Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-03-03

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SheIdon-Better fire protection is
being established.
Hannah-The new $4,000 CONSOLE
dtaed school is nearing completion.
Devils Lake-When a shotgun in the
hands of George McDeavitt was acct
dentally discharged, Otto Fehrenbach-
err, "a. was instantly killed.
Minot-A pound and a half Of opium
was found buried in the ground by
firemen who were called to extinguish
a blaze started by ashes placed over
the spot, supposedly for the purpose
of thawing the ground.
Fargo-Called to Washington sooner
than expected, DR.. E. f. Ladd has left
the state and will not return until
after he has assumed his seat as jun
ior senator from North Dakota in the
next congress.
Mandan = Fifty feet under the
ground, where pier No. 8 for the Mis-
souri, river bridge was being sunk, a
petrified buffalo head was found by
bridge workmen. Bones and teeth
were perfectly preserved.
Grand Forks-The suit against the
Frederick hotel for $4,000 damages
because of the death of her husband
when he fell from a window during a
fire in the building last spring, Mrs.
Pauline Stansberry lost.
Oakes-Five generations were rep
resented at a birthday party at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Warner.
with Mrs. Mary Sovereign, SO, the old
est and Keith Nepstead, her great
great-grandson, the youngest.
Jamestown-All securities and prop
critics held in this state by agents Of
a decedent in another state are subject
to a North Dakota inheritance tax, ac-
cording to a decision rendered by
Judge Mcfarland Of Stutsman county.
Grand Forks-Returning from Chi
cago and eastern points. Secretary e.
r. Montgomery of the North Dakota
State Fair association, reports the
booking of many attractions for the
July event.
Wing-After eight months of aber-
ration, during which he wandered ex-
tensively. Bert Tilton, 40, has returned
in good health to his family of seven
here. Treatment at Aberdeen, South
Dakota, restored his memory.
Devils Lake-North Dakota Masons
are represented at the Washington
meeting of the George Washington
Memorial association by Allan V. Haig,
grand master A. f. and A. M. of North
Dakota, and W. L. Stockwell, grand
secretary.
Fargo-Intensive work is being done
in the two weeks drive for Legion
members now being conducted through
out the state. North Dakota stands
second in the number of service men
enrolled in the Legion, Vermont head
ing the list.
Sheldon-Sentiment at a mass meet
ing being expressed in favor of taxing
he community for the construction of
a $4,000 community building, petit
tons are being circulated to get the
necessary signatures of fve-eighths of
the taxpayers.
Grand Forks-Eleven hundred eighty
deaths were recorded in North Dakota
during the last quarter of 1920. Four
teen of these were suicides, as COM
pared with no suicides during the cor
responding quarter of the previous
year.
Devils Lake-Credit for the fact
that business failures in this state
during the past six months are fewer
than in any other state in the union is
placed by Fred P. Mann, president Of
the organization, with the educational
work Of the North Dakota Retail Mer-
chants association.
Fargo-That an appropriation of
$15,O00,000 for the care of wounded
service men will be voted by congress,
and that the national executive COM
mittee of the American Legion has de-
clined with thanks the offer of the
Knights of Columbus of S5.OOO,O 900 for
a national memorial building in Wash
ington. d. c., is the information
brought back by Albert e. Sheets. Jr..
who represented this state at a recent
Legion conference in Washington.
Bismarck-Senate bills Nos, /. 8. 70
were. the first three bills of the present
legislative session signed by Governor
Frazier. They provided, respectively,
for: Allowing an assistant attorney
general to close up his personal affairs
before assuming office and permitting
states attorneys to defend criminal
cases outside of their own districts;
the care of feeble minded patients
from state institutions; amending the
law applying to concentrated stock
foods.
Mcclusky-Temporary insanity is
believed to have caused Reinhold
Riesch, q, to have shot and seriously
wounded his younger brother, Fred,
age II.
Bismarck--Using the railroads. fig
ures on valuation as filed with the
state board OF railroad commissioners,
and their own report OF profits, attor-
neys for the state have showed that
railroads operating in North Daisota
Inst yoar earned more than six per
cent md rnn I'M excess profits of