Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-08-16
Nubs of News'
Fosston is taking steps to organ(
home guard.
BY BRIGGS.

I Fosston is taking steps to organb
a home guard.
N. Emmerling is the new chief
police of Walhalla.
Mandan grocers are demandiH
monthly payments of grocery bills:
Crop reports from every section 4
Sioux county are said to be favorable
Burglars entered the Bilski store a
Mandan and carried away SIS il
change. a"
The State elevator at walhalla haA
been taken over by the Powers :Ele-l
vator company. |
u. B. Lamb Of Michigan threshed
a quarter section of rye near War
wick. which yielded Y ~ bushels to
the acre.
Former Editor Lum Of the May
willie Tribune-Farnder. may re-engage
in the newspaper business at May
vile. it is reported. :
In the four years Of war that Cam
ada's national patriotic fund has been
in existence, the total subscription
have gone a little over ~\s4o,5oo.ooo.
Normanden is running a depart
ment devoted entirely to boosting the
Nonpartisan league. .Yhis is far more
Icommendable than being on the
fence.
The j. @. Adams family Of Devils
Lake have left, for Los Angeles by
automobile, where they will spend
the fall and winter, intending to re-
turn next June.
Automobile thieves have been con-
Quoting themselves in a gentlemanly
manner at Mandan. taking out cars
during the night and returning them
in the morning.
The first two tractors to be manu-
featured by the Short Turn Tractor,
company of Bemidji, were completed,
sold and delivered this week. 1t is.
said the plant will Dor be operating
to its full capacity.
Lightning was the cause Of the
destruction of the church
barn at Fried. The celestial destroy
er visited the barn and seh it on fire,
and the chickens and hay, that were
kept in the structure, were lost with
the building.
The Take the Limit Club" Of Ward
county, which is an Organization of
war saving stamps purchasers, each
Of whom has purchased or agreed to
purchase $1,000 of war savings GER
ticates, now has a membership Of
101.
disregarding Governor Frazier's pro-
clamation. praying that opening Of
schools be deferred until October i.
by ordering the city schools to be
opened September IS. The college
term begins September II.
Ray Hardy Of Surrey, has arrived
home from France and will spend a
we'll earned furlough with relatives
in that vicinity. He spent thirty
eight days in the front line trenches
to relate.
The new officers OF the Bemidjt
board Of Aeducation are as follows:
President, DR.. e. n. Smith; secre-
tary. X. X. Roe. and treasurer. r. L.
Given. Only One change is made In
the list Of officers. being the selec-
ton Of M. Roe, who succeeds Dr..
James A. Holland, son Of MI. ana
Mrs. Arndt Holland. well known resi-
dent, Is dead of cerebro spinal mem
nights in q base hospital In France.
according to, word received by his
parents. He y entered the service
March 1, going overseas two months
later.
Civilization 10 surely Rising hell
with this country, remarked q friend
Of ours last night when he read OF
the closing of the Red Lake Falls sa-
NonA. But that Is not the worst Of
1t, he said; IL this keeps up "Rev.''
Ftnwall will find himself out,ofs a~job.
Carl Anderson with his overland
and George Swanson In his Ford
came together on the hill. by the
Fisher place, near Eosston. with the
result that Miss Beda Anderson, who
was with her brother Sreceiyed. a cut
above the eye. Both cars were badly
Corporal Bryant, q soldier, who has
Iseen service with General Pershing.s
forces In France, ~ u sth0 guest,
OF the. Befnidji Home Guard COM
lpany August 80. Corp. Bryant will
lappear that evening awithSfour reels
of the latest war pictures for the
| benefit Of the guarda