The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-11-08
Facts About the
Fhckertal State

w @. Robertson of Minneapolis.
president Of National Labor's! Loyal
Legion, and Schuyler Farnham, sec
rotary Of the national organization,
also Of Minneapolis, will speak in
Fargo. Nov. 16.
Eta NJ. Beardsley, former deputy
Observation-Disclosures Of McfIenry
county, received word that her broth
81, Albert, and her father, r. Boards.
ley, had been drowned when. their
boat zeapsized while they were hunting
ducks In the vicinity Of Ashley, MINI.
The total amount Of Liberty bonds
sold by the Boy Scouts of Minot dur
ing the campaign was $3.50. This IL
a remarkably good showing when It IL
considered that the boys went into
the work after all the larger sales
had been made and after the regular
teams which were making the can.
vass had quit.
The record for the Minot district
court was established during the
month Of October, when eighteen di.
vVAN0 S06O0 WO40 I1AONs 4AO Chu6OS
set forth for which parties seek sin.
gle ~blessedness range from claims Of
desertion to the claim that an Amer
lean woman should not be expected
to live with a German husband.
Eluding two separate sets of irate
parents and the police officers of six
counties, Peter e. Brakken, a pro
gressive young farmer of the Fortuna
community, and Miss Minnie Witsoe.
member Of a prominent Fortuna fam.
lily, made their way to Hawley,
MIMI, where they were married at
the home of Mrs. August Atkinson, q
sister Of the groom.
DR.. Charles A. Eastman, famous
Sioux lecturer and author, who has
just completed a tour of various
reservations where the Indian Ian.
guage is spoken, in the interest of the
second Liberty Loan, says: "The In.
dian tribes as a class and as a ace,
are absolutely loyal to all that Amer.
lea stands for, Liberty, Peace, Fellow.
ship and Brotherhood. Though small
in number, they are big in the spirit
of patriotism"
AS the result Of the stove, which
she was attending, exploding Miss
Helen Herred of the Chaplin teaching
force. was badly burned about the
face.
e. L. Hardy, a switchman at Devils
Lake. was killed in the Great North
ernt yards, when he accidentally fell
beneath a train on which he was
working.
The Cass county teachers directory
issued by County Superintendent of
Schools J.. w. Riley shows a staf. of
1919 teachers in the county. There are
122 school districts.
The body Of George Hopkins. 1s.
year:old~ Mandan Indian boy whose
drowning "a reported two weeks age
was found cast up on a sand bank
about half a mile below the point
where the young man made an at
tempt to swim the Missouri.
Although but 10 months old, the
little sol of MI. and Mrs. Charles
Staples Of Cavalier, has had his right
arm amputated for a second time, now
at the elbow, az a result of the baby's
being run over by a car en- the Great
Northern siding a few weeks ago..
F.. R. Seibert, the contractor, pre-
diets that Dlckinson's new p~ostoffice,
the finest federal building on the
slope, will not be ready to turn over
to the government until February Is.
Dickinson had hoped to dedicate the
new building the first Of the year.
Emil Keller, Almont German.
charged with insubordination as a
result Of his continued criticism OF
the United States, its government and
the fullness thereof, arraigned before
United States Commissioner Lanter.
mann was held under $1,000 bail,
which Keller furnished, to answer to
the next term Of federal court.
Pat Shelp saw a wolf ahead of his
car while driving from Langdon to
his home. Speeding up the car, he
worked the animal in the middle OF
the highway and ran it down.
An automobile belonging to a farm.
er neer Rugby was struck by the fast
mail on the crossing at Grenora. VIII.
liam Luck and Leo Void, two of tbree
occupants of the car, were injured.
A tractor blew up on the Severson
place in the Squaw Gap country and
set fire to a strip of prairie land five
miles long and two miles wide. PEG.
pie fought the flames with wet sacks
Never in the history of Garrison has
there been 10 many buildings con
structed and the city showing such a
healthy growth as this fall. Even the
rural communities are enjoying a
building boom.
II sufficient signatures are obtained
upon petitions, Wells county may have
the services Of a trained nurse for its
public schools. Superintendent Sen,
neb Nertrost of Fessenden has inter
ested her office in the matter.
According to Chairman Hanna Of
the State Liberty Loan committee
LaMoure county will probably be the
banner county in the state when tax