Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-06-14
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put in operation.
The Commercial club got behind the
Esmond baseball club by purchasing it
a ball park and assuring financial as
sistanca during the season.
R. A. Bryngelson, principal of the
Belfeld school last year, has resigned
to accept a similar position in the
public schools at Fosston, MINI. -
Asmund Waa, a wealthy farmer liv-
ing neal Neville, vas killed when he
fell from a heavily loaded wagon, the
wheels of which passed over his body.
Joseph Davis, under federal indict-
ment on a charge of bringing liquor
into Indian territory, killed his wife
and himself at Alcide. Acquaintance
say he was jealous.
|. Langdon will have a 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.
r company of the North Dakota ma
tional guard, stationed at Mandan,
has joined X company of Dickinson
at Fort Lincoln and A company of Bis
marck is soon to be transferred to the
larger camp.
Rocky mountain goldfnches for the
first time in the memory Of the oldest
inhabitant have taken up a 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
Grafton from heart disease. He was
a pioneer resident there End complet-
ed his second term as sheriff of Walsh
county in January. He was fifty-nine
years old and a native of Norway.
Ground has been broken for the
$780, woman's dormitory building at
the State Normal school at Mayville.
1t is expected that the new structure
will be completed in time for use at
the opening of the coming school year.
Two thousand persons marched in
a patriotic parade at Minot on June
5 and 1000 listened to patriotic
| speeches by Chief Justice Bruce Of
the state supreme court and Attorney
Francis Murphy of Minot at Riverside
park. q
Governor Frazier, in the name of
economy, has ordered vacations of
capitol employees reduced from four
weeks to two and has eliminated the
ten minutes for primping heretofore
allowed female employees before blow
ing the whistle.
The first nominating petitions for
candidates to fill the vacancy left in
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.
toDs were unearthed shortly after ex.
cavations for a cellar had been start
ed. All apparently were Indians. Or.
namental trinkets were found nearby.
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 /.
Minneapolis interests are reported
to have paid Anton Anderson $50 an
acre for 4S0 acres southwest of Bel
field. With the exception of S125 ar
acre paid for the Holland-Dakota dem
onstration farm this is the highest
price on record for Golden Circle
farm lands.
Granville Hancock of Fargo is await
ing orders from the war department
to report for active training at SOM
aviation school, having already passed
the preliminary examination in Bos
ton two weeks ago. He has been
student at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
1 company, First North Dakota infan
try, claims to be the first North Da
kota national guard company and on,
of the first in the Northwest to be re
cruited to maximum war strength O
$50 officers and In the Spanisl
war l company enlisted en- masse whel
the call for volunteers was issued.
Petitions signed by seventy-thre
citizens of Ri%chardton, declaring tina
they believe Adolph Lehman to be
menace to the community, were pre-
scented at the preliminary hearing o
the man charged with killing Mathia
Wetzein in a quarrel over the latter
wife. Lehman was bound over to tn
district court.
C. B. Little, president of the Firs
National bank, and G.. B. Marks, vic
president of the City National banl
are president and secretary manager
respectively, of the newly organize
Bismarck Clearing House association
which will make immediate apple,
ton for admission to the Geners
Clearing House association, and e,
poets to be In operation July IA. BIZ