The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-04-15
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out the slope country, and prospects
are very favorable.
Crary~The $4,000 school house
here was burned down recently. The
building was insured by the state.
Observation-Disclosures men of this
city have given 5000 toward the sup
port Of a fast baseball team during the
coming season.
Devils Lake.-A public playground
is practically assured for this city as
two fraternal bodies have donated
$3.50 toward the movement.
Grand Forks.-Maior b. L. Boyd of
this city has received the cross Of the
Legion of Honor, the highest dccora-
ton conferred by the French govern
ment.
Kindred.-Tollef Grant, youngest
son of Mr.. and Mrs. o. G. Grant, was
seriously injured when his sweater
caught in the fywheel of a gasoline
engine.
Bismarck. - Supplies are being
mailed out to every school district in
the state for the annual election Of
school board officials which takes
place in June.
Beach.-Harry E. Emery, who has
been connected with the schools ut
Sentinel Butte for the past three
years, has accepted the superintcnd-
ency of the schools of this city.
Mandan.-Dates for the annual
Missouri Slope fair was set ut Il meet
ing held here recently for Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday of the
second week in September.
Bismarck.-Sites Of historical trails,
camps and backgrounds in North Da-
kota will be marked by parks and
monumental tablets, according to
plans Of local patriotic organizations.
Milnor.-Sargent county farmers
have organized a Potato Growers as
ISOLATION. and at a recent meeting
elected officers for the coming year.
The association will ship in Early Ohio
seed at planting time, and will also
erect a large potato warehouse.
Mandan.-A "40-acre corn club" has
been organized in Morton county and
~ farmers have already signed up for
membership. When 100 have signed
the membership list will be closed.
Prizes ranging from $25 to 500 will
be paid for the best fields of corn
raised.
Bismarck.-The state auditors Of
fee is sending out notices to all county
officers giving the amounts due by the
various counties to cover the support
of the inmates of the Institution for
Feeble Minded, for the quarter end
ing March 81. The total amount due
is S12.G76.5O.
Bismarck.-The three cornered con-
ference which will be held for the
purpose of recommending a minimum
wage scale for female and minor en-
ployes in North Dakota will probably
he held the latter part of this month.
The meeting will very likely be held in
Grand Forks or Fargo.
Bismarck.-John c. Ritchey. one Of
the best known pioneer residents Of
this city, died following a long illness
due primarily to cancer. Mr.. Richey
was born in Ireland and came to
America in 1856. During the year of
1856 he moved to Bismarck, which was
at that time a typical frontier town.
Fargo.-Miss Winnie Bucklin, IL
brarian of the public library, has been
appointed North Dakota state director
for the "books for everybody" move
ment of the American Library associa-
ton. Statistics show that fully CO.
100000 people throughout the country
do not have access to public libraries.
Fargo.-C. w. Birs. president of the
Fur and Speciality company, charged
with selling speculative securities,
consisting of rabbits. in violation Of
the state "blue sky" law, has been
bound over to the district court and
was lodged in the county Jail on fail
ure to furnish the necessary $4,000
bonds.
Fargo.-Parties smuggling Canadian
liquor into North Dakota were ar
rested here last week after police Of
this city had fired five shots in order
to compel them to surrender. John
Burgess, proprietor of Il cigar store in
M0orhead, and Eugene Basson, a
laborer are two Of the parties impli-
Gated.
Fargo.-The large Dilworth car of
the Fargo-Moorhead Street Railway
company was badly damaged last week
when it was hit by q switch engine on
a railroad crossing in Moorhead.
There were only two male passengers
in the car, and outside of a slight
shaking up nc one suffered any physi-
cal harm.
Observation-Disclosures for the con-
structiOn of the state-owned mill and
elevator to be built at Grand Forks
have been let by the industrial COM
mission Jointly to SeaSles Construc-
ton company of Minneapolis and Fort
William, Ont. and the Northern Con-
%struction company of Grand Forks,
With the former in charge of the
work. The guaranteed price for the
construction of the mill and elevator
building is $922,S5O. This exclusive of
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