Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-05-24

= LIE AouAho vi HNSs
grand master OF the North Dakota
Masonic grand lodge, is dead at Far
go after a long illness.
The large farmers elevator at Strum
was burned to the ground by a fire
supposed to have started from an
overheated box in the main shaft. Five
thousand bushels of wheat were in
the elevator and were destroyed.
They simply couldn't run it without
the men, said the girls, SO the Spec
trum, the weekly collegiate publica.
ton at the North Dakota Agricultural
college at Fargo, was abandoned
when it's six male editors enlisted for
war service.
Professor H. l.. Bolley, seed com.
missioner of North Dakota and inves.
tigator at the North Dakota college
agricultural experimental station at
Fargo, has rendered his services tc
the government for a campaign to in.
sure a bumper crop of wheat in 1918
and 1919. This would be in conjunc.
ton with his present work in North
Dakota.
Battling a prairie fire at Braddock
in an automobile Ed Hydahl found
himself surrounded by a wall of fire.
Putting his car on high speed he
headed straight for the blazing bar.
rier. The q stalled before it passed
the danger line and was destroyed,
but Hydahl escaped, with face and
hands a mass of blisters. Heavy
glasses saved his eyes.
Steele was selected as the place for
the next annual meeting of the Bis.
marck Presbytery Mission association
at the convention recently held at Bis.
marck, when the following officers
were elected: President, Mrs. R. H.
Myers, Bismarck; vice president, Mrs.
H. c. Postlewaite; extension secre.
ording secretary, Mrs. r. X. Boyd.
More than 500 persons were pres.
ent at the organization meeting of the
Jamestown chapter of the National
Red Cross society. The officers elect
ed we're: H. C.. Flint, chairman; Miss
Hilda Taylor, instructor at Jamestown
college, first vice president; Mrs. Kate
r. Glaspell, second vice president;
Mrs. w. B. de Nault, third vice pres.
ident; Mrs. John Kennedy, secretary,
and H. T.. Graves, treasurer.
-Four North Dakota Red Gross
nurses have been ordered to report
for active service on the Pacific
coast. Miss Ethel Stanford, president
of the North Dakota Red Cross Nurs'
ing association of Fargo; Miss Don.
drine- Norgaard, director of the Nor
gard hospital in Fargo; Miss Norma
Diesem of Fargo and Miss Lillian
Hankey of Dickinson are the first
North Dakota nurses called into &C.
tive war service.
Marmarth has abandoned all pro-.
posals to continue the fight for the re-
moval of the county seat from Ami.
don to Marmarth, on the strength OF
the election last November, when
Marmarth, on the face of the returns,
had a majority. The district court re-
Gently declared that a sufficient mum.
Der of fraudulent votes had been cast
in Marmarth to invalidate the cleo.
ton and Marmarth will not carry the
case to the supreme court.
The district Republican convention
to nominate a candidate for congress
to succeed the late H. r. Helgesen will
be held in Grand Forks June 20, the
formal call being issued by the con.
gressional committee, headed by
Bernt Anderson, Ramsey county, and
Governor Frazier's appointee to the
state board of control. The call rec.
ommends that precinct caucuses be
held on June 6 and county conven.
lions be held in the county seats on
Wednesday, June 10.
Grand Forks was chosen as the
1918 meeting place of the North Da.
kota State Dental association at the
annual convention at Fargo, at which
the following officers were elected:
President, DR.. Albert Hallenberg, Far
so; vice president, Tom Smith, Lang.
don; secretary, Scion Crum, Fargo,
and treasurer, I. Wells, Harvey. DR..
Fred w. Rose of Cooperstown and DR..
w. v. Falls were recommended to
Governor Frazier for appointment to
the dental board OF examiners.
Petitions are being prepared by the
North Dakota railroads to present to
the state board of railroad commits.
sioners for authority to advance in.
trastate freight rates Is per cent over
and above a similar increase being
sought before the interstate COM.
merce commission by Western roads
on interstate rates. The proposed in.
crease in interstate rates, even should
it be allowed, will not cover the in.
creased cost of operating roads in
this state, it is said by railroad men
at Fargo.
The North Dakota game commission.
is negotiating for the purchase of 800
acres near its 3,840-acre game pre-.
serve west of Mandan with a view to
establishing a farm for the propaga.
. ~