Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-08-29
News ofthe State

The First State bank Of Mott has
increased its capital stock to 100000
Judge Fisk has the Stanley-Paler
! mo, AMountrail county seat fight un
der advisement.
The News at Wimbledon thinks
auto speeders should sell their ma
chimes and buy high speed airships,
WI. Anderson a progressive farmer
Of hickey county, is building himself
a modern house to cost about $4,000.
Representatives:of the Commercial
club sof Grand Forks are making a
tour of Pembina county, inSautos this
week.
Information is out that the Crest
Norther will IN Nos. q and %, the
fast mail, over the Surrey cutoff
about the first of the month.
Miss Minnie Knecht was recently
elected president, and Miss Irene Cox
secretary of the alumni association
Of the high school at Wimbledon.
The first load of new wheat re-
ceived at the Bowman flour mill tested
sixty POUNDS to the bushe1. It came
from a farm twenty.six miles from
the village. 49,.
Crosby has always made good with
annual market days and The Eagle
urges the farmers and business men
to begin the planning of one for the
coming fall.
There is to be a county fair at
Mott, under the auspices of the Het-
finger County Fair association which
was organized last week with L. H.
Conradson president.
Hail storms have caused losses of
crops in sections Of Burke and Rem
vile counties from Is to so per cent.
A number of slight losses have been
reported in Divide county.
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The Calavier Milling company have
been rebuilding the wheat pit of
their mill and making other improve
ments to the mill and otherwise get
ting ready for the big new years bust
ness.
As a grain market Shields, Morton
county, has the advantage over the
n%eighboring towns north and west
as th46e is a dow ngrade and good
roads from practically every. direction.
Morris Carlson met with an acct
dent at Wade Tuesday evening of
having The little finger on his right
hand cut off while adjusting a mower
sickle. The adjoining finger was also
nearly severed.
According to their recent state
ments of conditions the two national
banks at Wimbledon show deposit
lines amounting to $215,921 and loans
and discounts $191, 1O1-figures before
the fall movement of wheat began.
Nearly a decade ago sample of
high grade writing papers we're be-
ing exhibited in eastern centers, and
at Fargo, which were made from
pulp manufactured fom fat fiber made
in fiat fiber mills then in operation
in Fargo.
A tennis tournament was in prog
ress in Crosby during the week, and
the players from out of town who
participated in the events were
Messrs. Mcintyre, White, Peterson
and Schmidt of Donnybrook. The
visitors captured all the prizes.
F. r. Babcock, in charge of the
cereal work, and Arthur Ogaard, car
rying on dry farming experiments at
the sub-experiment station at Willis.
ton, left Sunday for North Platte,
Neb., to attend am Getting of the Great
Plains cooperative Experiment asso-
citation.
The Williston land office has re.
ceived official notice of the opening
Of additional lands under the enlarged
homesteadsact, recently made by the
department of the interior. E'y this
order the office is now authorized to
receive additional entries under this
act. Already a number of filings
have been made for land thus opened
for entry in this district.
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The Eenterprise at Shields SAYS
the hot weather the past ten days
is maturing corn fast, although the
hail Mnoday seripped the stalks in
plfSes.,s With frost holding off a few
more days the corn crop is safe,
While the past month has been a
little dry, yet all corn is cared ont
nicely and southern Morton county
| will harvest the biggest corn crop in
it's history.
The stock. yard building crew Of
the Great Northern are at eNw Rock
ford and the work of erecting the
stock yards has commenced. The
yards will be immense ones with
th%irty-eight chutes, and will accom-
modate from sixty to seventy car
loads Of stock. Primarily the stool
yards will he used for the feeding o
stock in transit from Montana ant
western North Dakota to eastern