Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-11-07

uuAHcsloWH-AS u uuIteT OIL Iuel
and light conservation local drug
stores have agreed to close Mt p. IN.
McHenry.-The 1,1O0-acre farm of
II. s. HalvorsOn has been sold for
$4,000. George Backen is the pur-
chaser.
MISUNDERSTANDING county COM
missioners are considering the adop-
ton of medical inspection in, the
schools.
Fargo.-Cass county is supplying a
carload of clothing and provisions for
the benefit of the fire sufferers in the
Duluth region.
Dickinson.-A runaway. farm team
cost the life of. Charles Gustafson, 1t Is
believed, who was found near his
granary with his neck broken.
Park Kiver.-Attorney Z. Smith
Peterson, of statewide reputation in !
legal and political circles, was vic
tim of pneumonia ut his home in this
place.
Cleveland. Five business places
were destroyed by recent fire here,
entailing between $4,000 and $4,000
loss. Plans for rebuilding are already
under way.
Bismarck.-A night school will be
established here as part Of the pub
lie school system. Military training
for high school boys is also a new in
novation here.
| Williston.-Company e of the old
North Dakota regiment organized here
has just sent home from France silk
banner won by the company there in
recent athletic contest.
Fargo.-The Boys Working Reserve,
to be organized in this state under
the direction of w. L. VanHorn of
this city, is to be given instruction in
agricultural pursuits, it is announced.
CasseltOn.-The recent removal to
Edgeley Of Rev. H. p. Cooper, for
twelve years pastor in this city,
terminates one Of the earliest feder-
ated church pastorates to have been
established in this state.
Devils Lake.-The conditions under
which public gatherings, schools, etc.,
were closed in various parts of the
state, have now improved to an extent
which was permitted the removal of
the ban on such gatherings at many
points.
ElbowOOds.-Nfiss Deborah Hall,
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. c. L. Hall,
for AZ years missionaries among the
Indians of the Dakotas, has been des-
ignated as field secretary of the Y. w.
G. A. for work among the Indians in
district of which this state is part.
Fargo.-The local military voca-
tionaF training camp and students
training camps got off with exception
ally light percentages of losses on ac-
count of the Spanish influenza, the
record here in this respect being one
of the best, it is said, of any camps in
the United States.
Bfsmarck.-A local milk dealer who
Threatened to discontinue business be-
cause the price-fiNing commission had
not allowed him what he considered a
living profit on his milk, was forbidden
by the health department from sus-
pending operations during the continu-
ence of the influenza epidemic.
Grand Forks.-L. b. Matthiesen.
much-wanted fugitive who was recent
" recaptured after a series of old
escapes from detention on charges of
grand larceny, military desertion, etc.,
pleaded guilty to the first named
charge and has been sentenced to a
term of five years in the state peni-
, Tertiary.
jamestown. =. Federal employment
agents here are sending workers to
assist in construction work at New
port News, Norfolk and Nitro Vir-
ginia. Bismarck and other points, it
is said, have also contributed quotas
of men for the important work there
on plants in which the government is
| interested.
Bismarck.-A reminder of early
territorial days comes in the an
> nouncement of the recent admission
l to probate of the will of Nancy A,
! Ordway at Washington, D. c. Mrs.
Ordway was, the widow of former Gov
ernor N. G. Ordway, who was chief
: executive of Dakota Territory from
: 1880 to 1884.
Misunderstanding specialists are
, using every effort this fall to collect
| and preserve the largest possible
amount Of pure and well ripened seed
corn for use next year; the tendency
in years of early frost being to greatly
deplete the available stores of good
seed that is acclimated to the region
, for which it is to be used.
l Bismarck. Recently promulgated
, rules for fuel conservation in this
} state. require that stores obtaining
heat directly or indirectly through the
{ consumption Of coal or petroleum shall
: not be open before a. m. or after g
p. m. and shall not be kept open on
Sundays. An exception is made for
, Saturdays, when. places of business
may remain open until Top. m.
Fargo. w. Hallowell, chief as.
sistant to Herbert G. Hoover, federal
, food commissioner, was here last
: Thursday to meet county administra.
| tors for this state in conference over
the. operation of the commissioners
, plans for the coming year. It has