The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-09-06
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which he was riding near Fryburg
turned turtle.
Two chemical fire engines have been
added to the fire fighting apparatus
of Braddock. A volunteer fire depart.
ment will be organized and regular
meetings and drills will be held.
T%hreshing operations in the Forbes
district have shown that a crop of
from 8 to Is bushels of wheat have
been raised by the farmers and a bar
ley crop of 20 to 25 bushels to the
acre.
The fire department of Braddock
was recently made more effective by
h purchase of two new chemical fire
engines. A volunteer fire department
will be organized soon and weekly
drills will be held.
Herman Under of Underwood has
lost several valuable horses which
have been poisoned while grazing. 1t
is believed poison was scattered in
the pasture by someone, although the
owner has no clue to work on.
Although he is alleged to have vot-
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eshly gave his age when charged with
failure to register as 20 years and
six months. He is held under $500
bonds to appear before U. S. Commits.
sioner L. B. Hardy, Sept. 6.
Men who have been drafted in Bow.
man county have already started to
drill. The men of Bowman are be.
ing drilled under the direction of c..
J.. Phelan. former captain of company
K of Dickinson, and l.. H. Herzig, a
Spanish-American wal veteran.
Everything in the way of clothing,
with the exception of what the fam
lily had on, and money vast lost by
Nick Climber of New England and his
wife when the shack of their home.
stead was destroyed by an explosion
of gasoline. Mrs. Elmer was badly
burned in an effort to save some of
the belongings.
While working under a car in the
Marmarth yards Pete Penoskey was
SO badly injured that he died a few
hours later. Penoskey was doing
some repair work to the car when
a string of other cars were shunted
onto the tracking moving the car he
was working under. The young man
was a graduate of the local schools,
a we'll known amateur athlete.
The home of Murdoch Mcdonald
near Devils Lake, was entirely de-.
stroyed by fire. The explosion of an
oil stove caused the blaze which
spread so quickly that it got beyond
control.
The Keller brothers of Bisbee, who
have just finished threshing, received
yields of IL to Is bushels of good
wheat to the acre from the thinnest
field and as high as 20 bushels to the
acre on other fields.
Gottlieb Grenz of Hazelton lost 100
bushels of good wheat when lightning
struck his stack just as he was pre-
pairing to thresh it. The timely ar
rival of neighbors prevented the de.
struction of his entire crop.
The Mandan home guard now has
20 members. ]. NJ. Hanley, captain,
stated that it was growing rapidly,
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meeting. Regular drill practice is
held every Monday and Thursday eve.
nings.
Frank Larson was given 80 days in
Jail for a%ssaulting Russell Baker, a
farmer, near Cando. Larson claimed
that Baker owed him money and be.
cause of denial on the part of the
latter. he was badly beaten up by
Larson.
The second battalion of the First
North Dakota regiment is back at Fl.
Lincoln from a four-day hike to the
Standing Rock reservation. The boys
averaged 80 miles a day and were
we'll treated in the towns through
which they passed.
The dry season has not affected the
sheep in the Granville section as it
has other stock. E. C. Berkus and
w. M. Berkus received $195.25 for
b clip from AZ sheep. These men
are disposing of their cattle and are
building up the sheep herd.
The farmers through the Cando CON-
munity are delighted at the smooth.
ness and swiftness with which. the
crops are being harvested, there be-
ing practically a total absence of labor
trouble and an abundance of good har-
vest help. The harvest is we'll on
the way to it's end and many farmers
have much larger crops than they
expected.
On account of the shortage of har-
vest hands. due, it is said, to many
young men being drafted or enlisting
in the national armies. many patriotic
young women of the Tappen commun.
fly. wishing to do their "bit," are
DOMINIC overalls and Offering their
services in the fields. Their employ
ers assert that they are making good,
too.
Kenneth, the ~4-year-old son of Carl
Williams. of Wyndmere, lost his life in
the Wild Rice river near Hamlin when
he with a number of other boys at
tending a Sunday school picnic left
the grounds to go to the river.
Governor Frazier, on reviewing the