The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-02-11
News, Politics, Fun
Facts.naSue&estions
BY Associate Editors

Basket ball has the center Of the
stage in every town of the state at
this time.
New Rockford still insists that they
will have the capital of North Dakota
sooner or later.
Eddy county is boastful of having
Won the first prize in the recent Far
go exhibitions.
B. r. Berry, arrested on the charge
Of forgery last week in Fargo is said
to have been in trouble before.
R. A. McCandless, superintendent
Of the Minot division of the Great
Northern railroad will leave Minot for
Great Falls where he will assume the
SUPPLEMENTARY Of the Butte division.
An additional machine is being in
stalled in the electric light plant at
Mohall for the purpose Of furnishing
current for two days in the week when
the ladies of the town may wash and
iron with the use Of electricity.
At a meeting of the Neville fire de.
partment it was recommended that
the village purchase 300 feet more
hose. The department is also going
to buy six rubber uniforms, additional
ladders and perhaps a ladder truck.
Valentine Kuta suffered severe in
juries to one of his feet while working
in the town mills at Mimic. He was
on one of the heaters, adjusting the
machinery when his foot was caught
in the fingers of the machine.
George Southam, young boy Of
Mohall, stuck his tongue to a buggy
axle with which he was playing in the
yard. 1t took his father quite while
to cut him loose with a jack knife
The wife of Charles Crawford Of
Calvin, was terribly burned about the
face and hands while opening a box
of matches. The cover of the box
came off Unexpectedly and the match
es ignited and before they could be
dropped the woman was burned.
| An officer at Grand Forks appre-
hended local resident while in the
act of confiscating a Morning Herald
from the front of the Cotton & Nc
Elroy store in that city. The man was
taken into custody and taken to police
headquarters.
A blind" chimney to which the
stove had been attached, in the I. o.
O. F. hall at Casselton created quite
a little excitement in that town. 1t
was not until a hole had been cut in
the roof that it was discovered what
the cause of the smoke was.
The mayor of Towner has received
letter from the navy department
stating that a cannon will be shipped
to that town to be used for decorative
purposes to take the place of the gun
recently recalled by the department
and which will be used as an anti.
aeroplane gun.
There seems little chance of any
beneficial change in the method of
spending taxes in the state of North
/ Dakota. The so-called farmers organ.
ization in the legislature are opposing
the county assessor idea as embodied
in bill now before the legislature.
There seems to be every indication
that Enderlin will have an auditorium
for its public meetings. The Masonic
bodies of that town will build tenn
pie and it will be used also as an au-
ditorium as most of the prominent
business men Of the town are Masons.
| Bernard Benson of Sheldon, about
10 years of age, employed by the
Northern Produce Cos. ranch, five
miles from Mcleod, inflicted a serious
wound in the muscles of his left leg
below the knee by the accidental dis
charfge of % calibre revolver which
he was examining.
j The Devils Lake World and Devils
Lake Inter Ocean have been consolj.
dated and in the future will be called
the Devils Lake World and Inter-Oc.
can. 1t has been known for some time
that there was not room for two week
ly papers in Devils Lake and this con-
solidation seems to have been a prob
! lem, giving the Inter.Ocean and World
the largest circulation in that section
Of the state.
Geo. F. LOTUS of Minneapolis, has
threatened to put the legislature out
! of politics who do not vote for ter
minal elevator. George is rather
, strong on threatening. Should the
press of North Dakota butt in on his
nice little stock selling scheme it
might embarass George. People of
North Dakota will do just about as
they please about building terminal
elevator and it is altogether likely