Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-05-10

SOAS AOAI al Iu0 SOOuIS jail az NIANN
Forks. Sheriff A. F. Turner asked an
additional Is cents a day for the board
Of each prisoner, which was granted.
The drawings of Berthold lands at
Minot brought out 1893 applications
for about sixty homes.eads. The lands
comprise 10, acres. The first name
drawn was that Of Sarsfeld Gallagher
of MinOt. I
The mar killed on May S when his
automobile upset ear Sterling, throw
ing him through the windshield, has
been identified as T. H. Chambers, a !
grain solicitor of Bismarck. 1t was
believed at first that he was a Mime
apOlis man. I.
Because he was one month too old
Major E. S. Person, who made an envi-
able record as an officer in the Philip
pines, has been rejected by the Off
GERS Training Camp association. Ma
jor Person is forty-four years and ten
months old.
The fifth annual Brule county inter-
scholastic track and field meet will
O0 AACAO " y A0ALOA III udy, .N1dy
rs. The school winning the highest
number of points will be awarded the
silver trophy cup which was won by
Bowbells last year. |
C.. H. Musser, b. E. Frederick and |
Jerry Foster have been named as a
committee Of three to finance a base
ball team at Shields for the coming !
season. F. A. Shipman will manage |
the squad. The team probably will
consist of Indians.
The bodies of B. G. Phipps, cashier
of the First National bank at McHen- !
ry, and Henry Vadnie, druggist of the
same town, were found in Red Willow
lake, eve miles north of .Binford, ,
Griggs county. An overturned row.
boat floated in the water nearby. The
two were on a fishing trip. 1t is known !,
Vadnie could not swim.
Members of the North Dakota Mo-
ton Picture Exhibitors association, !
representing theaters in more thar
forty towns of the state, in conven-
ton at Fargo, unanimously agreed to
refrain from exhibiting features deal
ing with so called sex problems. The
gathering was an adjourned session of
the annual meeting at Mandan in
March.
Farmers of Burleigh county, at a
meeting last week, adopted a resolu-
ton declaring that a fee of 81 is sufi-
cient remuneration for dragging out
an automobile mired in the mud and
that a SIS fee is grossly excessive. The
resolutions added that a farmer who
tolerates a bad stretch Of road near
his farm should pull out mired auto
mobiles free of charge and apologize
for the mud hole.
Plans are under way at La Moure
for the construction of a new higl.
school building to cost approximately
100000. The board Of education has
commissioned Architect w. Fl. Kur'u.
of Fargo to submit plans for remod,
cling the present building for graz,
school purposes. The remodeling ~,
erations are to begin as soon as til:
school year closes.
Sam Clark and G.. H. Crockard, ed
itor and business manager, respective
ly, of the magazine jim Jam Jems.
published at Bismarck, were %arraien-
ed in federal court at Fargo %followirs
a grand jury Indictment charging them
with having sent obscene literature
through the mails. Both entered pleas
of not guilty. Bail was furnished in
the sun of $4,000.
At a mass meeting held in Neville
recently a resolution was unanimously
adopted urging Henry M. Case, the ed
itCr of the Neville Journal, to become
a candidate for congress to succeed
the late Hon. H. T. Helgesen. A COM
mittee was appointed to wait upon
Mr.. Case and urge him to oun
his candidacy and to manage his cam
paign if he consents. ,
"No, there will be no baseball team
in Underwood, not until the war has
ceased and Old Glory shall have been
honored and respected on land and
sea the world over" This is the sub
stance of a letter which a baseball
fan of Underwood has written to the
secretary Of the baseball team at Gale
harhor, who wrote for games with the
Underwood team this year,.
The first indictment ever returned
in a federal court in North Dakota
against the agent Of a railroad COM
pany, charging him with acting as the
agent of a liquor house, has been re-
turned at Fargo against G. w. Kol-
lings, agent of the 500 line at Kuhn.
It is charged that Kollings took or
ders for liquor, delivered it and made
col1ocfiooc uo hos boo, orro.+oI