The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1919-11-20
Milton.-Local citizens are discuss.
ing means Of securing an electric light.

ing plant.
Ray.-Retail merchants of this city
have agreed upon a six-o'clock closing
hour except OF Saturdays.
Devils Lake.-Work is under way on
the erection of the new cold storage
plant recently arranged for here.
Carrington.-Local business men held
a mass meeting to provide funds for
the erection of a community memorial
building.
Portland.-Charles NJ. Root post Of
the American Legion has been organ-
lied here with j. Earl Fladeland as
commander.
Mandan.-A large Community cen
ter building to comprise a good-sized
theater auditorium, is a project being
agitated by local officials.
Williston.-Rev. 0. L. Smith, Metho-
dist pastor at Grenora, died here as
the result of an automobile accident
which occurred on October II.
misunderstanding of State Hall
has indicated a desire to have the state
legislature provide for a recoditication
of North Dakota's election laws.
Grand Forks.-Local public school
teachers have been granted a salary
increase Of $500 each above the
amounts specified In their contracts.
Rugby.-Iver Eidness of Denbigh,
who shot himself while walking in his
sleep at his home here, is recovering
from his injuries in a local hospital.
Mott.-Hettinger county is organic
ing a farm bureau, Of which County
Agent Morris hopes to have every
farmer in the county enrolled as a
member.
Valley City.-North Dakota Library
association members held the four.
teenth annual meeting of their organi.
cation here with a good attendance
last week.
Bismarck.-A livestock sales com.
pany with an authorized capitalization
Of thrce-quarters Of a million an.
nounces its intention of erecting a
large sales pavilion here.
Grand Forks.-Montana stockmen
are sending a crew of men here to
bale straw which has been offered to
them free for the care of their stock
in drouth stricken districts.
Bismarck.-A number of Bismarck
merchants are holding postdated
checks passed upon them by Il transit
ent without having had their attention
called to the fact of p%ostdating.
Fargo.-The North Dakota Agricul-
tural college football team won the
state championship in Il stoutly con-
tested game with the Fargo college
eleven in Which the final score was
6 to 0.
Dresdcn.-Fire which burned the
farm barn of Henry Rutfcnbeul neal
here destroyed live stock, hay and
other property to the valuation Of $12,-
500, on which but $4,000 of insurance
was held.
Williston.-The original Williams
county court house, a frame structure
located on Main street, is shortly to
be torn down. The building is a land
mark of pioneer days, having been
erected in 1892.
Jamestown.-A conference of repre-
%sentatives of North Dakota Presby-
terrain churches was held here on No.
vember IS to consider plans for the
better organization of the denomina.
TONS work in the state.
Fargo.-A local department store
claims the record for North Dakota in
the first installation Of an out-of-town
delivery service by airplane. Towns
and villages west and southwest of
Fargo for a considerable distance are
to be served.
Fargo.-More than $4,000 in prizes
are offered by the North Dakota I'm
proved Seed Growers association to
exhibitors at the seed show to be held
here in connection with the meeting of
the Tri-State Grain Growers associa-
ton to be held in January.
Enderlin.-Local public school teach
ers resorted to strike methods to en-
force consideration of their demands
for increased wages. The board of
education induced them to return to
their classes by assuring them that
they would receive a hearing.
Fargo.-A number of train collisions
were reported from different sections
Of the state last week, due to the
binding character Of the snow storm
prevailing for a day or two. AT Peters
burg, w. J.. Lee of Watford City mar.
rowly escaped death in a rear-end col
lision of freight trains which practi.
cally demolished the caboose in which
he was riding.
Dickinson.-The Identification mys.
terry surrounding the personality of the
incapacitated man known as u. @. r."
who has been claimed to be a son of q
former rancher of this section, received
a new turn last week by the publica-
ton Of representations from st. Paul
that the man is James Philip Harris. a
former manager Of the Gately Supply
company Of Duluth, who disappeared q
dozen years ago.
Bismarck.-Probably as many as 90
farmers institutes will shortly have
been arranged for under auspices Of
H.