Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-10-17

Its first years work.
Starkweatlier.-Ed Larson, farm.
hand, was crushed to death by n trac.
tor which he was operating on u farm
nenr here.
WillistOn.-The automatic telephone
system In use here Is being abandoned
In favor of the drop system with girl
operated switchboaris.
Bismarck.-Local "shock troops" set
up 100 acres of corn In one hour and
fifteen minutes on the Thomas Ash
bridge farm near here.
Grand Forks.-LOcal home guards
found useful employment in helping
the Red Cross members pack supplies
for Belgian refugees.
OberOn.-No relatives have vet been
located of John Burnett, who was
found dead, IL victim of heart disease,
In his room ut hotel here.
Berthold.-This city will have a $40
600 potato warehouse with housing
capacity Of 10000 bushels. A local
company Is being organized to finance
the enterprise.
AmidOn.-Eight hundred and thirty
Slope county farmers have made acre
pledges to the Red Cross, which are
hoped to net the work sums varying
from SO to $25 euch.
Cooperstown.-Prlvate Carl Bone
well. whose death In action was re-
ported to relatives here, has written
letters bearing dates later than the
report of hle death.
Fargo.-Since the closing of thea
tres and moving picture houses here,
local patriots have been developing a
move to have the savings Of theatre
goers turned over to the Red Cross.
Bismarck.-October % has been
named by Governor Frazier as Jewish
Relief day, to expedite the raising Of
FUNDS for helping needy residents Of
Palestine. recently reclaimed from the
barbarous cruelties of the Turks.
Bismarck.--Lieutenant Robert Re-
nard. French soldier who fought on
the west front for four years, has been
brought to the stnte for series Of
addresses under the auspices of the
state council of defense.
Graft0n.-While endeavoring to
eject u jammed shell from a loaded
shotgun, Rev. H. Il. Socket Of this
place sustained a serious wound when
the load was discharged. sending the
ramrod through his right hand.
Williston.-Over 5000 volumes are
now on file In the public library here.
Grand Forks.-State university en-
rollment up to the evening of October
9th this year was 768 as against G75
ON the same date last year. 4
Observation-Disclosures aud lay dele
gates of PAP Congregational churches
In this state, in conference here few
days ago, went on record rs condemn
ing the inconcluslve peace propaganda
being spread In the interests of Ger
many in many parts Of the country.
FargO.-State Director L. HI. Patten
Of the U. s. employment service con-
tinues to have calls for many indus
trial workers from the state to engage
in necessary enterprises mt eastern
points. About IS men were entrained
from here arly las tweeek for work at
eastern munitions centers.
| Observation-Disclosures for many
building permits throughout the state
are coming in to the state council of
defense, which is now passing upon all
proposed structural enterprises, accord
ing to Executive Secretary John B.
Brown.
Grand Forks.-The spread of Span
ish influenza and the precautions
necessary to be taken against it will
result in postponement of the annual
conference of North Dakota MethO-
dists, which was to have been held
heer this week. A date for the meet
ing has not yet been announced.
Jamestown.-George. Rand, one Of
the oldest and best known engineers
of the Northern Pacific road out OF
this point, Is dead from upoplexy, at
the age of u. Rand was elected one
of the tirst county commissioners for
Stutsman county but never qualified
for the office, preferring to continue
unterruptedly with his work on the
road.
| Fargo.-COmmunity boards through
out North Dakota will survey nom
essential industries and list men who
can be spared for war work, such lists
to be used by federal authorities for
conscripting men for the erection of
munition factories and munitions maxi
ing in event the volunteer recruiting
campaign now IN progress fails to sup
ply the required number of workers.
Bismarck.-A fine buffalo lance.
with a steel head nearly three feet in
length and as keen and well-tempered
as a rapier, has been presented to the
North Dakota historical library by DIR.
N. w. Hansen, horticulturist of the
South Dakota agricultural college.
The weapon is a relic of old chief Bull
Neck, who is said to have killed much
meat with it in the good old days Of
buffalo hunting.
Dlckinson.-Sfrs. Clara Wetzstien.
who figured prominently in news dis
patches from this county some time
ago as the wife of Matthias Wetzstien,
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