The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-12-24
NEWS OF THE STATE

The president of the State U. and
the Bismarck Tribune have locked
horns, for write fest.
Warmer weather is reported.
Vacation is fast approaching and
Christmas not far away.
If you can't do that shopping early
then do it as early as you can.
An old bachelor says that a mar
:1age certificate is moose paper.
1t always pays to make another ef--
fort, seeming failure is sometimes a.
big factor in success.
Joseph Hickel Of Ray stepped of a.
sidewalk. breaking one of the bones of
his right leg, between the knee and
ankle.
Agent Hatch of the Milwaukee at
New Leipzig had a foot badly injured.
when he dropped box of merchandise
upon it.
The Burnley cheese factory of Far
60 has shipped between two and three.
thousand pounds of cheese to the var
ious state institutions.
The new Congregational church at
Ignite was dedicated Sunday. Dec. Is
with appropriate services. This wilA
be valuable addition to the city.
The 400 sacks of flour which Wah-
peton citizens subscribed for the Bel
gian relief fund, were shipped in the
full car load over the Great Northern
route last Tuesday morning.
During the past week, brick for tho
new Milwaukee depot at Forbes has
been unloaded in the Milwaukee yards
AS soon as spring opens up work
will continue on the new depot.
Fourteen thousand insurance agents.
licenses to be issued in North Dako-
ia during the coming year will have
to carry ten cent war tax. accordin>
to the ruling of the federal authori.
ties.
c. Convey Of Fort Yates has been
named an agent of the department Of
Indian affairs for the Standing Rock
reservation, to succeed A. H. Kneale.
He will arrive and take charge of the.
Office the first of the year.
Two automobiles crashed head-on at
the eastern end OF Valley street at
Minot. A man by the name of Zapp
OF Velva being slightly injured. Zapp,
was given medical aid at the home Of
Thomas West where he remained for
the evening.
When spring comes the city of Man
dan will be lighted by ornamental
standards. A white way for this city
is promised by the commission if the
citizens will endorse their action. The
total expenditure will be around s1v.-
900. ....... ...
Napoleon Petit of Mandan, for fif.
teen years in charge of the bridge
construction and repair work ia tho
Yellowstone division Of the Grea,
Northern succumbed recently to an at
tack of paralysis induced by a fall
from bridge.
H. E. Black of Cooperstown was &C.
verely burned about his left hand and
arm Saturday night. He was lightins
gas lamp and cap came off, allow
ing the air and gasoline to escape
Which resulted in an explosion. His.
little girl was also badly burned.
Sheriff Ross of Fargo returned this
week from Montana with Ernest O.
Swanson who was wanted at tina,
place for desertion and non-support.
Swanson who left there last July was
picked up by the Bozeman authorities.
who communicated with the local.
sheriff's Office.
Yegmen, using nitroglycerine, crack
ed the safe of E. J. Thompson's gen.
eral store at Coulee, near Kenmare.
They obtained $35 in cash and 5000
worth of jewels. Townspeople awak.
ened by the explosion made no effort
to apprehend the safeblowers who es-
capped in an automobile.
The fire department of Cooperstown
was called out recently in response to.
call from P. J. Tang's restaurant
where the gasoline coffee heater sup
ply tank had become ignited due to ca.
Gaping gas and blazed away furiously.
Before the arrival of the fire DEPART
ment extinguished the fire.
Engineer J. B. Warren of Mandan
suffered broken back and Fireman
Clark was severely injured yesterday
when the local passenger train that
they were pulling ran head on into a
switch engine and train in the North.
ern Pacific yards at that city. Some,
passengers on the train were cut ana
bruised.
The Mayville Normal school is pre-.
pairing for a decided increase in en-
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