Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-01-10
Many To Be Held In Several Coun.
ties During Balance of
This Month.
STATE CAPITOL NEWS
What is T%ranspiring in the Different
Departments Where the Affairs of
State Government Are
Administered.

III
schedule, for the balance of this
month, of farmers institutes to be con-
Quoted by the commissioner of agri.
culture and labor, under a law passed
by the last legislature: Jan. IL, Ross,
Mountrail; Jan. Is and 16, Ray, Will
liams; Jan. " and IL, Tioga, Will
Jams; Jan. % and %, Plaza, Noun
trail; Jan. %. Minor, Sargent; Jan.
"a n %, Havana. Sargent. Applica-
tons for institutes will be received at
the office of the commissioner of agri-
culture and labor here as late as
Jan. 20.
Should Give To Soldiers Fund.
Military life is certain to become
monotonous and a drudgery unless re-
creation is provided for our boys"
says Governor Lynn J.. Frazier of
North Dakota, in urging contributions
to the soldiers recreation fund at
Camp Dodge.
An appeal has reached this state
from that %cantonment for more liberal
contributions. Lieutenant Croil Hun
ter, First battalion, 33Sth field artil.
lery, says in a letter to Angus G..
Frazier, adjutant general of North d.
kota, that "the government supplies
every man with clothes, food and
equipment to keep him in good physi-
cal condition, but does not make al
lowance for recreation equipment such
as b%aseballs, boxing gloves, footballs,
books. papers, and many other little
things that make a soldiers life more
happy and contented as we'll as max
ing him a better soldier"
In a statement issuea by the adju.
tant general of the state, he says:
w can provide all the necessities
OF camp life for the comfort of our
soldiers, but if we deprive them of all
recreation we are not doing our duty
by them. We should contribute as
freely to this recreation fund as to
any other patriotic fund we are called
upon at this time to support"
Institutes Decided 'On.
Thirty applications for farmers in
stltutes, to be conducted by the com
missioner of agriculture and labor
during a law passed by the last legis.
lature making especial appropria.
ton Tor this purpose, have been re.
celved by Commissioner John N. Ha-
gan.
To date one complete corps of
speakers has been arranged for.
Mathew Duffy, a we'll known practical
farmer of Esmond, will speak on live.
stock; State Dairy Commissioner j. J..
O%sterhaus, a graduate of the Wiscon-
sin agricultural college, will discuss
North Dakota's dairy problems and
possibilities, of which he has made a
special study, and Miss Katherine
Staley of Garrison, a graduate of the
Valley City normal and of Stout
institute, Menomonie, Wis, will lee
ture On subjects of especial interest
to m Edgar Olson, former
county agent at Grand Forks, will
discuss farm crops.
Tharalson Is Retired.
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas H. Thar.
son, of Grafton, N. D., who as adjutant
general was instrumental in raising
the Second North Dakota regiment,
leaving for Camp Green as lieutenant
colonel of that command and trans
ferred to an ambulance train when
the Second was smashed, has been ra-
tired after thirty years military serv-
ice. Advice to this effect came in the
form of Adjutant General McCain's Of
fetal wire to General Pershing, com
handing the 41st division in France.
News of his retirement was received
by A%djutant General Fraser, who
could assign no reason for the wal
departments action, unless it be the
veteran campaigner's age. Colonel
Tharalson has three sons in the
service, a major, a lieutenant and q
sergeant.
Asks Shippers Cooperation.
The North Dakota railway commis
sion has issued to shippers and re
ceivers of carload freight \ circular
letter calling upon shippers to load
F->cars to maximum capacity, irrespec
tive of published tariff minimum; tt
load a promptly and Immediately
furnish agents with billing instruc
lions; to place orders for cars in writ
ing and specify commodity, number
and kind of cars desired as we'll az
date required and destination; to no
insist upon routing control and to no,
;. divert cars in transit nor to make 6
practice of reconsignment.
Burn Ignite, Bakers Word.
. Great assistance can be rendered b,
' the people Of North Dakota by sub
. stituting Ignite coal for anthracite
9 and bituminous coal the coming year
;. I. p. Baker, federal fuel administrato
!. for North Dakota declares in an ap
e peal to the people of the state.
t I'm North Dakota" he said, "sucf
I substitution will not only release {
G large quantity Of coal for consump
. ton elsewhere, but, in addition viii
relieve the great mass of railroad ant
1 other transportation equipment in
volved In the longer hauls from tn,
eastern coal fields"