The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1919-07-10

is in Jail here charged With stabbing
Charles Gray, another negro, who is
said to be at deaths door.
Grand Forks.-Dr. w. T.. Baldwin of
Casselton was elected president of the
North Dakota Medical association at
its recent meeting held at this point.
New Salem.-The bursting of water
wings with which he was e%ndeavoring
to learn to swim in resulted in the
drowning Of Herman Miller, u 17-year-
old boy of this place.
Rugby.-The annual picnic of the
Pierce County Pioneer association,
held at the farm of w. A. Hamilton,
was IN outstanding social event of the
year.
Fargo.-The eight-hour law 70,
working women, effective July !. re
suited in a sharp raise in prices al
practically all restaurants and cafe.
terias in this city.
Beulah.-A new opera house in
course of construction here gives prom.
Use Of being the best building of its
kind on the Stanton brunch, as we'll us
n of the best in the sto1 L.
Observation-Disclosures, ters Of a mil
lion dollars will be Bis. nurck's share
in the years ]reconstruc ion program.
construction and impro 'ement plans
now on foot totaling thar amount.
DickinSOn.-JOhn A. Struthers, a
deaf farmer Of the Sheffield vicinity,
was killed by an engine ON the track
hntV.nOn Ifa,,A aud I nli,rJ, ctnfi1, VI>1,n
man had previously had Il narrow
escape from injury Or death in Il SIM
liar manner. Il short time ago.
Minot.-Several office buildings
were blown down and Il garage SWEPT
away at Parshull by the high wind
storm OF last week, according to re-
ports received here. A large strip of
cropped land in that section is also
said to have been hailed out.
Logan.-Residents in this section alp
shocked ut the sudden death of Wi.
liam Hecker. Il prominent farmer, wiz +,
is said to have been suffering from an
unusual blood disease. the fatal char
acter OF which was not realized until
the report OF his death.
BiSmarck.-June collections for auto
tags amounted to STAT. 10000, bringing
the total for the first half OF the year
to $53S, 10000. The registration was
not begun until late, owing to uncer-
tainty about the rates and ,metllod of
handling until after the legislative SEES
sion had closed.
DickinsOn.-The month of June will
go down in history us the hottest June
ever known in this part of the state.
On two days near the close OF the
month the temperature went as high as
1O7 and los degrees Fahrenheit, and it
was above 100 degrees on several other
days. The record Of 1OS degrees was
established on the afternoon of Sun
day, June %.
Velva.-A milliOn-dollar coal mining
and electrical corporation is being or
ganized here, with options on valuable
The plan in view is said to include the
geenratiOn Of electrical current from
the use Of Stacked coal at the mines,
conducting it to nearby villages by
wire for lighting and power purposes.
Tioga.-Almost ten tons of butter
was manufactured at the local cream
cry during the eight weeks ending July
l., and the ice cream output of the
factory has been kept to the limit for
the entire summer. With a record day
of 1000 pounds on butter, June %, the
people of this section feel that the de-
veOlpment of dairy interests in this
section has been d%ependably estab.
lished.
GarriSOn.-An explosion of dyna-
mite near the power house startled
residents here last Tuesday morning.
and broke windows u Of buildings
nearby. A mine operator who had Is
pounds Of the explosive which had not
proved satisfactory for mining opera
tons threw it onto an ash pile. He
later felt that this would hardly be
safe, so lighted the fuse attached to
II stick and threw it among the rest.
The a was uniniured.
Bismarck.-A. w. LuehrS. automo-
bile registrar in the state highway de-
partment. has begun the apportiOnment
VI Illc pOOO,iJV WHICH has Decn COL
lected to date from license fees. OF
this amount. $4,000 is directly appro-
priated to finance the highway COM
mission. OF the remainder, so per cent
goes to the counties from which the
fees originated; 10 per cen may lie
expended on highway construction or
maintenance as the commission may
elect, and 40 pc" cent must be expend-
ed on state roads.
Observation-Disclosures were wrecked.
barns blown down, telegraph and tele-
phone lines put out of commission. and
at least two persons killed by a tor
nado-like windstorm that swept over
the northwestern section of this state.
as we'll as v e Dostheastern Montana
early last week. A mother and daugh-
ter named Helgeson, living near AL.
amo, are the persons known to have
been killed. The storm worked great
havoc in this city and vicinity but APP
pears to have been heaviest ut Zahl
IN tho Stanley hrOnch IA milns north