The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-03-14
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Dolngs Of Last Few Days Throughout
North Dakota Condensed for
Hasty Perusal.

OI flaZa, N. L., died at Fort OSel
thorpe base hospital of spinal menin.
gifts.
Fargo.-The gong Of the burglar
alarm outside of the State bank at
Blanchard frightened away 'yeggs"
who attempted to drill their way into
the vault.
Fessenden.-The first farmers ele.
vator in the state to be established
under the new plan inaugurated by
the Equity Cooperative exchange of
st. Paul, will be built here.
'Finley.-Steele county's fifth annual
fair will be held at Finley, it was de.
cided at a meeting of the board of di.
rectors of the Steele County Fair as.
ISOLATION. The date was set for July
8 and 4.
Bismarck. - John Hollenbeck,
against whom a charge of illegal vot-
ing was filed with Police Magistrate
Bleckreid, pleaded guilty in the local
court and will appear before Judge
Nuessle at the next term of court for
sentence.
Dawson.-1t took Edgar L. Richter,
held representative of the Four-Min-
ute men of the state just about a half
hour to round up about so of the pat
riotic citizens of this village and or.
ganize. C. P. Peterson was named
chairman.
Hillsboro.-Funeral services were
held mere Monday afternoon over the
remains of the late Rev. George Dun
lop, pastor of the Congregational
church here, and the First Presby.
terrain church at Kelso, for the last
four years.
Bismack.-April 6, first anniversary
of Americas entry into the war, will
be observed as National Win-the-War
Day" in North Dakota, under the aus
pices of the North Dakota Council of
Defense. Announcement to this effect
has been made by Secretary F.. y.
Hellstrom.
Fargo.-Grand Forks was selected
as the 1917 convention city by the AS
ISOLATION of County Fair, which clos
ed its annual convention here with
the election of officers. S. H. Wilson.
OF Bottineau was elected president,
Ben Killerain, of Cooperstown, vice
president, and Don v. Moore of Grand
Forks, secretary.
Bismarck.-State Auditor. Kositzky
has been informed by the federal
and department that 242,449 acres of
homestead land has been proved up
on with the close of the year 1917
n will be subject to taxation in
1918. The land is located in 13 coun.
ties and ranges from 996 to 105, 900
acres per county.
Zap.-At a meeting of mis- congrega-
ton Rev. c. P. Sch lidt, pastor of the
German Lutheran churches at Zap and
Dodge, urged members of the church
here to subscribe literally for the
third liberty loan. This congregation
should not take less than ~ bonds
and l would like to see it take 90"
said the rector.
Bismarck.-The seed and feed bonds
of Grant, Divide. Hettinger and Sneri-
a counties amounting in all to over
) 10000, were awarded to the state
at the sale conducted by Commission
er OF Agriculture and Labor Hagan
The bonds were purchased by the
state out of the university and school
lands fund and were disposed of at
four per cent
Ryder.-Plans for an automobile
trail to be blazed from Sanish to Bis
marck were laid and an enthusiastic
aud well-attended meeting of good
roads advocates from Mckenzie,
M"untrail and Ward counties, held
in the Commercial club rooms here.
Fargo.-E. T. Blk, Fargo high and
Agricultural college graduate. is now
Sergeant Major Blk, Headquarters
company. Three Hundred and Thir-
teenth Engineers, Camp Dodge, Iowa,
being promoted from corporal. accord.
ing to word received by his mother,
Mrs. A. T. Blk.
Fargo.-Every rural and city school
in North Dakota was closed one dav
for the purpose of taking a statewide
crop n labor survey by the school
children under the auspices of the
state department of agriculture and
labor and the Federal department, of
agriculture. The survey will he com.
pleted in about two weeks, it is ex.
pected.
Bismarck.-A h%ankering for North
Dakota school lands on the part of
farmers in Iowa. Illinois ana Mime
sofa is revealed by daily inquiries re.
ceived at the offices of the state
board of university and school lands.
Interest in the dates for approaching
sales of school lands, the location and
valuation of these lands is shown in
scores of letters. coming in every day
from agriculturists who have made a
success of their profession in the corn
belt and who are attracted to the
Northwest by the high prices guar
anteed for wheat.
blsmarck.-A new source of reye.
u which is expected to produce
$4,000 per year for the state has been
discovered by the North Dakota rail.
way commission in an authority to