Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-19

The German Evangelical hospital at
many patients, has been offered to
the United States government for a
base hospital if needed in the present
war. DR.. E. P. Quain is chief surgeon.
A pledge of loyalty to the president
was passed by the Pembina presby-
terry at the annual meeting of that
body at Grand Forks. Rev. w. N. Gill
lis of Hannah was elected moderator;
Rev. A. E. Hall, Emerado, clerk; Rev.
K. J. McInnes and H. A. Helgesen,
Osnabrock, delegates to the general
assembly at Dallas, Tex.
Governor Lynn J.. Frazier will be
one of the speakers at the ninth an
nual convention of the Missouri Slope
Educational association convention at
Dickinson April 81 and %. The pres
ent officers of the association are P. 8.
Berg of Dickinson, president; Lois L.
Wall, Manning, vice president, and c.
E.. Ward Of Dickinson, secretary and
treasurer.
Loss of between $4,000 and $4,000
was sustained at Fingal in the de-
struction by fire of five buildings on
the main street of the business dis
trict. Only the arrival of the Ender-
lin fire department, transported on a
special train over the 500 line, pre-
vented greater loss. The blaze start
ed at Z a. nj. The cause has not been
ascertained.
The Wahpeton Tennis club expects
to have its courts in condition for
playing within a few days. when it
will open what bids fair to be one Of
the clubs most active years. There
now are t%f.irty-fve members in the
club and it is likely that the member
ship limit will be raised to permit ap-
plicants who have been on the wait
ing list for some time to come in.
Neither the University of North Da-
kota nor other North Dakota educa-
tional institutions will abandon their
summer baseball schedules because of
the war, despite the suggestion made
by President Lewis Crawford of the
board of regents, it was said. Univer-
sity athletic authorities take the view
that the continuance of athletics in
the colleges is in line with national
preparedness.
Sportsmen of North Dakota are un-
dertaking the task of exterminating
crows, the purpose being to conserve
the prairie chicken supply. The
crows, sportsmen say, have a habit Of
destroying the nests of the prairie
chickens. This year crows are
numerous than ever before. Fargo
sportsmen have formed an association
to organize crow hunts, electing DR..
G. j. Pattison as president and J. A.
Chestnut secretary. Moorhead (Minn.)
sportsmen also are enrolled in the
movement.
Opposing the Nonpartisan league Of
North Dakota because of what they
term its socialistic principles repre-
s%entatives of virtually every county in
the state met at Grand Forks and
formed the Anti-Socialist Union Of
North Dakota to combat the leagues
work. While recognizing the right Of
the people to promote their own inter-
ests the new organization charges the
league has carried it's program too
far, reaching a climax when it sought
to have its constitutional revision plan
adopted at the. recent session of the
legislature. It was ever charged by
some that North Dakota was being
made an experiment station for the
working out of the visionary theories
of socialism" An executive commit
tee, consisting OF one member from
each of the judicial districts, was
elected. This committee organized
and named Nick N. Nelson. of Emerald
chairman,