Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-11
North Dakota
Events of the Week

Brinsmade police authorities are
seeking burglars who pried open a side
door at the Dickinson & Company
store and got away with 5000 worth
OF merchandise.
James Grover, who left Tuttle two
weeks ago in his car, writes from Bos-
ton that he made the trip over the
Red Trail, a distance of 2,216 miles,
in ten days, with only one blowout and
two punctures.
Amputation Of the right arm below
he elbow was necessary as the re-
suit of the three-year-old daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Clarkson, neal
Cox, getting her hand caught in the
cogs Of a wringer.
A state charter has been issued to
he Jack Sherman Memorial Methodist
Episcopal church, to be established
near Steele, in Kidder county. Earl
G. Chamberlain, G.. H. Whitney and
R. B.. Porter, all Of Steele, are the in
corporators.
Sibley Point ranch, famous as the
scene of the first Indian battle in Da-
kota territory, fought by Sibley in the
sixties, and also as the burial place
of the first Mason who died in Dakota
territory, is being stocked by F. J.
Celtgan, the owner, with the famous
New Salem strain of Holsteins.
twenty-five hundred bushels of
wheat from $50 acres and 1000 BUSH
els of flax from 100 acres, which at
the present prices would sell for over
$4,000, is the showing AL Robinson Of
Ray made on his farm this year, which
he purchased a year ago. Besides
this yield, he raised considerable feed
grain for his 40 head of stock and
herds of horses.
According to reports made by the
firm of Stang Brothers of New Eng
land, it has paid farmers $1S,463.31
for stock shipped out in September up
to the 25th. The stock was mostly
cattle and hogs and this goes to show
that the stock raising industry is rap
idly growing in that section. Besides
this payment, several thousand dol
lars have been paid by b. Cole, who
also has shipped several carloads.
A fine consolidated schoolhouse
will be built in Eddy county, just out
side the village of New Rockford, i'll
a new school district into which the
township has been divided.
When Gilbert Wick of Robinson ran
into a bunch of horses with his auto,
one of the animals was hoisted onto
the hood and almost through the
windshield. The animal was uninjur-
ed.
Tho TNrcfDr a~,-1{- N,t~ 1>~
Quoted a Red Cross campaign for the
purpose of raising $4,000. They not
only did this, but raised several thou
sand MORE. The total receipts were
S 9,705.17. +
Petitions are being circulated by
the New England Commercial club to-
the county commissioners asking them
to bond the county and lend farmers
money with which to purchase seed
grain next spring.
The sum of S35,200 was paid at
Litchville when r. J. Godfrey of Usage,
Iowa, sold his section farm, one mile
east of town, to Halsten Peterson Of
Spring Creek township. The price
was an even payment of $50 an acre.
Milling operations have been resum-
ed at the Northwood mill as the re-
suit of an agreement entered into with
the Harvey mill, whereby the flour will
be purchased by the latter Company
and marketed under the Harvey trade.
name.
j. I. Thompson, a farmer near Wal
halla, hauled a load of 80 bushels of
wheat to an elevator in that city and
received $3.50 for it. This is the 1arg-.
est load eve hauled into that city
and the check was the largest ever re-
ceived for a single load.
Fire seven miles northwest of Ed
ridge destroyed $50 tons of hay own
ed by Ed Thorn, Fred Weber and Fred
Anderson, the total loss being esti-
mated at $4,000. The blaze originated
from an explosion in a gasoline stove
in a cook tent, destroying the entire
camp.
Roy, 11-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Larson, of Ignite, is in a
serious condition at the Kenmare hos
pital following the discharge of a
loaded shotgun which he was remov-
ing from his fathers car, muzzle fore
most. The full charge lodged in the
boys hip.
A divorce was granted to Mrs. Mar
garet Nelson from her husband, A. B.
Nelson a Mandan tailor, on the
grounds that he was cruel to her.
The husband was ordered never to
marry and permission was granted
Mrs. Nelson to marry at any time at.
= ter so days.
), Anticipating ar unusual demand for
Ignite coal, j. S. Williamson bf the
Haynes cooperative mine is in Iii,
nois engaging expert miners from the
bituminous fields there. The company
has purchased the Robinson School
building and is remodeling it for q
boarding and rooming house. It will
! be steam heated; provided with show
u er baths and other conveniences, and