Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-07-17
FACTS ABOUT THE
FLICkERTAIL STATE

BiSlnurck.-,The state cnnvassing
board meets to review returns from
the referendum election on Friday of
this week.
Mandan.-The state grand lodge
knights of Pythias closed n most sue
cessful convention here on Wednes-
day of lust week. ~
Bismarck. wolf bounties regis
tered and carried over from 1917,
when the state wolf bounty law was /
repealed, have now been paid up.
Minot.--Waylaid in an alley near
his place of business, James BamfOrd,
a baker, was beaten and robbed OF
$41 by Two men, who succeeded in
escaping
Grand Forks.-Clarence Parker of
Minot was elected president of the
North Dakota Gun club at the annual
meeting and tournament held here
last week.
Rolla.-United States Treasurer
John Burke was welcomed by his
former neighbors, on his appearance
here as speaker Of the day at recent
homecoming celebration.
Lakota.-Attorney ]. F. T. O'Connor
Of Grand Forks gave the address of
the day at big homecoming cele-
bration for Nelson county heroes ut
Stump Lake last Thursday.
Dickinson.-This city's newly organ
lied post of the American Legion has
been named in memory of Matthew
Brew. first Dickinson soldier to have
| given up his life in action in the war.
Fargo-A contract has been let for
the erection of 4Ox4O foot addition,
three stories high, to the brick office
building owned by the, North Dakota
\ A. o. U. w. near the postoffice in
this city.
Devils Lake.-A deal is reported In
process of consumnation by which Col.
Joseph NJ. Kelly of this city will dis
pose of his $500 acre farm near Bisbee
in this state at a consideration of APP
proximately s225,OoO.
Observation-Disclosures Spencer, who
handled government overland freight
train from Saltwater, Mimi, to TT.
Assinaboine, Canada, by way of It.
Totten in early territorial days, died
at his home here recently. 8
FargO.-Insurance losses in the
storm that swept northwestern North
Dakota are estimated pt 100000 by
G.. s. Wh.ttlesey, an adjuster in >this
city. Many additional losses are
probably vet to be reported.
Fargo.-Restaurant keepers on lower
Front street were arrested last week
on charge Of disobeying the eight
hour wOman's employment law. A
woman cook in one restaurant claimed
to have worked in one week, a total
of "a hours. AL
Grand Forks.-This county is one OF
the first to-. have, organized a county
post of the American Legion. the or
ganization having been effected in this
city a few days ago with DR.. r. D
: Campbell as president. Over 100 were
enrolled as. charter members.
) Bismarck Ole Randvik's
3 neighbors asserted with great positive
s ness that he had his dance hall or
Z Cranberry lake, two and One-half miles
e southeast of Fillmore, in Benson cOun
ty, as ''side door to HE'LL" Mr.. Rand
vik has been denied license for thu
further operation of this resort. ~
!. Bismarck.-One hundred thousand
dollars additional bonds have beer
!. required of State Treasurer Obert A
:. Olson in his new capacity as treasurer
! of the North Dakota Workmen's Com
pensatiOn bureau, recently organized
under new state law. Premium re
: ceipts of the bureau are now coming
in in sums of several thousand dOllar
u per day.
Fargo.-Robert B. Blakemore of thi
II city, former member of the state leg
!. islature and for number of year
e head of this city's municipal water de
p partment, has been appointed manage
of the North Dakota Home Building
association, organized under state law
IS and will draw a salary of $1,000 pc
annum by designation Of the state In
= dustrial commission.
WillistOn.-The farmers club in TIL
vicinity of Truax in this county stage
new one at their annual picnic he'll
at the Gimberling farm, at which ur
ward of 600 people We're present. oh
picnic was held ip a s'grove," all tn
trees in which were brought up frOr
the river and transplanted, at unusua
4 outlay of time and labor, affordin
ample shade for the large number i
attendance.
Grand Forks.-Late state crop ~
ports issued from the office of A. /.
Surratt, North Dakota Representative
of the United States department 9
agriculture, place the states crop a
near the average, with better than til
average annual prospect for this SCI
ton on corn. Rye, however, falls nj
tably below the usual prospect at thl
season for the state. The month
June is recorded by. the department Il
the most sultry experienced in TIL
| territory .since the summer Of 1911
Acreage estimates given show cor
planting to have been about the sam
s as for the past season; flax acreae
! not materially changed, and a tot'
increase Of about per cent in potat
i; acreage. mostly In the central an