Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-04-27
IN NORTH DAKOT'nt1 Brief NEWS ITEMS
Happenings Throughout the
State Terse|y Told.

Elaborate plans are being made by
the business men of Minot for the en-
\ tertainment of the members of the
Minnesota Automobile association on
che Dispatch trophy tour to Helena,
Mont, and the Flathead country In
August. The business men of the city
aretendeavoring to persuade the Min
nesota Automobiles to change the
schedule 10 as to spend a night in
Minot. \ According to the announced
schedulet,a run from Devils Lake to
| Williston is to be made in one day.
The Minot business men maintain that
the condition of the roads is such that
this distance of $50 miles cannot be
made in n day, and that the sched-
ule should be changed so as to spend
the night in Minot.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Haynes, pio-
neer residents Aof Grafton and hale
and hearty at the, ages of seventy-nine
and seventy-one years respectively,
have just celebrated their golden we'd
ding. The event took place at the
home of their only daughter, Mrs. H.
G. Sprague, and their only grand
children, Miss Cena and Vernon
Sprague served the wedding dinner.
The BRIDES maiden name was La
VIVA LaSaur and the wedding took
place at Rochester, MINI. Haynes
was a blacksmith and at the outbreak
of the Civil wal he enlisted in a Min
nesota regiment. They came to Graf
ton twenty-eight years ago and en-
some years ago.
The contest for the office of sheriff
of Richland county is before Judge
Pollock of Fargo, acting for Judge Al
len of the Fourth district. Some time
ago Judge Allen called in Judge Craw-
ford of Dickinson to sit in the case.
The latter decided that George E.
Moody had been elected sheriff and or
dered Sheriff Heley to put up bond to
reimburse Moody in case Moody won
out in the supreme court. The sixty
days allowed for Heley to appeal has
expired. The proceedings are to com
pei Heley to vacate and turn over rec
ords of office to Moody. Heley had
served one term and was defeated by
Moody for reelection by eleven votes.
Moody was sheriff some years ago.
AS two automobile parties we're
touring across the country neal Minot
the engines exploded and the cars
were destroyed. Not one Of the pas
sengers was injured. The car Of DR.,
Husser of Berthold caught fire near
the high bridge, west of the city. The
doctor drove it into a coulee in an at
tempt to save it, and got out just in
time to avoid a similar accident to the
a of County Superintendent Warren,
which exploded: while being driven by
w. C. McCune and William Wendt,
both of Minot.
While Mrs. J. E. Tschider of James
town was preparing her children for a
trip to a claim just taken by the fam
lily Johnny, aged 4, slipped away and
fell into an abandoned we'll. The fact
that some of the stones had fallen out
of the wall of the we'll and caught the
boy between them saved him from
probable death. A friend went down
the we'll and the little fellow was
hauled to the surface. He was unhurt
beyond a few scratches and in a few
moments was ready to start on the
trip.
The %adjutant general received a
letter from the war department to de-
tail two additional officers of the ma
tional guard to San Antonio for the
purposes of instruction, one medical
corps officer below the rank of major
and one adjutant. Captain R. A.
Thompson of Fargo is regimental ad-
jutant and Captain A. Mcdonald of
Valley City is ranking medical officer
of the grade specified, and they will
be given choice of the trip.
The St. Paul Symphony orchestra
won favor on tho occasion of it's first
appearance In Grand Forks, where it
flied a two-days' engagements at the
fifth annual spring musical festival.
Immense crowds, including 300
school children, heard the popular con
certs, and the Auditorium was the
scene of the most critical audiences
ever gathered in that city. Many Wis
itors from surrounding cities were in
attendance.
Seeding in the western part of the
state is general and the acreage will be
large. The noticeable feature of the
work is that better farming methods
are being employed by even the big
farmers, most of them dragging as
soon as the seed is in the ground with
the idea of conserving the moisture,
the assertion being made that there
Is almost enough now in the earth to
insure a crop.
The Grand Forks Commercial club
has called a big meeting for the pur-
pose Of considering the question OF
creating a central slaughter house.
This proposition has been up for dis
cussion in Grand Forks for several
years and at last there are indica
lions that it will be pushed to success.