Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-08-21
FACTS ABOUT THE
FuCKERTA|L STATE

session here.
Mandan.-A "great white way" is
being installed with ornamental cleo
trical street lights here.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of this city
will erect a magnificent church at a
cost Of approximately $4,000.
Mandan.-A Homecoming celebration
will be held on the second day of the
Missouri Slope fair, September 16.
Mandan.-The Brotherhood of Rail-
way Trainmen will organize a lodge of
their order at this point in the near
future,
Brocket.-Robbers smashed in the
rear windows of a local hardware
store and escaped with 5000 worth of
merchandise.
Dickinson.-This city will give a
Its var heroes the first or second week
in September.
Bismarck.-The water level in the
Missouri river at this point is now the
lowest at any time since government
records have been kept.
Napoleon.-Logan county is said to
have been the first county in the state
to have deposited its public funds in
the Bank Of North Dakota.
Rolette.-A county Sunday school
convention held here brought many
workers together and resulted in the
exchange Of valuable ideas.
Cando.-Eino Karnoven, a former
inmate of the state asylum for the
insane, killed himself with a gun after
disappearing from his home here.
Grand ForkS.-LOcal telephone rates
are announced to be increased, effec-
tive September l, with business phones
to be charged for at 81 per month.
Dickinson.-A local man is planning
to turn the wild mustard pest into
something useful by pressing the oils
from the seed for cooking purposes.
Observation-Disclosures and Temp
kins of Fargo defeated Blatherwick
and Muir in the doubles at the state
tennis tournament held in this city.
Bismarck.-Selections of equipment
for school demonstrations in cream
testing have been announced by State
Dairy Commissioner j. ]. Osterhaus.
Minot.-This city and Grafton ball
teams claim the state championship
for the season-Minot with IL record OF
% winnings out of 81 gamss played.
Fargo.-An unknown stranger about
fifty years old is dead here following
commissions believed to have been
brought on by drinking wood alcohol
Fargo.-A four-story distributing
house will be built by the Pence Auto
company in this city at Il o of $50,
600, the contract having already been
let for the work.
Grand Forks.-The local army re.
cruiting station led the district in the
number Of enliStmentS for the week
ending August 10. The local total was
Is for the week.
Pembina.-One of the largest Ian.
transfers of the season in this sector
Of the state was the sale of 1897 ace:
by +. Z. Morris for Il little over $4,000
The purchaser halls from Illinois.
Devils Lake.-The sugar supply here
is down to Il precarious minimum
quantity, it is alleged by dealers
Similar reports are also being received
from various other cities in the state
Bismarck.-The state department OF
agriculture has, through its employ.
ment offices, secured work for hun
dreds of discharged soldiers since theil
return from the war.
WillistOn.-Old settlers of Williams
and Mckenzie counties will hold theil
annual picnic in Burdick's grove or
Saturday of this week, with Usher L
Burdick and George Schafer as speak
ers of the day.
Bismarck.-Ihe state supreme court
has ordered that term; of district court
in this state, under the new judicial
redistricting act, shall be conducted or
the same time schedule as heretofore
until further orders.
DickinsOn.-County farmin. agents
Of Dunn, Hettinger. Slope and Starl
couaties, in cooperation with a loca
live stock commission, have arranged
for a mammoth horse sale to be hel(
here August 26 to %.
FarGo.-StatlStlcS just made public
show mortality fcotings Of 1,OO6 fol
the second quarter of 1919, as agains
l,OOo for the the corresponding quartz.
of the previous year. Pneumonia to
tails were IT'S for the 1919 period, ant
40 for April, May and June, 1918.
Fargo.-North Dakota food admins
traitors will serve again in helping tn,
government to determine fair prices t,
be charged for food in various local.
ties, establishing lists which it is be
lieved may become effective as govern
ing maximum prices to be allowed.
Bismarck.-The wheat yield for thi
section of the state will be about tn
same as last year, according to G.. A
Baker, manager of a local flour mil
!, Flax, according to the same author
ity, is the poorest for many seasons
while the rye crop is not MATERIAL
different from last year but is of yer
fine quality.
Marmarth.-BOwman and Sion
counties united in a Sunday schot
convention at this point.
,l, sod.