The Hope pioneer., 1921-04-28

VaHPeIOn-.WOrk IS 0XpeCCeO LO
commence soon on the new $25,0O0
library.
Mandan-The Masons hope to erect
$65,OOO temple during the present
year.
Agricultural coIIege-Miss Hazel
Spencer of Iowa, will take up the
work of food specialist June 1.
VeIva-Seventy-six test shafts from
so to 172 feet deep show vast coal de-
posits in this vicinity.
Sentinel Butte-The Farmers eleva-
tor burned with total loss to grain
and building of $4,000.
University-The annual high school
conference and inter-scholastic con-
tests will be held here May 1921.
Agricultural coIlege-A battery of
four new silos is planned fo- the insti-
tuition this year.
Huff-Fire in the Missouri bottoms
destroyed considerable timber near
here.
Hankinson-Lawrence Marvin, rural
mail carrier, disappeared while on his
route and cannot be found.
Fort Yates-Joe Horncloud is held
under $1,000 bond for firing a rifle at
two of his neighbors.
Westhope-A vacant store building
has been converted into a community
hall.
BowbelIs-The local cemetery asso-
citation has been reorganized and the
cemetery will be improved and beauti-
fed
carson-One by one the Grant
county election contests are being de-
cided in favor of the present incum-
Ibents.
WilIiston - Thirty-three years of
service as fireman and engineer on the
Great Northern without missing pay
check is the record Of Joseph Grow.
Minot-The South Prairie Township
Community club plans modern COM
munity building, 30x72 feet, with kit
chen, dining room, and library.
sutton-The Retzlaff elevator, con-
tanning 10000 bushels Of grain, was
burned. Mr.. Retzlaff's elevator burned
here year ago.
Observation-Disclosures apparently
being against salaried ball team this
year, local business men are organiz-
ing twilight league.
| Hazen-Charges of embezzling $32,-
800 have been placed against c. N.
JanZen, cashier of the Citizens State
bank.
Schafer-McKenzie county has
brought suit against the Great North
ern for the assessment of ten miles Of
unfinished roadbed.
Minot-The sixteenth annual con-
vention of the North Dakota State
Dental association will be held here
May 10 and 20.
Devils Lake-A. M. Challey is new
agricultural agent for Ramsey county.
He succeeds William L. Guy, now sec
retary of the North Dakota Wool
Growers association at Fargo.
Hannaford-The Northern Pacific is
experimenting with salvage train
along this branch, picking up waste
materials that otherwise would be
lost.
crosby-After flying quarter Of a
mile in homemade airplane with a
Ford engine, Sig Anderson, former
local aviator, fell Is feet at Broadview,
Mont. He was slightly bruised.
Fargo-Opposition to the propagan-
da being spread tending to create ill
feeling, between the United States and
England was expressed by the North
Dakota society, Sons of the American
Revolution, in annual meeting here.
Wahpeton-Four hearings in district
court and four hearings in supreme
court during IL years is the history of
case involving commission on a
property sale which still is pending
here.
Fargo-Out of more than $4,000 ap-
plications from North Dakota, Mon
tana, Idaho, and Washington, for seed
loans more than $1,2OOOO0 of the two
million dollar fund have been ad-
vanced to date.
cIifford-Blanchard and Galesburg
service men have Joined with local
veterans of the world war in organiz-
ing Sigurd B. Aason post No. 200 Of
the American Legion. Meetings will
alternate between Clifford and Gales
burg.
Fargo-That whisky running has
been cut down to only per cent of
its prevalence last spring by the CO.
operation of federal, state, and county
officials in their war up the Canadian
traffic, is the statement of Lane Ma
loney, chief Of the federal prohibition
agents.
cando-That the number of owntr RS
operating farms is slowly decreasing
while the number of tenants increases
Is the outstanding feature of the fed
eral farm census just issued for II
North Dakota counties. That the
farms are growing smaller and more
numerous also is Indicated.
6ismarck-A children's code COM
mission, authorized by 1921 session
law, has been appointed by the COVER