The Oakes times., 1917-08-30

9sosS ceauh VI MdkoIi Has applleQ IOT
a charter as national bank.
The food administration at Washing.
ton announced that the appointment of
DIR. Edwin F. Ladd of Fargo, as fed
eral state food administrator for North
Dakota, has been approved by presi-
dent Wilson and that DIR. Ladd has
taken the oath of office.
A scorpion was discovered in the
depths of coal mine near the old
Weldeman ranch near the Missouri
river near Van Hook. The mine is
elghteen miles from the nearest town
and 1t is not believed that the unwel-
come insect could have been conveyed
there in a crate of bananas.
Philip Nelson, the Fayette home.
steader who ran amuck recently and
was rounded up by an armed posse
after the exchange of number of rife
shots, pleaded guilty to arson in the
third degree before Judge Crawford at
Dickinson and now is serving four
year term in the state penitentiary.
North Dakota must have an as.
sessed valuation of 1856, 100000 to pro
duce sufficient taxation revenue tc
finance it's operations for the coming
two years, State Auditor Kositzky ad.
v1sed the state board of equalization.
The present assessed valuation il
$34S, 100000 and the necessary in.
crease is smaller than anticipated.
H. R. Bitzing of Mandan has been
ordered to report at Camp Cody, N.
NJ, as judge advocate of the Thirty.
fourth division. Judge j. M. Hanley,
also of Mandan, who recently declined
a majorship in the Second regiment,
has been again recommended to the
United States government for appoint.
ment. Judge Hanley will accept the
new appointment.
William Behrbaum of New Salem
pleaded guilty in federal court at Far.
go to charge of embezzling $6,5O0
and was sentenced to Fort Leaven.
worth prison for five years by Judge
Q. F. Amidon. Behrbaum, who is
twenty-six years of age, was cashier
of the New Salem National bank and
his shortage was due, he said, to his
speculation in wheat.
Farmers of the New Rockford sec.
tfon have started threshing. If neces.
sary, they say, they will run their
crews shorthanded rather than allow
representatives of the Industrial Work.
ers of the World to be members of the
crews. 1t is expected records will be
made for the number of bushels Of
grain threshed in a day, as the straw
is very short and the grain unusually
clean.
The 1918 convention of the North
Dakota Retail Hardware Dealers asso.
citation will be held in Grand Forks,
Feb. IL, IA and Is, according to a de.
cision Of the executive board of the
organization. Jobbers and manufactur.
ers of hardware supplies will not have
exhibits at the convention. At tho
committee meeting it was decided that
the exposition feature would not be in
keeping with the governments conser
vation plans.
Attacked by rattlesnake in the
highway near his home the twenty.
two-months-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Moran of Squaw Gap died the
following day at a Sibley hospital, al.
though everything possible was done
to save him. Mrs. Moran carried the
screaming child two miles in her arms
to the home of neighbor to procure
an antidote and the baby was then
Immediately removed to the hospital.
but the poison by that time had
spread through its, system to such an
extent that nothing could be done.
The summer school at the univer.
sfty of North Dakota at Grand Forks
was the most successful in the history
of the institution. Serious application
to the work of making better equipped
citizens at the time when the United
States needs them most characterized
the work of both sections. The enroll.
ment which is devoted to college work
only was Isl this year. Last years
enrolment was 145. For the work for
teachers the enrolment totaled 1874
this year, compared with 1862 a year
ago. Twelve weeks of summer work
will be offered by the University Of
North Dakota next summer.
Threshers at a mass meeting held
at Egeland agreed on a scale of prices
for threshing and wages for this falls
runs. The farmers agreed on 40 cents
an hour to each man for any length of
time decided on by the men, they to
be docked for time lost after stop of
fifteen minutes. For teams and wag-
ons Is cents an hour will be paid. The
price for threshing grain will be as
follows: Wheat and rye, Is cents a
bushel; barley, 10 cents bushel, and
oats, 8 cents bushel. If threshing is
done by the hour the charge will be
$50 per hour for eight-team outfits;
$25 per hour for ten-team outfits and
$50 an hour for twelve-team outfits.
That farmers will fight for higher
y