Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-05-17
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DIR. Cyril j. Glaspel Of Grafton has
gone to Chicago to join the Besley hos.
pital unit, which will leave immediate.
ly for service in France.
Sam Mcdonald, former druggist Of
Fargo and Grand Forks, has been
elected mayor of Seward, Alaska, &C.
cording to word received at Fargo.
Twenty-one boys Of the village OF
Sanborn are willing to face fire and
shell. They are the Sanborn cadets,
organized by D. S. J.. Lief, drillmaster.
Mike Chamak, alleged slayer of Mr..
and Mrs. James H. Caldwell, has re-
scinded his plea of guilty at Bismarck
and has retained Senator L. A. Simp.
son to defend him.
Donald r. McCumber, son of Sen.
ator P. ]. McCumber, has enlisted as
a second class seaman in the naval
reserve and has gone from Washing.
ton to the Norfolk training station.
Van A. Jackson, a brother of Mrs.
John Hawker of Westhope, was killed
in the battle Of Arras on April 10, &C.
cording to word reaching the members
of the Hawker family at Westhope.
Arthur o. Peterson, former Grafton
resident, was seriously wounded in
the Vimy hill engagement in France,
according to word received at Grafton,
and he is now in a French base hos.
pital.
The Bohemian church located twelve
miles northwest of Dickinson has
been burned to the ground. The
church was one of the first built in
that part Of the state. The loss is
$4,000.
w. A. wye and Ernest Balsukot have
completed their of the city of
Plaza and announced the sum of $3.50
had been subscribed toward getting
the Plaza team under way for a good
season.
Park Rivers ball ground may be
converted into a garden tract If the
fans do not organize a team. The
sentiment of the citizens seems more
in favor of a municipal garden than
a baseball team.
Miss Lottie Gaffy Of GAINESVILLE,
| Mimi, a teacher in the public schools
at Towner, has resigned to take up a
homestead at Wolf Point, Mont. Farm.
ing is a better paying proposition than
teaching, she says.
A check for $3,257 has been re-
ceived by the Glendale Equity union
for a car of wheat which was shipped
to the Twin Cities. This is the larg-
est amount received for a car of wheat
| shipped from that city.
Seeding operations in the Red River
valley counties in North Dakota are
from a week to ten days late and the
wheat acreage will be materially re-
duced as a result, in the opinion of
prominent valley county residents.
North Dakota in 1916 paid out ST.
400, 1888 for fire protection in its in
corporated villages and organized fire
departments in these municipalities
received as their 2 per cent bonus on
this premium a total of $29,819.71.
Wild Rose business men have sub
scribed the sum of $1,000 toward the
support of a ball team. C. O. Tyten
has been secured as playing manager.
Some of the players who tried out with
the Western league will be in suits
there.
Farmer johnson took a load of TWEEN.
ty-fve bushels of potatoes to- Shields,
traded his load for a new wagon, sold
his old one to a second hand dealer
for $40 more than the potatoes cost
him to raise and left for home with
a smile visible from the rear.
The Glendale State Normal and In
dustrial school is making prepare
tions for the field and track meet to
be held there Friday, May Is. Each
school will be allowed to enter as
many men as it wishes, but not more
than two men in any one event.
The honor roll of new war service
enlistments from Cavalier comprises
the following men: Gordon Duncan
Tavern Thompson, Roy Disbrow, Her
bert Rain, Roswell Rohda, John
%Schluchter, Joseph Campbell, Ernest
Kibler and Charles McMurchie.
Mike Jahner drove to Mott recently
on a load of wheat. He had 81 in his
pocket. When Mike returned to his
home he had a check for 1920. His
load of No. 4 wheat netted him that
amount and prompted him to put in
a "whopper" of a wheat crop this sea
son.
Edward Dawson, proprietor of the
Cash Store company at Paramount, was
killed and his companion, F. d. Mel
son, a butcher at Paramount, vas in
jured when the automobile in which
they were riding was struck by a
Northern Pacific passenger train at
Wahpeton.
Kirt Frankenstein, a renter who 10
Gated in Stutsman county about three
years ago. has fallen heir to a farm
Land stock valued at at least $4,000
The farm was left to Frankenstein by