The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-02-26
NEWS FROM THE
STATECAPlTOL

Farmers ard Merchants State Bank
of New Rockford was late Thursday
afternoon found guilty of making
false entries on the books Of the
bank, following Il three hours del'o
GRAFTON Of the jury. The ease was
opened Oh Feb. II, and continued tor
eight days. Arguments took up a
dav and half
Davidson was arrested last summer
following an examination of the books
of the bank made by Assistant Attor-
ney General Albert Z. Sheets, Jr., fol-
lowing a private tip which had been
received by Attorney General LANCER.
Sheets discovered that Davidson had
issued a certificate of deposit for ST.
344.3O and entered it on the books as
S3t4.3O. On another instance a $4,000
certificate of deposit was entered as
$500.
The conviction of the banker is
somewhat of victory for the attor-
ney generals department inasmuch as
several of the members OF the jury
were Non-Partisan League members
ana one, A. Olsness, is brother to
the League state insurance co!nm!s
sioner.
+ Bismarck, N. D., Feb. "a. - Thor
oughly convincing proof that the late
NJ. X. Bowen's neighbors do not con-
slider Attorney General William Lam
ger at ali at fault Or to nave been
negligent of duties. and not IN the
least to be blamed for the Bowen mur-
de,. came today when the attorney
general received a petition signed by
Al voters of Lone Tree Township, Col
den Valley county, requesting that ne
become a candidate for governor. Fol
lowing the Bowen murder, the TOWN.
lev newspapers used columns Of space
to blame LANCER for the murder. Now
Bowen's neighbors, majority OF the
voters of the township, have endorsed
his candidacy for governor as ref
utation of the base and baseless char
ges.
Fargo, n. D., Feb. 24--State oliic-
ers Of the American Legion have for
warded to Washington requests that
the North Dakota congressman use
their influence in securing the passage
of the national! bonus bill which will
give $4,000 month for each month in
the service The state officers and ma,
tional heads Of the Legion are exert
ing every influence and effort to Sc
cure this bonus for legion members.
The next state convention will be held
at Minot August % and "a and each
post will be allowed one delegate for
the post and one for each SO members
or the major fraction thereof. Earle
H. Tostevin, Mandan, who was recent
ly elected state historian in place OF
William Greenleaf, Grand Forks, who
is leaving the state, has been author
lied and has begun the work of pre-
pairing forms to be furnished to each
post historian These will be in quad
duplicate and will call for a complete
record of the member of each post.
One will be filed by the state historian
in a permanent record, one will go to
the state secretary for reference rec
ord. one will become a permanent file
of the local post and one will be kept
by the local historian as reference file
In this way it is hoped to get COM
plete history Of The part North Dakota
Legion members played in the war.
Mandan, N. D., Feb. 24.-Sabra R.
Hardy Post No. so, the American Lee
gion is doing one Of the greatest piec-
es of work of any post in the nation
Located in Golden Valley, Mercer
county, village of 800 population
the post has a membership of 46. Da-
vid Schwartz, post commander, aid
ed by two school teachers have estab-
lished a night school for the purpose
of teaching the three R's.-reading,
'riting and 'rithmetic, and in addition
lectures on civics, constitutional gov
eminent and 100 percent American
ism are part Of the course. The av-
erage attendance is 80 and the aver
age age of the pupils is upwards of
40. None of the pupils have ever be-
fore had the opportunity to learn the
English language (the community is
leargely German Russian, even tho
some have been in the country as high
as thirty years. While the post com
mander and his school teacher aids
are teaching the English language and
100 percent Americanism, members Of