Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-11-02
IN NORTH DAKOTA
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of the State,
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written in Order
to Make Perusal Easier for
Busy Readers.
The Northern Pacific is erecting AL
up-to-date stock yard at Buffalo.

agent of the state board of control,
has resigned.
A. j.. Schenum, residing neal Shell
don, was injured in an accident while
driving a hay bucker.
O1flcials Of the grand lodge of the
U. G. T. will participate in a council
celebration to be held at Bismarck
Nov. IL.
Peter Peterson of Sheldon narrowly
escaped death when thrown I'M
der a pillow while hitching a team in
the field.
Erection of a s25O,000 hospital is
proposed by the Minot General Hos
pital association, recently organized
at Minot.
Peter Cary, s~even-year-old son of
Anton Cary Of st. Vincent, was Sc
riously injured when struck by an
automobile.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
First National bank at Guelph but APP
parently became frightened and left
without obtaining any loot.
Maurice Bor, three years old, run
ming to greet the driver of a heavily
loaded wagon in Linton, was killed
under the wheels of the vehicle.
Farmers of Williams county will
bold a convention at Williston Dec.
~ to II to review progress of the
year and make plans for the future.
Thomas Cameron of Cando, pro-
Queer of a ripened tomato weighing
five pounds. insists that he is the
champion tomato grower of the state.
Three elevators are under construc-
ton at the new town of Wabek. The
Farmers State bank has been opened
there with L. N. 'Kjelstrup as cashier.
At the special election held at Des
Laos to vote on the proposition of is
suing $4,000 bonds, the additional sum
needed to erect an $4,000 school
house, carried, 5 to 1.
Records for rail laying have been
established on the Wildrose extension
of the Great Northern, two miles of
steel having been laid in three hours,
with 100 men in the crew.
Captain Angus Fraser, regimental
Quartermaster Of the state national
guard, succeeds Major j. M. Hanley
as commander of the Third battalion
under an order recently issued.
Women of Fargo will sell pencils
for charity. Nov. 23 has been desig
mated by the Associated Charities as
the date for raising funds to prose
cute the work of the coming year.
Fire from an o]verheated stove
caused the destruction of the Iona
hotel at Langdon and damage to ad
joining buildings. The loss is about
$4,000.
Mrs. Thomas Tharalson, wife of Ad
jutant General Tharalson of the state
guard, died at Bismarck last week
after an illness of ten weeks with
pneumonia.
The Mandan police department is
considering the putting on a plain
clothes traffic policeman on account
Of the excessive speed with which
automobiles are being driven on the
city streets.
The Farmers State Bank O.
Smith, located on the 500 line, has
been organized with the following of
ficers: President, Paul A. Pruss;
vice president, j. A. Corrigan; cash
Ter, Oscar Hougen.
Foron ho. hooo ,oJon4al H.. ~
North Dakota Implement Dealers as
ISOLATION as the place for the mex
annual convention as the result of {
referendum ballot. January "a, 2;
and 26 are the dates fixed.
Grand Forks curriers' have formu
lated plans for an active year ant
may hold a bonspiel late in January
or in February. Sherman Schlossel
"a elected secretary of the club
succeeding Lawrence Kennedy.
Dynamite gas in the bottom of {
we'll at Wolford in which he descend
ed, killed Avery Blodgett. Richart
Zilla and Ed Wiersh, in turn were
lowered into the well in attempts tc
1CoCuC o1OuSCCC. Dull were puil6t
cut unconscious.
Masked highwaymen robbed q. w
Swanson of Dickinson on top of {
moving freight train near Judson ant
hurled him from the car while thu
train was moving at the rate of thirty
miles an hour. Swanson was only
bruised by the fall.
Fargo city warrants are at the bot
tom of the Atlantic, having gone
down with the Lusitania. The cit,
commission of Fargo has arranged
to protect the German investor wht
bought them. Many Fargo warrant.
also went down with the Titanic.
Albert M. Allick, charged with man
slaughter in the first degree, wa.
bound over to the district court a
Cando, under $4,000 bond, the CASE
growing out of the death of e. Mil
rick. In a general fight it is charged
that Allick kicked Mirick in the groin
death resulting.