The Hope pioneer., 1922-12-14
Complete Fine Rural School.


A gymnasium 32x60 feet is one Of the
many fine features of the two-story
pressed brick school, 6Ox136 feet, just
completed in Mount Pleasant district |
near Rolla, at cost Of $56,5OO.
Dakotan Stars on Coast.
Well known throughout the state
because of his athletic prowess when
on the Devils Lake high school teams,
Roy Burgess is acquiring fresh honors
on the Pacific coast, where he has made
exceptionally good as half back on the
University Of California football team.
6eekeepers Organize.
There are at the present time some
1900 hives of bees in North Dakota,
gain of GOO to 500 over the number last
year. At a meeting addressed by an
expert apiarist from Ohio at the state
A. Q. this week an organization Of
North Dakota bee culturists was
launched
Corn Pushing Wheat Out.
Several Bottineau county men are
taking membership in the American
Institute of Agriculture, national
organization with headquarters in
Chicago formed to train farmers. The
trend in that county is shown in recent
statistics, which disclose than in 1919
the total corn acreage was 5,40O, while
this year it was $4,000 acres.
Winter Grain Prospect Fair.
The outlook over North and South
Dakota and Montana for winter grain
is that the acreage will be less and the
general condition somewhat below that
Of last year. Prospects improved some
what during the last month. according
to federal report. Precipitation has
increased and winter weather has
restricted farm work throughout the
northwest.
A. c. Maintenance Highest.
) 1t cost the state just over three and
, one-half millions to operate the peni-
Tertiary, training school, various nor.
mails and Industrial schools, university
and A. G. during the last fiscal year.
+ The A. c. headed the list, with total
cost Of about $S13,O00, with the U.
next at $4,000, and the state hos
! pltal third. The school for the blind
cost the least, only $4,000.
N. P. Veterans Pensioned.
: Forty-four years of railroad expert
e ence, term mating in his Send year,
a ended for Charles Van Solen, cashier
for the Northern Pacific at Mandan,
when he was recently retired with a
: generous pension. Chris +. Shine, 20,
n for 80 years conductor on the N. p, and
previously an employe of the New York
n Central ut Toledo for IS years, also
n was put on the pension roll of honor.
4 able retirement.
Test Legality of Grain Act.
g Quarters for the state grain grading
It commission, created by vote on the
measure submitted at the November
election, must be selected by the board
Il Of administration. Plans have been
y discussed but no action has been taken.
s The appointment to the office of grain
# inspector was delayed until the official
v canvass of the vote. Procedure has
q been halted now by court action to
o test the constitutionality Of the law.
r North Dakota Lands Chicago Prizes.
G The finest alfalfa and sweet clover
n seed raised in North America last year
came from North Dakota, and the
prizes awarded at the international
g grain and hay show in Chicago for
e this triumph both went to Sebens
k Bros of Milnor. Another Minor man,
e Otto Mund, took first prize for the best
= single ear Of corn in this region, while
n e. A. Karges of Hazen was third in
5. the 1O-ear competition. Other corn
h and grain prizes were landed by ex'
O hibitors from all over the state while
d gained by the Northwestern Breeders
association of Fargo with Belgian
mare.
II BadIands Romance Published.
l. "Badlands and Broncho Trails" is
S the title of striking new North Da-
l. kota contribution to literature and the
o history of the frontier by Lewis r.
S Crawford, former banker and business
n man of Sentinel Butte, more recently
J. of Bismarck, and we'll known through
8 out the state as a civic and political
t worker. The book contains not only
t many incidents in Mr.. Crawford's long
t residence at Sentinel Butte and numer-
|, GUS gripping anecdotes of the early
e days, but also graphically pictures the
h natural wonders of the Badlands Sec
v ton. Mr.. Crawford has son In
Oxford university, England, as a
Rhodes scholar.
e Ignite Mining Greatly Stimulated.
The remarkable success attending
l. the first large-scale strip mining pro-
J. ject in this state, at Columbus, Burke
d county, paves the way for other similar
q mining enterprises and will bring about
h a greatly increased Ignite production.
n This one mine, where the worlds larg-