1,641; Benson, $2,151; Bowman, ST.
$50; Cavalier, $2,70S; Dickey, $1,000;
Foster, $1,996; Hettinger, $2,2S2; Kid
der, $1,426; LaMoure, $2,614; McKen-
zie, $2,S27; Mclean, $1,9S6; Mercer,
$1,674; Morton, $l,040; Mountrail, ST.
9o9; Pembina, $1,179; Renville, ST.
S43; Rolette, $1,400; Stark, s1,1SS;
Steele, $1,000; Stutsman, S2,622; Wells,
S2,042.
Period of Grace Expires.
The period of grace for reg:strants
who failed to appear for examination
when directed to do so by their local
boards, has expired, states Adjutant
General Fraser, and the $50 bounty
placed on their heads by the govern
ment is now effective. This sum will
be paid for their delivery to the can
Torment to which their states quota
is assigned. If it be found on ~investi-
cation that their dereliction is not
willful, they will be assigned to their
states contingent, and their local
board credited with them. If their
shortcomings be proven willful, they
will be tried by court martial as de-
s%erters in time of war, and the pen
atty upon conviction is death, unless
the sentence shall be tempered by
President Wilson. Scores of young
men in North Dakota are liable under
this provision of the select service act,
and no further warning will be given
them.
Ignite Principal Product.
The mineral products of North Da-
? kota in 1914, according to the annual
report Of the United States geological
survey, were valued at $1,063, $40, the
principal product being Ignite coal In
1914 the value of all North Dakota
manufactures was $21,147,431; the
value added by manufacture was S.
) 663,116.
!. Must Revise Fire Ordinances.
The fact that every municipality in
North Dakota of 1000 population or
more must revise present fire ordi-
nances or enact new mes to provide
for electrical inspection under an act
OF the last legislature, was emphasized
by State Fire Marshal H. l.. Reade,
who also is chief electrical inspector.
Comparatively few municipalities
now provide for electrical inspection.
and several are considering new fire
ordinances which do not carry the
, necessary provision. The state fire
marshal urges that these ordinances
= be amended in order that the cities
may comply with the law.
To Distribute Information.
81. Il. Laid, state federal food adj
ministrator, at the request of Herbert
; Hoover, United States food admins.
traitor, has named the following news
paper men to act as a state board of
directors for public information per
tanning to all matters regarding feder-
al food administration.
Norman B. Black, chairman. Fargo
Forum, Fargo; H. E. CASTOR, Courier
News, Fargo; w. P. Davies, Grand
Forks Herald, Grand Forks; J. H,
Bloom, Devils Lake Journal, Devils
Lake; G. A. Johnson, Minot News.
Minot; G. D. Mann, Bismarck Tri-
bune, Bismarck; j. r. Burgester,
jamestown Capitol, Jamestown; H. l..
Kellogg, jamestown Alert, James.
town; A. L. Westernhagen, Western
Newspaper Union, Fargo; r.. S. Phil.
lip, New Rockford Center, New Rock
ford and Oliver S. Morris, Nonparti-
san Leader, Fargo.
New Corporations.
New corporations whose charters
have boon announced by the secre.
tary of state are the Peoples Gas Co.
of Minot, capital $500 900; incorpora.
!. ators, Alex P. Draper, Williston; l.. l..
Colby, Minot, and c. w. Hookway,
Granville; Dickinson Loan Agency,
Dickinson; capital, $685. 900; incorpor.
ators, Max Hendrick, M. r. Hendrick
and A. p. Ellian, all of Dickinson;
Grand Forks SInrnpn ca Grnnd