Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-07-04

Washington In response to message
calling him for service in the medical
department of the army.
Mandan.-A new banking house for
the newly organized Farmers Equity
bank is being constructed here. The
structure will cost about $4,000.
Fargo-IAborers are refusing to
go out on farms for $3.50 a day, pre-
fering to wait until harvest, when
much higher wages are in prospect.
Hettinger.-Jack Norton, brought
here from Spokane on charge Of
bigamy and convicted in district
court, was sentenced to five years
in prison.
Fort Yates.-The American army
has enlisted another star Indian sem
try. His name Is Lawrence the Elk.
He is a Sioux brave and Is in training
at Camp Lewis.
Upham-Herbert Meyers, 81, and
John, IS, sons Of Carl Meyers, resid-
ing near Kramer, were drowned while
bathing in the Mouse river on the
John Goodman farm, near Upham.
Sheldon.-Rev Charles Bridges,
Randolph, Neb., who recently accepted
a call from the Presbyterian church
here, came from Nebraska by automo-
bile, accompanied by his wife and
child.
Hankinson.-With his right leg
broken in three places in a runaway
Joe Little, farmer, lay on the prai-
RE for three hours before he was
! able to attract the attention of pass
ersby.
Tower City.-The Tower City Home
Guard has been organized. Rev. G..
Atkinson is captain; S. F. Sherman.
first lieutenant; G. NJ. Thompson, &C.
cond lieutenant. Thirty men have al
ready Joined.
Williston.-A campaign to enlist
every farmer in Williams county as a
member of the Williams County Farm
Bureau was launched at a meeting
of the bureau held here, attended by
sixty members.
Fargo.-At least As additional men
will be placed in the. army vocational
training school at the North Dakota
Agricultural school next month. Two
hundred and ten men are now train
ing at the college.
Cavalier Short of Cavalier,
draft soldier, lost both feet by the ac-
cidental explosion of a bomb while
in training at Camp Fremont, Palo
Alto. CAL, according to advices re.
ceived by his father.
Bismarck.-One Glen Ullen man and
one Richardton man were arraigned
in Hebron before u. S. Commissioner
George L. johnson and held to the
charges of having made seditious ut
terances.
Fargo.-Charles Amidon, son of
Judge and Mrs. Charles F. Amidon,
died at Los Angeles, Cal, of heart
failure, from which the young man
had suffered several years. Judge
Amidon, called to his bedside, did not
arrive till after death
Bismarck.-No North Dakota re.
tail coal dealer is allowed to make a
profit of more than $1.60 on a 1000
pound ton of anthracite coal for do.
nestle use, under special order is.
sued by Isaac P. Baker, Federal food
administrator for North Dakota.
Observation-Disclosures special orders
from the North Dakota Council of De.
fense no fireworks may be sold in any
North Dakota town this Fourth OF
July. The state council is acting UNI
der instructions from the national
council which has banned fireworks
Mandan.-Plans for the war time
convention OF the North Dakota Bank.
ers' convention which will be held
here on Thursday and Friday, July
IL and 12, have been completed and
the convention gives promise Of being
the most successful in the history O.
the association.
Edmore.-Rev. ]. o. Ensrud, pastor
Of the Lutheran church, has been
called as camp pastor to the Great
Lakes naval training station. The
; congregation extended him the neces
sary leave OF absence. Rev. S. M
Meisel of Garske will have temper
airy charge of the parish. q
Fargo.-W. G. O'Brien, Fargo limo
type operator, is notified that he has
fallen heir to the Lakeside Press, &
printing establishment owned by hi:
uncle, w. S. Phillips at Ross Point
, N. Y, and will leave soon to take
charge of the plant, The concern
prints law and text books.
nh Minot.-Supt. Francis Bruce of tn.
Minot schools has accepted the posi-
tion as superintendent of schools a
Huron, s. D., for the coming year
Mr.. Bruce was elected to the position
!. without making an application. HI
had planned to Join the forces Of tn,
/, agricultural college at Ames, Iowa
Minot.-Martin Schey. who posed Al
l a soldier and defrauded a number o
l farmers on the pretense that he wa
i working for the government and tina
; the proceeds of book which he wa
). selling went to the soldiers in Franc,
. and that it was endorsed by the Unit
+ ed States government, entered a pie.
/ in county court and was fined 1904