Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-01-20
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Fargo-The executive commit tee Of
the State Sunday School association /
will be reorganized February II.
Grand Forks-Glacier trail is routed
through this city to Devils Lake. From
there the route is undetermined.
W~illiston-The agricultural depart
ment Of the local high school is plan
ming a farm boys institute.
Buford-Just across the Montana
line a tract Of land has been set aside
for filing by world war veterans.
Grand Forks-The North Dakota
Good Roads association is in annual
session here.
Fargo-The Legionaire has been en-.
dorsed as official paper Of the North
Dakota department of the American
Legion.
Fingal-Five year sentences were
meted out to Charles Washburn and
John Lynch for burglarizing a local
store.
Fargo-North Dakota hotel men en-
dorsed the 4S hour law for women,
recommending that it be made to ex-
tend over seven days a week.
Mandan-For the twenty-eighth time
G. P. O'ROurke has been named chair
man of the Morton county commission.
erS.
Grand Decentralization of the
American will be resumed shortly
under new management.
Max-The Missouri Slope Good
Roads association has appointed a
legislative committee to work at the
present session.
Grenora-Death probably will over.
take George Ness rs a result of being
crushed by timbers in a building he
was wrecking.
Crystal Springs The Diamond
Black Skunk farm is under state in
v%estigation for alleged violation of the
blue sky law.
Valley City-The recently organized
Northern Cereal company will engage
in the manufacture of patented break
fast foods.
Mandan-The State Training school
LAC lIlSldI uGSlSudL1Ou Ol Ilc
boys school located here, formerly
known as the Reform School.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 10 hours after
being kicked by q horse, Margaret
Walsh, 8, finally died in a local hos
pital.
Wing-In the burning of a garage
and lumber shed the Mandan Mercan-
tile company sustained a loss of about
$4,000.
Mott-Mr. and Mrs. George Meuchel
are serving sentences Of three years
and one year, respectively, in the state
penitentiary for firing their store to
collect insurance.
Fessenden = The second largest
mortgage ever filed in Ward county
was given bysT. Il. Beiseker on farm
lands near here to a Minnesota COM
pany for 100000.
Minot-The state championship bas-
ketball tournament will be played here
March 1919. District tournaments will
be played in districts in the state
March 4 and 5.
Jamestown-More than $4,000 above
the present market price was realized
on three carloads Of d. seed wheat
sold through the Stutsman county
farm bureau.
Bowbells-TwO of the defeated can
didates in the Burke county election
contest, Drinkwater and Grub, were
accorded election in a decision by
Judge Cooley after six of the eight
| cases had been dismissed.
Parshall-Thirty nine doctors at
tended Sever Hoff during the nine
months he was confined in a Min.t
hospital with a fractured leg SUI
tanned when he was thrown from a
plow.
Bismarck-State headquarters for
the Good Roads association have been
opened here by Will e. Holbein, secre-
tary. Legislation looking toward the
construction and maintenance Of 5000
miles Of surfaced roads throughout the
state, to be financed with auto license
taxes, will be pushed.
Bismarck-The youngest man in the
upper house of the state legislature is
Lieutenant Howard Wood, So, while
the oldest is Senator J. e. Stevens Of
Lawton, Ramsey county, 67. Senator
Ployhar is the Oldest in point Of S, ~
ice in the legislature, having been in
the lower house eight years and in the
senate four years.
University North Dakota's field
crop production for 1920 shows a total
farm value of $192,24S,OOO compared
to 3 900 for 1919, 900
in 1918, and $220.315,OOO in 1917, ac-
cording to the report of the United
States bureau of crop estimates in it's
final crop review for 1920. ".The total
acreage of cultivated crops in North
Dakota this season is placed at 14,53O,-
600 acres, or approximately 5 per cent
less than the 1919 acreage and 81 per
cent less than the war record acreage
of 1~5,905,00O acres in 1918, but % per
cent greater than the total cultivated
acreage Of 11l,334,0OO acres shown in
the 1909 census" says the report.
"This state has led all other states in
1920 in the acreage of spring wheat,