Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-04
North Dakota
Events of the Week

Paul Vlasek, son Of Matt Vlasek of
Grafton, made so good as an Ameri-
can airman in France that the govern
ment has called him back to the Unit,
ed States, as one Of fifty selected men
assigned to study the construction of
aeroplanes.
A second test Of the new wells which
are expected to supply Minot with
water has just been completed. The
first we'll, which has a depth of 1872
feet, averaged 900 gallons per minute
during the one hundred hours, While
at times it averaged l,4OO gallons per
minute for some length of time.
Jesse Scott of Ring had no wheat
at all this year, except on 2R acres.
On that tract the yield was 81 bushels
to the acre. Scott had been cuftivat-
ing this ground with a view to seeding
it to alfalfa, and at the last moment
he decided to plant it to wheat, 'just
to see what it would do" It did SAP
to the acre., at the present price of
wheat, and Scott already is in the field,
fall blowing for his next seasons
wheat crop. He is a firm believer in
thorough cultivation.
Bismarck has no fire ordinance.
Police Magistrate Bleckreid ruled to-
day when Fire Chief A. B. Currier ap-
piled to him for an order restraining
further repairs on the Hoagland and
Patterson buildings, both frame struc-
lures damaged in recent fires. Bis
marck's excuse for a fire ordinance is
obsolete and unavoidable, was Judge
Bleckreid's verdict, and the city has
no way of preventing the repair of
frame buildings within the fire limits
nor of prohibiting the building of new
frame structures. i
Recent appropriations by congress
will enable the North Dakota agricul-
tural extension department of the
state college to employ eight addi-
tional women to assist in work with
the women in the state, a~ccordfng to
announcement made by Director
Thomas Cooper. "These women will
be called home demonstration agents
and will work in restricted areas"
said Director Cooper today. "Their
services will be available to country
communities and villages within their
district. Their work wiz primarily be
in connection with the conservation of
foods and the development of better
home management"
Bad booze and a had motor made
bad mixture for Joe Goettsche and w.
j. Shanks, Wilton young men, who
mixed things in a ~free-for-all, in which
knives figured, while enroute to Beach
from Yates and Wibaux, Mont, in a
little roadster. Both men were badly
smashed when they drove into Beach
in their car and asked for surgical at
tention. Neither has any vivid recol-
lection of how the fight started.
Frederick B%reitopke, a German,
made an attempt to cross into Canada
by way of Portal, but was turned
back. He is now in Minot.
A poll made of the business men of
Man1an shows that one-third of them
are in favor of returning to Mountain
time and the other t%wo-thirds in favor
of remaining under Central time.
Chester Jacobson of Minot has re-
turned from Chicago, where he passed
examinations for entrance to the re-
serve officers aviation corps. He will
wait in Minot for orders to report.
A new record for range fed steers
was established when Jose Chesrow
of Watauga marketed in Chicago six
animals averaging 1,470 pounds and
bringing $3.50 per hundred, or $22S.9O
apiece.
Injuries were sustained by Robert
Crothers and Miss Inez Faltz of
Arthur, Cass county, when the ma.
chine Crothers was driving crashed
into a ditch when the lights suddenly
went out.
The Thompson Lumber company
has practically procured the control of
the lumber business in Golden Valley
county by the recent purchase Of the
Schultz yards at Golva.
The death of Mrs. George Dixon, a
pioneer Bottineau county woman oc.
Cured 80 minutes after she had re-
turned from a visit to Montana and
while apparently in the best of health.
Halliday got another touch of the
war with announcement from the city
doctors that all physicians of Dunn
county, at a recent meeting, decided
to charge 50 instead of 81 for vac
cination on account of the high cost
of vaccine.
Engebret Carlson of the expert
mental farm at Williston was badly
injured when a COW attacked him /
while he was milking another one. Thes
animal hooked him and broke severaE
Of his ribs, aside from inflicting sew
eral minor injuries. n
Three protected" I. w. w, givinge
their names as James Collins, John
Sweeny and Herbert Jones, workings
on the Thomas O'Keefe threshing rig
near Mimic, were arrested on a charge
of selling booze to fellow workmene.
When the raid was made the officers
found an empty three-gallon jug and
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