The Hope pioneer., 1917-08-16
News of theState
Condensed for Busy Folks

SOu0eQSeQ 1O1 Busy FOLKS
Governor Lynn ]. Frazier has ap-
pointed Archie D. MCDANIEL, Minot;
A. w. skelsey, Fargo, and ]. G. suter,
Grafton, as members of the state med
ical examining board.
Twelve weeks of college work will
DO offered next summer at the Uni
versity of North Dakota, according to
the present plan, but the additional
six weeks petitioned for cannot be
granted this year.
An injunctional suit has been insti.
tuted in the district court at Minot
by Mrs. Nellie Norris against O. O.
Adams, Jesse Mott and others, by
which the plaintiff seeks to restrain
the defendants from draining the low
er Des Laos lake.
Farmers of the Ayr community or.
ganized a potato growers association
at an enthusiastic meeting addressed
by j. E. Boyle of the North Dakota
extension department. Thomas Pun.
ton, Sr., was elected president and
George Warrington secretary and
treasurer.
Harvesting is now under way in all
sections of North Dakota, and in the
southern and eastern portions, thresh-
Ing of barley and oats has begun. Early
reports on oats threshing indicates a
very large production in the eastern
part of the state. Yields are running
from 40 to IS bushels an acre, and
the quality is fine. Barley also is
yielding very well, and the quality Is
good.
The citizens Of Carpio, with less
than 200 inhabitants, took it upon
themselves to donate money to the
company fund for A company Of Minot
and gave $40. The town has nine
young men in this company and the
citizens felt that it was necessary to
do this much. Carpio has also given
a fair-sized sum to the hospital corps
fund, where several more Of her men
are serving.
While swimming in the Missouri
river near Sanish, with a party of
friends, Harold Baskin, %, was
drowned when he suddenly sunk at a
point where the current is swift and
the water 12 feet deep. Fifteen hours
Of searching was spent before the body
was found. Baskin was among the
first drawn for the selective draft and
had said that he expected to be called
into service and would be glad to go.
The young mars home is at Powers
Lake.
Byron Hearst was stricken uncon-
scious by bolt of lightning which
struck him in the field while he was
driving a mower, near st. Thomas; the
shock stampeded the horses, and one
of the animals was so badly cut by
the mower blades that it was neces.
sary to kill it. By good fortune Hearst
did not fall under the knives, and when
the bleeding horses reached the barn.
yard a rescue party set out and found
the boy wandering about the field, still
stunned by his experience.
Timber Creek township near Alexan.
der is doing great deal Of road build
ing and practically all the roads in the
township are graded and ready for the
heavy traffic during the threshing sea-
son when grain will be hauled to eleva.
tors.
But one man among the first so
Stutsman county registrants examined
here was rejected for physical dis
qualifications. The physique of North
Dakota candidates for selective SER
vice is above the average, federal Of
ficers state.
Alvis, four-year-old daughter of F..
G. Fraine, collided with a team of
horses while playing with a pet dog
in the barnyard at her home near Gran
vile, and one OF, the animals, kicking
at the dog, crushed in the little girls
skull, killing her instantly.
II expected to stay only six months,
but now that our troops are here and
more coming, I'm sure I don't know
when will be back" writes Gertrude
Lebbitt, North Dakota's ambulance
nurse on the French battle front, in
a letter to her mother at Enderlin.
Kensal made it's volunteers the
wealthiest men in the North Dakota
regiments, when they raised a purse
of $1,043 for recruits enlisted from
this community. A benefit concert
netted 1914; the Commercial club gave
5000, and there were individual SUBJ
scriptions ranging up to 500.
George May, charged with forging a
check for $29 on George Wood and
another for $23 on Gene Hill, farmers
near Williston, and then cashing them
at the First National bank, was ar
rested in a local rooming house and
placed in jail.
Justice w. A. Evans, of the Iowa
supreme court, has been engaged to
make one Of the addresses at the an
nual meeting of the North Dakota
State Bar association in Dickinson.
Members of the bar will be given a
ride through the Bad Lands.
Jamestown.-John Schatz, nine.year-
old son of Christ Schatz, of James