Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-01-24
North Dakota
Events Of the Week

The hearing in the case of Peter j.
Trap, prosperous Ricllland county
farmer. charged with failing to regis
ter and which was to have been held
at Wahpeton Jan. II, has been con
tinued until Feb. 5.
F. P. Bennett Of La Moure county
has been appointed chairman of the
Liberty loan committee in that dis
trlct to succeed Wesley Mcdowell,
appointed state chairman to succeed
L. B. Hanna, resigned.
The Parkview hospital in James.
town has been named the Trinity hos.
pital, the change being made at the
annual meeting Of the hospital asso.
citation because the Sisters of st. Jo-
seph took owe control of the institu-
ton about three months ago.
The Tower City branch of the Cass
county Red Cross chapter has raised
S1,215.16, $S46 of which came through
memberships and the balance of SUBJ
scrlption for the purchase of material
Tor the branch. Over $1,000 of the
total amount raised was obtained in
less than eight hours in July last.
Dr. j. w. Cox, director of the North
Dakota public health laboratory, has
launched an advertising campaign in
the state as a means Of bringing
about more general consideration of
the health problem, with the hope of
inducing greater legislative support
for various health enterprises.
News has been received at Fargo
of the marriage in Switzerland OF
Miss Sell, daughter of Rev. Herman
Sell, prominent as a supervisor of
German churches in the Northwest.
In the summer of 1914 Miss Sell
sailed for Europe with a view to en-
tering Berlin university. She was in
Switzerland when the United States
declared war and was refused pass
ports to America and also Germany.
Her husband is a young Swiss pastor
with whom she became acquainted
while he was a student of theology
in Berlin.
j. M. Anderson of st. Paul was re.
elected president of the Equity Co.
operative Exchange of st. Paul at the
annual stockholders meeting in Fargo
and the capital stock of the company
was increased from half a million
to one million dollars. In the cleo
ton of directors, Anderson, F. B.
Wood of st. Paul and c.. J. Berg of
Hendrum, Mimi, were named to sue
coed themselves. officers were elect
ed as follows: President, J.. M. ALI
derson; vice president, Magnus JOAN
son, Kimball, Mimi; secretary, G. A.
Theil, st. Paul, and treasurer, P. S..
Hendrickson, st. Paul.
The old time huskin' bee has been
replaced by the "knitin' bee" in New
Rockford.
County commissioners of North Da.
kota held their annual convention in
Fargo, continuing three days. J. w.
Bliss, state engineer, addressed the
convention.
DR.. L. S. Platou, former mayor of
Valley City, has been elected presi.
dent of the Equity International bank
of Fargo, and will remove from Val
ley City to Fargo to take active
Charge.
sixty-seven quarts of five-year-old
whisky, worth on the market as high
as $3.50, was seized by Bismarck po-
lie authorities and Frank Kuntz, who
is alleged to have been the owner of
the valuable cargo, was thrown into
Jail to await the action of United
States Attorney Melvin Hildreth.
About 20 of the representative men
OF Grand Forks met in the courthouse
to consider a plan for doing away
with any contest in the mayoralty
election this year. 1t was the unani.
nous opinion that, because of so
many other activities tlat demanded
the time and energy of local resi-
dents, there should be no contest.
Ole Larson was instantly killed
and his mangled body dragged sew.
eral hundred feet when he was run
down by Great Northern train No. 10
at Devils Lake. Larson, a section
hand, was standing on the track in
the path of No. 10, whose approach
he failed to note because of the noise
of the exhaust of an engine standing
on the siding, while a cloud Of steam
obscured sight of the train. The de-
ceased leaves a wife and several chill
dren.
Many choice birds from all parts of
the country were exhibited at the
annual show of the North Dakota
State Poultry association, held in con-
junction with the Grain Growers con-
vention at Fargo
In North Dakota the. applications by
farmers for loans from the Federal
Farm Loan bank amounted to $15,-
576,500, Of which $10,09S,S00 we're ap-
proved and loans actually made
amounting to $3,158,200.
Representatives of the Great North
er railway and of the city of Minot
met and agreed upon plans for cover
ing the foot viaduct crossing tle Great
Northern yards. Petitioners had COM
planned against the smoke encountered
by pedestrians using the viaduct.
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