Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-02
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of the State
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Busy Readers.

hayloft. Two escaped, but the third
was burned to death when the barn
was destroyed.
The Minot team of the North Da.
kota Baseball league has disbanded,
causing disbandment of the league, as
it is understood Williston also will
toss up the sponge.
North Dakota's grain crop is far be.
low normal and there may be only
about $4,000, 900 to 10000, 900 bushels
of wheat, according to well informed
students of the agricultural situation
in the state.
Mrs. Anna M. Rasmussen of Dunn
Center, mother of fourteen children,
succumbed to injuries suffered in an
automobile accident IN 2 while she
was returning from a meeting of the
Latter Day Saints.
Edward, three-year-old son Of Cliff.
ford Lasham, played in a hay field
near Noonan while his father cut the
hay. The hay was three feet tall and
completely hid the child. Both feet
were severed at the ankle.
Judge Hatch, owned by Frank l..
Bundy Of Minneapolis. and Symbol
Baron, owned by G. L.. Butler of Sank
Center, Mimi, took first honors in the
2:2O trot and the 2:20 pace, respec.
lively, at the Interstate fair at Fargo.
Two North Dakota young men who
held the first numbers drawn in the
selective draft, 25S, went to Minneap.
oils to join the regular army. They
are Alfred B. Walby of Alden and Mel
vim Walby of Hettinger. Both men
were accepted in the regular army.
Alexander Leo Faribault, sixty
seven years old, son of the noted
French trapper for whom the city Of
Faribault, Mimi, was named, died at
the Fort Yates Indian agency hospital.
He was the last surviving son of the
trapper. His body was taken to Fari-
bault.
George Van Arnan of Wilkin county,
Minnesota, was elected president Of
the Red River Valley Old Settlers as.
ISOLATION at the Interstate fair at Far.
go. Other officers are: B. F. Mackall,
Moorhead, vice president; Edwin
Clapp, Fargo, treasurer, and H. j. Ha.
gen, Fargo, secretary.
A. c. Reinecke, for years prominent
in the newspaper business in North
Dakota, founder of the old Fargo
Daily News, fell dead at Cleveland, O.,
according to word received at Fargo.
Mr.. Reinecke had been in the insur.
ance business eight years, since retir-
ing from the newspaper business in
Fargo.
Late advices from Washington, re.
ceived at Bismarck, increase the
North Dakota draft credits by 1874.
The new totals for the state Ire: Ma.
tional guard, 1909; regular army and
other branches, 353. The total credits
for the state are now 1852, reducing
the state quota for the draft army
from 5,6O6 to 5,272.
B. G. Marks, treasurer of the Bis.
mafck chapter of the Red Cross, has
received $50 from more than 200 con-
victs in the state p%enitentiary there
as their "bit" in helping to win the
war. The convicts recently petitioned
Warden F. S. Talcott for permission
to raise $50 from their earnings, which
average from rs to SO cents aday, and
their request was granted.
$500,
Etheline R. Gary, daughter of L. N.
Cary, a millionaire real estate man of
Mandan, and William Lewis Little of
Pittsburg. Pa, eloped and were mar
ried, but members of the brides fam
lily were on hand in time to witness
the ceremony. Mrs. Little is a gradu-
ate of Washington seminary and Smith
college, Northampton, Mass. Mr.. Little
is an alumnus Of Washington and JET.
ferson.
Herman Miller of Baldwin, born in
Germany and whose father and three
brothers have died fighting for the
kaiser, went to Bismarck and took out
his first papers and Immediately en-
listed in the Second battalion of the
NOrtn dakota infantry. AS an alien
enemy Miller was exempt from mill
tary service, but declared that he was
anxious to enlist and "help get the
kaiser"
Because Of the excessive cost OF
machinery Secretary of State Halls
cherished ambition of manufacturing
the states own automobile license
tags at the state p~enitentiary prob
ably will not be realized. North Da
Rota. this year will use more than 60,
900 tags. Its expenditures in this de
partment up to July / were more thar
$4,000. 1t has found great difficulty IL
getting tags.
Minot has an eightyear-old boy
hero. He is Normal Miller, who, see
ing a man apparently drowning in thu
Mouse river, swan out and held hin
up by his hair xntil Fred Mott, man
ager Of the bathing beach at Dorman,
park, pulled both to shore. TIL,
stranger, who left town without Civ
ing his name, was SO far gone tina
artificial respiration was necessary Il