The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-11-18
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Flasher-A Maccabee lodge is being
organized.
Jamestown-A campaign is on for
better milk.
Portland-The Commercial club has
been re%organized.
Mohall-Steps to fight grasshoppers
in 1921 are being taken.
Rolla-John A. Solberg was killed.
when struck by an auto.
Beach-While driving his team,
Henry Stager, So, fell dead.
Devils Lake-"High School Life" is
a monthly magazine by the high school.
Finley-The Finley Light & Power
company is installing better machin-
cry.
Naturalization frauds are charged
in Billings county and there is talk of
contests.
Maddock-The Commercial club ar
ranged the successful sale of 40 regis
tered Shorthorns.
+. Carrington-Eighteen hundred BUSH
els Of potatoes on a %five-acre patch
netted a nice profit to D. X. ODER.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and buildings
valued at $1,000 were destroyed in a
fire ut the Home implement company
yards.
Maddock-Enrollment records are
broken by the present student body of
6O in the Benson county agricultural
school.
Devils Lake-Rae Kneeshaw, twice
cited by the French government, has
received the red and green fourragere.
He was n marine.
Fargo-The first contribution re-
ceived toward the $4,000 lot and
budget campaign of the Y. W. G. A.
was a $50 check coming by mail from
Honolulu.
Minot-Nine votes is the majority by
which Alfred Mostad, N%onpartisan, de-
feated Olaf j.. eleven, Independent, for
county treasurer. The race was perhaps
the closest in the state.
Misunderstanding car passengers
Joined in an i%mpromptu night parade
when their coach caught fire. None was
injured and a freight train behind the
passenger quenched the flames.
Fryburg-Two and Il half years each
was the sentence imposed upon John
Doyle and Earl Henerson, 81 and %,
respectively, for shooting and injuring
+. X. Julian, Western Union operator,
from a passing train. They had rifed
4 mai sack and had in their possession
$4,000 in papers.
Bismarck-North Dakota was one of
the II states in the Union in which IS
per cent or more of the drafted men
were able to pass the physical examin-
alton for army service. The - states
include the western half Of the Mis-
sissippi valley.
Mandan-By a vote of $40 to 4O3,
the City of Mandan, ut a special cleo
ton, rejected the proposition of a
municipal coal yard, which lad been
proposed by the central labor body.
Nelson Luther was elected n member
of the city commission over three
other candidates by Il 1877 plurality.
Fargo--A state federation of farm
DuAcduS III 4\oItIl 4JtkOto VIII he formed
to affiliate with the national fedora
ton. Delegates from 10 counties of
the state met here, listened to several
addresses by experts in cooperative
work, enjoyed a banquet together, and
named the necessary committees to
perfect their organization.
Observation-Disclosures Of Stark county
were overwhelmingly in favor OF county
agricultural work, as shown by the re-
turns at the recent election, where the
proposition appeared on the county hal
lot. The voters of seven other counties
of the state expressed themselves in
favor Of this work. Following is the
vote cast on the matter in the various
counties, except Williams, where the
figures are not yet available:
County For Against
burke ,5S4 1867
I'lNlue .....1,4IO 1873
Golden Valley. $50 521
kidder 1OO7
Morton 1909
oiope ,O-2 4O7
Minot-The whisky runners operat-
ing in northwestern North Dakota are
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