Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-16
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.

Frank, t~wo-year-old son of John
Emil, died at his home near st. Vim
cent as a result of drinking poison
while his parents were absent.
Harold Baskin, twenty-eight years
old, was drowned in the Missouri river
at Sanish while bathing. Sievert Bot.
nen, in swimming at the time, tried
40 rescue him, but failed.
Peter Skaar, twenty-five years old,
q farmland employed by Olaf Fred.
erickson, two miles south of McGreg'
or, was struck on the head by a bolt
of lightning and instantly killed.
Miss Esther Jack has been ap'
pointed city engineer Of Williston and
1T is probably the first time in North
Dakota or in the Northwest that a
woman has been appointed to such an
office. Her father is a farmer.
The sum of $21,439.5O was raised
by Ramsey county during Red Cross
week, when the nation made a drive
for 500, 200, 900. By raising this
amount Ramsey county exceeded its
allotment of $4,000 by $2,439.5o.
Fargo college will make a feature
of athletics during the coming year
10y engaging a full time athletic direc-
8or. President J. w. Hansel declares
1T will be the policy to encourage ath-
aetics is much as possible as the war
service.
Major Douglas Settle, chief muster
officer for North Dakota, announced
chat the war department will accept
She Second North Dakota regiment as
q unit. The question as to the status
of field and staff officers still rests
with the government.
e. c. Covell, a farmer who lived
near Granville, died as the result Of
being gored by a bull. Coyell was look
ing over some stock when the bull at
tackled him. He attempted TO escape
by climbing over a fence, but was
caught and pinned against a fence
post.
i, The Tri-County Baseball league has
dlsbanded after playing ten games.
eight Of which Plaza, which headed
she percentage column, won. Other
Gowns in the league in the order in
which they finished were Sanish, Van
Hook, Makoti, Ryder, Douglas, Parshal
land Roseglen.
{ The first delivery of new wheat
made in the Neche district was made
30 ar elevator at Gretna. just north Of
Neche. The wheat yield was twenty
five bushels an acre, netting the pro-
ducer yer $50 an acre. 1t is the ear
3iest known wheat threshing opera
lions in that district.
Ahmen Alley, a Syrian, and Mrs.
Cora Mosey, whom he is said to have
spirited away from her husband in
Iowa, were captured at Pettibone and
returned to Iowa to stand trial. Mrs.
eompanied by two little daughters,
nine and eleven years old.
The farmers of Ward county are
trying to devise some scheme for cut
in most fields that the binder can not
be used satisfactorily. Many are plan
ming to use a mower with a canvas
land carrier, placing the heads in a
closely boarded rack and then stack
ing.
Farmers of La Moure, Mcintosh
Sargent and Ransom counties, who
suffered great losses in the storm OF
July %, have begun rehabilitation OF
their fortunes. Some are building new
whose crops were destroyed are plow
ing. Latest figures give the loss in
the storm at $4,000
The North Dakota division Of the
Military Training Camps association
having successfully recruited candi
dates for two officers training camp:
at Fort Smelling, Mimi, 10 is asked
TO recruit for the field service Of thu
American ambulance corps in France
and the aviation corps, which is il
argent need of 100000 men.
Wheat fields that will average TWEEN
Gy bushels an acre are being harvest
ed in the Braddock region. Farmer
are finding the grain better than the,
expected. Headers are being used b.
many farmers because of the shor
straw. That locality seems favore'
with a fair crop, that will produc
considerable money because of hig]
prices.
Rev. o. A. Orren, pastor of tn
Lutheran church at Larimore, was ia
tally injured when the automobil
which he was driving was struck b.
a Great Northern passenger train tw'
miles west Of Larimore. Mr.. Orrel
was rushed to Grand Forks and die
an hour later. He came to Larimor'
about three weeks ago from Noun
Ford, Wis.
Mrs. Nellie Gilmore of Wilton Is dc
ing her "bit" toward making the worl,
safe for democracy. Three sons
James of Los Angeles, William AM
Frank, have enlisted in the engineer
Ing corps. Hugh, the only remaining
son more than twenty-one years old
was drawn in the recent draft. It