The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1919-05-22
$tatenew$inbrief
ooinss Of Last Few Days Throughout
North Dakota Condensed for
Hasty Perusai.

Hope.-A $4,000 high school addi-
tion is to be built here this year.
Grand Forks.-A Rotary club with
Ii charter members has been Or
sanized here.
Cathay.-Plans are out for Il new
school building to be erected mt this
place ut u cost Of approximately S5O,.
Np.
Fargo.-N. w. Kemmer, a retired
farmer, aged 81 years, died from in.
JtlrleS sustained when struck hy Il
street car here. The aged man WAS
Very deaf.
Pembina.-The local board of c,lnra.
ti"n will open bids for the erection of
tine three-story school building. for
which it is estimated that about SS1,,
O0Q will be paid.
Grand Forks.-North Dakota knights
femplnr are to hold their 1870 CON
clave In this city. it is announced by
members returned from the cnnclave
recently held at Mnot.
Resent.-Business men of Regent
offer $40 in prizes for the best pigs
raised by members of boys ami girls
clubs in this county during the present
year. The pigs are to be exhibited ut
Regent in the fall.
bismarck Lynn i. Fra.
zier has been named an honorary
member Of the United War Veterans, Il
national organization composed of
soldiers Of America's last three wars,
the Civil war, the Spanish-.Amcricnn
and the world war just closed.
Fargo.-Cnusuul interest is bein.
shown in the preparations for the
joint convention OF the Young Peo-
pies Luther league and Choral union
of the Lutheran churches of the state,
to be held here June 1918. The muSi-
cal festival promises to be one of the
best ever held in this section.
misunderstanding houses In this
state which are principally used for
boarding or rOoming establishments
must be assessed on the basis of busi-
ness property, or ut 100 per cent vaIu.-
tiOn, according to an opinion filed by
Attorney General Langer in rrSlmnse
to an inquiry from the state auditor.
Fargo-Temporary offices of the
North Dakota division of the American
legion have been established in Fargo
with Julius Baker as chairman and
Jack Williams US secretary. lnforml-
ttOn regarding the establishment Of
posts will be supplied to communities
inquiring of either of the above named
officers!
Leeds.-A city water and sewer
system being planned here calls for IA
steel tank on a tower 100
feet high, together with a concrete
reservoir of twice that capacity, ii
settling basin, brick pump house and II
1OO-gallon-per-minute pump with rcqui-
site engine, mains, hydrunts, etc, to
cost $a4, 1880.
Valley City.-Mrs. Frank White of
this city, wife of Colonel White, u
former governor of North Dakota, if,
the states representative at The War
Camp Community service headu,artters
in New York City, where it is said her
desk is being sought out by mnny re-
turning overseas men of the state on
their arrival in this country on their
way home.
Minot.-A regional Red Cross con-
ference has been held here this week
with representatives in attendance
from the chapters in Mckenzie. Will
'iams, Divide, Mountrail, Burke, Ward,
Renville and l;o,tincau
counties. Former Governor Hanna
was listed among the speakers and
prominent representatives who were.
present from the divisional llcadquar-
ters ut Minneapolis also delivered talks
Oh the worlS
Grand FOrks.-Late seeding condi-
tons in the state will cut down the
normal wheat acreage to so:me extent
and result in corresponding increase
in the probable acreage Of flax, 1t is
believed by A. ]. Surratt, state field
agent of the federal department. of
agriculture: Mr.. Surratt asks that
persons having flax seed for sale will
notify him, and farmers desiring to
purchase seed will advise with their
county farming agents.
Mandan.-Morton county, stands
first among the counties Of. North Du-
kOta in respect to the annual selling
value of it's dairy products. a report
which has just been made public
shows that for the year 1918 the
creameries anf cream stats.ns oper-
ating in the county sold dairy products
to the value of more than IL million
iollars-s1, ,040,4s3 being the exact
according to the report.
There were six creameries and o7
cream stations operating in the county
during thr year.
Bismarck.-Twenty-five farmers in.
stitutes are to be held at various
points throughout the state during the
month of June. III. c. Puderbaugh.
deputy commissioner Of agriculture.
who has charge Of the work. promises
that an exceptionally good series Of
programs will be given. DIR. ]. HI
Worst. president emeritus OF the state
college. will be one of the
speakers. talking on general ngrlcul-
ture; while other addresses will be
given on marketing, school work,
home economics and poultry.
McVille.-A thriving now "com.
munity club" was organized here few
days ago.
McLeod:-Two men and boy
were killed and two boys seriously in
jured when the northb0und 500 line
passenger train struck an automobile
ut "a crossing here last Friday night.
3. =. Yining Of Chaffee uinl ". q.
Frum Of Wiley City are the ineliJwho
lost their lives "a the accident. 4
box ear: standing On u aiding, pl,scur-
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