Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-04-03
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Doings Of Last Few Days Throughout
North Dakota Condensed for
Hasty Perusal.

Grand Forks.-POtatO culture is the
subject of a number of farm confer
ences being held in this county.
Williston.-W. N. Dickinson has
been appointed receiver of the United
States land office here to follow
Charles Mansfield, whose death oc-
CURED recently.
Observation-Disclosures General Will
liam LANCER has mailed notices to
pool room and amusement house pro-
prietors calling their attention to the
fact that they must apply to his office
for licenses.
Grand Forks.-The War Mothers Of
America is a new national organiza-
ton which has just appointed a field
representative in this state. Mrs. j.
G. Moore of this city is the represen-
tative selected.
Bismarck.-DeciSion as to the Selec-
ton of a city for the location OF the
Bank of North Dakota was deferred
by the industrial commission, it hav-
ing been originally intended to make,
the designation by March %.
Neutrality-suspicious. hundred eleven
dollars is the aggregate sum realized
by E. E. Brown, a Balfour stockman,
from the sale of % swine recently
disposed Of. The sale brought him
an average Of $126 per animal.
Bismarck.-F. H. Wilder, we'll
known former Mandan newspaper
man, who was for a long time con-
nected with the office Of Secretary Of
State Thomas Hall, has been made
secretary of the state ~penitentiary.
Ellendale.-The Dickey County
Sheep club has been organized by 40
farm boys and girls of this section.
The youngsters will procure a number
Of pure-bred ewes. which will be
handled under direction of the county
farming agent.
Fargo.-An attendance of more
than 5000 people is expected June II
to Is when the Young Peoples Luther
league and the North Dakota Choral
union of the Lutheran church hold
their joint annual convention, schedz
uled for this city.
Williston.-A clothing repairing
school, or institute, is scheduled to be
held here this week, in which Miss
Joyce Eddy. home demonstration agent
for Williams county, will cooperate
with Miss Wilson, a clothing expert
from the Agricultural college.
Observation-Disclosures are again cur
rent that c. E. Stangeland, a promin-
ent employe Of the Nonpartisan
league, is to be named as statistician
for the newly organized Bank of North
Dakota. The salary attached, it is
said, will be about $4,000 a year
Minot.-"Jimmies Ticknor and G.. A.
Parriott have pleaded guilty to
burglary in connection with the series
of auto tire thcfts perpetrated in this
city last year, which eliminated in
arrests following the shooting Of Off
GERS GOWN and DeVaney last April.
Fargo.-Victory loan chairmen Of the
various districts and counties in the
state met here for a discussion OF
methods to be pursued in handling
the Fifth or Victory" loan campaign
to be installed on the 21st of April
Chairman Wesley c.. Mcdowell OF
Marion presided.
Bismarck.-A camp meeting asso.
citation has been formed among mem.
bers Of the German Evangelical church
here, with a view of establishing a
permanent camp meeting ground with
the necessary structures to permit
holding sessions here annually. A
splendid site has been secured on the
banks Of the Missouri river three
miles northwest of the city.
Michigan.-A snowbank saved the
life of Miss Esther johnson, a 16-year
old girl Of this city, it is believed
when her clothing had become ignite6
kerosene oil to start a slow fire. En-
veloped in. flames the young woman
a from the doorway, where a mar
who happened to be near rolled hel
in a snowbank until the flames were
extinguished.
Fargo.-Edgar Hoover, whose tria
in federal court here on charge Of
sedition has attracted statewide at
t%ention, has been convicted on two
counts in the Indictment. Hoover las
winter escaped from the Richlan(
county Jail, passing out through a win
dow from which the bars had beer
sawed out from the inside, but though
he was the only prisoner in that par
of the building at the time, he stoutly
maintains that he is not the man who
{ did the cutting.
Fargo.-Nothing much less than {
miracle must have interviewed, it /.
believed, to save the life of Davit
DuVall, employe Of a local dry clean
ing establishment, who was trapped
In a closed Don when q gasoline ex
plosion occurred recently. Ms. Du
Vail, who had been working in tn,
cleaning house, stopped to move a tut
of gasoline when the explosion oc
CURED, which hurled him against tn,
wall Of the building. He fought hi.
way through the flames to the outside
where he was overcome from the ga!