The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean., 1917-10-11
SCHOOL MONEY IS
DIVIDED BY BOARD
COUNTIES GIT ShARI OF eTA1B
APPROPRIATION FOR RURAL
SCHOOLS.
HAPPENINGS At STATE HOUSE
What North Dakota omle,alo Ar D.
lnD In Administrator Of laWo
In the Different Depart
monts at etolnarck.

In the Different Depart
ments at eismarck.
Bismarck.
The sum Of $111.5oo 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 . meet
Ing which It has concluded here.
Amounts received by the various coun-
ties range from $50 for Sioux county.
with one-room school pronting from
the funds-to A;16s.32 in Williams coun-
ty, which has 27 schools Of different
standards participating in the disburse-
ment, and @4.743.s9 in Bottineau, which.
has four less schools. bensnting; but
hes ten consolidated schools % com.
pared with six in Williams.
Walsh county, with 80 schools par
dcipatins. 10 awarded es.ssl.so, In sps-
cial state aid; Nelson county, with -
schools, gets 1880; Grand Forks. with
d classified schools. gets >1,S14.77; d.
vide, q CLASSIFIED schools. $S,o31.o7;
Cass. u classified schools, $1.415.61;
Ransom, 3S schools. S3,1SS.3o; ,Townsr,
10 schools, @2,s2s,11; MeHenry, 10
schools. @3.s11.6s; Barnes, 20 schools.
e4.11s.77; Burisigh coulty, with 4 clas.
sined schools. $6os.3l; Adams county,
e1.e41: Benson. 93.1s1; Bowman, H..
GO: Cavalier. @2.7oS; Dicksy, 31.ooo:'
Poster. &1.s9e: Hettieser. 9S.1e3; Kid.
Der. 31.41e; LAMours, $3.e14; McKea-
sie, $2.S17; Mclean, 1886; Mercer,
e1.s74; Morton. s1.e4e: Mountrail. g.
30; Pembina, $1,17s; Renville. ST.
o@S; Rolette, $1.4oo; Stark, @1,1s8;
Steele, $1,000; stutsman. 32,e32: Wells,
e2.043.
Period Of Grace Expires.
Tho period Of grace for reeistrants
who failed to appear for examination
when directed to do 20 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
tonment to which their states quota
is assigned. II 1t be found on invssti-
CATION that their dereliction il not
wilHul,t they: wpl be assigned to their
states contingent, and their local
board credited with them. If their
shortcomings bs p1oven willful, they
viii be tried by court martial az do.
serters in time Of war, and the pen
atty upon conviction ID death, unless
the sentence shall be. tempered by
President Wilson. Scores Of young
men in North Dakota are liable under
this provision Of the seiact: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 1t 1908. $40, the
principal product being Ignite coal. In
1914 the value Of Ill North Dakota
manufactures was 921,147,431; the
value added by manufacture was S..
6e3.116.
Must Reviss Fire Ordinances.
The fact that every municipality IA
North Dakota Of 1000 population OF
more must revise present fire ordi
nances or enact new ones to provide
tor electrical inspection under an act
of the last legislature, was emphasized
by State Fire Marshal H. L. Reado
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 citiel
may comply with the law.
To Distribute Information.
E. F. Ladd, state federal food I'D
: ministrator, at the request of Herber,
Hoover, United States food admins
TRAITOR, has named the following news
paper men to act as state board o.
directors for public information per
tanning to all matters regarding feder
III food administration.
Norman B. Black, chairman, Fargo
Forum, Fargo; H. E. CASTOR, Courie,
News. Fargo; w. p. Davies, Crane
Forks Herald, Grand Forks; J. H
Bloom, Devils Lake Journal, Devils
Lake; G. A. Johnson, Minot News
'Minot; G. D. Mann, Bismarck Tri
1ebune, Bismarck; j. R. Burgester
Jamestown Capitol, Jamestown; H. L
lKellogg, jamestown Alert, James
town; A. L. Westernhagen, Western
Newspaper Union, Fargo: r. 8. Phil