Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-05-03

IVA WAN 49, Wal
recently for insulting the American
flag, was sentenced to thirty days in
the county Jail. He is alleged to have
advocated the wearing of red flags in
buttonholes rather than the colors of
the United States.
Fifty Minot girls wish to serve their
country ON the firing line. They have
organized the Minot Girls Military
squad and have begun drilling under
the leadership of Mrs. w. E. Holbein,
wife of the secretary of the Minot As.
ISOLATION of Commerce. Drills in mill
tary maneuvers will be held four days
every week.
Cassie Parker, the pride of Western
North Dakota %ranchmen, the girl who
could take her place in the roundup
and hold a firm seat in the saddle rid
Jig over the open range is dead. She
succumbed at Jamestown, where she
was suddenly taken ill. She had the
reputation of being the Vests best
woman rider.
Otto Smith, a farmer a Hills.
bo1o, recently arrested charged with
piling ties on the Great Northern
track and which nearly wrecked the
Red River Valley limited, was sent to
the asylum for the insane. Smith ad.
mitted placing the ties on the rails.
The train crashed into them, but was
not wrecked.
DR.. A. G. Steele, associate professor
of education in West Virginia univer.
sity, has resigned to accept the presi.
dency of the North Dakota normal
school at Minot, it is said. Professor
Steele's resignation has been accepted
by the state board of regents and he
will take up his work at the North Da.
kota institution in July.
Ground in the Inkster section Of the
state is now in the best condition for
receiving the seed. Many of the farm
ers in that vicinity were reluctant to
as early as other communities, know
ing that much OF the seed is poor and
that the grain will need extremely IA
vorable conditions for sprouting.
1--WE have discontinued this record
reads a large placard in n of the
Bismarck downtown display windows
with q large hand pointing to the pho
nograph lecord, 81 Didn't Raise My
Boy to Be a Soldier" We have re-
stocked with this record" reads a
companion sign, and a hand points to
"The Stars and Stripes Forever
At the close Of business April "a
the automobile registration depart
ment of the secretary of states Office
at Bismarck had issued 10000 license
tags, netting the state $92,400, approx
imately two-thirds of which will go
into the state highway fund. 1t is es-
timated that less than 80 per cen Of
North Dakota's motor cars are now
equipped with 1917 tags.
Efforts to draw every woman in
North Dakota into a comprehensive
organization for the conservation Of
food II energy as a war measure
were launched at Fargo by clubwo-
men Of statewide prominence in issu-
ing a communication of appeal to all
the members of the Women's clubs Of
the state and to the officers of the
organization is to be completed by
May 10.
Crosby has issued building permits
for a total Of more than $250,O0O, to be
spent in new buildings on Main street.
Contracts have been let for the new
$125,O00 county courthouse and Jail
and work will start at once. Crosby's
new 100000 hospital is nearing com
pletion and work has been started on
the new Citizens National bank build
ing, costing about $4,000. A building
permit has been issued for the con
struction of an $4,000 hotel building
to replace the Scandinavian hotel.
Although Governor Lynn ]. Frazier
slashed the Dickinson normal school
appropriation from $1S0,0OO to $20,0 0
citizens there will not allow the school
to be delayed two years in opening. w
L. Richards, Alfred White and w. F.
Burnett, a citizens committee, went to
st. Paul, where they closed a deal for
270 acres of land adjoining Dickinson
The price paid was SIS an acre, a to
tai of $20,25O. Sixty acres will be
, decided to the state and the rest held
f by citizens who have subscribed fol-
!, stock.
The state supreme court, in a deci
!. sion in the famous board of regents
controversy, denied the petition of At
| torney General William LANCER an6
| others for a writ of quo warranto tc
GUST Lewis F. Crawford, Frank White
3 ]. D. Taylor, Emil Snow and ]. A
Power from their Offices as members
of the board, The decision held tina,
the regents art. which empowered the
governor to nominate and the senate
y to confirm nominations of members
of the board, did not conflict with thu
initiative and referendum amendment
to the constitution.
The North Dakota council of de
! Tense, as named by Governor Frazier