The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-08-16

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F. Foster, Bottineau, N. D. Ct
Don't forget the Red Cross worl
meetings Tuesday and Friday after.
moons in the Commercial Club rooms
Antler people are hauling flou,
across the line from Lyleton, where II
can be purchased for $6.O5 a hundred
in ton lots.
L. A. Kragrud, who recently retired
from business at Willow City, has
purchased a big furniture business al
Wolf Point, Mont.
Isaac Bacon returned this morning
to Grand Forks, where he is employ
ed as city forester by the city park
board. He came here is response ia
a call for the selective draft.
G.. Maurice Robertson and Miss Iris
Horn, both popular young people OF
Willow City, were welded in Minnea-
polls August 4th. Ray Healy, a form
er Bottineau boy, now in the officers
training camp at Fort Smelling, assist
ed IS best man..
According to news received here,
Alexander Gorder, who is in the Of
fcers' training camp at Fort Smelling,
has been appointed lieutenant in the
regular army reserve. Ray Healy has
received an appointment to the quar-
termaster's corps.
Harvest is now in full blast in
B%ottineau county. While it is adj
mitted that the crop will be a light
one, farmers generally are quite
optimistic v er the prospects of good
prices on whatever they may have
to market.
You business men appreciate having
competent bo~okkeepers and stenogra-
pliers. The Mankato Commercial Col
lege a always recommend we'll train
ed young people. When you need Of
flee help write US. Address Mankato
Commercial College, Mankato, MINI,
A couple of young whelps at Antle1
took the notion into their heads to ex-
hibit themselves, perfectly nude, rid
ing a motorcycle in view Of a picnic
gathering at Manning's grove. There
should be an open season the year
around on such rabbit -brained dere-
licts.
Friends of the Austin Leslie fam
lily, living southwest of town will re-
! gret to learn that it was necessary to
take him before the board of insanity
last week and that he was committed
to the asylum at jamestown. Mr.. Les
lie has been acting strangely for a
month or more, but it was not until
the first of last week that steps were
taken to have him placed in the hos
pital for treatment. His wife and fam
lily have the sympathy of the entire
community.-Antler American.
County Agent Henderson has re-
ceived word from the Quartermaster's
Depot for this division that the pur-
chase of horses for the Army will
probably commence September first,
and that the state will be thoroughly
Ecovered by the purchasing boards.
FARMERS having horses to sell may
avail themselves of the direct dealing
plan by notifying Mr.. Henderson OF
lwhat they have to offer.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. R. Russell return.
ed Tuesday evening from a visit
through the Canadian Northwest. Mr.
Russell reports some very excellent
crop conditions in certain parts Of the
province, particularly in the vicinity OF
Lethbridge, where some of the wheat
gives promise to yielding from thirty
to forty bushels to the acre. In the
Moose Jaw and Red Deer districts
there are also indications Of a good
crop. Conditions throughout the pro,
vince generally are not so good, ac-
cording to Mr.. Russell, the drought
having in many localities wrought as
great havoc as in the western part
Of North Dakota.