Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-08-08
STATE NEWS


Rumor has it that the 500 road will
be running trains into Bismarck
August 15th.s
A postof6ce has been established at
Peebler, Ward county, N. D., John
w. Peebler, postmaster. Al
Hoboes are foraging in the houses
about Fargo. A party of them cap
tured a calf and held an old fashioned
barbecue.
The Minot Optic is now using a
Simplex typesetting machine in order
to get it's daily edition up todate with
the latest news
It takes considerable of a nan to
know how to be happy and express
his joy without making several sorts
of fool of himself.
To candidates for Office: Kiss every
pretty baby you see and compliment
every woman you can from now until
after the campaign-it all helps, you
know.
Work on the erection of the new
school for the feeble minded has been
begun at Grafton. It is expected
there will be about one hundred
patients from the beginning.
The Leeds News last week came
out in eight pages, as was the original
intention, and Editor Voigt says he
intends keeping the paper up to date,
and his patrons we'll posted.
If we could throw ourselves away,
like broken china, every time we
think we have spoiled ourselves and
all our story, the back yards of crea-
tion would be full Of the pitiful find
ers of us.
Authority has been granted for the
organization of the First National
bank Of Linon. N. D., capial, $25, 900;
E. A. Grain, J. E. Horon, w. 0. IT.
win, A. Armstrong and q. A. Herolz
have been named incorporators.
A real estate dealer in one of our
thriving western cities undertook to
kiss a pretty school marin, and she
Immediately sued him for $50, 900.
Afectionat gentlemen who have bank
accounts cannot be too careful nova
days.
The jag wagon ordinance at Fargo,
which was intended to bring jag wag-
ons under the same regulations as
drays, hacks, etc., failed to pass it's
first reading. Some of the members
of the council did not want to make
any official recognition of jag wagons.
It is quite natural that a pretty
woman should object to having her
portrait hung in hotel Offices, barrooms
and livery stables, but there seems to
be no relief for her, if the judges are
right when they say that beauty is
not private property, and that a
woman's face belongs to the public.
The college of law at the state uni
versty of North Dakota opens Septem-
Der 2, with an enlarged faculty and
with very important additions.
Through an act of the state legislature,
a graduate Of the college Of law is ad-
mitted to practice in the courts of the
state without, further examination.
At a recent meeting of the State
Fair board of directors, it was decided
to hold the annual fair September %,
"a, IS, 26. This will be the eighth
of the series, and promises to Guido
all other state fairs held in Mandan.
At no time in the history Of the
western part of the state has prosper
ity been greater than this year.
Wellington Irysh, as chairman of
the executive committee, will take up
the excursion question with the sew
eral railroads at once. The proposed
route for the North Dakota Editorial
association is to rendezvous at
Bismarck, thence over the N. P. to
the coast, returning over some south
ern route. The trip ought to be a
pleasant and profitable one.
Too much emphasis cannot be laid
on the necessity of using extreme care
in the handling of poisons and chemi-
Gals on the farm. Farmers, not being
chemists, fail to recognize the great
danger in the uses of paris green and
like substances, and handle them
about as carelessly as they do sawdust.
Recent deaths of cattle from eating
paris green and nitrate of soda indi.
cate the caution needed in storing
these articles.
The Kenmare News is making al
onlaught on the b. p.'s in that gooi
little town. It says: "Some say
these thinos will RIM on in the tow