The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-10-14

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mission will issue standard rules for
central heating systems.
Bismarck-The first annual meeting
of the North Dakota Federation OF
music clubs was we'll attended here.
Charlson-It is rumored here that
eastern capital is interested in a beet
sugar refining plant for this vicinity.
Fargo-Canadian ag%riculturists visit
ed the North Dakota Agricultural col
lege to get farming ideas from this
state.
Tower City.-The postoffice won a
perfect score at the last inspection,
the first issued in - years by the
inspector.
Arthur-A dog and cat left here in
the same crate bound for Des Moines.
The question is, did they reach their
destination?
Jamestown-It has been established
that General Sibley camped near this
state while IN me of his Indian ex-
petitions in 1868.
Hannaford-Joseph Bagley, l. w. w,
was shot by F. w. Nolan, Great North
ern detective, when he refused to get
off a freight train.
Sanborn-Tha last Barnes county
member Of the state constitutional
convention in 1889 died in the person
of Elmer E. Elliott.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 9 is the date for
a special city election to choose a sue
cessor on the city commission to the
late William G. Mcdonald.
Shields -A community exhibition
with special displays and generous
prizes is planned for the last Of Octo-
Der or fore part of November.
Grand Forks-The old aldermanic
form of municipal government has
been abandoned and the recently elect
ed city commission is now in charge Of
city affairs.
Minot - "Shot." stabbed" "Fell
From Booze Car" "Hunted by Posse"
and similar headlines mark the front
page stories of the campaign against
whisky n
Palermo-Neil' D. Brownlee, conduc-
tor on the Great Northern, was almost
instantly killed when he was struck by
a passing train while walking on the
Great Northern tracks here.
Minot-Professor William F. Clarke,
head of the training school, has been
named acting president Of the Minot
normal school, succeeding DR.. A. G.
Crane, who resigned to take an edu-
cational post in Pennsylvania.
Bismarck-The North Dakota Bank
ers association has opened a branch
here under direction of Gordon Cox,
who resigned as deputy state tax COM
missioner. Income and capital stock
tax reports will be handled for men,
bers through this branch.
Tower City-Ghosts which badly
disconnected automobile travellers near
town for some time were finally ascer-
tanned by one less timid than the rest
to consist in the reflection of automo-
bile headlights from a conspicuous
tombstone in the cemetery.
Dickinson-Otto Jeske of Fayette,
north of here, may die as a result Of
an attack by Peter %Zakaypoka. said to
| w q l. S"CCtllSttl L VI A1IS. JeSkG.
Trouble over the alleged draft evasion
of Zakaypoka and smoldering jealousy
are said to have led the latter to at
tack Jeske with a pipe wrench and
cruelty beat him.
Grand Forks-Fifteen head of Hol-
stein cattle bred at Lilac Hedge farm
near here, carried off eight firsts,
eight seconds, two thirds. and one
fourth in competition with Minnesota,
Wisconsin, and Iowa herds at the
Sioux City interstate fair. The herd
also won two grand championships
and a senior championship.
Fargo Because the dangers of
hunting whisky runners are even
greater in his estimation than those of
hunting Boche along the French front
two years ago, D. f. Smith has re-
signed from the. federal prohibition
force he%adquartering in this city,, He
recently engaged in a gun fight with
a crew of runners who were desperate
and shot to kill.
Fargo-North Dakota has passed
South Dakota in population, the 1920
figures giving this state 645, $50 per-
sons, and South Dakota only $50, S39
which leaves them 9,S91 behind. The
gain in North Dakota during the past
decade was 11.9, as compared with a
nationwide gain Of 14.3, leaving the
Flickertail state "a per cen behind
the rest of the United States in rate
of growth. The increase from 1910 to
1920 was GS,G74, while during the pre-.
ceding ten years the state went from
about 100000 to 577,O56, or nearly
doubled. Cass county leads by a wide
margin with a population of 41,477 or
60 per cent of the states people. Ward
county crowds Grand Forks county ont
of the second place held in 1910 by
just %, the population of Ward being
2S,S11 as compared with 2S,7S5 in
Grand Forks. St6tsman county is
fourth with a population of 24,575, and
RiChlQn0 county is newt with Oh CO.,