Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-27
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Walsh county midwinter fair.
Zap-The Washburn Coal company
will open a Ignite mine near here.
Grand Forks-The Community club
would dam the Red river for a park.
Carrington-M. X. Lee heads the
North Dakota Bottlers association for
1921.
Fessenden-The Wells county COM
missioners have leased the fair
grounds.
Mandan-The North Dakota Funeral
Directors association meets here Feb
ruary $40.
Grand Forks-The ~auctioneers Of
this state formed IN organization at
a convention here.
Hankinson-This city may be chosen
as a landing place on the Quentin
Roosevelt airway.
Sheldon-His auto was destroyed
but Bernt Hoel escaped injury when
a passenger train struck his car.
Watford City-Eating grasshopper
poison resulted fatally to seven head
of cattle on the o. w. Hagen place.
Valley City-Receipts topped ex-
penses by 500 in a $4,000 baseball
season for the local grounds last year.
Jamestown-The Chamber Of Com
merce has taken a life membership in
the North Dakota Good Roads ~associa-
ton.
Fargo-Falling from a watch tower
at the Northern Pacific tracks on
Fourth street, Richard Mccarthy, Sc,
was killed.
Plaza-Overlooking $3.50 in cash in
al unlocked safe, burglars in a local
department store took merchandise
valued at $500.
Underworld serious mine acct
dent may cos the eyes of Roy Peter
son. His hand, arm, and face were
also badly lacerated.
Grand Forks-A. A. Sherman of
Stutsman county was elected presi-
dent of the state organization of
county commissioners.
Observation-Disclosures or not Burke
county should bond for seed is a ques-
ton to be settled in a survey being
conducted by the banks.
Observation-Disclosures to take q
dare to show himself in the railroad
yards at a certain time, Ben Little
got a bullet through his coat.
misunderstanding 200 feet in the
icy waters of the Missouri, John Gerl-
Ing, ice cutter, reached a solid place
where friends could pull him out.
Rugby-The trial of Sylvester Sny-
der, transient. has closed here for the
murder of two Iowa young men in a
field near Rolla last September. He
was sentenced to 30 years.
Bismarck-W. c. Gilbreath, former
commissioner of agriculture and labor,
and well known North Dakota pio-
neer, died of heart failure. He was
72 years old.
Hope-Claiming to be the Oldest Or
g%anization of Pioneers in North Da-
kota, the Pioneer Farmers club of
Sherbroeke township has celebrated
its tenth anniversary.
University - Preliminary contests
concluded in jamestown, Valley City,
Bottineau, Wahpeton, Minot, and May
vile, the final state music contest will
be held here in May.
Fargo-Gordon w. Randlett is pres
ident. II. L. BolIey, secretary, and
W. A. Porter. auditor of the North
Dakota Improved Seed Growers asso-
citation for the coming year.
Velva-The Velva Coal Products
company has launched a campaign for
q million dollar corporation in the
hope of increasing the local coal out
put to 100000 tons annually within
two years.
Crary-"A 100 per cent perfect
school house is voted this village by
the Minnesota Architectural magazine
in commenting on the new $4,000
structure. The building is 65 x 1O2
feet and is modern to the last and
slightest particular.
Sheldon-Fire originating in the
basement of the Ransom County Trust
company office late at night resulted
In q $4,000 loss to this community
The trust company, the First Nationa.
bank. the Masonic temple, the tele
pioiiS SoIlpuhS, d vi uS SLOIC, anu UHe
postoffice were the heaviest losers.
Portland-Without an accident Of
any nature during 1852 hours Of cross
country airplane flying, Lieutenant
John Earl Fladeland of this city has
established n of the best records, il
not the best. on file with the Aero clul
of America. 1t is estimated that he
has flown, carrying passengers most O.
the time, 207,360 miles, with 1895
take-otfs and landings.
Lisbon-Thirty years ago publishe,
of the Dakota Clipper, now the Ran
som County Gazette. later publisher O,
the Saturday Blade, and now a mil
lionaire explorer of the South Sea is
lands, is the record of w. d. Boyce
one time of this city. He has tray
eled extensively and written a numbe,
/ of books and articles. On his Iates
expedition he will make use of air
planes to reach otherwise inaccessibl,
regions.
Van Hook--A dairy association vii
be organized here. o.
Niagara--The newly organized Nertl
Dakota Livestock Shippers associate,
| ie headed Inv Hans Jorrancnn of tht