The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1916-05-18

Sherwood.-Edward L. Doherty, post.
master here, is under arrest on q
charge of embezzling approximately
$1,100. He is under bail.
Valley City.-The state normal
school here will observe the Shake
speare Tercentenary in a special exer.
else on May 10, according to plans an.
nounced this week.
Observation-Disclosures voted down q
proposition for a $4,000 school bond
issue two to one Failure of the board
of education to map out a building
campaign satisfactory to the voters
was the reason.
Grand Forks.-Masons from all
parts Of North Dakota and Western
Minnesota will gather at Grand Forks
Wednesday, April 10, for a special ex'
emplifcation OF the third degree in
Masonry, to be staged at the new Ma
sonic temple here.
Minot.-With the banquet at the
Leland hotel the fifth annual meeting
of the State Nurses association of
North Dakota closed after two days
filed with we'll prepared reports and
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to the profession directly and the pub
lie indirectly.
Minot.-48 Of &c assessors Of the
county, the largest number ever AZ.
sembled at the annual meeting at the
Office Of the county auditor Of this
county, met and received their books
and instructions for the work Of list
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ton purposes.
Bismarck.-County politics are be-
ginning to attract considerable atten-
ton locally. Petitions are being cir.
culated In behalf Of Col. CD. Little
for the state senate. Senator E. A.
Hughes, who represented Burleigh
county for two sessions of the legis.
lature, will not seek a second term.
Glen Ullin.-Dickinson has been sci.
ected by the Missouri Slope Education
association as the place for the next
annual meeting, at the convention just
held here. Several cities were in com.
petition for the meeting, but Dickin.
son had a handsome majority. P. s..
Berg, superintendent of the Dickinson
schools was elected president of the
association.
Fargo.-Requests for reservations
at the Governor Burnquist banquet
to be given by the Booster and Pro
gress clubs of this city, on April 25,
at the Comstock, are coming in rapid.
ly. 1t now looks as tho every town in
Clay county would have a good sized
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and professional men in this city ex.
pect to attend.
Fargo.-United Temperance Socie-
ties of North Dakota went on record
here in favor of the candidacy of U. l..
Burdick for governor, based upon his
past as a man." Societies represented
were the W. C. T. u, the Scandinavian
Total Abstinence society and the
North Dakota Enforcement league, A.
T. Krabb'n Of Milton was recommend.
ed as a candidate for lieutenant GOV.
ernor, and William LANCER of Mandan
for attorney general.
Jamestown.-William Lands, orator
of jamestown college, won in the in
~terstate oratorical contest at salina,
Kan, representing the state of North
Dakota as her orator, having won first
place in the state intercollegiate con-
test a month ago. He is now one of
the three to represent the western di-
vision In a final contest Of the repre-.
%sentatives of the eastern and western
divisions at Fairfield, Ia, on May 9.
Grand Forhs.-Steamboats may con.
tinue TO run on the Red RIVER of the
North through Grand Forks and there
is still a great opportunity" for the
use OF the stream by navigators to
promote and carry on commerce. At
least that is the view of the war de-
partment. which has. just refused to de-
clare the Red river a ~non-navigable
stream as per the request of Congress-
man H. T. Helgesen Of North Dakota.
Killdeer.-Morris Granfor, living five
miles southeast of the city, was the
vctinl Of a very serious accident when
he accidentally shot himself with a
1886 rifle. The bullet entered on the
left side Of the breast just over the
heart and continuing in an upward
direction left the body through the
back just above the shoulder blade. It
passed through the lungs. Unless un-
~forseen complications set in Mr.. Gran.
for will easily recover.
New Rockford.-New Rockford is
ready to go into the courts on the pro-
position that her movement for the
removal of the state capital from Bis
marck to New Rockford is possible
within the provisions of the in~itiatory
amendment of the state constitution
with respect to which the question of its
operative feature has been raised. The
point that the law is imperative was
raised in Fargo by Robt. Blakemore,
former legislator, who was actively
identified with the initiative and refer
endum fight in the state legislature.
Bismarck.-The recent exceptionally
bad condition Of the streets of Bis.
marck seems to have created a desire
In the hearts Of the people of Bis
marck for paving, and as a conse.
quence petitions are being circulated
with tina end in view II ia nropoeod