Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-10-26
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of The State.
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written in Order
to Make PerusaI Easier for
Busy Readers.

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The Wiliiston Commercial club has
formed a marching organization and
will visit St. Paul's Outdoor Sports
carnival this winter.
Mrs. Ed. Bartle of Edgeley was in
iu1ed seriously when the automobile
in which she was riding collided with
another car near Beach.
Lilah May Restemayer, two years
old. was burned to death in the home
OF her parents at Langdon while
playing with an elder sister.
An unidentified transient was crush
ed to death under a freight train at
Minot when he slipped while descend
ing the iron rungs on the side of a
box car.
United States Senator A. j. Gronna,
who has been engaged in campaign
state campaign to aid Senator Nc
Cumber.
d. M. McGinnis of Anamoose is in
a hospital suffering from two broken
ribs and several bad cuts in the back
Of his head, sustained in an automo-
bile accident.
J.. Schon, who murdered his wife
July II during a quarrel at their
home near Glendale, has been found
guilty of m~anslaughter in the first de-
gree and given a sentence of ten
years at hard labor.
Ernest Gum, four years old, was
dragged to death near Devils Lake
when his foot became caught in a
pillow in a runaway. The boy was
dragged nearly a mile.
With the development of three new
cases of ~infantile paralysis at Luc-
ca, the public schools were closed as
a preventive measure. All three vic
tins are members Of n family.
Nels G.. A%nderberg and his nine
t~een-year-old son Gordon were hurt
severely when Anderberg's car tipped
over on a hill in Jamestown. Two
others in the car we're uninjured.
Major James Howard Upper, a res
ident of Tower City fifteen years ago,
has been killed in action in France,
according to word received by his
sister, Mrs. Levi Rice of Tower City.
Mrs. H. E. Ross and three women
companions, pinned under Mrs. Ross
car when it turned turtle at Mandan,
escaped by removing the footboards
of the car and crawling up through
the machine.
G. S. Cousins, manager of the T. H.
Cousins Elevator company. vas seri-
ously burned in fighting a fire that de-
stroyed the company's elevator at
Dover. The financial loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
With only one case of ~infantile
paralysis in the city, and that close
ly quarantined, jamestown officials
believe they have effectively pre-.
vented what threatened to be a Sc
| rious condition.
Plans for the establishment of a
packing plant in Mandan, as advanced
by the Mandan Commercial club, are
| ldhl1lS tOllCl Cue LII III. Liz GOlHlillllCC
in charge of the venture has been en-.
larged materially.
Bert Warwick of Lark was instant.
| ly killed and his brother, Stanley War.
mobile accident one mile west OF
Flasher when their car overturned as
they were trying to steer out Of a rut
The farmers bureau of Rugby and
vicinity is backing a deal to take over
the business of the Western Tele,
phone association, which they plan
converting into a farmers co-opera'
tive line. A committee has been ap'
pointed to investigate the proposition
Line" elevator companies are
leaving the state about as rapidly as
they can dispose of their property
judging from transfers listed with the
state railroad commission. In the
past few weeks fifty line elevators
have passed into the hands of co
operative associations or Independent
owners.
Three officers of North Dakota ma
tional guard exchanged fire with Mex
leans across the Rio Grande, neal
Mercedes recently, but none vas in
jured. Lieutenant Fred Moore OF
Grafton, Sergeant Herbert Metzger
Company M, and Captain Mclean Of
the hospital corps were involved in
the shooting, a report says.
Thousands of acres of land have
been added to the assessment rolls Of
the state during the past year. The
heaviest increase is in the western
part of the state, some of the eastern
counties having made little or nc
gain, for the reason that practically
all Of the public lands in these
counties have been taken up.
The Minot' Curling club is planning
for an active season. 1t is likely tina
the club will hold a bonspiel in Jan
uary or February. AT the annua
election held last week the following
officers were elected: President, A
A. Robinson; vice president, DR.. A
j. McCannell; secretary, George Nc