Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-04-25
North Dakota
News Siftings

Jdmo5COWu.-A. r. bOrCn0FC mas
left for his new home at Rochester,
Mimi, where he will become county
agent for Olmsted county.
Fargo.-North Dakota's Third Lib
erty Loan allotment has been sur.
passed by $4,500,OO0. The total for
the state is more than 100000.
Observation-Disclosures Lynn j. Fraz-
Ter, scheduled to speak before an audi
ence at Lefor, was arrested for driv-
ing car with 1917 license, belong
ing to Adam Lefor of Lefor.
Valley City.-Benjamin l.. Seifert
OF this city is dead somewhere in
France from wounds received while
driving an ambulance. He was one
OF the we'll known young men of Val
ley City.
Fargo-The North Dakota w. c.
7. U. will hold its annual convention
in Bismarck on September 20 and %.
Mrs. Maude B. Perkins of Syracuse,
N. Y, has been secured as the con-
vention speaker.
acknowledgements Lynn ]. Fraz.
fer has reappointed w. P. Porterfield
of Fargo a member Of the state board
of pharmacy. Mr.. Porterfield has
served one term on the board.
Grand Forks.-The strike of local
streetcar motormen and conductors
came to AM end when the Grand
Forks Street Railway company &C.
coded to the mems demands for rec.
ognition Of their newly organized
union.
Jamestown.-Mrs. Edith Conklin of
Bismarck, chairman of the Woman's
State Council of Defense, has appoint.
ed Mrs. Lou Osborn chairman and
Mrs. Irene Jacobson secretary of the
Stutsman County Woman's Council Of
Defense.
Hettinger.-A goose arose to the
occasion at the Red Cross auction
sale here and while under the auction
GERS block, laid an egg which sold
and resold until $3.50 was realized
The total proceeds from the sale ex.
ceeded $4,000.
Dickinson.-Reports have reached
Dickinson of the capture by the Ger.
mans of Adelbert Morey, who went
to the front as a member of Com.
pany X of Dickinson and later was
transferred to Company A of Bis.
marck. Morey is said to have been
captured after having been wounded.
Bismarck.-Frank Milhollan, finan.
cial secretary of the Bismarck Typo.
graphical union, district organizer for
the American Federation of Labor
and vice president of the North Da
kota Federation of Labor, was in.
dorsed by the Bismarck Trades and
Labor council for a place on the
North Dakota state railway commits.
sion.
Bismarck.-A pair Of stockings
knitted by Mrs. Robert Buchanan
from wool which she had sheared
carded and spun from sheep which
she had raised entirely without as.
sistance, were sold at Red Cross
auction at the Buchanan consolidat.
ed school. in Emmons county, for Sc
and contributed to net total of 1892
produced by the sale, for which ar.
ticles were donated by all the farm.
ers in the community.
Bismarck.-Representative George
N. Young urges that North Dakota
barristers who formed an advisory
committee to extend free legal assist.
ance to registrants in making out
their questionnaires offer similar free
advice to North Dakota farmers vito
now desire to take advantage Of the
general orders. enabling them to draw
upon the training camps, canton.
ments and army posts for an emery.
ency supply of farm labor.
Bismarck.-Five hundred and
eighty-one men will entrain during a
five-day period beginning May 10 for
Fort Logan. Colo, according In in.
structions sent out to North Dakota
counties yesterday by Adjt- Gen. Fras.
er following orders received from
Provost Marshal General Crowder.
Grand Forks county will supply IS
men, Cass 40. and other counties in
proportion. This is the first move.
ment OF drafted men in the state who
were not ordered to Camp Dodge, Des
Moines. Iowa.
Bismarck.-The gentle three-day
rain which has fallen over North Ia.
kota is estimated to be worth $4,000
600 to the state by Commissioner of
Agriculture and Labor John N. Hagan.
"A good start is generally considered
worth at least two bushels to the acre
of any CROP" said Mr.. Hagan in dis
cussing the crop situation in the state.
1.-The normal acreage of wheat In
North Dakota is about 7,5O0,O0O acres
and this year the wheat acreage is
abnormal. More than half of the
wheat acreage is already in the
ground. This means that the rain
of the last few days has fallen on at
least 100000 acres of wheat. An
increase Of bushels to the acre will
mean at least 100000 bushels of
wheat which, at 81 per bushel, is
worth $14,000,00O to the state at
large"
New Rockford.-Billy Miers, alias