The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-04-25

a. OdhOlo . AAU-
erty Loan allotment has been sur
passed by $4,000, 900. The total for
the state is more than $11, 000, 900.
Fargo.-Thieves entered the ath-
letic directors office at the North
Dakota Agricultural college recently
and stole % b~aseballs and four
louisville sluggers."
Bismarck.-Governor Lynn ]. Fraz.
Ter has re%appointed w. P. Porterfield
of Fargo a member of the state board
of pharmacy. Mr.. Porterheld 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
Mrs. Irene Jacobson secretary Of the
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 yer
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-
ton to the village for war garden
purposes at 81 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 gardened.
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 ef-
feet in this state several years, re-
ports Deputy State Warden Mack Sim
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,
carded and spun from sheep which
she had raised entirely without as
sistance, were sold at a Red Cross
auction at the Buchanan %consolidat-
ed school, in Emmons county, for Sc
and contributed to a net total of 1892
produced by the sale. for which ar
ticles were donated by all the farm
ers in the community.
Bismarck.-Five hundred and
e%ighty.one men will entrain during a
five-day period beginning May 10 for
Fort Logan, Colo, according tn in-
structions sent u to North Dakota
counties yesterday by Adjt.-Gen. Fras-
er following orders received from
Provost Marshal General Crowder.
Grand Forks county will supply IS
men, Cass 40, and other counties in
proportion. This is the first love-
ment of drafted men in the state who
were not ordered to Camp Dodge. Des
Moines, Iowa.
Williston.-Prairie fires starting on
the Achamire farm, nine miles south
east Of Bonetraill, spread before a
terrific gale. Considerable hay and
pasture land was destroyed by the
flames, which also threatened the
Achamire barn and home. The barn.
full of work horses and cattle, caught
fire, but by hard work the horses
were rescued. A prairie fire starting
along the river bottoms and in The
high wind threatened the buildirg g
on the Musick farm and adjoining
sections. Both fires we're ex.in.
guished by rain and snow
Bismarck.-The gentle three-da,
rain which has fallen over North Da
kota is estimated to be worth $4,000,
900 to the state by Commissioner OF
Agriculture and Labor John N. Hagan.
"A good start is generally considered
worth at least two bushels to the acre
of any CROP" said Mr.. Hagan in dis
cussing the crop situation in the state
1.-THE normal acreage of wheat in
North Dakota is about $500, 900 acres
and this year the wheat acreage is
abnormal. More than half Of the
wheat acreage is already in the
ground. This means that the rain
of the last few days has fallen on al
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