Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-07-03

union will be held here.
.BiSmarck.-ThiS city'S first two Sc
lective service men to go to the front
have just been discharged and return
ed home.
Bismarck.-H. L. Trelease of Gar
rison was sentenced by Federal Judge
Charles f. Amidon last week to two
years penal servitude for violation of
the espionage laws.
DickinsOn.-Drouth conditions have
still been quite general through the
western section of the state up to the
time of this dispatch, and grain crops
have suffered severely.
BiSmarck.-Mrs. Clara Warmer of
this city was elected grand worthy
matron of the North Dakota Order of
the Eastern Star at the 25th annual
meeting held in Grand Forks.
ToWner.-Destruction of grasshop-
pers in various parts of the state is
being seriously delayed through diff
Guilty to secure transportation of a
sufficient amount of hopper dope.
New Salem.-Another of the sad
series of ~drownings which have mark
ed the hot spell, recently occurred
here when Herman Miller, %17-year-old
boy, was drowned in a pond neal his
mothers home while bathing. No one
witnessed the boys death.
Grand ForkS.-A total of Is army
trucks have been assigned for use in
highway development in Grand Forks
county-four 3-ton trucks being now
here and a dozen more promised for
Fargo.-The management of the
Interstate fair is receiving encourag-
ing promises of live stock exhibits
from various parts of North Dakota
and the northwest for the fair which
is to be held here this year durin.
the week of July 21-26.
Bismarck.-Two handsome new
brick business blocks, 25N14s feet
each, are o o to be erected on the
historic corne of this city at Broad
way and Third street, first located
upon by Messrs. Slattery and Logan,
two of the city's Oldest pioneers.
Grand Forks.-The Fourth of July
celebration to be held here in honor
of returned soldiers and sailors will
be made a twin-city affair, Grand
Forks and East Grand Forks cooper
ating in the movement in recognition
of the homecoming of heroes of Doth
counties.
Observation-Disclosures officials in
terested in lines operating through
this StatA If is saiI aro c,,lnn n,.;r" ~
to secure an agreement with the state
railway commission looking toward an
investigation Of government toll rates
with a view of making them perma-
nent at the expiration of the period
of government control.
Grand observation-disclosures has
been made of a gift of $4,000 from
the Masonic grand lodge of North Da-
kota to the State University Y. NJ. c.
A., $1,000 of which is to be used i'm
mediately for furnishing and r%e-equip-
ping rooms in Bulge hall, and the
remainder placed at interest to pro-
duce needed annual funds.
Mandan.-At a meeting Of the
directors of the Missouri Slope Fair
association it was voted to pay freight
one way on live stock and horse ex-
hibits when aggregating ten head or
more from one exhibitor. The move
ment is expected to result in bring
ing unprecedentedly large stock ex-
hibii, to the show this season.
Observation-Disclosures 100000 is due
for early apportionment among North
Dakota counties by the state highway
commission from the automobile reg
istration fund. 1t is claimed that the
cost of administration of this depart
ment has been materially cut down
under the operation Of the new regis
tration law, and the receipts consid-
erably increased.
Lisbon.-Johf L. Murphy, civil wal
veteran who has just been admitted
to the North Dakota soldiers home
here from Grand Forks, was known
there as q most eccentric character
For many years his only abode was a
housebOat and his only companion a
dog. The veteran steadfastly refused
to come to the home until after the
dog had disappeared.
Bismarck.-Fred G.. 1ounsblood
Golden Valley rancher, convicted OF
perjury in the federal district court
here, has been sentenced to serve a
tWo-year term in the federal peniten.
tiary at Leavenworth, as a result OF
testimony given by him in a boxca,
robbery case, concerning which there
was considerable publicity Throughout
the state a year Or so ago.
Sterling.-The Sterling local Of the
Farmers Educational and Co-opera
tive Union of America has Just dedi
Gated here n of the finest communit,
buildings in central North Dakota
The new Farmers union hall is F;
handsome two-story building. with az
auditorium which will seat 300 people
and with arrangements for Theatrical
productions and facilities for movin:
pictures. The dedication of the hal
was made the occasion for a commu
nifty picnic.
New Rockford.-The establishment
Of q county fair association is holm,