Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-06-04

The Washburn chautauqua opens on
June %, and extensive preparations
are being made at that town for the
opening Of the event and of making
it a success.
The Masonic lodge at Velva has de.
cided to hold its annual picnic on st.
Johns day, June %. Invitations will
be issued to the lodges in the sur
rounding towns.
J. B. Peterson, president of the
school board ofnLeeds, has been maxi
ing a test of the y e of the school
children and found that so per cent
of the pupils have some kind Of eye
trouble.
AS the result Of an unfortunate ac-
cident in a ball game at Pleasant
Sunday, George Taylor, son of J..
Dighton Taylor OF Sherwood, had the
small bone in his left leg fractured
at the, ankle.
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The b~accalaureate address to the
Dickinson graduating class will be
given by DR.. J. M. Walters of Fargo,
at the high school on Friday evening.
There are Is to graduate, - girls
and three boys.
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During an electric storm at Min
%neWaukan lightning struck the judges
stand in Prospect park, badly damag-
ing it. Another bolt ran along a wire
fence and ignited the grass and a prai-
rie fire was narrowly avcrted.
Mrs, Matilda Weible, aged AZ years
died at a Fargo hospital, May 81.
She is survived by a husband and
four children to mourn her death.
She was the wife of Charles Weible,
q prominent New Rockford resident.
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Campbell Bros, who have the con
tract for the laying of cement walks
around the Normal school building at
Minot, will begin work on the con
, struction at an early date. The con
tract calls for something like $4,000
square feet.
The annual meeting Of the board of
trustees Of Fargo college will be held
at Jones hall, Tuesday morning, June
Is, at 10 o'clock, and at 10:30 o'clock
the same morning will be held the
annual meeting of the board of in
corporators of Fargo college, also in
Jones hall. ~
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The annual fair OF the Missouri
Slope Fair Association at Mandan,
will be held in Mandan September 2S,
20 aand 80, c.. +. M~assingham was
elected president for the coming year;
P. W. Tobin, vice president; L. H.
Connolly, secretary, and D. T. Tay-
Tor, treasurer. -,
Deputy F. e. Elliott and Sheriff
Martin Olsen arrested a couple ana
turned them over to Sheriff Turner of
Grand Forks, to answer the charge
of robbing a; farmer of $3.50 there
The pair, going Under the name of
Andy and May Uller, were traced by
Deputy Elliott by a trunk which they
checked from Grand Forks last Tues.
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Surrendered fibyf one set of bonds
men, Harry Buck of schafer secured
new signers for his $500 bond and
is again at liberty OF ia charge of
cattle stealing. John Skaar claimed
to have lost seven or ieight head and
to have traced two Of them to South
st. Paul, where it is alleged they were
sold by Buck. The trial will occur
some time this month.
That the man who burned a big
barn at Emerson after stealing four
horses, also destroyed Alex Smiths
big barn near Gretna, is the belief
prevalent there. The Smith fire oc-
Cured two nights before the Emer-
son fire, two horses being stolel at
that time. 1t was SUPPOSED the horses
were cremated, but yesterday they
came back to the farm, evidently hay
ing broken away from the thief.
Smiths loss by the fire was $4,000.
The North Dakota Well Drillers'
association, the f1rst,of its kind in the
United States, was formed at the
Grand Forks Commercial club yester-
day morning, when temporary Of
ficers were elected. The permanent
organization will be perfected and a
constitution and bylaws will be adopt
ed. A. L. Brown of Grand Forks, or
iginator Of the association idea, was
chosen temporary chairman, and j.
R. Chalmers of Mott, Nd, was elect
ed temporary secretary.