The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-04-25
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Dolngs Of Last Few Days Throughout
North Dakota Condensed for
Hasty Perusal.

hugDy.-The Rugby city council de-
clared Mrs. Rose Deigle elected alder.
man to succeed former Alderman Nc
lavish.
Jamestown.-A. F. Borchert has
left for his new home at Rochester,
Mimi, where he will become county
agent for Olmsted county.
Fargo.-The season for stealing
cars did not open at Fargo very aus
%piciously. Two cars reported stolen
one night were recovered the next.
Dickinson.-Word from France an
ounces that the body of Matt Drew,
Dickinson's first war martyr, was
buried lei Toul and his grave mark
ed for Identification.
Dickinson.-Governor Lynn ]. Fraz-
Ter, scheduled to speak before an audi.
ence at Lefor, was arrested for driv-
ing a a with a 1917 license, belong
ing to Adam Lefor of Lefor.
Parshall.-Mrs. A. Larin has resign
ed her position as postmistress Of
Parshall. The increasing work and
present long hours have made the
work too heavy for the duties of q
woman, it is said.
Fargo.-The North Dakota w. G.
T. U. will hold its annual convention
in Bismarck on September 20 and %.
Mrs. Maude B. Perkins of Syracuse,
N. Y, has been secured as the con-
vention speaker.
Valley City.-An unusual social
event took place here with the cele.
bration of the Goth wedding %anniver-
sary of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Van Mid
ellsworth, who were married On
March S, 1858, at Geneseo, N. Y. ,
Grand Forks.-The strike of local
streetcar motormen and conductors
came to AM end when the Grand
Forks Street Railway company &C.
coded to the mems demands for rec
ognition of their newly organized
union.
Jamestown.-Oscar Moxness, strik-
ing a match to look into a gasoline
tank to see the amount of gasoline
knows more about gasoline now than
he did before. He is now anguish
ing in a hospital and will most prob
ably be forced to get along with one
eye hereafter.
Sentinel Butte.-Sentinel Butte,
with a population of 800, is a 100 per
cent Red Cross town, not only is
every person in town a member of
the Sentinel Butte branch, but also a
majority of residents in the seven
townships tributary to town. giving
the Sentinel Butte branch a member
ship of 807.
Dickinson.-Reports have reached
Dickinson of the capture by the Ger
man of Adelbert Morey, who went
to the front as a memberaof Com
pany X of Dickinson and later was
transferred to Company A of Bis
marck. Morey is said to have been
captured after having been wounded.
Bismarck.-Frank Milhollan, fnan-
cial secretary of the Bismarck Typo
graphical union, district organizer for
the American Federation Of Labor
and vice president Of the North Da-
kota Federation of Labor, was in
dorsed by the Bismarck Trades and
Labor council for a place on the
North Dakota state railway commits
sion.
MISUNDERSTANDING is doomed at
Donnybrook-at least for the period
of the war. The young ladies' of the
city r quitting dancing cold and
announce that a party will be held
for every dance billed. They posi-
lively refuse to dance while their
brothers and s~weethearts are fighting
and dying for them in the trenches
In France.
Buffalo Springs.-A fracture of the
leg was the only injury sustained
when a traction engine passed over
Mat Becker, a farmer living about
seven miles south of here. Becker
was working in the field when some
thing went wrong with his engine and
he crawled under the tractor to in
vestigate. While beneath the ma
chine it started.
Cogswell.-Sargent county, with a
quota of s125,0O0 for the Third Lib.
erty Loan, reached its goal in the
first three hours and will easily iou.
BILE its quota in the final count. viz.
ian township, settled almost wholly
by Germans, doubled it's allotment the
first day. Nine precincts in the
county doubled their quota the first
day and Shuman township went over
the top with 260 per cent.
MISUNDERSTANDING George
N. Young urges that North Dakota
barristers who formed an advisory
committee to extend free legal assist
ance to registrants. in making Out
their questionnaires offer similar free
advice to North Dakota farmers whit
now desire to take advantage of the
general orders, enabling them to draw
upon the training camps, canton
ments and army posts for an emerg
ency supply Of farm labor.
Bismarck.-Governor Lynn J
Frazier has accepted the resignation
of Col. Charles H. McVey as a mem