The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-05-31

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THOMAS Z. Fouulks 81 Fargo. past
grand master ii the North Dakota.
Masonic grand lodge,Yjs IS dead at Far
90 after q long illness.
The large farmers elevator at Strum
was burned to the ground by a fire
supposed to have started from. an
overheated box in the main shaft. Five
thousand bushels Of wheat were in
the elevator and were destroyed.
They simply couldn't run it without
the men, said the girls..1aso the Spec
trum, the weekly collegiate publica-
ton at the North Dakota Agricultural
college at Fargo. was abandoned
when Its six male editors enlisted for
war service.
Professor H. L. Bolley, seed. COM
missioner Of North Dakota and inves- I
tigator at the North Dakota college |
agricultural experimental station at
Fargo, has rendered his services to
the government for q campaign to in
sure a bumper crop ofawheat in 1918
and 1919. This would be in conjunc-
ton with his present work in North
Dakota. .4s
Battling a prairie fire at Braddock
in an automobile Ed Hydahl found
himself surrounded by a wall of fire.
Putting his car on high speed he
headed straight for the blazing bar.
rier. The car stalled before it passed
the danger line and was destroyed,
but Hydahl escaped, with face and
hands a mass Of blisters. Heavy
glasses saved his eyes.
Steele was selected as the place for
the next annual meeting of the Bis
marck Presbytery Mission association
at the convention recently held at Bis
marck, when the following officers
were elected: President, Mrs. r. H.
Myers, Bismarck; vice president, Mrs.
H. C.. P~ostlewaite; extension secre-
tary, Mrs. Benjamin Stuart, and rec
ording secretary, Mrs. r. K. Boyd.
More than 800 persons were pres
ent at the organization meeting Of the
jamestown chapter of the National
Red Cross society. The officers elect
ed were: H. C. Flint, chairman; Miss
Hilda Taylor, instructor at jamestown
college, first vice president; Mrs. Kate
E. Glaspell, second vice president;
Mrs. w. B. de Nault, third vice pres
ident; Mrs. John Kennedy. secretary,
and H. T. Graves, treasurer.
Four North Dakota Red Cross
nurses have been ordered to report
for active service on the Pacific
coast. Miss Ethel Stanford, president
of the North Dakota Red Cross Nurs-
ing association of Fargo; Miss DON
drine Norgaard, director Of the Nor
gard hospital in Fargo; Miss Norma
Diesem of Fargo and Miss Lillian
Hankey of Dickinson are the first
: North Dakota nurses called into &C
tive wal service.
Marmarth has abandoned all pro-
+. posals to continue the fight for the re-
moval of the county seat from Ami.
: don to Marmarth, on the strength OF
the election last November, when
Marmarth, on the face of the returns,
> had a majority. The district court re
Gently declared that a sufficient mum
Der of fraudulent votes had been cast
in. Marmarth. to invalidate the cleo
ton and Marmarth will not carry the
case to the supreme court.
; The district Republican convention
, to nominate a candidate for congress
to succeed the late H. T. Helgesen will
/. be held in Grand Forks June 20, the
= formal call being issued by the con
gressional committee, headed BY
!. Bernt Anderson, Ramsey county, an6
y Governor Frazier's appointee to the
= state board Of control. The call rec
ommends that precinct caucuses be
held on June s and county conven
lions be held in the county seats OF
Wednesday, June ID.
: Grand Forks was chosen as the
1918 meeting place of the North Da
kota State Dental association at the
annual convention at Fargo, at which
the following officers were elected;
President, DR.. Albert Hallenberg, Far
. go; vice president, Tom Smith, Lang
don; secretary, Scion Crum, Fargo
:. and treasurer, l. Wells, Harvey. DR.
+, Fred w. Rose of Cooperstown and DR.
;. w. v. Falls were recommended t.
Governor Frazier for appointment tt
the dental board of examiners.
Petitions are being prepared by thu
> North Dakota railroads to present t.
the state board of railroad commits
sioners for authority to advance in
= trastate freight rates Is per cent owe
and above a similar increase being
: sought before the Interstate com
merce commission by Western road'
u on interstate rates. The proposed in
> crease in interstate rates, even shoult
= it be allowed, will not cover the in
creased cost of operating roads IL
this state. it is said by railroad mel
= at Fargo.
. The North Dakota game commission
= is negotiating for the purchase Of 80
: acres near its 3,84O-acre game pre-