The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-05-19
The Bottineau Courant
Owned and Controlled BY Upwards q
Four Hundred and Fifty Bettineau
County Farmers
Dattineau Cooperative Publishing 60
Publishers
Richard Costello, Editor and Manager
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Richard Costello, Editor and Manager
Entered at the Postoffice at Bottineau
North Dakota as Second Class
Mail Matter s
BERG OF LANDA
BREAKS INTO PRINT

May Is, 1921.
MI. B. r Matteson, Editor,
The Pope County Tribune,
Glenwood, Minnesota:
Dear Sir:
Your letter Of May 9Th addressed
to Mr.. "A. Jchannsen, head of the Aud
its Department has been referred to
me owing to the fact that Mr.. Johann
sen is absent from the City. ] have
looked over the hot-headed TRADE con-
tanned in the published letter Of MI.
Berg, and in compliance with your re-
quest | will answer that portion Of it
which pertains to the registering Of
checks. This article has the following
statement: "Scotia township in which
Landa is located, having over $14OO
in the state bank, drew a check Feb
ruary 8 1921, for $11.45. Eidsvold
township in which I live, with over
$500 in the bank, drew a check for
$14.2O. These two checks were pre-
sented at the State Bank of North
Dakota February "a, 1921, and were
returned unpaid" I have just invest
igated this matter and find that his
statement is substantially true. These
checks are still unpaid but it is not
the fault of the Bank Of North Dako-
ia that they are unpaid. They would
have been paid if presented at any
time since the first part Of March,
but it seems evident that these checks
have been held for propaganda pur-
posen by the payee, o. L. Gorder & Co.
who are relatives of Mr.. Berg.
TN Lohrpro py,t 11%h Tho DoyL IF
North Dakota was instructed by the
Industrial Commission to refuse pay
ment on checks issued for other pur-
poses than school teachers salaries,
fuel, text books and transportation, as
these items are considered necessary
expenses for the up-keep Of the school
district When these checks came in
the Bank was practically swamped
with checks for the Withdrawals of
funds, large and small, and in the
rush which ensued, it sometimes hap
pens that checks such as the mes
mentioned in Mr.. Berg's letter were
not honored. You can easily see how
the | ". AS have made capital out
of these slight errors. As Mr.. Berg
puts himself forward as such a very
keen business mar it is reasonable to
suppose that he has known all the
time that these checks would be paid
if presented, but his relative , Mr.
Gorder is doubtless holding them, as
I have said for propaganda purposes.
I am enclosing you another brief
article on this same subject which you
may find useful. I wish this letter
could have been answered sooner and
that l could have taken the time to
go into it more fully, but I am sure
that you will take Mr. Berg's skin off
and hang it on the fence in the most
approved style. =.
Refusing Payment Of Checks
The Dickinson Press contains the
editorial:
whoever heard of checks being
registered before the Bank of North
Dakota came into existence? Nobody,
and it ID safe to say that as long as
banks are operated the precedent that
was broken by the state institution will
not be violated again. A check is sup
posed to be backed by sufficient funds
to cover it and should a bank refuse
to cash a check when funds have been
deposited to cover it it is violating
the laws of the state and should any