Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-06-07
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of the State.
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written In Order
to Make Perusal Easier for
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The Minot girls military squad in
its requisition for uniforms includes
khaki trousers of regulation type.
Fifty girls are drilling weekly.
L. Buege of Minneapolis has been
awarded the contract for the new
farmers elevator at Wimbledon, to be
completed Aug. 1, at a cost Of $4,000.
Seven head of valuable cattle lined
up along a fence during a recent cleo
trical storm and Roy Grimm of Hurds.
field now has seven singed hides for
sale.
Foster county is to have a farm jour
ma published by farmers. They will
operate the paper, direct it's editorial
policy and otherwise exercise COM
plete control over its publication.
P. j. Egeland has been named pres
1dent of the Harvey Federal Land
Loan bank, said to be the first char
tered in this federal reserve district.
A. j. Peterson was named vice presi-
dent and G. A. Revell secretary.
Restitution of the death penalty for
murder is being urged by a large num-
Der OF people in the Dickinson district
as the result of two brutal murders
within a fortnight in Stark county.
The. state abolished hanging three
years ago.
Floys Moreaux, former Dickinson
man, has been missing for two years
and his mother, Mrs. A. T. Moreaux.
is Offering a reward for information
regarding his whereabouts. 1t is be-
lieved that he may have enlisted in a
Canadian expeditionary force.
The fact that practically every
young man in Mott has enlisted for
war service has made necessary the
abandonment of the Mott baseball
team. The club had excellent pros
poets early in the season, with a
strong lineup and sound financial
backing.
"Goodby," says the editor of the
Max Enterprise, Clarence Cowell, in
his last issue. "The next issue of the
Enterprise will be under new manage
ment. We're going to war" The
young editor, son of E. E. Cowell, pub
Usher of the Dogden News, is in train
ing at Jefferson barracks.
Bankers Of Northwestern North Da-
kota, in their convention at Minot,
placed under way a movement de-
signed to keep farm boys on the farm
during the war, to the end that the
greatest possible food production be
obtained. The association elected A.
j. Ross of Stanley president.
The boys of Fargo have requested
that they be allowed to contribute
their bit in the war by organizing a
local camp of the Boy Scouts. They
assert it will fit in we'll with the home
guard and the League for Defense
Service, both local wartime organiza-
tions among the adults in that city.
According to recent estimates of the
state vehicle department there are be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 vehicles in
North Dakota upon which may be lev
led the tax allowed by the state.
Agents of the department have been
at work for several weeks in various
parts Of the state collecting taxes and
making investigations.
Fort Lincoln, North Dakota's mil.
~lion-dollar military post, is occupied
by K company of Dickinson, the first
military company to he ordered there
in the present mobilization. K com
pany arrived from Missoula, Mont.
where it had been stationed prior to
Fort Missoula's transfer from the Cen.
trail department to the Western.
Every ma who registered in Bis.
marck on June 5 was provided with a
khaki arm badge Of honor by the Mil.
1tary Training Camps association OF
the Capital City and in the evening
the 700 candidates for selective serv
ice led a parade, which was followed
by patriotic exercises and community
singing in the courthouse square.
According to agricultural experts
who recently returned to Fargo from
a trip over the state crop conditions
In North Dakota were never better,
the only immediate need being sew.
eral weeks of warm weather to allow
the sprouting grain to develop. Thu
backward spring, characterized by
cold weather and much rain, has
caused all crops to take deep root
which will enable them to withstand
an unusual amount of drouth.
Sons of Norway of Canada and
North Dakota held a two days con.
vention at Bismarck, closing with a
banquet at which l.. O. Stavnheim o,
Minneapolis, grand secretary, was the
principal speaker. Mayville was Sc
lected as the place for the 1918 meet
ing. L. P. Saffron of Galesburg was
elected president. Norwegian loyalty
to the United States and the absence
of the hyphen among American citi.
e n of Norwegian birth and descent
was pledged in addresses by many
prominent members of the organiza.