The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-08-31
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of the State.
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written In Order
to Make Perusal Easier for
Busy Readers.

firmed the nomination of Fred l.. An.
derson to be postmaster at Minot.
Injuries received last Easter, when
she was shot by a companion while
hunting gophers, have proved fatal to
Mrs. C. T. Patton of Cando.
Overcome by heat while working in
a grain field John Zeone died in a
Grand Forks hospital. He anne from
Hibbing, Mimi, where he has rela-
tives.
French agents disbursed s6,S20 to
Belfield horse statesmen in a sale con-
Quoted in that city. The animals will
be shipped to France for wal pur-
poses.
An oats yield of fifty bushels an
acre a reported at the Seton farm,
near Mandan. Marquis wheat or the
same farm averaged only eight bush.
els, grading No. 8.
Boards of a wheat head, which
stuck in her throat when she at
tempted to eat the grain, caused the
death of Helen Chapek, eleven
months-old daughter of Fred Chapek
of Anamoose.
B. Paine, a we'll driller, and G..
Berlinke, his helper, were asphyxiat-
ed by dynamite gas in a we'll near La
Moure. Berlinke was overcome while
in the well and Paine unsuccessfully
attempted to rescue him.
D1Isof f~1r, Tho lo1o~ eh~vkon@ to
provided under a call made by the
state board of education on the rural
school districts, asking that they de-
lay the opening of school until Oct. /,
so pupils may aid in harvesting.
Thomas Crull of Peoria, ILL.,, coach
of the high school in that city dur
ing the past five years, will coach the
Fargo high school football team dur
ing the coming year. Crull has splen-
did material for a team there this
year.
Three men have each given a pint
and a half of blood to Thomas Kelly,
in a Bismarck hospital, and physicians
believe the infusions will prove sue
cessful:@-W.srP 1Thurston,s E. Hayes
and J. Hayes are the men who made
the sacrifice.
A Williams county court has ruled
that a man who runs over another
with his automobile and fails to stop
is guilty of assault with intent to COM
NIT injuries. Ray Eddy of Fargo is
under arrest on that ruling and will
be tried at the next term of the cir
cult court.
Ni%nety-pound rails are being laid by
the Great Northern road between
Grand Forks and Larimore, replacing
the eighty-pound trackage that has
done service there for several years.
The improvement in that district is
in line with the general strengthen.
ing of the entire system.
Archie Currie, a farmer near Stark.
weather, injured his arm when he
dropped from a ladder, but worked
about his home all day, and it was
not until the afternoon of the succeed,
ing day that he went to a physician
to determine just how badly he had
been hurt. The doctor found the arm
broken.
Mrs. c. L. Foster of Anamoose, wife
of q deputy sheriff, saved her hus
bands life when she led a body o
men to his rescue after he had beer
attacked by six men. The deputy at
tempted to W two men from a beat
ing and the gang turned on him
Adolph Kimpel was shot in the leg b!
the deputy.
Because Of the prospects of see,
wheat shortage the coming year tn
agricultural experts of the state ar
engaged in a campaign aiming to pre-
serve all wheat that will be availabl
: for seed purposes. H. L.. Bolley, stat
: pure seed commissioner, has called o.
: the farmers to have their grain teste
by the state.
The Hogy Elevator company of Bul
iington suspended operations wit
$4,000 worth of grain storage ticket
outstanding, according to report
made to the state railroad commits
sion. The commission will invest
gate the firms assets. 1t is said thu
q blanket bond of $4,000 will aid /
protecting the farmers involved.
A yield of thirty-eight bushels a
acre of barley is the record produ
ton of the season so far reported
the Arvilla section. 1. D. Sheets,
= farmer, harvested this amount. 9th,
!. barley returns in the district run fro
seventeen to twenty-five bushels. III
r. maximum wheat average SO far r
ported is ten bushels an acre, gradir
No. 8.
A. H. Witherspoon has been name
as general passenger agent Of IL
Omaha railroad at Winnipeg, accor
ing to announcement made by G..
MacRae, general passenger agent.
succeeds w. S.. R. Cameron, who h
resigned because Of i'll health. N
Witherspoon has been travelling ps
senger agent, with headquarters
Grand Forks. He yiIl assume his M
duties Sept. I.