Sioux County pioneer., 1922-08-31


are seen in Pierce county again.
carrington-Foste county has en-
ployed Red Cross nurse.
Rusby-E. ]. Elstad has been named
postmaster.
Mandan-Inquiries have come to this
part of the state from Chicago firms
regarding the price Of Ignite coal.
Minot-With only one woman offen-
der in Jail, the city jailer took short
vacation trip.
Fargo-A total budget of $4,000 is
recommended to run the city the en-
suing year. M
kenmare-A change in the lines and
queer shapes of Ward, Renville, and
Burke counties may be put up to the
voters in this area at the fall election.
Hettinoer-After running his hand
into shock of grain and finding two
rattlesnakes, Welcome Smith has been
using pitchfork to handle his grain.
Sherwood dollars reward for
liquor convictions and $25 for evidence
of gambling have been offered by the
city autorities in cleanup drive.
Taylor-More than 200 birds were
killed in town. and many houses in
town and country were damaged by
hail storm and young tornado.
New EnoIand-The first load of new
wheat marketed here was graded No.
l, and weighed out at 81 pounds. 1t
went 15 bushels to the acre.
kindred-Two local farmers are ex-
perimenting with the pasturage of hogs
IN five-acre plots sown with flint corn
and sow beans.
Jamestown-Over its entire 700
miles from Sioux City, Ia, to Brandon,
Man., Sunshine highway is being re.
marked.
Minot-Contracts totaling nearly
$11, 600 have been let for the big
modern potato warehouse for this COM
munity..
Minot-Towns near here will be
visited by booster caravan advertis-
ing the Ward county fair, September
1915. 9.t
Agricultural coIlege-Several high
schools in the state will add vocational
agriculture to their courses this win
ter.
WiIIiston-Two acres Of we'll fertil-
lied ground near the stockyards here
yielded II bushels of best grade wheat.
Eleven acres Of oats nearby went 81
bushels of best grade grain to the acre.
Dickinson-Two local youths 12 and
13 years old, are being held for SEN
tence, for stealing two ponies and
saddles from nearby farms preparatory
to faring forth into the "wild west"
SteeIe-With the prisoners crop
shelling out in the field, neighbors
went heavy bond for a local farmer
who was serving Jail sentence, which
he will complete after harvest.
Grand Forks-A school nurse will be
regularly employed for eight months q
year, beginning this school term,
according to decision by the Grand
Forks county commissioners.
Valley city-Digging for new
foundation under an old barn he had
just bought. G. w. Pollock unearthed
a purse containing between 5000 and
$500 in gold and currency.
WiIton-Fifty new workmen went on
the job the first day real production at
the Washburn mine near here was at
tempted since the strike and / 200 tons
of Ignite We're raised.
Sanish-The largest spring in the
state, near here, flows nearly a million
gallons of water every "a hours, accord
fng to measurements made by state
university experts.
Fessenden-A young man who was
employed to watch a local house while.
the residents were out the city. has
been arrested in Chicago charged with
burglarizing it Of several hundred
dollars worth of material.
Fargo-That go per cent of the
freight charges collected on shipments
to North Dakota are paid by the far
mers is the finding Of G. NJ. Springer,
traffic manager Of the North Dakota
farm bureau.
Devils Lake-Fo Forty five of the fifty
years he has spent in the priesthood
have been devoted by the Rev. Father
Jerome Hunt to work among the Sioux
Indians on the Fort Totten reservation
near here. 4
Agricultural College The Dakota
COW pony and the English thoroughbred
are cousins, tracing a common ances-
try to the superb horses Of the ancient
Arabic days., according to Professor
J. II. Shepperd, head Of the department
of animal husbandry.
DougIas-Mrs. Elizabeth Pohl of
Berlin, Germany, crossed the ocean
and came to this state to wed Henry
Brickner, wealthy local farmer. A
sister at Minot brought her widowed
sister in Germany and Mr.. Brickner
into correspondence. e H,
Grand Forks "A mill superintendent
and elevator superintendent have been
employed for the state mill and ele.