The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-09-19
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News Notes
Shields.-A modern school building
costing $500 has just been completed

Fargo. Inc only bank OF Perley,
Minnesota, was entered by yeggmen.
They took only a few stamps.
Grand Forks.-From a broken back.
which he received eighteen months
ago, when he fell from a scaffold,
Peter Bergman died yesterday.
jamestown, North Dakota.-James
Ronnelling, aged 10, vas accidentally
shot and instantly killed at his IA
theirs home by a younger brother.
Grand Forks.-J. A. Dinnie of Grand
Forks has been appointed by Thomas
B. Mills, grand exalted ruler of the
B. P. o. E., as the district deputy for
North Dakota.
Shields.-A record price for Dakota
range cattle was paid w. S. Parkin,
who recently shipped a. trainload to
Chicago. Seventeen head brought an
average of $14s each.
Carrington.-Fred Pomeroy, who was
captured at Red Wing, Mimi, last
week after breaking Jail here in July,
has confessed to giving a bogus check
In payment for an automobile.
Sharon.-Einar Jensen Of Duluth
was badly hurt when three men were
struck by lightning at the Gudmund
Gudmundson farm, where he has been
working. The other men were only
stunned.
Grand Forks.-F. H. Sprague of
Grafton, elected chairman of the state
Republican central committee at the
meeting last week, will not serve. He
, onn01,n00c chat
prompt him to decline the honor. The
executive committee of the state CEN
trail committee will name his success
sOr.
Devils Lake.-The first death result
ing from the cyclone which swept
over a portion Of this county occurred
when Sam Newell, 60 years old, died
from injuries he received. Newell
was sleeping in a barn in Webster
township when he was hit on the
head by a flying beam. Several others
who were injured in the storm are re-
covering.
Fargo, The city of Fargo has. de-
clared a dividend of, six and one-half
per cent payable to all taxpayers
March l, 1918. 1t is believed this is
first step of the kind ever undertaken
by a municipality. In his announce
ment of dividend, Mayor w. N. Sweet
says $4,000 has been saved the city
from sources outside taxation. Tax
payers will receive proportionate
shares in cash.
Hettinger. - Farmers of Adams
county are taking to the dairying in.
dustry in an enthusiastic manner
Several carloads of choice dairy
stock have been brought into the
county the past week through the co.
operative efforts of commercial clubs
and other agencies, the cattle are be-.
Ing sold to the farmers for what it
cost to bring them here. This plan
has resulted in interesting many land
owners in the dairying branch of
farming.
Fargo.-Three appraisers have been
appointed in probate court to appraise
the estate of the late Herbert F.
Chaffee, the Cass county millionaire,
who was lost on the Titanic last April,
When Chaffee went down with the
Titanic he carried his will in his
pocket, having drafted it anew only Z
few days previous. Mrs. Chaffee has
been named executrix. The value Of
his estate is estimated at $1,000, 900.
1t is the largest ever probated in
North Dakota.
Bowman. J.. Moore, sheriff of
Bowman county, his one time deputy,
Al. Anderson and Clerk of Court Gull.
erman were arrested by Sheriff Del.
kers, of Scranton. The charge against
Moore is that of allowing a prisoner,
Laben Woods, to escape, while euler.
man and Anderson are charged with
extortion, in that they solicited and
collected money from Thomas benson,
who was unlawfully engaged in sell.
ing liquor at Buffalo Springs, and who
is now serving sentence.
Fargo. - James c. Whalen, who
is a Fargo police commissioner,
will again look upon the comb.
nation of Friday and the thirteenth
day of the month as unlucky. 1t was
Whalen's birthday and he arose, think.
ing of the trouble which would be Ger.
tain to befall on this twice unlucky
day. Proving the old superstition
false, however, there arrived a tele-
gram from attorneys in Portland, Ore,
telling him that he would share in an
estate valued at $3.50 600, as one Of the
three heirs.
Fargo, North Dakota.-ORcials Of
the North Dakota Better Farming AS.
isociation are preparing to award priz.
es amounting to $500 in what is believ.
ed to be the largest corngrowing cor.
test ever conducted in any state. Five
hundred farmers have entered fields
of corn for the prizes and the work of
judging the quality of the crop will
begin at once. The corn is to be
Judged as it stands in the field, each
farmer selecting one acre as a basis
for his claims. Experts will SUPER
intend the cutting.
Williston.-Tom Dean, a we'll
known farmer living about twenty.
two miles south of Alexander, met
with a very severe accident while
putting up hay. MI. Dean was bunch
ing prairie hay with a bullrake. The