Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-19
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.

convention in Fargo July 10 and 20.
April II, the anniversary Of the
battle of Lexington, was selected by
Fargo as the time for it's loyalty cele-
bration.
Nine boys from 'Cogswell, a North
Dakota village, have enlisted in the
navy at Minneapolis. Most of them
quit high school to enlist.
The Valley City Normal school base
ball squad is being. worked out daily,
the big difficulty confronting Coach
Call being that of picking. catchers.
Private Silver, H company, North
Dakota national guard, accidentally
shot himself through the ankle at Val
ley City, necessitating the amputation
of his foot.
Three entries already have been
made for the five-mile road race at
Grand Forks on May 30. Frank Dug
gan, Henry Amber and Julius Ander-
son are the first entrants.
Three thousand citizens of Grand
Forks, at a patriotic meeting there,
pledged their lives and fortunes to the
government for the successful carry
ing through of the val with Germany.
The North Dakota Votes for Women
league will not oppose the plan of the
Anti-Suffrage association to refer to
the polls the legislative women's suf-
S"""e act passed by the recent legisla-
ture.
Pleading guilty to the charge of big
amy before Judge K~neeshaw of the
district court at Cavalier, Arthur j.
Bersagel "a sentenced to one year
and six months in the state peniten-
tiary.
Thief River Falls, Mimi, has
dropped out of the new Northern
league baseball circuit, leaving Fargo,
Winnipeg and Warren. Efforts made
to- book Grand Forks have so far been
unsuccessful.
Jamestown's task of recruiting the
local company of militia to full war
strength has been undertaken by Miss
Emily Parkinson, who was commits
stoned by Mayor Flint to handle the
recruiting work.
Louis Herzig and E. R. Fairbanks
of Bowman, veterans of the Spanish
American war, have offered their serv-
ices to the federal government for re-
cruiting several companies in that sec
ticn of the state.
G0Uoro0r IHro 1ioy. hofopo Loo .,;,, ~
Bismarck for New York city, an
nounced he will call a special election
in the First district to fill the vacancy
left by the death of Representative
Helgesen some time this week.
The Van Hook baseball team, which
last year won eighteen games and lost
three, is out to establish another rec
ord, as shown in the men selected for
office. A. O. Nabseta was elected pres.
ident, l.. Cecil Humgate secretary
treasurer and A. L. Menier manager.
Miss Mary Pearsons of Grand Forks
has been designated as a volunteer
middle and will receive the United
States navy uniform for hat class of
service for women through the re.
cruiting office for that district. She
was appointed by Mayor James Din.
ME of Grand Forks.
The athletic faculty of the North
Dakota Agricultural college at Fargo
has scored a bullseye on the high cost
of living by it's decision to eliminate
the admission fee to baseball games
on Dacotan field this spring. An.
nouncement of the new plan was made
by Coach Paul J. Davis.
Lieutenant James w. Murphy OF
the Second battalion has been commits.
stoned captain of A company of Bis.
marck, First infantry, North Dakota
national guard, to succeed Captain
A. B. WEIGH, who goes on the super
numerary list and probably will be
assigned to the Second regiment.
Williston will have a baseball team
during the coming season, the report
that that city had abandoned plans
for a team because of the war being
u%nfounded. The new baseball park
~grandstand is nearly completed, hav.
AA6 opoSA VI L,tOV, dl1O AL dNAul
ton there will be facilities for park.
ing 400 automobiles.
With a normal crop this year North
Dakota should produce 100000, OOG
bushels of wheat, compared to 49,;
100000 bushels last year. According
to figures received at the office Of the
commissioner of agriculture and la.
Dor the acreage sown is estimated al
5000, 900 acres. Grain men are cpti
mistic over the outlook this year, stat.
ing that conditions are at the start
are all that could be expected.
1t would cost $1.941,5 72 more in
freight charges to handle the average
North Dakota wheat crop from the
farm to the market If the Is per cent
freight rate advance asked by the rail.
roads is granted. That is the esti
mate OF the North Dakota railroad
commission, which has served notice
on the Interstate commerce commits,
sion demanding q full inquiry into the