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


this fall.
Kindred.-The Kindred farmers ele-
vator is completed and will be ready
to handle the bumper crop of 1918.
Maddock.-Farmers in the north
part of the county loaded a car of
wool at York, estimated to be worth
about $4,000.
Michigan.-Mrs. E. w. Hebron died
at her home here at the age of 90
years. She leaves a son and three
stepsons to mourn her death.
Fargo.-Class 1 men cannot be re-
leased for any other branch of the
military service in North Dakota I'M
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 T.. 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 parts
of the present eason and the late
summer and fall Of 1916, 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 City.-Rev. c. w. Lyon, one
Of the best known Congregational min
listers 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 n of the assistants
to the general counsel of the bureau
of war risk insurance.
Valley City.-Edgar A. Fisher of
Noltimier 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 army, being attached to
the T~hirty-eighth infantry. :.
Bismarek.-North Dakota has to fur
nish $40 volunteer nurses for war
work. For more 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.
Bismarck.-Rev. J.. Fontana, German
Evangelical church here, was found
guilty of sedition by a jury in federal
court. Rev. Fontana was charged
with attempting to hinder sale Of Lib.
erty bonds among his congregation
and with interfering in other ways
with prosecution of the war.
Kloten.-Owen Lofthus had a mar
row escape from serious injury while
returning from Fargo in his car. The
a skidded over an embankment ant
turned turtle, pinning him underneath
in a ditch full of water. He managed
to kick the door open and crawl out
escaping with a few bruises. The ca
was badly damaged.
Bathgate.-Private Henry j.. Miro1
OF Bathgate, with a record of seven
teen months of service in the trenche
with the Canadians, is dead in Scot
land, according to word received here
He was wounded twice in a recent er
} gagement, and was discharged fror
service. On his way home, however
he became sick, and succumbed.
Minot.-Ole Peterson, an aged Mo-
wegian laborer of Minot, who droppe
dead, left his entire fortune for tn
> care of the poor in Minot. Peterso
came to this country a poor mar an
worked as a section hand for a Ion
a time. He acquired a small piece {
land that he later sold to the railroa,
which formed the nucleus of his TO
tune.
Dickinson. This city now has
woman lawyer in Miss Frances Blu
8 nett, sister OF Attorney w. F. Blu
nett. She passed with the highe:
honors. in, a successful class of min
teen candidates for admission to tt
+. bar. She is the second woman to tai
up the practice of law in North D
O Ekpta, and the first to engage in tn
profession west Of the Missouri rive
!. !. Valley City.-Selmar Kysek al
. Kenneth Ezekiel, 15-year-old boys, re
cued Miss Helen Thomas, a Vale
City normal school student, fro
death by drowning in the Sheyenl
8 river. Miss Thomas, unable to swil
leaped from a springboard into de-
water. Her cries for help@brought tt
boys to the scene. She was unco
scious when brought to the shore, b
was quickly revived.
J" Bismarck. Splendid weather, c
NAKED recently by a heavy rainf;
1t and a drop in temperature: caref