Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-03-14
State News and Comment

The Valley City Courier believes A.
p. Hanson good gubernatorial TIM
Der and suggests the query: why
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The Valley City electric light plant
plans on connecting up with Sanborn
and furnishing intermediate territory
with power. ". ..M NJ.
School lands in Barnes county not
already leased will be offered for rent
at a public leasing at the court house
in Valley City April 13.
qSag&. s.
The Farmers Union OF Temvik is
planning to build an elevator. The
success otStha enterprise at Hazelton
has spurredsthem to action.
8 F
An explosion recently blew out the
whole front Of the Minot Public Drug
Co. The manager Of the store mad
vertantly dropped a lighted match in
to a benZine cane.
Farmers institutes are being held
throughout the state. Judging from
their programs the meetings will be
highly instructive. The gospel of
mixed fal ming is being preached ev-
erywhere. .
William l.. Jackman, editor o fthe
Burnstad Comet, is now postmaster at
that place. He announces that the
post-otfice will be moved to his print
shop. Jackman wont have to go so
far>for his news now.
Amanda Hanson OF Buffalo, n. d.,
had a peculiar accident recently.
While joking with some of her friends
one of them hit her in the eye with
a mutf, and severed a blood vessel.
Her sight is endangered.
49,
Congressman George M. Young has
secured some more cannon for the
second district. When it comes to
grabbing off government seeds and
derelict ann the Second District
Congressman is second to none. The
latest contribution of cannon will
grace the hills overlooking Lake
Juanita.
81
High school athletic authorities
should revamp their rules. TO dis
qualify a man because he has played
five years at various athletic games
seems unreasonable. The Bismarck
man declared ineligible had not play
ed five years at basketball. At any
rate. eleventh hour protests do not
smack Of craftsmanship. But that
was the only way left to beat Bis
marck.
The Langdon Courier-Democrat is
authority for this: Ten thousand
farmers in Western Canada have ap'
Piled for free seed grain and their
applications have been accepted.
From the SAME reliable sourc we
learn that sixty thousand farmers who
sold their grain and now want to 5e.
financed blythe government, have had
their applications turned down. IN
the area west of moose, Jaw to Gull
FAKE, in the Province of Saskatche-
iwan, running from the points named
down to the boundary line between
the United States and Canada, the
farmers are entirely without grain
with which to seed their crop acre
age in 1915. Over there the price for
seed wheat is $1.50 and for oats So.
cents a bushel.
Serena Helen Blue has the distinc-
ton Of owning the smallest home
stead in the United States. More
over, it only cost 10 cents. 1t is eight
hundredths of an acre in area and is,
a little irregular bit of land 189 feet
long and 80 feet wide at it's broad
est point, jutting into Turtle Lake,
Minnesota. The 10 cents commutes
her entry to cash in land-otice par
lance. and she does not have to live
or the land three years as otherwise
required by law. None the less, Miss
Blue has a house there and grows
tomatoes. cabbage and clover. The
interior department liked Miss Blues
homestead so well that it has issued
a description and picture of it.