Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-11-13
FACTS ABOUT THE
FLICkERTAIL STATE

FLICkERTAIL STATE
Bismarck.-About % blocks of paw
ing have been completed here this
year.
Grafton.-The local American Legion
post is contemplating the organization
Of band.
Rutland.-The local live stock asso-
citation has let the contract for the
erection Of a sales pavilion.
Wahpeton. schools in some
districts of this county are being
closed because Of shortage of teachers.
Devils Lake.-A night school has
been opened here to give instruction in
rudimentary English to those who de-
sire it.
Karlsruhe.-A local mercantile es-
Enlistment was destroyed by fire with
loss Of $4,000. Incendlarism Is sus-
pected.
Mott.-The Hettinger county teach
ers' institute, recently held here. had
9 very crafty enrolment, IS teach
ers being present.
New Salem.-A New Salem breeders
association sold $500 worth of blood
ed Holstein cattle to Fargo and Maple
ton parties recently.
Bismarck.-Local grade school teach
ers were successful in their demands
upon the board for fiat increase Of
500 year in wages.
New acknowledgement B. Thorn
post is the name given the local branch
of the American Legion recently
formed here. Guy Bervig is the first
commander.
Bismarck.-Hog cholera serum is be-
ing forwarded from the offices of the
state live stock sanitary commissioner
to infected districts lately reported
from Morton county.
LaMoure-John DeLorme, a local
workman, was pinned under a 1000
pound lathe which he was helping to
unload here. He escaped without the
breaking Of any bones.
New RockfOrd.-C. j. Maddux, well
known attorney and former publisher
of this city, is dead following stroke
of paralysis. He was for the last two
or three years a law partner of Will
liam Lemke Of Fargo.
Wahpeton.-O. A. Leach, who re-
Gently announced gift of $4,000 for
public library here, has now an
nounced his willingness to contribute
$4,000 toward the erection of new
edifice for the Foss Methodist church
Bismarck.-H., o. Paulson of Drake
has been named by State Examiner
Lofthus to succeed Deputy Examiner
P. e. Halldorson, who is said to have
/ been dismissed because Of his actions
in connection with the closing of the
Scandinavian-American bank of Fargo
Minot.-Arthur johnson, arrested at
Portland and held here for trial on a
charge Of auto theft. admits having
previously escaped jail with number
Of companions at Huron, s. D., where
they were held on similar charge
Other members OF the party are Still
at large. ID 4
Beach.-To have escaped injury ii
any form during service on the battle
fields of France and then to have sue
cumbed to bloodpoisoning following
the accidental striking of his heat
against nail was the fate of Lee
Neubeiser, Beach young man, who
has recently been. employed in st
Paul.
| Fargo.-Messrs. Bateman and Gill
ings of the United States biological
survey have commenced work in theil
campaign for the destruction of wolves
and other predatory animals in Nortl
Dakota. Lack of funds will compel
the limitation of the work for the pres
ent to districts where the need Is
most Imminent.
Bismarck.-James Teacllout, the sec
ond victim of an auto collision with
a Northern Pacific train at dead
Mans Curve" near here last week
died without ever regaining conscious
ness. The deceased was prominent
farmer residing near Glencoe. His
brother, who was with him in the cur
died instantly from a broken neck.
Deering.-Howard Huston, Il gradu
ate Of the, state university and for
mer resident here, has been appointed
business manager Of the London office
of the league of nations, it is an
nounced in recent press dispatches
Huston was a member of the Ameri
can expeditionary forces, and during
his period of service was cited for ex
ceptional bravery.
Minot-The Minot city commission
has received a second demand from
the state workmen's compensation bu
reau for the payment of about $1,000
assessed against the city. The city
seeks to avoid payment on the ground
that; the city budget, made up before
the compensation law was passed
made no provision Of funds for this
purpose.