Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-07-25
North Dakota
News Sifings

Wtlliston.-S. L. Sinclair Of this city
fas received . commission ~ captain
= the u. s. Engineers Reserve corps.
Bismarck The Standard OIL com.
1Aay has purchased all the bulk sta.
1tnns in the state owned by the Mar.
a1hall Oil company.
Grand Forks-M. I. Forkner Of
1Angdon was elected president Of the
North Dakota Press association Of the
annual meeting held here.
Grand Forks.-Eighty rural school
Elr1s win form Girls encampment
1t the Grand Forks fair. July % to "a.
Home economics and home building
viii be the special studies for the
week.
Devils Lake.-It took nothing less
than circus to bring cr0p-saving
rain to this vicinity. The farmers
rode cheerfuly through the rain and
the Hagen Wallace circus showed to
. record crowd.
Grand Forks.-Joseph Poole Of
Grand Forks. formerly lineman en-
ployed by Grand Forks telephone
exchange. won mention for bravery
under fire in France recently. accord
ing to word received here.
New Leipzig.-The Northern Pacific
70 putting in half-mile siding at this
place and will connect up with the
Milwaukee road. This will be the
only connection between the Northern
Pacific and the Milwaukee on the
branch.
Fargo.-A fatality in connection
with the state fair held here was the
accidental killing of Cora Stensland,
II. who stepped in front OF q big auto
mobile, bus being used to transport
passengers to and from the fair
grounds. and was crushed.
Bismarck-Beanie Simons, 10, was
drowned near here while swimming
In the Missouri river. Four other
young men were swimming at the
time. but none noticed Simons' condi.
ton until the swift current had car.
ried him down the river
Fargo. - Seven hundred and eighty.
North Dakota women have been
trained in the army of food conserva
ton. and will conduct canning and
drying demonstrations in their own
localities, going into the kitchen Of
their neighbors for that purpose.
Bismarck.-Orl Davis, Leslie Kenan
and Glennie MCGOWAN, Bismarck boys
were taken in custody by the police
ON a charge of smearing yellow paint
ON Bismarck" signs in the business
district. The boys admitted guilt, II
is said. but declared their motives
were purely patriotic. They have moi
been prosecuted.
Fargo.-North Dakota ranks ninth
in point of efficiency in the work of 1T
Four-Minute men, according to wort
received by H. H. Wooledge Of Fargo
state chairman. from the committee o
public information. Mr.. Wooledge an
nounced today that 12S Four-Minut'
chairmen have been commissioned ant
that PIT units have been organized.
Pembina-The heroism OF Marion
w. Wilkinson of Pembina saved TIL
life of his comrade. Max Short. Of Cav
alier. at Camp Fremont near Sal
Francisco. when Wilkinson carrie'
dynamite after the latter's feet ha
been blown off by premature explc
sion. Two charges exploded after WI
kinson entered the trench.
Minot.-Mrs. F. W. Strange of thi
city may be the first American woma
to join the Russian railway servic
corps in Manchuria. Her husband
who left the Twin Cities Nov. IL, 1871
has cabled her to join him. NJ
Strange was Great Northern trai
dispatcher at Minot. before enlistin
in the railroad division. He and fiv
other Americans are in party st
toned west of Hardin.
Fargo-Inquiry into the new 60
and electric light rates recently o
dered by the Union Light. Heat
Power company OF Fargo will be mac
by the state railroad commission.
ginning Aug. II. A preliminary
quiry provided by law has been di
pensed with. the company officia
waving that formality. The city CO,
mission Of Fargo has complaint
against the rates. insisting they a
excessive.
Observation-Disclosures and employ
OF North Dakota's farmer administI
ton must travel as the farmers d
the state auditing board has decree
On motion of Attorney General La
ger, seconded by Secretary Of Sta
Hall. the board has Instructed It's 8,
rotary. to call on the head of each {
partment and insist that its Office
and employees avoid parlor and slee
ing cars while travelling within I
state.
Fargo-Announcemen is made
the election of DIR. e. ]. Stout of t
University of Chicago to the pre-
dency of the Valley City normal sch,
and of Samuel May, superintendent
the public schools Of Madison, Wis,
the presidency Of the new Dickins
normal school by the state board
regents. The election of DR.. Thon
Etrawbridge of the University OF
souri, to the position OF director Of
Norfh nak0fa eynerfment staffnn