The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1918-04-25
NUMBER IS

Fargo-Nor,h Dakota's Third Lib
erty Loan allotment has been sur.
passed by $4.100,0o0. The total for
the state is more than sll 100000.
I'areo-Thicves entered the ath-
letic directors office at the North
Dakota Agricultural college recently
and stelc 2S basehalls and four
"Louisvillc sluggcrs."
Iismarck.-tioVerno LINN ]. Fraz'
Ter has rcappointed w. Y. Por'crfield
of Fargo n member of the state board
of pharmacy. Mr.. PorlerGeld has
served one term On the board.
Valley City.-Hcnjamin l.. Scifert
of this city is dead somewhere in
France from wounds received while
driving an ambulance. He was one
of the we'll known young men of VAL
ley City.
Jamcs,own.-M Mrs. Edith Conllin OF
bismarck, chairman of the Wonans
State Council of Defense. has appoint.
ed Mrs. Lou Osborn chairman and
Mrs Irene jacobson secretary OF the
Stutsman County Womans Council OF
Defense.
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.
Dickinson-J A. Mcleod and w. A.
Witte, two Dickinson Northern pas.
senger brakemcn, were caught tho
other day with too much liquor in
their grips and as a consequence we're
Immediately placed under arrest.
They also lost their jobs
New Leipzig New Leipzig
Commercial club has arranged to
lease all the lots in the Park addi-
tion to the village for war garden
purposes at 50 for the season. They
are already plowed and dragged,
ready for planting. There is brisk
demand for them, and the entire tract
will be gardcned.
Fort Yates.-R. P. Highoagle 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.
Observation-Disclosures, in former
years one of North Dakota's great
est game resources, are increasing IN
the Bad Lands, under tho perpetual
closed season which has been in ct
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.
Bismarck-A pair OF stockings
knitted by Mrs Robert Buchanan
from wool which she had sheared,
carded and spun from sheep which
she had raised entirely without as
sistance, were sold at a Red Cross
auction at the Buchanan consolidat-
ed school, in Emmons county, for Sc
and ontrbutcd to a net total OF $l92
produced by the sale, for which ar
ticles were donated by all the farm
ers in the community.
Bismarck Five hundred and
eighty-one men will cnt:aia during q
fivc-day period beginning May 10 for
Fort Logan. Colo, according tn in
structions sent out to North Dakota
counties yesterday by Adit Gen. Fras-
er following orders received from
Provost Marshal General Crowder.
Grand Forks county will supply 35
men, Cass 40, and other counties in
proportion. This is the first move
ment of drafted men in the state who
were not ordered to Camp Dodge. Des
Moines, Iowa.
Williston n-Prairie fires starting on
the Achamirc farm, nine miles south.
east of Bonctrall, spread before a
terrific gale. Considerable hay and
pasture land wa, Destroyed by the
flames, which also threatened the
Achamirc barn and home. The barn,
full of work horses ard cattle, caught
fire, but by hard work the horses
were rescued. A prairie FIRE starting
along the river bottoE.s and in :he
high wind threatened the buildings
on the Mnsick farm and adjoining
sections. Roth fires were exin
guished b. rain and snow.
Bismarck. gentle throe-da,
rain which has fallen over North Da
kota is estimated to be worth $4,000.
600 to the state by Commissioner o
Agriculture and Labor John N. Haga1
"a good start is generally considere
worth at least two bushels to the aor
, of any crop" said Mr.. Hagan in di.
cussing the crop situation in the stat.
"The normal acreage OF wheat
North Dakota is about 7,500,000 acre
and this year the wheat acreage
abnormal. More than half of tt
wheat acreage is already in tt
ground. This means that the ra:
Of the last few days has fallen on !;
least 100000 acres Of wheat. 4
increase of bushels to the acre "