Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-03-22

ing elected manager of the team.
Governor Lynn j. Frazier has
signed the so called Sunday baseball
bill passed by the recent legislature.
1t legalizes baseball games on Sunday
in North Dakota, provided it is not
organized baseball" that no admis-
sion charge be made and that all
games are played at least 500 yards
from any church.
Roger Sorenson, twelve years old,
died at a Lisbon hospital from burns
received at his home in Independence
when his clothes caught fire from a
furnace after he had been playing
about a gasoline engine. The boys
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Soren-
son, were burned severely in trying
to save their son.
Eddie McElligott of Minneapolis,
golf professional, instructor OF ,he
Grand Forks and Fargo clubs last sea-
son, will return to the North Daho~a
clubs this year. He comes early in
May from Thomasville, Ga, where he
spent the winter as instructor. NOEL
ligott is the professional golf cham
pion of North Dakota.
A jury in the district court at Dick
inson returned a verdict favorable to
William Coigrove, John A. Reiger n
Paul F. Schmidt, members of tho
board of commissioners Of HettinSe>
county, who were removed from ONCE
by former Governor Hanna. Reige',
who still has two years to serve on
the board, will be reinstated.
Two trains will be sent from North
Dakota to the imperial council of the
Shriners nj Minneapolis in June, plans
for the trip being laid by Ell Zagel
temple, Fargo, and KEN temple, Grand
Forks. A special committee composed
of w. A. Yoder, James McGuigan and
e. C. Geary, Jr., was appointed by Ell
Zagel to take charge of the prelim-
mary work of arranging the trip.
Because of a tie vote between Skret-
ting and Murray the captain of the
University of North Dakota basket
ball team will not be chosen until
next fall. In the original ballotting
for the %captaincy each man was sup
ported by four members. Constant
ballotting failed to break the tie. Muir
ray will be in his senior year next
year, while Skretting was a substitute
on this years team.
c.. G. Dalrymple of Kelso, whose
land holdings under the pillow are ex-
tensive, in Minneapolis the other day,
said that not in wheat alone, but in all
other crops North Dakota is due to
have the biggest acreage ever planted.
The farmers are convinced, he said,
that the worldwide food scarcity pre-
cludes any chance of unprofitably low
prices as a result of anything they can
produce in the way of a record crop.
Crookston withdrew from the Min
nesota-Dakota Racing circuit at the
annual meeting OF that organization
at Fargo and the name was subse-
| Quently changed to the North Dakota
| circuit. Charles Nash of Fargo was
| elected president and Don V. Moore
Of Grand Forks secretary and treas
urer. Cooperstown, Valley City, Grand
Forks and Fargo now make up the
| circuit. Virtually $4,000 will be hung
Up in purses.
The La Moure Echo has been award
ed first honors in the weekly news
paper contest conducted during North
Dakota's Appreciation week, Jan. u
to 81, it was announced at Grand
Forks by the committee of judges ap-
pointed to review the booster edi-
tions. Second honors were won by
the New Rockford Transcript and the
third place went to the Harvey Jour
nal, With honorable mention to the
Bismarck Palladium.
The state banks have S7h,nH0,n0N
more III deposits now than they had
eleven years ago, according to statis-
ties compiled and announced by w.
C. Macfadden, secretary of the North
Dakota Bankers association. In the
first statement in 1906 the state banks
had deposits a%ggregating $19,556, 603. IL,
while they now have deposits totaling
$91,55S ,S30.54. In the same period
the aggregate resources of the banks
lllCI GdSCu llOi1l pAt,i-f,Opp.1 W pIps,
33332, O65.16
Former Governor f. Y. Sarles Of
North Dakota will head a group Of
North Dakota men in camp at Fort
Smelling. Mimi. this summer, f. A.
Irish. vice president Of the First Ma
tional bank of Fargo, told Donald R.
Cotton, chairman of the Northwest
states division Of the Military Train
ing Camps association. Mr.. Irish was
in Minneapolis at the time. There
probably will be 800 men in the North
Dakota representation at the camp.
Mr.. Irish said.
r. r. Putledge of Williston is the
checker champion of North Dakota,
taking honors at the state checker
tourney at Grand Forks. He Won the
silver loving cup offered by the asso-
citation. Minot was selected as the
place for the next tournament. l.. Fl.
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