Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-05-10
News Of The Week From Many
Sections Of The State.
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written In Order
to Make PerusaI Easier for
Busy Readers.

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Fifty young people Of Cooperstown
have enrolled as members of the local
Red Cross society.
The annual convention of the Cass
County Sunday School association will
be held at Fargo May 16 and II.
The annual .encampment of the
North Dakota commandery of the G..
A. r.. will be in ,Casselton June IL
and 10.
Lights for Sanborn, Darcy and Rog-
ers, to be furnished by electricity from
a high tension line from Valley City,
are being planned by a committee.
Several buildings and, more thar
100 stacks of hay were destroyed in a
prairie fire which swept over a large
territory northwest. of Golden Valley.
High school athletes of that part of
the state are training for the field and
track meet to be held at Minot May
IL under the direction of the normal
school.
The Million Dollar Hotel company,
with headquarters at Huron, S. D., has
incorporated at Bismarck under the
laws of North Dakota to build a. hotel
at Minot.
The Minot Farmers Central bank,
with a $4,000 capital, has opened its
doors. The institution is backed by
farmers, practically all of them men,
bers Of the Nonpartisan league.
The City of Mondak, a Missouri
river steamer, was recently hit by a
cake of ice lear Garrison, and the boat
slowly sank. The loss to E. H. Sene-
chal, the owner, is about $4,000.
Word has been received by N. D.
Nelson, a Mayville merchant, that his
son, David Nelson, a Rhodes scholar
attending Oxford university, England,
has enlisted in the English army.
Bumped by a car driven by Floyd
Harvey, Alex McGregor of Walhalla
was knocked to the ground and died a
few hours later from his injuries. Nc
Gregor was forty-eight years old.
Jack Serrin, a member of the 1912
baseball team of Ambrose, was cleo
trocuted at Marion, Ind, recently, ac-
cording to word reaching friends of
the former ball player at Ambrose.
While repairing an automobile, the
wheels of which had been replaced by
jacks, Clarence Kordahl, aged twenty
two, was killed at Stanley when the
Jacks gave way and let the car down
on him.
DR.. f. F. Ladd, president of the
State Agricultural college, has been
named state oil inspector for the term
expiring July 1, to succeed Professor
w. P. Washburn of the Agricultural
college.
The sixteenth annual interscholastic
track meet will be held at the Univer-
sity of North Dakota at Grand Forks,
Saturday, May 10, and many entries
have been received and more are ex-
pected.
Vernon Lucas, a graduate of Penn
hina high school aud one of Professor
Curtis pupils in wireless t%elegraphy.
has Joined the aerial squadron of tho
United States government and gone tor
st. Louis.
Four of Fargo colleges best men
have joined the American military
service and several others will Join
soon. John Keye, third baseman and
pitcher; L.. Norby, shortstop; J.. Nor
by, first baseman, and Claude Baxter,
pitcher, are the players who have en-
listed.
The English Lutheran synod of the
Northwest, comprising churches in
Minnesota, Wisconsin, North and
South Dakota, will hold it's annual con-
vention in Fargo June 4 to 8. A fea-
ture of the gathering will be observ-
ance Of the 4O0th anniversary of the
Reformation.
The Fargo college baseball schedule
will be carried out, athletic author
tiles OF that school announced. The
proposed abandonment of baseball be-
cause four star members of the squad
had enlisted was not sanctioned by
the athletic authorities and the carded
games will be played.
Ferdinand M. King of Baldwin. rep.
r%esentative of the Equity Cooperative
Packing company of North Dakota
and who served in E company, Eley-
enth United States infantry, during
the Spanish war, wired President Will
son that Baldwin offers thirty men
King is a German by birth.
Because so many high school ath-
letes throughout the Red River valley
district have enlisted for military serv-
ice the interstate high school track
and field meet, scheduled for Fargo
May Is and 26, has been cancelled.
Other interscholastic events carded
for the sane dates also were aban.
doned.
At a meeting at Fargo of the board
of athletic control of the North Da.
kota Agricultural college 1t was decid.
ed to abandon the spring athletic pro.
gram at the college. Lack CT interest,
owing to the departure Of many stu.
dents for farm work and for military
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