Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-03-27

school will contribute s. 1000 to equip
a room for the maintenance of a con-
tinuous dental clinic in connection
with the school. Minot dentists have
agreed to contribute a half day each,
in turn, for the work of the clinic.
Grand Forks.-Agnes Rex, commits
sioner of the poor, has instituted a
project to have forty or fifty town
children from destitute families, pro-
vided With homes in the country for
the summer. The Youngsters, who
will range from 6 to II years of age,
it is believed will gain in health, eff
cheney and character from such an
outing.
Grand Forks.-Patrolman Vixen of
this city fired three shots at a party Of
young men who were attempting to
make off with some one else's auto q
few days ago, and the chief of the de-
partment has given it out that persons
who undertake to drive off with cars
that do not belong to them will likely
soon find themselves "joy riding" in a
wooden box.
L tdtlAASuIAOL VI llS
plan to install city waterworks re-
suited from the election held here last
week. The Paramount town board
last fall voted to install waterworkS,
but upon an appeal being made to the
supreme court by %objsetors an injunc-
ton vas issued restraining the action.
AS a result of the present election the
improvements can now proceed.
Grand Forks.-Alexander Aas of the
University of North Dakota will par
ticipate in the northwestern interstate
collegiate oratorical contest this sea-
son, after winning the annual inter-
collegiate contest for this state. BY
winning the contest in this staIe, Mr..
Aas was awarded the Merriield prize
and also the watch given by the
Masonic grand lodge. of North Dakota.
Fargo.-A considerable influx of
Iowa settlers is noticed in Cass
county and other sections of the Red
river valley this spring, and real estate
men are making the prediction that 33
per cent more land will be cropped in
Cass county this season than in 1917.
Nine hundred and fifty-eight acres of
land transferred on the Cass county
records n day recently brought a
total of $1O6, 624.
Fargo.-Congressman John NJ. Baer
Of this district has been awarded one
committee craftsmanship and member
ship on three other committees in the
tentative organization Of the next
congress as projected by the Republi-
man Mann. The craftsmanship as
signed to him is on the committee of
expenditures for the department of
agriculture. Congressman George NJ.
Young of the Second district in this
state landed a position on the ways
and means committee.
.Dickinson.-One of the North Da-
kotans whose deaths have been most
recently reported in the American
casualty lists is Basil Skraba Of South
Heart in this county, who is now
learned to have been killed in action
by artillery fire in the attack on
scissors on July 18th last year. An
officer writing to the young mans
father states that of the automatic
rifle crew to which Skraba belonged,
all were killed except one. Private
Skraba died a hero's death, according
to the writer.
CONFERENCE.-THE death of little Eta
Mcdonnell, ~12-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Mcdonnell, living
near here, has resulted in the deten-
ton of both the parents IN a charge
Of murder. knowledge of the child's
death was gained Sunday when the
father applied to a physician for a
death certificate, which he had been
advised he would have to obtain be-
fore he could secure the services of
an undertaken. Upon examination of
the body it was found the child had
sustained many terrible bruises about
the head and body, her death having
probably resulted from conclusion of
the brain. A terrible condition of fam
lily life is alleged to have been brought
out as existing among the McDonnells
and the death Of one other child from
exposure due to cruel treatment is
alleged.
Bismarck.-C. M. Rossen of this
city has been denied a writ of habeas
corpus, for which he applied to the
; state supreme court after having beer
denied by District Judge Nuessle
The applicant sought this means Of
taking himself out of the custody Of
the Burleigh county sheriff, to whose
keeping he had been committed while
awaiting trial on the charge of having
sold shares Of stock in the Lignit'
Consumers Mining company, an al
legged speculative enterprise for which
the sale of stock had not received TIN
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