The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-01-01

W1lllStOn.-A new chufch ,eQlnce WILL
be erected by the First Lutheran con-
%gregation of this place.
Regent.-The farmers institute held
at this point had a good attendance
from all sections of the county.
Hazen.-Between 80 and 80 of Mer-
Ger county's school teachers were pres
ent at a successful institute held at
this place.
Crosby The annual sale of real
estate for delinquent taxes in Divide
county this year was one of the larg-
est ever held here.
Fargo.-Community Christmas exer-
cises were featured here under direc-
ton of Fargo and Moorhead civic and
commercial bodies.
Williston.-Preparations are continu-
ing for Williston's proposed auto and
industrial show TO be held in February
Or March.
Wilton.-Coal production at the
again reached q point neal the normal
output of the plant, it is announced,
Devils Lake.-This city has been ap-
portioned $1,34O as it's quota in the
fund to be raised for Ramsey county
Y. NJ. c. A. work for the coming year.
Observation-Disclosures for reports on
incomes for state taxation purposes
have just been distributed for use in
connection with the assessment Of the
1919 tax.
Drake.-The breaking Of a whiffe-
tree evener, which struck him across
the abdomen, was responsible for the
death of Herman Stoebar, a farmer
near here.
Bismarck.-By an almost unanimous
vote Bismarck agreed. at a special
election, to issue $4,000 bonds for the
erection Of a new ward school on the
east side Of town.
Bismarck.-The case against State
Auditor kositzky for alleged assault
upon c. o. Gummerson, a newspaper
man, has again been continued-this
time until January IL.
Bismarck.-The North Dakota excise
tax law was declared unconstitutional,
In a decision recently handed down by
the United States circuit court of ap-
peals, sitting at St. Louis.
misunderstanding parties at
work in many parts Of the state I'M
der direction of the state highway COM
mission have been called in for the re-
mainder Of the winter.
Minot.-A renewal of mail service
via the Minot-Drake local on the 500
line is being asked of the postal de-
partment in petitions which are being
widely circulated over the route.
Devils Lake.-Estimates covering Is
different kinds Of street paving are
under consideration here in connection
with a district paving project to. cost,
probably, a minimum Of $263,1s9.
Hatton.-Local citizens had the
unique pleasure Of securing some
choice cuts Of buffalo meat for their
Christmas dinners, through the enter
prise Of one Of the Hatton meat dis
pensers.
Fargo.-William Sluyter, a stock
salesman for the Grain Belt Manufac-
turing company of this city, commit
ted suicide a few days ago by swal-
lowing cyanide Of potassium at a
room in q local hotel.
Bismarck.-Dr. G. W. Harris, for
mer pastor of the Presbyterian church
here, has been called to Atlantic City
for an assignment to permanent work
In connection with the interchurch
world conference movement.
Crosby.-Divide county's sheriff,
Otto Peterson, had a narrow escape
from death when his automatic re-
volver fell to the floor and was dis
charged, grazing his abdomen, where
it made only a slight flesh wound.
Fort Yates.-A fortune of $4,000 in
cash, an allotment of $4,000 and in
herited land Of great value awaits
Clara Larraviere, or Clara Humphrey,
a woman whose mother was a Teton
Dakotah of Standing Rock reservation,
and who disappeared from that reser-
walton in 1897, it Is said.
Bismarek.-Need Of an additional
cut in tax levies, bringing the total
reduction to so per cent, is urged in a
recent Saturday Night Letter. given
to the press by Associate Justice Rob-
inson, who asserts that for this pur-
pose ut may be worth while to call
another extra session of the legisla-
ture."
Fargo.-The "oldest mittens" con.
troversy recently reused by items in
Fargo papers, has elected a claim by
George F. Clark, a local gardener, to
the possession Of a pair Of mittens
which have been retained as a family
heirloom for 200 years or nor They
are respectfully presented for consid-
Grafton as probably being the oldest
4tttens in the state.
Bismarck.-state immigration Com
missioner John H. Worst said in an
interview that he considered Senate
Bill No. 80, providing state aid for de-
velopment of the dairy industry, one
Of the best laws enacted in recent
years in the central west. The law is
one of those Dassed Mt the Snecial soc.