Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-01-31
North Dakota
Events of the Week

ltlS Ills Cl1Sn. Inc fracture mas DG6n
reduced and the doctors say he will
recover.
Miss katheryn Pilot, who recently
taught at Lisbon, has taken a position
as assistant supervisor of music and
folk dancing in the Vancouver schools
and will enter upon her new duties
Oh Feb. /.
The Pontoppidan Lutheran church
at Fargo, Rev. b.. Berntsen, pastor, is:
celebrating the 10th anniversary Of
its organization in Fargo with a four
day series of services. Rev. H. A.
B. WHITTIER, Climax, Mimi, preached
the opening sermon.
DR.. p. G. Haagenson of Hillsborw
has accepted an appointment as en-
%roll!nent agent of the United States
public service reserve for Trail coun-
ty, and Torger Sinness, Minnewau-
kan, for Benson county, making SO OF.
SIS counties in North Dakota now sup
piled with clairmen.
lev. George BuZzelle, rector of St.
Georges Episcopal church and vice:
president of the Burleigh county Red,
Cross chapter, has been nominated by
Judge Young Of Fargo state chairman
for the Red Cross to take charge OF
the organization of junior auxiliaries:
in the schools of the Southwestern
division.
Census returns from each of the 81
counties OF the state, in conformity
to an act passed by the Fifteenth reg
'lla1 assembly, are coming into the;
office of the state library commission
to be filed by the legislative confer
ence librarian. A complete copy of
all these reports is to be made, and
the magnitude Of the task may be-
Judged from the fact that the 1916
cc"e"e for Mercer county alone fills
| 80 books.
Papers have been served at Devils
Lake on J. M. Thompson and the
State bank in an action in which W.
V. Baker charges the defendants with
malicious prosecution and asks $685.
500 damages. This suit is the OUT
growth of the grand larceny charge
brought against Mr.. Baker by Mr.
Thompson and the bank, which was
dismissed by District Judge Cooley in
Grand Forks on the grounds that the
evidence against Mr.. Baker was in
sufficient.
The public schools of Willow City
have adopted a unique way of assist
ing in tae conservation of food. One
hundred and fifty pupils in tla
schools have signed a pledge card to-
abstain from the eating OF candy I'M
til the war is over. The pledge, which
tae great majority of pupils in the
Willow City schools signed, follows
I'm order to further the cause of food
conservation, and in support of thH
national government in carrying on the
great world war, [ hereby pledge my
self to abstain from the eating Of
candy in any form, except as a part
of some regular menu, until world
peace has been declared"
Charged with violating the act Of
May IS, 1917, in failing to register
Walter Schultz, a farm laborer, was
arrested 12 miles northwest of Devils
Lake.
Patrons of the movies had left the
hall scarcely a half hour before the
building known as Dreamland at Gar
rison caught fire and burned, causing
a loss of about $4,000.
Whe Minor Cooperative Creamery
and Produce association has been or.
gained by a number of local farm
ers. A $4,000 creamery building will
be erected in the spring.
A deal whereby the stockholders or
the Co-operators Herald will dispose
of their stock to the Equity Co-opera-
tive exchange is pending, according
to announcement made by A. M. Ba--
ker. The Herald was founded five
years ago by Mr.. Baker and has been
the official organ of the Equity. Mr.
Baker has been the managing editor
and business manager.
A. D. Schaller, former Morton coun-
ty treasurer and a well known drug
glst of Mandan, was arrested charged
with violating the espionage act when
he is alleged to have declared that
President Wilson is nothing more
than a %flgurehead for the 'junkers' of
this country; that peace would only
be made While the kaiser ruled and
that he would always rule; and that.
the American boys in the trenches
would never do anything"
"A big drive is being put on at Car
rington to complete the sale of stock.
in the Darlington hospital.
General Persling has reported the
death of Private William w. Whalen,
Grand Forks, N. D., of pneumonia.
Rudolph ~Cwernoliski, of German
Polish birth and a resident of Amer
lea for several years past, was ar.
rested on a farm eight miles from.
Petersburg charged with making
threats against the president. Ar
raigned before Commissioner E. F.
Hughes at Wahpeton, he pleaded not
guilty ard was committed to jail at
Grand Forks in default OF bail in the.
sum Of $4,000, to be tried al the next
term of the United States district
court.
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