The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-04-12

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inside q remarkable record IN this sea
sons play. The team members are
Wilma Arnold, Marie Fath, Irene Ed
MRards,. Emma Olson and Olive Flatth..
Coach =. +. Watkins Of Fargo col
|1sge, through jnstng; the services or
Peterson ana Overby, star baseball
menpof last seasonis team, upon whom
he has been depending this season,
win have Z dlncult task in building
up q new team. at the present time
Sim is the only member of last years
team available Tor this seasons cam
paign.
The North Dakota Agricultural col
lege ut Fargo WILL not have q track
team during the coming season, lack
Of material being given as the reason.
Plans are being made, however. Is re-
engage In track work next year and q
course Of compulsory gymnasium work
for freshmen and sophomores. aimed
at developing track athletes, will be
adoptsd.
The Minot Automobile club will en-
gage In IN active campaign for the
Improvement Of roads in that district
during the coming year. The club
win work with other similar clubs in
that section ana also with the county
commissioners. The principal effort
will be made on thu Wonderland trail.
the Twin Cities 20 Glacier National
park highway.
Construction Of the clubhouse Of the
Fargo Country club has been started
and the building will be completed
about July 1. It will cost about $10,-
600. Fargo golfers are ready for q
busy season. Eddie McElligot, the
Minneapolis professional golfer, who
is Instructor for the Grand Forks and
Fargo clubs. will arrive in Fargo about
May 10 ready to begin work.
C. p. Burnstad Of Pollock. 'cattle
king of North Dakota" has purchased
the famous Smith ranch, comprising
1880. acres, for $4,000. The Smith
ranch has been noted for its great al
falfa fields, 500 acres being planted to
that crop, and 200 acres additional will
be sown this sprehg. The ranch will.
be used by its new owner for winter
ing stock and the raising of hogs.
An inquiry directed to a New Rock
ford business man Of German descent,
asking data with respect to the Ger
man population III that district and
fntimating that the information was
sought for the purpose of making it
the basis for anti-American move
ments, has been turned over to the
federal authorities. The German-Amer-
lean also omitted the sender of the
inquiry OF his action. 3$
Harrison Kaiser viii lead the
Jamestown high school basketball
q1int next season, being elected at the
annual meeting of the team. Kaiser
played guard during the season just
ended and was one Of the best men
on the team. Five of this years squad
graduate in June, leaving only three
of the first squad for the 1918 team.
Rathman, Schaumberg, Smith, Hag-
land and Bennett are the men lost by
graduation.
The office of Attorney General VIII
lam E. LANCER has given al opinion
regarding the payment OF pensions to
members Of the North Dakota national
guard for their service at the border.
The opinion says the law. providing
money sufficient to give each man $40
for each month, passed at the border,
does not become effective until July
1, but that arrangements r being
made to provide men in need with
money before then.
The Judges of the Appreciation week
essay contests have made public the
results. The winner Of the high
school contest is Miss Rita A. Murphy
Of the Michigan high school. The
winner of the graded school contest
is Robert Garrison, eighth grade, Will
liston. The winner of the rural school
contest is Aaron Quanbeck Of Aneta.
Mr.. Quanbeck is a student In the Pilot
Mound school No. 4. Three prizes of
$20seach will be awarded the winners.
An organization known as the State
Game Protective association has been
Incorporated with Joseph Crosthwaite,
lC. q. Edquest, G. F. Ellis and a. E.
Thorberg Of Mandan as incorporators.
The directors are: Joseph Crosth-
waite and G. E. Edquest Of Mandan,
Charles O. Heckle Of Lisbon, John A.
Larson of Bismarck, DR.. j. r.. Pence
Of Minot, Frank Day of Dickinson and
Luther 2. Dawson Of Devils Lake. The
purpose Of the organization is for the
propagation and protection Of game.
A special meeting Of the directors has
been called to be held IN Bismarck
April IL.
Judge ]. M. Hanley. in district court
at Mandan, ordered States Attorney
Johns Of Mercer county to institute
prosecution proceedings against TWEEN
~ farmer elevator managers OF that
county on charges Of violating the
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