Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-01-27
BRIEF news
Events Throughout North Dakota
ConCiSeIy Related.

several lfelSnt cafS at HurdSfleld.
Advertising will be the chief theme
at the annual meeting of the North
Dakota Press association at Grand
Forks Jan. 2S and 80. About $50 pub
fishers are expected.
Grain valued at $4,000 was de-
Stroyed by fire that RACED the Farm
ers' Independent elevator at Streeter.
The total loss is about $4,000. The
lire started in the engine room of the
elevator.
Farmers elevator officers from prac-
tically every state in the Northwest
II Middle West will appear as
speakers at the annual meeting at
Grand Forks, Feb. %, March / and 2,
of the North Dakota Farmers Coop
erative Grain Dealers association.
David Whalen. general agent for
North Dakota of the Globe Fire Insur-
ance company and prominently known
in insurance circles, died at Wichita,
Kan, while on his honeymoon. He
had been married only three weeks.
The body was brought to Grand Forks.
When Clark G. Dalrymple, manager
OF the largest wheat farm in the
world, requested two burglars who en-
tered his Fargo home at night not to
take a Swiss watch valued at $500 and
a family heirloom they complied and
answered they only were after money.
The masked men obtained about $22
in cash; also a revolver.
Five weeks spring training for the
University of North Dakota football
team will be featured by Coach Andy
Gill as a part of this years routine
for the gridiron aggregation. Coach
Gill is anxious this year to give the
University Of Minnesota team a rub
and for that reason has determined
upon he spring training campaign.
Arthur Hileman faces a charge of
arson in district court as a result of
the destruction of the Roel-Blakey
building at Minot by fire. Officials
allege Hileman poured kerosene on
the trousers of James Westagard, ly-
ing intoxicated in the basement of the
building. Westagard was burned seri-
ously. Hileman says he intended to
play a prank on Westagard.
A county play day will be conduct
ed at Darlington in June under the
direction of county educational off,
GERS. Children from every school in
the county will participate. The move
ment in North Dakota was originated
in Barnes county. There will be ath-
letic events for boys and girls, a base
ball game between various schools, a
declamatory contest and a parade.
A small piece of dynamite fed into
a cook stove along with some Ignite
coal damaged the L.. C. Malchert resi-
dence at Hazelton. Fortunately the
piece of explosive was small and no
one was near the stove when it let
loose. A miner either dropped the
piece of dynamite accidentally or
through some freak of circumstances
it failed to explode when a charge was
shot.
The shortship circuit, which includ-
ed Grand Forks, Fargo, Cooperstown,
Page, Valley City and Crookston last
season, will be continued during the
coming racing season. A meeting Of
the association will be held at Fargo
March 3 to arrange dates for the sea-
son. 1t is expected that many Cana
dian horses again will be campaigned
in the American Southwest this sea-
son because of war conditions in Can
ada.
The construction of a $125, 900 high
school building has practically been
determined upon by the board of edu-
cation of Minot, plans and specifica-
lions for the structure having been
called for. Under the plan now out
lined the first unit would be erected
during the coming year, costing about
$4,000. 1t would provide a gymna-
SUM, a swimming pool, shower baths
and the main auditorium, as we'll as a
number of classrooms.
The debating team of the North Da-
kota Agricultural college at Fargo,
composed of Matthias Thorfnnson and
Harold Bachman, was defeated by the
Montana State college team in a close
contest at Bozeman. Lee Park and
LleWellan Luce were Montana's rep
resentatives and o. by the decision
of two of the three judges. Montana
upheld the affirmative side of the
question, "Resolved, That the federal
government should W and operate
the telegraph and telephone systems
of the United States"
One of the greatest grain produc-
ing records attained in North Dakota
last year is that boosted by Herman
Abrahamson, residing ten miles east
Of Minot. With the aid of two sons,
sixteen and eighteen, he raised $4,000
bushels Of wheat, 1900 bushels of rye,
500 bushels of flax and $4,000 bushels
of oats and barley. Already he has
marketed SIG, 900 worth of wheat and
he has 5000 bushels to sell, while none
of the other grains has been marketed.
Abrahamson's bill for 't%hreshing
amounted to $500.