Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-09-13
EVENING EDITION.
Nubs of News
5 registered in Fargo yes

NubS OF NeWS
rownley registered in Fargo yes
terday.
OF the 10 teachers employed In the
jamestown public schools Of the city.s
but five claim jamestown as tn
home.
p. s. Dunn has resigned as active
head of tho Devils Lake Farmers
railway and will IIsave shortly for tns J
Pacific coast. /,
According to an opinion anoed
down by the attorney generarasomce,
game wardens will permit o
ing, either before sunrise or after
sunset. 4
WORD has been received at James,
town that Alfred Bartran, VINO iett
| jamestown college to enter the nrsI
~ France as a second lieutenant, has
! been promoted to the first leutenancy.,
He has spent several months In active
work at the front.
A man by the name OF John PeterS
was arrested yesterday at Fargo 4
charged with blind-pfgging. y is al
legged that he was trying to sell WIS
key on the street at SO a pint. n !
price was evidently too hign iaT
F%argoans,
The Cavalier county Liberty Loan
J committee states that the amount to
be subscribed by the citizens OF thef
county for the fourth loan Will Del
$775, 0eo. The people Of h county
are ready to do their share, says he
Langdon Republican, n will go over
the top as usual. +
Two farmers near Langdon, on ac-
count of the shortage Of labor, COM
bined their threshing rigs so as to be |
able to begin work. one furnishing thet
separator and the other the engine
Between them they had men enough
to run with a full crew.
Archie Dipple, son of Mr. and Mrs.
N. Dipple, farmers residing close to-
Grafton, was seriously burned by gaso-
line when he attempted to warm q
spark plug of a gasoline engine. He
poured some gasoline from a can
which caught fire.
A number Of jamestown boys have
been Hooverizing along an unusual
but very profitable line. Securing q
horse rake, they have carefully raked
a. field which had been improperly
cleaned at the time it was cut, n
have secured wheat that will net over
$50 when threshed. ,
The jamestown plant of the RUSSELL
Miller company a begun night
grinding, expecting to continue to run
fhroYrph the uyonfv.foYr hours f0p
many weeks. Wheat is coming in
slowly, but most of it is of very high
grade. In a few cases it has been too
damp to use.
John T.. Curry. who has been in
business at jamestown for some years,
! n who was nominated at the pri-
the legislature, starts this week for
Wyoming. He and his family will go
in their car Mr.. Curry will later go
to France as a worker in a K. c. hut.
Speaking about. prolific potato
crops, it would seem that ". J.. Gal
areau of Nymore. Mimi. is entitled
to the prize belt for what he raised
from one. what might be termed.
"measly" little seed potato. for the
patriotic spud produced f54 pota-
toes, A of which are as small or
smaller than the parent while others
range up to 2x1% inches.
Judge Buttz of Devils Lake was
called. to- Highland township. Ram
sey county, the first part OF the week,
where he settled dispute between
the taxpayers Of the township rela-
tive to some school matters. 1T
seems that they had voted to build
a consolidated school, and while the
I rayv Sch1ol HI,il1i~~ &C. ~1k troS o1ro
pleted they were about to- sell the
four old school houses and some of
the taxpayers had. an injunction is
sued to prevent the sale. Judge
Buttz got the matter fixed up by al
lowing two Of the old buildings to
be sold.
The Townley gang is organizing a
new bank at Knox to take the place Of
the Security State bank Of Knox, re-
Gently closed by the order Of the state
bank examiner. The farmers are
putting in the.capital, while the North
Dakota Development company, Of
which Thomas Allen Box is the presi-
dent. is attending to the organization.
have as much to saysabout5the man.
agenent Of this bank as they have in
the affairs of the ,Consumers' United
1Store company.
Threshing became general the first
of the week, and reports from all
parts Of the county would indicate
that satisfactory progress is being
made, considering the scarcity of la
Dor from the start, says the Langdon
Republican. Labor agent j. W.. Ffaw
has been spending the week in the
Twin Cities and his work of securing
men for the threshing season has
counted for a great deal. More than
fifty men came in on Tuesday and an
equal number arrived yesterday. while
more are expected today. Z