Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-05-13
State News and Comment

A good roads day is proposed al
, New Rockford.
Ten cents a pint is being paid fol-
ringtOn.
In all probability the Minot city
commission will start an investigation
as to the feasibility of securing a pure
water supply for the city.
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The Reeve Farm market at Beach
gave 10 percent Of the cash sales to-
ward the support of the band at that
place. OF begins to look as though
Beach is going to get a band.
C. F. Corbett, Mayor; J. o. Milsten,
Frank Sharman. Ed Ehrle, and Max
Schwartz, aldermen, were elected at
the first election Of the newly incor.
poratd city Of Belfeld.
A redivision Of Minot into eight, in
stead Of six, wards is proposed by the
city commissioners. An ordinance
making eight wards was placed upon
its first reading at the meeting Of
the city commissioners recently.
Charged with stealing two horses in
South Dakota, A. Shupe was arrested
by Reeder officials and turned over
Shupe was employed on the Johnson
farm near ePnville, S. D., and disap.
peared with Johnston's riding horse
and saddle.
Work has commenced on the new
$4,000 Milwaukee depot at Glendale,
the company will erect there this
spring. A. H. Cosner of Minneapolis
has secured the contract for the job.
The building vii; be 25 by 10S feet,
constructed of hollow tile finished in
red stucco in the rough. The roof will
be of slate.
A drenchng rain, which came down
in torrents late Monday, continued to
make crop prospects look up in the
lake region. A terrific wind storm
preceded the rain, which came down
in blankets for a short time. The
ground is now reported in excellent
condition in this section Of the state,
the grain having rooted in fine shape.
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The Great Northern officials an
nounce that while a great deal of the
~right-of-way east Of here has been pur-
chased and paid for, there will be no
construction work east from this point
before the spring of 1917. The other
end of the connecting line at New
Rockford, may be started and be built
west at an earlier date. This insures
Watford as the terminal Of the pres.
ent line for at least two more years.
The alumni OF the. University Of
North Dakota are making plans for
the RECEPTION Of DR.. Webster Merri.
field of Pasadena, Cal, formerly pres
ident Of the university. DR.. Merrifiell
is to be in North Dakota at Com
mencement time, as the guest Of the
university and the alumni association.
Many alumni are making their plans
to be at the university at the time
of his visit. The former president
will speak at the Commencement din
ner and will be present at the Com
mencement program. An opportunity
will be given ALL university people,
alumni, students and professors, to
talk with DR.. Merrifield.
Grand Forks Shriners are preparing
4 great ceremonial session June IL
the date about 400 new Shriners will
be made-and which date will mark
the occupation, formally, by Ken
temple, of it's new home. Illustrious
P%atentate George Duis today announc.
ed the appointment of the list of Off.
GERS for the big event. The divan of
officials is one that insures the visit
ors, and it. is anticipated, there will
be about $500 Of them in the city,
the best kind Of a time. KEN temple
mobiles are preparing for the June Ger.
emonial on a basis more extensive
than ever employed previously. They
expect to make the celebration one
that will surpass all previous affairs
of the kind, and the following list of
officers ought to be conclusive of the
local temples ability to make good its
hopes.
The North Dakota Dental asocia-
ton began its annual session at Far.
go Yesterday. There is a large attend.
ance and the officers make the boast
that about 70 per cent of practicing
dentists of the state belong to the or.
ganizaton. DR.. Hegge Of Hatton is
president and responded to a vel
coming address by Mayor Emery and
later read his annual address, which
was followed by reports of officers.
New committees were name and some
routine business transacted. The
CHIEF feature of the day was an adj
dres by DR. Graham of Iowa.
Ira Gray, a prominent farmer near
Schafer, must soon begin to serve a
three-year term in prison. In the win
ter of 1911 he stole 100 bushes of flax
from the shack of a homesteader.
Three years g he was convicted and
a three-year sentence imposed. He
applied for a new trial and put up
bonds. The rehearing was denied and
he then appealed to the supreme court
but that body has decided not to in
terfere and Gray must serve his time,
The twenty-fourth annual mnetin@
Of the North Dakota C]ildren's Fonr
society was held at the Recnivina
Home in Fargo with a verv fair at
tendance of the board Of directors
The principal business of the meet