Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-07-25

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has purchased the Drake News from
E. ]. Carton.
Grand Forks.-The Grand Forks
Fair will be held July % to II, inclu.
sive, and promises to be the greatest
Interstate exposition yer held there.
Arnegard.-The stockholders of the
farmers elevator here are considering
the advisability Of forming a livestock
shipping association among the farm.
ers of that vicinity.
Fargo.-Protests to the state rail.
road commission on the new rate fixed
by the Union Light, Heat & Power
Co., for gas and electricity in Fargo
were filed by the Fargo city commits.
sion.
Fargo.-Thrown down by a team of
mad horses, George Curron, IS, was
trampled to death on a farm near
Mapleton, this county. The mans rel.
atives reside in Saskatchewan, Can,
but have not been located.
Fargo.-So many drug clerks in
North Dakota have gone to war that
the North Dakota Druggists %associa-
ton probably will abandon it's annual
convention. The meeting is scheduled
to be held in Fargo on Aug. 1.
Langdon.-Two car loads of wool
were shipped from Langdon, the clip Of
Cavalier county sheep breeders for
this season. About $4,000 pounds
were SEM east and will return about
$4,000 to the owners.
Bismarck.-The Council Of Defense
ordered the states attorney and sher-
iff' to Immediately investigate the
painting yellow Of the New Salem
bank, of which G. F. Kellogg, chair
man of the Morton county Council of
Defense, is president.
Fargo.-Over half of the fund re-
CURED for the purchase of a dental
motor ambulance, to be the gift of the
North Dakota Dental association for
service in France, has been raised.
The movement was launched at the
recent meeting in Grand Forks of the
state association.
Amidon.-Eight hundred and fifty
pounds of arsenic have arrived in Ami
don and twenty barrels of molasses
and ten tons of bran are en- route, in
preparation for the Slope county drive
on grasshoppers. The three ingredf-
ents will be mixed into a sweet mash
and distributed to farmers.
Bismarck.-The elimination of un-
necessary creameries and cream sta
tons, as a means of reducing the cost
of handling cream and with the fur
Their object of releasing surplus men
for duty in necessary occupations, is
now being considered by the North
Dakota Council of Defense.
Fargo.-The North Dakota crop of
winter rye, which recently gave prom.
Use, of being exceptionally good, has
fallen off materially, with the result
that the yield will be far lower than
expected. In many sections, late frost
bl1ghted the grain, while in other re-
gions, the dry weather last fall re.
duced termination.
Bismarck. - Robert Muir, Sarles,
was elected president; c. E. Vermilya,
Bismarck, vice president, and Charles
Liessman, Steele, secretary of the
North Dakota state board of regents
at the annual meeting. Mr.. Muir suc-
ceeds Lewis F. Crawford, Sentinel
Butte. He is a graduate of the Uni
versity of North Dakota and a farmer
near Sarles.
Jamestown. - When the congrega-
ton of the German Lutheran church
at Streeter divided into two camps,
division of the property holdings of
the church by lot was resorted to, the
drawing taking place in the district
court here. AS a result, one faction
gets the church building and land,
while the other gets the church par
sonage, barns, fences, communion set
and the Bible.
Bismarck.-An order preparing for
the seizure of all the 1900 grain ele-
vators of North Dakota has been is.
sued by the state council of defense.
The councils order provides that own
ers of seized elevators be paid a rem
tai Of Z per cent a year upon the actual
physical valuation of their property.
It also provides that the elevators
may be bought outright on the basis
of physical valuation.
Fargo.-The United States labor
bureau has established state headquar-
ters in Fargo for the purpose of han
ding Of the farm labor question dur.
ing the coming harvest season, with
L. H. Patten, state director, in charge.
Mr.. Patten has announced seven dis
trict offices for the purpose of better
serving the farmers. The district
headquarters are in Fargo, Grand
Forks, Jamestown, Cakes, Minot, Bis
marck, Devils Lake. County labor
chairmen also are being selected, the
latter working on a volunteer basis.
Fargo.-Lindley H. Patten, director
of the United States labor employ
ment service for North Dakota, has
issued notice that United States en-
ployment Offices have been opened at
Fargo, Grand Forks, Devils Lake,
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