The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-01-31
News Of theState
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s123, pleaded not guilty and was
bound over to the district court.
Two.thirds Of the school directors of
McHenry county have signed the pc
tition for a school nurse and the
county commissioners are now certain
to appoint one. Because of the scare
ity of good nurses, Superintendent
Berg and the board members have
decided to take no action at present.
George Haley, we'll known news
paper man of Bismarck, became men,
tally unbalanced at Mayville When he
was there in the employ of the State
Council of Defense exhibiting war pic
! lures. Sheriff Osmon of Hillsboro
was notified and Haley was taken to
Hillsboro and later to Fargo. where
he was turned over TO relatives, who
will take care of him. His derange-
ment Is thought to be only tempo.
rary.
Mrs. Newton Mills of Niagara has
received letter from somewhere in
England from her son, Private Elbert
B. Mills, a member of Company NJ.
164th infantry. Tie letter mentions
that the trip was made on the largest
ship atloat and was uneventful, al
though he was pretty sick the fourt:,
day out. Before leaving Camp Mer-
ritt Private Mills was made first
class private and is now drawing $35
a month. The letter was dated Dec
2G.
The two national banks at North.
wood have deposits aggregating ST..
0O0, 1000.
Thomas Baker, ST., one of the early
settlers Of Cass county and one of its
Oldest residents, died of pneumonia
at his residence in Fargo.
w. r. Watson, for the past six
years manager of the prescription de.
partment of the Bowman Drug CON-
pany, has bought the business from
r. T. Haywood.
A special election will be held at
Sharon on Saturday, June o., on the
question of bonding the village for
$4,000 for the purpose of installing an
electric light plant.
A. L. Krumm has resigned as post
master at Durbin and will be suc-
cceded by ! his daughter, Miss Jennie
Kiumm, who took the examination
for the position last fall.
Tie case of Bye vs.. 1saacson, tried
at Williston, resulted in a verdict of
S1,500 for the plaintiff. The Byc
woman was employed by John
1saacson, Tioga farmer, as a do.
mestic. She claims that she was at
tackled by her employer.
Automobile registration fees at the
rate of 500 daily, bringing in for the
bl'lding of state and county high
ways approximately $4,000 every day.
are rolling into the secretary of
states Office. The demand for auto.
mobile licenses is unusually heavy.
George Keller of Bantry had streak
Of bad luck the other day when one
OF his strawstacks toppled over, kill.
ing one horse and breaking a leg Of
another horse. The straw in the stack
is short, and with the stock eating
and forcing away the sides, caused
the stack to slide to one side and then
to fall over on the horses.
County Judge Mccartney Beede has
been named federal fuel administra-
tor for Sioux county by Captain I. P.
Baker of Bismarck, federal fuel all
ministrator for the state of North Da-
kota. Judge Beede expects to .use
his influence with the department Of
the interior to procure permission for
the opening of the Indian Ignite
lands next summer, and will ask that
leave be granted to lay in supplies
of fuel during the warm weather.
Greater love hath no man than
this, that he lay down his life for .lis
friend" This quotation is engraved
on a Carnegie medal which James
Ogland Of Williston has received. An
other engraving reads: Awarded to
J. Norris Ogland, who attempted to
save John L. Townsend from drown
ing, Williston, N. D., June 9, 1876
In addition to this medal there is
placed in bank to the account of
James Ogland $1,000 which in the
time to come will be drawn upon as
he attends college.
At meeting of the board of direc-
tors Of the Stutsman County Fair as.
sociation, Sept. 25-27 were set as the
tentative dates for the holding of the
annual fair.
The 10th annual convention of the
North Dakota Implement Dealers as
sociation at Fargo was attended by
members from points in North Da-
kota, Minnesota and Montana.
The marriage of Alfred White,
mayor of Dickinson, and Mrs. Jessie
Cartwright by the Rev. j. S. Bray
field, at jamestown, has been an.
nounced. The couple have gone to
Los Angeles to spend the winter.
According to the Engineering Rec
ord, one of the leading publications
devoted to building and engineering,
plans and specifications are being pre-
pared for extensive new shops at
Mandan for the Northern Pacific rail-
road.