The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-01-23
North Dakota
News in Brief

Juu6C04 1lCIu lAC11I 8 0uAUNlA& NO1SC 1GA
here on January is.
Langdon.-The new waterWorks
plant erected here has resulted In a
material reduction OF insurance rates.
Wahpeton.-The local Commercial
club has appointed Q committee to ''go
after" the LOCATION Of the state-owned
elevator.
Marmarth.-Arthur Lobdell OF, this
place is dead from burns received in a
fire believed to have been started from
a cigarette.
Hillsboro.-Up to December 81, ac-
cording to tabulated reports, Trail
county had 2,O4O cases OF influenza,
resulting in so deaths.
Bismarck.-A meeting Of North Da-
kota county superintendent Of schools
has been called for this city on Thurs
day and Friday, Jan. 1924.
Bismarck. M. Rockne Of Mohall
and G. E. Cavett Of Lisbon have been
appointed by Governor Frazier as
members of the state board Of educa-
ton.
Willistop.-The local Community
club is taking steps to secure the
100000 coal briquetting plant which
the government plans to establish In
North Dakota. !
Grand Forks.-September Is next
has been set as the date for consolida-
ton Of the service of the two local
telephone companies now operating
under government control.
.Fargo.-The campaign in North
Dakota for Armenian and Syrian re-
lief will begin February % and con-
tinue through the week. A quota of
$125,OOO has been assigned to the
state. s.
Fargo.-Between 1000 and 5000
boys will be recruited for agricultural
work in 1919 by the Boys Working
Reserve, it is estimated by Director
w. L. VanHorn, in charge Of the work
for the state.
Fargo.-The North Dakota Woman's
Christian Temperance union will par
3ticipate in "a million dollars and a.
million members campaign under.
auspices of their national organization
between March 8 and May 81.
Colonel John H.. Frame of Grafton,
formerly colonel Of the First North
Dakota regiment, is acting mayor of
Coblenz, which is occupied as head
quarters by the American Army of
Occupation in Germany, according to
word just received in Fargo.
acknowledgements p. D. Nor
ton of the Third congressional dis
trict has sailed for Europe on official
business and plans to return at the
same time that President Wilson does,
SO as to be here for the closing days
Of the present session Of congress.
Mandan.-The damming Of the Mis-
souri, river between Mandan and Bis
marck is being agitated here as a suit
able method of generating electrical
current sufficient to operate extensive
industries, such as the state-owned in
dustries likely to be organized under
plans now being proposed.
Bowbells.-Gus Anderson, aged 10,
living 20 miles southwest Of here, shot
and killed his father, X. A. Anderson,
and seriously If not fatally wounded
Oscar Kallberg, a neighbor w~ho-rushed
into the house on hearing the shots.
The young man is believed to be
mentally deranged.
Bismarck.-Improved mothers pen
sion laws will be sought by Miss
Aldyth Ward, secretary of the state
welfare commission through the pres
entation of legislative bills being pres
pared by Assistant Attorney General
Cox. Increased pension allowance is
n OF the provisions contemplated in
the bill
Wahpeton.-A hemp factory may be-
located here as the result of local
interest aroused on the showing of a
representative Of the International
Harvester company, who outlined
plans for a plant large enough to
handle two carloads Of raw material
per day, producing one carload daily
OF prepared fibre.
Mandan.-Trapping is In full swing
west Of the Missouri river, according
to State Game Warden Reko, who
says there has never before been SO
great a demand for licenses. Trappers
are securing about $500 for muskrat
skins and from $12 to $24 for beaver,
the latter being unusually plentiful
after several years protection Ia this
state.
Fargo.-Forty-five blooded animals
were placed IN sale by members of
the Shorthorn Breeders association at
Its sale of blooded stock here during
the Tri-State Grain Growers meeting
last week. Fancy prices were paid In
many instances, the first animal sold
being an 18~-months-old Shorthorn bull
belonging to Plus Stroh 81 Buffalo,
which brought 1915.
Bismarck. Anticipating early cor
receive legislation In reference to the
registration Of. motor vehicles, Secre-
tarys of State Thomas Hall has written
to auto owners suggesting slight de-
lay ii forwarding their license appli--s
cations An entire revision of the
registration laws and the manne o
handling them is under considerations
by the legislature at the suggestion of1