The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-03-14

quired about 80 minutes to locate the
| movie machine, to- place theETAO
movie picture machine, to place the
lamps and put them in operation.
Then the house was called to order.
der
Hail to the Senators. ;
Almost Immediately the senators
entered; headed by Adjutant Gen.
eral Fraser and Senator Liederbach,
the highest men in the capital build
ing, they marched up the middle
aisle, while Holmboe industiously
ground the crank. They quickly seat
ed themselves.
Then, with Lieut.. Gov. Howard
Wood in the chair, proper commit
tees were appointed to escort the
governor and escort the state offic-
ers to the house.
| Soon they returned the committee
! members, including Senator Frank
Ployhar, of Barnes, carrying flags.
Triumph March" was played as
! the senators entered, while Hail to
the Chief" seemed fitting as the gov
ernor entered.
In the interum, while the COM
mittees were out to find the COVER.
tnor and the state officers. the orches-
F; ira played "The Fight is on"
Ball Does a Turn.
~: H. A. Ball Of G ration, chief doors;
keeper of the house, a Civil war vet
eran, couldn't stand still when the
orchestra played "Old Glory March
On" and did few steps for the bene-
fit of the foyer crowds. 1t went big.
O'Conner's players tried to tease an
other dance from their Grafton friend
by playing marching through Geor-
gia," but to no avail.
After the governor and the state
officers had been escorted to point
in the northeast section of the house
chamber, George Holmboe, took a
picture of the "house in action" The
orchestra played, everybody waved
flags, and everybody was properly
filmed. State officers, in the mean
time, had taken, seats previously pro-
vided for them.
After that, Mr.. Holmboe moved his
picture machine from the rostrum
so as. to get real "c1ose up" stuff on
4 the: signing. He wokred with speed
and precision, however, and nobody
tired.
| About that time it was found that
there were insufficient chairs on the
rostrum to accommodate all the state
officers, so some of the officials were
obliged to surrender their chairs
and stand up while the chairs we're
shifted to the rostrum.
Then they went lover the top"
Tom Hall Leads Assault.
Tom Hall led the assault: up the
steps he went, while following him
were s. A. Olsness, Frank Milhollan,
F. J. Calderhead, Aldyth Ward, p.
M. Casey Sam J. 'Aaapdahl, Miss
Minnie Nelson, Obert Olson and
Charles F. Dupuis.
The governor was saved for the
| last-the climax.
Escorted by Walter Maddox Of
Mountrail, he soon made his way to
his appointed seat on the rostrum.
The machine ground merrily on.
Again Mickey -OnCopnor played
"The Fight is On" ! ,.>5 T.. /.
Know The World Knows. .:s. !,
Then Howard Wood said a few
things about what he had said few
! weeks ago, when he j said that the
whole United States was looking at
! North Dakota to see Il what North
Dakota was going to do about it
And, now that the governor was go
ing to sign the bills, the whole
United States would know just what
51rNorth Dakota has done, said he. s
I Speaker Stair said few words
about North Dakota's declaration OF
Efreedom from the monopolistic rule
of the monopolists, and the establish
| ment Of industrial freedom. 93ss5
| Enter Senator Cahill and :Represen-
alive Walter Paddock, chairman of
the house and senate state q affairs
i Continued ont.5 peRg Is