Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-04-25

AAo@eIIOu.- H0 local home GUARDS
have received their new uniforms.
Rugby-The Rugby city council de.
clared Mrs. Rose Deigle elected alder.
man to succeed former Alderman Nc.
lavish.
Dickinson.-Opie Read, the famous
American author, will be one OF the
attractions at the Dickinson chautau-
qua the coming summer.
Fargo.-The season for stealing
cars did not open at Fargo very aus
picfously. Two cars reported stolen
one night were recovered the next.
Dickinson.-Word from France an.
nounces that the body of Matt Drew,
Ddckinson's first war martyr, was
buried near Toul and his grave mark
ed for Identification.
Fargo.-Thieves entered the ath-
letic directors office at the North
Dakota Agricultural college recently
and stole % baseballs and four
Louisville sluggers."
Parshall.-Mrs. A. Larin has resign
ed her position as postmistress of
Parshall. The increasing work and
present long hours have made the
work too heavy for the duties of a
woman, it is said.
Valley City.-An unusual social
event took place here with the cele-
bration of the Goth wedding anniver-
sary OF Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Van Mid
ellsworth. who were married on
March 5. 1858. at Geneseo, N. Y.
Bismarck.-May Is has been set by
the railway commission as the date
for the hearing on the complaint of
jamestown patrons against the rates
and service of the Western Electric
company. The hearing will be held
at Jamestown.
Jamestown.-Oscar Moxness, strik.
ing match to look into a gasoline
tank to see the amount of gasoline
knows more about gasoline now than
he did before. He is now languisf.
ing In hospital and will most prob
ably be forced to get along with one
eye hereafter.
Sentinel Butte.-Sentinel. Butte,
with population OF 800, is a 100 per
cent Red Cross town, not only is
every person in town member OF
the Sentinel Butte branch, but also a
majority of residents in the seven
townships tributary to town, giving
the Sentinel Butte branch a member.
ship of 8O7.
MISUNDERSTANDING is doomed at
Donnybrook--at least for the period
of the war; The young ladies of the
city are quitting dancing cold and
announce that party will be held
for every dance billed. They posi-.
lively refuse to dance while their
brothers and sweethearts are fighting
and dying for them in the trenches
in France.
Buffalo Springs.--A fracture of the
leg was the only injury sustained
when traction engine passed over
Mat Becker, farmer living about
seven miles south OF here. Becker
was working in the field when some.
thing went wrong with his engine and
he crawled under the tractor to in
vestigate. While beneath the ma.
chine it started.
Cogswell-Sargent county, with a
quota of $125.0O0 for the Third Lib
erty Loan, reached its goal in the
first three hours and will easily iou
BILE its quota in the final count. viz.
ian township, settled almost wholly
by Germans, doubled its allotment the
first day. Nine precincts in tie
county doubled their quota the first
day and Shuman township went over
the top with 260 per cent.
Agricultural College.-A shake-up
in military affairs has taken place at
the agricultural college. following or.
ders from Maj. NJ. F. Steele, U. s. A..
retired, and approved by f. +. I.add
president, all appointment Of officers
and non. commissioned Officers hereto
fore h-adc, feing revoked. The change
radc owing to the small enroll
ment of students in the department
Of military training for the spring
Fort Yates.-R. p. Higheagle OF
the Standing Rock reservation is one
of three delegates selected at the
Black Hills council at Fort Thomp.
son, S. D., to carry to Washington
the Sioux nations representations as
to its claims for an indemnity OF sew.
eral million dollars for the forfeit.
ure of the treaty ceding these Indians
the Black Hills country.
Jamestown.-Antelo in former
years one of North Dakota's great.
est game resources, are increasing in
the Bad Lands, under the perpetual
closed season which has been in eff.
feet in this state several years. re.
ports Deputy State Warden Mack Sin.
clair, who has just returned from Ami.
don, where he investigated charges
Of illegal hunting of antelope.
Williston.-Prairie fires starting on
the Achamire farm, nine miles south.
east of Bonetraill, spread before a
terrific gale. Considerable hay and
pasture land was destroyed by the
flames, which also threatened the
Achamire barn and home. The harm.