Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-03-11
News of the State

Minot won first place in the state
dairy contest held at that place last
week.
Theodore Heinrich has purchased
the stock and fixtures Of the Ashley
drug store.
1179 people in Mountrail county vot-
ed for a terminal elevator and 1853
voted against.
Crosby now boasts another ladies'
society, which bears the name of "The
Arts and Crafts Club"
A big booster and get-together"
banquet was held at Velva last week
by the Commercial club.
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A "father and son" banquet was
held at Williston last week and so<e
200 strong attended the unique affair.
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The Commercial club of FOrdville
has taken up the matter Of securing
another stock train along the 500 line
this summer.
Forclan has passed an electric light
franchise ordinance carrying a rate of
zoe per kilowat to private consumers
and 15c to the city.
Morton county ranks third in the
apportionment of the state tuition
fund. Morton county has S,213 child
rem and received $~16,261.74.
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The present term of district court
in Foster county is attracting wide at
tention because of the murder case of
Otto Buhman slated for trial.
The vote Monday on the proposition
to form the city government to the
commission system showed that the
people of jamestown want none Of It..
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c-intendeat Of Schools Wendt OF
Ward county mas invested in a motor
cycle and will use it in visiting the
schools of the county when the roads
permit. N..
Captain Marsh of Bismarck, said to
be the first white man to know Of the
Custer massacre in 1876, was a guest
at the State Normal school at Valley
City early this week.
Ole * Thoe, one of the Oldest and
best known residents Of FOrdville,
suffered the loss of his right band
when the member was caught in the
grinders of a food mill,
Nels Granquist of Galchutt comes
forward with a bible printed at Jen-
koping, Sweden, in 1877, and not worn
out yet. Guess it did not have a nick
cut every time it went to church.
Several train loads OF powder for
the Russian armies passed through
Minot on the 500 last week. 1t was
shipped to the Pacific coast and
thence across the ocean to Siberia.
On account of the warm spell the
farmers of E'erthold are beginning to
ship their large stocks Of potatoes
and it is stated that as many as 100
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Fortney and
Ole Fogderud of Hannaford eturned
last week from California, where they
had been to look over some land and
to take in the Panama-Pacific expo
sition in San Francisco.
Quit chewing tobacco. A Grand
Forks man swallowed a small piece
of the weed which brought on a spell
of coughing in which one of the tubes
of the throat was torn and for a time
he was in danger Of strangulation.
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The horse thieves who stole several
horses from the Ledbetter farm near
Foxholm, last Monday night, are still
at large and it is thought that they
have made good their escape accord
ing to the authorities of Ward and sur
rounding counties.
The Hartland State bank of Berth
old, which has beef under the man.
ageclent of Martin D.J0hnsOnsince
it's organization, has been purchased
by several Minot business men. l. A.
Cantor will be the cashier of the bank
under it's e management. b
"A park is the next in the long list
Of improvements for Wild Rose. H.
Goebel is fathering the idea, and is
receiving encouragement on every
hand. Martin Akre, public spirited
always. has donated an entire block
in the eastern part of the village for
| the improvement.
At the election held at Glen Ullin
last Saturday for the purpose OF vot-
ing on the question of issuing bonds
in the sum of $4,000, the money de-
rived therefrom to be used to build
an addition tt the present high school
building, there were 107 votes regis
tered for and but 7 against the prep
osition.
Residents Of Ryder, who have been
to Minneapolis for a conference with
President Edmund Pennington of the
500, report there will be no effort for
at least another year to extend the
new 500 line across the Missouri. The
European war and the difficulty in OBJ.
tanning money for railway construc'
ton are responsible for the failure to
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