Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1917-12-20
North Dakota
Events of the Week

1talized at $25,O0O, which will manu-.
facture grain-cleaning machinery.
The county commissioners of Wells
county at their last regular meeting
appropriated $50 toward preliminary
survey of the Sheyenne river valley.
The dates Of July 10 and IL have
been set by the executive council Of
the North Dakota Bankers association
for the annual convention to DO held
In Mandan.
J. ]. Myers. deputy grand master
workman Of the A. o. U. W., has spent
several weeks In Park River in tho
interest of the order and has met with
splendid success.
tificates, known In Fargo as little
baby bonds" are being sold at the
rate Of $500 worth day. according to
Postmaster George w. Wilkinson.
The term of the district court at
Mandan. that ordinarily would have
been convened on Dec. 3. will probably
not be held until some time after the
first OF the year, according to Clerk OF
Court Carter.
James Samman, alias James Shan.
non, committed for az years from
Fargo, walked out Of the state peni.
Tertiary upon the completion of 20
months time into the arms of Chief
Martinson Of Kansas City. ON charge
OF arson, the alleged crime having
been committed four years ago.
Paul Cysewski, young farm hand
employed on farm near Courtenay
during the summer months, pleaded
guilty to grand larceny in district
court and was given an intermediate
sentence OF from one to three years
in the state penitentiary by Judge ].
A. Coffey. Cysewski is alleged to
have taken load Of grain owned by
Caspar Wojick and disposed of it to
the Courtenay Elevator company.
Alex Schnaible is not afraid to fight
his relatives even though they are
massed with the German army.
Schnaible recently passed through
Fargo with n number Of recruits from
Bismark enroute to the Jefferson bar.
racks, from which point he will pro.
badly be transferred to the south. He
has So cousins In the German army
and is going to fight them from one
Of Uncle Sans aeroplanes If given the
chance
Fifty students at the jamestown
high school have organized a military
company and will drill five evenings
each week i'll the armory here.
Adjt.-Gen. Fruser has received
authority from Provost Marshal Gen.
eral Crowder to send 200 North Dako.
ia drafted men to the coast artillery
corps of the National army stationed
at Fort Stevens, Ore.
Brily Douglas, of near Carlyle, a
pioneer settler Of Golden Valley, was
Immediately killed when his skull was
crushed in collision between Ford
car driven by his son, Fred. and a
wagon loaded with lumber.
Fargo high school will not offer mill
tary training to its students for the
simple reason that there are no hous-
ing facilities in any of the school
buildings because of the large classes
and the need of space for classes.
The Great Northern Railway com.
pany has promised the Devils Lake
city commission to install steel and
concrete viaducts over the Hill and
Minnewaukon avenue crossings in the
spring, to replace the wooden one.
Eight hundred feet of track was
torn up when the southbound freight
on the James River Valley line jump.
ed the track about two miles moth Of
Grand Rapids. Six cars were depns.
tied in the ditch, and two others de.
rallied
More than 30 Fessenden high school
students have asked to take the state
high school course in Bible study and
Tor which credit Is given. The ex.
aminations are given by the state the
same as in any other high school work.
The VIC Is not strictly taken up in
school, but the work must be lone out.
side of school hours.
The sum of $4,000 in cash figured
In the sale of the L. Diekmann farm,
six miles north of Tower City. and
comprising GAO acres, to F. C. Burns
of that city.
The state has filed an affidavit of
prejudice against Judge w. l.. Nues.
sic of the district court in the case Of
Secretary of State Hall, charged with
embeZZlenlent Judge Nuessle then
announced he would call another
judge to try the case.
Smoke pouring from the oven OF
the stove of Henry ]. Ramsey of Kill
deer caused that gentleman to turn
in q fire alarm. When the firemen
arrived they discovered the trouble
to be burnt-up roast which had been
neglected by the family.
Pitsch. Fargo photographer.
charged with bookkeeping, was arrest
ed in st Paul on information filed by
his bondsmen, A. Nordale and Charles
Narum, who furnished bail in the sum
of $3.50 for Pitsch's appearance in
the Cass county district court and
are said to have become uneasy over
the defendants long absence from
Fargo
With a hu1lef 1Odped IN tho u,urclos