Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1920-12-30
State SUMMARY
PassingGhn,pses
ofLate Events in
North Dakota
Beach-A Town crlcrs club is being

al MISUNDERSTANDING ". f1unSOu is HOW
postmaster at this point.
Devils Lake-The paving job re-
cently completed cost $415, 483.53.
Center-The fund for the Hazel
Miner memorial has reached $500.
Observation-Disclosures head of tuber-
rular cattle have been killed here.
Harvey-Farmers and business men
met in joint session to discuss finances.
LaM0ure-Robert Lloyd, "a, for IS
years prominent stock buyer, is dead.
Starkweather-A Y. NJ. G. A. has
been organized with Loran Currie
president.
FargO-Drawings are being exhibit
ed of the new 100000 home for Elks
in this city.
Grand Forks-The North Dakota as
sociation of County Commissioners
will meet here January 1920.
Gardner-The tender of the Oriental
Limited left the track here and de-
layed Great Northern traffice eight
hours.
Barney-Yeggs with nitroglycerine
secured $500 in cash and $4,000 in
securities in robbery of the Bank Of
Barney.
Fairmount-AIaif for Childs, Wilkin
county, Minnesota, will come here
since the discontinuance of the post
office there.
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 were
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. Mime
sofa, North and South Dakota.
Agricultural College-Divided into
tenance, experimenting, and extension
work, the appropriation asked for by
the A. G. for 1922 totals S1.276,S7S.
Carrington-Charles II. Varty. now
with the Independent here, learned the
printers trade in England, where Mt
the end of Il six years apprenticeship
he was getting wage of $3.50 per
week.
Drake-A ten-year-old boy is plain
tiff in)a suit against Joseph Keller for
$4,000, alleging that he was injured
when invited by Keller to ride OH a
hand sled behind the latter's motor
cycle.
University-Gottfried HUT, profess
sor Mt this institution, has acquired
considerable note as poet. His lat
est volume is "Outbound." \ former
volume winning much favor Was REV
cries.
BuxtOn-Finding that sugar beets
can be very successfully grown in the
Red River valley, farmers Of this vi
entity have launched movement look
ing toward the establishment of Il
sugar refinery.
Hillsboro - 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 II
candidate for sheriff in any North Da-
kOta county. The warden of the peni-
Tertiary ut 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 threshing out
fit is legally in the pursuit of agricul-
ture is technical question that may
he settled for the North Dakota COM
pensation bureau in suit pending
here. Mike Charnesky asks $4,000
damages for the loss of an eve when
the water glass of threshing engine
blew up.
Mapleton - Eleven Cass county
wheat growers are $47.5OO 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 $4S,5OO
more than that of other wheats grown
under exactly the same conditions.
Valley City-Ten thousand dollars
has been pledged by good roads enthu-
siasts of Minnesota to aid North Da.
kota in launching a state highway
system similar to that in operation
under the Babcock plan in Minnesota,
I. j. 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.
Bismarck-Work on the homes being
erected by the home builders associa.
.tiOn and on the state mill and elevator
has been suspended.
Farg0-That business women rank
higher in psychological tests of intel
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