Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-05-24
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of The State,
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written in Order
TO Make Perusai Easier for
I, Busy Readers.

AAASAh A1loO oIuoSIL
have registered at the summer agricul-
tuTal classes of the Grand Forks high
school.
bismarck will contribute $1,000 to
the Y. M. c.. A. fund to be Used by
the association in work among the ma
items soldiers.
The Grand Forks chapter Of the
American Red Cross society closed it's
membership campaign with the desired
5000 enrolled.
Miss Bernice Brenton and Miss Jen-
ME Brooks, constituting the gradual
ing class of the Wilton high school,
will receive diplomas June Z.
The body of Henry Larson, a mid
die aged bachelor, was found in his
home at McVelle. He apparently had
been dead two days from a se1f-inf1ict.
ed bullet wound.
Driven frantic by earache Frank
koothian visited a Lidgerwood physi-
clan, who removed from his ear a
melon seed which had been imbedded
there twenty years.
Fargo bakers announced a further
increase in the price of bread. The
l0-cent loaf has been raised to IL
cents and the loaf that formerly sold
for IL cents now will bring II cents.
The Bismarck lodge Of the Knights
of Pythias, by unanimous vote, made
application for two $500 bonds of the
liberty loan, to be purchased by the
surplus funds in the lodge treasury.
Notification has been received by
DR.. Cyril ]. Glaspel of Grafton that
he had been appointed first assistant
surgeon to DR.. Frederick Bealey of
Chicago to serve in a base hospital
in France.
The biggest price ever paid for a
single porker in the Hettinger market
-$S0-was drawn by Ole Woll of BIZ
son, who a few years ago would be
willing to Sell two good steers for
that price.
Breaking of ground for Fargo's
100000 packing plant has started, al,
though the general contract for the
building has not been let. The site
comprises 200 acres donated by the
Commercial club.
Anticipating the dispatch of a large
American army to the front in France
the Y. NJ. G.. A. of Grand Forks, realiz-
ing that many North Lakotans may
eventually get there, has started spe-
cial classes in French.
One hundred and forty men enlist
ed for three branches of the United
States military service in Fargo dur
ing the first ten days in May, accord
ing to the officials in charge of the
Fargo recruiting stations.
Governor L. ]. Frazier, in an in
formal proclamation, urges upon every
community in North Dakota to make
registration day, June 5, a patriotic
festival, with parades, loyalty pro,
grams and other demonstrations.
DR.. H. c. Mendenhall of New York
city will deliver the commencement
address to the graduates Of James,
town college on June IA. Rev. Mr..
Postlethwaite of Bismarck will deliver
the b~accalaureate sermon on June 10.
Denny Sullivan, manager OF the
Fargo-Moorhead team of the North.
ern league, will be out of the game
several more days as the result of
the breaking of a finger in the initial
game of the season. Sullivan was hit
by a pitched ball.
In c,111 rinyu Of cnunr01 h,,,Irn3
sons Ruth McVey, fifteen years old
was crushed to death at the Northern
Pacific station at Bismarck when she
attempted to pass between two
freight cars just as they came to
gether. The girls home was at Dunn
Center.
Twenty members of the jamestown
chapter of the North Dakota Army
and Navy league, which was organized
there recently, held a mass meeting
at Spiritwood and seventy-one mem
hers were added to the list of SOC
members. The object Of the league is
to assist needy relatives Of enlisted
men and the starving millions of Eu
rope.
Undaunted by the report of his
brothers. death on the firing line A
w. Cascaden of Williston has left FOL
his home at Lethbridge, Alta, to bic
godspeed to his youngest brother, Mel
son Cascaden, who will leave sooH as
a member of the Seventy-eighth bat
terry Of Lethbridse. to take the place
of his brother, who was killed a
Ypres.
The cultivated acreage on the
Standing Rock Indian reservation will
be from so to 100 per cent greater
than in previous years. The govern
ment has advanced the Indians more
than $4,000 worth Of seed, to be col
lected for at the thresher next fall
and in addition Independent red mel
have made purchases of $4,000 tt
100000 of seed at Bismarck and Other
points. "There is a remarkable de
velopment In the Sioux interest II
agriculture" said Major James b