Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-25
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of The State.
MANY ITEMS or INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written in Order
to Make Perusal Easier for
Busy Readers.

about forty pieces has been organized
at Dickinson.
Lively interest has been aroused at
Carson by the discovery OF oil bear
ing fields in the vicinity.
Chris Larson. employed as a snow
shoveler on the Great Northern, was
killed by a train ear Minot.
Heavy damage by rabbits to the
clover crop in the section around
Langdon is reported by farmers.
A four weeks course in creamery
butter making will be offered at the
agricultural college at Fargo COM
mencing Jan. %.
Traces Of gasoline and kerosene
We're found in Oil taken from wells
three miles from Des Laos. Five gal
Ions have been sent TO the state uni
versity for investigation.
The Peerless Baking company's
plant and a two-story frame structure
known as the Rice building at Man
dan were destroyed by fire, entailing
an estimated loss of $4,000.
The state banner offered to the
North Dakota Woman lodge securing
the largest number of new members
in three months time has been won
by TIE Fargo homestead of that or
%ani2ation.
Jack Mitchell OF the Great Northern
snow gang a killed at Michigan,
near Devils Lake. when hit by a pas
senger train. His body was carried
or the engine to Petersburg, the next
station, before it was discovered. His
home was in Minneapolis.
The supreme court Of the state OF
North Dakota has affirmed the con
stitutionality of the mothers pension
act, raised in the case of Bessie Niron
Of Casselton. Cass county, opposing
granting the pension on the ground
that the law was illegal.
The increase in receipts at the Man
dan p%ostoffice for the calendar year
ending Dec. / show an increase of
vious year. The receipts for the ear
just closed were sci ,275.4O and a year
ago they were $17,292.91.
The Good Government league organ
lied eighteen months ago as a state
wide institution for the nonpartisan
education of voters on candidates and
measures, has disbanded, according to
an announcement made at Fargo by
Norman Black, the secretary.
The First North Dakota infantry left
Llano Grande, Tex, Jan. %, proceed.
ing to Fort Smelling, Mimi, to be mus
tered out. With it's departure the last
of the organizations included in the
10000 troops ordered home from the
border about q month ago will have
moved.
John Lorbett of Fargo was found
| guilty OF having attempted d criminal
assault on Mrs. Nellie Johnson by a
jury in the district court and was sen
fenced to one and one-half years in
the state penitentiary. The offense
for which Lorbett was sentenced was
committed in October of last gear.
Representative j. G. Brown has in.
troduced a bill asking hat local op
ton be granted with regard to the en-
forcement of the Sunday blue laws
The bill provides that incorporated
cities and towns be allowed to vote
on the question of the Sunday closing
law and regulate the method of oh
serving the day.
Seven carloads Of liquor have beer
seized at Dickinson by the sheriff O.
Stark county as the result of the de
cision OF the United States supreme
court in finding the Webb-Kenyon &C
constitutional. Every shipment o
liquor into the county is being helt
by the sheriff until the consignee!
prove it is for their personal use.
The North Dakota house defeated
Representative J. F. T. O'Connor's bill
designed to prevent "desecration" o
Memorial day by eliminating til
clause in the existing law which pre-
hibits sports such as baseball an
horse racing prior to the hour of
o'clock p. IN. on said day" The vot
or O'Connor's bill was 50 nays to
yeas.
Rev. Harvey J. Moore, pastor of til
First Baptist church of Sommervill,
Mass, has accepted a call to the pa
torate of the First Baptist church 6
Grand Forks. He will begin his d,
ties there March l.. The pulpit ha
been vacant since the resignation Sc
eral weeks ago Of Rev. r, G. Piersol
who accepted a call to Janesvill
Wis. Rev. Moore was a resident
Jamestown until several years ago.
Woman suffrage advocates scored
double victory in the North Dakot
legislature when two measures, 6
ready passed by the senate-one +,
limited and the other for full suffral
were approved by the house. I'll
n limited acknowledgment measure
modelled after the Illinois statute Al
!. needs only the signature OF Govern,
y Frazier to make 1t effective July
next. The full suffrage measure mu