The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-03-08

III e. N. ss446 Siis, hsaa 81 tho sEoSysrn-
n6nt chronological laboratory Gti
Morniaigstds ! VII make VA; 81, tths
saw n, IN insect injurious to wheat
md other Snaall. grains; this year. He
viii carry ths light to Bottineau counr-
II. North Dakota, whore the pest has
been especially serious.
~ 1 weeks campaign $40,119 was
rafseds ct fargo TO construct, ! $4,000
r. M. g. "A. building ct the agricultural
college and for maintenance and re-
pairs to the city association. headed
~ State Secretary A. B. Halls 100
workers marched through tie prin-
scfpal Fargo streets celebrating the
triumph. u I'D 4,gf
Il Fire Of unknown origin completely
destroyed the Bacon seed grain sle-
Vator, owned by ]. p. Bacon. spropri-
tetor Of the LILAC Hedge farm near
Grand Forks. Approximately 5000
bushels OF seed 0ain stored ii the
elevator was CONSUMED by the flames.
The entire loss will approximate $751;
900, some Of which IL cover6d BY In
surance. ~.
Aside from being one Of the young.
est members Of the North Dakota
house in the Legislative session just
closed Burl Carr of Barnes county
also was n Of the largest landhold-
ers among the farmer lawmakers. He
directs the operation Of his 1,300-acre
grain and stock farm at Leal. Repre-
sentative Carr was greatly interested
in efforts to procure legislation to curb
the I. w. W. activities in the North
west.
The case against Fred Bartholomew,
proprietor Of the Hotel Frederick at
Grand Forks, charged with breaking
the Sabbath, has been dismissed. The
courts action was based on the re.
cent action Of the legislature repeal
ing the states stringent blue laws"
MI. Bartholomew was arrested Feb.
s for keeping open for business the
cigar and news stand in his hotel on
Sunday. His a came up in justice
court on that day and was continued
three times. finally being disposed of.
Miss Grace Gronna, daughter of
Senator and Mrs. Gronna Of North
Dakota, and Carl w. Lewis Of Het-
finger, N. D., were married at Wash.
ington the evening Of Feb. %. They
will make their homo in Hettinger
after a months wedding trip. The
ceremony was performed at Senator
Gronna's apartments by Rev. j. E. A.
! Doermann,. a Lutheran minister, and
/! was followed by q reception ut the
Congregational club, with many SEN
ators, other officials and their wives
as guests.
While his father was in Texas on
his honeymoon with his second wife,
a Canadian woman Bert Nichols, a
student at jamestown college, sud
denly left school,. my sister is sick.
/ have gone to my home at. Ypsilanti,
Mich" was the message he left. But
upon information~feom-a hrptheR that
Bert was not 1t homega search for
him has been carried on since Feb.
IS. He has Just wired from Canada
that he had JoiHsd the Canadian forces
for service on foreign battlefields. He
is eighteen years Of age. WI
On the grounds the distance tariff
measures based on the eastman law
in Minnesota, wipes out the Ignite
rates and cripples some Of the most
important industries of the Missouri
slope cities west of Bismarck will join
in q protest and an organization is in
progress Of formation to have the bill,
which has been signed by the gov
ernor, promptly referended by the
cities and the industries affected. Com
plants relate that the bill is drawn
almost exclusively In the interests of
the Fargo and Twin City jobbers.
Compilation of figures on the, growth
and development Of North Dakota, on
which the North Dakota Development
league press bureau Of Grand Forks
has been busily engaged since the
first Of the year, shows Z startling in
crease in the number; Of homes id the
state during the last ten-year period.
Especially emphatic IRE the figures
showing the agricultural Development
Of the state. Approximately 130,s6o
homes exist in the state. while IN 1905
the number wal 1890, compared with
3g,,s73 homes in 1890. Sixty-two per
cent, or. s1,135 of tho North Dakota
homes are farm homes, compared with
SO per cent in 1900 and 7S per cent In
1885,
Resolutions es~nudofSfidES; rrSSsifident
Wilson In the crisis witGi G{a Hi lid
urging all citizens, retkatidlsis ii, ppafrt.
ty, to support him, word Adopts1d lk
Fargo; at the closing session Or the
annual convention OF. thee North Dat
kota Farmers Grain Dealers assoela-
tion. Bismarck, was chosen for the
nsxt meeting plGce and IT, following
ofacett wore elected: President. 4.
a. Zane 81 Sherwood: afttts Vii, prssi-
ldent, William Holrt41iSf d Rlsder:
second vicss psisa1idsaat, VI Il. astfii or
Beach: secretary M 6. oxnlks of
/ Th0mpxon. and treasuror. I. p 0rms,