Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-05-23
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
A new cement sidewalk factory has
been established at Cakes.
- Cando is preparing for a big Fourth
of July celebration. Why not spend
the day at C~hautauqua?
George 81. Glass has sold out his gen.
eral merchandise business at Churchs
Ferry to Frank Mathews, of Sanborn,
IN. D.
E. Ashley Mears, formerly of this
state, is one of the directors of a mil
lion dollar land company organized in
South Dakota.
The Noltimer g. Jacobson lumber
s. yard at Churches Ferry has been sold
to the st. Anthony & Dakota Eleva-
tor company.
Frank D. Davis, editor of the Cando
Record, cast aside the robes of bachel-
ordom last week. The fortunate
young lady is Miss Alice Ingersoll, of
Fargo.
Churchs Ferry has granted the
Minot light and telephone company
the right to erect and maintain their
system in that village. Work will be
completed by Nov. 18th.
VIM. H. Brown & Co. have named
/. their new town, out in the Little
, Heart valley, "Iowa," It aleady has
a hotel, postof6ce, two stores and
several other building enterprises.
Senator Hansbrough is a hard work
er for North Dakota interests-and he
keeps everlastingly at it, and achieves
something, too, much to the chagrin
! of his enemies. -Cavalier Chronicle.
William Wilson, who was arrested
at Jamestown for forgery, says he
forged checks on a Canadian bank to
be revengei upon the Canadian govern
Z ment for having Jailed him for horse
stealing, of which he was guiltless.
Thirty thousand Norwegian emf
grants are booked to sail for the
United States during the current
year. That sort Of emigration is we'll
worth having, and the northwest will
get the lions share.
Harvey Herald: Fargo's fire festi-
val will not be held this year. Seine
of the Fargo business men say the
festival is a pesky nuisance anyway,
and they would rather the visitors
wouldn't come this year.
Judge MCGEE, of the Minneapolis
\ district court, many years ago a loya
practitioner Of Devils Lake, is to oper
court this week in Moorhead fol
Judge Baxter, who was called to Yer
: mont by the illness of his father.
1. NJ. Davis, the Minot coal baror
and manager of the Minot telephon,
exchange, is now branching out, ant
building a long distance telephone
; system, reaching out from Minot t,
Portal, Devils Lake, Williston ane
Harvey.
The insurance fakirs are doins
business numerously around the state
and appear to have no trouble in en-
rolling victims by the score. The in
surance commissioner will have hi!
hands full if he takes care of the PEG.
pie who are doing business in this linz
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It is estimated that the fax acreage
in Towner county will be nearly
twice as large as last years. Al
enormous number of horses have beer
sold to new settlers, nearly all o
= whom are engaged in breaking VI
land for fax. The wheat crop will
probably be 35 per cent less than las
year.
The celebrated author, Ralph Con
nor, author of the delightful Canadian
stories, Black Rock, Sky Pilot, an
others, is to be present at the meetin;
of the Presbytery at Cavalier tn
second week in June. Ralph Como
, or C. w. Gordon, is a Presbyteria
minister in charge of a church i
Winnipeg.
Program Of events for the state fire
mems tournament at Valley City, t
2 be held on June 3, 4 and 5, are out
The business meeting of the associatio
will be on the first day, and the val
ious races and contests the other tw
days. Valley City people are gettin
ready to give the iremen the time
1 their lives. I
Cavalier Chronicle: North Dakot
is already conceded to be the brea
basket of the world. If the COWS kee
on giving milk and the good work {
erecting creameries continues, tn