Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-04-25
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pasngs Of Last Few Days Throughout
North Dakota Condensed for
.Hasty Perusal.

lavish.
Jamestown.-A. F. Borchert 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 at Fargo very aus
picisusly. Two cars reported stolen
one night were recovered the next.
Dickinson.-Word from France an.
nounces that the body OF Matt Drew,
Dickinson's first wal martyr. was
buried neal Toul and his grave mark.
ed for Identification
Observation-Disclosures Lynn J. Fraz-
Ter, 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 Lefor.
Parshall.-Mrs. 4, Larin has resign.
ed her position as postmistress Of
Parshall. The Increasing work and
work too heavy for the duties Of a
woman. it is said.
Fargo.-The North Dakota W. G..
T. U. will hold its annual convention
in Bismarck on September 20 and %.
Mrs. Maude B. Perkins of Syracuse.
v%ention speaker.
Valley City.-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
coded to the mems demands for rec.
ognition of their newly organized
union.
Jamestown.-Oscar MoXness. strik-
ing a match to look into a gasoline
tank to see the amount of gasoline
knows more about gasoline nov than
he did before. He is now anguish.
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 a 100 per
cent Red Cross town. not only is
every person in town a member OF
the Sentinel Butte branch, but also a
townships tributary to town, giving
the Sentinel Butte branch a member
ship of SO7.
observation-disclosures have reached
Dickinson of the capture by the Ger
mans OF Adelbert Morey, who went
to the front as a member of Com
pany K of Dickinson and later was
transferred to Company A of Bis
marck. Morey is said to have beer
captured after having been wounded
Bismarck.-Frank Milhollan. finan
cial secretary of the Bismarck Typo
graphical union, district organizer 70,
the American Federation of Labo,
and vice president of the North Da
kota Federation Of Labor, was in
dorsed by the Bismarck Trades anC
Labor council for a place on the
North Dakota state railway commits
sion.
MISUNDERSTANDING is doomed a,
Donnybrook-at least for the period
Of the war. The young ladies If the
city are quitting dancing cold anG
announce that a party will be helt
for every dance billed. They posi-
lively refuse to dance while thei:
brothers and sweethearts are fighting
and dying for them in the trenche!
in France.
Buffalo ,Springs.-A fracture of tn
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 I'M
thing went wrong with his engine an
he crawled under the tractor to in
vestigate. While beneath the me-
chine it started.
CogsWell.-Sargent county, with
quota Of $125,Oo for the Third Lii
: erty Loan, reached its goal in tn
first three hours and will easily DO,
: BILE it's quota in the final count. vi,
ian township, settled almost who'll
| by Germans, doubled its allotment tn
, first day. Nine precincts i'll tn
county doubled their quota the frs
day and Slluman township went owe
the top with 260 per cent.
Bismarck.-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
t their que%stionnaires offer similar fire
. advice to North Dakota farmers VIII
l now desire to take advantage of tn
general orders, enabling them to dra
s upon the training camps, cantor
Q ments and army posts for an emer
ency supply Of farm labor,
MISUNDERSTANDING Lynn
Frazier has accepted the rcsignatiC
g Of Col. Charles II. McVey as a mer
e Der of his military advisory COMM
6 tee. Colonel McVey, who is milital
i instructor at the University Of Mort
l. DoGoto ot Cropd Foric woc opDOjD