The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-04-12
BANKS RESOURCES
ARE l08 MILLIONS
DEPOSITS IN STATE BANKS SHOW
100000 SINCE LAST STATE
MENT WAS MADE.
D0INGs AT STATE CAPITOL
What Is Transporting in tho Different
Departments Where the Affairs Of
State Government Are
Administered,

A tritle more than 1903 millions of
dollars represent the present re-.
sources of North Dakota's '682 state
banks and four trust companies, as
reported to State Examiner ]. r. Wa.
tiers In response to a call issued
March S.
The principal items going to make
up these resources is found in de-
posits, which have increased over two
million since the last call was made.
Time certificates show q gain of over
$2SS,O0O, and the increase in surplus
is more than s35O.0O0. All Of these
gains have been made since Decem.
Der q, 1916.
No Bids for Meat Supply.
Not a single bid on fresh meats for
the penal and charitable institutions
of the state was received by the board
of control from the Big Four OF the
packing industry, when estimates
were called for on supplies for the
ensuing quarter.
Representatives Of the packers ad-
vised the board that TO large con-
tracts are being accepted, as the
plants are holding themselves in read
mess to Immediately supply the need
of Uncle SANS soldiers.
The entire output has been pledged
the government.
Beef for which the board contract
ed from smaller packers cost SIS the
hundred as compared with $l1.4O
six months ago. Shoes which cost
the board $2.35 a year ago. now are
listed at $3.50. The high cost of liv.
ing has hit the state with a ~ean
Fire Marshal Issues Order.
A. H. Runge. state fire marshal. has
issued an order to all school princi-
pals that pupils must not be allowed
to go to the cloak room for their coats
or hats in a fire drill.
Several schools in the state have
been reported where this practice
was followed.
I'm case of a fire." says Mr.. Runge,
this delay would mean the lives of
many pupils. We will see that this
order is carried out to the letter. The
law provides that two fire drills must
law provides that two fire drills must
be held a month"
Soldiers Pensions Being Allowed.
Vouchers for soldiers pensions COW
erlng service on the Mexican border
are being allowed by the state auditor
as fast as they are presented and re-
turned to the banks to which the
troopers have assigned them.
Should the number of vouchers ex-
coed the amount of the states fund
of $4,000, some of the banks NAV
be required to hold these certificates
for two years, or until the legis'a.
ture makes up the deficit. Each
voucher calls for $50, and $50 North
Dakota National Guardsmen were
mustered out of the federal service
at Fort Smelling in February. How
many of these are entitled to the
pension of $40 per month provided
by the Fifteenth assembly has not
yet been ascertained.
At the capitol there is thought TO
be no question that the legislature
will make up the deficiency.
To Address P~edagoeues.
Governor L.. j. Frazier will be one
of the speakers at the ninth annual
convention of the Missouri Slope Edu.
cation association convention at Dick.
inson April p and IS.
Compulsory Law Advocated.
Attorney General William LANCER
has announced an opinion to the ef-
feet that the state compulsory educa.
ton law. requiring the attendance of
children at public schools, has been
automatically abrogated to a certain
extent by virtue of the labor shortage.
and that farm children Of a certain
age may stay out of school to aid in
farm Work. International complica.
lions and the worlds need for farm
products. are cited by the attorney
general in a letter he has addressed
to school officials. as justification for
permitting the older children to stay
out of school to aid in farm work.
Nucleus for Another Regiment.
A nucleus for a second regiment
OF the North Dakota national guard
is offered in requests from every
part of North Dakota for the organi.
~" SOlIpdIlieS. among
more recent petitions for permits.
sion to organize are those from I'm.
derwood, Beach and Crosby. The
governors mail is filled with com.
munications from patriotic communi.
ties which desire to do their share
in the hour of the nations peril, and
the files are being Immediately re-.
ferred to Adjutant General Tharalson.
Permission to Absorb.
Through an order OF the insurance
commission the Pioneer Life Insurance
Co. Of Fargo. which has in force. s1S..
000. 900 worth of insurance, OF which
$4,000, 900 covers North Dakota risks,
will be absorbed by the Lincoln Ma.
tional Life Insurance Co. of Fl. WAYNE.
Ind. The commission passed 1avo,.
ably on the Pioneers petition for the
reinsurance of Its business in and con.
%solidation with che Lincoln life, the
commission setting forth its belief tina,
all policyholders and shareholders IN