The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-04-19
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Nine boys from Cogswell, : North
Dakota village have enlisted IN the
at Minneapolis. MostAof them
quit high school to enlist.
The Valley City Normal school base.
ball squad lis being worked out daily,
the big difficulty confronting Coach
Call being that Of picking catchers.
Private Silver, II company, North
Dakota national guard, accidentally
shotshimself through the ankle at Val
ley City, necessitating the amputation
of his foot.
Three entries already have been
made for the f1vesmile road race at
Grand Forks. on May 80. Frank Dug.
gan, Henry Amber and Julius Ander-
SOL are the first entrants. i
Three thousand citizens. Of Grand
Forks, at a patriotic meeting there,
pledged their lives and fortunes to the
government for the successful carry.
ing through Of the var with Germany.
The North Dakota Votes for Women
league will not oppose the plan Of the
Anti-Suffrage association to refer to
the polls the legislative women's sui.
frage act passed by the recent legisla.
ture. Az
Pleading guilty to the charge Of big.
amy before Judge Kneeshaw Of the
district court at Cavalier, Arthur J.
Bersagel was sentenced to one year
and six months in the state peniten.
tiary.
Thief River Falls, Mimi, has
dropped out Of the new Northern
league baseball circuit, leaving Fargo,
Winnipeg and Warren. Efforts made
to book Grand Forks have 10 far been
unsuccessful.
Jamestcwn's task Of recruiting the
local company Of militia TO- full wal
strength sheen unAertak by Miss
Emily Parkinson. who Was: commits
stoned by. Mayor Flint to handle the
recruiting work. 81. 81 e s4sT q asa
Louis qH4sFzttg and 3. R Fairbanks
Of Bowman. veterans 81. the, Spanish,
American ri have offered their serv
Ices to the federal government for re
cruitinE several companies IN that sec
ton Of the state.
Governor Frazier, before leaving
Bismarck for New York city, an,
nounceds he will call q special election
In the First district to, I'LL the vacancy
LEFT by the death of Representative
Helgesen some time this week.
The Van Hook baseball team, which
last year won eighteen games and lost
three, is out to establish another rec,
ord, as shown In the men selected fol
ONCE A. o. Nabseta was elected pres
ident, L. Cecil Humgate secretary
treasurer and "A. L. Menier manager. :
Miss Mary P~earsons Of Grand Forks
has been designated as, a volunteel
middle and. will receive the United
States navy uniform for. that class, OF
service for women through the re-
cruiting office for that district. She
was appointed by Mayor James Din
ME Of Grand Forks.
The athletic faculty Of the North
Dakota Agricultural college at Fargo
has scored q bullseye on the high cost
Of living by its decision to eliminate
the admission fee to baseball games
on: Dacotan field this spring. An,
nouncement Of the new plan was made
by Coach Paul j. Davis.
Lieutenant James w. Murphy OF
the Second battalion has been commits
stoned captain of A company Of Bis
marck. FIRST. infantry, North Dakota
national guard, to succeed Captain
A. b. WEIGH, who goes On the super.
numerary list and probably. will be
assigned to the Second regiment.
winston will have a baseball team
during the coming season, the report
that that city had abandoned plans
for a team because Of the war being
unfounded. The new baseball park
/ Haudstand is nearly completed, hav.
ing q capacity Of 1850, and in addi.
ton there will be facilities for park.
ing 400 automobiles.
with normal cropo, this year North
Dakota should produce 2 O.OOO, OO0
bushels Of wheat, compared to &c.,
0O0; 900 bushels last year. According
to figures received at the Office of the
1 commissioner iof agriculture and Ia
bor the acreage sown is estimated at
l 5000, 600 acres. Grain men are Opt.
mistic over the outlook this year, stat.
ling that conditions are at the start
are all that could be expected,
It. would cost $1,941,572 more in
freight charges to handle the average
North Dakota wheat crop from the
farm 70 the market II the Is per cent
freight rate advance asked by the rail.
roads ii granted. That is thessesti'
Emats fof the North Dakota railroad
scommission, which has served notice
on tho. interstate commerce commits
sion demanding a full inquiry into the
nilFo4sIdlgErA smand before permitting The
proposed increase.