Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-04-12
News ofths Stats

All the barber ships in Devils Lake
have been unionized.
The exodus to Norway for the. CEN
tennial festivals has begun.
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More pure blood Polled.Angus cat
tie and Chester.White hogs have been
imported into Morton county.
There were only two jury cases
tried at the spring term OF the dist
riot court for Towner county. b
There are said to be six candidates
in the field for the Office Of commits.
sioner Of agriculture and labor.
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The Leland hotel at Minot will be-
reconstructed. 1t is planned to make
this hotel the finest in the state.
The women OF Devils Lake have
petitiQned U. S. Senator La Toilette
Q to speak in their town on woman's
suffrage.
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Cash prices a%ggregating 1928 wilt
be offered to farmers Of Williams
county who grow tho best corn and
alfalfa.
Walhalla boasts five rural delivery
routes and two star route deliveries
which is more than any other town
in the state. :
Two quarter section farms were
sold Il day of two ago near Caring
ton, one for $1,000, u~nimproved, and
tho other for $3.50 an acre.
IT,. More than 200. acres, of potatoes
will be planted by the farmers near
Sheldon. This is a result of the pota-
to meeting held there recently.
in the go Years Agon'' column in
the jamestown Alert is the following:
ice in the Missouri river went out
quietly at Bismarck on March 10th.
The Gascoyne' Advance says that
spring conditions in that part OF
Bowman county are considerably
more encouraging at the beginning of
April this year than they were in
1918. "E.
A chemical fire cxtinguisher and a
prompt response OF the fire boys saw
ed a home at Maxbass from destruc.
ton. A combination of a little girl
and some matches was the cause OF
the trouble. -, .. w. 70
An ambitious concert program was
given under the auspices of the Meth
odist church at 1nkster. There was
some orchestra music and a splendid
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The postofice at Grand HarbOr was
robbed last week and Geo. McDevit
has confessed to- the robbery. He
says he did it when he was drunk.
He secured q Httles over 800 but the
government recovered the money.
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This year will witness a large in
crease in the acreage sOwn to corn
and alfalfa. The farmers are rapidly
learning how to sproperly plant and
cultivate the corn and alfalfa crops
and also to realize their value as a
fodder crop. @~s
T, Somebody at Gasc0Xne was mean
enough to steal a%:quantity of lumber
from the front door of the COngrega-
tional church. The material al some
that was to be used In connection
with repair work which was being
done and had been bought by the.
Ladies' Aid society.
The Pingree Patriot: AS an extra
inducement to the farmers children
in this vicinity to kill the gophers the
Pingree State bank will give a prize
of So to the one turning In the larg.
est number Of tails at the bank dur
ing the 1914 season; the prize of 81
to the n turning in the second larg-
est.
i The Tribune at EdinDurg is ver:.S
complimentary towards the Farmers
club at Conway, which 1t says is a
live and very active organization. 1t
meets regularly and has always a
good attendance because its meetings
are both interesting and instructive.
The. commercial club at Devils
Lake will run a special train on the
Condo branch, 10 accommodate the
hundreds who will attend the con,
certs to be given by the Minneapolis
Symphony orchestra, when the crack
musical organization appears at Dew
lis Lake, April 16.
The new steel bridge that the Cana
dian Northern is building across the
Red river at Emerson is meeting
with objection from the people of the
gateway city. IT seems that the drive
ways are too narrow, only IL feet
wide and the railing which are about
four feet high are too low.
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The Wilton News: The first
thunder and rain shower Of the sea,
son arrived Wednesday afternoon and
from the appearance of the, sky for
q few minutes, ono would be led to
believe that SUMMER was here for
sure; the rain was of short duration
however, and Thursday morning the
temperature took a decided drop.
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An enterprising young lady who op-