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The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-11-06

They suggest that she buy such and
such a bond that is selling at such and
such a price. They ask the woman to
hold the wire a moment, then say the
price of the bond has gone up a point.
OF course these men always call on the
long distance phone from some large
city. Poor little Mrs. Backwoods is SO
thrilled at this touch with the great
world of finance that she buys the
bond, only to find out her error later.
It's a safe bet that she wouldn't buy
sheets and pillow over the
phone from a perfect stranger, but
bonds, yes!"
81 see, Aunty," said Jane, you
should always know whom you're
dealing with and not get excited and
rush into anything just because it
sounds fattering and thrilling"
Exactly" said Aunt Emmy.-Anne
B. Aymes.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-11-06
RI BANKERS E

7 believe no man can be a good
banker who is not first a good citizen
i'm all the term implies.
l believe good citizenship rests on
ability and willingness to pull ones
W w~eight-with capacity not only
for sturdy self-help-but also due re-
gard for the rights of others.
| believe that the more points at
which we touch human nature and
human interests the more alive we be-
come and the longer we stay so.
| believe we cannot prosper by ap-
plying yesterdays obsolete methods to
today-that each man is in some meas
ure master of his community's des-
tiny-that good government is a mat
ter of businessmen politics-that to
assist in all material, moral and spirit
ual upbuilding, is the fundamental OF
enlightened s%elfishness.
/ believe we need more men of ev-
cry class who will appreciate this
who will stand for something besides
themselves.
fraternity-in a close-knit community
of interests and hopes-in a sane,
~broad-visioned stand that shall make
for the banker-citizen the banker
business man, the banker-farmer and
the banker-everybody.-State Bank
Division, American Bankers Associa-
ton.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-11-06
Bean" Farming
BANKERS FOR BETTER FARMING


The Arkansas Bankers Association
was recently presented with an OBJ.
iect lesson on the value Of good live
stock and the worthlessness of the
scrub stock common on too many
farms. The Arkansas College OF
Agriculture had three COWS comfort
ably CHARTERED in a corner of the lob
by at the convention hotel in Little
Rock. One COW displayed was a pure
bred Jersey which made a profit OF
S85 last year, a second was a high
grade COW, the product Of a purebred
bull and a scrub COW. She made a
profit of S5S. The third COW was a
common scrub cow, declared to be a
detriment to Arkansas farming.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-11-06
Bankers Helm

The Georgia Bankers Association
has appropriated $1,000 a year to be
used as a loan fund for boys and
girls who are unable to meet the ex-
penses of a college education, but
whose work in clubs has demonstrated
their qualifications for leadership.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-11-06
Above the Neck

1t is ideas hat count. What a man
is worth below his neck is compare.
lively little. What he is worth above
his neck is practically unlimited
Progress of all kinds is made because
of the development of ideas.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-11-06

Bradley County, Arkansas, bankers
are offering $500 in cash for the best
showings in the production of corn in
1924. Four hundred dollars will go to
farmers and $100 to boys clubs.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-03
CAR DITCHED.
MAN WANDERS,
FOUND FROZEN
Frank klenny, Blacksmith at
Melville, First Victim of
Freezing This Winter
BECOMES EXHAUSTED
Had Taken NeighbOr to Home
and Lost Way on His Re.
turn, He Asserts

jamestown, N. d., Jan. 3.-Frank
). klenny, blacksmith for some
years at Melville, was frozen to
death New Years night when he
became exhausted after the Ford car
which he was driving went into the
ditch some six miles south Of Mel
vile. He wandered into q field, fell
upon has face and was frozen. He
had taken neighbor, Melvin Bohn,
to his home four miles south Of
Melville, leaving there at about $50
in the evening and indications are
that he became confused and instead
of going north went south and east
of where Bohn lived. His body was
found New Years Day a few hundred
feet from the car which was in a
ditch near a culvert. Tracks around
the car showed that Klenny had at
temptede to crank the car.
The coroner and county sh, riff
we're called, the body being found in
Stutsman county. They dec idcd
death was due to exhaustion and
freezing. Klenny leaves wife and
four children.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-03
MURDER TRIAL
DATE is SET
Joe Swift to be Tried at Het.
finger, Beginning Feb
ruary Is

Judge II. L. Berry in the sixth ju-
dicial court today at Mandan issued
an order setting February 1S as the
date for trial in the case Of the
state against Joe Swift, who is
charged with the murder of Howard
Smith at Sclfridge in 1921. The case
will be tried at Hcttingcr, Adams
county, on a charge of venue from
Bowman county where Swift pre-
viously had been tried, the jury re-
turning a six to six disagreement
vote.
Judge Berry also, issued an order
postponing the opening of the Col
den Valley term Of court at Beach
from January'2l to January 20. This
term will be the first held in the
new Golden Valley court house and
the most important case will be the
arraignment of J. w. Holmes, farm
er, arrested two weeks ago on
charges of homicide and incest in
connection with the murder of 1our
infants alleged born to his daugh-
ter.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-03
EFFORT WILL BE MADE TO TAKE
HARRYK. THAW FROM INSANE ASYLUM

New York, Jan. 3.-Bartholomew
B. Coyne, New York lawyer, who
for a number of years has repre-
sented Harry X. Thaw today con-
firmed reports that his client, the
slayer Of Stanford White, now in a
Philadelphia asylum would soon
seek his freedom.
Mr.. Coyne's announcement follows
printed reports from Philadelphia
that if he succeeded in having him
self declared sane that he would
surrender to. the New York authori-
ties to face charges of having whip
ped Frederick Gump Jr., son of a
Kansas City manufacturer, in a New
York hotel in 1917. The Coyne state
mept also followed denials of Phila-
delphia attorneys representing the
Thaw family that any efforts would
be made to have Thaw declared sane
in the Pennsylvania courts.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-03
NAMED HEAD
OF CO.. BOARD
FOR 18TH TIME
Edward G. Patterson Is Re.
elected Chairman of Board
of County Commissioners

Edward G.. Patterson, proprietor
of the Mckenzie hotel, has been re-
elected chairman of the Burleigh
county board Of commissioners for
the ensuing year. Mr.. Patterson has
served as chairman of the board
longer than any other county officer
in similar capacity.
The records show he was named
chairman of the board on January 7,
1919, after having served as chair
man pro TEN some time previously,
and continued to serve as chairman
until 1918. He was again named
chairman in 1919 and has been chair
man since. He was elected chair
man for 16 years.
The commissioners, who are in
session today. reappointcd DR.. C. E.
Stackhouse county physician, DR.. +.
r. Smyth superintendent Of the
board Of health, and DR.. Smyth and
+. II. Register again members cf the
insanity board.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-03
MUCH RAISED
AT HOSPITAL
One of Largest Crops in His
tory, Superintendent
Reports

jamestown, N. d., Jan. 3.-Tht
state insane hospital, one of the
largest gardeners" in the state, has
in 1923 produced one of the largest
crops raised in the history of the in.
stitution, according to a report OF
DR.. A. w. Guest, superintendent.
All of the vegetables used at the
institution are raised, and surplus
will be .sold. A corn shredder pur-
chased for the institution, the first
in Stutsman county, was used liberal
ly this fall. $50 TONS of ensilage be-
ing produced.
Foremen and gardeners are EN-
ployed by the institutions, but in
mates also helped in the production
of the vegetables. The production as
listed by institution authorities fol-
lows:
Garden products-6O,0O0 head of
cabbage, 5000 head cauliflower, 5000
dozen celery, $500 bushels beets,
10000 bushels navy beans, 1900 bus
hels carrots, 800 bushels cucumbers,
SO bushels dill pickles, 500 bushels
lettuce, $50 bushels green peas, 20
bushels husk tomatoes, 800 bushels
musk melons, so bushels parsley, 80
bushels peppers, $50 bushels plums
and IS bushels apples from orchard,
1000 bushels onions, 400 bushels
radishes, 800 bushels rutabaga, 200
bushels salsiby, 400 bushels spinach,
900 bushels string beans, 1000 bus
hels sweet corn, 800 bushels Swiss
chard beets, 900 bushels tomatoes,
600 bushels turnips, 150. bushels as
paragus, 80 tons rhubarb, 20 tons
pumpkins, 35 tons squash, 1900
pounds tobacco leaf, $50 gallons cur
rants, 100 gallons strawberries.
Products of farm-6, 7-8 bushels
barley, 1874 bushels oats, 5,274 bus
hels speltz, 22,159 bushels potatoes,
200 tons alfalfa hay, 100 tons millet
hay, $50 tons corn fodder, $50 tons
corn silage, so tons oat hay, cut
green; 1000 bushels husked corn on
cob, 300 tons mangels.
In addition 100 gallons of corn,
$50 bushels of string beans, $50 gal
Ions tomatoes, and 800 gallons of
rhubarb were canned.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-03
LOCAL BANKS
REC0RDGAINS
DURING YEAR
Bismarck People Thrifty, In
dicated by Statements of
City's Institutions
DE POSTS INCR EASE
Total S247,ll3.7O Over Last
Year For All Banks, State
and National
DEPOSITS INCR EASE

Deposits in Bismarck banks, not
including the Bank of North Dakota,
show an increase in the past year of
$247,1l3.7O, according to a compari-
son of the statements of the banks
as of December 30, 1922 and at close
of business Dec. 81, 1923. The state
ments of the local banks, under the
regular call for this time of year,
are published in The Tribune today.
Total deposits are shown to be
$3,524, l2S.59, or more than SAT- for
cath resident of the city.
Bismarck citizens appear to be a
thrifty lot, according to the bank
statements, since the time deposits,
which usually include savings ac-
counts, all show increases over the
period of a year ago.
The situation shown in the state
ments of the local banks is above
the average for the state, since total
bank deposits in the state declined
somewhat in the last year because
of agricultural conditions. The state
ments are held indicative of the i'm
proved situation of the Bismarck
territory over many sections OF the
state.
The capital stock of the five banks
totals $250,00O.. The combined sur
plus is shown in the statements to
be 1921 900, all banks reporting a
surplus. Undivided profits on Dec.
81 totalled $GO,296.17, all banks re-
porting undivided profits~
The total footings Of all the banks,
as shown in the statements, are $5,-
105, 5,7S6.77.
The annual election of officers in
most banks will be held during the
month of January, the law prescrib-
ing the date of annual meeting of
national banks. Few if any changes
are expected in local banks.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-03
VICTORY OVER
REBELS, CLAIM
Mexican Government Saws
They Have Been Driven
OFF Pachuca

Mexico City announced rebe.
forces threatening Pachuca, capital
of Hidalgo, northeast of Mexico City,
had been defeated.
Vera Cruz revolutionary headquar-
ters said the advance on Puebla and
Mexico City would pegln today
Mexico City admitted the defeat sew
eral days ago Of General Gardenas
federal cavalry leader before Quad
alajara. Obrcgonists claim the fed
erals defeated General Sigurcoas.
operating south and west Of Mexico
City and that there are many de-
sertions from Figueroas' forces.
Trade unionists as we'll as agrari-
an workmen continue to join federal
c6lors, Mexico City says.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-03
KILLED RY ALTO

Grand Forks, Jan. 81. O..
Ferch, 40 North Fourth street, was
instantly killed Monday night when
he was struck by an automobile driv-
en- by Willis Pierce, 415 North Third
street. The accident occurred on
North Third street in front Of the
Northern Pacific depot.
Mr.. Ferch and William Lowe of
East Grand Forks had just left the
curling rink. Ferch stepped off the
sidewalk on to the street, not seeing
the car approaching from the south.
Mr.. Pierce used his horn but as Mr..
Ferch was deaf he did not hear, it
was reported. Mr.. Lowe heard the
car approach and stepped back to
the curb but Mr.. Ferch was struck
by the bumper Of the machine.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-03
COLD WEATHER
HALTS WORK ON
CITY ICE RINK

Extreme cold weather has inter-
rupted work on the water pipe line
from Main street to the municipal
skating rink site in the baseball
park. However, it is expected that
the connection can be finished to-
morrow, according to l.. S. Craswell,
chairman of the committee. If this
is accomplished the rink will be
flooded Saturday.
The warming house. moved to the
park has been equipped with a stove
and electric lights and the rink will
be electrically lighted. e
The rink near the William Moore
school is in use and is proving pQpu-
lar. The rink at St. Mary's was to
be flooded today. -
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-03

SINGS WHILE
FACING DEATH.
AIDS FELLOWS

Peoria, Ill.,, Jan. 3.-(Ry the A. P.)
Trapped on the third floor of a
building Of the Corn Products Co.,
Frank Lichtweiss, &c, of Peoria,
sang to his fellow workers for nearly
an hour to calm them and when the
last retreat was cut off jumped from
the window.
Tho young man has voice of un-
usual quality and some of, his COM
panions went to their death with
the strains of the song in their
memory. He did not jump until all
the men who were able to leave the
floor had done so.
He was severely burned and with
injuries to his eyes is in hospital
here.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-03
TABERT FUND
SUBSCRIBERS
BEING REPAID

.Langdon. n. D., Jan. 3.-Checks
to repay all subscribers to the funG
raised to prosecute Walter Higgin-
botham. convicted of murder in ia
tally flogging Martin TaIbert Of
Munich, N. D., while he was in a
southern penal camp. are being
written by Fred Thompson, treas
urer of Cavalier county. They are
being sent out as fast as possible.
The money to repay subscribers
was received some time ago. but
there were no banking facilities in
Langdon then, and the process OF
repayment was delayed.
The First National bank of Lang
don, which recently reopcned vol
unteered assistance in the repay
ment task and furnished a special
check for use in making the reim-
bursements.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-03
MOTIVE FOR SHOOTING C0NPA MON OF FAMOUS MOVIE
STARS IS DEBATED BY PRINCIPALS IN THE AFFAIR
STATE HAIL
FUND LARGE

The state hail insurance fund is
one of the largest in the state tlea-
Surer's office at this time. The last
balance, Dec. 27, shows $2,O9S,OOo in
the fund, according to figures at the
treasurer's office. This includes ST.
100000 borrowed to pay hail war
rants. Because all warrants-have not
been issued the fund at this time is
larger than usual, but with addition
al receipts from tax sales, it is ex-
pected in the trcasurcr's office that
there will be balance in the fund
after paying all warrants. Pa.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-03
FIREDRIVES
3 INTO COLD
EARLY TODAY
Overheated Furnace Pipes
Probably Cause of Fire at
Oscar Void Home

Fire probably starting from
oyerheated furnace pipes drove
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Wo1d and Miss
Gladys Kappes into the cold at
2:3O o'clock this morning and bad
ly damaged the Void house at All
Third street.
The house was filled with smoke
and flames were cracking when
the occupants Of the house reused
and scurried to safety.
The fire, originating in the base
ment OF the house, bungalow
followed the course of the chimney
into the attic. The dining room,
kitchen, bath room and one bed
room and the lower floor were
badly damaged. No estimate of
the loss would be made by Mr..
Void. The house is owned by r.
B. Stevens of Minnewaukan. The
household goods of Mr.. Void which
were not badly damaged were not
insured.
Water was thrown in the base
ment but only chemicals used
above the first floor Mr.. Void
expressed appreciation of the work
done by firemen.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-03
MERCHANTS
MEET HERE
State Association Comes To
Bismarck in May

North Dakota merchants will gath
err for the annual convention of the
North Dakota Retail Merchants as,
sociation at Bismarck May 27, 90 and
20, it is announced in New Years
messages sent to all members by
Pres. Fred Mann Of Devils Lake, and
W. A. Donnelly of Fargo, secretary.
While details of the program are
not yet available, one of the princi-
pal speakers will be Gov. r. A.
Nestos, Mr.. Donnelly announced.
Both Mr. Mann and Mr.. Donnelly
urge North Dakota merchants to get
on a cash basis, if possible and if
that is not possible to at least make
limited credit terms.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-03
AUTO OWNERS
LIKE NO. 19
Not so Well as Number One.
HOWever-NeW Licenses
Out

Automobile owners of North Dako-
ta are not superstitous-and lot
of them are not afraid of someone
reading their license number.
No. 13 of the 1924 licenses has
been issued by J. P. Tucker, motor
vehicle registrar, but there are two
applications in for 1t. There were
$50 applications for No. 1. which is
very easily read by speed cops, and
it went to w. H. Wilson of Devils
Lake.
The 1924 licenses are now being
issued. Twenty-four sacks of mail
containing application blanks, rate
books, copies Of the. law, etc. went
out last night to banks, sheliffs,
county auditors and others so that
motor vehicle owners will within a
few days have no excuse for not hav-
ing an auto license, according to
Mr.. Tucker.
The 1923 figures in the registra-
ton office are: total number cars
and trucks registered, 1O9,244; 1867
9o7 Of them passenger cars; GAS mo-
torcycles, receipts $76O,444.45.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-03
MISSIONARIES
IN HOSPITAL.
REPORT TO US,
MIR. and Mrs. Bernhardt HOf,
Northwest Missionaries.
Are Being Cared For
NJ X S. EN- ED

Hankow, China. Jan. 3.--(By the
Associated Press Professor and
Mrs. Bernhardt Hofr, missionaries of
the Swedish branch Of the Lutheran
church in the United States, who
were wounded recently when bandits
raided the town of Tsao Yang in the
northern Hupa province, are in a
hospital at Siangyang Flu, near Tsao
Yang, according to official advices to
Chinese government officials here.
No word has been received CON
corning Mrs. Julia Kilen, so, of
Northfield, Minn., their co-workers,
who was kidnapped by the bandits.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-03
Police Now Declare That Jeal-
ousy of Mabel Normand
Prompted Shooting, While
Chauffeur Reiterates Orig
inal StOry-Dines Will Re-
cover

Los Angeles, Jan. 3.--(By the A. .
P.)-What drove Mabel Normand's S
chauffeur to shoot Courtland S.
Dimes, Denver oil operator and club
man, in the Dimes apartment here
New Years nightzin the presence of
Miss Normand and another ymotion
picture actress, Edna Purviance, to-
day was u matter on which those
most intimately concerned, seemed
utterly unable to agree.
Horace A. Greer, the chauffeur,
also known as Joe Kelley, still in
sisted he put bullet through Dimes
lung in 'self-defense. The police
were equally positive that infatua-
tion for Miss Normand coupled with
an ambition to be her hero and pro-
tector led Greer to shoot when balk-
ed in his efforts to "rescue" the
actress from Dimes.
Miss Normand, ignoring her chaut
feurs self-defense plea, ridiculed the
police infatuation storyswith "Impos-
sible, the man must have been in
sane"
Dimes, lying on cot in the Good
Samaritan said he didn't know ''why.
that fool ever shot me-" but in the
same breath declared "he must have
been full of hop"
Thinks Him Jealous.
The theory advanced by Miss Pur-
Vance was that Greer was foolish
ly jealous enough to have shot any
man he might have found in the
apartment that night with, Miss Nor
mand
Meanwhile Greer remained in jal,
on a charge Of assault with dead
ly weapon; Dimes was Said to be re-
covering, Miss Normand was in the
same hospital suffering from what
her physicians termed nervous
breakdown brought on by worry and
excitement" land Miss Purviance was
resting at home after announcing
that reports of her engagement to
Dimes were entirely unfounded.
May Star Another.
Charley Chaplin, who starred Miss
Purviance recently in a picture Of
his direction and who. was reported
to have decided to use her as fem
mime lead in his next comedy, an
today that it is possible
else may take the role but
denied that the publicity arising
from the Dimes shooting would in
fluence his choice. Officials of the
Sennett studio with which Miss Nor
mand has been working under one
picture agreements declined to say
her connection with the
Continued on Page g.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-03
WORK OF PROFESSIONALS

TT. Yates, Jan. Nothing deh
mite has been learned since last week
regarding the identity of the bank
burglars who robbed the First State
bank here the morning of the 10Th
of December. A detective from the
Burns detective agency, who was
here last week in the interest of the
American Bankers association, stated
to the Pioneer that the robbery was
clearly the work Of professionals, al
though he believed that there had
been "picket" located here two OF
three months this fall.