The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-11-05

NJ. S. King Of Rutland Will lnstall
an electric plant there.
Victor WARDROBE Of near Knox lost
most of his buildings by fire. A house,
barn and granary were destroyed. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
The water proposition is getting to
be serious one OF Inkster, as large
number of the wells have gone dry on
account of lack of moisture.
Lawrence Heath, a prominent Het-
finger county farmer, living in the
Mott vicinity died suddenly in his
chair at home reading. Apoplexy was
the cause.
A couple of youngsters were caught
in the act of robbing the granary OF
the w. H. Brown Co., at Mott. Con-
siderable grain had been missed and a
watch was set for the thieves.
The farm residence of Bert Living
ston, six miles from Kenmare, was TO-
tally destroyed by fire. The loss is
complete with household goods with
the exception of $500 dollars insurance
that was carried.
1t is reported that new rural route
with daily service is to be established
out of Buchanan which will serve a
hundred families between that town
and the Fried postoffice toward Spirit
wood lake.
Because he didn't like the sermon
the preacher preached, Dan Kuk of
Odessa, Morton county elected the pas
tor from the pulpit of the German
Evangelical church and got we'll start
ed on sermon of his own before the
members of the congregation could
forcibly remove him from the church.
After winning much money on the
worlds series of baseball games, Step
hen Constantine of Fargo began cele-
batting and frightened his wife from
her home. On her return the woman
found her husband dead with bullet
hole through his brain and a revolver
lying near his body.
William Dan, an Indian graduate of
Carlisle University and veteran of
Carlisle's football squad, was sentenc-
ed by Judge C. M. Cooley of Grand
Forks to a year in states prison for
forgery. When arrested Day was
drunk and the government is trying to
find out where he got the liquor.
Frank Wodnik of Minneapolis closed
a deal recently through H. v. Smith
for five acre tract in the Hefferman
quarter just east of Muddy bridge
near Williston and has commenced
the erection of tannery. The con.
sideration was seventy-five dollars an
acre. .s.S.
G. Olson of Sharon escaped death in
an attack by bull when he got hold
of the iron ring through the animals
nose after he had been thrown to the
ground and vigorously twisting the
ring creating such intense pain that
the bull forgot its attack and retreat.
ed.
Lansford is to have an electric plant.
The members of the commercial club
have raised the necessary funds.
A man by the name of Nyberg, who
has been threshing in the vicinity of
Riga in McHenry county, has been
missing for over a week and it is
feared that he has met with foul play.
Greek section laborers at Westhope
got mixed up in fight. One was hit
over the head with an iron bar and
another was taxed $3.50 in court for
the pleasure of doing the hitting.
Charles Olson of the stady vicinity
probably holds the state record for
corn production this year. He plant.
ed one and one quarter acres of flint
corn and harvested Us bushels of fine
corn from the patch. 49,.
Found hiding in the tall grass along
the railway track in Devils Lake Peter
Torcas, who killed Nick Triboynas in
the Greek section of Devils Lake, is
now in the Ramsey county Jail, await
ing an inquest. In his broken Ian
guage, Torcas maintains his innocence
: declaring that he did not know that
the shot gun was loaded.
News reached Page that fire had
started in the buildings on the Wal
dorf farm. No one was at home when
the fire started as the renters, the
Hollins family were in Erie, the fire
being noticed by the w. C. Joseph fam
lily on the west, and an alarm was Civ
en-. The stock was past recovery wher
the burning barn was reached. Ter
head of horses, fourteen mich cows
eleven calves, forty tons of hay, some
i feed and machinery besides the barr
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