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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01
N. D. SECURITY
PROVES SOUND
REPORT SHOWS

That the financial and agricultural
position Of North Dakota is sound
is revealed in the annual report for
1924 of the Ancient Order of United
Workmen, with headquarters in Far
90, sent to the state insurance de-
partment on March / and made pub
lie yesterday.
From $l,124,4G2.73 invested in
North Dakota farm loans, and ST.
LA, O9658 in bonds, most of which
are North Dakota municipals, and
from other income, the organization
last year raised it's surplus to $442,
257.S5.
It's assets increased $475,2G797 in
1924, bringing the total to $780,
6O0.26. Total cash income was $685.
1896. It's legal reserve was So &c.
O19. Total life insurance in force
Dec. 81. 1924 was $31 ,O60,G56.
The report was based on business
done in the ehtise jurisdiction of the
Fargo office, which includes North
Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming
Utah, Nevada and California.
According to Bradley c. Marks
grand master workman, the order
has multiplied it's membership three
times in the last Is years, and its
assets eight times. At the end of
1924 it's membership was 1915, Of
which 1868 were residents of North
Dakota.
That the present year is starting
out even more auspiciOusly, is shown
by the fact that>for the first 81 days
$1,4l1 900 insurance was written,
compared to $767, 900 the same period
last year, Mr.. Marks said. This far
exceeds the same period for any past
year, including 1920, which was con-
sidered the best life insurance year
in history, he said.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01
Synthetic
Manufacture
Cheapens Nitrate

London, April 1.-The fear of syn
thetic nitrogen becoming serious
competitor to the Chilean product is
now being regarded more seriously
than for 20 years past, and has caus
ed a rather sharp decline in prices
Of producing company shares on the
stock market.
A writer in the annual review Of
Altman, Ltd. nitrate brokers, speak
ing of the artificial product, declares
that synthetic nitrogen in its var
ious forms is daily becoming a more
serious competitor to Chilean nitrate
Of soda, owing to the cheaper price
at which it can be sold, and that the
erection of several large plants for
the production Of both sulphate and
nitrate Of lime is at present under
consideration in Vhrious countries.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01
ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK

South St. Paul, April Cattle
receipts 1000. Moderately active.
Killing classes opening Is to 25
cents higher. Desirable grade but
cher stock fat steers and yearlinps
up most. Top load yearlings early
$l1.5O. Partload heavies unsold.
Early $3.50. Handyweights 1895.
Bulk steers and yearlings $500 to
$500. Fat she-stock largely $3.50 to
$500 for cows and $500 to $3.50
for heifers. Gamers and cutters
$2.75 to $3.50. Bologna bulls firm.
Spots up. Big weight bolognas
$3.50. Bulk around $4.25. Stockers
and feeders steady. Largely $3.50 to
$500.
Calve receipts $500. 25c or more
higher. Bulk to packers $1,000.
Hog receipts 10000. Steady to
strong. Spots 10 to Is cents higher.
Packing sows steady to % cents
higher. Pigs steady. Good mixed
100 to $50 ID. average $l2.75. Best
strong weight butchers $12.S5. 140
to ITO lb. hogs $11.75 to $l2.25.
Packing sows mostly $11.4O. Bulk
good pigs SLIPS. Average cost
Tuesday $3.50. Weight PIG lbs. For
the month average cost $13.11.
Weight 212 lbs.
Sheep receipts 200. Lambs stea-
dy to strong. No choice lambs Of
fered. Light and heavyweight ewes
steady. Mostly 5000. Few sales sew
eral wooded ewes $500. Look $1.OO
lower
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01
NORTHWEST N. D.
POPULATION TO
DOUBLE SOON

Williston, N. D., April 1.-Doub-
ling Of the population of northwest
ern North Dakota in the next few
years is seen by w. w. Keltner Of
Williston, who has returned from a
several weeks tour of parts of Min
nesota, Iowa and Wisconsin.
"There is an unmistakable trend
toward low priced land, and this sec
ton has it to offer. judge that
between 25 and IS percent Of the
farmers in many sections Of south
ern Minnesota are living on high
priced rented land and everyone Of
them is a prospective settler for
northwest North Dakota" he declar-
ed.
He says that farmers in the states
visited have become familiar with
the possibilities in this section and
are anxious to see the country.
Mr.. Keltner looks for an influx of
homeseekers both by rail and auto
after the spring work is completed,
and urges that local communities in
the northwest send field men to en-
courage homeseekers to make the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01
HOST OF COLDS is
SIGN OF SPRING

Grand Forks, N. d., April L.
Spring is here. The announcement
comes from the office of the Uni
versity nurse, Miss Hazel Hutche-
son.
It's arrival is accompanied with a
host of colds of every variety, and
the campus is rife with sneezing,
coughing and headaches, the report
indicates. There is no indication of
serious mplcations, however, or
of a general epidemic Of colds. The
winter months just passed have seen
less sickness among the 1900 stu
dents at the university than the
average year. Smallpox, chicken
pox, measles and diphtheria did not
make their appearance at all during
the entire season. There were but
three cases of scarlet fever, and IL
cases of humps.
Examinations in the physical edu-
cation classes and in the K. O. T. C.
are believed to be one medium by
which the seasonal health disturb
ances are being minimized, Miss
Hutchinson states.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01
WHEAT PRICES
TURN UPWARD
Announcement of New Ex-
port Buying Starts Boom

Chicago, April 1.-(By the A. P0-
Announcement that new export buy
i:;g of wheat had taken on good siz-
I'D proportions led to an early upturn
today. Selling to secure profits on
the rise caused omething of reac-
ton but then the market went higher
than before. Scattered rains in the
drought district of the winter crop
belt, together with forecast Of addi-
tional moisture attracted consider
able notice, however, and tended to
check enthusiasm. The opening
which ranged from l-2 to 3 cents
higher, May SLAB to $l.49 and July
$1.39 1-2 to $1.39 ga, was followed
by advances to $l.49 ga for May.
Subsequent setbacks in price turn
ed out to be mostly transient. The
finish, though, was unsettled, vary
ing from the same as yesterdays
clos to 3h cents higher, May STAG
4 to $l.49R and July $l.37h to
$137A.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01

University Law School faculty has
been appointed to the council, the
announcement reads.
Five members chosen >from the
faculties of forty of the country's
best law schools compose the coun-
Gil, Prof. r. Justin Miller, of the
University Of Minnesota serving as
chairman. This council will pre-
pare for round table discussion at
the Chicago convention of the asso-
citation next December.
Appointment to the council is gen
orally considered by members Of the
association as distinct honor.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01
MINNEAPOLIS GRAIN

Minneapolis, Apr. Wheat re-
ceipts 1913 cars compared with 23O
cars year ago.
Cash No. / northern $1.42h to
$145h; No. dark northern spring;
choice to fancy, $1.60h to $l.75k;
good to choice, $1.49h to $l.59h;
Ordinary to good, $l.43h to $l.4sh;
No. hard spring, $L75k to $1.85
IL; No. dark Montana on track,
$780, to $1.66R; to arrive $1.39k
to $1.66k; May $1.4lA; July $l.42
~.
Corn No. 3 yellow 96Ac to 9SAc;
oats No. white, $3.50 to $3.50;
barley SIC to 83c; rye No. 2 $1.l5k
to $l.17h; flax $2.75R to $2.77h.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

Chicago, April Hogs receipts
1000. Mostly Is to rs cents high
er than Tuesdays average. Packing
sows largely unchanged. Top $13.25.
Bulk desirable 16O to 225 lb. aver
ages $500 to $13.25. Cattle receipts
1900 Fed steers and yearlings Is
to IS cents higher. Better grade
weighty steers showing mostly ad-
vance Numerous sales above $1l.OO.
Top yearlings $3.50.
Sheep receipts 5000. Fat lambs
strong to rs cents higher. Good
handywe lights $3.50 to $1,000.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01
~" Represented
On Law Council

Grand Forks, N. p, April L.
The University of Nbrth Dakota is
now. represented on the Council Of
erican Law Schools, according to
announcement received here. Pro-
fessor Thomas E. Atkinson, of the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01

Jack Runyan, candidate for
city commissioner, asks the
support of the voters at the
City Election April Z upon the
pledge of lower taxes and ef-
ficiency and economy in the
city government.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01
BIG LAND BOOM
IN NORTH SEEN
BY DULUTH MAN

Florida's great land speculation is
over and the next boom will De at
the headsof Lake Superior, according
to Thomas w. Wahl of Duluth, who
is stopping at local hotel.
Mr.. Wahl. who has large business
and farm holdings near Duluth, pass
ed the winter in Palm Beach, Fla.
He declared the big land boom at the
head of Lake Superior will come af-
ter the governments at Washington
and Ottawa pass legislation for the
st. Lawrence waterway project. He
said that the big New York newspa-
pers are coming out in favor of the
project and predicts that legislation
for the project will be passed by the
next congress.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01
CHICAGO PRODUCE

Chicago, April l.-Butter lower.
Receipts 6,S06 tubs. Creamery ex-
tras 43hc; standards 43c; extra
firsts 421ac to 43c; firsts 40c to
4lHc; seconds 33c to 38c. Eggs un-
changed. Receipts 1891 cases.
Poultry alive unchanged.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01
REV. A. A. HOLMES
OCCUPIES FIRST
BAPTIST PULPIT

The Rev. A. A. Holmes today be-
gins his pastorate at the First Bap
fist church of this city. coming from
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01

. A vote for Harry ThOmp-
son April Z means a vote for
lower taxes, efficiency and
economy in City Government.
Alex ROsen, candidate for
city commissioner, sOlicits
your support on a platform OF
decreased taxes, efficiency
and economy in city govern
ment.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01

trip and help organize homeseeker
parties.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01
LITTLE JOE

GOLF ON SkYSCRAFER
London, April IAN eighteenhole
golf course has been laid out on
the top of Adelaide House, London's
latest skyscraper. Sod is being laid
on the roof.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01

Jack Runyan, candidate for
city commissioner, asks the
support Of the voters at the
City Election April z upon the
pledge Of lower taxes and eff
ficiency and economy in the
city government
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01

MINNEAPOLIS FLOUR
Minneapolis, April Flour un-
changed. Shipments 26.665 barrels
Bran $3.50.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01

he has had his headquarters as state
evangelist for the past two years.
The new Baptist minister has had
varied experience in the ministry and
in social work all over the country.
For fifteen years he was pastor in
several churches in California, and
for three years in Florida. He was
also engaged for some time in rescue
work in connection with the Flor
ence Crittenden Home in Chicago.
Mr.. Holmes will reside at the home
of Frank Swanke, 5l5 Fourth Street
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01
BISMARCK GRAIN
FURNISHED by RUSSELL Miller Co..

l cent per pound discount under
65 lb. Ear corn cents under shell.
Nample grade ................. 40
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01

A vote for Harry Thomp-
son April Z means a vote for
lower taxes, efficiency and
economy in City Government.
GAS WILL DO 1T BETTER.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01

A vote for Harry ThOmp-
son April Z means a vote for
lower taxes, efficiency and
economy in City Government.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01

WANTED-Girl for general house
work on farm. All modern conven-
fences. No children. Call $50 be-
tween the hours of a. m. and 6
N m A.1.Ct
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01
Too Late To Classify

FOR SALE-1920 Buick, Just over.
hauled, newly painted. new tires al
a bargain. Olson Bros Garage in
old Tribune Bldg.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01

RELIABLE party wishes to care for
child during the day. Phone
DOOR, 4.1.3t
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01

Notwithstanding. Mrs. Burch
4133rd or Phone 1881. 4-1-3t
WANTED-Lady would like work by
the day or hour. Call 1O43W.
4-1-1w
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01

FOR RENT-Pleasant room in pri-
vate home. Phone 434. 613-3rd.
4-1-1w
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-01

WANTED TO BUY second hand
stroller or sulky. Phone 434.
Evening star., 1925-10-19

the binder boys" and at about half
the price. At the same time the bind
er boys found their binders were in
reality first payments. obligating them
to pay the balance within a speci-
fed time The binder boys" were
left holding the bag. All their money
had gone into building up fictitious
values, and they were caught at the
trick. They left behind them, reports
say, about 81 100000. They all went
back to New York.
There's honor among thieves. but
some of the real estate men Will tell
you there's none among the newcom-
ers of this kind down here.
A system used by the big develop
ment companies is to pick up pros
pect somewhere and give him num-
ber. Next day the prospect calls at
the office of the company for bus
ride or speech or something, and by
his number he Is identified as being
the property of the salesman who gave
1t to him. Some of the 'bird-dogs,
male and female, who work for the
statesmen, will change these numbers
on a particularly good prospect, so
that the original discoverer loses him.
Murder, in some communities outside
of Chicago, is accounted a high crime.
But changing numbers on prospect
down here is something, in the minds
Of real estate men. which should he
punished by slow torture, preferably
at the stake
Evening star., 1925-10-19

pressed as to how many people are
getting stung they counter with
stories of how many people are max
ing money purely on speculation.
Again. real estate agents will advise
against gambling. Nothing Is so gen
orally nauSeating to them as gam
bling. they say. Yet their greatest sell
ing argument and the one most freely
used is that If you buy piece of
property its value will double within
specified time. This writer could
never get a satisfactory answer from
anybody as to what will happen when
the man who buys last finds hirs self
without a buyer. 1T Is only reasoI1ble
that pyramiding must stop somewhere
But nobody here will admit the posi-
bility of anything like crash.
Efforts of the conservative real
estate men have been directed lately
toward eliminating the binder boys"
About every tranSac ction In Florida is
made on a binder-a small cash pay
ment which holds property stated
time. The binder has been as low as
one-half of per cent and | per cent
Now it Is generally per cent, but
believe there are few real estate men
who would turn down a prospect if he
offered them anything as binder
There is nothing wrong in the use of
J.
faith. But trading in binders alone
is a hazardous form of speculation.
Trading i'm Binders
Not long aco lot of New Workers
came down here with smart alecky
determination to get rich off the yokels
They began purchasing acreage with
small binders, then raising their
prices. selling their land to each other
and receiving a higher binder. In this
way they ran prices on some property
away up and they were making money
on trading binders
But A real estate man here decided
the thing had gone far enough. He
decided to get the binder boys lie
let it be known among them that GER
tain beach property could be pur
chased cheaply. The binder boys bit
and before long they had bid the
beach property to ridiculously high
prices Then. one morning, they found
signs erected along the beach advertis
ing for sale lots next to those held BY
Evening star., 1925-10-19
OLDER MIAMI CITIZENS DEPLORE
FRANTIC FEVER OF LAND SELLING

tomatoes enough to realize $500 an
acre from the yield. This should give
a value of 81 900 an acre for their land.
which is top price. he thinks, and is
not worth more.
Mr.. Sewall states very frankly that
anybody who will buy Florida real
estate without investigating it is a
fool. This applies to people up North
who buy it through the mail as well
as to those who come hundreds of
miles down here. then snap up lot
without making the salesman take
them out to look at 1t. Mr.. Sewall
says he would not trust 90 out of
every 100 real estate men who have
drifted into Miami with this high tide
of land selling. He does not advise
anybody to trust them. There are
established firms in Miami as well as
in other cities whose reputation has
been built on conservation. Miami
has her share of them. also her bank
ers, lawyers and business men general
ly who will be glad to advise. There
is lot of land being sold around here.
especially away from Miami. which he
believes is unjustified in price-not
worth what is being paid for II. He
doesn't think, however, that there will
be any crash. Lots of people will lose
their money in Miami real estate as
they lose ii in other cities. he de
clared. but he has his faith in Miami s
growth, and those who have bought
wisely will see their investment be
come profitable.
Opinion of Banker.
James Gilman, president Of the Bank
of Bay Biscayne. another leading citi-
zen of this town. and a man who came
here % years ago. told me very frank
ly that he would not advise people
with s. 900 or $4,000 of hard-earned
savings to speculate in Florida real
estate. Yet. he says. they come to
him for advice. he gives II to them
and tells them not TO do it, and out
they walk. go to the nearest real
estate salesman. and put down all they
Evening star., 1925-10-19

have. What are you going to do
about it?" he asks.
Neither does Mr.. Gilman forecast
any great crash. He says land Is
being sold for more than 1t is worth
in some of the outlying sections, but
Miami, he argues. is growing fast and
needs more space. People are making
money here on land speculation as
they often do elsewhere. Mr.. Gilman
thinks he could have made 100000 900
himself If he had chosen to speculate.
But that, of course, is bad banking.
Values in Miami are being misrepre-
sented so that they seem worse than
they really are-but they are bad
enough at that. It's part of the game
for people possessing properties 10
magnify their price / mentioned, in
one of my articles. that a woman who
sold pineapple juice in 10by15
foot hole in the wall said she paid
s. 900 month rent for it. A real
estate firm. one of the oldest in the
city, said 1t was 81 ,000-not $1,000.
The highest price actually paid for
land on Flagler street here. the princi-
pal street in the city. is $4,000 front
foot-not square foot, as many of the
stories say. Nor have sales ever
reached the scale of sos 900 a front
foot-stories which have been told me
TO the contrary notwithstanding.
There are no more out-and-out sales
OF any property on Flagler street.
The transactions are made in terms of
99-year leases. One real estate firm
has leased store for $3.50 900 for two
years. They like to tell everybody
about 1t, too. II is good advertising,
and they list the expense under adver-
tising. The usual price for Flagler
street property is $4,000 a front foot
in the downtown section of the city.
Across the river" in section which
might be compared with the business
section of upper Fourteenth street
in Washington, land is selling for
about 1000 front foot.
Evening star., 1925-10-19
Attitude of Business Men.

One of the peculiar phases of the
many sided situation here is the atti-
tude among the reputable business
men toward the speculation that has,
in many cases. driven prices sky high.
TheN deplore il generally. vet when
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-09
DAILY KENNEBEC JOURNAL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1925

her aunt, Mrs. John Berquist for
another week.
Harry French attended Richmond
Fair last week.
A larger delegation then usual
from this town attend Litchfield
Fair Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Robertson
left Wednesday for a two weeks
stay at Melrose, Mass. but plan to
return fo- a permanent home at the
the place they recently purchased
of Mrs. Esther Pinkham.
Mrs. Lucy Lane is visiting at Deer
Isle.
POND ROAD-Mr. and Mrs. William
FOUNTAIN are receiving congratula-
lions on the birth of a son, Oct. S.
Mrs. Sarah B. Brann, who has been
visiting relatives in West Gardiner
and Chelsea, returned to her home in
Auburn. Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Erskine and Mrs.
Sadie Ersline were Sunday guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. l.. Norton.
Mrs. Alberta Grant, who has been
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. w. H.
Newell. went Sunday to Lewiston for
a few days before returning to her
home in Medford. Mass.
Charles w. Totman of Gardiner
was a business caller in town Wednes-
day morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-09
Criticise Purchase
Of Granite Blocks
By City of Boston

Boston, Oct. S.-(AP)-A lengthy
criticism of the methods used by the
Granite Paving Block Manufacture
ers' Association in educating" city
officials as to the value of granite
blocks was made today in a report
by the finance commission. The re-
port disclosed that because of the
method of awarding a contract, the
city of Boston accepted the next to
the lowest bid on a single job which
resulted in an extra expenditure of
$24,OOO for granite blocks.
The commission quoted testimony
of field engineer Of the association
regarding his expenditure of $4,2S7
last year for entertainment, includ-
ing cigars, turkeys and Holsters. The
commission recommended that city
officials be notified by the mayor not
to accept gratuities from persons
seeking to do business with the city
and that no further business be done
with members of the association I'M
less they abandon their present
method of educating city officials"
The report disclosed that bid Of
Sl4o a thousand by the Hildreth
Granite Company of Massachusetts,
a member of the association, was &C
cepted in preference to a bid of
$122.52 by the Pease Company of
New Hampshire. The commission
urged reopening of negotiations with
the Pease Company or, if this is i'm
practicable, the substitution of as
phalt paving on the job.