Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-05-31
News Of the Week From Many
Sections Of the State.
MANY ITEMS OF INTEREST
Events Are Briefly Written In Order
to Make Perusal Easier for
Busy Readers.

ground feed with which children in
play had mixed the contents of a can
of prepared gopher poison.
Golden Valley has dropped German
from the curriculum of the public
schools by unanimous vote Of the
school board, a majority of whose
members are of German birth.
Governor Frazier named July 10 as
the date of a special election to
choose a successor to the late Repre-.
sentative Henry T. Helgesen in the
First North Dakota congressional dis
trict.
A formal request will be made of
boards of education in North Dakota
not to open schools next fall earlier
than Oct. l, so school children may
assist with the harvesting OF the
crops.
Mandan has completed the organi-
cation of a Red Cross chapter with
ffty-five members and under the d.
rection of Mrs. w. H. Stutsman, pres
ident, a campaign now is under way
for a membership of 1000.
North Dakota's novel industry-sil-
yer black fox farming-has been start
ed near St. Johns. Buildings and fox
yards have been provided and ami
mails valued at $4,000 a pair have
been bought for breeding purposes.
North Dakota's complete national
guard units as ordered by the war de-
partment are: Two regiments of in
fantry assigned to Thirteenth division
and n field hospital company and
one ambulance company attached to
army corps.
An explosion of gasoline in the Mil
Ter & Copeland grocery store at Penn.
bina resulted in a fire that spread rap
idly to adjoining buildings and threat
ened the entire residence section of
the city. The loss is estimated at
about 100000.
Three hundred Shorthorn breeders
from North Dakota and Montana at
tended a recent sale at Minot. Sixty
head sold for an average of more than
5000 each. One yearlinga bull from
the farm Of A. H. White at Kramer
sold for 1855.
When the law failed to o her
two-year-old child Mrs. Margaret Muth
went to Dickinson from jamestown,
visited the home of her father-in-law
and got the child. Now the grandpar-
ents are prosecuting her on a charge
of kidnapping.
Ono Nf tho foot1rQc in aNnroofiOn
with the Scottish Rite reunion to be
held at Fargo June 4 to Z is that June
will be the 200th anniversary of the
establishment of modern Masonry.
The largest class in the history of the
order at Fargo will be initiated.
Speeding his "fivver'' into the coun-
try in pursuit of a wrongdoer Sheriff
Hartung of Dickinson developed a hot
box which promptly communicated it.
self to the prairie grass at the side of
the trail. While the sheriff salvaged
!: his car his guests fought and subdued
a stubborn prairie fire.
!: Six North Dakota young men have
: been accepted into the United States
aviation corps and are now in training
at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. They are:
: Harold l.. Barnes, Grand Forks; Ches-
ter Cole, Grand Forks; John C. Jenni.
son, Sandy" Green and Harry E.
Scouten, Inkster, and Harland Nc.
Glen.
The kaiser is losing a lot of subjects
in Slope county. Nine of them for.
sock him in Stark county at this term
of court and one, VAIL Cakopayko,
went the whole route by changing his
name to plain Bill Norton. Nearly all
of the new citizens are between the
ages Of twenty-one and thirty, who be.
come Immediately eligible for military
service against the Fatherland.
Three children of Mr.. and Mrs. E.
Jeske, ten to fifteen years old, and a
ffteen-year-old cousin, sleeping in a
cook car on a farm three miles from
Fessenden, were murdered and the
bodies burned to conceal the crime,
according to a verdict announced by
Coroner E. N. Niles of Wells county.
: The dead are Hilda, Nathaniel and
Theodore Jeske and Lydia Behnet. No
arrests have been made.
w. E. Byerly, receiver Of the United
States land office at Williston, was
elected chairman of the Democratic
state committee of North Dakota al
Fargo in succession to Fred Mclean
of st. Paul, resigned. Byerly's cleo.
ton was unanimous. D. H. Macarthur
Democratic gubernatorial candidate
last year, charged that invisible gov
eminent" methods were employed tc
elect Byerly to control patronage.
A meeting of sportsmen for the pur
pose Of forming a state association
] will be held at Minot on June Is. The
session has been called to dovetai1
with the annual tournament of the
North Dakota Sportsmen's association
to be held at Minot June IA, Is and 16
The object of the proposed associa
ton is to. promote the wild game In
terests of the state. C. H. Parker and
j. r. Pence OF Minot are In charge 81