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

+ Lankin has some of the neatest
stores in the state according to re
port Of the pure food inspector.
The new city hall at Glendale is
about completed and will be occupied
this week. '
Filing Illness of near Davenport dis
located his shoulder while operating
a hay stacker.
The Joseph Ellingson separator was
totally destroyed by fire while at work
in the vicinity of McHenry.
Work has started on the new city
hall and Jail at Cayuga. The cement
wall is in and the brick work has
started.
While engaged in hauling gravel fol
the Milwaukee railroad in the vicinity
of Leith, Spas Todsraff fractured his
left leg.
Miss Margaret Thomson of Mimic, a
telephone operator was quite badly IN
jured in fall which she received al
the telephone Office.
Two little girls at Fessenden fell
from a porch on which they were
playing and each sustained a fractur
ed arm.
1t is reported that the Great North
ern railroad will reinstate the "dinky
service. The Walhalla train will be
made up at Grand Forks instead of
Grafton.
The w. w. Snyder farm residence
in the vicinity of Forbes was COM
pletely destroyed by fire. 1t was occu-
pied by Ernest Haberman. All the
household goods were saved.
Oscar Buschman of Mandan who
was at that city for some time posing
as veterinarian was arrested charg-
ed with forgery, and held for the
grand jury at Chicago.
There was bad prairie fire in the
vicinity of Russo. The fire travelled
several miles before being brought
under control and a considerable
amount of hay was burned. 1t is sup
posed that the fire started from 500
The Ed Saunders barn at Glendale
was completely destroyed by fire
which is thought to have originated
from matches and a small boy. The
horses and carriage were saved from
the building but many other things of
value, were destroyed.
T. R. Trinder and Atty I. C. Fennin-
ger were in an automobile accident
near Steele, in which Mr. Fenninger
was quite badly injured. The lights
on the car went out and the driver
hit large rock in the road which
turned the car over and pinned Mr..
Fenninger under the machine. Mr..
Trider was not so badly hurt. q
E. J. Taylor, state superintendent of
public instruction, was in Grand
Forks on Wednesday enroute to May
Vile where the first of series of
of the North Dakota State
Normal school board of control wa.
held. The purpose of the three meet
ings which were held on successive
days at Mayville, Minot and Valley
City is to make estimates of the
needs of the several institutions for
the coming year.
Another body was taken from the
river yesterday afternoon, at Fargo,
near the Butttes farm south of the
city. This is the third man to be
found in the river in the last few days
one other unidentified body and that
of T. B. Dawson of LaMoure, being
found Sunday.
Mr.. Roderick of Havana had a mar
row escape from death when he was
thrown from buggy, the team at
tached to which was running away,
and was thrown into a barbed wire
fence. The barbs nearly severed his
jugular vein.
The Thorne department store and
the local drug store were destroyed by
fire. The fire started from an over.
heated furnace in the drugstore, the
; loss on which, both contents ano
buildings was completed. Some of the
department stores stock was saved
The total loss is about $4,000.
! A prairie fire starting five miles
north of Plaza, swept the countr,
north to the Great Northern, burning
many stacks of grain and hay. A
farmer by the name of Simonson los
nine stacks of grain and Cecil Bircl
lost six. TIE fire is said to have start
ed by two farmers who were making
fire-break around their hay; the fir,
got beyond their control and in few
hours many farmers were out fghtin!
it to save what they could.