Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-15
News of the State

brakes new electric lights were
turned on last week.
s.
McClusky allows nc teams to. be
tied on Main street.
The home of Elliott Stevens of Mi.
not was destroyed by fire.
The Standard Oil Co. have just put
in a station at Dunn Center.
The Kensal high school has n of
the finest gymnasiums in the state.
The general store at Englevale, in
Ransom county, has changed hands.
So
Mckenzie county has an entire new
board of commissioners, five men,
bers.
Sheriff Dana Wright of Stutsman
county, is recovering from a serious
illness.
The Carpio Free Press has invested
in a new 10x15 jobber that indicates
enterprise.
Courtenay and several OF the small
Ter towns Of the state, have skating
Kinks this winter.
A can of shellac on a stove ex-
ploded and set fire to the new Sleight
residence at Drake.
A barrel of potatoes for the poor
will do more good than ten barrels
of sermons on charity.
Lawrence Rudser, of Crosby, has
been chosen by Treasurer Steen for
one of the clerks in his office.
The newspapermen Of Mckenzie
county will meet at Arnegard Jan. 10
to organize a press association.
A car load of flour, COZ sacks, as
sembled at Westhope, was shipped to
the Belgian sufferers last week.
Mckenzie county has raised it's
share of the fund, for the support of
a Better Farming representative.
L, Lewis was appointed town clerk
at Ryder, to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Charles Lantz.
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Editor THEM of Aneta was present
ed with a foreign made cigar liz in.
long and spent New Years day smok-
ing it.
Joe Taylor, a sixteen-year-old Vel
va lad, who ran away from home and
enlisted in the army, in anxious o
get back to his parents.
A man named Jack White commit
ted suicide at the home of M. Chris
tenson. neal Upland. No cause for
the rash act is known.
-
Martin Weblin pleaded guilty at
Towner to abandoning his wife and
children and must serve two and a
half years in the penitentiary.
f. C. Carney, legislator from Will
listen, has resigned from the city
commission, because he cannot hold
two elective offices at, the same time.
Chas. Gum admitted to the charge
of stealing wheat from Michael kitz-
man of Willow Creek township, Nc
Henry county, and drew a Christmas
package of a year in the pen. >.
The state historical society will
seek to have the coming session OF
the legislature appropriate funds for
a building on the capital grounds to
house the records and museum OF the
society.
Nick Schumacher Of LldgerWood
suffered a broken nose and a badly
lacerated face when he was thrown
out of a. carriage in a runaway. 1t
took several stitches to repair the
wounds.
The city of Williston proposes to
cut the light rates for the consumers
to II cents per kiiowatt, saving the
citizens about 500 a month, and II
more Juice is used the rate will be
cut still lower.
C. Vanderwerf, of Tower City, has
appropriately named his farm "The
Springyale Stock Farm" and his sta
tionery itemizes his s%pecialties: Dur
&C Jersey swine, Holstein Friesian
cattle, White Wyandotte chickens and
Indian Runner Ducks. Farming is a
business.
A man named Stewart, who said he
represented the Consumers Co., OF
Minneapolis, took orders for groceries
among farmers in Mckenzie county.
Many forked over their money but no
groceries were sent. He offered gro
ceries for less than wholesale cost
and many bit.