Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-09-09
Nubs of News
The Standard Oil company ma
bought out the interests OF the Ma1
all Oil company at Dickinson. T

The Standard Oil company has
bought out the interests OF n MARSH.
iall Oil company at Dickinson. y.
For the past two weeks sailors have g
passed through Dickinson at the raoe
Of 100 each day, bound for Puee
sound. from where they will sail soon
for Siberia. ;a
States Attorney H. A Burgeson Of
Dickinson left last week Q CAMP
Pike, Ark, where he is taxing tne o"-
GERS training course
SEVERN Tangen Of Fosston has been
severely wounded in action in France.
according to a message received oy nD
father, Hans Tangen.
Clifford L.~Hilton Of st. Paul, at
torney general of Minnesota, has oeen
elected president of the National AS
ISOLATION of Attorneys General, IN scs-
sion at Cleveland, Ohio.
A. steel bridge is being built across
the narrows at Lake Metigoshe IN
Bottineau. county. It will cost ABOUT
S4,0 900 and is to be. completed oy
october /.
Trapping of beaver, which Tor years
has been prohibited by the state laws
of minnesota may again be permltted
as the little animals are becoming a
nuisance in damming the streams.
Napoleon LeFleur has left Mtnot foi
New York. where he will spend about
ten days before sailing for France.
La Fleur will take up canteen work
for the knights of Columbus.
The night shift Of the mills Of the
Crookston Lumber company at Be
midi has been closed down for Inc
season, the orders coming from head
quarters at Minneapolis.
]. +. Field, agent~for the Rogers
Lumber Co. at Manfred, was arrested
for embezzlement. It is alleged that
! Field forged the names of prominent
farmers to notes aggregating more
than $4,000.
Some rye has been threshed in the
vicinity Of Glenburn. The best yield
reported to date is 8 bushels, per acre,
but most of the fields are unnlng
around five or six bushels.
Land. for which Archie LaHatse Of
Grafton paid $4,000 four years age;
mas, III .IIIcc S4OP yVoAot
crops worth s4,443. after marketing
this years crop of wheat, which aver
aged SO bushels al acre.
We are told that down at Aberdeen,
S. D., the need for threshing hands is
SO urgent that SIS per day is being pald
for girls to help in the harvest. And
even then they say it will be hardly
possible to harvest h entire crop.
George A. WEIGH. one Of the oldest
and best known Bismarck business
men, and a man long prominent in
the political and civic life of the cap
ital city, died Friday after a brave
struggle for life extending over more
than agar.
The Fargo school enrolment is
1904 at the opening Of the fall term.
with a. high school enrolment of SIS,
the latter being an increase of 60 over
the total, enrolment of 1917. The
grade school enrolment is about the
same~as last year.
AS a result Of several conferences
commission, Slope cattlemen and H.
": Wilmot. regional traffic director
for the Northern Pacific, it is believed
that a threatened hay shortage west
of the river can be averted, says the
Dickinson Press.
Townley. Lemke, LANCER, ct al. had
things pretty much their own way at
the recent meeting of the so-called
Bismarck. The only two anti-Town-
ley delegates that cared to attend
were refused seats in the convention.
consequently the meeting proved de-
fcidedly harmonious" Only thirty
delegates took partial being Town
ley Observation-Disclosures Press.
erly' in Montana, hut who has been
working in Minot for a few weeks.
was sentenced to the reform school
until she is twenty-one years old. She
says she is now nineteen. A few
days ago she attempted to commit
suicide by taking a quantity Of stryeh-
nine, but prompt administration Of
antidotes prevented her from accomp-
fishing her purpose.
Sensational evidence was introduced
in the Foss brothers murder trial at
Malta, Mont, when joe Laundry am
plif1ed the statements he made at the
time of the Olsen trial at Chinook and
stated that he a been approached
with a proposition to CIV evidence
which would be favorable to the de-
PENDANT. He said that he had been
threatened by the Posses since the
Olsen trial and that he had decided to
tell all that he knew.
Some. harvesters, probably about
zoo all told may be brought to North
Dakota from eastern Montana, ac-
4 cording to J. S. schofield of the United
States employment service, who, re-
turned to Fargo Thursday from Miles
City and other Montana points. study
Ing the labor supply. At Beach, N.
d. business houses are closing at 4
o'clock each day, city men going into
the fields to aid the farmers.
Small t%hreshing rigs and girls and
women CARRIED in unionalls are prov
ing the only solution Of the threshing
problem to a large number Q. farmers
linear Jamestown. The use of the. small
outfit means that it requires fewer
men to man the machine and engine,
fewer to haul bundles and fewer to
feed, The obvious DISADVANTAGE Of
the small rig-that 1t means more
days orr weeks Of threshing-is not q
very great drawback to many. as they
) nave more time than they have help.
Francis stadsvold of Eosston has
been commissioned second lieutenant.
Women ice 6 drivers in In
ld'anapolis are proving a success.