The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-08-02
Facts About the
Flickertal State

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Knudson stock farm, east of Marion,
was destroyed by fire. The loss is
estimated at $4,000 and no insurance
was carried. No stock was in the barn
at the time.
Ray Pinkham was arrested at Ber-
thold charged with shipping liquor in
to the state in violation of the bone
dry law. He is alleged to have shipped
a trunk full of liquor from Minneap.
oils to Berthold.
Attorney General LANCER with two
assistants and officers of the North Da-
kota Law Enforcement league, caused
the arrest of ten persons at Grand
Forks. charged with violating the boot
logging act.
The members of G company at Val
ley City were given medical examina-
lions by two army surgeons and were
mustered into federal service by Cap
tain R. Colley of B company of Fargo
and Captain Murphy of Bismarck.
With a score of SO per cent, Julia
Nedrebo, aged II years, of Gardner,
won the special premium, a Jersey
calf, donated by Sam Crabbe, of Far
go, for the best five pound jar of dairy
butter, made by a girl between 12 and
10 years of age. The calf is valued
at 500.
At least fifty boys from Minneap,
oils and st. Paul are expected at New
England within the next few days to
help with the harvest. This was the
promise of Otto Schulz and James
Johnson, Of Minneapolis, who left for
that city in an effort to secure farm
help for farmers in this section.
The Field Hospital corps and the
First Infantry band, both of Lisbon,
have been mustered into federal ser.
vice by Captain Murphy, in the pres.
ence of the whole population Of this
city. The ceremonies were held in
1dlewild park and were largely attend
ed. In the evening a big dance was
given by the militia men i'm the armory.
Because Oakport township in Mime
sofa, thinks Fargo and Fargo township
are not doing their share of keeping
the Broadway bridge in condition, ar
announcement has been sem to the
secretary of the Commercial club here,
j. P. Hardy. stating that the bridge
will be torn down this fall. The Far
go Commercial club has appointed
George H. Sweetland and Hubert Har-
rington as a committee to try and
reach an agreement with the Oakport
farmers.
Ktlldeer's new $3.50 Congregational
church was dedicated under the lead
of the pastor, Rev. George Atkinson.
Rev. j. c. Duling of Dickinson
preached the dedication sermon. The
congregation has also purchased a 3d..
900 parsonage.
Through the death of his brother,
Ben Johnson, we'll known farmer of
Hampden, Martin Johnson of Devils
Lake has learned of a niece, Carrie
Hustid, Of Minneapolis of whom he
had never heard. The niece is the
daughter of a sister, who has long
since been dead.
Lin Arneson, who is raising flax
near McClusky, with his brother, James
Arneson, and Charles Lang of Harvey,
estimates that his 3,15O-acre patch will
average twenty bushels to the acre,
and that the $4,000 bushel crop at
$3.50 the bushel will bring the three
partners s129,150.
When his wife, whom he brought to
Bowman from her home at Elizabeth.
town, N. c., on the strength of a wire
falsely reporting the serious illness of
her mother, declined to consider a
reconciliation after several years sep
aration, Phillip Smith committed sui
eide by firing a revolver bullet into
his brain.
Attorney General William S. Lang
ers is reported to be among the candi
dates for selective service drawn in
Morton county. AS a state official, he
Is constitutionally exempt from serv
ing, it is said. A brother of the at
torney general residing in the state
of Washington also is said to have
been drawn.
The Minot Association of Commerce
has undertaken the work of purchas
Ing hay and feed in large quantities
and selling it to the farmers of thai
end of the state at cost plus the cosi
OF handling. The step was taken IL
the hope of preventing farmers from
selling their stock because of thu
scarcity of food.
E. w. Dyer, who has been manage
Of the Grand hotel in Minot since tn,
new management took over the prom
erty on July /, has resigned his posi-
ton and returned to Sheboygan, Wis,
where he will probably engage in bus
mess in order to be neal his father
who is 70 years of age and who sui
fered a slight stroke of paralysis
few days ago.
That Stutsman county farmers will
produce practically no crop at all thi
year, due to adverse weather condl
lions, is the summary of a genera
survey of crop conditions taken in tina
county. Crops in the southern porto,
OF Stutsman county have suffered
drought for many weeks and the yiel,
will be practically nothing. Farmer
in the northern section also face
shortage.