Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-03-27
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Fnrgo.-The Rotary club Of this city
plans to raise $1,000 for support of
the Public Welfare association and
the Boy Scouts band.
WillistOn.-O. +. Ohnstad, well
known musician and band lender of
this city, will be married. 1t is an
nOunced, to Miss Olga Wetzel of Du.
luth.
FnrgO.-The life and work of Lieu
tenant Colonel Gilbert c. Grafton, rec
emily deceased, was extOlled by speak
ers ut II large memorial meeting held
in his honor at the Gethsemane Gu
thedral here.
| Mnndnn.-MOrton county will have II
series of twelve farm wOmen's meet
ings for the discussion of better home
economic plans under direction of the
county's home demonstration agent
recently employed here.
FnrgO.-lmpOrtnnt conventions of
Methodist pastors and lnymen In con-
nectiOn with the Centenary" move
ment Of the church here were held
In Fargo and Bismarck during the
past week, with many prominent
speakers present to assist. s.
Mandan.-Morton county officials
are considering the acceptance OF Il
proposition which would render nvail-
able to them 100000 Of government
money for road Improvement upon the
expenditure of $4,000 by the county
during the next three years.
| II,
who took advantage of the january
thnw to get an early start with their
spring seeding are wishing they
hndn't. as the subsequent cold
wenthcr, following partial germinl-
ton. has ruined most of their seed
Mandan.-Major j. NJ. Hanley ar
rived home last week as per sched-
ule. and after receiving sulutations
! from his many old-time friends dis
cnrded his military marks and title
and resumed his former official role
us district judge. leaving promptly
for Stanton to held Il regular term of
court.
New England.-The Kunze Farm
ers' club of this vicinity has plan
on foot to buy seed and feed in car
load lots on cooperative plan with
the assistance of the county farming
agent, anu 1t Is believed that besides
getting tirst-class grain very mater
ial cash saving will be realized from
the plan.
Bismarck.-Grnndfnth Bailey, n
well-kpown nonOgenarian Of this
county, is dead. The aged man was
one of Burleigh county's earliest resi-
dents and was the father of Repre-
sentative l.. ID. Bailey, at whose home
he was residing, at MOffit, ut the time
Of his death. He was % years of
age.
| FargO-Municipnl ownership of
electric lighting plants is an issue in
the city campaigns both in Fargo and
Grand Forks this year, and will have
considerable to do with the sue
cess or failure of candidates for
commissioners in both places
ut the elections, which occur early in
April.
Grand FOrks.-Feed crop reserves in
the western twO-thirds of the state
are below the average for this time
of the year, according to recent re-
port by a. j. Surratt, state field agent
of the United States department of
agriculture's bureau of crop estimates.
In the northwest quarter of the state
both feed and seed are unusually
short.
Ellendnle. - Strychnine pois on
enough to have killed twelve men
was found in the breakfast food about
to be eaten by William II. Fleming,
IL young farmer living near here.
Fleming discarded the food owing to
the unpleasant taste, and the hired
man on his farm is under arrest, sus-
picioned of having prepared the dead
ly dose.
Grand FOrks.--The Theodore Roose.
welt Memorial highway overland from
seaboard to seaboard between the
two POrtlands will pass through this
city, it Is announced. Plans in prog
ress for this route give promise of
making it the best marked highway
In the country. Poles will be marked
with II red band and white borders
with the initials "T. r." in the center :
with the signs ar" IL" or "X" on
the sides OF the poles. 1t is hoped
to have the trail marked before the
opening of the tourist season.
New Salem.-The death of Il. A.
Schneider in this city early last week
ends the jurisdiction of federal courts
in II case which was awaiting trial for
seditious utterances alleged to have
been made shortly after America s
entry into the war. Mr.. Schneider,
who was n former well known county
official. was arrested ut about the
same time with Rev. j. Fontann, who
was convicted of seditiouS utterunces
aud Is now serving term ut Fort
Lcavenworlh. The case Of Mr.
Schneider was continued and would
probably have been tried within II
short time had 1t not been for his
death.
Mandan.--Captain Charles Heater
known as the bomber ace of aces
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