The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1919-08-14
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will. be held FOR applicants for the
gspOsitions Of postmaster at Landa and
SGalchutt.
Rlaza.-Tire thieves who looted a
local garage q few nights ago made
06s#with q large haul of auto Access
4offes, it is said.
Lake.-Little Freddie Folk,
ssA#13Ged 3, nearly killed himself by drink
ing a half-piut of gasoline. Quick an
5tidotes saved the child's life.
ismarck.-City Engineer Hensen
Eeports a total local water consump-
xfi0rsof 24,4S5,00O gallons for the month
July, the heaviest ever kpown in
the city.
@MSSSNew Rockford.-W. r. Davidson,
f0rmer local banker recently arrested
for alleged unlawful banking methods,
81 has been held to district court under
$4,000 bonds.
SKilldeer.-Joseph Remsing of this
place was killed when the team he
was driving, attached to a mower,
away, throwing him out in front
the sickle bar.
tSt.s Napoleon.-Contracts for highway
improvements amounting to $4,000
have been awarded for work in Logan
M county, consisting of q 22-mile stretch
at road running east and west of here.
Mott.-Mark Syverud, a local jew
" 9eeiler, was nearly e~lectrocuted by a cur
rent Of heavy voltage with which he
came in contact accidentally while try
ting to charge the c%arbonator of his
Soda fountain.
S 8sG!. Bismarck.-Cream testing and grain
h grading will be made a part of the
state common school curriculum, the
u same as 'readin', 'ritin', 'rithmetic,"
lander plans now being prepared by
Sst1te authorities here.
SSsS@& Fargo.-The North Dakota Pharma-
SNSceutical association closed it's annual
meeting here with the election of John
ssfs Void of Grand Forks as president and
the selection of that city as. the place
sNfor the next annual meet.
I Bismarck.-Dr. John H. Worst,
s~sspresident emeritus of the state Agri-
$scultural college, has assumed his du-
M9lSntieSI under a recent appointment of
VI Governor Lynn j. Frazier, as state
commissioner of immigration.
Mott.-The Hettinger county stock
team, consisting of Messrs.
s5faaHans Soehren and Donald Black of
this city and Edward Crazy of Bentley
avon the championship for the season
Sat the state fair at Grand Forks.
ssHN Bfsmarck.-Thanks to quick work
SOY local police, William O'Brien, aged
s#$21,'fs serving a term in the state peni-
SSs S Tertiary, where he was committed
after pleading guilty to a burglary
n which he had committed but a few
nights before.
Observation-Disclosures have been an
III nounced by the postoffice department
at Washington for the following ap.
I pointments in North Dakota: At Car.
arlington for Harvey; at Valley City for
M Marion; at FlaXton for Portal: at
IN Rugby for Towner; at East Grand
ssH Forks for University.
All Minot.-The record baseball game of
the season was played here a few days
III ago when Berthold and Minot teams
IS went twenty innings to decide u game
which had tied in the third inning at
AZ one to one, and again in the fifteenth
III inning at three and three. Berthold
" won with an additional run in TWEEN.
M tieth, and ended the game.
Schafer.-CauteriZation with q hot
81 poker is believed to have saved the
u life Of Miss Sackette, a hOmesteade1
I living Is miles southeast of here, when
\ she was bitten by a rattlesnake a few
days ago. Usual %antidotes for the
| poison being lacking, her sister thought
a of the cauterization method, which
u was tried with evidently unusual sue.
sS cess.
s# Bismarck.-The source of salaries
for new judges to be named under
s Ted1stricting legislation in the state is
n not clearly defined, according to State
.3$&s Auditor Carl Kositzky, but a recent
rs opinion from the office of Attorne,
General LANCER holds that all salaries
duly authorized by law are a legal Lin.
bility against the state, regardless~o1
provision as to the funds from which
4 rthey shall be obtained.
neutrality-suspicious. for loans
n from the Bank of North Dakota are
81 to be made through local banks an6
n not direct to the parent institution, ac
cording to announcement made by
rs Director General F. w. Cathro. Loca,
q banks will receive a So fee on each
Nj loan, it is stated, besides a commits.
q sion of one-fourth Of one per cent
" More than 300 applications have SC
far been received.
Dickinson.-Belated rainfall in the
N western section of the state has some
n what improved grass conditions fol
&: range cattle, although too late to he OF
material advantage so fas as grain
4 crops are concerned. OF a recorded
! local rainfall of only .S5 inches in July
about two-thirds fell on the next tc
the last day of the month. In SOM
agricultural and stockraising sections
1t is said that small grain crops which
do not warrant harvesting will be used