The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1918-04-25
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Doings Of Last Few Days Throughout
North Dakota Condensed for
Hasty Perusal.

have received their new uniforms.
Rugby. The Rugby city council de-
clared Mrs. Rose Dcigle elected alder
man TO succeed former Alderman Nc
lavish.
Jamcs,own.-A. f. Borchcrt has
left for his new home at Rochester,
Mimi, where he will become county
agent for Olmsted county.
Fargo.-The season for stealing
cars did not open mt Fargo very aus
piciously. Two cars reported stolen
one night were recovered the next.
Dickinson.--Word from France an
nounccs that the body of Matt Drew,
Dickinson's first war martyr, was
buried near Toul and his grave mark
ed for Identification.
Observation-Disclosures Lynn ]. Traz-
ier, scheduled to speak before an audi
ence at Lefor, was arrested for driv-
ing a car with a 1917 license, belong-
ing to Adam Lefor of I.efor.
Parshall.-Mrs. A. I.arin Las rcsign-
ed her position as postmistress Of
Parshall. The Increasing work and
present long honrs have made the
work too heavy for the duties Of a
woman. 1t is said.
Fargo.-Thc North Dakota w. c.
T. u. will hold its annual convention
In Bismarck on S"i,tember 90 and %.
Mrs. Maude u. Perkins of Syracuse,
n. v, has been secured as the con-
venton speaker.
Valley C!y.-An unusual social
event took place here with the cele-
bration OF the Goth wedding anniver'
sary of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Van Mid
ellsworth, who were married on
March 5, 1858, at Geneseo, N. Y.
Grand Forks.-The strike of local
streetcar motormen and conductors
came to AM end when the Grand
Forks Street Railway company &C
ceded to the mems demands for rec
ognition Of their newly organized
union.
Jamestown.-Oscar Moxness. strik
ing match to look into gasoline
tank to see the amount Of gasoline
knows more about gasoline now than
he did before. He is now languish
ing in a hospital and will most prob
ably be forced to get along with one
eye hereafter.
Sentinel Butte.-Sentinel Butte
with a population Of 800, is 100 pei
cent Red Cross town, not only is
every person in town a member ol
the Sentinel Butte branch, but also 9
majority of residents in the sever
townships tributary to town, giving
the Sentinel Butte branch member
ship of sO7.
Dickinson.-Reports have reached
Dickinson of the capture by the Ger
mans of Adelbert Morey, who wen
to the front as a member Of Com
pany X of Dickinson and later wa!
/ transferred to Company A Of Bis
marck. Morey is said to have beer
captured after having been wounded
Bismarck Milhollan, finan
cial secretary Of the Bismarck Typo
graphical union, district organizer fo
, the American Federation Of 1.abo
d, and vice president Of the North Da
| kota Federation of Labor, was in
| dorsed by the Bismarck Trades ant
Labor council for place on th'
North Dakota state railway commits
sion.
Donnybrook- is doomed a
] Donnybrook-at least for the periot
Of the war The young ladies' of tn
city are quitting dancing cold AM
announce that party will be hell
for every dance billed. They pos
lively refuse to dance while thei
brothers and sweethearts are fightin
, and dying for them in the trenche
| in France.
Buffalo Springs.-A fracture of th
leg was the only injury sustaine
when a traction engine passed owe
Mat Becker, a farmer living abou
seven miles south of here. Beckle
was working in the field when some
thing went wrong with his engine an
he crawled under the tractor to il
vestigate. While beneath the ms
chine it started.
Cogswell-Sargent county, with
quota of s125.00O for the Third In
erty Loan, reached its goal in tn
first three hours and will easily lo'
BILE its quota in the final count. VII
ian township, settled almost who'll
by Germans, doubled its allotment th
first day. Nine precincts in u,
county doubled their quota the frs
day and Shnman township went owe
the top with 260 per cent.
ck.-Representative Georg
N. Young urges that North Dakot
barristers who formed an advisor
committee to extend free legal assis
ance to registrants in making OF
their questionnaires offer similar fire
advice to North Dakota farmers VIII
now desire to take advantage Of tn
general orders, enabling them to dra'
upon the training camps, cantor
ments and army posts for an emer
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