Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-04-25
RAY I'd. KELLY, Prop.
Phone IS

Dickinson.-Opie Read, the famous
American author, will be II of the
attractions at the Dickinson chautau-
qua the coming summer.
Fargo.-North Dakota's Third Lib
erty Loan allotment has been sur
passed by $4,5O0,000 The total for
the state is more than $11, o00, 900.
Fargo.-Thieves entered the ath-
letic directors office at the North
Dakota Agricultural college recently
and stole % baseballs and four
louisville sluggers."
Bismarck.-Governor Lynn J.. Fraz-
Ter has reappointed w. P. Porterfeld
of Fargo a member of the state board
of pharmacy. Mr.. Porterfield has
served one term on the board.
Valley City.-Benjamin l.. Seifert
Of this city is dead somewhere in
France from wounds received while
driving an ambulance. He was one
of the we'll known young men of Val
ley City.
Jamestown.-Mrs. Edith Conklin of
Bismarck, chairman of the Woman's
State Council of Defense, has appoint
ed Mrs. Lou Osborn chairman and
Stutsman County Woman's Council Of
Defense.
Bismarck.-May Is has been set by
the railway commission as the date
for the hearing on the complaint Of
jamestown patrons against the rates
and service of the Western Electric
company. The hearing will be held
at Jamestown.
Dickinson.-J. A. Mcleod and w. A.
White, two Dickinson Northern pas
senger brakemen, were caught the
other day with too much liquor in
their grips and as a consequence were
Immediately placed under arrest.
They also lost their jobs.
New Leipzig.-The New Leipzig
Commercial club has arranged to
lease all the lots in the Park addi-
tion to the village for war garden
purposes at So for the season. They
are already plowed and dragged,
ready for planting. There is a brisk
demand for them, and the entire tract
will be g%ardened.
Fort Yates.-R. P. Higheagle of
the Standing Rock reservation is one
of three delegates selected at the
Black Hills council at Fort Thomp-
son, S. D., to carry to Washington
the Sioux nations representations as
to it's claims for an indemnity of sew
eral million dollars for the forfeit
ure of the treaty ceding these Indians
the Black Hills country.
Observation-Disclosures, in former
years one of North Dakota's great
est game resources, are increasing in
the Bad Lands, under the perpetual
closed season which has been in eff
feet in this state several years. re-
ports Deputy State Warden Mack Sin.
clair, who has just returned from Ami
don, where he investigated charges
of illegal hunting Of antelope.
Bismarck.-A pair of stockings
knitted by Mrs. Robert Buchanan
from wool which she had sheared.
CdluCu LII opoh O1iSSP VhAS
she had raised entirely without as
sistance, were sold at a Red Cross
auction at the Buchanan c%onsolidat.
ed school, in Emmons county, for Sc
and contributed to a net total Of 1892
produced by the sale, fer which ar
, ticles were donated by all the farm
ers in the community.
Bismarck.-Five hundred and
e%ighty-one men will entrain during Z
five-day period beginning May 10 FOL
? Fort Logan, Colo, according to in
s~tructions sent out to North Dakota
counties yesterday by Adjt.-Gen. Fras
: er following orders received from
t Provost Marshal General Crowder
2 Grand Forks county will supply 3;
men, Cass 40, and other counties il
g proportion. This is the first move
ment Of drafted men in the state who
we're not ordered to Camp Dodge. De:
MONIES. Iowa.
Williston.-Prairie fires starting OF
the Achamire farm, nine miles south
east of Bonetraill, spread before
terrific gale. Considerable hay AM
pasture land wa, destroyed by thu
y flames, which also threatened TIL
Achamire barn and home. The barn
full of work horses and cattle, caugh
fire, but by hard work the horse,
were rescued. A prairie Ere s"tartin;
n along the river bottoms and in III,
high wind threatened the building
d on the Musick farm and adjoining
Il sections. Both fires were eX,ir
n guished by rain and snow.
d Bismarck.-The, gentle. thrce-da,