Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-05
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of the State.
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written In Order
to Make Perusal Easier for
Busy Readers.

SCHOOL CONVENTION Will U0 u0lO at WILL
liston June 2 and 8.
Dickinson probably will establish a
city Y. M. c. A. as a result of the work
of A. B. Dale, state secretary.
Bids will be called for in a few days
for the construction of a grade school
building at Fargo, to cost about $780,
600.
Y. NJ. G. A. units will be organized
for the North Dakota national guard
companies that have been ordered to
report for federal duty.
Fire of an undetermined origin de-
stroyed the G. H. Brown livery stable
at Beach, causing a loss estimated at
$4,000. A horse, a 10Y and two hogs
were killed.
Bismarck's County club, composed
of 200 members, has elected 7. l..
Conklin, president; Judge Andrew A.
Bruce, vice president, and George H.
Russ, Jr., treasurer.
A semi-pro baseball team that will
represent Minot on the diamond dur
ing the coming summer wial be made
up largely of home talent as a result
of plans now being advanced.
John Hank, a native of Poland,
committed suicide at the Thorsen
farm north of Woodworth. He had
brooded over the European war and
his family and property in Poland.
The Grand Forks Commercial club
will lend it's support to the movement
for the successful conduct of the fed.
eral military training camp at Fort
Smelling, Mimi, the coming summer.
Fargo's mayoralty ticket has again
been changedkhrough the withdrawal
Of Rev. e. o. McCracken, the last en-
trant in the race, who decided not to
continue his campaign, he announced.
The production of Ignite coal in
North Dakota during the calendar
year 1916 was 66O,751 tons, an increase
of 1913 per cent owe the production
in 1915, the gain in tonnage being a.
635.
John Valley, appointed receiver for
the Northern Fire and Marine Insur-
ance company, will wind up the affairs
of that company. h concern went
to the wall because of excessive hail
losses in 1916.
A forty-foot grandstand with eight
tiers of seats will be built at Ollie,
near Beach, this spring, by the COM
mittee recently appointed on baseball.
improvements costing about $3.50 will
be made on the ball grounds.
Judge Crawford, in a decision at
Dickinson, decided in favor of Amidon
as the county seat Of the newly Gre
ated county of Slope over Marmarth,
on the ground that many illegal votes
were cast for the latter place.
The next meeting of the state board
of education will be held at Grand
Forks on May 16, at which time the
new Ii. embers of the board named by
Governor Frazier and confirmed by
the senate will take their seats.
The University of North Dakota will
be represented in the collegiate field
and track meet to be held at Carleton
college, Mortified. Mimi, May To-. l..
Thompson, head of the athletic depart.
ment. will be in charge of the track
team work.
Fireman M. l.. Hill was killed when
the engine pulling a freight train into
Mclaughlin on the ST. Paul road ex
ploded. Engineer F. j. Nesbitt was
seriously, perhaps mortally injured
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hurt severely in the explosion.
G. N. Kirk was elected president Of
the Bismarck baseball club, DR.. C. e
Stackhouse was chosen vice president
w. C. Edwards secretary and G. B
Allen treasurer. A campaign for sub
scriptions TO liquidate a $500 debt O.
last year due to the injunction placed
on Sunday baseball will be started
Immediately.
The st. Anthony Elevator com
pany's structure in Colfax, one of the
biggest in that section, was destroyed
by fire. Two freight cars also were
burned. T. Berg's barn, some distance
away, was fired by sparks carried b.
a high wind. John Scare, fighting tn.
flames, was severely injured by a fall
ing piece of roofing.
!, With the payment at Minot of an ex
ecution order for costs, totaling 1921
IS, by Grant Youmans, the Youmans
Hanna case, involving Youmans' allie
cation that the state banking board il
legally closed his bank at Minot, /
concluded. Youmans was beaten Il
the state courts, his case being throw.
out on the original trial.
, 81 know that / have been in the m
nority. 1t is possible that l may col
tinue to be in the minority. l kno,
that l have been characterized as
traitor and a Benedict Arnold. but tn
: same epithets were hurled at men lik
Washington and Lincoln" This is a
excerpt from the letter written by Sci
ator Gronna, who voted against tn
Earned neutrality bill" to DR.. Eina
L%ohrbauer, mayor OF Lakota, thankin
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