Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-04-10

opIngs Of Last Few Days Throughout.
North Dakota CONDENSED for
Hasty Perusal.

| oSeH uVpOiuteu TeCeISeT vi Tie CHlleU
States land Office here to follow
Charles Mansfield, whose death &C.
CURED recently.
Observation-Disclosures General VIII
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 MOtherA Of
America Is Il new national orgnniZa-
ton which has just appointed field
representative In this state. Mrs. J..
G. Moore Of this city is the represen-
tatlve selected.
Bismarck.--Decisio as to the selec-
ton of city for the location OF the
Bank Of North Dakota was deferred
by the industrial commission, 1t hav-
ing been originally intended to make
the designation by March q.
Velva.-Twenty.nin hundred eleven
dollars is the aggregate sum realized
by T.. II. Brown, BalfOur stockman,
from the sale Of % swine recently
disposed of. The sale brought him
IN average of $126 per animal.
Bismarck.-F. II. Wilder, well
known former AIandan newspaper
man, who was for long time con-
nected with the office of Secretary of
State Thomas Hall, has been made
secretary of the state penitentiary.
ElIendale.-The Dickey County
Sheep club has been organized by 40
farm boys and girls Of this section.
The youngsters will procure Il 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 -
to Is when the Young Peoples Luther
league and the North Dukota Choral
union of the Lutheran church hold
their joint annual convention, sched-
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. Il clothing expert
from the Agricultural college.
Observation-Disclosures are again cur
rent that c. Il. Stangeland, a promin-
ent employe of the Nonpartisan
league, Is to be named as statistician
for the newly organized Bank Of North
Dukotn. The salary attached. it is
said. will be about 5000 year 3.
Alinot.-"Jimmie" TicknOr and c. A.
PnrriOtt 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 OGi-
GERS GOWN and DeVaney last April.
Fargo.-Victory loan cllairmen Of the
various districts and counties in the
stpte met here for Il discussion of
methods to be pursued in hundling
the Fifth or Victory" loan campaign
Chairman Wesley c. Mcdowell of
Marion presided.
Bismarck.-A camp meeting asso-
cintiOn has been formed among men,
bers of the German Evangelical church
here. with n view of establishing Il
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
lifa nfN Mice EStbar JOhnSnn 1R.yoor.
old girl of this city. 1t is believed.
when her clothing had become ignited
| from an explosion following the use of
| kerosene oil to start slow fire. En-
velOped in flames the young woman
ran from the doorway. where Il man
who happened to be near rolled her
in II snowbnnk until the flames were
| eXtinguished.
Fnrgo.-Edgar Hoover. whose trial
| in federal court here on charge of
sedition has attracted statewide Mt.
tention, has been convicted on two
counts in the Indictment. Hoover last
winter escaped from the Richland
county Jail, passing out through win
dow from which the bars had been
sawed out from the inside, but though
he was the only prisoner in that part
of the building at the time. he stoutly
maintains. that he Is not the man who
did the cutting.
Fargo.-Nothing much less than a
miracle must have interviewed, it Is
believed, to save the life Of David
DuNall, employee of local dry clean.
Ing establishment. who was trapped
In a closed room when gasoline ex.
plosion occurred recently. Mr.. Du-
Vail. who had been working In the
cleaning house. stopped TO move II tub
of gasoline when the explosion oc.
cured. which hurled him against, the
wall Of the building. He fought his
way through the flames to the outside
where he was overcome from. the gas
he had inhaled.
Devils Lake.-A contract has beer
closed by the state game and fish
commission with w. b. Smith of this
city for the construction Of screened
enclosure about 300 feet long to be
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