The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-05-16
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Dolnes Of Last Few Days Throughout
North Dakota Condensed for
Hasty Perusal.

Scouts subscribed over $1,000 in Lib
erty Bonds and War Saving certih
Gates.
Dawson.-Dawson subscribed 81
per cent more Liberty bonds of the
third issue than the government
called for.
Crosby.-W. H. Ware, former own
er and editor of the Crosby Review
Is dead after nearly three years In
validism.
Cooperstown.-The Farmers ant
Merchants State bank is the name oil
the new financial institution to be
launched here.
Bismarck.-Collections of private
car line taxes in North Dakota by
the state auditors office totaled $40,
944.99 on May 1, according to State
Auditor Kositzky.
Fargo.-Rev. j. D. Runsvold, for
merly of Northwood, N. d.. who re
Gently accepted the pastorate of the
First Norwegian Lutheran church Of
America of Fargo, has been installed
Grand Forks.-The thirteenth an,
nual meeting and clinic of the North
Dakota State Dental association will
be held in the auditorium here Tues.
day and Wednesday, May 21 and %.
Minot-James Quit, who entered
a plea of guilty to grand larceny in q
Burke county justice court, was sent.
enced to two and one-half years in the
state penitentiary by Judge K. E.
Leighton.
Valley City.-Colonel Frank White,
governor of North Dakota for two
terms, has arrived in France, to take
his place among the allied officers.
News of Colonel Whites arrival has
reached here.
Tolley.-A series of storms swept
this section destroying several barns
and small buildings. No one was hurt.
An automobile party near Mohall was
compelled to abandon the machine and
lie in the road until the storm passed,
Bismarck.-The state tax commits.
sion is cooperating with Francis P.
Caravan, director of the bureau of in.
v~estigation, alien property custodian,
Washington, in a still hunt for enemy
money or property in North Dakota.
Towner.-George Kline, a. pioneer
of McHenry county, and for FL years
a county Justice of the peace, died
here after a short illness. 1t is re.
ported that Judge Kline, as he was
Familiarity called, tried over 1000
justice court cases. ~
Devils Tako-Tr1 1h,,o5uo5 o-S
fifty or more, farm boys from Ram
sey, Nelson. Benson and Towner
counties will join in an encampment
on the Rock. Island military reserve,
adjoining the Devils Lake Chautau-
qua grounds the first week in July.
Grafton.-Ralph Givens, for II years
in charge of the mechanical depart.
ment Of the Grafton News and Times
has left for Camp Dodge. Ralph is
the fourth member of the family now
In the army as three of his brothers
have been in Europe for some time.
Jamestown.-The Northern Pacific
Railway company encourages the
planting of war gardens again this
spring, the same as last year, and
has given many patches of land
along the right-of-way for the use of
employees who desire to put in and
cultivate gardens.
Upham.-Ed. Urban, S3 years Of age,
a prominent and prosperous farmer
living about - miles west of this
place, committed suicide by the use
OF a shot. gun. The act was done
during a fit of dependency over con.
tnued illness, as he had been unwell
for five years or more.
Fargo.-Charles Kretchmar, a hard.
ware dealer at Kramer, Bottinea,,
county, was sentenced to serve six
months in the Bottineau county Jail
and to pay a fine Of $500 by Judge
Charles f. Amidon in federal court,
Kretchmar pleaded guilty to the
charge of desecrating the American
flag.
Devils Lake.-1n a decision handed
down District Judge c. w. Buttz up
holds the right of school officials
to enforce the vaccination law. The
decision was in a case brought against
the Devils Lake board Of education
by Dr.. W. F. Rhea, seeking to compe,
the board to admit his son to schoo,
without vaccination.
Minot.-The Girls Military Squad
will erect a white marble monument
In Riverside Park in memory of Mi
not's heroes in the great a So ia,
there have been seven Minot boy.
killed in action and three died O
disease. The monument will b,
dedicated with appropriate service.
on Memorial Day, May 80.
Bismarck.-State Auditor Carl 3
Kositzky announces. that a total o
5 66,455.15 is available on income.
from the University and School lant
funds for apportionment to the com
mon schools Of the state at the emf
OF the quarter ending April 81, 1918
The money is to be apportioned to tn,
various schools of the state on tn
per capita basis.
Minot.-Arthur Buck, who pleade,
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