Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-01-08
NORTH DAKOTA

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will erect a $4,000 temple within a
short time.
Williston.-Robbers forced entrance
to the Eagle store and escaped with a
quantity of merchandise.
Fargo.-Local Elks staged a big
celebration, administering initiation to
a class of 1876, on New Years day.
Minot.-Thieves who entered a local
drug store made away with a $3.50
selection of kodaks and fountain pens.
Williston.-Representatives of the
United States cavalry service were
here to purchase horses on January 6.
Fargo.-The North Dakota Chill
dren's Home received a bequest of
$4,000 from the John S. Watson estate.
Fargo.-This city will have a new
plant to dry buttermilk for shipment
to various points where it is required
for bakery use.
Grand Forks.-A general clinic is ex-
nected to be opened at the Deaconess
hospital here before the close Of the
month. !:
Jamestown.-A city election will
take place here ON March 16, at the
same time as the presidential prefer
ence primary.
Grand Forks.-There will be only
n or two criminal cases for trial
when the Grand Forks county district
court convenes, January g..
Dickinson.-A drive has been in
augurated to increase the attendance
of the Dickinson normal school for it's
winter term opening January 5.
Dickinson.-Mrs. Margaret Hayes
Stickney, wife of DR.. V. H. S%tickney,
pioneer physician of this district,
passed away after a lingering illness.
Bismarck.-Local Daughters of the
American Revolution will see that the
Theodore Roosevelt cabin on the state
capitol grounds has better care, it is
said.
Minot.-Hundreds of dead bodies Of
horses are lying in coulees in the sur
rounding counties. Veterinarians claim
that grasshopper poison in the straw
is the cause.
Fargo.-The Standard Oil company
is investing a bit of money in North
Dakota town lots at points where new
or improved service station facilities
may be required.
Fargo.-Reports from various coun-
ties show that lists of census enumera-
tors are gradually being filled, so that
instructions can be given for the later
seasons work.
Observation-Disclosures Small, IS years
old, one of the pioneer farmers of
Burleigh county, is dead after a short
illness. Mr.. Small came to this coun-
try in the spring of 81.
Bismarck. - Only two dissenting
votes We're cast against bonding the
Bismarck school district for SITS, 900
to erect a new eight-room school build.
ing. There were 1853 votes cast.
Devils Lake.-The American Legion
post voted to send a resolution to con-
gress requesting that Victor Berger.
recently elected to congress from the
Milwaukee district, be not seated in
the house.
Reg"n.-The two-year-old child of
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Gronhoy was killed
by gas escaping from a coal stove.
The mother and baby brother are also
in a serious condition as a result of
breathing the fumes.
Grand Forks.-Elmer Dezell was
shot and killed by Joe T%horenson. q
farm hand, who afterward attempted
suicide but will recover. The shooting
occurred at the Dezell farm about 20
miles north of Grand Forks.
Bismarck.TThe reorganization of
the old Fighting First, North Dakota's
pioneer national guard regiment, will
be undertaken Immediately after the
flrst OF the year, Adjutant General
Fraser has announced.
fargo.-Wouldbe robbers took a
shot at Roy T. Baker, a local business
man, when confronted at the outdoor
entrance of the latter's basement on
the last day Of the old year. Baker
was uninjured, and the bandits got
away.
Bismarck.-Mrs. G. r. Baldwin.
mother of Mrs. Christensen, wife of
Chief Justice A. M. Christensen, Of
the North Dakota supreme court, and
1or years a prominent resident of
Minot, died at San Diego, Calf, on
Christmas night as the result of an
automobile accident.
Cavalier.-Wolves have been nm
usually thick since the first snowfall,
and the greatest wolf drive in the his
tory of North Dakota has been
launched. 1t will last until April Is.
Several hundred dollars in prizes will
be distributed among the parties kill
ing the most wolves during the period.
Observation-Disclosures Schiller. who
was convicted of stealing a cornet and
saxaphQne from Mickie O'Connor's or
chestra, will be required to serve two
indeterminate sentences concurrently."
according to newspaper reports, and
it is said the unhappy miscreant is
glad he didn't also take the bass drum.
Bismarck.-By a unanimous decision
of the state supreme court the case
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