The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-05-29
North Dakota
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of postage stamps and a little small
change when they robbed the post
office here.
La Moure.-La Moure's food survey
has been completed, Boy Scouts
conducting the work for the county
food administrator, and caring for
the job in record time.
Lisbon.-Miss Helma Erickson was
injured when the automobile in which
she was riding turned over. tt :
strong top of the machine saved the
other six girls in the. car.
Devils Lake,. F. Flynn, president
of the Devils Lake city commission,
was elected president of the North
western Lawyers association at the
annual convention of that body in
Minneapolis.
Hannaford.-Two members of the
local home guard will patrol the
streets of the village each night
during the summer. Particular atten-
ton is to be paid to protecting grain
elevators from incendiaries.
Bismarck.-James Quit, sentenced
at Minot to 2h years Imprisonment,
was brought here to begin his sent.
ence. The charge was stealing wheat
from granaries and also with stealing
an automobile used in moving the
wheat.
Observation-Disclosures leads in an
exciting contest which is on between
the Congregational Sunday schools Of
Wahpeton and Nankinson for attend
ance. The standing. according to
latest figures, gave Wahpeton 1,708
points and Hankinson 1897.
Fargo.-Dean H. F. Kloman Of
Gethsemane cathedral, formerly a
chaplain in the national guard in the
state of Maine, has been notified by
the war commission Of the Episcopal
church to overseas service on short
notice as a Red Cross chaplain.
Fargo.-Harry Shirley of this city
while returning from a dance at Ba-
ker, sevenamileS from GAINESVILLE, was
thrown from IN automobile and rem
dered unconscious. At a Fargo hos.
pital it. is stated that an injury to his
spine has resulted, rendering him I'M
able to talk, walk or hear.
Devils Lake.-Last month the city
commission paid off $4,000 worth of
bonds issued in 1889 for the building
OF the artesian we'll of the city. Up
to the time the city commission sue.
ceeded the aldermanic form of gov.
eminent, nothing had been done to-
wards taking up these bonds.
Fargo.-For selling flour without
substitutes, as required by the fed.
eral food regulations, and In larger
quantities than the regulations allow,
the license of the Atlantic Elevator
company's elevator at Carolina, N. D.,
has been revoked by Federal Food
Administrator Hoover, It is announced
here.
Bismarck.-The North Dakota coun.
Gil Of defense has ordered the Beach
State bank of Beach, to appear be.
fore 1t and answer to complaint that
It foreclosed on a chattel mortgage
given by Adam Faris, a soldier Of the
United States army stationed In
France, in violation Of the state law
providing for a moratorium on debts
Of soldiers.
Bfsmarck.-After considering hun.
dreds of names, the Bismarck chap.
ter Of the Daughters of the American
Revolution selected "Dacotah," the
name Of the ancient lords of all this
northwestern domain, as first choice
for their chapter. Lewis and Clark
in honor of the intrepid explorers
who wintered near Bismarck more
than a century ago., while en- route
to he Pacific coast.
Fargo.-Private Edgar Roy Chand.
Ter, son of Mrs. A. p. Chandler. the
frst Fargo boy to lose his life in &C.
ton, was killed in France May 9, &C.
cord1ng to a telegram received here
from the war department. Chandler,
who was % years old, was a student
OF the state agricultural college and
a r,"mhor &C .he DE- zen he en-.
listed last July. His father is a Red
River Valley pioneer.
Fargo.-Rev. N. P. Junker, taken
into custody by a United States mar.
shall, at Anamoose, N. D.. upon a war.
rant issued by the department of JUS.
tice for failure to register as an en-
envy alien, has been released from
the Cass county jail where he had
been held since March 2. The de.
partment of Justice in ordering his re-
lease did SO on his condition that
he proceed to New Mellary Abbey
and remain there for the duration Of
the war.
New England.-Missing from home
Tor two days the bodies Of Nick Nahn,
aged 10, and Ludwig Hahn, aged 10.
were discovered in an abandoned coal
mine north of New England after a
posse of sixty automobiles had secured
the countryside for hours. The old
mine pit was filled with water. It is
presumed that the boys while playing
about the mouth of the abandoned
shaft fell in, and it is possible that
n Of the lads lost his life in an
attempt to save the other.
Reeder.-George Francis Rose of
Desart, who was one of the members
OF Slope county's contingent which