The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-06-28
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ooings Of Last Few Days Throughout
North Dakota Condensed for
Hasty Perusal.

ue6F udyS, are reported IN the Hills
northwest Of town by a raucher, Boyd
Knapp.
County Agent Borchert of James.
town reports loans a%ggregating $780,.
GOO have been secured to date by the
farmers loan organization of Suits
man county.
Nine men charged with violation of.
the North Dakota cigarette law have
waived examination and have been
bound over to the district court at
Minot. The men are mostly pool room
operators.
Methodists from Minnesota, Mon
tana, North Dakota, South Dakota and
Wisconsin are gathered here for the
thirteenth annual camp meeting Of the
North Dakota Camp Meeting associa.
tion. The sessions will continue until
July @.
Charged with threatening the life of
the President, Frank Kramer and AL
bert Anderson, farmers of Bowbells,
were held to the United States grand
Jury at Minot under bond of $500
each when arraigned. Both mer are
professed Socialists.
Cities in Northwestern North Da-
kota are joining with the Minot AS.
%sociation of Commerce in urging the
establishment by the railroads OF
cheap labor rates, to give honest har.
vest workers an opportunity to come
to the state without m"olestation from
the l. w. WIS.
rnrr0NroI pnrirol1 Doo1y1~ ~ p@-o
bina, who went overseas with the
Twenty-seventh battalion, Canadian
contingent, is the first North Dakota
soldier to be f%urloughed home. In
the battle of Courcelette, September 5,
1916, shrapnel wounded him in the
neck, leg, arm and elbow.
The first murder trial in Kidder
county is set for trial in the district
court at Steele, July 10, when Olson
Nash will be tried for the death Of
Clyde Hicks, who was killed in a lone
ly shack near Robinson last December.
Following the killing, Nash fled in
teeth of a binding blizzard, and for
days wandered on the open prairie.
Pledges for a new Y. M. C. A. build
ing at the North Dakota Agricultural
college will be asked from every city
and town in the state.
Burns received when a kerosene
lamp exploded, proved fatal to the ff-
teen-months-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Johnson of Grand Forks.
Over $500 delegates from all parts
of the state attended the annual con-
vention OF the North Dakota Sunday
School association, held in Fargo.
The Grant County Bankers asso-
citation, formed for the purpose of bet
tering Grant county, the newest coun-
ty in the state, has been formed here.
The Little Country Theater" of the
North Dakota Agricultural college has
taken to the road and the dramatic
club is making a six weeks tour of
the state.
Grand Forks authorities are search.
Ing for thieves who broke into the
Normanden Publishing Company's Of
Ace and stole checks totalling several
hundred dollars.
Fort Yates Fourth of July celebra.
ton will be held under the auspices
of agency Indians who frequently have
demonstrated that they are among
North Dakota's most patriotic citi-
ems.
The University of North Dakota
graduated 1856 students at the annual
commencement this year. The degree
of Master Of Arts was conferred OH
seven candidates and Master of Sci.
ence on three.
Valley City was host to the stavan.
gerlaget at it's annual convention
which was attended by over 1000, in
Guiding delegates from a dozen states.
Former Governor Hanna addressed the
convention at n of the sessions.
4 The Commercial club of Wahpeton
has sent a petition to the state rail-
road commission favoring the IS per
cent increase in rates which the rail-
road companies are asking. The COM
mission is opposing the sincrease.
Prizes for the best farms in Cav
alier county will be offered by the
Cavalier County Fair association, the
judging to be done after July ~ and
the winners to be announced at the
fair on July 25. Silver cups will be
the prizes.
A parade of Sunday school children,
the largest pageant of its kind ever
staged in Fargo, was the eliminating
event Of the annual convention of the
North Dakota Sunday School a~ssocia-
ton, held there. More than 1000 chill
dren were in the parade.
At a meeting at Minot an ~organiza-
ton was formed to assist a statewide
movement to encourage immigration
to this state. The officers follow: c..
B. Little, Bismarck, president; F. W,
Irish, Fargo, vice president; c. C. Con-
nelly, Devils Lake, general manager;
Will E. Holbein, Minot, secretary-treas.
urer; E. ]. Lander, Grand Forks, John
Bruegger, Williston, Frank Lish, Dick.
inson, and ]. r. Kelly, Wahpeton, d.
rectors.
Rev. Ralph L. Fuller of Towner was
elected president of the North Dakota
Purity league at the convention held