The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean., 1917-06-21
News OF the Week From Many
Sections Of the State.
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written In Order
to Make PerusaI Easier for
Busy Readers.

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a ball park and assuring financial as
sistance during the season.
R. A. Bryngelson, principal of the
Belf1eld school last year, has resigned
to accept a similar position in the
public schools at Fosston, MINI.
Asmund Waa, a wealthy farmer liv-
ing near Neville, was killed when he
fell from heavily loaded wagon, the
wheels of which passed over his body.
i Joseph Davis, under federal indict-
ment on charge of bringing liquor
into Indian territory, killed his wife
and himself at Alcide. Acquaintance
+ say he was jealous.
| Langdon will have flour mill in op-
Grafton by Sept. 1, farmers of that dis
trict of the state having pledged them
selves to furnish the necessary cap
ital. A site soon will be selected.
F company of the North Dakota ma
tional guard, stationed at Mandan,
has Joined K company of Dickinson
at Fort Lincoln and A company of Bis
marck is soon to be transferred to the
larger camp.
Rocky mountain goldfinches for the
first time in the memory of the oldest
inhabitant have taken up residence
in Bismarck next door to a covey of
Baltimore orioles, also foreign to the
Missouri valley.
Nels O. Nelson died at his home at
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a pioneer resident there and complet
ed his second term as sheriff of Walsh
county in January. He was fifty-nine
years old and native of Norway
Ground has been broken for the
100000 woman's dormitory building al
the State Normal school at Mayville
1t is expected that the new structure
will be completed in time for use al
the opening of the coming school year
Two thousand persons marched il
a patriotic parade at Minot on JUNE
and 1900 listened to patriot,
speeches by Chief Justice Bruce o
tho state supreme court and Attorne!
Francis Murphy of Minot at Riverside
park.
Governor Frazier, in the name o
economy has ordered vacations o
capitol employees reduced from fou
weeks to two and has eliminated the
ten minutes for primping heretofore
allowed female employees before blow
ing the whistle.
The first nominating petitions fol
candidates to fill the vacancy left ir
the First congressional district by
the death of the late Representative
H. T. Helgesen have been filed at Bis
marck for George A. Bangs, a Demo
crat of Grand Forks.
Fourteen skeletons have been found
two miles from Cassey's Standing
Rock farm, near Eastedge. The skcle
tons were unearthed shortly after ex
cavations for a cellar had been start.
ed. All apparently were Indians. Or
Stewart S. Williams, graduate OF
Lawrence college, Appleton, Wis, and
formerly employed with the Wiscon
sin legislative reference library at
Madison, has been named legislative
reference librarian for North Dakota
at Bismarck to assume his new duties
July 1.
Minneapolis interests are reported
to have paid Anton Anderson $50 an
acre for 4S0 acres southwest of Bel
field. With the exception of 1925 an
acre paid for the Holland-Dakota dem
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price on record for Golden Circle
farm lands.
Grenville Hancock of Fargo is await
ing orders from the war department
to- report for active training at some
aviation school, having already passed
the preliminary examination in Bos
ton two weeks ago. He has been a
student at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
l company, First North Dakota infan:
try, claims to be the first North Da
kota national guard company and one
of the first in the Northwest to be re-
cruited to maximum war strength OF
$50 officers and men. In the Spanish
war company enlisted en- masse when
the call for volunteers was issued
Petitions signed by seventy three
citizens of Richardton, declaring that
they believe Adolph Lehman to be a
menace to the community, were pre-
sented at the preliminary hearing OF
the man charged with killing Matthias
Wetzein in quarrel over the latter's
wife Lehman was bound over to the
: district court.
c. B. Little, president of the First
National bank, and c. B. Marks, vice
president of the City National bank
are president and secretary manager
respectively. of the newly organized
Bismarck Clearing Eouse association
which will make immediate applica
tion for admission to the General
Clearing House association, and ex.
poets to be in operation. July IA. Bis.
marck has Eve banks.