The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-03-07
ROTH NEWS.


Miss Hembrof, who is teaching
school south Of Roth, visited at her
home in Souris.
Grandma Kelly has been quite ill
of late.
The lumber which will be used in
building the new Leslie church, north
of Roth, has arrived.
Otto Olson was a passenger to Bot
tineau Saturday, where he took his
physical examination for military ser
vice. .
Bonnie Dahl and George Whitney
were Bottineau visitors Thursday Of
last week.
Federal Trade commission men were
in Roth recently checking up the far
mers elevator.
Olof Olson and J. Flobery were Bot
tineau visitors one day last week.
III. Nordmark transacted business
in Bottineau recently.
Recently one Of the correspondents
of the Courant boosted Landa consid-
cradle. W. want to inform that indi-
vidual, as well as the Courant readers,
that Landa has nothing on Roth; that
Roth is still on the map. We believe
we have a better, more lively town
than Landa is. Is it not a fact that
we have in the past trimmed up the
best Landa could produce in the line
of baseball in most of the games
played? We believe we have it on
Landa all right.
O. o. Lee has his electric light
plant running full order these days.
C. J. Nelson was a business visitor
at the county seat recently.
A surprise party was held at the
Bjornstad home, north of Rorth, last
Thursday afternoon in honor of Mr..
Nils Berg. A delightful time was en-
joyed by all present. A purse of
$237.OO was presented to Mrs. Berg
by her admiring friends.
VIM. Hewitt was a county seat Wis
itor one day last week.
Miss Litzheim, who has been teach
ing school in Mercer county, arrived
Friday evening and has taken up the
duties of teacher in the Steen school
house, north of Roth.
The Misses Mary, Myrtle and 1nga
Sveen Of Souris were week end visit
ors at the home of their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Sveen.
Olaf and Alfred johnson were Bot
tineau visitors recently.
A. j. Brown, who is working in the
Turtle Mountains in Canada, was an
over Sunday visitor at his home.
Robert Rosseler and son were pas
sengers to Bottineau Saturday where
they visited with Mrs. Rosseler, who
is in the hospital recovering from a
serious operation which was perform
ed upon her recently.
Misses Marion and Marvyll Miller
returned from Bottineau Saturday,
where they have been visiting for
some time past.
Considerable excitement was ex-
perienced here one day last week when
the house of A. ]. Brown was discov-
cred to be on fire. The local fire de-
partment responded Immediately and
the fire was extinguished before much
damage was done.
Ole Sveen was a business visitor in
B~ottineau Wednesday Of last week.
John Lindstrom was a business WIS.,
itor in Bottineau recently.
Michael Holstad left for Idaho on
Friday to look for a new farm loca-
ton.
The children in the local school had
their final examinations last week.
Mrs. Nils Berg went to Bottineau
last week and returned with her little
who was recently operated
upon.
People in this vicinity appear to be
quite interested in the debate sug-
gested in the Courant last week. The
affair if held, would, without a doubt,
draw q large crowd.
It begins to appear that farm labor
ers will be very scarce in this vicinity
year.
The government is reported to have
seized all the crude platinum in the
United States. My, my, it's awful the
way this dear old government is dis
playing socialistic tendencies despite
the howl Of our Big Biz papers. Amt
it awful, Mabel?
The latest word from Ole OHM,
who recently enlisted was to the effect
that he was somewhere in France. We
wish Ole well.
Ii. recent letters 70 friends in this
vicinity ALI Ness, who is ct Camp
Dodge, states that be. likes army life
fine.
All. Grande was : Bottineau visitor
week.
We understand that Weaver Lock
hart, who rec1ntly went 70 Camp
Dodap. hh s. hoapital, - having
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