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a symphony orchestra consisting Of
about forty pieces has been organized
ut Dickinson.
Lively interest has been aroused at.
Carson by the discovery Of oil bear
ing fields. in the vicinity.
Chris Larson, employed as a snow
shoveler on the Great Northern, was
killed by q train "a Minot.
Heavy damage by rabbits to the
clover crop in the section around
Langdon is reported by farmers.
A four weeks course in creamery
butter making will be offered at the
agricultural college at Fargo COM
mencing Jan. 20.
Traces Of gasoline and kerosene
were found in OIL taken from wells
three miles from Des Laos. Five gal
Ions have been sent to the state uni
versity for investigation.
The Peerless Baking company's
plant and a two-story frame structure
known as the Rice building at Man
dan were destroyed by fire, entailing
an estimated loss of $4,000,
The state banner offered to the
North Dakota Woman lodge securing
the largest number of new members
In three months time has been won
by the Fargo homestead Of that or
g%anization.
Jack Mitchell of the Great Northern
snow gang was killed at Michigan,
near Devils Lake. when hit by a pas
senger train. His body was carried
on the engine to Petersburg, the next
station, before it was discovered. His
home was in Minneapolis.
The supreme court of the state Of
I North Dakota has affirmed the con-
stitutionality of the mothers pension
act, raised in the case of Bessie Niron
of Casselton, Cass county, opposing
granting the pension on the ground
that the law was illegal.
The increase in receipts at the Man
dan postoffice for the calendar year
ending Dec. 1 show an increase Of
s. .9S2.40 over the receipts of the pre-
vious year. The receipts for the year
just closed were $21.275.4O and, year
ago they yer $17, 1929
The. Good Government league organ.
lied eighteen morths' agosa Dtate'
wide institution for the nonpartisan
Education of voters on candidates and
measures, has disbanded, according to
an announcement made at Fargo by
Norman Black, the secretary.
The First North Dakota infantry left
Llano Grande, Tex, Jan. s23, proceed
ing to Fort Smelling, Mimi, to be mus
tered out. With its departure the last
of the organizations included in the
10000 troops ordered home from the
border about a month ago will have
moved.
John Lorbett of Fargo was found
guilty of having attempted q crimina
assault on Mrs. Nellie Johnson by 8
jury in the district court and was sen
fenced to one and one.half years II
the state penitentiary. The offens.
for which Lorbett was sentenced wa
committed in October Of last year
Representative ]. G. Brown has in
troduced a bill asking that local op
ton be granted with regard to the en-
f0rcement Of the Sunday blue laws
The bill provides that incorporate,
cities and towns be allowed to vot'
on the question of the Sunday closing
law and regulate the method of oh
serving the day.
Seven carloads of liquor have bee1
seized at Dickinson by the sheriff Q
Stark county as the result Of the de
scision of the United States supreme
court in finding the Webb-Kenyon &C
constitutional. Every shipment o
liquor into the county is being hel,
by the sheriff. until the consignee
prove it is for their personal use.
The North Dakota house defeate,
Representative j. F. T. O'Connor's bill
! designed to. prevent Dissertation" 0
Memorial day by eliminating TIL
! clause in the existing law which pro
hibits sports such al baseball an,
horse racing 'prior to the hour Of
o'clock p. m. on said day" The vot,
!, ON O'Connor's bill vas SO nays to
yeas.
Rev. Harvey J. Moore, pastor of tn
First Baptist church of Sommerville
Mass, has accepted a call to the pas
torateg of the First Baptist church a
Grand Forks. He will begin his du
ties there March 1. The pulpit ha
been vacant since the resignation sew
eral weeks ago of Rev. r. G.. Pierson
who accepted a call to GAINESVILLE
Wis. Rev. Moore was a resident o
jamestown until several years ago.
Woman suffrage advocates scored
double victory in the North Dakot,
legislature when two measures. al
n ready passed by the senate-7one 70
limited and the other for full suffrag
were approved by the house. TIL,
limited acknowledgment measure !
modelled after the Illinois statute an,
needs only the signature Of Governo
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