The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-01-03

Hasty PsrGsai.
Wimbledon has = Modern Wood.
man Of American lodge OF nearly
176 members.
Despite sanfaSSorable weather condf
tons asreceft Red Cross auction sale
ct Neche nstted 500. Good for old
ssmuggler's Point"
Charged with stealing wheat, Geo.
lGappert Of Youngstown wal bound
over to district court last week. He
furnished ! $1,000 bond and viii be
tried at the January term.
More than two hundred University
OF North Dakota men, former stu.
dents and alumni. are 1t present &C
lively engaged In the military serv-
Ice Of the United States.
"A little son Of August Vogel Of
Sweet Brfar, was badly bitten by
pet coyote recently. An ugly cut In
one leg, besides suffering other In.
juries. The wounds were promptly
cautertzed.
The Christmas gift from the Boy
Scouts to the city Of Garrison was q
large service nag, containing 81
stars on q field Of white with space
left for more stars to be placed as
the young men of this city 60 to the
front.
A Parshall restaurant keeper re-
ported by a members Of the CONNER.
cial Travellers Food Conservation
league for serving meat on a meatless
day, has received from the Federal
food administration a reprimand, with
formal notice that the food admins.
tration expects to strictly enforce ev-
cry regulation, and that another vic.
lation of the meatless edict will render
the restaurant keeper liable to q fine
Of $500.
SEVERN Stevenson, q bachelor,
aged 80, committed suicide at a
homestead near Benedict, which he
occupied with his brother, Hans Stew
enson, while the latter was away
paying a visit to a third brother,
Helmar, who lives on an adjoining
section. Stevenson placed the muzzle
Of = shotgun at his chest and pulled
the trigger with his toe. When Hans
returned he found severin-lying dead.
III q pool Of blood. He had left 4
note stating that he willed all Of his
property to his brother Hans.
After being pinned under . load
of coal for 20 hours and rescued In
Z critical condition after one leg was
frozen. Arthur Koenig Of Parshall
failed to survive the extent Of his
injuries and died the following day.
Officers Of the Red Cross organi-
zation Of the state announce that
there are So nurses IN North Dakota
now IN the. Red Cross which IL con-
sidered q small percentage compared
with the number of nurses in the
state.
The sum of $4,4so.57 inheritance
tax, was ordered paid by Judge A.
g.. Hanson of the Cass. county court
from the estate of the late William
H. White, wealthy lumberman, who
died August, 1915, leaving an estate
valued at 100000.
Mrs. Ginah Floew has won over
Miss Evelyn Fearseth In the contest
for a homestead On the central coal
field. Miss Fearseth claimed squat.
ting rights while Mrs. Floew &C.
tually settled on the land, made har
improvements, and proceeded to stick
right there.
The case of the state against E. l..
Gunderson has been transferred from
Ray, Williams county, on an affida.
Wit of prejudice filed by the attor.
neys for Gunderson. This move will
take the case to Rugby and it will be
tried before Judge Burr at the Jan.
uary term of court. Gunderson is &C.
cused of shooting John Galley in a
quarrel ver some straw.
Mike johnson, q brakeman, was
struck on the head by a swinging car
door at Marmath and instantly
killed. He had opened a switch to
allow his train to take siding for
a passing train when the swinging
door struck him. The second acct.
dent near Marmath within a week
occurred at Tonquin when a brakeman
by the name of Schwendt was in
oLdutAy hlAACu "A0u AO 6LOppOU HULL
the engine cab to turn a switch.
Miss Nellie w. ~Farnsworth, head OF
the home economics at the state nor
NAL school at Valley City, has re.
signed her position and will leave at
the close of the present term to be.
come a member of the staff of the ex.
tension division of thee University Of
Nebraska. She has been granted a
years leave of absence to become spe.
cial home economics agent in the city
Of Omaha.
Additional county chairmen for the
thrift stamp drive have been named
by George H. Hollister, state director,
as follows: Sargent, ]. H. Maltby;
Slope. c. H. Dale; Towner, William
Bascon; Wells, A. l.. Netcher; vii.
liams. H. W. Braatlein; Bottineau,
Peter L.. Klyva; Barnes, H. Macdon.
aid; Cavalier, Geo. M. Price; En-.
mons, Charles Coventry; Oliver, John
j. HUFF; Pierce, L. T. Bosley; McKen.
zie, Robert Norheim. Chairmen for
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