The Devils Lake world., 1921-12-28

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| DAKOTA NEWS
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Forget-me- sales in Fargo for
the benefit of disabled American
veterans of the World war amounted
to $500, according to Adjutant
Nance of the Fargo posi-.
Twenty-three were graduated from
State Teachers college at Valley
City last Thursday. Fifteen of this
number are completing the work Of
the junior college. Eight are complet-
ing the preliminary course.
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J. D. White has been selected COM
mander of the Abraham Lincoln post
No. rs, G. A. R., of Minot. Other Of
,ficers are: Vicecommander, H. c.
Bemis, and officers of the guard, =.
&C. Callahan.
Fighting hard for every point the
Seniors of the N. D. State u defeated
the Sophomorcs in the final inter-class
basketball game of the campus tour
ney Wednesday afternoon by score
of 27 to 81, and annexed the campue
inter-class honors for 1921.
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Excitement prevails at Powers Lake
over the reported finding of gold.
Samples of orc have been tested by
nocal men, who declare that to the
best of their knowledge the stuff is
real, and samples are being sent to a
government assay office for analysis.
Location of the find is being held
secret.
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Oscar Rappe of Fryburg, Billing
county, convicted in district court last
week on charge of buying and re-
ceiving stolen property in connection
with horse and cattle rustling in the
Bad Lands, was sentenced by Judge
H. L. Berry to three years and four
months in the state penitentiary.
Farmers in North Dakota have been
quick to second demand made last
week by C. H. Gustafson, president of
the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc, for a
speedy federal investigation of his
charge that grain prices have been
Smashed" despite the fact that wheat
exports were more than 9O.O00,0OO
bushels heavier than they were in
1920. Farm journals generally have
endorsed his demand. In Minnesota,
county farm bureau presidents are
giving him unusually hearty support.
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Frank Little, charged withe receiv-
ing stolen goods, and Mrs. Williams,
colored, of Minot charged with SINH
lar offense, were bound ofer to the
lar offense, were bound over to the
preliminary hearing before Judge J
Lynch, bonds for each being fixed al
$1,000.
Resolutions adopted by the Bis
marck Commercial club ask the In
terstate Commerce Commission for
reduction in freight rates, PARTICULAR,
the rates on commodities entering in
to the cost of building materials.
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A decrease of approximately /
per cent in the minimum wage seal
previously obtaining, for girls has bee
recommended by the minimum wag
commission. Basis wages agree
upon for the various Classification
follow: Public housekeeping, $14!s
per week for mattresses and counte
girls, with .lesser amount for chan
bermaids; mercantile establishment
$14.50 per week; manufacturers, 81
per week; laundries $14.O0 per wee
telephone exchanges $14.OO per wee
in towns Of 1900 or over: $3.50
towns under 1900. Mcdonald, men
Der of the bureau, said that publ
hearing will be held on January S
which time objections may be mac
TO the proposed scale.
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Sigurd Aske, SO, was shot throue
the leg last Wednesday night at Fa
go, when he attepted to escape,
not in serious condition and h
wound will heal, it was stated
the hospital. Aske was shot by Il
proprietor Of the stored. B. Metro,
when he and two companions, Herbe
Peinlly, SO and Ben Boe, 81, we
caught robbing the Jack Tire shop.
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Complaints have been filed, again
the Bismarck Water Supply Co.,
"A Citizens and business firms Of tn
4 city. Among the complaints set for
is that the Water is impure and
h times unfit for human consumptio
fhat the rates are too high and til
a.n4 air Determinations in prices q
~ favor of certain mdividus
& - firms ani that the equipment