The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-08-07
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polnos Of Last Few Days Throughout
North Dakota Condensed for
Hasty Perusal.

an electric light plant in operation
this fall.
Kindred.-The Kindred farmers ele-
vator is completed and will be ready
to handle the bumper crop of 1918.
Maddock.-Farmers in the north
part of the county loaded a car. of
wool at York, estimated to be worth
about $4,000.
Michigan.-Mrs. E. w. Hebron died
at her home here at the age of SO
years. She leaves a son and three
stepsons to mourn her death.
Fargo.-Class 1 men cannot be re-
leased for any other branch of the
military service in North Dakota III
der an order issued by Adjt.-Gen. An
gus Fraser.
New Leipzig.-The dates for the
Grant county fair have been set for
October 2, 3 and 4. Premium books
and publicity matter will be ready for
distribution early in August.
Oakes.-Many bad storms have been
reported throughout Dickey county the
past week. Hail has destroyed hum
dreds of acres of good crop and wind
has torn buildings in places.
Bismarck. - Bismarck's nine-mile
paving project, whose completion has
consumed all of one summer and parts
of the present season and the late
summer and fall of 1916, is finished.
Jamestown.-Rev. R. Burke of SUIT
ton, Neb., has dedicated a new church
for a German-speaking congregation
in the northwestern part of the coun-
ty. He was formerly pastor at Me-
dina.
Page.-.Falling from a wagon to the
ground, only five feet, Esther Sang,
aged 4, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed.
ward Sang, was instantly killed at the
farm of her parents in Page township,
her neck being broken.
Valley City.-Rev. C. w. Lyon, one
of the best known Congregational min
listers in North Dakota, has enlisted
for Y. NJ. C. A. service, and will leave
within a few days to enter the service.
He has been granted a years leave of
absence.
Grand Forks.-Roger w. Cooley,
who has been professor of law at the
University of North Dakota since Sep
TENDER, 1911, has left for Washington,
where he is to be one of the assistants
to the general counsel of the bureau
of war risk insurance.
Valley City.-Edgar A. Fisher OF
Noltimier township was drowned in
France, according to a telegram which
was received here. The body was re.
covered. He was first lieutenant in
the regular arny, being attached to
the Thirty-eighth infantry.
Bismarck.-North Dakota has to fur
nfsh $40 volunteer nurses for wal
work. For more than two weeks in
tensive preparations for this cam.
paign were under way. The woman's
committee of the National Council OF
Defense is in charge of the state drive
Bismarck.-Rev. J. Fontana, German
Evangelical church here, was found
guilty of sedition by a jury in federal
court. Rev. Fontana was charged
with attempting to hinder sale of Lib,
erty bonds among his congregation
and with interfering in other ways
with prosecution of the war.
Kloten.-Owen Lofthus had a mar
row escape from serious injury while
returning from Fargo in his car. The
car skidded over an embankment and
turned turtle, pinning him underneath
in a ditch full of water. He managed
to kick the door open and crawl out
escaping with a few bruises. The cal
was badly damaged.
Bathgate.-Private Henry J. Mirror
of Bathgate, with a record of seven
teen months of service in the trenches
with the Canadians, is dead in Scot
land, according to word received here
He was wounded twice in a recent en-
gagement, and was discharged from
service. On his way home, however
he became sick, and succumbed.
. Minot.-Ole Peterson, an aged Nor
wegian laborer Of Minot, who dropped
dead, left his entire fortune for the
care of the poor in Minot. Peterson
came to this country a poor man and
time. He acquired a small piece Of
land that he later sold to the railroad
which formed the nucleus of his for
tune.
Dickinson. - This city O has
woman lawyer in Miss Frances Bur
nett, sister of Attorney w. F. Bur
nett. She passed with the highest
honors in a successful class of nine
teen candidates for admission to the
bar. She is the second woman to take
UP the practice of law in North Da
kota, and the first to engage in thi:
profession west of the Missouri river
Valley City.-Selmar Kysek ant
Kenneth Eckel, 1~5:year-oad boys, res
cued Miss Helen Thomas, a Vale.
City normal school student, from
death by drowning IN the Sheyenn.
river. Miss Thomas, unable to swim
leaped from a springboard into deel
water. Her cries for help brought thu
boys to the Gene. She was uncon
scious when brought to the shore, bu
was quickly revived.
Bismarck. - Splendid weather, eli
NAKED recently by a heavy rainfall
and a drop in Temperatures; careful
aSrA~ih,kion - oroiloh1o 1ohon n~a ~.