Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-11-08
North Dakota
Events Of the Week

suicide near the Midland Continental
railroad passenger depot at James
town by drinking carbolic acid.
II. NJ. Benjamin of Minot, has been
ordered to take charge of the United
States recruiting office for the navy,
at Fargo and has taken up his duties.
The Minot recruiting office has been
closed.
Loss estimated at 100000 was sus-
tanned when fire destroyed nearly an
entire block in the business district
at Sisseton. The blaze started in
the basement Of the Stavig store and
was soon beyond control.
In spite of the short crops and the
deplorable weather conditions under
which the canvass was made, Lundj
Valley subscribed to the Liberty
Loan in an amount equal to 500 for
every man, woman and child in the
village. This is believed by the peo-
PIE here to be the best record in the
state. n
The North Dakota tax commission
lost its fight to collect 100000 in back
taxes from the Cream of Wheat COM
pany. judge G. M. Cooley for the
district court decided in favor of the
defendant company. His decision
was made on the grounds that the
company had no taxable property in
the state.
John Colosky, ~13-yearold son of
Charles Colosky, Of Marvel, was &C.
c%identally killed by his aged grand
father, Joseph Colosky. The lad, to-
gether with his playmates were play
ing Halloween praaNs and had en-
tered his grandfather's back yard.
IFhe latter appeared at the door with
a revolver and shot, to scare the boys,
but the bullet struck the youth on
the right side of the head and lodged
in the base of the skull. He died
two hours later.
The young people of Crosby have
formed an organization for the pur-
pose of adding cheer to the camps in
which the soldiers from that city have
gone. A novel scheme has been
adopted by the organization which
will result in the assembling of a larg4
amount of material to be sent to the
camps. At the meetings which are
held at different times, the admission
is something which will add to the
comfort of the boys. At the last
meeting the admission was one pack
age of gum or more.
Enrolment at the State School Of
Agriculture and Forestry at Bottineau
is now a little larger than at this
same period last year.
N. P. Eckly, general merchant at
Embden, was seriously if not fatally
injured when he drove his auto dt
rectly IN front of an approaching train
at a grade crossing neal town.
The lutheran Deaconess hospital at
Wahpeton, capitalized at $25, 900, will
expand to a 100000 corporation, and
build a large addition to it's hospital
building, according to announcement
made by the managers.
County Auditor w. R.. Tucker of
Cass county has received word from
the government that of the 1913 men
who have been sent to camp from
Cass county not one has been reject
ed ab the cantonment as unfit for
military service.
~ uSSAAAlAS " p0IlOulAC lSOIIu
Dakota hotels which do not have at
least one meatless and one wheat1ess
day each week, in compliance with
the request Of Administrator Hoover,
Bismarck's 200 travelling men voted
to do their bit for food conservation.
Announcement has been made that
the Enderlin farmers have perfected
an NYSoro voSuof;o,. ~ No. 49, - kI,>
Enderlin Farmers Cooperative Store
company, capitalized at $25, 900. 1t is
the Intention of the directors to open
for business the first of next month.
John Marzof of McClusky endorses
an, Kipling has said Of the female Of
the species since his recent experience
with Mary RIM, an unneighborly
neighbor, who after chasing John
around a section with a shotgun
slugged to the muzzle, caught John by
the coat tails and chasti5ed him with
a horsewhip. John had Mary arrested
on a charge of assault with a more
or less deadly weapon; Mary pleaded
guilty, and Justice ~Saueresig fined
her S. and costs, the penalty totaling
$50.
Notice Of r~etraction by A. G. TOWN.
ley has been served or 3. M. Crary,
editor Of the Devils Lake World, for
the publication of an article in the
World which Townley alleges was lib
elous. The %retraction notice marks
the first to be served on a North
} Dakota newspaper by the president OF
the Nonpartisan league. The article
was originally printed in The Advo,
cate, a Fargo labor weekly, and re.
printed In the World, and several 9th.
! er state newspapers.
The city Of Larimore figures that II
may probably have topped the record
!, for second Liberty Loan bond purchas.
. es in North Dakota, according to the
proportion Of its allotments. The city
!. was called upon to raise $4,000 IN
!, the sale, but raised the figure to $50.
300 for good measure.