Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-02
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Doings Of Last Few Days Throughout
North Dakota Condensed for
Hasty Perusal.

ensuing year include J. w. Tarr,
mayor, and George Goolsbey, chief of
police.
Bowman.-Bowman %courty's Lib
erty Loan quota went over the top
with 300 per cen Of the assigned
quota in less than a weeks time.
Tower City,. Sherman has been
elected president of the Tower City
Commercial club. Plans are under
year.
Ray.-Thrown under an automobile
while playing in the street, Chauncey
Custer and Harold White crawled out
from under the machine only slightly
bruised.
Grand Forks.-Welsey college, a
Methodist institution, has begun a
campaign to establish an endowment
fund of $500, 900. District conferences
are under way.
Bowman.-BoYman school children
will go into the war garden business
this eason IN IN extensive scale,
under the direction of Prof. G. ]. M.
Nelson, superintendent.
Williston.-In a special election,
Williston approved the proposal to
issue $12,500 bonds, and that sum, to.
gether with S13,5O0 previously au-
thorized, will be used in the purchas
ing Of the state armory here.
Williston.-A remarkable birthday
celebration was held at the NJ. G.
Webb home, near here, when three
generations of the family observed
the anniversary of their birth, all on
the same day. Mrs. Margaret Webb,
II; her son, NJ. G. Webb, 40, and his
daughter Viola Webb, 7.
La Moure:-George Hutchinson, Lo-
PEI, Wash, resident of Dickey, N. D.,
and La Moure since 1882, is dead.
Mr.. Hutchinson was engaged in the
store business in La Moure till ten
years ago, when he went west. For
many years he had been a writer of
poems that gained wide reputation.
Kenmare.-No. Al, a freight train
on the 500 line, was wrecked near
Baden. Two freight cars and the ca
boose were derailed. j.. A. Schurshun
of Minot, a travelling salesman, was
seriously injured. Carl Sheas, brake
man, sustained four broken ribs. A
broken rail was the cause of the acct
dent.
Observation-Disclosures, the new
inland town situated about Is miles
west Of Killdeer and deriving its
name from Mayor J.tF. Milestone OF
Killdeer, is becoming a real cream
center. Cream from 100 COWS will be
hauled here three times a week and
delivered to the railroad by auto
trucks.
Rugby.-"The lady from the second
ward has the floor" This expression
will be heard in the common coun
Gil, for Mrs. Rose Daigle defeated
John Sandy McTavish for alderman
= Mrs. 1. Mcbride, candidate for mayor
was beaten by Hans Bjornstead by
I a vote of 1874 to II. P. S.-Wome1
voted at the election.
. Bismarck.-Governor Lynn J.. Fraz
Ter has been advised by DR.. c. ]. Nc
: Guerren of Devils Lake, secretary o
the North Dakota board of health
that federal officials will co-operat
with the state board of health il
4 fighting trachoma. In Dickey and L
4 Moure counties 19 cases have recent
e ly been reported to the board.
Bismarck.-The state board of COZ
troll is making it's annual survey
s the capital street railway, a. mil
and a quarter of track, trolley pole
conductor wire, rails, spikes and car!
which constitute North Dakota's onl
6 state-owned public utility. The CO
# line is in need Of repairs, else Coz
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. M,
torman O'Connor fears the car ma
! take a notion to leave the tracks an
go wandering away over the prairi
o Williston.-Advices have beer I
ceived by the Williston Water User
x Assn from the department of the i
terror, that a contract providing for
five year irrigation service, on tt
basis proposed by holders of land und'
~ the Williston irrigation project, wi
~ be signed. The land owners propos
=, that the government fix a fiat chars
-. of $38 an acre to cover all constru
~ ton and maintenance charges to dat
Jamestown.-Minot was chosen
-, the 1919 convention city for the a
nual conclave of the grand comma
derry of the Knights Templar of Nor
- Dakota, at the close of its two d.
u session here. Granville w. WILDER
of Williston, was advanced to graz
a commander of the order, Walter
Stockwell of Fargo was re-electt
III grand recorder and Alexander
Taylor of Fargo was reelected graz
&c treasurer. Ernest c. Eddy, Farg
e was elected grand senior warden.
Fargo.-Difficulties in connectic
with the organization of a telegrap
ers' union are said to be responsib
+ for the discharge of nine men fro
o. the Western Union Telegraph col
nanV here The men have been