The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-07-25
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oolngs Of Last Few Days Throughout
North Dakota Condensed for
Hasty Perusai.

LakOta.-JOhn H%ennessey, n OF
the early pioneers of Nelson. county
and former county auditor, is dead at
his home here.
Bismarck.-The Standard Oil com
pany has purchased all the bulk sta
lions in the state owned by the Mar
shall Oil company.
Hamilton.-Fire here destroyed the
Paxman store and machinery hall and
the Independent printing Office. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Killdeer. - Nearly every business
man in Killdeer has signed. up fol
work during the harvest. The total
will aggregate a large number of days
Fessenden.-This city is now with
out a dentist, DR.. H. Holiday having
left to join the army at Fort Sheridan
DR.. Lynn W. Radke left last week fol
army service also.
Devils Lake.-It took nothing less
than a circus to bring a crop-savine
rain to this vicinity. The farmers
rode cheerfully through the rain and
the Hagen-Wallace circus showed to
a record crowd.
Alexander.-The Mckenzie County
Chronicle, which was burned out in
the recent fire, which destroyed about
20 residences and business houses,
will be housed in a brick building,
building operations being under way
New Leipzig.-The Northern Pacific
is putting in a half-mile siding at this
place and will connect up with the
Milwaukee road. This will be the
only connection between the Northern
Pacific and the Milwaukee on the
branch.
Shields.-A cattle and land deal OF
considerable importance was consum.
mated when Major Belden, of Shields,
and F. J. Giegold, of Fl. Yates, bought
the @. E. Burge reservation lease and
some 400 odd head of cattle. The
price paid a in the neighborhood OF
$4,000.
Bismarck.-Bennie Simons, 10, was
drowned a here while swimming
In the Missouri river. Four other
young men were swimming at the
time, but none noticed Simons' condi.
ton until the swift current had car.
ried him down the river. y
Bismarck.-Orl Davis, Leslie Kenan
and Glennie MCGOWAN, Bismarck boys,
were taken in custody by the police
on a charge Of smearing yellow paint
on Bismarck" signs in the business
district. The boys admitted guilt, it
is said, but declared their motives
were purely patriotic. They have not
been prosecuted.
Bismarck. - Between July 20 and
Aug. II North Dakota will be expected
to furnish $40 volunteer nurses for
war work. Uncle Sam has issued a
call for $4,000 student nurses. The
women's committee of the National
Council Of Defense has been asked to
assume the task of enlisting these
nurses.
Pembina.-The heroism of Marion
w. Wilkinson of Pembina saved the
life of his comrade, Max Short, of Cav.
alier, at Camp Fremont, near San
Francisco. when Wilkinson carried
Short out Of a trench of exploding
dynamite after the latter's feet had
been blown off by a premature explo.
sion. Two charges exploded after viii.
kinson entered the trench.
Minot.-Mrs. F. w. Strange of this
city may be the first American woman
to join the Russian railway service
corps in Manchuria. Her husband,
who left the Twin Cities Nov. II, 1917.
has cabled her to join him. Mr..
Strange was a Great Northern train
dispatcher at Minot, before enlisting
in the railroad division. He and five
other Americans are in a party sta
toned west of Hardin.
Fargo. - Capitalization of cream
buying will become effective Aug. 1.
The regulations provide that in towns
from which less than 10000 pounds
OF butter fat were shipped through
more than n cream buyer during the
year ending June 80, 1918, all but one
cream station will be abolished and
propose fixing a maximum commits
sion for Independent buyers shipping
more than 100, 900 pounds of butter fat
during the past year.
Observation-Disclosures, and employees
Of North Dakota's farmer administra-
ton must travel as the farmers do,
the state auditing board has decreed.
On motion of Attorney General Lam
ger, seconded by Secretary of State
Hall, the board has instructed it's sec
rotary to call on the head of each de-
partment and insist that it's officers
and employees avoid parlor and sleep.
ing cars while travelling within the
state.
SUPERINTENDENT is made of
the election of DR.. E. J.. Stout of the
University of Chicago to the presi-
dency Of the Valley City normal school
and of Samuel May, superintendent of
the public schools of Madison, Wis, to
the presidency of the new Dickinson
normal school by the state board of
regents. The election of DR.. Thomas
Strawbridge of the University of Mis-.
souri, to the position of director of the
North Dakota experiment station in
Fargo also was announced.
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