The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-08-02
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of the State.
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was destroyed.
The Minot team of the North Da-
kota Baseball league has disbanded,
causing disbandment of the league, as
1t is understood Williston also will
toss up the sponge.
North Dakota's grain crop is far be.
low normal and there may be only
about $4,000 0 to $4,000, 900 bushels
of wheat, according to we'll informed
students Of the agricultural situation
in the state.
Mrs. Anna M. Rasmussen Of Dunn
Center, mother Of fourteen children,
succumbed to injuries suffered in an
automobile accident July 2 while she
was returning from q meeting of the
Latter Day Saints.
Edward, three-year-old son of Cliff.
ford Lasham, played in a hay field
near Noonan while his father cut the
hay. The hay was three feet tall and
completely hid the child. Both feet
were severed at the ankle.
Judge Hatch, owned by Frank L.
Bundy Of Minneapolis. and Symbol
Baron, owned by C. L. Butler of Sank
Center, Mimi, took first honors in the
2:20 trot and the 1920 pace, respec-
lively, at the Interstate fair at Fargo.
Two North Dakota young men who
held the first numbers drawn in the
selective draft, 258. went to Minneap-
oils to join the regular army. They
are Alfred B. Walby of Alden and Mel
vim Walby of Hettinger. Both men
were accepted in the regular army.
Alexander Leo Fartbault, sixty
seven years old, son of the noted
French trapper for whom the city Of
Faribault, MIMI, vas named, died at
the Fort Yates Indian agency hospital.
He was the last surviving son of the
trapper. His body was taken to Fari.
bault.
George Van Arnan Of Wilkin county
Minnesota, was elected president Of
the Red River Valley Old Settlers as
sociation at the Interstate fair at Far
go. Other officers are: B. F. Mackall
Moorhead, vice president; Edwin
Clapp, Fargo, treasurer, and H. J.. Ha
gen, Fargo, secretary.
A.. c. Reinecke, for years prominent
in the newspaper business in NORTH
Dakota, founder of the old Fargo
Daily News, fell dead at Cleveland, O.
according to word received at Fargo
Mr. Reinecke had been in the insur
ance business eight years, since retir
ing from the newspaper business II
Fargo.
Late advices from Washington, re
ceived at Bismarck, increase the
North Dakota draft credits by 1874
The new totals for the state are: Ma
tional guard, 1909; regular army ant
other branches, 1853. The total credit.
for the state are now 2,452. reducing
the state quota for the draft army
from 5000 to 5,272.
B. c. Marks, treasurer of the Bis
marck chapter of the Red Cross, ha.
received $50 from more than 200 con
victs in the state penitentiary there
as their "bit" in helping to win tn,
+war. The convicts recently petitionet
Warden F. S. Talcott for permission
to raise $50 from their earnings, which
average from Is to so cents aday, ant
their request was granted.
Etheline R. Cary, daughter Of L. N
Cary, a millionaire real estate man o
Mandan, and William Lewis Little o
Pittsburg. Pa, eloped and we're mar
ried, but members Of the brides fam
: lily were on, hand in time to witnes,
the ceremony. Mrs. Little is a gradu
ate of Washington seminary and Smitl
college, Northampton, Mass. MI. Litl'
is an alumnus of Washington and Jei
ferson.
Herman Miller Of Baldwin, born II
Germany and whose father and three
brothers have died fighting for tn
kaiser, went to Bismapck and took GU
his first papers and Immediately en-
listed in the Second battalion Of tn,
North Dakota infantry. As an aliel
enemy Miller was exempt from mill
tary service. but declared that he wa
anxious to enlist and help get tn
KAISER"
Because of the excessive cost O
machinery Secretary Of State Hall
cherished ambition Of manufacture
the states own automobile licens
tags at the state p%enitentiary prob
ably will not be realized. North D,
kota this year will use more than 60
900 tags. Its expenditures in this dc
partment up to July / were more tina
$1,000. It has found great difficulty i
getting tags.
Minot has an ei~ghtcyear.old bo
hero. He 10 Normal Miller, who, SEE
ing q man apparently drowning in tn
Mouse river, swan out and held hir
up by his hair until Fred Mott, mai
ager Of the bathing beach at Dorman
park. pulled both to shore. Th
stranger, who left town without 81,
ing his name, was so far gone ths
artificial respiration was necessary
cave his life.