The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-12-20
Facts About the
Fickertail State

uSNk1t0A 1C0tI
The Valley City High. School Red
Cross has been reorganixed and meet.
insS' will be held each week.
DAnxig, with . population Of shout
50, has completed Its war YIN. c. A.
drive with subscriptions totaling $40.
35,.. more than double the quota Of
$500.
While Chairman +. p. Packard Of
the state tax commission and his fam.
ly were attending eveL g church
services some one broke into their
homo at Bismarck. Nothing was miss.
ing except two purses belonging to
the children.
Persistent efforts Of q subscriber
Of the Lansford exchange saved the
life, of Miss Evelyn Knudson, night
operator, who had retired as usual
after turning on the night bell, and
who when aroused at s o'clock in the
morning by the continued clamor Of
the gong found her oom reeking with
coal smoke and herself almost over.
come.
DR.. Clarence Robertson, former
Park River resident, now with the
medical staff of the British expedt.
tionary force in France, in q letter
under date of October 26, 1917, to his
father, James Robertson Of Park
River, says he expects to be quite
busy now for a day or two, as the
boys went over the top this morn.
ing" on a pretty wide front.
"We begin to realize we are really
Ut war when we get letters from five
concerns with which we have dealt
for years advising they can sell US no
flour o. feed for our institutions"
said James A. Brown Of the state board
Of control. The board of control,
with thousands Of wards to feed. be.
gins to sympathize with Sherman IN
his views on q
In point of popular interest the
present special term Of the Federal
court at Bismarck promises to be the
most important held in several years.
IN addition to the famous Jim Jam
Jems case, in which Sam Clark and
Clarence H. Crockard, publishers Of
this we'll known monthly periodical
are the defendants, there will come
up the case Of Kate Richards O'Hare
Socialist lecturer, arrested during {
recent tour Of North Dakota on the
charge Of making seditious u~tterances
at Bowman.
Michael Lehman. veteran Of the
Army Of the Potomac. pioneer Indian
fighter and one Of Bismarck's Oldest
citizens, passed away Unexpectedly a
the home Of his son, John Lehman
in Heron Lake, MINI.
II believe that the return Of thu
bodies Of boys who fell In battle Is {
duty that the United States owes Il.
Mothers" said B. F. Wasem, Fargo
undertaken, who announced that hl
had made application Tor enlistment
in the American. Purple Cross, pro
posed by the Undertakers' %associatio.
of the United States to embalm bod
les Of American soldiers who fall IL
France.
Rev. Eggen has arrived at Mohal
froA Rhame. N. D., where he ha'
served the Lutheran church for tn
past sixteen months, and will tax,
charge of the Lutheran church at Nc
hall.
Favorable weather conditions hav'
enabled Clarence Fallman of Wolfor,
who farms LOO acres, to complete
his fall blowing. He has used a larg'
gas tractor pulling a twelve-botton
gang and has worked two crews da,
and night.
Rev. F. o. Brose, pastor of tn
German Congregational church 0
Blue Grass has resigned to accept
call to Billings, Mont. The churcl
at Billings is located right in the cit,
and is the largest German Congrega
tional church in the state Of Montans
An Omaha dispatch says: Mis-
Hilda Johnson, Cakes, N. D., has a,
rived in Omaha to assist in clearing
up the mystery of the death Of he
flance, Thomas s. Thompson, who wa
found murdered in his home here
Thompson and Miss Johnson were t
have been married in December
Thompson, who vas 80 years old, live
alone. After not seeing him for sey
eral days, the neighbors notified tn
police, and the house was broken int
and his body with two bullet holes II
the head was found on the floor. N
arrests have been made.
Fire believed tn have originated
from the storage battery burned
roadster belonging to c. F. Francis q
Devils Lake. The accident occurre
near Sweetwater.
Ad0lnh Johnson a Earg0 taxica