Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-14

it's devastation by a fire a number Of
weeks ago.
Hazelton.-Dr. George A. Monteith
has been made head of the Hazelton
post Of the American Legion, Just or
ganized here.
Williston.--Old settlers of Williams
and Mckenzie counties will picnic at
Burdick's grove on Saturday, August
%. An elaborate program is promised.
Grand Forks.-A printing course
may be added to the curriculum of the
local high school. A similar action has
been arranged for by the Fargo city
| schools
Fargo.-A local construction. COM
pany has secured Il contract for a
5Ox1O0-foot three-story addition to a
Fargo buiscuit factory, to be COM
pleted this year.
Grand FOrks.-An. attendance Of
about 100 delegates is expected at the
annual convention Of the North Da-
kota w. c. 7. u, to be held here
September 1928.
Williston.-Usher L. Burdick, for
mer lieutenant governor Of the state,
and c.. A. NJ. Spencer. prominent at
torney. formerly of Grafton, have
formed a law partnership.
Buxton.-The most severe hail storm
ever known in these parts devastated a
strip twenty miles in length and run
ming as high as eight miles wide in
this section a few days ago.
Drake.-The flour mill in this city,
| which is the first to be contracted for
for under recently enacted state own
ership laws, has a daily capacity of
$50 barrels. The purchasing price is
$4,000.
D:ckinson.-A formidable "gun' and
threatening language used in an at
tempted night holdup here proved 80
ineffective that the stick-up artist
wound up the comedy by diligent use
of his heels.
Zap.-A robbery of a local pool
room, which was perpetrated a few
nights ago brings out the fact that
night burglaries of this institution
have become approximately a semi
annual affair.
MISUNDERSTANDING North Da-
kota historical volumes entitled "North
Dakota Today" and where the West
Begins" by Miss Zena Irma Trinka,
city librarian at Dickinson, have re-
Gently been announced.
Grand Forks.-Wiliam Greenleaf,
executive secretary of the War Camp
Community Service, has issued letters
advising returned soldiers as to best
means of securing the benefits the
organization offers for their use.
Fargo.-The first nonstop air flight
from the Twin Cities to Fargo was
made by Lieutenant James CARING of
st. Paul and L. w. Hope of Ada, Mimi,
on the evening of August l.. The trip
was made in two hours and twenty
minutes time.
Bismarck.-Attorney General Will
liam LANCER has been summoned to
Washington. upon the request of
United States Attorney General Pal
mer, for a conference in reference to
the working out of the North Dakota
grain grading act.
Grand Questionable early re-
turns are reported on the 100000
financial drive recently started in be-
half of Wesley college, the state edu-
catiOnal institution of the Methodist
church. conducted in connection with
the state university.
Grand FOrks.-An enthusiastic local
welcome and the honors which accom-
pany the beStOWnl Of the Distinguished
Service Cross and the French Croix de
Guerre We're the lot of Manden Olson
on his return from the front to, his
home in this city. The young man
was at one time reported killed in
action on the western front.
Bismarck.-The state equalization
board, consisting of the governor, state
treasurer, state auditor, attorney gen
eral and the tax commissioner, is now
in session. The last named official,
Mr.. George E. Wallace, is secretary Of
the board under the new plan of or
ganiZati6n arranged under present
laws. An exceptionally busy session
is anticipated.
Fargo.-One man was shot in the
head and q score of others robbed
when a band Of five bandits, masked
and armed, entered a bunkcar occu-
pied by members of a section crew
neal SanbOrn, and broke up card
games in progress, confiscating all the
money in sight and then forcing the
men to turn Occr their reserve SUD-
plies and other v%aluables.
FargO.-That farmers of North Da-
kOta must continue to use every posi-
BILE means to check the spread of the
grasshopper pest or suffer serious crop
shortage in 1920 and following wears.
is the belief of Stewart Lockwood, ex-
tension division entomologist at the
Agricultural college. Sixty Der cent
of the hoppers that damaged grain
fields this year, according to Mr.. Lock
wood, came from roadsides. fence rows
and fields which had been allowed to
go back to weeds. Thirty-three coun-
ties in the state put on grasshopper
campaigns this year at a cost ranging