Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-12-17
News of the State
The Medpra schools have been clos.
ed until aftef~C Christmas.

The electric light plant at Cayung;
has added a larger engine.
The Cooperstown Commercial clu,
gave a moving picture shoW.
The Cakes Times was dressed in
colored Christmas cover this week.
The Free Press at Fessenden comes
out with a colored Christmas cover.
The lodges over the state are busy
electing officers for the ensuing year
The fellow too handy with the guI
riddled a mail box in the vicinity o
Alice.
The school children will soon be
making the most Of tn e holiday va
cation
The Lidgerwood firemen will give
their fifteenth annual dance on De
cember 81.
Kildeer is to havena market day.
Williston is arranging for a munich
pal CHRISTMAS tree.
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The annual farmers institute of La
Moure county was held in the opera
house at LaMoure.
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New desks have been ordered fol
the Velva school, in order to take
are of new pupils. Y
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The city council al Langdon has ar
ranged to keep the sidewalks free OF
snow-when the snow ZONES.
Enoch Fatland. formerly of Walcott.
has enlisted in the Canadian army
and gone to the front in Europe.
Michael Good OF Regent has filed
on 40 acres of land adjoining John
GQeury's farm near Black Eutte.
The city council at Sheldon discus
sed the proposition of purchasing the
Protestant cemetery at that place.
The building for a large general
store at kildeer is about completed
and will be open for business shortly,
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The barber shop at Havana is un
dergoing a number of notable I'M
provements at the hands of its new
owner 80
A wagon containing roo pounds OF
dynamite passed through Center
People of that town have begun tC
return to their homes
a. g.
Brick for the new Milwaukee de-
pot at Glendale has arrived there
Building operations will be started as
soon as spring opens up.
There are six criminal and "a civil
cases on the docket of the district
court of Benson county for hearing
during the December term.
Jack Hill, the telephone nan O
Mott, of a few months ago, vas kill
ed by touching a live electric wire a
Charleston, Okla, recently.
At Napoleon, a man by the name Of
John Drews a bound over to the
district court on the charge of main
tanning a common nuisance.
The young men of Makoti have
formed a club and will spend the win
ter playing basketball and INDUCING
in other sports and ~amusements.
Fire in the First National bank
building at LangdoA caused a heavy
loss to a millinery store that occupied
the rear portion of the building.
The p~ostoffice at Saltwater, in Cav
alier county, has been re-established
after having been closed for about
year. R. R. Larson is the postmaster
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The school children of Olga in Cav
alier county will give a Christina:
program in both English and French
This is better than some colleges car
do.
The band at Lidgerwocd gave con
certs at the various street corners ii
that town for the benefit of a large
number Of farmers who were shop
ping there.
Seven carloads of Ford autOmo
biles were unloaded at Williston las
week. A number of the cars have
already been sold. The farmers are
the buyers.
Six hundred tulips have been plant
ed in the park at Kenmare. The peo
pie there will begin enjoying flower!
at the time when most parks are be
ing seeded.
The married people of Milton and
vicinity are going to organize a "hik
ing" club. They believe that auto
riding may be pleasant but not con
ducive Of health.
The sewer contractors at Lidger
wood have had some difficulty put
ting down the pipes owing to a large
number of big boulders struck in one
block in the town.
Walter Kurschinski of Forest River
was thrown several feet when a gas
cline torch, he was using to thaw ou'
a water tank. exploded. The mar
was also badly burned.
Roy Ellsworth of Havana lost three
fingers of his left hand when the
members became entangled in the
gears of a corn husking machine. Al
three fingers were pulled off at the
second joint.
At a meeting at Garrison twenty
men donated $4,000 in two minute:
fer the purpose Of continuing the bet
ter farming work in Mclean county
The association has just closed 1T