The Hope pioneer., 1920-12-30

years 4 prominent STOCK buyer, is ucau. |
Starkweather-AY Y. NJ. c. A. has
been organized with Loran Currie
president.
Williston-Cottonwoods in, this vi
cinity were beginning to leaf when the
cold snap hit the state.
Gardner-The tender of the Oriental
left the track here and de-
layed Great Northern traffice eight
hours.
Grand Forks-The North Dakota as
sociation of County Commissioners
will meet here January 1S-19-20.
Barney-Yeggs with nitroglycerine !
secured $500 in cash and $4,000 in
securities in robbery of the Bank of
Barney.
Bergen-Two hundred is an average
attendance ut the meetings of the local
farm bureau, which is accomplishing
remarkable results.
Lisbon-Fire breaking out in the
Cohen & Frishberg store burned that
establishment and four other business
houses with loss of $S3,5OO.
Linton-Seventeen candidates We're
given the work of the Knights of
Pythias when 100 members from the
local and neighboring lodges met here.
Fort YateS-Two youths pleaded
guilty in district court to slaughtering
cattle on the ranges near here. One
was remanded to the reformatory, the
other was paroled.
Valley City-E. c. Hilborn has been
honored with the presidency of the
Northwest Nurserymen's association,
comprising Wisconsin, Iowa, Minne-
sofa, North and South Dakota.
Devils Lake-Einding by Sheriff Ed
Elliott Of Il number of files and hack
saws in the cell of G. c. Turner in the
county Jail is believed to have frus-
trated a wholesale Jail delivery.
CarringtOn-Charle +. Varty, now
with the Independent here, learned the
printers trade in England. where, at
the end Of a six years apprenticeship
he was getting Il wage of $3.50 per
week.
Drake-A ten-year-old hoy is plain
tiff in Il suit against Joseph Keller for
$4,000, alleging that he was injured
when invited by Keller to ride on Il
hand sled behind the latter's motor
cycle.
Universi:y-Gottfried Hult, profess
sor at this institution, has acquired
considerable note as Il poet. His lat
est volume is "Outbound" A former
! volume winning much favor was "Rev-
cries.
| BuN1on--Finding that sugar beets
can be very successfully grown in the
Red River valley. farmers of this vi
cinity have launched a movement look
ing toward the establishment of a
sugar refinery.
! HiIlshoro Climbing through the
window of Il downstairs bedroom. Mrs.
Andrew Christensen rescued her two
months-old baby from flames which de-
stroyed her home. The day before the
fire Mrs ChriStiansen's mother died.
| BiSmarck-Search of the records
fails to reveal that John Ford was a
candidate for sheriff in any North Da-
kota county. The warden of the peni-
tentiary at Joliet. Ill.,. wrote to this
state that he had information that
escaped convict No. 1921 ran for office
! under that name in this state
Anamoose-Whether or not man
engaged in operating Il threshing out
fit is legally in the pursuit of agricul-
ture is technical question that may
be settled for the North Dakota COM
pensation bureau in 1: suit pending
here. Mike Charnesky asks $4,000
damages for the loss of an eye when
the water glass of Il tfreshing engine
blew up.
Mapleton - Eleven Cass county
wheat growers are $47, 800 better off
than they would have been had they
raised some other variety of wheat
than Kubanka, according to the report
Of the county agricultural agent. They
sowed $3.50 bushels to 1000 acres of
land and the yield was worth S4S,5OO
more than that Of other wheats grown
under exactly the same conditions
Agricultural COllege-"Farm Man
agement as Insurance in the Great
Plains of North Dakota" is the subject
upon which Professor Cap F.. Miller
will deliver paper before the Ameri-
can Farm Economic association in an
nual convention in Washington De-
cember 30 to January l.. Professor
Miller of the North Dakota college
was invited by H. c. Taylor, chief Of
the office of farm management Of THE
United States department of agricul-
ture.
Valley City-Ten thousand dollars
has been pledged by good roads enthu-
siasts of Minnesota to aid North Da-
kota in launching state highway
system similar to that in operation
under the BABE ,ck plan in Minnesota.
!. ]. Moe of this city president of the
North Dakota Good Roads association.
together with three other officials of
the state organization. met with Min
nesota boosters in st. Paul to learn
the details of starting the move.
Fargo-During the Tri-State Stock
and Grain Growers convention here