Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1920-12-09


Park River-The Baptist church,
built in 1885, was burned.
Grandin-The $4,000 school house
will be ready by January 1.
MISUNDERSTANDING 1926 are the
dates set for the midwinter fair.
Hank!nson-A home talent play will
be held to boost the library fund.
Beach-Attorney j.. A. Miller's brick
farmhouse was burned with q loss Of
$4,000.
White Earth-A ten-acre hill slid
into creek here, leveling an adjOin-
ing farm.
Dickinson-The builder of the first
house on this site, John ]. McDonough,
GA, is dead.
Sawyer-M. H. Wenner has been
named superintendent of the Ward
county poor farm.
Almont-So free is the ground from
frost in this vicinity that farmers are
discing their fields.
COlumbus-FOrty business men and
farmers have organized the Columbus
Goodfellowship club.
JamestOwn-Harry FOrman has been
missing since he drew heavily on his
account November 10.
New England-Liberal prizes al
ready are being announced for the 1921
corn contest in Hettinger county.
Williston-Billy Sunday and VIII
Hays already are scheduled as speak
ers at the Williston Chautauqua next
summer.
Dazey-Miss Anna Hendrickson, Wis.,
iting here from South Dakota, was
painfully injured when an automobile
overturned in muddy road.
Agricultural College-About $50
boys and girls from over the state are
expected to attend the achievement
week program December 1918.
Minot-Federal and state MD will
be sought for the proposed North
State highway from Chicago through
this state into the Canadian north
west
Arthur-Thrown from his. wagon
when the horses took fright at q pass
ing train, Frederick f. Maurer sus-
tanned broken neck and died almost
instantly.
Fargo-George E. Duis of Grand
Forks heads the North Dakota branch
of the National Wheat Growers assoc
citation, which is seeking to increase
the price Of wheat.
Williston-C. A. M. Spencer, 20
year-old lawyer, is believed to be the
Oldest man on the state payroll. He
has been appointed to membership in
the compensation bureau.
Maddock-D. A. Hill sustained
severe burns when he tried to save
some of his property from destruction
shop, garage, and automobile.
Minto-The stock judging team of
two boys and one girl from this state
took ninth place among IL state
championship teams in the contest at
the International stock show in Chi
cago.
Fargo-During the second week in
January the Tri-State Grain Growers
association will hold their annual
meeting and exhibit here, and the
Fargo home products show will be
held In conjunction.
Williston-Sixty-eight to nothing
was the trouncing administered by
Williston high school to Grafton high
school in the state championship foot
ball match at Grand Forks. The team
was banqueted on its return.
Grafton-The American Holstein-
Friesian association has accepted into
the advanced registry Cerben West
side Mona, COW belonging to John p.
Jackson. She has record Of 27.5
pounds of butter in one week.
Great Bend-Because business dur
ing the last ten years has totaled only
SOL over the mile of railroad from
here to Bayne, while expenses have
been $4,000, the Northern Pacific has
asked permission to tear up the line.
Lidgerwood-Arnold Oss, world fa-
nous for his athletic performances, is
one Of three North Dakota men win
ming fame in eastern educational insti-
buttons. Leslie Harrison, noted Pur-
due distance runner, is from Mandan,
and Verne Booth, Splinter, is from
Sawyer.
Turtle Lake-The discovery recent
ly Of bloody busting cap, mask, and
piece Of cloth on the Wolf farm is
held by attorneys interested in the
Henry Layer case as evidence that he
had woman accomplice. The motion
made for permission to Layer to with
draw his plea Of guilty and stand trial
has been denied and as the case now
stands he will continue the service of
his life sentence.
Bismarck Distinguishment is made
between public and private legal
notices in q recent opinion of the at
torney general, bearing on the initiated
law governing the publication Of legal
notices. County commissioners pro-
ceedings, tax lists and similar notices
originating with the county boards,
and all city, town, and school notices