Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-05-19

oul CURRENCY soon Will De carrying the
signature shown above.
Drake-The state mill has been tenn
porarily closed.
Minot-Seeding operations are far
ahead of this time last year.
MohalI-J. r. Hewett of Fosstoa,
Mimi, is now Renville county agent.
AshIey-A mass meeting boosting
good roads is to be held here May 80.
Wiliiston-Lewis Danielson, coal
mine manager, has beer missing two
weeks.
cresby-F. r. Babcock has resigned
as Divide county agent to farm for
himself.
carson-AH of Grant county was
represented at a road booster meeting
here May 20.
New England-Daily mail service
by stage is now operating direct be-
tween here and Dickinson.
Devils Lake-Frank Palmer, "a, the
oldest farmer in the lake region, where
he had lived since 1868, is dead.
Notwithstanding a stick of dyna-
mite in his mouth and lighting the
fuse, Julius Boehning, SO, blew off the
top of his head.
St. Thomas-G. Fl. Garnet of this
place and J.. D. Bacon Of Grand Forks
have been named directors of the Mis-
sisslppi Valley association.
Fargo-Ap attractive program has
been arranged for the annual conven-
ton of the North Dakota Retail Mer.
chants association here June ITO.
Mandan-Jos. p. Hess succeeds the
late IL. r. Lyon as president of the
First National bank here, the Oldest
bank in the western part of the state.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of all faculty
members have been substantially in
creased, ranging from $1,SOO for in
structors to $4,000 for Dean q. J. Bah
cock.
Mandan-W. S. McClelland of New
York City has taken up his duties as
superintendent of the state training
school at Mandan, succeeding j. NJ.
Deyine.
Apple Creek-The arrival of an
extra freight ahead of N. P. train No.
3 probably averted a wreck or Il holdup
here, when ties We're found piled on
the track.
Minot-Smoke from the explosion Of
a Kerosene stove smothered the ten
months old daughter of S. T.. Van Hook
while the parents We're absent from
the house.
Halliday-Buried under more thai a
foot of dirt in a mine cavein. FLOYD
Plant was badly injured. He was
saved from suffocation by the rapid
work of a fellow miner.
Horace-Nine horses, two cows. and
hundreds of dollars worth of comm
ment were burned in a fire which de-
stroyed the Phillip Tessier barn here
with a loss of yer $4,000.
Fareo-The 1858 seed loans an
proved by the federal seed loan agent
here total S1,S96,S42. They cover the
western portion Of this state, Montana.
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Bisnarck-Dr. e. P. Quain is in
charge of enrolling applicants from
this state for the military training
school which will be operated at Fort
Smelling this summer. A stiff short
course in military drill and tactics
IS open to all men between 16 and 30.
Bismarck--A marked increase in the
corn acreage of the state in the last
three years is revealed in statistics
: compiled in office of the commissioner
OF agriculture 1T Jumped from $4,000
in 1918 to I'll, 900 in 1920, the yield in
1920 being 17,O64,000 bushels. The
wheat acreage was 100000 in 1919
and only 100000 in 1920, the 1920
yield being 6%S.40o,00O. Oats had. an
acreage OF s2,4S5,000 and a production
OF 59,64O.O00: barley 100000 acres
and 22,6S0,000 bushels rye $4,000
acres. 9,340,000 bushels; flax 755,O0O
acres, 3,S96,000 bushels; tame hay
715.000 acres, 1T,O64,OO0 tons; 10000
acres Of potatoes produced 7.11O,OOO
bushels.
BismarckSchool revenue Is be-
coming n Of the big problems before
the people OF the nation declared
Superintendent Minnie " Nelson In
appointing 4 special committee to
study methods o. raising school funds
and generally financing educntlon in
this stnie.
Bismarck The state viii carry its
fight agalnsl missing the intrusinte
freight and pilssenger rates 10 the III
1ersiute level lnfo The United States
silnrdlW eourt following nn order from
fips inirrslnie commerce commission 10
iAplsv Ibe Nngiii Dakota rates conform
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