Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-16

kildeer will erect a new st. Johns
English Lutheran church at a cost of
$1,000.
e. S. De L.ancey of Valley City has
been named horse inspector, with
headquarters at Bismarck. He will
have supervision of purchasing OF
horses for the United States govern,
ment.
A 25-cent increase a ton on hard
coal prices took effect at Fargo on
Oct. G. This makes the retail price
of hard coal $11.7o a ton. A rise OF
% cents in the wholesale price OF coal
is given as the cause of the increase
by the dealers.
The Towner Farmers COOPERATIVE
Publishing company has been organ,
lied at Cando, the board of directors
consisting of C. P. Peterson of Bisbee,
H. P. Coder of Calvin, A. J. McLarty
of Bethel, w. j. Gilchrist of Twin
Hill, John Heartso of Perth, A. e.
Benson and John Killer of Bisbee. The
board will proceed to elect a manager
ana purchase a newspaper.
The North Dakota Rural Letter
Carriers association, in convention at
gress for an allowance of $50 a mile
a year for excess mileage over the
standard twenty-four miles and ask.
ing that there be established a civil
service court to which government
employees may appeal their cases when
they feel they are u~njustly treated.
The toll lines and exchanges of the
Western Telephone association in Nc.
Henry county have been sold by Sher.
iff J. A. Wilk to satisfy an execution
Issued in district court in favor of the
First National bank of Detroit, Mich.
The properties brought $4,000. A rep.
resentative Of the Detroit bank is said
to be the purchaser. After the sale
Judge A. G.. Burr issued an injunc.
ton restraining the sheriff from issu.
ing a certificate.
Preparations are being made at
Grand Forks for a county celebration
in honor of the men who will be draft.
ed into the new national army. A
pageant probably will be arranged, as
we'll as an elaborate program OF
speeches and music. The celebration
Will be made a climax to the many
series of patriotic demonstrations held
during the summer, inasmuch as a
great number of homes in the county
have become directly interested in the
new army.
Thomas NJ. Murphy of Sanborn,
aged seyenty-four, is the father OF
three sons and the uncle of four
nephews who are UNFOLDING the name
of Murphy in the field. The sons are
Captain f T. Murphy Of Bismarck,
commander Of the supply company Of
the Second regiment; Captain Jack w.
Murphy, commander of Company A in
the First regiment, and M. B. Murphy.
Company A. Seventh California infan.
try. The nephews are in the Montana
and Washington guard.
North Dakota's first Ukrainian
church, by the Catholic congregation
Of Ukrainia, twelve miles from Bel
field, has been dedicated. Right Rev.
Fl. Carfors, bishop of Chicago, offici-
ated, With the assistance of the Very
Rev. G. M. Chamiysky, vicar general
Of the Ukrainian diocese, and the
Rev. Duke M. F. Popoi of Chicago
and Joliet, ILL.,, and the local pastor,
Rev. John Senchuck. The services
were attended by 500 people, who
came from a distance as great as 100
miles.
The United States government has
consented to send engineers to CO.
operate with the state OF North Da.
kota in making final cost estimates on
actual reclamation work in the Red
River valley on food control projects,
according to word received at Fargo
from the department Of agriculture at
Washington by Herbert A. Hard, the
drainage engineer employed by the
state. Engineer Hard estimates that
the government will spend about S25,,
900 on this preliminary survey work
in the valley.
Orders by Attorney General Ian.
ger to county sheriffs, requiring
the latter to prosecute sellers OF
near beer" have given rise to a ques
ton that is likely to reach the courts
The products are banned by the at
torney general because analysis made
at the North Dakota agricultural col
lege food department has revealed al
coholic contents to the extent of one
fifth of 1 per cent. The attorney gen
eral holds that much alcohol in the
beverages brings them within the pro
visions of the North Dakota prohibit
ton laws.
"You can come and take me and pu
me in prison or kill me, but they can
not make me fight. Gods against wa.
and it is not right" So said Richard
Francis Anderson of Wilton, Burleigl
county, at Bismarck, the first con
scientious director, after he had passe'
a perfect physical examination. An
Gerson, a strapping %six-footer, declal
ed that he belonged to no religious dc
nomination which is ODDOSad tO wa,