Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-10-17

school 1t this point has opened for
ts first years work.
Starkweather..-Ed Larsen, farm.
hand, wax crushed to death by trac-
tor which he was operating on fnrm
near here.
Williston.--The automatic telephone
system In use here is being abandoned
in favor of the drop system with girl
operated switchbOar,is.
Bismarck.-LOcal "shock troops get
ub $50 acres OF corn in one hour and
fifteen minutes on the Thomas Ash
bridge farm near here.
Grand Forks.---I.ocal home guards
found useful employment In helping
the Red Cross members pack supplies
for Belgian refugees.
Oberon.--No relatives have vet been
located Of John Burnett, who WINS
found dead, victim Of heart disease,
In his room ut Il hotel here.
BerthOld.-This city will have q S4O,-
ono potato warehouse with housing
capacity of 10000 bushels. A local
company is being organized to finance
the enterprise.
AmidOn.--Eight hundred and thirty
Slope county farmers have made acre
pledges to the Red Cross, which are
hoped to net the work sums varying
from SO to 1926 each.
Coopetstown.-Priva Carl Bone
well, whose death In action was re-
! ported TO relatives here, has written
'etters bearing dates later thun the
report of his death.
Fargo.-Since the closing of then
tres and moving picture houses here,
local putriots have been developing
move to have the Swings of theatre
g0ers turned over to the Red Cross.
| Bismarck.-October % has been
named by Governor Frazier as Jewish
Relief duy. to expedite the raising OF
funds for helping needy residents Of
Palestine, recently reclaimed from the
bnrbnrOus cruelties OF the Turks.
Observation-Disclosures Robert Re
nnrd. French soldier who fought on
the west front for four years. has been
addresses under the auspices Of the
suite council or DEFENSE.
Charlottesville endeavorlng to
eject jammed shell from loaded
shotgun, Rev. H. T.. Socket Of this
place sustained serious wound when
the loud was discharged. sending the
ramrod through his right hand.
| WilAstOn.-Over 5000 volumes ore
now on file In the public library here.
Grand Forks.-State university en-
! rollment up to the evening of October
9Th this year was 78S as against 875
on the same tlate last year.
| Ministers aud lay dele
gates of 242 Congregational churches
In this state, In conference here few
days ng0, went on record as condemn
Ing the inconclusive peace propaganda
being spread In the interests Of Ger
many In many parts OF the country.
Fargo.--State Director L. II. Patten
Of the U. s. employment service con-
tinues to have calls for many indus
triEl workers from the state to engage
In necessary enterprises ut eastern
points. About IS men were entrained
from here hrly lns tweeek for work at
eastern munitions centers.
Bismarck.-Applicatio for many
building permits throughout the state
nre coming In to the state council of
defense, which Is now passing upon AL
proposed structural enterprises, accord.
Ing to Executive Secretary John b.
Brown.
i Grand Forks.-The spread of Span
ish influenza and the precautions
necessary to be taken against 1t will
result in pOstpOnement of the annual
conference of North Dakota Methu-
dists, which was to have been held
heer this week. A date for the meet
ing hns not yet been announced.
! Jnmestown.--George Rand, one Of
the oldest and best known engineers
of the Northern Pacific road out Of
this point, is dead from apoplexy, at
the age Of -. Rand was elected one
Of the first county commissioners for
Stutsmnn county hut never qualified
for the office, preferring to continue
unterruptedly with his work on the
i rOud.
Fargo.-COmmunity boards through
out North Dakota will survey nom
essential industries and list men who
can be spared for war work. such lists
to be used by federal authorities for
conscripting men for the erection of
munition factories and munitions max
ing in event the volunteer recruiting
! campaign now IN progress fails to sup
ply the required number Of workers.
Bismurck.--A fine buffalo lance,
with n steel head nearly three feet in
length and as keen and well-tempereI
as rapier, has been presented to the
! North Dakota historical library by DIR.
n. w. Hansen. horticulturist of the
South Dnkotn agricultural college.
The weapon is relic of old chief Bull
Neck, who is said to hate killed much
meat with ii In the good old days Of
buffalo hunting.
! Dickinson.--AlrS. Clara Wetzstien,
who figured prominently In news dis
patches from this county some time
A. W.,