Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-07-25
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Dolngs Of Last Few Days Throughout
North Dakota Condensed for
Hasty Perusal.

and former county auditor, is dead at
his home here.
Bismarck.-The Standard Oil COM
pany has purchased all the bulk sta
lions in the state owned by the Mar.
shall Oil company.
Hamilton.-Fire here destroyed the
Paxman store and machinery hall and
the Independent printing office. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Killdeer. = Nearly every business
man in Killdeer has signed up for
work during the harvest. The total
will aggregate a large number of days.
Fessenden.-This city is now with.
out a dentist, DR.. H. Holiday having
left to join the army at Fort Sheridan.
DR.. Lynn w. Radke left last week for
army service also.
Devils Lake.-It took nothing less
than a circus to bring a crop-saving
rain to this vicinity. The farmers
rode cheerfully through the rain and
the Hagen-Wallace circus showed to
a record crowd.
Alexander.-The Mckenzie County
Chronicle, which was burned out in
the recent fire, which destroyed about
20 residences and business houses,
will be housed in a brick building,
building operations being under way.
New Leipzig.-The Northern Pacific
is putting in a half-mile siding at this
place and will connect up with the
Milwaukee road. This will be the
only connection between the Northern
Pacific and the Milwaukee on the
branch.
Shields.-A cattle and land deal Of
considerable Importance was consum-
mated when Major Belden, of Shields,
and F. ]. Giegold, of FIT. Yates, bought
the @. E. Burge reservation lease and
some 400 odd head of cattle. The
price paid was in the ~neighborhood Of
$4,000.
Bismarck.-Bennie Simons, 10, was
drowned near here while swimming
in the Missouri river. Four other
young men were swimming at the
time, but none noticed Simons' condi.
ton until the swift current had car.
ried him down the river.
Bismarck.-Ofl Davis, Leslie Kenan
and Glennie MCGOWAN, Bismarck boys.
were taken in custody by the police
on a charge of smearing yellow paint
on Bismarck signs in the business
district. The boys admitted guilt, it
Is said, but declared their motives
were purely patriotic. They have not
been prosecuted.
Bismarck. - Between July 20 and
Aug. II North Dakota will be expected
to furnish $40 volunteer nurses for
war work. Uncle Sam has issued a
call for $4,000 student nurses. The
women's committee of the National
Council of Defense has been asked to
assume the task Of enlisting these
nurses.
Pembina.-The hero1sm of Marion
W. Wilkinson of Pembina saved the
life of his comrade, Max Short, of Cav.
alier. at Camp Fremont, near San
Francisco, when Wilkinson carried
Short out of a trench of exploding
dynamite after the latter's feet had
been blown off by a premature explo
sion. Two charges exploded after Will
kinson entered the trench.
Minot.-Mrs. F. w. Strange of this
city may be the first American woman
to join the Russian railway service
corps in M%anchuria. Her husband
who left the Twin Cities Nov. II, 1917
has cabled her to join him. Mr.
Strange was a Great Northern trai1
| licrofohnr o& hHirNf hNpo-n or1icfinS
in the railroad division. He and five
other Americans are in a party sta
toned west of Hardin.
Fargo. = Capitalization of cream
buying will become effective Aug.
The regulations provide that in town
from which less than 100000 pound
of butter fat were shipped through
more than one e buyer during tn
year ending June 80, 1918, all but on,
cream station will be abolished an
propose fixing a maximum commits
sion for Independent buyers shippin
more than 100, 900 pounds Of butter ia
during the past year.
Observation-Disclosures inc employe
of North Dakota's farmer a%dministrs
ton must travel as the farmers dt
the state auditing board has decree(
On motion OF Attorney General La1
ger, seconded by Secretary Of Stat
Hall, the board has instructed It's SCI
rotary to call on the head Of each d,
partment and insist that it's officer
and employees avoid parlor and sleel
Ing cars while travelling within tn
state.
SUPERINTENDENT is made
the election of Dr.. E. J.. Stout of th
University of Chicago to the pres
dency of the Valley City normal scho'
and of Samuel May, superintendent
the public schools Of Madison, Wis, I
the presidency of the new Dickinso
normal school by the state board
regents. The election of DR.. Thoms
S~trawbridge. of the University Of Mi
souri, to the position Of director of tt
l North Dakota experiment station
Fargo also was announced.
t Fargo.-Three women were injure
when an automobile, driven by JOB