The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-09-21

Willow City today.
Harrison Britton left Monday
for Fargo, where he resumed
his studies at the agricultural
college. from which he will
graduate the first of the year,
and will thenhold a position
as instructor at the school.
Most of the threshing on the
prairie has been completed and
fall blowing is already under
way. In the mountains there
is still considerable threshing
left, many of the farmers in
that part of the country stack
ing their grain.
VIM. Boyer left Wednesday
for Evanston. ILL.,, where he
will take a medical course at
the Northwestern college. An
other student at the same in
stitution will be Allison Pope
of Omemee. Mr.. Pope former
ly taught the Trent school east
of Bottineau and is we'll known
in this city.
One day last week while
Beecher Stair and Lloyd Arndt
were returning from Bottineau
with the former at the wheel,
their Ford a turned turtle.
'Tis said that but for a trunk
which they had in the car, both
occupants would in all proba-
bility have been killed. Rus
sell Sentinel.
Don't envy a person because
he has a better position than
you have. If you cannot keep
- up with him it is perhaps your
own fault. You may be lacking
x in knowledge and special train.
= ing. If that is the case, all you
. have to do is to attend Mankato
Commercial college. Send for
ID their catalog.
- We got our wires crossed last
week when we said E.. ID. Con
dit got some oats that weighed
o. 81 lbs. per bushel. We should
j, haye said it went 60 bushels
ir per acre. Mr.. Condit was hav-
Z. ing numerous inquiries for seed
+. of this 80 Id. oats. Yet 90
,r bushels per acre isn't half bad
for a year that is a shade off,
- Souris Messenger.
AT the meeting of the city
council Monday night it was
+. decided to erect an arc light at
J. the intersection of Fourth and
% Main street, opposite the Gleas-
OH garage. The increasing
= amount of business on that
part of Main street required
. the improvement. The con-
II tract for a considerable>amount
: of new. cement walks was let
to E. A. Moline.
i In a card to the Courant
: David Vinje asks to have his
=, paper sent to Mortified, Mimi.
~ He stopped off in the Mime
, sofa town for a short visit on
his way east and was so we'll
l. pleased with St. Olaf College
II that he decided to Enroll there
for the year, in place of the
l. Illinois University, Is at first
IL planned.
Sunday evening when return
n ing home from John Haug-
lands, Tom Lees horses be-
came frightened at at approach
!, ing automobile that would not
give any of the road, and ran off,
upsetting Mr.. and Mrs. Lee
and two children. Fortunately
o they escaped uninjured, but
8 one of the horses was cut badly
It in the wire fence and the bug
gy was broken to pieces. The
A license number on the car was
taken and Mr.. Auto Driver will
j, be obliged to come GRO with
considerable 'chink" for neg
lectine to give at least one for
ty-eleventh of the road. -Kuro-
XII Booster.
A killing frost visited this
section of the state last Friday
night, the mercury dropping
/ to II degrees above zero. or 10
degrees below actual freezing.
Practically all garden vegeta-
8 bles were frozen black and ev-
. en- the foliage on the trees was
Y killed. According to reports
from the country districts, the
corn crop was not materially
affected, most of the seed corn
being so far advanced as to be
:, out of danger. We are now
:. again enjoying the most de-
: lightful Of weather, with indi-
-