The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-07-19
IN NORTH DAKOTA
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Nearly 81 for every man, woman
and child in Mayville has been sub.
scribed for the Red Cross fund.
Representatives of large coal con-.
Stunning concerns are arriving in Minot
and contracting for the purchase of
| Ignite.
The coal mine operators of North.
west North Dakota are urging resi-
dents of the Minot district to lay in
their winter supply of coal as DON as
possible.
Minot's contribution to the nations
Red Cross fund amounted to $4,000,
according to an announcement by h.
j. Piper, chairman of the campaign
committee.
Burleigh county more than doubled
its Red Cross fund allotment in the
recent campaign. Subscriptions to-
tailed $4,000. The county's appor'
tionment was $4,000.
Grant county, that section sliced
from old Morton county at the recent
elections, will divide the wealth of
Morton on a basis of, 61.0679 to Nor
ton and 3S.9321 per cent to Grant.
The Norwegian Baptists of North
Dakota, in convention at Fargo, select
ed Valley City as the 1918 convention
city. The general convention of the
church may be held there at the same
time.
Don Nix, eleven years old, member
Of a camping party of Boy Scouts,
was drowned in Glenwood lake near
Enderlin, when he leaped from a
boat filled with companions to re.
cover a lost oar.
While wading out to bring in an
old boat which had drifted from shore,
Miss Sophie Hygard, twenty-one
years old, was seized with cramps
and drowned in Spring lake near
Rugby late last week. /.
Marshal George Dixon was stabbed
and killed Sunday morning at Wilton
by Joseph Kalifer, a miner, after. he
had arrested Kalifer and "a taking
him to Jail. Kalifer is now in the
county Jail at Washburn.
Constant brooding over the war and
sclective draft is believed to have so
affected the mind of Martin Johnson,
farm laborer employed by Philip Well.
man, residing southeast Of James.
town, that he hanged himself in his
employers barn.
With two shots through the aldo.
men from the rifle of his companion,
the thirteen-year-old son of Nels
Tweeten of Nebre township was rush
!! ed to a hospital at Devils Lake. The
shooting was accidental while the
boys were gopher hunting.
Minot voters decided overwhelming
ly in favor of bonding the city for
$1S6,000 for civic improvements. Fifty
thousand dollars will be spent for g
new city hall. The bond issue is said
single election in a North Dakota city
w. j. Graham, w. j. Prater and G
G. Hibbs, members OF the Burleigi
! county committee Of the state eff
/. cheney commission, have announced
the appointment of labor agents in
0tCly IOW110Alp. LIZ cSOAACo WhA an
= certain labor needs and supply them
/ Former Governor Frank White Of
Valley City has. been named colone,
Of the new Second North Dakota in
fantry regiment. Former Adjutan1
General T. Fl. Tharalson is lieutenanl
colonel and Judge j. M! Honley o.
Mandan ami Charles e.. Nudge, ma
jors.
Under a law.which became effective
L July l public service corporations il
North Dakota will be compelled tt
pay their employees semi-monthly. The
!, system Of two pay days a month was
: advocated successfully in the las
state assembly by the railroad broth
erhoods.
The Darlington Mercantile compan.
paid a fine Of 5000 in federal court al
Fargo after it's officers had pleaded
! guilty to the charge of shipping
spoiled eggs to a. Minneapolis con
Germ. The charge was made unde.
: the provisions Of the pure food act o
June 80, 1906.