The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-09-20
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of the State
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written In Order
70 Make Perusal Easier for
Busy Readers.

Tompkins and Hubert are doubles
champions of Fargo, defeating Wool
edge and Beardsley in the final game
of the tennis tourney, e-3, 81 and 6-3.
The Farmers Cooperative Union
Elevator company Of dickinson made
200 per cent profit on its capital. Bust.
ness for the year just ended totaled
100000.
New potatoes Of the best quality are
selling at Fargo for $1.o5 a peck. Far
go creamery butter is retailing at ~
cents a pound and eggs are selling at
from "a to 81 cents a dozen.
Tappen, with $50 inhabitants, has
enlisted twenty-five young men in the
Bismarck company Of the e Second
North Dakota infantry. It claims a
Northwest record for recruiting.
Mrs. Susan Eissinger, se~venty-one
years old, was killed while her three
grandchildren, with her, escaped unin-
jured when a wagon in which they
we're riding overturned in a ditch near
Medina.
Captain J.. w. Murphy, commander
of A company, surprised his friends
at Bismarck by returning from the
Twin Cities with a bride, who former.
ly was Miss Bess Owens Of Bismarck.
They were married at Valley City.
Minot's girl military squad, wearing
the regulation regalia, including khaki
trousers, visited several towns and
rounded up t%wenty-four recruits for D
company. The recruits were gathered
at Berthold, Carpio. Donnybrook and
Kenmare.
All officers commissioned in the
Second regiment by Governor Lynn J.
Frazier must pass a strict medical ex-
animation before their appointments
will be approved by the war depart.
ment, it was announced at military
headquarters at Bismarck.
Fred Ely, fifty years of age, was
drowned in a slough near New Rock
ford when his a collided with a ma
chine driven by Guy Berg. Ely's car
turned over, pinning him in the mud
at the roadside, where he suffocated
before he could be rescued.
North Dakota's defense council was
given official recognition when the
state emergency commission appropri
ated $500 for its support. At the same
F.! time the commission declined to make
a transfer which would provide the
state board of regents, which is al
outs" with the state administration
with travelling expenses.
Because the state guaranty board
fears that a reduction in the interest
rate would move from North Dakota
many large deposits at a time when
they are most needed for the move
ment Of crops it has granted state
banks authority to ignore the new lie
gal maximum rate of S per cent and
to continue paying 6 per cent.
Instructions of Major S. w. Settle
of st. Louis have been received al
Bismarck to muster into federal serv
ice only the First regiment. The mus
ter, it is believed, will be made al
the home stations. With a view Of
expediting the muster the state has
been divided into four sections, with
muster officer placed in charge of each
section.
With her right hand caught in the
rollers of a power wringer Mrs. James
O'Hara of Carlisle, unable to shut of
the engine, fought for thirty minute:
to extricate herself before help ar
rived. After the engine had beer
stopped it was found necessary to Gu,
the bolts of the wringer before he1
hand and arm could be removed from
the machine.
Representative Elect John M. Bael
of the First North Dakota district
who was expected in Washington las
week to take the oath of office, will
not arrive there for another week, &C
cording to a telegram received by
Representative George M. Young o
this state. Mr.. Baer sent word tha'
he will be unable to close up his bust
ness at an earlier date.
North Dakota troops in federal serv
fee are in company rendezvous
Twelve companies Of each regiment
with headquarters company and tn
regimental bands, modified and are
awaiting further instructions from fed
eral headquarters. Fort Lincoln ha'
been designated by the wal depart
ment as the state mobilization point
Two reserve battalions, which militar,
regulations now require as a means o
supplying new men to keep the fell
forces up to war strength, will be re
cruited.
BY a decision OF Judge McNenny o
the circuit court for Northern distric
of the Black Hills, North Dakota is il
a position to collect thousands of dol
lars in back taxes from homesteader'
who have made final proof, but hav'
not received their patents because o
deferred payments due the govern
ment. Judge McNenny in a Bell
Fourche irrigation project case hold
that homestead lands are subject t,