Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-26
of the state board OF regents plans Tor
military training at the university
have been put into effect.

of the state board OF regents plans Tor
military training at the university
have been put into effect.
Grand Forks bakers and restaurant
men have boosted prices. The bakers
have lone away with the small loaf,
| which has been selling at 6 cents, and
make only the pound and pound and
a half loaves, which Gre to sell at 10
and Is cents, respectively. Restaurant
men added 5 and 10 cents to their
regular prices.
Governor Frazier announced that he
| would not take farmers from their
fields by calling a special election in
| the congressional district where the
recent death OF Representative H. T.
Helgesen made a vacancy and it is
thought, therefore, that any election
will be held after all seeding opera
| tons have been completed.
Two more amateur long distance
runners have been entered for the five
mile road race at Grand Forks on
Memorial day, Oscar A. Florence and
U. S. ThorWaldson being the latest en-
trants. Frank Duggan, a previous en-
trant, has withdrawn. Just now the
odds favor Booth, present title holder,
and Anderson. Both are Of Velva.
Natural gas was struck at Mandan
by w. II. Anderson, owner Of an ice
cream manufacturing plant, who made
the discovery when he struck a match
to inspect a small leak in an artesian
we'll pipe and the water" ignited.
The we'll is 400 feet deep and steps
| will be taken Immediately to deepen it
and ascertain the extent of the gas
flow.
H. l.. Reade, for thirty-four years
an attache Of the state fire marshal's
Office and for twenty consecutive years
secretary Of the North Dakota Fire
mems association, has been appointed
state fire marshal by Governor Fra
zier to succeed A. H. Runge. Reade
has been assistant fire marshal for
the past four years.
Frank Schuety, a farmer living south
of Manning, is dead from self-inflicted
wounds and Alfred Mackey, a neigh
Dor, is suffering from the effects OF
two bullet wounds in the right leg as
the result of a quarrel. 1t is charged
that the men had been drinking and
Schuety is alleged to have opened fire
with a revolver. Mackey was hit
twice. schuety then shot and killed
himself.
81 am moss decisively opposed to
universal military training as now
! promulgated" Governor Lynn j. Fra
zier of North Dakota said. II believe
this is one Of the abuses we have
been trying to get away from since
we won independence; it is the thing
/ we are fighting against in Germany to-
day." The governor declared himself
in flavor of a reasonable military pre-
%paredness."
"Slackers" in the production Of food
will be regarded with the same dis
6ain llat Chicago and other Eastern
cities have heaped on "slackers" who
have sought to escape military duty
by the marriage route. That is the
decision Of the Bismarck Commercial
CluU duu OlllSl VI pll1ActI1OA1o WASASAA
have combined to press into service
every available city lot for produc-
ton purposes.
North Dakota is going to combat
the labor situation with it's school
children. Women will be a second
factor. Women have mounted the
binder and helped dig potatoes in
years when real labor shortage con-
fronted the farmers and with some
modern farm devices now in use they
will not hesitate to perform more
than their share Of the duties in Ia
Dor crises brought on by the war.
The personnel OF a coinnil1tee which
will direct the energies of North Da-
kota bankers toward increasing food
production and arranging to meet any
other exigencies that may arise as the
war progresses has been announced
by Wesley G. Mcdowell Of Marion,
chairman The committee follows:
C. B. Mcmillan. Hannah; Samuel Tor
gerson. Grand Forks; F. A. Irish, Far
60; T. e. Riley, Wyndmere; A. p. Han
son, Litchfield; A. b. Denault, James
town; L. f. Crawford, Sentinel Butte;
w. s.. Davidson, Williston; w. F.
Hands, Powers Lake; r. f. Barron.
Minot; H. Il. Baird, Devils Lake; A.
Tymeson. Garrison; 8. G. Nowberry,
Darlington, and r. A. Volkman, Fes-