Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-11-01
North Dakota
Events of the Week

railroad in Grand Forks, succeeding
j. Harry McNichol, who resigned last
month to take the management of the
A. p. Clifford & Co., insurance BUSH
ness.
Arthur Collins of Hannah has Joined
a party Of United States engineers
who are engaged in making a topo-
graphical survey of the international
boundary. The survey is to extend to
the head of the lakes and the work
will consume several months.
The Indian department in Washing
ton has approved ITS tracts of Indian
lands in North Dakota and 1241in
South Dakota, which will be offered
for sale this fall or in the early win
ter. The last sale of registration lands
was held Dec. II, 1916.
In an effort to save her little chill
dren, who persisted in sticking by the
ship When their toy wagon which they,
had loaded with coal, was caught in a
frog in the face OF an onrushing train,
Mrs. Anna Ambers of Hamburg, a
widow with nine wee ones, was struck
and seriously INJURED.
The Park River fire department is
not going to be in the back ground
The organization has subscribed 5000
for Liberty Bonds.
Eugene Wachter, son Of G. C.
Wachter, and one of the four Bis
marck young men who went to Camp
Dodge on the first draft, has been
promoted to sergeant in Co. e, 313rd
or.s 49,, - 4l@ .
Captain Bartness.
Miss Emelia Anderson, who was
discharged from her position as prin-
cipal in the New England high school
last January after some differences
with Supt. G. L.. Greene, was award
ed a verdict covering her wages for
a full term by a district court Jury
at Mott.
Wire thieves, who stole more than
a thousand feet of copper wire from
the Northern Pacific railroad line
near Valley City, N. D., failed to in
terrupt Geographic communication ~
their act. The thieves, after snap
ping the copper wire, attached the
ends of it to a dead iron wire and
the service was not interrupted.
While the infant child of Mrs. e.
e. Fee, of ~Charbonneau, barely old
enough to walk, was alone in a bug
gy, the horse became frightened and
dashed down the road. The mother
made an effort to catch the animal but
was not successful. After running
some distance, she came upon the
child, toddling back toward her, IN
injured.
Cross chapter, recently sent a OF
signment Of articles to a county chap
ter at Forman. The shipment was
made up of the following articles:
Six dozen shoulder pads, one dozen
pairs of hospital bed socks, n doz-
en- pairs Of wool socks, one dozen
knitted wash cloths, three sweaters
and two mufflers.
Editor J. M. Connolly Of the New
England Herald, has been burned out
of house and home. The loss, except
in associations, was not great, as the
knight of the fourth estate had been
living in a tent, pending the COM
pletion of a more stable dwelling. He
had lighted an oil stove to take off
the chill and stepped over to a
neighbor's to soak UP some heat when
The accident occurred.
A 5SO-pound hog sold by w. ". Dick
of Braddock to Olaf Feltheim netted
$3.50, said to be the highest price
ever paid there for a porker.
Carl Riedell, aged 40, a coal miner,
who came from Fessenden, was in
stantly killed at the Davis mine near
Minot from a premature explosion.
While driving across the Great
Northern tracks at New Rockford in
his machine, a switch engine hit the
car and Jacob Allmaras had a close
call from death.
A disastrous prairie fire swept the
section near Rhame recently, causing
a loss estimated at 100000 in hay and
pasturage. The fire started from a
spark from a Milwaukee engine.
The annual report of the state in-
spector of high schools shows that the
Williston schools, vying for fifth place
In enrolment with the State Agricul-
turai school at Grafton, being sur
passed by the larger cities of Minot,
Bismarck, Grand Forks and Fargo,
are outnumbering Valley City, James,
town, Devils lake and Mandan. Will
liston ranks fifth in the number Of
graduates.
Reinhold Miller, aged IA years, Of
Beulah, was the victim of a serious
accident which may cause the loss CT
one of his hands. The lad, with sew
eral others, was working with & shot
gun and the weapon accidentally .ex-
ploded. The charge struck Miller's
hand and severed the tendons. He la
now in a hospital at Bismarck.
The plan of raising money for war
purposes adopted by the Larimore
Patriotic Council has worked out sue
cessfully and the council now has
subscriptions of $135 a month from
the citi1apc The, council homes to