Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-12-09
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Events Throughout North Dakota
COnciseIy Related.

this month, the date of the gathering
not being definitely determined. The
purpose of the meeting is to formu-
late plans for the improvement of a
series of highways along the main
travelled routes in the southwestern
section of the state. A road expert of
the federal government will attend the
meeting and deliver an address. The
committee in charge will send out g.
900 invitations for the meeting. F. E.
Jacobs is secretary of the Commercial
clubs
After having been under the ban the
rod is again in vogue in Fargo public
schools. This action followed the re-
port of the teachers committee of the
board of education, which stated that
the abolition Of corporal punishment
has resulted disastrously to discipline.
1t was pointed out by the committee
that there have been several infrac-
lions of discipline since the abolition
and that on the day after the rod was
banished the boys of one school ap-
peared with clippings from the news
papers, relating to the action of the
board, pinned to their coats as badges.
Mrs. Jane Beck of Fargo was found
guilty in district court there of grand
larceny and sentenced to three years
in the state p~enitentiary. Mrs. Beck,
who figured in a manslaughter case in
Clay county, Minnesota, about a year
ago, was arrested on grand larceny
charges about a month ago. 1t was
charged that she had taken a sum Of
money from the pockets of a man who
roomed at the Beck place in Fargo.
According to railway statistics is
sued from Grand Forks headquarters
there were during the month of Octo-
Der 440 cars of immigrant movables
consigned to points in the Northwest
handled by the Minnesota Transfer
Railway company. Out of the total
number handled 69 cars were for North
Dakota, Wisconsin had so, Montana
81, Illinois 81, South Dakota IL and
Canada 9.
With $4,000 subscribed by two in
the committee in charge Of the plan to
erect a new Presbyterian church in
Mandan has raised a total of $4,000
in a brief campaign and it is conf
IDENTIFY anticipated that the total
sought, $4,000, will be obtained with
in a few days. Work ON the new
church will be commenced next spring.
MORALLY burned Mrs. Stephen Pitts,
living near Minot, was hurried into a
hospital to occupy a room adjoining
that of her husband, who had just
undergone an appendicitis operation.
Three hours after she reached the
hospital she died. Mrs. Pitts spilled
a can of kerosene on her clothes, the
oil taking fire from a kitchen range
about which she was working.
A veteran of General Sherman's
march to the sea, A. J. Wright, sew
enty-four years old, of jamestown,
dropped dead while working about the
yard of his home there. He had been.
afflicted with a cancerous growth for
some time. The veteran enlisted for
the Civil war in the Thirteenth Mich
igan infantry volunteers and served
during the entire war.
Miss Fora Centerwall, a teacher in
Missouri Ridge township, near Willis.
ton, was wounded seriously in the foot
when a shotgun in the hands of a pu-
pill was discharged accidentally. The
boy planned to shoot j~ackrabbits and
was loading the gun after school was
dismissed. The teacher was taken
RI a hOcnital at Wi11iStOn
In an attempt to keep an appoint
ment at La Moure, Professor Ray G.
Stinley, principal of schools at hide
pendence, was killed when he fell and
was run over by a freight train near
his school. According to evidence in
troduced at the c%oroner's inquest Stin-
ley missed the passenger train and
tried to catch a freight.
The record production OF Marquis
wheat in Southwestern North Dakota
is held by T w. Winter OF Hekton,
who has threshed a seventy-five-acre
field that averaged thirty-three bush
els an acre, the grain weighing sixty
five pounds a bushel. Winter has sold
the entire crop for seed wheat.
The opening Of a pimple on her
cheek with her finger nails resulted
in blood poisoning, causing the death
Of Miss Maude Dickerson, twenty-one
years old, telephone operator in a
Bismarck hotel. She was i'll only four
days.
So far as the state board of health
knows smallpox in North Dakota is
not at all serious. Quarantine regula-
lions are being observed, reports the
secretary, and there is no reason to
feel alarmed.
The first creamery to be established
in Mckenzie county will open at Char
bonneau next spring. Enough stock
has been sold and enough cows are
pledged to warrant its success.
Five years in the state penitentiary
was the sentence imposed on Frank
Carter, who pleaded guilty at Devils
Lake to a statutory ~oifense, abandon