The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-12-10
STATE NEWS.

If we use the present wisely we may
safely leave the future to take care
of itself.
C. w. Hartman, farm laborer, of
Minot, was robbed of all of his money
at the New York hotel when bold
marauder crawled over the transom
of his room and stole his pocketbook
containing two checks and a pair of
overshoes.
Federal Inspector R. E. Treacy de-
clared that the North Dakota Quaran-
tine for foot and mouth disease would
be raised at Mandan this week. The
Mandan and Jamestown stockyards
are now believed to be free from con-
tagion, after 26 days since the infect
ed cattle were found.
John Mutually aged II, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Daniel Mutually of Grand
Forks died Saturday afternoon at St.
Michaels hospital from wounds in
flicted a week previously when he was
accidentally shot by one of his play
mates.
The body of Paul Ringen who COM
mitted suicide by hanging near North
wood last Saturday night, was buried
in the Northwood cemetery last Mon
day afternoon. No inquest was held
in regard to the body, the evidence
plainly pointing to suicide.
The population of jamestown is
6,OO7, the figures being obtained from
the house-to-house canvass by George
P. Keister, the city expert directory
compiler. The census shows inc
growth in the past two years and the
new directory will be on, early in
January
The dead body of Lars Yokstad, a
homesteader living near Schafer was
found by his sixteen-year-old son
dangling from the end of chain from
the ridge log of the barn. Coroner
Human was notified and held an in
quest which resulted in verdict Of
suicide.
A woman never attempts to bake
bread unless she kneads it.
A prominent farm paper says that a
large udder does not always indicate
a good cow, they might have gone far
Their and stated that large head does
not always indicate smart man.
A man with an empty head Is better
off than the man who loses his head.
Adam never had occasion to try to
explain the presence of blond hair on
the sleeve of his coat.
The first number of the lecture
course at Darcy was given last Friday
night and was well attended. The en-
tertainment was one of the finest and
greatly appreciated by the citizens of
that town. The next number appears
January 4th.
| At a hearing in county court Alfred
st. Peter, transient Of Fessenden
appeared upon charge of bootleg.
ging and waving examination was
bound over for trial at the next term
of district court.
Il you want Glasses come here, for
our success is the best evidence that
We have the Skill, Brains, and Facili-
! ties for giving you better work, at
/ Buffers.
Decided steps are being taken by
the Commercial Club of Bismarck to
secure additional buildings to the In
! dian school.
/ Two charges of District Game War
den Hartung of Dickinson were
caught with the goods. They had been
/ trapping muskrat out of season and
also minks. They were fined heavily
A scandal monger is worse than a
rattle snake or anything that crawls,
as a reptile is only what nature made
it while the vile two legged creature
: is creation of the devil gathering a
crowd to go with him.
The domestic science girls of the
Darcy public schools gave very de-
licious dinner on Thanksgiving Day to
the High school and the teachers The
menu shows that they are quite far
advanced in their work.
Congressman Geo. M. Young has
the following letter from a man in his
district who desires a pension:
II got blood poison by being hit with
a hens eg wen cam back from the
frunt. The eg was not good. Wen you
send my penshun l want the deed
made so my wife can't get none of it
She throde the eg. She was rebel.
One by one Mrs. Christ Ohnstad of
Williston saved her children from
their burning house at the risk of her
own life. Severe burns on her face
and arms are proof Of her narrow es-