The Wahpeton times., 1918-01-10
.ewsof the State
Condensed for Busy Folks

c. A. Myhre, formerly county sur.
veyor of Barnes county. has joined the
state engineers force.
{ Arrangements are being made for q
coyote hunt in Slope county. The AMI.
mails are not only numerous but
serious menace to the poultry and live
stock of the community.
According to an official report from
Camp Dodge, Private Charles Ander.
son of the Grassy Butte district died
at the cantonment, q victim Of pneu.
monia. He was q member of Battery
3, 33Sth field artillery.
. Hon. H. F. Emery. former president
Of the Fargo city commission. has
been named the second member OF
Fargo's permanent flood committee,
which will represent that city at all
future flood meetings or congresses.
In the Burnstad family, the village
of Burnstad claims the champion Red
Cross clan of North Dakota. The
Burnstad family numbers an even doz-
en-, and in the recent Red Cross mem.
bership drive every one of the dozen
was enrolled.
H. P. Beckwith. treasurer Of the
Y. M. G. A. war fund for the state of
North Dakota. has forwarded $4,000
to the national headquarters of the war
fund council at New York as the first
payment from the state of the $3.50, 900
raised during the recent campaign.
J. X. Diehm. postmaster. reports
that S5 of the patrons of the Schafer
postoffice have contributed Is cents
each to the fund to purchase baseball
paraphemalfa for the boys in France.
The total sum of $S.75 has been remit.
ted from this office to the headquart-
ers at Washington.
The new Wright district consolidat.
ed school near Parshall, just complet.
ed at a cost of $4,000, comprises man.
ual training and domestic science de.
partments. is steam heated and mod.
ern in every respect. 1t is considered
a model among buildings in it's class,
and it serves district which hereto.
fore had had no educational facilities
for its children.
Word has been received of the death
of Nelson Burchett of Granville, which
occurred at Camp Funston, Kansas,
where he was serving in the United
States army. He had been seriously
i'll from pneumonia for several weeks.
The international boundary line,
one and one half miles north of Han.
nah. is quarantined for small pox and
no exit to the north is allowed.
The case against the city of Lisbon
Instituted by A. T. Peterson to recov.
er personal damages, $4,000 being
som county court.
Prices of Ignite from the North
Dakota mines have been fixed by the
fuel administration as follows: Screen.
ed lump, $3.50; six-inch steam lump,
81; mine run, $2.z5.
Money taken in from the sale cf
furniture made by the children of the
manual training department of the
Gackle city schools, will go toward
purchasing further equipment for this
department.
The Bathgate State bank has taken
steps to have the bank incorporated
as national bank and will hereafter
be known as the Bathgate National
bank. The change IL made in order
to become member of the federal
reserve system.
Alex Schauer, known to the baseball
world as "Rube" Schauer under man!
ager Connie Mack, of the Philat Col.
phia Athletics, and who has a contract
calling for his speed and curves in tha
games of 1918 season. Is visiting his
parents at Garrison.
The Williams county board of com.
missioners has granted the petition
of the legal voters of View township,
opening up the range in that township
until April l, SO that live stock may be
permitted to run at large subject to
the terms and conditions of the herd
laws of the State of North Dakota.
This was done because of the scarcity
of food.
A regent merchant is advertising
for all jackrabbits lie can get.
The Rock Lake school has been
closed for period OF three weeks in
order to prevent the spread of small.
pox which is prevalent there.
Frank j. Prochaska, who has LONG
been at the head of the Park River
Gazette-News, has sold his paper to a
local syndicate of farmers who will
continue its publication, with Mr..
Prochaska as its editor, as q Nonpar-
tisan organ.
Ashton Lockhart, a Casselton young
man, who was on the Antilles, which
was torpedoed some time ago and was
rescued. has been taken from England
tc New York for treatment from the
effects Of the exposure Ae experienced,
according to word received By relatives.
A double wedding of considerable
interest took place at Towner. when
William Freeman and Miss Olivia
Thordarson and John Freeman and
Miss Gudrun Thordarson were mar.
ried. The grooms are two popular
young men. and the young ladies
came from Gardar.
The inhabitants of Amidon will
vote upon the proposition to incorpor.