The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-02-14

cemser u for bravery shown in tho
Geld.
Valley City.-Mrs. Lottie Saunders.
severely burned when she poured ker.
osene oil on live Goals in a stove at
her home here, died at a local hos.
pital later.
Perk River.-Ex-Mayor S. A. Cam.
erOn, Mrs. Cameron and daughters.
the Misses Ethel and Loreen, have
gone to Santa Monica. Cal, where
they will make their future nome.
Sanborn.-Oficers have been elected
and a board of directors selected
which contemplates the organization
of a Mutual Livestock Shipping asso-
citation here, with Albert Gulmon as
manager.
Bismarck.-The state of North Da.
kota. saved Burleign county $4,000 in
interest on it's 100000 issue of seed
and feed bonds. when it bid them in
at 4 per cent, about 2 per cen lower
than the next lowest bid.
Bisbee. - John Brennan and son,
Fretta, were painfully burned by an
explosion of a gasoline can. which
threw burning fluid we their bodies. |
The explosion occurred when the boy
used a torch to heat a gasoline engine.
Observation-Disclosures 1000 North
Dakota men, including about $50 Cass
county registrants who have been &C.
copied as soldiers, will make up the
final increment of the first draft which
has been ordered to report on Feb.
ruary %.
Fargo.-Alice Olwin, s~even-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Olwin
of this city, the first young Liberty
bond purchaser in the second drive,
died at St. Paul following an opera.
ton for tuberculosis of the knee. She
had been a sufferer for. five years.
Dickinson.-Fire starting from an
unknown cause destroyed the big
Dickinson creamery, including the
home of N. c Jensen, the owner.
Eight occupants barely had time to
escape in safety. Except for an in
surance of $4,000, Mr.. Jensen lost
nearly everything, including the fam.
ily's clothing.
-Fargo.-Owing to serious shortage
Of flour substitutes in the Northwest,
which the government has instructed
grocers to sell with all wheat flour,
DR.. E. F. Laid, state food adminis-
TRAITOR, issued a modification of the
government order, cutting down the
ratio of flour substitutes in the state
from "nfty-tifty" to seven to three.
Calvin.-The Masonic temple of the
down, the fire starting from an over
, heated furnace pipe. The building
, was of stone and wood and the stone
, wall, seven or eight feet nigh, is still
. standing. 1t was one of the most sub
stantial buildings of it's kind in any
town of twice this size in the state.
i, Observation-Disclosures Kroeze, who
r is in New York city, sent another
v check for $40, 900 to the officers of the
jamestown college for. additional i'm
Y provements at the institution. He
. writes that this gift will enable him
, to double the present central heating
n plant in capacity for the further prot
ects on hand, and make some addi-
tional improvements on the campus.
Bismarck.-With a credit of $4,000
now at its disposal, as a result of an
act of the special session, the board
y of control expects to lose little time
in clearing up outstanding bills
t against the state hospital for the in
sane at Jamestown. After all the in
%debtedness of the institution is paid,
there will remain a satisfactory bal
ance to take care Of expenditures for
8 the ensuing year.
/ Langdon.-The Grand Forks Com
v mercial club, in anticipation of a
e change on the Langdon line of the
n Great Northern, took the matter up
with the If Metals in St. Paul, and has
been advised that no such change has
been contemplated as yet. The com.
n bany states that it is impossible for
any railroad man to intelligently fore
e cast what might happen in the near
e future with passenger schedules and
other railroad matters.
o Fargo.-Managers and proprietors
Of retail stores of North Dakota are
e writing letters to E.. A. Kicker. state
e merchant r%epresentive of the food ad-
n m%inistration, telling of their intention
TO cooperate with the government in
an effort to conserve all kinds Of food,
and by especially inviting their pat.
rons to aid. Display advertising is
v being used by many of the state mer.
s chants to bring the message of tho
food administration into the homes.
Bismarck.-While North Dakota sui
d fercd but n blaze from the date war
vas declared on Germany April l.
1917, to January 81, 1913, in which
the loss was more than 500, 900, dep.
relations of the fire iend in this state
f: during that period cost $1,389,777, ac'
c cording to a report which Fire Mar
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