Courier Democrat., 1916-07-27
IN NORTH DAKOTA
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Grand Forks golfers won over the
Fargo golfers in match play, on a
handicap basis, at Grand Forks. Later
IN the season the Grand Forks golf
ers will play the Fargoans at Fargo.
Every Grand Forks minister, in an
appeal from the pulpit, urged that pre-
| cautions be taken to prevent the
spread of infantile paralysis there.
| Mayor Dinnie has ordered general
city cleanup.
Hal Bear, owned by John Murphy of
Plattsville, Wis, won the 2:15 pace
and Don Quixote, owned by Barney
Tulloch, Lewistown, Mont, won the
2:30 pace, the only harness races
staged at the North Dakota state fair
that day. The track was heavy.
Before Volbra Lees body was
washed ashore at Devils Lake ra1a-
tives did not know she had been
drowned. The girl lost her life five
days previously while bathing on the
beach near the cottage of her rela-
tives, where she was visiting. They
believed she had returned to her home.
Before many frightened spectators
]. Garnet Campbell of West Concord,
Mimi, was severely injured when at
tackled by a mad bull at the state fair
grounds at Fargo. Campbell was
working in the swine pavilion when
the animal rushed on him. Bystand-
ers went to the rescue and finally
beat off the animal
John S. Johnson and Hugh Henry
were killed and James Anderson was
stunned when lightning struck the
barn in which they had taken refuge
from severe electrical and rain
storm near Kensal All three were
prominent in that section. Johnson
was candidate for sheriff of Foster
county and Henry was a farmer.
Every farmer who last year sold a
bushel of grain to the Coulee Farm
e1s' Elevator company, a cooperative
concern, received a premium of 3%
cents bushel on his sale. The checks
have been mailed to the farmers. After
declaring 10 per cent dividend on
the stock at the annual meeting, 116
farmers sharing in the distribution Of
the dividend, also declared a bushe,
royalty.
Acting under instructions from the
war department Captain Harry l..
Branson of Mitchell, S. D., has begun
recruiting a squadron of cavalry
among the Sioux Indians on the Stand
ing Rock reservation. AS soon as the
Indians are ready for service they
| will be sent to the Mexican border,
| where they will have the distinction
Of being the only troop of Indian cav
airy in the army.
Allowing the rooster to run with the
rest of the flock during the summer
| months costs the North Dakota farm
ers several thousands of dollars a
year, according to information received
in Grand Forks. The rooster fertilizes
the eggs and fertilizing eggs develop
blood rings within thirty-six hours. AS
eggs with blood rings are unfit for
food they are responsible for heavy
| losses in marketing Since the rooster
is not necessary for egg production it
is recommended that he be removed
from the flock after the Matching time.
To make the best horse hay alfalfa
should be allowed to stand until we'll
| in bloom, according to an announce
ment made by an experiment station
in Grand Forks. In curing horse hay
it is we'll to keep in mind that the dust
which is present in so much alfalfa
is largely result of the presence of
foreign moisture, such as rain or dew
at making time, rather than the pres
ence OF little moisture in the plant.
If alfalfa hay is stored in the barn for
horses, it is well, slowing it away, to
sprinkle generously with a mixture of
salt and air Stacked lime, equal parts.
The summer meeting of the North
Dakota Press association, which will
be held Friday and Saturday, Aug. 4
and S, promises to be of unusual in
terest this year. It will be held at
Lake Metigeshe and the good people
| of Bottineau are planning to show
the editors and their families and
|
member with pleasure. The summer
meeting of the association, while it
transacts business and studies to
make better North Dakota newspa-
pers, still combines much pleasure
with it's work. The summer meeting
Is the vacation meeting.
The United States government has,
utterly failed to keep it's agreement
with cities along the Red river by
abandoning dredging operations, ao
cording to an appeal which will be adt
dressed to the war department, in.
sisting that operations be continued
and future floods prevented The Far
go Commercial club has data showing
that ten years ago the government
agreed to handle dredging work, so
that excess water now brought from
new drainage canals would be cared
for. The recent midsummer food
took place because the canals now car
ry the water to the river within few
hours Of a raipfalI it ic cold vrha