The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1918-03-29

A Baptist preacher, was arrested
at Milnor charged with making in
sulting remarks about the Red
Cross in that town.
A returned Cass county soldier
says that the Germans are losing
their pep. Can't lose it any too
soon to suit the rest of US.
VIM. Roth of Burt, while grind
ing corn got his foot caught in the
engine and badly mangled, one bone
being driven thru the flesh.
The Grafton News and Times
avows that it's harder to get bar
rel Of sugar from a catalog house
than it is to get armor plate from
Mars.
County Commissioner John Rel
rer, of Hettinger county, resigns
the job, having come to the con-
clusion that it nays better to work
on the farm than fool with politics.
A plain assault case tried at Rug
by cost Ed Rine the limit when he
was assessed a fine of $1O0, 1927
COSLS anu oV udy6 IA SASe SouA1J Je"A'
for good measure.
Henry Burkoy, stutsman county
farmer, is taken to jamestown,
where he pleads guilty and is met
with a 500 fine, as result OF
failing to obey the marriage laws
of the state.
Wednesday and Thursday, March
9th and 2Sth, are the days set tor
the North Dakota state convention
of the Nonpartisan League to be'
held in Fargo. The Nonpartisan
members at this time will endorse
farmer candidates for state Offices.
John Davis makes a midnight
raid on the farm of Fred Wolfe,
near Devils Lake, and steals load
Of oats. 1t was during the absence
Of the Wolfe family that the rob
berry was committed and Davis had
the "gall" to use Wolfe's team and
wagon for the occasion.
The police Of Anamoose have
started a campaign to round up all
auto tag slackers. Those who dis
play 1917 tag are promptly ar
rested and taken before the bar of
justice where they are allowed to
pay all the way from $1,000 up.
States Attorney Burgeson. of
Stark county, offers a reward or
800 to any citizen furnishing In
formation leading to the arrest OF
anyone violating the prohibition
law. This should be unnecessary,
in view of the fact that We are now
living in "bone-dry" age.
The secretary of states Office to
date has issued $1,000 automobile
licenses, equivalent to the whole
number sold up to April 1st in 1917
The receipts are almost double what
they were up to April l year ago,
owing to the much higher gradual
ed registration fee.
Why don't these farmers meet
ings being held over the state by
the nonpartisans and other organi-
cations adopt a scale Of wages for
farm labor, for 1918, and blazon 1t
to the world? This would do away
with harvest and threshing strikes
and labor would know in advance
what it is to get.
A.. c. Townley. president of the
National Nonpartisan league, has
been decorated. Some one sent
him an iron cross, six inches across
either way. Forty cents postage
was required to get the piece OF
junk to the offices. No special
press bulletin announcing the
award" was issued by the officials.
Breaking her hip in fall on the
ice while on her way to the home
of her son Oscar. Mrs. F. Greenland
of Binford dragged herself along
the frozen ground for a consider
able distance before she was discov-
cred by Steve Rorvig and her hus.
band, who carried her home. She
later was removed to the Fargo hos.
pital, where she is reported to be
improving.
A farmer resident near Darwin