Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-09-06
Doings of the Week
in North Dakota


Charles Olson and ten stacks of rye
belonging to H. E. Meyers, local jew
eler.
Carrington.-Gilbert Baker, 80, died
from loss of blood ON the Wendelin
link farm near Melville, while driv-
ing a binder when his horses sudden
ly started up and the binder cut and
tore his legs.
Sarles.-The contract for the cree.
ton of fireproof school building
here has been let. The building will
be so by 81 feet. The outside walls
will be faced with buff colored pressed
brick and trimmed with sandstone.
Granville.-A telegram received an
nounces the death in the French
trenches Of Stanley Gilmore, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. c. R. Gilmore, and who
had served with the Canadian contin-
gent in France since the beginning of
the war.
Michigan.-In spectacular fire
here the Duluth elevator burned to
the ground, and the Farmers eleva-
tor was slightly damaged by the flames
in spite of the efforts of hundreds of
people who assembled and helped to
fight the flames.
Cando.-George B. Denison of the
board Of education, has announced
that schools will not open until Mon
day, Oct. 1. Many boys are engaged
in harvesting work which would be
seriously delayed If the schools opened
in September, he said.
Fargo.-The young wife Of Philip
Thoreson, a private in Company H,
died In a Fargo hospital after giving
held in Casselton. The husband ar
rived from Fort Lincoln, where his
company has been stationed.
Fort Yates.-With fax averaging 10
to IL bushels to the acre and native
hay running ton to the acre, real
money is being made on the Standing
Rock reservation, according to c. A.
Rust of Underwood, who has been in
this part Of the state looking over his
600 acres of fax. aA. -...x..
Hillsboro.-Oluf Hanson saved him
self from a terrible death under the
wheels Of b passenger train in the
local yards when he lay fiat on his
back between the rails while the train
went over him. He had fallen be-
tween two cars in an effort to board
the train while it was in motion.
Elliot.-over hundred members
have joined the newly organized Home
Defense league here, which takes in
membrs from all surrounding towns.
It is xpected that a Red Cross chap
ter will be organized soon and that
both organizations will bend every ef-
fort to help the national government.
Fargo.-As during the previous year.
the North Dakota state serum insti-
tute of the Agricultural college and
experiment station will during the
coming season again be prepared to
supply hog cholera protective serum
to North Dakota swine raisers who
may require it in dealing with hog
cholera.
misunderstanding rafters in .
barn which was just under the pro-
cess Of construction on the A. L. Stew.
art farm injured numbers of work
ers, including the owner, who is now
in bed with severe bruises, and vii.
liam Peterson, who received q brok.
en- leg. Herman Hegblad and Louis
Stoke also received serious injuries.
New Rockford.-Capital removal dis
cussion has been supplanted by bell
removal talk since the church bell was
stolen from the Norwegian Lutheran
church at Greenfield, nearby town.
This makes the tenth church bell to
be stolen in the eastern part Of North
Dakota during the past month. The
bell was valued at $3.50 and weighed
over-1,000 pounds.
Fish Lake.-Interested admirers
are thronging the flower beds and veg
etable plots at the local fish hatch
cry. Artistic efforts are on display
in the vegetable garden where a bed
has been arranged in concentric Cir
cles, the outer guard being circle
of onions, next one of carrots, then
rutabagas. lettuce. mangles and
Scotch kali. The whole 10 calculated
to produce an appetizing quantity Of
mulligan.
Minot-Major e. 8. Person, war
V0S0A0A 0AU PAVoAV00S VI Su0 OulOU
National bank, has resigned as direc.
tor Of the Association Of Commerce
and left for Fort Smelling where he
will enter the second reserve officers
training camp.
FARGO. A. Rice, his wife and
three children while en- route from
st. Paul to Havre in their automobile.
were plunged down q fifteen.foot EN-.
bankment while attempting to pass an.
other machine, when q short distance
from Hawley, MINI.
Mandan. = Although the war is
blamed for depression Of business in
most cases, . local photographer as.
serts that since war was declared by
the United States and draft activities
became apparent he has done more
business than ever before. A notice
able increase in the taking Of family
group pictures he says can be laid
to the war