Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-11-15
North Dakota
News Sif6ngs

citizens have Joined the Munster
branch of the Eddy county chapter
of the Red Cross society.
Dickinson.-The honor roll of
Northern Pacific employees at this d.
vision point shows that 21s men pur-
chased $l6,250 worth of the Second
Liberty loan.
Mandan.-George Kramer, Of So
len, charges his son Mike with TAX.
ing load of grain to town, secur-
ing the sl04 check for same, cashing
1t at the bank and leaving for parts
unknown.
Fargo-The Haggart Construction
company of this city has been award
ed the contract for the construction
of the proposed water and sewer sys-
TENS for the city of Langdon. The
bid was s73,35S.Ss.
Fargo.-As the result of the lifting
of the embargo en- livestock ship
ments over the Great Northern, ship
ments from North Dakota and Mon
tana have commenced to move to-
ward South st. Paul and New Brigh-
ton.
Dickinson.-Nliss Edna Schofield,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. E. L.
Schofield, Dickinson, is winning fame
as a sculptress in California, where
a recent statuette of yellow Skies"
noted Yuma Indian, has attracted
much favorable comment.
Sentinel Butte.-A loss of approx
mately $4,000 to the stockholders was
sustained here when Bullion hall was
burned to the ground. It is believed
that the fire was of incendiary origin
and there was no insurance. Bullion
hall was one of the amusement CEN
tiers of the community.
Minot.-with the arrest of two
men giving the names of William
Jeffries and Marry Keno. the Minot
police believe they have broken up
ring of crooks, who are thought
to be moving west from st. Paul.
Officers caught the two men in the
act of going through farmers pockets.
Observation-Disclosures, he claims,
his car was damaged in bucking
drifts which should not have been
there had the county commissioners
enforced the statute requiring weeds
along the roadside to be cut, Albert
Bjerke, Beaver Creek commercial
traveller, is suing Steele county for
damages. y
Rismarck.-Word has been re.
cefved here that Lieut.. w. H. Falco-
ner, nephew of the pioneer Burleigh
county Falconers, and a son of DR..
Falconer of Lancaster, Ont, who
was one of McGil's first graduates
in medicine a half century ago, was
killed in action in France while serv-
ing with the royal flying corps.
Finley.-G. A. Monteith, president
of the North Dakota Press association
and editor of the Finley Beacon, is
suing DR.. A. J. Heimark of Fargo for
$4,000, charging malpractice upon the
part Of the Fargo practitioner, who
treated the editors hand after it had
been caught in press. Blood
poisoning followed. and Monte" now
claims DR.. Heimark did not give the
injury proper or sufficient attention.
Minot.-Helen Dwire of Minot and
Gertrude Ertelling of Kellogg, Minn,
both Is years old. are missing in Chi
cago. Miss Dwire arrived in Chicago
to visit her brother, who is student
at the Northwestern university, but
as he was late in reaching the sta
ton, he did not meet her and she dis
appeared. Miss Ertelling, who had
been visiting relatives. went to the
Union station to meet a friend and
has not returned. The Chicago police
department is searching for the young
ladies'.
Buchanan.-H. F. Bradley, farmer
residing near Buchanan pleaded guilty
to abusing an orphan girl, Grace
Grugen, who was placed in his care
by the late William Blake. DR.. G. l..
Moore was the complaining witness
and according to his evidence Brad
ley beat the little girl with rubber
hose and forced her to herd cattle
during the severe cold weather with
out providing her with sufficient
clothing. The defendant paid q fine
of $40 and costs and the girl has
been taken to the county poor farm,
where she will be kept until a home
is found for her.
Fargo North Dakota will be asked
to contribute $3.50 of the thirty.
five millions which will be raised in
American to finance the Y. N. c. AS
splendid war and cantonment pro.
gram. Committee leaders began their
drive for this fund on Sunday, Novem.
Der 18th, after perfecting a thorough
organization that will assure every
locality an opportunity and an invita-.
ton to contribute its share. Many
leading business men of the various
communities are giving practically
their entire time to the work until the
fund is raised. OF the amount solicit
ed, after a small deduction for general
administrative expenses, about one
third will be used in work with the
United States army overseas, one
third for American cantonment work
and one-third for work with the allies
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