Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-06-07

May Weddings TecOTueo III rAISO
outnumbered the divorces nearly two
to one. Seventeen weddings were reel
orded and nine divorces.
The total recruiting for Fargo for
which breaks previous records for
the three branches of the military
service.
The Ladies' Guild at Halliday has
suspended all social activities and will
devote its meetings to the preparation
of dainties for Halliday boys who
have enlisted.
John H. Worst, former president of
the North Dakota Agricultural college
at Fargo, will deliver the commence
ment address to the graduating class
of the Fargo high school on the night
of June Is.
The resources Of 6S7 state banks
in North Dakota on May I, 1917, were
$107, O61 ,941.85 as compared with $780,.
729,345.85 reported by 652 banks on
May 1, 1916, a statement issued by
the state bank examiner shows.
In view of the insistent demand for
engineers the Agricultural college at
Fargo anticipates a large enrolment
in it's school of traction engineering,
which will open June IL. The course
is to run for four weeks, closing July
8. No entrance examination is re-
CURED.
Sixteen miles of the Meridian trail,
extending south from Fargo through
Cass county, will be the first to OBJ
tain federal aid in North Dakota, if
The recommendations submitted to the
United States office of public roads by
the state highway commission are ap-
proved. Fourteen miles of road are
used as postroads. The improvement
will cost $13,5OO. -
Ray McKaig of Mandan, state mas
ter of the Farmers grange, announced
the postponement of the grange con-
vention which was to have been held.
at Bismarck in June. ut is the judg-
ment of the officers of the North Da-
kota grange that it would be a waste
of. time and energy needed on the
farms of the state to hold the onven
tion during the busiest season here"
McKaig said.
Extradition proceedings to bring
Edmund Pennington, president of the
500 Line, to North Dakota to face
charges growing out of the alleged
shipment of liquor into this state by
the railroad, will be instituted soon,
according to a statement at Minot by
Assistant Attorney General Brennan.
In the meantime, he said, sheriffs all
over the state have been notified to
arrest Pennington should he enter the
state.
The state railway and warehouse
commission has denied an appeal Of
Mandan elevator men, who asked per-
mission to refuse to accept grain for
storage at the present market price,
declaring that the. purchase of grain
at the present price was forcing them
into bankruptcy. AS much as 81 a
bushel has been lost recently on such
purchases, they say. The elevator
men have threatened to close their
plants.
Billings county, Theodore Roose-
velt's old North Dakota stamping
ground and where people, for one rea-
son or another, in former days never
grew old, has Just celebrated it's first
golden wedding. The happy couple
are Edwin Burr Brewster and Han
nah Herring Brewster, married at
Centerpoint, Ia, in 1867. In honor of
the event Medora paraded with the
village band and the citizens awarded
the celebrants a purse of gold.
Eighty delegates representing the
Farmers Nonpartisan league, which
last fall cast more than $4,000 votes
for the winning state ticket, met at
Fargo and named John M. Baer as
their candidate for congressman from
the district to succeed the late H.. r.
Helgesen, who died in Washington
early this spring. Baer is a former
postmaster and farm manager At
Beach, but for the past two years has
been a %cartoonist on the Nonpartisan
Leader, the official organ of the
party.
o0SHI~u al q nlOSIl0S
of the board of directors of the Com
mercial club of Grand Forks a few
days ago provides that all members
of the club, now in federal service or
to be called later, will be carried with
out payment of dues as members in
good standing during their period in
the service. This is the first action
to be taken by a Commercial club body
in the state. Grand Forks has over
thirty representatives at the officers
training camp at Fort Smelling, Mimi,
and totalling a large number in differ
ent branches of the government serv-
ice, practically all of which, in greater
or lesser degrees, are represented.
One of her boys. Lieutenant John M.
Hancock, is a member of the newly
created munitions board, having to do
with the purchase and distribution of