Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-10
%N0RTAWESTNEWS| BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Events Throughout the STATE
TerseIy Told.

Mrs. Pearl Blough of Minneapolis
has assumed the position of police ma
iron at Grand Forks, the position hav-
ing been recently created by the city
council. She has been closely &C.
quainted with similar work in Min
neapolis police department, having
worked with Mrs. Emily Glorieux, the
Mill City police woman, for some time.
The election of Mrs. Blough WIS
brought about through the instrument
atty of Grand Forks club women,
many of them being interested in the
police matron work.
R.. S. Reed, one of the enterprising
farmers of Fort Rice, has demonstrate
ed that a man can make a very good
living off of a small patch of ground.
Without the use of any farm machin-
cry whatever Mr.. Reed has devoted
his time to the cultivation of onions.
This year his crop has run 235 BUSH
els to the acre and he has sold his
product for 1925 per bushel. This
makes a very good return and it is
said there are more farmers in that
section who will go into onion rails
ing next year.
North Dakota must have thousands
of men at once. The state is facing a
crisis and the cry, "help wanted" is
coming with insistence from every
part of the state. Many t%hreshing ma
chimes are lying idle and many others
oro uorCino with ho1f npaUc ond
thousands upon thousands of acres of
grain in the shock have not yet been
touched. So grave. has the situation be-
come that every agency that can be
interested in getting assistance is be
ing urged to do all in it's power to
help.
Beach, a village of 1000 people, two
and a half miles from the Montana
border, is going to be the largest pri-
mary grain market in the United States
this year, which means that it will be
the largest in the world. 1t is esti-
mated the place will receive 5000, 900
bushels of grain direct from the men
who raised it. There are several sta
lions between Mandan and Beach that
will take 100000 bushels each the
present season. The crop is immense.
Members of the Women's Christian
Temperance union, who were holding
a meeting in the courthouse at Devils
Lake, witnessed the hearing, plea and
sentence of a man charged with violat-
ing the prohibition law of the state.
Judge Cowan entered the courtroom
and telling the women not to leave,
called the defendant, who pleaded
guilty. The Judge them sentenced the
man to ninety days in the county jail
and to pay a fine of $40.
Selecting Lisbon for the next meet
ing the state w. C. T. U. convention
at Devils Lake adjourned with the
election of following officers: Pres
ident, Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Ander-
son, Valley City; vice president, Mrs.
Albert Best, Fargo; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. B. H. Wylie, Drayton;
recording secretary, Mrs. Necia Buck.
| Starkweather; delegate to national
convention in Portland, Ore, Mrs. Abb
bic Best, Fargo.
Conductor Peter Laflame was held
up and robbed at Minot the third time
in his life. He says he knew just ex-
| actly what to do to avoid trouble. He
gave up everything he had, willingly,
and was rewarded with the order to
"get out" Joseph Beaudry was with
him and he, too, was robbed, the gun
men netting about 500.
The many friends Of Professor A..
H. Beaver, for years a member of the
fa~~Ity Of Fargo college, will be
panied to learn of his death in Mon.
tara. He had been suffering for some
TINA with a nervous malady, which
was largely responsible for his leav-
ing Fargo.
Cottage hotel at Sanborn burned
to the ground, the fire catching from
a barn, a few feet from the north end
of the building, in which the fire
started from unknown origin. The
fire burned very slowly and all guests
were given plenty of time to get out.
Grain being delivered by farmers in
Grand Forks shows marked effects of
the long rain period. The grain is off
color, the grades being low. The first
grain marketed was very bad, but with
the continued good weather there has
been a gradual improvement.
Milo Maschka, the ~eight-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Maschka
of Kenmare, was shot and instantly
killed when a small rife he was
parrving was accidentally DISCHARGED.