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hail insurance department of the state.
luchardton.-This city's business
district is rapidly being rebuilt after
its devastation by fire n number of
weeks ago.
Hazelton.-Dr. George A. Monteith
has been made head of the Hazelton
post of the American Legion, just or
ganized here.
WillistOn.-Oh settlers of Williams
and Mckenzie counties will picnic Mt
Burdicks grove on Saturday, August
70. An elaborate program is promised.
Grand Forks.-A printing course
! may be added to the curriculum of the
local high school. A similar action has
been arranged for by the Fargo city
| schools.
Fargo.-A local construction COM
pany has secured II contract for
5OXlOO-foot three-stOry addition to q
Fargo buiscuit factory, to be COM
pleted this year.
Grand FOrks.-An attendance of
about 100 delegates is expected Mt the
annual convention of the North Da-
kota w. c. I. u, to be held here
September 1928.
mer lieutenant governor of the state,
and G. A. NJ. Spencer, prominent ut
torney, formerly of Grafton, have
formed law partnership.
BuXtOn.-The most severe hail storm
ever known in these parts devastated a
strip twenty miles in length and rum
ming as high as eight miles wide in
this section a few days ago.
Drake.-The -four mill in this city,
which is the first to be contracted for
for under recently enacted state own
ership laws, has n daily capacity of
$50 barrels. The purchasing price is
$4,000.
Dickinson.-A formidable "gun" and
threatening language used in an at
tempted night holdup here proved so
ineffective that the stick-up artist
wound up the comedy by diligent use
Of his heels.
Zap.-A robbery Of a local pool
room, which was perpetrated few
nights ago brings out the fact that
night burglaries of this institution
have become approximately semi
annual affair.
Bismarck.-Forthcomi North Da-
kota historical volumes entitled North
Dakota Today" and where the West
Begins" by Miss Zena Irma Trinka,
city librarian ut Dickinson, have re-
Gently been announced.
Grand FOrks.-William Greenleaf,
executive secretary of the War Camp
Community Service, has issued letters
advising returned soldiers as to best
means of securing the benefits the
organization offers for their use.
Fargo.-The first nonstop air flight
from the Twin Cities to Fargo was
made by Lieutenant James Carling of
st. Paul and L. w. Hope of Ada, MIMI,
on the evening of August 1. The trip
was made in two hours and twenty
minutes time.
Bismnrck.-Attorney General Will
liam LANCER has been summoned To
Washington, upon the request Of
United States Attorney General Pail
mer, for conference in reference to
: the working out of the North Dakota
grain grading act.
Grand FOrks.-FavOrable early re-
turns are reported OH the 100000
financial drive recently started in be-
J half of Wesley college. the state e(u-
catlonal institution of the Methodist
; church. conducted in connection with
the state university.
J Grand Forks.-An enthusiastic local
welcome and the honors which accom-
pany the bestowal of the Distinguished
Service Cross and the French Croix de
. Guerre We're the lot of Mandell Olson
. on his return from the front to his
home in this city. The young man
was at one time reported killed in
action on the western front.
. Bislnrck.-rhe state equalization
. board, consisting of the governor, state
] treasurer, state auditor, attorney gen.
eral and the tax commissioner, is now
in session. The last named official,
J Mr.. George Il. Wallace, is secretary of
: the board under the new plan of or
} ganization arranged under present
: laws. An exceptionally busy session
is anticipated.
: Fargo.-One man was shot in the
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when band of five bandits, masked
and armed, entered a bunkcur occu.
pied by members of section crew
near Sanborn, and broke up card
; games in progress, cOnfiscating nil the
. money in sight and then forcing the
men to turn ocer their reserve sup
plies and other valuabes.
EargO-That turner's Of North na.
kota must continue to use every posi-
BILE means to check the spread of the
grasshOpper pest or suffer serious crop
shortage in 1920 and following years,
is the belief of Stewart Lockwood, en-
tension division entomologist at the
J Agricultural college. Sixty per cent
of the hoppers that damaged grain
fields this year, according to Mr.. Lock
wood, came from roadsides, fence rows
and fields which had been allowed to
go back to weeds. Thirty-three coun-
ties in the state nut m frra SShonnor