Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-06-01
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Happenings Throughout the
State TerseIy Told.

the senior class at the University of
North Dakota, Miss Myrtle Burns of
Crystal sa%lutatorian, Miss Alma Tive
to OF Grand Forks class historian and
Miss Margaret Haskell of Bottineau
class poet. Plans for the senior pill.
grlmage have also been made, re-
sponses to be made for the senior class
by President Frank LANCER, William
Greenleaf, Miss Myrtle Burns, Miss
Lila Harvey, Leslie Sutherland, Axel
Ottedahl, Miss Margaret Haskell,
Miss Jennie Belle Lewis, Lawrence
Fisher, Miss Emma Slingsby, Ernest
Nesdahl and Reuben Stee.
Significant honors have come to the
University of North Dakota in the
granting of a charter by the national
fraternity for a chapter of Delta Sig,
ma Rho, a fraternity that only recog-
n1zes as members debaters and ora
tors who have represented their in
situations in intercollegiate events.
Tuesday, June Is, has been set as the
date for installation and National Sec
rotary Stanley B. Houck will come to
the institution for that occasion. Ten
young men are eligible and with the
alumni debaters and orators will make
up the charter membership.
With a banquet at which the speak.
ers were James Buchanan, Rev. r. A.
Beard, DID,, and Rev. G.. c. Creegan.
DID,, president of the Fargo college,
the annual gathering of the Congrega-
tlonal churches of the Fargo district,
which was in session in Hillsboro two
days, came to a close. Every church
in the district was represented by an
official delegate. The chief speakers
were Rev. Samuel Hitchcock of Hope,
Rev. Willard Crosby Lyon of Valley
City, Rev. Rudolph G. Mueller of Har-
wood, and Rev. l.. E. Spangenburg of
Oriska.
When Dale Kennedy of the Grand
Forks high school won the state in
terscholastic defamation contest
there the Grand Forks school COM
pleted a remarkable series of victories
in which it has captured two field
meets and three of the most important
defamation contests for high schools
CT North Dakota. Dale Kennedy took
he honor in the boys contest, while
Miss Mildred Hildreth of Fargo took
first place in the girls contest. How
ard Hutson of Minot and Ruth Coop
er of Casselton took second places.
A convention to boost the "conser-
walton of country life" movement was
held at Erie. The moving spirit of
the whole was Rev. H. P. Schell of
Erie, who originally conceived the idea
OF holding the convention. More than
400 persons were in attendance at the
different sessions of the convention.
Eleven addresses by prominent men
of the state were features. A tennis
match was held and a baseball game
between Erie and Galesburg came off,
Galesburg winning by a score of z
to s.
The second automobile party to
meet with disaster neal Grand Forks
was that of Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Healy
of C%rookston, Mimi, when their car
overturned on a highway about a mile
and a half from the city. One of the
wheels flew off, the car skidded into
the ditch and turned on it's side, while
the occupants were all dumped against
a barbed wire fence. Mr.. and Mrs.
Healy, Mrs. Ed l.. Healy and Miss
Lenora Garceau we're in the car and
all were severely cut and bruised.
The case against G.. L. Bickford, the
former state treasurer, charged with
the embezzlement of 100000 while in
Office, has been transferred from Bis
marck, in the Sixth district, to Nc
Lean county, in the same district, and
Judge Crawford of Dickinson has been
called as presiding judge. When the
case was called for trial a change of
venue from Bismarck was asked for.
An affidavit of prejudice was filed
against Judge Winchester of the Sixth
district.
Plans are being laid by the James,
town w. c. T. U. for the annual con-
vention of the state organization in
that city in September. Appointment
OF committees to take charge of va
rious features of the work has been
made. The tri-county convention of
the union, comprising Stutsman,
Barnes and Griggs, will be held in
Valley City June IA and Is.
The petitions presented to the gov
ernor in the contest for county seat
honors in the county of Sioux, to be
formed out Of that part of the Stand
ing Rock reservation contained in
Morton county, have been gone over
by the committee appointed and, &C.
cording to the count, Selfridge has a
majority of more than 200 over Fort
Yates.
The tentative route to be adopted
by the Grand Forks Automobile club
in it's midsummer tour has been an
nounced. The autoists will make a
Iun from Grand Forks to Devils Lake
the first day; from Devils Lake to Mi
not the second day; from Minot to
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