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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-16
January Building
Contracts Reveal
General Increase

Total construction contracts
awarded during January in the 81
states east Of the Rocky mountains
amounted to 427,168, 700, according
to F. w. Dodge Corporation. These
states include about 81 per cent Of
the total construction volume Of the
country. This was next to the larg-
est January total on record, and rep
resented an increase Of IL per cent
over January Of last year. Com
pared with December, the past month
showed decline Of II per cent.
Three districts made new high to-
tails for the month of January, the
new records being reached by New
England, the Central West, and
Texas. Three other districts, New
York State and Northern New Jer-
sey, the Southeastern States, and
the Middle Atlantic States, reached
totals which were next to the high
est ever recorded for january.
The more important items in last
months building and engineering
record were: $l93, 10000, or As per
cent Of all construction. for resi-
Dental buildings; $72,038, 700, or II
per cent, for public works and utili-
ties; $685., 400, or 16 per cent, for
commercial buildings; $37, 970, 300,
or 9 per cent. for industrial build
ings; $23,369, 400, or s per cent, for
educational buildings; $11,182, 400
or 3 per cent, for hospitals and insti-
tutions; $9.189, 700, or 2 per cent. for
social and recreational projects;
$5,612, 300, or l per cent, for public
buildings: and $3.50, 900, or l per
cent, for religious and memorial
buildings.
Contemplated construction prof.
ects were reported for these g
states to the amount Of 1904 ,674 800
during January. This was q 20 per
cent increase over the amount re-
ported for January Of last year,
though it represented . decrease Of
10 per cent from the December fig
ure.
The Northwest
The Northwest (Minnesota, North
and South Dakota and Northern
lMichigan) had contracts awarded for
new construction work to the amount
Of $500, 900 during January. This
total represented an increase Of "a
per cent over that for January, 1927
and Of 2 per cent over the December
figure. More important items IN
last months building record were:
81, 16O,20O, or 81 per cent Of all con.
struction, for residential buildings;
$797, 200, or 26 per cent, for com.
mercial buildings: 1861 300, or Il
per cent, for public works and util.
tiles; $357, 200, or IL per cent fol
educational buildings, and $129, SOC
for hospitals and institutions.
Contemplated new work reported
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-16
Undertaking Merges With
Work Planned by Other Or.
CARNATIONS - Special Prof.
ect in Potato Growing Now
Under Way - Bismarck
Area Included

In keeping with the personal in.
terest in the welfare Of the North
west farmer. G. T. Jaffray, presi-
dent Of the 500 Railway, has added
to the 500 organization q depart.
ment Of agricultural development.
President Jaffray is better known
to most northwestern North Dako-
ia farmers as chairman Of the Apri-
cultural Credit corporation. which
has made possible the gigantic d.
verslty program advanced the past
few years by aiding in financil. the
Purchase Of dairy cattle, sheep and
hogs.
The new department is headed BY
r. r. johnson, general agricultural
agent, and has on its staff the fol-
lowing men, most Of whom are al
ready well known to the farmers of
this section::
X. L: Aney, livestock agent, Ken
mare, N. D.
$: J: Sanders, livestock agent,
Enderlin, N. D.
w. w. Davenport, agricultural
agent, Thief River Falls, MINI.
Jens Uhrenholdt, potato develop
ment agent, Minneapolis. -
To this staff an additional apri.
cultural agent will probably be add
ed soon to advance the work along
the Missouri river division.
The years program of agricul-
tural work planned by the new de-
partment merges closely to the pro-
gram planned by other or9aniza.
tions. All men are aiding in the
good work # increasing the acreage
OF alfalfa and sweet clover. Especial
attention is being given to the
care and management of, the dairy
cow. Poultry and hogs get their
full share Of attention. Extra eff
fort is being made to help farmers
secure go~d seed at reasonable
prices and to aid in locating &C.
climated seed corn Of proper breed
ing.
Usual Potato Project
A special project in growing po-
tatoes, to replace in part the sum-
mer fallow necessary, is we'll under
way. One of the remarkable fea-
lures Of this project is that it car
ries q special marketing program,
Incorporated as the most essential
part of the project, a phase Of the
potato industry badly neglected in
the past in North Dakota.
Some Of the choicest seed that
can be secured is being brought in
to the state to establish the founda.
ton for the increased potato acre.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-16
from $50 to 500 on various body

styles.
Distributors and dealers through
out the country are reporting great
err attendance at their showrooms
and larger buying volume, with
many orders being booked for fu-
turc delivery, according to factory
checkings. Among the largest
cities to report definite sales in
creases are New York, Chicago. De-
toit, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleve-
land, st. Louis, Cincinnati, Atlanta,
Baltimore, San Francisco, Los An
geles, Seattle and Dallas. Smaller
market centers from every part Of
the country have also felt the great
er Chrysler buying.
Chicago reports a greater atten-
dance at Chrysler salesrooms dur.
ing the week following the an
nounccmcnt of lower prices than
during any previous entire month
- January. Both in New York and
Detroit more retail orders for "52"
and "62" cars were written during
the week following the announce
ment Of the savings than during all
of January, 1927.
Mr.. Frazer points out that great
err public demand. which has re-
suited in Chrysler achieving. for
1923, third place among all motor
car manufacturers in the sales rec
ords of the National Automobile
Chamber Of Commerce, has made
these substantial savings in cost to
the general public possible.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-16
January II

January ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Tinus John A,plund,
Wilton, q son.
Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Strand, Bis
marck, . daughter.
January Is
Mr.. and Mrs. Ludwig Riemler,
Golden Valley, q daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Mcclellan,
Bismarck, . daughter.
January 10
Mr.. and Mrs. William Pinks, Bis
marck, a son.
January 20
Mr.. and Mrs. L. II. Carufel, Bis
marck, a daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam E. Turnbow
Bismarck, a daughter.
January 20
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert E. Dant
jamestown, q son.
January q
Mr.. and Mrs. Claris F. Davcn.
port. Bismarck, q daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christian Uhlick
Garrison, q son.
January 80
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Uhlick, Gar.
riSon, son.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Ferris Cord.
ner, Bismarck, a daughter.
Deaths
January
Jos. Kimball, so. Washburn.
Frederick G.. Nelson, %, Brisbane
Charles Staab, 81, Waukesha
Wis.
Harley feathers, 38, Mckenzie.
January 4
Adelbert G. Moore, Z months, Val
ley City.
January Z
Mrs. Edna d. Marks, II, Douglas
January
Kalita E. Leighton, 81, Bismarck
January 10
Ed. Elk, IS. Van Hook.
January IL
Samuel L. Nuchols, 81, Bismarck
January IL
Charles E. WINTHROP. 81, Almont
January Is
Ylovene Broeckel, z months, Beu
lah.
Wilkinson F. Kline, 90, Max.
January II
Mrs. A. G. Nistler, ~, Golvs
Mont.
January 10
William F. Bradford, 90, Hayne
E. A. Nicholson, 80, Wishek.
January 81
Charles Miller, a, Bismarck.
January %
Mrs. Josephine Spevasek, 81
Yates, Mont.
January "a
Ann Edwards, 20, Stanton.
January q
Laura Ruth Dobson, Is, Linton.
Opal Mary Hoffman johnson, 2!
Bismarck.
January %
John G. Smith, So, Bismarck.
January 20
| Ruth Maxine Pneiger, 10 day
Bismarck.
January 80
William c. Hartke, ~, Bismarcl
January 81
James Harvey Allensworth, z
Glencoe.
Margerita Dahl. I. Bismarck.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-16
Lower Prices Boost
Demand For Chrysler

Greater public interest in Chrys-
Ter cars than ever befor., at this
season Of any year has followed the
lowering Of prices for its New
"52" and Great New 49," accord
ing to reports received from J. w.
Frazer, Chrysler sales manager
The savings to the public range
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-16
ON MOTOR ROW

Tor the Northwest last month
amounted to $6,094 200, this figure
representing = decline Of 8 per cent
from January, 1927: and Of l3 per
cent from December.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-16

The highest point of land on the
earth is Mount Everest - 10000
feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07
BETTER HIGHWAYS
INCREASING RAPIDLY
Bureau of Public Roads Tells of
Pavement Improve
ments.

With the cooperation of State high
way departments, 8,184 miles of Fed
eral-aid highways were improved in the
fiscal year 1929, and 2,O14 miles
that had been previously improved by
| Federal aid were given surfaces OF
higher type, according to the Bureau
of Public Roads, United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. This work was
done at total cost of $205, 043, 784
of which the Federal Government paid
$88, 056, 1874, or 40 per cent and the
States paid the balance.
Under supervision of the bureau
281 miles of National Forest roads
were improved. bringing the total i'm
proved mileage of these roads to SITS
miles. The National Forest road sys-
tenn embraces, at present, total OF
1921 miles.
In the Federal-aid system there arr
187753 miles of interstate and inter-
county highways, of which, on June
80, 71,074 miles had been improved
with Federal assistance and 1926 miles
were undergoing stage construction
that is, were being given higher type
of surface than when previously i'm
proved with Federal aid.
The 8,184 miles improved In 1923 in
clude 2,182 miles of graded and drained
earth roads; 844 miles of sand-clay;
1886 miles of gravel; go miles of water
bound macadam; 464 miles of bitumi-
nous macadam; 1876 miles of bitumin-
Gus concrete; 1888 miles of cement
concrete, and AZ miles paved with vitri-
fled brick. There were 81 miles OF
bridges and approaches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07
T|RE|NDUSTRYENDS
RECORD PERIOD
viii Enter Last Quarter With
Aggressive Schedule,
Expert Says.

The tire industry is bringing to close
a cord-breaking third-quarter year
and will enter the final quarter year
with far more aggressive production
schedule than ever before at this par
ticular season, according to B. H. Cram,
president of Grams Automotive Reports,
Inc. Crude rubber consumption so far
this year has eclipsed all previous
marks and for the entire year should
materially exceed earlier estimates of
800, 900 tons. In fact, crude conSump-
ton in the first nine months of this
year will total fully $4,000 tons, and
it Is calculated that the American in
final quarter, making a total for this
year of approximately 425, 900 tons.
AS the industry enters the final month
OF the British restriction measure, there
appears to be no concerted effort to
enforce any substitute restriction.
Dutch rubber growers, it is officially re-
ported at Washington, have refused to
join hands with the British in any
voluntary restriction program. Al
though the British rubber ban, which
was started five years ago, is not ON
cially lifted until this November /, the
law has been practically imperative
ever since the British prime minister
last April announced its absolute end
on November /.
From retail standpoint the tire in
dustry should enjoy substantial spur
in renewal sales during October. due
principally to heavy motor travels to
and from thousands of foot ball games
IN all sections of the United States.
After this October squirt, consumer buy
ing may be expected to diminish and
to hold to rather low levels until earIv
Spring. Manufacturers are expected to
take advantage of this slack in retail
sales to build up inventories for Spring
delivery. 1t is assumed by most manu-.
facturers that the industry will en-
force this year, as in the past. the
Spring dating custom with dealers. al
though final decision very probably win
come from the new Rubber Institute.
Twice in previous years the industry
has tried to eliminate the Spring dat
ing plan, but in each instance has been
forced to revive it hurriedly to enable
dealers to order heavily in advance for
Spring and early Summer delivery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07
Texas Auto Owners
Increase Demand
For Tire Painting

To meet the increasing demand for
tire painting in Texas many auto
mobile laundry stations are INSTALL
ing tire painting departments. &C
cording to the Automotive Daily
News Until recently painted tire
was seldom seen in this part Of the
country. but now many car owners
have their tires painted regularly
when their cars are washed.
With the equipment now provided
at many Texas car washing sta
tons, the tires are painted and dried
and ready for use as soon as the
car can be washed and dried.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07

The new highway between Armenia
and La Lora, Colombia. is permitting
automobile trips of 21a hours where
before mulehack rides required q day,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07
ECHO OF AUTO RISK LAW ROW
STILL STIRS MASSACHUSETTS
First State to Compel Compensation of
Accident Victims Finds Heated
Rate Fight on Hands.

Editors note-The Star herewith
presents an unbiased account of the
eUentS leading up to and the present
status of the automobile compulsory
insurance latU controversy in MasSd-
chuSettS.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-10-25
AFTER MUSSOLINI THE
christian Science Monitor)

Benito Mussolini has now taken ac-
ton to meet the one hitherto unan-
swerable criticism of the system of
government he has given to Italy.
This criticism is that a dictatorship
cannot last forever, and that chaos
is liable to arise whenever in the
course of nature it comes to an end.
This applies whether the dictatorship
be good or evil. 1t is admitted alike
by those who, with George Bernard
Shaw, hail the Duce as great ruler
who "does get things done diligently
for the public benefit" and by those
who, with Signor Nitti, denounce him
as the author of "a vast prison where
there is no more laughter and no
more life" The action Signor Musso-
lini has taken is to constitute Grand
Council as Supreme Organ" of the
state. which is to form and keep in
readiness list of suitable successors
to himself for appointment by the
king when occasion requires.
1t cannot now be foretold whether
the arrangement will work when the
need for it arises, or whether, with
such a prize as the absolute over
lordship of 100000 people in sight,
there will then occur a state of dis
order comparable to that of the prs
of the Roses in fifteenth-century Eng
land. The fact nevertheless remains
that a system has been set up, which,
if not self-continuing like an elected
chamber, at least provides some guar
antee that Italy will not be without
a recognized Duce when Mussolini is
no longer there.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-10-25
PARTIES HAVE THEIR SAY

bushel had it not been for the fixed
minimum price. After the buying
agency had been set up during the
war, the price offwheat was kept down
to the minimum because the allies
did not bid against each other. Hoov-
er wanted to fix the price at S1.5O.
but Congress raised it to $2.26."
Chairman d'Autremont points out
that no accredited Democratic speak
er or newspaper has ever insinuated
that Mr.. Hoover during the war was
in conspiracy with England to keep
farm prices low. That indictment,
says the Democratic chairman, was
brought by the responsible head of
the Republican organization in Min
nesota.
Hoover's farm record has not under
gone any change since Mackenzie was
broadcasting his charges to the voters
of Minnesota, but the latter's public
views have been revised. The fair
conclusion is that the Republican
leader was striving to fool the voters
seven months ago or is seeking to
mislead them now.
Every available record proves that
Hoover strove to keep down grain
prices, and that he succeeded.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-10-25
CARBON MONOXIDE WARNING

Although we have had only few
cold days so far this fall, we are al
ready beginning to read in the papers
of deaths from carbon monoxide poi
soning. Usually it is some man tink-
ering with his car and leaving the
garage doors closed because of the
chill winds. The family misses him,
makes a search, and finds him dead.
Carbon monoxide from the automo-
bile exhaust is deadly, quick acting
poison. Under no circumstances
should person remain in a small
garage with his engine running and
the doors closed.
But opening the doors is not always
enough. When there is no breeze
death may occur in an open garage
when the engine is left running. II
it is necessary to run the engine, il
is safest to go outside, or go to larg.
er, well ventilated garage.
Deaths have also been reported
where persons were driving in closed
cars. or sitting in parked cars with
the engine running, if the wind hap.
pened to be in such a direction that
it drove the exhaust fumes up through
the floor boards. 1t is safest to keer
at least one window partly open, ever
in the coolest weather.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-10-25

of one of the main cogs on the wheel
of the small country towns existance.
1t has been much heralded of re-
cent date that the small or independ-
ent merchant has his back to the
wall. that he must give way to the
onslaught and the inroads made in his
field by the chain system, that, in
cold facts, he must bow his head to
the money powers. These facts are,
in a large sense, true and will have
bearing on the merchant who still
persists in following the old rut with
the same old system of buying and turn
overs as formerly used in the con-
duct of the retail business.
But. the merchant, who is awake
to new developments in the game,
who is ever willing to copy after the
successful development of another
system, has a decided advantage over
the chain store, in that he is indie
pendent of the higher-up-he is his
own master of ceremonies-ready to
grasp a new situation without the
necessity of notifying headquarters
first. 1t has been said, Competition
is the spice of trade" and this can be
used to good advantage in his own
smaller way by watching all oppor-
tunities with a more decided wakeful-
ness which will be stimulated by the
omni-presence of the big competition.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-10-25
GOODBYE AND GOOD LUCK
Duluth Herald)

At the flood of the tide yesterday
Commander Richard E. Byrd sailed
from San Pedro, California, in the
sturdy whaler c. A. Larsen for Dune
din, New Zealand, where with the
others of his party, already on theil
way, he will start his drive into the
south polar zone.
He does not expect to see his ma.
tive land again before July, 1890
which means that he expects it tc
take him a year and three-quarters
to do what he has set out to do.
His country, and the world at large
in warm good will, will wish him the
best of luck in his gallant enterprise
which he hopes will reveal as many
as possible of the secrets of nature
that have been hidden since the dawn
of the time in the great waste of ice
and stormy waters that surrounds the
South Pole.
This man who made a dash to the
North Pole and who flew across the
Atlantic to Europe is not now making
a dash" to the South Pole. He will
fly to the pole, no doubt; but more
important than that are his plans to
study the Antartic waste and bring
back to us news of what it has to re-
veal of its composition, of its weather
of it's biology and botany and of its
mineralogy and geography.
Dick Byrd, be it said now that he
cannot overhear it, is one of the most
charming figures in the gallant roll
of Americas heroes.
Modest, no seeker of the limelight
though by his deeds much in it, NOV
ed by the spirit of enterprise and ad-
venture and not by any thirst for
notoriety, he is a gentleman of the
finest type. He could help Lindbergh
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-10-25
s'THE FOX"

The last chapter was brought to a
close in the cruel and relentless cru
SADIE of 1.-The Fox, a criminal, when
Friday, October 10Th, thus sending
his body to a villains grave and his
soul, we hope, to a better place than
it had deserved by it's murderous stay
here on earth. Although being only
81 years of age, VIM. E. Hickman,
1.-The Fox" as he was wont to call
himself, perpetrated a crime that will
go down in the annals of criminology
as the most savage and brutal of all
time. Think of it! That we have such
beasts among US, who will take help
less child's life, cut her body up and
place it in her fathers hands as
though it were so much thrash, to
gain for himself the paltry sum Of
$500, which he was forced to spend
in fleeing from justice and which led
justice to him by it's peculiar identifi-
cation marks.
Is there no way of curbing these
fiends, these parasites upon the de-
cency Of the most intelligent race of
people in the universe? Is there not
the least possibility of there coming
an awakening,ja pang of conscience
which will bring all the would-be
together with the arch criminals out
in the open to live honest, wholesome
and straightforward lives? Does hui
mainly have to suffer longer by the
accomplishments of this plundering
herd of thrill seekers? We have some
of them within the walls of justice
now, but this does not bring back
the lives that have been taken nor
pay for the depredations that have
been committed.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-10-25
POLITICAL ISLANDER

As Will Rogers said, "a whispering
campaign was started at the begin
ming of the race for president, but the
participants found that the things,
which were being said in whisper,
were not nearly as bad as the ones
that were being said out loud, so they
all began shouting SANDER at the top
of their voices This, although, only
said in joking way. has great deal
of meaning to it.. SANDER has been
voiced, and not only voiced in whis-
pers, but voiced out loud and with
meaning. 1t is certainly too bad,
when a man has risen to the height
of his class as either of the candi-
dates for president has, that he has
to submit to Islander of this sort. If
either one was guilty of one-third of
what is being said about him, he
would not be fit for any public trust.
much less an incumbent of the high
est office that we, as United States
citizens have to offer and which is
the envy of all nations. Although
much that is said and repeated over
and over again, has no foundation. it
nevertheless tends to sink deeply into
some peoples minds and gives rise
to much disgust and dissatisfaction
with the general trend of our national
affairs, which as everyone surely and
sincerely knows are open and above
board and are being copied by many
of the leading powers of the world.
We will live after the election, and
much more contentedly with cleaner
conscience if we will not repeat the
many things, that are daily being
voiced in our ear, and we can help our
neighbors to be much more contented
and happy after the political fray is
over for another four years, if we
cast each bit of SANDER, that has no
apparent foundation, from us as the
serpent that it is, sent to sting the
opposing candidate into submission
and defeat by falsehoods, mostly, re-
CARELESS of the cost of such an
achievement.
Don't SANDER, just study the issues,
and each candidate until election day
and then go to the polls and vote.