Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-08-22
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Dolngs Of Last Few Days Throughout
North Dakota Condensed for
Hasty Perusal.

youHS women IN the student nurse
reserve. The city had been asked
to register twenty-three.
Wllliston.-Jay Batten Of this city
is the youngest lieutenant in the Unit
ed States engineers by five years, hav-
ing just been promoted in recognition
OF brilliant service in France.
Mlnot.-Nap Lafleur, prominent Mi
not travelling salesman, has received
an appointment for knights of Column
bus war work in France, and will leave
Minot as soon as passports arrive.
Bismarck.-Former Governor L.. B..
Hanna. in a letter from Paris to Mrs.
Marshall H. Jewell, advises that he
has seen a number of North Dakota
boys in France and that all are doing
finely.
! Minot.-Cecil Innis, a driver for a
local motor company, was killed under
an automobile today when it turned
over On the way to Grand Forks,
where it was to be delivered to the
buyer.
Observation-Disclosures will enjoy
four big community days within the
next year. Merchants will cooperate
by Offering special trade inducements.
The first day probably will be OBJ
served in October.
Sargent.-An enemy alien, who was
detected here, was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff Jackman here, after a long
chase which ended only when a shot
from the officers revolver frightened
tho Gorr, IN into crhpo;cc;or
Cavalier.-Maxwell Short, who was
injured by the premature explosion of
a dynamite bomb at Camp Fremont,
CAL, and is now in the military hos
pital at Preside, will be sent home On
furlough as soon as he is able to
travel.
Sutton.-Robert P. Lyle, %, son of
siding near here, has been killed in
action in France, making the first cas-
ualty for Sutton and vicinity. He vas
in the first draft quota from Griggs
county.
observation-disclosures with farmers
or farm laborers in handling the crops
will not be tolerated, nor will any
boycott or attempted boycott, lockout
or strike be allowed for any reason,
under work or fight" regulations an
nounced by Walsh county officials.
Bismarck-Henry T. Bechtold. chief
st. Paul.-Spring Grove, Fillmore
county, and it's neighborhood, form
the only infantile paralysis, spot in
Minnesota, according to the state
board of health. About "a. score of
cases have occurred in that locality,
traceable to an epidemic of the dis
ease in Iowa.
Observation-Disclosures and employees
of the state. board Of auditors, now
punch a time clock, when they come
to work and as they leave. The stand
ard working day at the state capitol
$50 am. to $3.50 p.m.-was made
effective at the board of auditors
when the clock was installed.
Bismarck.-On the affidavit filed by
F. L. Watkins, superintendent of the
State Enforcement League, with Gov.
Frazier, L. P. Muens, chairman
of the board of trustees of the vii.
lage of Hague, has been suspended by
the governor. A raid made a few
weeks. ago uncovered a carload OF
whisky in his basement.
Bismarck.-R. D. Hoskins of the ad.
jutant generals staff has prepared for
the provost marshal generals office
an estimate showing that approximate.
1y 100,413 men between the ages OF
10 and As will register. under the new
draft regulations in September and
that $40 new filing cases will be re.
quired to handle this business.
Fargo.-Under secret orders, their
destination not being given even tc
the soldiers themselves, over 25C
soldiers who have been in training at
the North Dakota Agricultural college
vocational training school have left
The second training camp at the col
lege has been placed under way, with
about ESQ more soldiers being brought
in from North Dakota counties.
Hillsboro.-Chris Foss, Hans Hol
son, Lars Hegle and Anton Ouren
Hannaford, Griggs county residents
arrested northeast of Hillsboro by
Sheriff A. ]. Osmon when their auto
mobile, carrying a goodly supply OF
wet goods" from Red Lake Falls
Mimi, overturned on a bridge owe,
the Red river, have been fined $1O(
and costs each in district court ir
Fargo.
Bismarck.-Sheriff John P. French
of Burleigh county, member of the
Burleigh draft board, has flied infor
nation with the United States district
court, charging John Johnson, {
farmer Of Grassy Lake, N. D., with
having paid 500 to him to obtain ex
emption from the draft for his son
and of offering to give $40O more il
the form of a note. Indications are
that Johnson acted only through ig
norance and he will therefore be
charged with a simple misdemeanol
instead Ola felony.
Hazen.-The th~ree-year-old child O.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Horner was seri
ously injured when she was accident