The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-02-15
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST


~. died at her home at Ray after sew
eral weeks illness.
Minot has issued q call to poultry
fanciers Of the state, and especially Of
tho northwestern part for the annual
EshaoN there, March 6itog10,, inclusive.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Campbell. the
former sixty-dve Year, old md Ntbesslat
ter ~sixty-nine, celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary. ct their home at
Buchanan.
North Dakota's senate took its sec
ond action against the ''blue laws"
within q week when 1t passed the bill
legalixing Sunday baseball. The meas
ure goes to the house.
Farmers and stockmen Of the
Grassy Butte region have organized
the Western North Dakota Protective:
association to- obtain protection
against cattle thieving.
The North Dakota house has passed
the bill establishing . 2-cent passen-
ger railway fare in the state. That
body also endorsed President Wilson's
handling Of. the German crisis.
With the arrival at Ray of Hjalmar
Bergh from St: Paul and Einar Bergh
from British Columbia at the home OF
their brother Olaf the three brothers
held their first reunion in thirty years.
The city officials Of Fargo are test
ing out an incinerator that has been
put in operation a the city dump
and IL, at the end of thirty days, the
plant proves satisfactory it will be-
come q fixture.
While several youthful advocates Of
preparedness we're practicing on q
tin can target at Norma. Joe Hagen
was shot in the right eye with a lead
en- pellet fromsan air rife in the hands
Of Vernon Nelson. The sight may be
snvAd.- $1,000. !. 4aa @
The opposition faction to the Non
partisan league in the North Dakota
senate sItcumbed to the desire Of
stiiat Organization and voted for the
constitutional amendment providing
for state owned packing and cold stor.
age plants.
Orders, have been received at Fort
smelling, Mimi, from the war depart
lment at Washington ~supersedingt pre-
5vious orders FOR the mastering out Of
the First North Dakota infantry, now
In barracks there, and announcing, an
Indefinite furlough for the members
| of the organization. 5@s@
The chief Of police Of Minor made
. gruesome discovery after the recent
blizzard. He entered : small house
81 the outskirts OF, the town and
found the body OF L. ~ C0mstock
frozen sstiff. He was an old resident
offMilnor and was well known IN the
surrounding country.
Mrs. Ed Luyerne Of st. Paul shot
herself on atGreat Northern passen-
ger train while on her way to Grand
Forks. Mrs. Luyerne vas i'll and
brooded, over domestic troubles, the
st. Paul police were told. Luverne,
her former husband, Is said to be q
locomotive engineer.
Alex Mckenzie, veteran Republican
leader and railroad contractor Of the
Northwest, Is III at st. Joseph's hos
lpital, st. Paul, from q nervous break
down. He intended to leave for the
South a month ago to spend the win
Eter, but his health ~necessitated q post
ponement of the trip.
Reconsideration in the North Dak0-
tn house of the Hendrickson bill for
a 2cent passenger fare resulted In
the measure being killed when that
body approved Representative Psatter-
sons motion TO table the, bill. Repre-.
sentative Patterson maintained that
tie bin was Unconstitutional in Its
present form.
Pending the settlement of the con-
test over the North Dakota board of
regents the university authorities 1t
Grand Forks temporarily have held up
the pay Of all faculty members and
smployes.t President. McV!ey explained
that the university; wanted to be sure
that II obeyed the right board before y
takinpSs l seton 9
Mrs. Frank Reed, lost nearly fifteen
hours % tie prairie near her home st
New Rockford III 4 snow storm, suffered
ffHSEexfhnET II both fee9ff and lh1aR6ds. but
fescss1p5eedd' injury to hedr: tifices because Of
,bf0fsetfon BY q sheet OF lee which
formed between her coat collar and
shsrs Hat. She talked to srsscnSrs from
beneath the covering Of Ice.