Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-08-31
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.

olutSl!ldl county, WelSneu only IOfLy
pounds a bushel.
The United States senate has con
frmed the nomination of Fred L. An
derson to be postmaster at Minot.
Injuries received last Easter, when
she was shot by a companion while
hunting %gophers, have proved fatal to
Mrs. c. T. Patton of Cando.
Overcome by heat while working in
a grain field John Zeone died in a
Grand Forks hospital. He came from
Hibbing, Mimi, where he has rela-
tives.
French agents disbursed $3.50 to
Quoted in that city. The animals will
be shipped to France for war pur-
poses.
An oats yield Of fifty bushels an
acre was reported at the Seton farm,
near Mandan. Marquis wheat on the
same farm averaged only eight bush
els, grading No. 3.
Boards Of a wheat head, which
stuck in her throat when she at
tempted to eat the grain, caused the
death of Helen Chapek, eleven
months-old daughter of Fred Chapek
Of Anamoose.
B. Paine, a well driller, and G..
Ber.inke, his helper, were %asphyxiat-
ed by dynamite gas in a we'll near La
Moure. Berlinke was overcome while
in the we'll and Paine unsuccessfully
attempted to rescue him.
Relief from the labor shortage is
provided under a call made by the
state board of education on the rural
school districts, asking that they de-
lay the opening of school until Oct. /,
so pupils may aid in harvesting.
Thomas Crull of Peoria, ILL.,, coach
of the high school in that city dur
ing the past five years, will coach the
Fargo high school football team dur
ing the coming yea Crull has splen-
did material for a team there this
year.
Three men have each given a pint
and a half of blood to Thomas Kelly,
in a Bismarck hospital, and physicians
believe the infusions will prove sue
c~essful. w. p. Thurston, e. Hayes
and j. Hayes are the men who made
the sacrifice.
A Williams county court has ruled
that a man who runs over another
with his automobile and fails to stop
is guilty of assault with intent to COM
nit injuries. Ray Eddy of Fargo is
under arrest on that ruling and will
be tried at the next term of the cir
cult court.
Underground rails are being laid by
the Great Northern road between
Grand Forks and Larimore, replacing
the eighty-pound trackage that has
done service there for several years.
The improvement in that district is
in line with the general strengthen
ing of the entire system.
Archie Currie, a farmer near Stark
weather, injured his arm when he
dropped from a ladder, but worked
about his home all day, and it was
not until the afternoon of the succeed
ing day that he went to a physician
to determine just how badly he had
been hurt. The doctor found the arm
broken.
Mrs. G. L. Foster of Anamoose, wife
of a deputy sheriff, saved her hus-
bands life when she led a body OF
men to his rescue after he had been
attacked by six men. The deputy at
tempted to save two men from a beat
ing and the gang turned on him.
Adolph Kimpel was shot in the leg by
the deputy.
Because OF the prospects of seed
wheat shortage the coming year the
agricultural experts Of the state are
engaged in a campaign aiming to pre-
serve all wheat that will be available
for seed purposes. H. L. Bolley, state
pure seed commissioner, has called on
the farmers to have their grain tested
by the state.
The Hogy Elevator company of Bur
lington suspended operations with
$15,0 0 worth of grain storage tickets
outstanding, according to reports
made to the state railroad commits
sion. The commission will investi-
gate the firms assets. 1t is said that
a blanket bond of 1 $1,000 will aid in
protecting the farmers involved.
A yield of %thirty-eight bushels an
acre of barley is the record produc-
ton of the season so far reported in
the Arvilla section. l.. D. Sheets, a
farmer, harvested this amount. Other
barley returns in the district run from
seventeen to twenty-five bushels. The
maximum wheat average so far re-
ported is ten bushels an acre, grading
No. 8.
A. H. Witherspoon has been named
as general passenger agent of the
Omaha railroad at Winnipeg, accord
ing to announcement made by G.. H..
MacRae, general passenger agent. He
succeeds w. S. r. Cameron, who has
resigned because of i'll health. Mr..
Witherspoon has been travelling pas
senger agent, with headquarters at
Grand Forks. Hs will asSuma No paw