Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-11-22

The enrolment in the Minot public
schools is 1853. OF this nUmhe" 1888
-. u. .,.uIlure has ie.t 49,, Lake
for st. raul to be connected With the
Fed"'a' '""d h"1E - has
severed his connection with the Dew.
lis Lake State, of which he was vice
president.
Thomas w. Asbridge. who resides
south of Leith, is erecting the largest
barn in Grant county. The structure
will be 5SXS0, with 1S-foot posts. Mr..
Asbridge is a we'll known raiser of
Hereford cattle.
a safe in the Office of the Dakota
Sales company at Cogswell was robbed
of about $40. The authorities believe
amateurs did the work. Entrance was
made through a real window and ex.
plosives were used.
The ~dressmaking course in the State
School of Forestry has opened a gas
and steam engineering course. Up to
the night of November 10 ten students
had enrolled in the elementary trade
dressmaking urse This course will
run for six weeks.
Fargo churches are to do their "bit"
in the conservation of fuel. Trustees
Of the First Presbyterian church have
requested all church organizations to
concentrate their weekday activities
on a day or two in the week when the
whole church will be heated.
Tho villa pn IF Tyo1oo g. --.
electric light service as soon as the
plant can be installed. The board
has closed a deal with e. P. Harwood
for a $1,000 plant to be installed at
the earliest date possible. The sys-
TEN will have full equipment of stor-
age batteries so that it will be in op-
Grafton at all hours of the day and
night.
Men who are for America first and
all the time will launch a home guard
at Watford. A call is expected to be
made for volunteers.
1t is reported that Henry Loos, a
Park River genius, has perfected an
invention that will revolutionizebt the
motor machinery, if it proves what
is claimed for it. The invention is sun.
posed to be an engine that is run by
electricity taken Out of the pure air.
Forman is to have a new newspaper
to be run under the name of the sar!H
gent County Farmers Publishing COM
pany. Business men and farmers
Throughout the county are subscribing
for stock. The paper will probably
issue its, first edition the first of the
year.
Belief is held by farmers in the Ray
Vicinity that a tirebug was RESPONSE.
bic for the burning of the barn on the
j. II. Schlief farm with all it's con
tents, including hay, feed, horses, har.
ness and chickens. This was the
fourth barn fired in that neighborhood
to burn during the past two years.
John Hiveiy of Watford City rolled
a crisp 500 bill in his hands last
week. Hively had a hog in a shipment
of live stock to the Twin Cities which
weighed 600 pounds and brought the
owner that amount. A. A. Stensatter
shipped 315 head to South St. Paul,
the shipment comprising 40 head of
beef and IS sheep, valued at $4,000.
Governor Frazier has appointed A..
q. Crane, president of the Minot nor.
nal, now taking postgraduate work
at Columbia, a delegate to the ma.
tional melting Of the evolution of food
gardens of America for permanent.
service, to be held at Pittsburgh, Pa.,.
on December 80. Inasmuch as Presi-
dent Crane is already in the East, it is,
anticipated he will attend.
The Garrison fire department at a
recent meeting subscribed for 5000 in
Liberty loan bonds.
More than $4,000 in grain, and stock
sold from his farm this year is the
record made by T. T. Walker of Duck
Greek township, near Hettinger. Last
spring he marketed $1,000 worth of
hogs.
Judge Crawford has announced a.
final hearing at Carson on the petit
ton of Elgin citizens restraining the,
payment of county funds for the new
courthouse now nearing completion at
that place.
Out Of 1870 n~ative-born citizens
who were registered in Cass county
on June 8, under the draft act, 1857
have dependent relatives and 1873 no
dependents. Subjects of Norway lead
other n~ationalities in the numbers reg.
istered, the total number being 15O.
There were 70 Swedes, GO Russians,
81 Austrfans and 81 Canadians. Italy
then follows with 81. There were 4
Irishmen.
A cash about two inches long was
torn n the face of the little four-year-,
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Schmidt
OF Dickinson while the child was play.
Ing with a pet cat. The animal caught
its claw in the child's mouth.
stutsman county's Red Cross fund
was boosted to the amount of 81 whep
w. B. Default, secretary of the on
ganization, received a check for the
amount from the Farmers club OF
Mount Pleasant. The money was in
he form of a premium check from
the Stutsman county fair and repre-
pcNfod tho amount ~ n IN rdo m nro{r