The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-10-24

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tiles here netted 1920.
Jamestown.-A scarcity Of milk is
causing great Inconvenience as we'll as
suffering to young children here.
Bismarck.-North Dakota has raised
its quota Of applicants for admission
to the national student nurses reserve.
Cooperstown.-Griggs county de-
cided 40 on the proposition to engage
a county agent of the better farming
movement.
Bismarck.-The call for entrainment
Of $500 North Dakota selective draft
men on October 81 has been temper
arily postponed.
Grand Forks.-The funeral of Lyle
Heimkay, former state university foot
ball captain, was held here q few days
ago.
Beulah.-Local Ignite mine opera.
tors have succeeded in establishing
agencies for their products in Bis
marck and other important points in
the state.
Williston.-A night school is being
established here for the benefit of en-
ployed persons and others who cannot
attend the regular sessions Of the
public schools.
Grand Forks.-Merchants here and
in various parts Of the state are unit
ing in a do your Christmas shopping
extra early" campaign on account of
the traffic congestion due to the war.
Watford CitX-Seven Mckenzie
county soldiers are reported dead from
influenza since the breaking out Of the
epidemic in camps where they have
been stationed.
Aneta.-Rev. e. G. T%ollefson, a local
pastor with charges here and at Shar-
on, has Pensioners so appreciative
that they presented him with a purse
of $3.50 and an automobile a few days
ago.
Fargo.-Many North Dakota women
are volunteering for special service in
the care of influenza victims in var
ious parts Of the state, owing to the
shortage Of regular nurses for this
arduous work.
Valley City.-Dr. Carlos F. Allen,
vice president Of the Southern Illinois
university, has accepted the presidency
of the North Dakota state normal
school at this point, to succeed DR.. G.
A. Mcfarland.
Buffalo.-Feeding tests made by
prominent local farmers developed the
fact that barley has a meat producing
value Of $3.50 a bushel. The test was
made with soaked barley fed to me-
dunn sized hogs.
Fargot-About seventy head of pure
bred hogs were disposed of at auction
at a recent live stock sale held under
auspices of a Cass county breeders as
sociation. Some Of the animals
brought about $50 a head.
Fargo.-Louis ]. Holzer, well known
local character, better known as
"Skiddoo," died a few days ago. The
young man had been more or less
extensively employed on detective
work by the local police force.
Grand PROVISIONING to the neces-
sity of postponing the annual confer
Of the Methodist churches Of
North Dakota this month, the assign
ment of ministers for the ensuing year
has been made without waiting for
this meeting.
Minot.-Mrs. J.. A. johnson of this
city and Mrs. Ole johnson Of Botti-
neau, sisters-in-law, died within an
hour of each other last week. The
husbands are brothers of G. A. John
son, local newspaper man, who some
years ago was twice nominated as the
Republican candidate for governor Of
this state.
Fargo.-A. w. McMasters, a farmer
residing near Donnybrook, has con-
fessed having issued a seditious let
ter to which the name Of Represen-
tative Dell Patterson Of Renville
county was signed. He was sentenced
to three years Imprisonment in q
federal %penitentiary or each Of three
counts in the indictment against him
the sentences, however, being arrang-
ed to I'll c~oncurrently.
Maddock.-Spanish influenza has hit
North Dakota railroads hard. In re-
Spouse to an inquiry from the state
railway commission as to why the
Maddox Farmers Elevator Co. was
not getting more cars. Supt. w. E.
Berner of the Northern Pacific at
jamestown advises that his company
at that point has 25 engineers, IS
trainmen, four train dispatchers and
10 operators on the sick list, due to
the epidemic. 1--WE have been unable
to run all the trains which the bust
ness demands" says the superintend-
ent.
Agricultural College.-Dr. E. F.
Ladd, federal food administrator for
North Dakota, calls attention to adj
vice received from Commissioner Her.
bert G. Hoover, in which farmers in
this state and elsewhere are recon-
mended not to place wheat on the mar
ket at less than the governments
stipulated price. Owing to a temper
airy diversion Of shipping tonnage to
other necessities of the war, and to
rumors of the early close of hostilities,
depressed market conditions have pre-.
vailed as regards wheat. According to