Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-03-08
c. N. Ainslie, head Of the govern

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M~orninsside, Ia, will make war on the
saw fly, an insect injurious to wheat
and other small grains, this year. He
will carry the fight to Bottineau coun-
ty, North Dakota, where the pest has
been especially serious.
In a weeks campaign $4O,112 was
raised at Fargo to construct a $4,000
Y. M. G. A. building at the agricultural
college and for maintenance and re-
pairs to the city association, Headed
by State Secretary A. B. Hale 200
workers marched through the prin-
cipal Fargo streets celebrating the
triumph.
Fire Of unknown origin completely
destroyed the Bacon seed grain ele-
vator, owned by ]. d. Bacon, propri-
etor of the Lilac Hedge farm nea
Grand Forks. Approximately 5000
elevator was consumed by the f1arles.
The entire loss will approximate : 49,.
600, some of which is covered by in
Surance.
Aside from being one of the young
est members of the North Dakota
house in the legislative session Just
closed Burl Carr of Barnes county
also was one of the largest landhold-
erS among the farmer lawmakers. He
directs the operation of his 1,30O-acrc
grain and stock farm at Leal. Rep~
sentative Carr was greatly Interested
in efforts to procure legislation to curl,
the |. w. w. activities in the North
west.
The case against Fred Bartholomew,
proprietor OF the Hotel Frederick at
Grand Forks, charged with breaking
the Sabbath, has been dismissed. The
courts action was based on the re-
cent action of the legislature repeal
ing the states stringent blue laws"
Mr.. Bartholomew was arrested Feb.
8 for keeping open for business the
cigar and news stand in his hotel on
Sunday. His case came up in justice
court on that day and was continued
three times, finally being disposed OF.
Miss Grace Gronna, daughter of
Senator and Mrs. Gronna of North
Dakota, and Carl w. Lewis of Het-
finger, n. d., were married at Wash
lngton the evening OF Feb. 2S. They
will make their home in Hettinger
after a months wedding trip. The
ceremony was performed at Senator
Gronna's apartments by Rev. j. E. A.
Doermann, a Lutheran minister, and
was followed by a reception at the
congregational club, with many en-
as guests.
While his father was in Texas on
his honeymoon with his second wife,
a Canadian woman, Bert Nichols, q
student at jamestown college, sud
denly left school. MY sister is sick.
| have gone to my home at Ypsilanti,
Mich was the message he left. But
upon information from a brother that
Bert was not at home a search for
him has beef carried on since Feb.
IS. He has just wired from Canada
that he had Joined the Canadian forces
for service on foreign battletields. He
is eighteen years Of age.
On the grounds the distance tariff
measure, based on the eastman law
in Minnesota, wipes out the Ignite
rates and %cripples some of the most
important industries of the Missouri
slope cities west OF Bismarck will join
in a protest and an organization is in
progress OF formation to have the bill,
which has been signed by the gov
ernor, promptly r~eferended by the
cities and the industries affected. Com
plants relate that the bill is drawn
almost exclusively in the interests Of
the Fargo and Twin City jobbers.
Compilation of figures on the growth
and development of North Dakota. on
which the North Dakota Development
league press bureau of Grand Forks
has been busily engaged since the
first OF the year shows a startling in
crease in the number of homes in the
state during the last ten-year period.
Especially emphatic are the figures
showing the agricultural development
of the state. Approximately 1906
homes exist in the state, while in 1905
Llle hummer was O4,O9U, compared VIII
3S,973 homes i'll 1890. SiXty-two per
cent, or S1,133 Of the North Dakota
homes are farm homes, compared with
6S per cent in 1900 and IS per cent In
1890.
Resolutions endorsing President
Wilson in the crisis with Germany and
urging all citizens. regardless of par
ty, to support him, were adopted at
Fargo at the closing session of the
annual convention of the North Da.
kota Farmers Grain Dealers associa.
ton. Bismarck was chosen for the
next meeting place and the following
officers We're elected: President, A.
A. Lane of Sherwood; first vice presi
Gent, William Holmquist Of Reeder;
second vice president. ]. NJ. Still OF
Beach: secretary, NJ. c. Gaulke O!
Thompson, and treasurer, L.. P. Orms
, by of Edgeley. Among the resolu
l tiOnS adopted was one endorsing gov