The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-12-26
North Dakota
News in Brief

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Fargo.-Influenza cases are again
growing notably less here ana in
various parts Of the state.
Pettibone.-"Dad' Brown, q well
known pioneer resident here, suicided
by shooting a few days ago.
Fargo.-A dragnet. set for petty
1iquor-dispensing offenders brought in
a dozen alleged %infractors Of the law.
Grand Forks.-Local officials threat
en- to arrest autoists who begin driving
their cars after January 1 without the
new license tags affixed.
Benedict.-A Good Roads association
with headquarters at this point is
projecting the perfection Of a motor
truck line between Minot and Wash
burn.
Mandan.-The selection of Carson
as the county seat of Grant county is
contested in an action filed in the
courts by c. w. Bleick of Elgia a few
days ago.
Fargo.-The case of Mrs. Kate
Richards O'IIare, under conviction for
alleged seditious u%tterances made at
Bowman, is to be appealed to the
United States supreme court.
Mandan.-A stock selling campaign
is to be launched, it is said, for the
promotion of q Manning. Mandan and
Freda railroad, connecting points north
and south Of the Northern Pacific main
line.
Jamestown.-A cameo ring, stolen
from him 3 years ago, has just been
returned anonymously to Frank
Brown. a pioneer Of this city, with a
typewriter note reading, "God bless
those who forgive"
Mandan.-Captain l.. B. Hanna,
North Dakota's former governor, re-
Gently returned from Red Cross work
in France, IA the guest of honor at
q testimonial banquet given by the
commercial club here a few nights
ago.
Fargo.-A. A. Trovaten, a former
Fargoan, is obtaining attention in
Minnesota to a proposition to require
gasoline dealers everywhere to register
autos by factory and engine number
as a means of detecting stolen ma
chimes.
Bismarck.-The arrest Of T. C. Tur-
ner, a prominent ranchman of Sioux
county, on the charge of seattle rust
ling" brings up "reminiscences of the
frontier days to those who remember
the various real and alleged activities
of those times.
Fargo.-Wild Rice, a small village in
this county, was said to have had $40
memberships to the Red Cross paid up
for 1919 early in the drive last week.
There are just $40 men, women and
children in the Wild Rice district.
making a 100 per cent efficient cam
paign.
LaMoure.-A government hospital
for the treatment of the dreaded eye
disease, %trachoma, has been estab-
lished here-the seventh of it's kind in
the country mt the only II west of
the Mississippi river, it is said. DR..
c. Z. Downes is the physician in
charge.
Fargo-The 1919 show of the North
Dakota State Poultry association will
be held at the armory here January IL
to II, the dates being nearly the same
as for the Tri-State Stock and Grain
Growers association meeting, which
opens January IA, continuing to the
18th.
Fargo.-A clever burglar made away
with S1,3S1 of diamond rings, wrist
watches and other .iewelry by breaking
the show window of a local store at an
early morning hour, just as a passing
train deadened the noise made by his
method Of gaining access to the, COW
eted wares.
New England.-Joe Arnold. who.
with his wife and three children, was
= recently found dead from influenza in
their home in the outskirts of Buffalo.
N. Y, was a former resident here.
where he gained considerable notoriety
. through the charge of having burned
soldiers pictures left with him for
framing.
Valley City.-Private George Holz-
man of this city was awarded the dis
tinguiShed service cross for extraOr-
binary herOiSm in action at GesneS.
France, a month before the close of
the war. His bravery was shown in
'AAS AH>fSoSSo 4SpCulCNit lllIVuSH
a heavily shelled area in which eight
other soldiers were wounded or killed.
Fargo.-The sale of Red river ice
on coupons calling for Detroit lake ice
is charged against a local company
according to statements appear
Ing in n of the newspapers here.
Local health officers and the federal
food administrator for the state call
attention to the fact that the river ice
is impure and therefore dangerous for
use.
Fargo.-The Y. NJ. C. A. of this CITY
Is staging a sharp drive for 245 new
members to replace that number en-
gagged in war work Of various kinds.
OF the entire number in the service all
but ten are in the army or navy.
Former Governor L. 3. Hanna and
Rev. H. f. Kloman were engaged in
Red Cross work, and eight members
were participating in war activities of