Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-07-25
North Dakota
News Sifhngs

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|. Williston.-S. L. Sinclair of this city
has received commission. as captain
In the U. S. Engineers Reserve corps.
Bismarck.-The Standard OIL com.
pany has purchased all the bulk sta.
tions in the state owned by the Mar.
shall OIL company.
Grand Forks.-M. I. Forkner of
Langdon was elected president of the
North Dakota Press association Of the
annual meeting held here.
Grand Forks.-Eighty rural school
girls will form a Girls encampment
et theNGrand Forks fair, July % to 81.
Home economics and home building
will be the special studies for the
week.
Devils Lake.-It took nothing less
than circus to bring a crop.saving
rain to this vicinity. The farmers
rode chesrfully through the rain and
the Hagen-Wallace circus showed to
record crowd.
Grand Forks.-Joseph Poole Of
Grand Forks, formerly a lineman en-
ployed by Grand Forks telephone
exchange. won mention for bravery
under fire in France recently, accord
ing to word received here. H.
New Leipzig.-The Northern Pacific
is putting in q 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.
Fargo.-A fatality in connection
with the state fair held here was the
accidental killing Of Cora Stensland,
II. who stepped in front of a big auto
mobile. a bus being used to transport
passengers to and from the fair
grounds. and was crushed.
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.
Fargo. - Seven hundred and eighty.
North Dakota women have been
trained in the army of food conserve
ton, and will conduct canning and
drying demonstrations in their own
localities. going into the kitchen Of
their neighbors for that purpose.
Bismarck.-Orl 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.
Fargo.-North Dakota ranks ninth
in point Of efficiency in the work of it's
-Four. Minute men, according to word
received by H. H. Wooledge Of Fargo,
state chairman, from the committee of
public information. Mr.. Wooledge an
nounced today that 1913 Four-Minute
chairmen have been commissioned and
that 217 units have been organized.
Pembina.-The heroism 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 trench of exploding
dynamite after the latter's feet had
been blown of by a premature explo-
sion. Two charges exploded after VIII
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 Manchuria. Her husband,
who left the Twin Cities Nov. II, 1917,
has cabled her. to join him. Mr..
Strange was q Great Northern train
dispatcher at Minot, before enlisting
in the railroad division. He and five
other Americans are In Q party sta.
toned west Of Hardin.
T Fargo-Inquiry into the new gas
and electric light rates recently or
dered by the Union Light. Heat &
Power company Of Fargo will be made
by the state railroad commission, be.
ginning Aug. II. A preliminary in.
Quiry provided by law has been dis
pensed with, the company officials
waving that formally. The city COM
mission of Fargo has complained
against the rates. insisting they are
excessive.
! Observation-Disclosures and employees
Of North Dakota's farmer administra-
ton must travel as the farmers do.
the state auditing board has decreed.
On motion Of Attorney General Ian.
ger. seconded by Secretary Of State
Hall, the board has instructed its sec.
rotary to call on the head Of each de-
partment and insist that its officers
and employees avoid parlor and sleep.
ing cars while travelling within the
state.
Fargo.-Announcement is made Of
the election of DR.. e. ]. Stout Of the
University Of Chicago to the presi.
dency Of the Valley City normal school
and Of Samuel May. superintendent Of
the public schools Of Madison. Wis. to
the presidency of the new Dickinson
normal school by the state board Of
regents. The election of DR.. Thomas
strawbridge of the University Of Mis-
ao,,r4 IN tho v,ocafSo,. ~ dSraofort NJ <hn