Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-05-25
BRIEF. news ITEMS
Happenings Throughout the
State TelssIy Told.

Forks June 81 and % and upon that
occasion local Elks anticipate they
will entertain 1000 of the antlered
herd. Preparations for the gathering
are being made with that crowd in
view and every feature will be
planned on a scale that will provide
entertainment for all. A year ago the
state Elk association was organized
at a meeting held in Grand Forks and
it Vas determined at that time that
the first annual gathering should take
place in Grand Forks. 1t is for this
first annual general session hat ar
engagements are now being made. At
the present time there are nine Elk
lodges in North Dakota, those in adj
dition to Grand Forks being located at
Fargo, jamestown, Valley City, Bis
marck, Dickinson, Williston, Minot
and Devils Lake. From each one of
those cities there will be delegations
of about 100 members, while other
Elks are expected from points in
Northern Minnesota.
A change in the time of the annual
meeting of the North Dakota County
Auditors association has been made,
June IA and Is being the new dates
that have been decided upon. This
session takes place in Devils Lake
and had been fixed originally for June
6 and Z, but it has been found that
the new dates will be much more
practicable and therefore the change
is made. Within the next few days
the program for the annual session will
De completed and announced by the
committee having the matter in
charge. One Of the most important
matters for discussion by the associa-
ton is that of the new laws passed
by the last legislative assembly, with
special reference to their effect upon
the duties of the county auditors.
Rapid approach of the time when
they will be matched with the Ham
line field and track men has spurred
the North Dakota thinly clads to ac-
tive work. On May 81 the two in
situations meet at Hamline, while on
June 3 the North Dakota Agricultural
college track men come to Grand
Forks. Prospects at the university
are for a very good team this yea
G. O. Stee is %captaining the aggrega-
ton and working with him for places
in the events are Dahl, Kemerer, Rob
ertson, Mcknight, Barnes, Hemp, Gull
dickson, Chittick, Owen, McFadden,
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mum and Zipoy.
Through resolutions passed by MI
not Socialists Arthur Leseuer, one of
their number, is requested to resign
as president of the board of city COM
m~issioners. The Socialists in their
resolutions make the charge that the
church people and a majority of citi-
zens are Indifferent to moral govern
ment. They assert that Leseuer in
his present position is unable to en-
force the law. They say they do not
want him identified with an unlawful,
immoral government. l.. G. McGahan,
leader of the Leseuer opposition and
a police commissioner, says the city
was never better morally than now.
With the appointment by Judge C.
A. Pollock of Miss Lillian Grace Top
ping, superintendent of the Florence
C%rittenden home at Fargo, as juve-
nile officer for the Third district OF
North Dakota, an active campaign for
the care of boys and girls under the
age Of eighteen years was inaugural
ed. The appointment is the second
of the kind to be made in the state,
Judge Cowan of Devils Lake having
recently appointed Miss Stevens in his
district.
Former Speaker Twitchell of the
North Dakota house of representa-
tives, a member of the Flickertaii del
egatiun in Washington opposing the
Canadian reciprocity pact, declared IN
there appeared to be a strong POSSIBLE
ity Of defeat of the measure. Opposi-
ton is growing stronger, he said, with
administration senators admitting
their mistake.
John H. Roddy of Fargo took three
fcurths of a pound of paris green.
Doctors worked on him for hours, but
he had absorbed SO much of the poison
he died. He was sixty-four years old.
He moved to Fargo about eleven
years ago from De Graft, Mimi, and
operated a dray line. No cause is as.
signed for his act.
Work in the enforcement of the
prohibition law of the state, as a part
Of the mission of the North Dakota
Enforcement league, has charm for
Rev. j.. l.. Watkins, pastor of st. Paul
Methodist Episcipol church in Dick.
inson. who has resigned to enter into
the active work of the league.
The local committee of the United
Commercial Travellers signed a con.
tract with representatives of the Cur.
tbs company for flights at the big Unit.
ed Commercial Travellers convention
at Fargo next month";. Curtis him.
self will be there to make flights.
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