The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1915-08-26
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San Francisco, CAL Mabel B.
Barnes, a waitress, spilled soup on the
shirt-front of Charles D. Powell, mil
Ionaire Birmingham business man.
She blushed and .apologized. Their
eyes met. They will be married soon.
Berkeley, Cal.-Beatrice Willard, Z
year old daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Leon Willard, is "a mental marvel.
She spoke sentences, when 10 months
old. At 8, she wrote. At S she was
reading Stevenson and Kipling and
passed the Binet mental test for adj
ults. At 7 years, with less than a
years schooling, she is ready to enter
high school.
Denver, Col.-Pearl Sharpe Frank
lin, white wife of a full-blooded negro
!" is trying to prove that she is a negress
SO that her white daughter may have
the right to marry a negro. The
woman's husband is opposing the mar
rage, claiming the girl is white and
should not marry a negro.
- Allentown Pa.-John L. Detweiler
,s,of shippack toMagsship and his wife are
both deaf. t. heiaa dog, however, seems
to know heirssAant1tiction, and warns
:. !. them when: the 1 hsui,tc;hee;r, the mail. car
RE. or, the bakearr.s Stops: at the. door.
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Washington, D. @C.-Ten thousand.
dollars was received by Secretary NJ
Adoo, accompanied by a letter stating
that the writer chad paid double 20 the
United States the amount. hi stole"
and this vas another payment to sat
isfy his conscience. The sum was the
second largest contribution eve re-
rceived for the conscience fund. =
.| Soaaithwespoorrt, tMass.1-Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Wing, married for fifty-two
years have spent fftyayears without
speaking to each other. They con-
verse through a third person on nee
essary matters. Neither will disclose
the. cause of their quarrel
"f ''... g.
Marmach, N. D.-While playing on
the railroad track, the 3-year old
daughter of a section forman was
knocked down by "a switch engine and
hh'SSaa aarrs pIassesAaoivnta:her without in
juring her.
Reading, Pa.-When Edwin Lies
man, instantly killed bys*ligh1ning,
was picked up and almost perfect
likeness of a tree was found in
minute. detail to"have been photo
graphed on his breast. The tree was
outside the window in which Ljcs,aan
was sitting when the bolt stru :k aim.
New Brunswick; N. John Whit
man was b%equeathed to his ;nothcr.jn-
law by his wife who died recently.
She specified in her will that he was
to take art of her mother for tile re-
mainder of her life, and that if: he re-
fused, the mother was to bring suit
against him for sixteen years Ct do
mestic service.
Davenport, Ia.-John H. Ohde, a
night mail distributor, looking thru
an old safe, accidently pressed a Sc
cret spring and. opened, "a conapar .ment
in which was &uhdd; $40 in" currency
and checks amounting to $4,000. The
safe was bought in Peoria forty-two
years ago.
-- a.: 6. $50
Topeka, Kas.-Sherman E. John
son, 7-year old SON Of Walter johnson
a Kansas newspaper man, issued q
children's daily newspaper. II con-
sists of one column and several ads Of
ice cream parlors. The ads are paid
for in trade. The paper, sells for. one
cent.
Doylestown, Pa.-Fifteen years ago
Mrs. George Baily Of Bristol stuck a
needle into her big toe. When it was
removed the other day it crlmbled to
pieces in the physicians fingers.
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MARKET REPORT.
Quotations for Thursday, Aug. 20
1916, as furnished by the Farmers
Min and Elevator Co., Devils Lake
North Dakota:
Wheat
No. / Hard "a 4 : /
No. 1 Northern .93
No. 2 Northern .92
No. 3 Northern .89
Durum:-