Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-01-30

IoA&o' -ANoItH I'dkota implement
dealers were in attendance in large
numbers at the annual meeting of
their state association held here last
week.
Fargo.-Sixty-five extension depart
ment lecturers and other farm i'm
provement workers We're in attendance
at the %seven-day conference recently
closed here.
Mandan.-Local religious denomina-
lions of every faith united in taking a
census of Mandan's population to de-
termine affiliations and preferences as
to religious belief.
Fargo.-The city commission has let
the contract for the sale of improve
ment warrants aggregating $157, 600
for the completion of the south side
trunk system.
Grand Forks.-The public health
laboratory of the state university may
be closed on account %of the probable
ity of insufficient appropriation to
carry on the work, it is said.
Bfsmarck.-Western North Dakota
stock owners express great interest in
the probability of an adequate wolf
bounty law being provided again at
the present session of the legislature.
Grand eForks.-The appropriation
for the North Dakota state fair next
summer is cut from $4,000 to $4,000 by
the budget board, according to reports
received from Bismarck a few DAYS
ago.
Observation-Disclosures of George
Wallace and Frank NJ. Packard to sue
coed themselves as members of the
North Dakota state tax commission
have been confirmed by the senate in
executive session.
Fargo.-Former Governor L. B.
Hanna is still being banqueted in
various parts of the state, where his
talks on war conditions among the
American soldiers in France prove ex-
ceptionally interesting.
Rugby.-A fine new highway from
Rugby to the southern part Of the
county is in prospect under plans in
which the government is to bear a part
Of the expense. A total outlay of about
$4,000 will be required.
Mott.-George Hayes, a farmer on
the Indian reservation a few miles
from here, is claimed to hold the
record for early seeding of spring
wheat, having seeded 40 acres the
latter part of January this year.
Bismarck.-Considerable interest is
beng manifested throughout the state
in impending legislation which may do
away with compulsory vaccination.
Senator Wenstrom has introduced the
bill, which is known as Senate Bill
No. 81.
Grand Forks.-Michael Gass, a
prominent merchant and former mayor
OF Larimore, was found dead in a
water hole near a local hospital in this
city, at which he was receiving treat
ment. A c%oroner's jury brought a YER
dict of accidental death.
Observation-Disclosures pioneer wo-
man residents of Bismarck who sat
down to a banquet together a few DAYS
ago have lived here continuously since
their first arrival in the city on dates
ranging from 1872 to 1887, the latest
corners having been here upward of 81
years.
Bismarck.-Henry f. Bechtold has
been deposed from office as chief of
police Of Glen Ullin, N. D., by a COM
mission headed by Governor Frazier, |
after examination Of charges of in
competency preferred against him last |
fall. Bechtold was at one time sheriff |
of Morton county.
Fairmount.-The citizens of Fair
mount gave a reception and benefit to
charles Burvee, a returned soldier
who went across" from here and re-
turned blinded from gas after having !
made a splendid record in the service.
A purse of 1921 was presented to the
hero as a token of the appreciation of
his friends.
Fargo.-The local builders and trad |
ers' exchange is preparing for an ac- |
tive season along building and con-
Struct1on lines when weather opens |
enough to permit work in the spring.
Ten %good-siZed contracts are already
IN sight, according to Secretary v. H.
Leeby, and more are anticipated as
conditions develop to warrant the
work.
Bismarck.-This city and Mandan
find a little saving in the new schedule
of telephone rates, so far as conyersa-
lions between the two towns are con- |
cerned. With conversations permitted
at a fat rate Of S cents a minute. a lot
of inter-town visiting over the wire is
to be expected, on the general princi- |
pie that at that rate talk is cheap I,
enough to be INDUCED in at will.
Grand Forks.-Figures given out by
Ninth District Liberty Loan Chairman
A. r. Rogers at Minneapolis a few
days ago show that North Dakota saw
ings banks deposits increased o79.1 nar
cent per capita during the war period
from August, 1914, to November. 1918. |
States in the Ninth district aiken col
lectively showed a gain of 11O,35 per
cent per capita but the increase in
North Dakota is reported to have been