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Washburn Leader
WASHBURN, NORTH DAKOTA
JOHN SATTERLUND
Published every Friday at Washburn,
McLean County, North Dakota
Bntered at the Postofflce at Washburn,
North Dakota, as second Class Matter
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10,1919.
STATE OFFICERS
Congressman 3rd District—
J. SINCLAIR
LYNN J. FRAZIKR. Governor
H. K. WOOD. Lieut. Governor
THOMAS HALL. Secretary
CARL R. KO^ITZKY. Auditor
O. A. OLSON, Treasurer
WM. LA.N'fliCR. Attorney General
MINNIE J. XJKLSON. Superin
tendent Public Instruction
JOHN N. HAGEN, Commissioner
Agriculture and Labor
J. J. OSTERHAUS. Dairy r(,m.
S. J. AANDAHL.
C. F. I.) I" PUIS,
FRANK MILHOLLAN.
Railroad Commissioners
H. A. BROWNSON.
A, N. CHRISTIANSON.
LUTHKR E. BIKDZKLL,
R. H. GRACE,
J. E. ROBINSON,
Judges Supreme Court
W. L. NUHSSLE, I.'ist. Judge
COUNTY OFFICERS
R. L. FRASER, Senator
GEO. A. MA LONE,
A. L. MAXWELL.
GEO. M. ROBINSON.
C.
E.
G.
C.
o.
Representatives
O. H. STEFKERl.'D, Sheriff
FRED GEILNER, Treasurer
R. W. BROWNSON, Auditor
M. TELLEFSON. Clerk of Court
J. E. HECK. Register of Deeds
J. K. WILLIAMS. State's Atty.
E. C. STOCKER, Tax Supervisor
GEO L. GIBSON, JudKe
E. C. STIH'KE, Coroner
C. O. HANSEN. Com. 1st Dist.
HENRY MARTIN. Com. 2nd Dint.
L. BERGQl.'IST. '"oin. Jird Dist.
E. Mcl'UKDY, Supt. S'hools
L. NORLING.
Acrii-uitural Apert
M.
A.
CITY COMMISSIONERS
W. Poe. President.
I. Schuli:. finance.
M. Wallbrecht. water.
M. D'iesen.' street.
V. Bowman, police.
W. Brownsoi., Auditor.
SCHOOL OFFICERS
Martin Holtan, President
Fred W. Macomber,
W. J. Bickert.
A up. E. Johnson. Clerk,
'SHOOT IT TO THE OTHER BANKS'
"Mr. Waters wishes me to advise
you that if the examiners object to any
of the paper carried there, you are to
tell them that it will be removed at
once. The plan for taking care of ob­
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jectionable matter is to shoot it out to
the other league banks—Grand Forks,
Lisbon, Hillsboro, Buxton, Hatton—
these banks are practically all new
banks and have been passed by the
commission, which will leave them in
position to do this. They would not
have anythng that the commission
would object to just now. Anything
you send them could be taken back
later on if necessary." Excerpt from
letter from Roy M. Halliday, then
chief deputy bank examiner, to J. J.
Hastings, then vice president of the
Scandinavian American bank.
Stand up in front of your fellow
citizens, Mr. J. R. Waters, and listen to
this.
You were appointed as state bank
examiner to safeguard the people of
North Dakota from crooked bankers.
Through your deputy R. M. Halliday,
as this letter shows, you connived with
bankers to defeat the very laws and
banking regulations you were sworn to
enforce.
You betrayed the trust imposed in
you, you violated your oath of office.
You are now manager of the State
Bank of North Dakota, the head of the
biggest financial institution in the
state, with virtually unlimited control
over millions of dollars.
Whether that was the price you got
for betraying the people of North Da
kota, or not, we don't know, but we
wouldn't sell our self-respect for ten
Lumber & Mill Work
Cement, Lime and Plaster
LineS paper and Roofing
POSTS! POSTS! POSTS!
I. H. C. Machines and Repairs
Case Plows and Harrows
THE FAMOUS HOWELL MILLS
Everything "The Best" our many years
of experienced buying can give you.
Mandan Mercantile Go.
Automobile Tourists
Minneapolis
Hotel Lincoln
NICOLLET AVENUE at NINTH STREET
Opened Sept. 1st, ,1918
Especially convenient for auto parties as Nicollett Avenue
is the leading road from all points,, and has no car tracks.
With two squares of five large garages. Adjoining cities'
largest stores
Rooms at $1 per day. With private toilet 26c extra with
private bath 50c extra. In addition there are puites of
rooms with separate toilet,
each
bath—an ideal arrangement and only found here.
Stop at
room having connecting
CAFE IN CONNECTION
HOTEL LINCOLN guarantees an atmosphere
of home reiinement.
wk B. CAMFIELD Proprietors F.S. GREGORY
For past ten years with Minneaipolis leading hotels
times the sum you got.
You invited widows and orphans to
put money into a bank you knew, was
insolvent, or at least could not. pass in
spection.
The act is no better than taking the
money out of their pockets and hand
ing it to the gang that employs you.
Yet it is always possible to make a
decent and honest living digging
ditches.
And you, Governor Frazier, stand up
ar-d let us get your measure.
We have thought you honest at
heart, but we find you backing up a
man like J. R. Waters and countenan
cing the looting of the Scandinavian
American bank.
Are you going to permit this man
Waters to remain in office as head of
the Bank of North Dakota?
Are you going to retain and back up
a bank examiner who will try to
smooth over a situation like this?
Are you going to shut your eyes to
the blackest scandal that ever dis
graced the pages of North Dakota's
history?
If you do then stupidity is not your
only fault. You will prove yourself a
cheap little crook if you do.
The whole matter is now up to the
supreme court justices. They have
issued an order ousting the banking
board's receiver from the Scandina
vian American bank. They have turn
ed the bank's affair over to the state
bank examiner's department. That
order was issued before they knew of
this letter of Mr. Halliday's, admitting
that worthless paper was being delib
erately and wickedly "shot out" to
other state banks, for the purpose of
deceiving the examiners. True, a
new state bank examiner is now in
control, but the examiner was appoint
ed and is controlled by Governor Fraz
ier, and through him by the very gang
that has been engaged in looting this
bank. Their old tool has been promot
ed for services rendered.
It rests in the hands of the supreme
court whether or not a thorough probe
of the affairs of the defunct bank is
made. Perhaps, on the one hand, the
banking board's examiners would
show bias and bitterness undoubtedly
on the other hand, the state bank ex
aminer's men will "cover up" this
mess as far as it is possible to do so.
The Forum has only the highest
respect for the office of Uie supreme
court justice. They are the final bul
wark protecting the rights of the peo
ple of the state. They are the court
of last resort in North Dakota. They
typify justice and right. Surely they
will not give their approval of a plan
to clear a bank of worthless paper by
"shooting it out to other league banks'
with the understanding it will be
brough back when necessary. Surely
they will not permit themselves to be
used to give approval to connivance
between the state bank examiner's de
partment and crooked bankers to
break the law. -Fargo Forum.
A WINDY DAY
With apologies to Carrie Jacobs Bond
When you come to the end of a iwindy
day.
And you sit alone with your thot
And your weary eyes make a sad
survey
Of the dust that the wind has brot.
Do you know what the end of a windy
day
Can mean to a tired heart
When all that you see is an ashy gray
And
you "just don't know where to
start?"
Well, this is the end of a windy day
And the end of my patience, too.
For my house is a sight from morn till
night
No matter what I may do
For memory has painted these windy
days
With colors that, never fade,
And you find at the end of a windy day
A friend that the wind has made.
—Contributed.
The old fashioned Quaker, who used
to get up at 3 o'cock in the morning
to drive to Yearly Meeting on Sun
day, now has a son who comes in
with his family at 3 o'clock in the af
ternoon, and the dust he raises
doesn't settle behind mm
7 that evening.
until
about
They say that a campaign is going
to be started to put Od Man Nicotine
out of business and relegate him to
the scrap pile along with Johnny Bar
leycorn, and we hope if the .'program
goes through they will do away with
pipe dreams too.
Speaking of heaven, we ar£ remind
ed that a lot of people1, if 0iey got
there, would have to be keipt tinder,
close watch, or they'd dig upi the gold
streets and put 'em away in &n old
sock.
V
Luke McLuke has. discovered
Gosh, up in Chicago, but does
know that By Golly lives
Highland County?
FACTS ABOUT THE
FLIGKERTAIL STATE
Fargo.—The
North Dakota
held here.
annual conference of
Free Methodists was
Devils Lake.—The Jewish congrega
tion of Devils Lake lias decided to
erect, a synagogue.
Devils Lake.—-Officials fouud and
confiscated a still iu (lie garage of Joe
Sehell in this city.
Jamestown.—A total of I.'itiO limit
ing licenses have' been issued in Stuts
man county this fall.
New Kngluud.—A greatly improved
electric lighting and power system will
shortly be installed here.
Muddock.—-The Benson county agri
cultural and training school will open
its year's work here October -7.
Bismarck.—The Bismarck hospital
will erect another $100,000 building to
accommodate its growing needs.
Fargo.—Local building permits for
September aggregated $.'{74,000 accord
ing to Superintendent Tibert's report.
Bismarck.—-Fx tensive preparations
are being made for the homecoming
celebration to be held here October 15.
Tioga.—Miss McC-ainmon, home dem
onstration agent for Williams county,
held a clothing school here last week.
Wheelock.—Thieves made a haul of
$400 worth of merchandise after
breaking info the store of McGee &
Time.
Fargo.— Inst i' ntion.s of learning
throughout the shite very generally
report an unprecedented enrollment
this year.
Fargo.—Washington dispatches an
nounce that a hearing is being held on
the car shortage which has been ex
perienced in this state.
Jamestown.—J. J. Hanson, farming
north of Cleveland, raised 17 bushels
per acre of wilt-resistant tlax on his
premises this season.
Minot.-—Minot voters almost unani
mously authorized the issuance of
•SliSii.OOO of bonds for the installation
of a sewage disposal plant.
Fargo.—The largest registration in
many years is reported since the
opening of the new school year at the
state agricultural college.
Fargo.—I'nless new appropriations
are forthcoming all federal employ
ment offices in the slate will be com
polled l.o close October 10. n
Bismarck.—Substantially «1 ".000,000
of deposits were on hand in the Bank
of North Dakota at the close of busi
ness its reported one day last week.
Dickinson.--Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Oukrup have just received confirma
tion of the death of their son. Corporal
Theodore Oukrup. in the action at
Argonne woods on October 7 of last
year.
Fargo.—Twenty thousand dollars
was paid to the A. O. I". \Y. by the
Merchants National bank of this city
for a 50-foot frontage on Roberts
street a little to the north of the lodge
organization's general office building.
Park Itiver.—Fearing an investiga
tion which would probably result in
his arrest for theft of a load of grain
from his employer. It. L. Austin, a
farm hand near here, committed, sui
cide by shooting himself in the head.
Fargo.—The Scandinavian-American
bank of this city, with a capital of
$50 000, closed its doors last Thursday
under orders of the state bunking
board. The resolution of the board
charges violations of the state banking
law.
Fargo.—The -'With annual meeting of
the Minneapolis branch of the Method
ist Woman's Foreign Missionary so
siety, comprising North and South
Dakota and Minnesota, was held here
last week. The meeting marks the
fiftieth year of the organization.*
Fargo.—The city commission has
under consideration plans for the in
stallation of a subway under North
ern I'ncitic tracks at Tenth street.
If effected, the movement will probab
ly be followed by a similar one at the
Great Northern crossing on the same
street.
Fargo.—Both Furgo and Grand
Forks have ottered free sites for the
.use of the big state mill to be located
by the North Dakota Mill and Elevator
association at such point in the state
as.it shall deem most expedient. The
Fargo site includes a pint of forty
acres.
Sherwood.—Under terms of the reci
procity act which permits Canadian
farmers to deliver grain duty-free In
the United States, farmers on the
northern side of the boundary near
this city are hauling their wheat to
Sherwood and receiving about "0 cents
a bushel more than is offered them in
Canadian towns.
Fargo.—Two separate gangs of
"yeggs" appear to be operating in tlie
state, according to W. C. Macfadden,
secretary of the North Dakota Bank
ers' association, in a statement given
out a few days ago. Bank customers
holding Liberty bonds and other valu
able unlisted securities in. safety de
posit boxes are strongly urged by Sec
retary Macfadden to place them di
rectly in charge of their respective
bankers for safekeeping in the strong
box, being careful also to see that the
papers are listed and Adequately in
sured.
Grand Forks.—Work on the city
hall, destroyed by tire a few months
ago, li:'.s l'-t it n' -rly completed, and it
Is e:|
be
wee'
Mih
he
over in
The man over in Pennsylvania
claims that he ate 48 egg* f-
o u o e v
in
e new building will
i- w'^hin a few.
will be
,i state
ft
next
'f, work
'u as
ublic
akota
a n en
ceut u. their mem
j&dgaftMfiik
FUND CAMPAIGN FOR SUNDAY
SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
The Community interests of Relig
ious Education are to have a more im
portant place in the new day accord
ing to a statement recently made by
James C. Gai-rison, State Superin
tendent of the North Dakota Sunday
School Association, in a letter just re
ceived by J. E. Heck, Secretary of the
McLean County Sunday School Asso
ciataion. "All earnest students of the
day recognize the fact that moral tone
and ethical standards are an indispens
ible part of the education of our youth,
said Mr. Garrison, "and the Sunday
School is coming into its own as the
only organization that is doing any
thing very important in the field of
Religious Education today."
There are important values that can
only be developed by all the folks in
terested in a given task working to
gether and it is to the promotion of
these values that the Association of
Sunday School Workers, known as the
Sunday School Association of the Dis
trict, County, State, International and
World, are working with such great
success in attaining.
These values are efficiency of the lo
cal Sunday School worker, recognition
of the importance of the
co-operation
of all who have the interest of these
things at heart, regardless 6f denomin
ational affiliation, the development of
a public opinion that shall demand a
more adequate Religious Education
program, etc., etc.
These values are being developed by
Association Sunday School work as it
holds its District, County, and State
Conventions, its institutes, confer
ences, for the workers in any Evangeli
cal Sunday School, who will take ad
vantage of the opportunity, its Com
munity Training Schools and Classes,
its Young Peoples Conferences, the
Daily Vacation Bible Schools, and
other means by which Community in
terests may be promoted and devel
oped. The need of a more adequate
supervision and development of the
Association program has made it ne
cessary that the County and State
Budgets be increased to meet these de
mands and acting upon this need, the
last Convention of. the State Associa
tion, held at Mandan, adopted such a
budget as would give just such help.
A drive to clean this up for the ensu
ing year will be put on beginning Octo
ber 12th, continuing through that week
when everyone interested in this, the
greatest task of the Kingdom, will be
given an opportunity.
The State Director is H. P. Beck
with, of Fargo, and the County Direc
tor for McLean County is C. M. Pack
ard. The amount to be raised is $15,
000.00, of which amount the McLean
County share is $500.00.
Four-minute men will present this in
the Churches on Sunday, October 12.
If you are missed and want a share in
this, make your check payable to the
McLean County Sunday School Asso
ciation, M. R. Wittrup, Turtle Lake,
N. D., Treasurer, and send it in.
PLAYS ANY RECORD MADE
FOR SALE AT
1
THIRD
RED CROSS
ROLL CALL
November 2 to 11, 1919,
Time to Re-Join
Coming
to
BISMARCK
Dr. Mellenthin
SPECIALIST
FOR HIS SEVENTH YEAR IN
NORTH DAKOTA
DOES NOT USE SURGERY
Will be at
McKenzie Hotel
Wednesday and Thursday, Oct 29-30
Office Hours, 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
Two Days Only
No Charge For Examination
Dr. Mellenthin is a regular gradu
ate in medicine and surgery and is
licensed by the state of North Dakota.
Hfe visits professionally the more im
portant towns and cities and offers to
all who call on this trip consultation
and examination free, except the ex
pense of treatment when desired.
According to his method ~of treat
ment he does not operate for chronic
appendicitis, gall stones, ulcers of
stomach, tonsils or adenoids.
He has to his credit many wonder
ful results in diseases of the stomach,
liver, bowels, blood, skin, nerves,
heart, kidney, bladder, bed-wetting,
catarrh weak lungs, rheumatism, sci
atica, leg ulcers and rectal -ailments.
If you have been ailing for any
length of time and do not get any
better, do not fail to call, as improper
measures rather than disease are very
often the cause of your long standing
trouble.
Remember the date, that exami
nation on this trip will be free and
that his treatment is different.
Address: 336 Boston Block, Min
neapolis, Minnesota.—Adv.
Town and Acre Lots For Sale
Many beautiful locations for private residences, or good busi
ness lots, for sale in Washburn.
This is a pleasant place for retired farmers to make their
home. Good water, light and good schools.
If interested, see—
John Satterlund, Washburn
The ARWALL
PHONOGRAPH