Courier Democrat., 1916-11-23
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 PerusaI Easier for
Busy Readers.

Mrs Jane Fields, for thirty years Il
resident of jamestown and Vicinity
is dead.
Plans are under way for holding an
automobile show in connection with
the Missouri Slope association S corn,
alfalfa and poultry show, Jan. 81 to
Feb. ..
Owing to a lack Of facilities for
properly handling this years potato
crop at Park River. a movement mas
been launched for the construction oi
q large warehouse there.
One and a half years in states priS-
TN was the sentence given David
Moon, twenty-four years old, OF In
diana, wso was caught just after pass
ing forged checks at Fargo.
Frank L. McVey, president OF the
University Of North Dakota, was
elected treasurer of the National AS
Washington, D. c., last week
Property of fraternal orders. ex-
empted from taxation by legislative
enactment, will not be assessed by
the state tax commission, according
to an order of the supreme court.
Reports indicate that I.idgerwood
8 ! Ryder are suffering from short
Z Of coal. Neither place has d re-
s We supply and the citizens feel that
ON V continued good weather can re-
lieve the situation.
The 1917 automobile tags in North
Dakota will be black and white. The
background of the new tags will be
glossy black, with the letters, N. ID. -
and the serial number of the license
counter sunk in white.
Payments aggregating $50, ,1712G,
representing 3S per cent of an ad-
justed hail loss of S79,37l.76 have been
mailed to 250 farmers in the state
who took advantage of the state hail
insurance department.
Eighteen thousand dollars worth Of
flax, grown on 600 acres of land on
the Fort Berthold reservation, netted
a profit of $4,000 for Leslie Benno
and Arthur Benno. 1t was their first
crop on their homestead.
The most recent addition to state
banking circles is the I1oneyford State
bank of Honeyford John o. Fadden
of Arvilla, James A. Dinnie Of Grand
Forks and David II. Beecher, lIoney-
ford are tho inc0rDOratOr
Karl kositzky, state audtorelect,
has LETT on a tour of the capitals OF
South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota
and Iowa to study systems of county
assessments with view to eliminat-
ing the township assessor.
Charges that farmers of the Willis.
ton district are marketing their grain
at other towns because of higher
prices than those offered by the local
elevators are being investigated by
the Williston Commercial club.
Mrs. Elsie Benedict of Denver was
in the state last week taking up or.
ganization work in behalf OF the Ma
tional Votes for Women league. A
petition from the league will be pre-
sented to the coming legislature.
Dangling from a limb along the tim
Der of the James river in the vicinity
| Of Adrian, Hans Knudson of that vii
lage discovered the body of A. Gan
son, a transient, who had been doina
odd jobs in that vicinity for the past
few months.
r. +. Flint, commissioner OF agricul
ture and labor, has been named by
| Governor Hanna a delegate from this
/ state to the fourth national confer
ence on marketing and farm credits
to be held at the Hotel Sherman in
Chicago, Dec 4 to 6.
Prompt response from Chris Frand
son Of jamestown to cries from the
vicinity Of the James river, saved the
| life OF Albert, one of the two-year-old
twins of MI. and Mrs. John West oi
Jamestown. The boy wandered from
home, stepped on the ice and broke
| through.
That the st. Paul railroad will next
season extend its line from Fargo tc
Grand Forks and froin there to VIII,
nipeg is generally accepted at Grand
Forks Surveyors have been in the
! field several months and it is under
stood that the company now has oh
Gained an option on terminal site.
r. c. and w. f. Kittel, former Cas-
selton bankers, pleaded guilty in fed
esal court at Fargo last week to falsi
| tication OF accounts Sentences will
not be passed by Judge Amidon unit
late this month. In the meantim.
| both will be free under $25,000 bonds
Federal indictments charging embez
element were dismissed
Providing no new evidence is pro
duced to substantate a charge of lar
ceny against him, NJ. II. Chance O
Tappen, who eloped to Minneapolis /;
month ago with the sixteen-year-ol(
! Mary Rittle, in an automobile belong
ing to the girls father, will be re