The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-08-21
Munich.-Munich expects to have
electric light plant in operation

military service IN NOrtn dakota un. |
der an order issued by Adjt. Gen. An
gus Fraser.
New Leipzig.-The dates for the
Grant county fair have been set for
October 2. 8 and 4. Premium books
and publicity matter will be ready for
distribution early in August.
Oakes.-Many bad storms have been
reported throughout Dickey county the
past week. Hail has destroyed hun
dreds of acres Of good crop and wind
has torn buildings in places.
Bismarck. - Bismarck's nine-mile
paving project, whose completion has
consumed all of one summer and pasts |
of the present season and the late
summer and fall of 1915, is finished.
Jamestown.-Rev. R. Burke of SUIT.
ton, Neb, has dedicated a new church
for a German-speaking congregation
in the northwestern part of the coun:
ty. He was formerly pastor at Me
dina
Page.-.Falling from a wagon to the
ground, only five feet, Esther Sang,
aged 4, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Sang, was instantly killed at the
farm of her parents in Page township.
her neck being broken.
Valley Cty.-Rev. C. w. Lyon, one
Ut the best known Congregational min
isters in North Dakota, has enlisted
for Y. M. C. A. service, and will leave
within a few days to enter the service.
He has been granted a years leave Of
absence.
Grand Forks:-Roger W. Cooley,
who has been professor Of law at the
University Of North Dakota since Sep
TENDER, 1911, has left for Washington
where he is to be one of the assistants
to the general counsel Of the bureau
of war risk Insurance..
Valley City.-Edgar A. Fisher Of
NoAimier township was drowned in
France, according to a telegram which
was received here. The body was re-
covered. He was first lieutenant in
the regular. arrsy, being attached to
the ~Thirty.eighths infantry.
Bismarck.-Nerth Dakota has to fur.
nish $40 volunteer nurses for wal
weEk. For cmora:than two weeks in.
tensive preparations for this cam
paign were under way. The woman's
committee of the National Council Of:
Defense is in charge of the state drive.
Bismarek.-Rev. J. Fontana, German
Evangelical church here, was found
guilty of sedition by a jury in federal
court. Rev. Fontana vas charged
with attempting to hinder sale of Lib.
erty bonds among his congregation
and with interfering n other ways
with prosecution Of the war.
Kloten.-Owen LOfthus had q mar.
row escape from serious injury while
returning from Fargo in his ear. The
car skidded ovef an embankment and
turned turtle, p1nning htm underneath
in a ditch full of water. He managed
to kick the door open and crawl out,
escaping with a few bruises. The car
was badly damaged.
Bethsate.-Privste Henry J. Miron
G Bethegate, VITA . 1eco1d Of seven
teen months Of service IN the trenches
with the Canadians, b dead IN Scot
land, according to word received here
He was wounded twice In q recent on.
gagement, and was9 discharged from
service. On bis way home, however
he became sick, aad succumbed.
Minot.-Ole Peterson, an aged Nor
wegian laborer of Minot, who dropped
dead, left his entire fortune for the
care Of the poor in Ninot. Peterson
came to this country aspoor man ant
worked as a section hand for a lont
time. He acquired a small piece o
land that he later sold to the railroad
which formed the nucleus of his for
tune.
Dickinson1T This city now has
woman lawye r in Miss Frances Bul
9ett, sister Of Attorney w. F.. Bur
rett. She passed with the highes
honors in a successful class of nine
teen candidates for admission to tn
bar. She is the second woman to tax
up the practice OF law in North DE-
kota, and the first to engage in thi
profession west of the Missouri rive,
Valley City.-Selmar Kysek an
Kenneth Ecksl, 15.year-old boys, re,
cued Miss Helen Thomas, a Vale
City normal school student, frol
death by drowning in the sheyenn
river. Miss Thomas, unable to swim
leaped from a springboard into dee
water. Her cries for help brought th
boys to the Gene. She was uncol
scious when brought to the shore, b,
was quickly revived.
$ Bismarck. Splendid weather, q
NAKED recently by a heavy rainfa
and a drop in temperature; caref
dt, :ibution of available labor and IL
patriotic cooperation Of boys and CIR
of school age, have united to promi'
North Dakota one Of the create
crops IN its history. Lindley H: Pa
ton, state director for the Unit,
States employment service, has fol
EAST a $500 100000 wheat crop +
North fredericksburg his estimate
a twenty.kushel per acre average.
estimates that other grains 9 etabi
and livestock W; yield = siEil
monetary total.