Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-05-01

NOlld..'.l-OC0l MSH, ScHOOl tAieus
gave patriotic program to help boost
the Victory loan drive.
Devils Lake-The Lake Region
interscholastic field and track meet
will be held here on May 8.
Lakota.-A 100000 hotel building.
which has been standing unused In
this city, will be reopened, it Is an
nounced.
Observation-Disclosures aggregatlng $780,
600 have been let for work on new
sewer and waterworks systems for
this place.
Jamestown.-About 43 miles of
road work is being planned under
state supervision in Stutsman county
| this season.
Devils Lake.-The first public sale
to be made by the Lake Region Short
horn Breeders association will be
held here on June 4.
JamestOwn.-Action on the passage |
of an ordinance authorizing the local
gas company to increase rates has
been indefinitely postponed.
New Rockford-Sundays schools of
Wells Foster and Eddy counties will
join in tri-county convention to be
held here on May 2, 3 and 4.
Grand Forks.-Local library workers
have been asked to contribute 1,5OO
fresh books of fiction for the use of
American soldiers still in service over
seas.
Kensal.-Search for the body of Ole
Helseth, drowned in the James river
at this point, has been abandoned as
fruitless after extensive efforts had
been made.
Embellishments given by the
First and Second North Dakota regi-
ment bands at this point SO stimulated
local musical interest that a band has
been organized here.
Valley City.-A community men,
orial building, to cost approximately
100000, is being considered by the
Valley City Commercial club and en-
terprising citizens here.
TiOga.-Farmers of this section have
agreed to follow the movement being
taken up in so many North Dakota
towns, and will organize live stock
shipping association here.
Starkweather.-A plea for leniency
has been made in the case of s. Gud-
mundsOn, former agent Of the Atlas
Lumber company of this place, who
pleaded guilty to embezzlement Of the
company's funds.
CONFERENCE.-THE gossip of children
5 at school is assigned as the cause Of
the suicide of 14-year-old Frances
Walker, by poisoning. The child pre-
pared a note explaining here actions
8 and giving detailed directions con-
y corning her funeral.
d Jamestown.-Every employee in the
: state hospital for the insane had sub
s scribed to the fifth Liberty loan before
the close Of the first day of the drive
e last week. The institution more than
e doubled the amount allotted to it by
= the county loan organization.
Fargo.-The biennial grand lodge
o session of the Ancient Order of United
Workmen for the North Dakota juris-
n May 20. A number Of other north
e western states are associated with
" North Dakota in this jurisdiction of the
l. order.
# Bismarck.-The Bank Of North Da-
kota, recently announced to have been
# temporarily located at Bismarck dur
e ing the organization period, is to be
3 located on the ground floor of the
Is Missouri Valley Motor company'a
Il building at the corner of Seventh and
9, Main streets, for which two years
q, lease has been contracted.
a Walcott.-Simon Odegard, farmer
, residing near here, suicided by shoot.
ing himself few days ago, following
l. the murder of his wife while they
II were alone in their home. The woman
n was shot from behind and apparently
d instantly killed. Her husband was q
g man of violent temper, and quarrel
y is believed to have been the cause Of
n his act.
i Fargo.-Chief Louis III. Dahlgren, fol
g % years in the police service in this
city, claims the distinction of being the
D. first chief Of police in the United
h States to receive his appointment from
If woman. Mr.. Dahlgren, who has been
o. at the head Of the Fargo department
d for number of years, has just been
y reappointed as chief by Mrs. +. H
10 Wilder, recently named as police com.
n missioner here.
1t Jamestown.-The Alfred Dickey
Memorial library has opened here
1t The building, located on one Of the
j. prominent corners of the city, is an
le imposing structure of variegated tap.
:. estry brick with terra Gotta trimmings
ID Egyptian style of architecture, cost.
It ing approximately $4,000. 1t is gift
Is from the late Alfred E. Dickey in
10 memory Of his father, Alfred Dickey
ID the founder of Jamestown's first pub
st lie reading room.
Bismarck.-The right Of local school
d. district officers to refuse admlttance
At Of child suspected to be affected
s. with the dreaded eye disease trachoma
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