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New Britain herald., 1922-09-01

lican state convention. Clifton Nc kenna was chosen chairman of tht republican town committee and Will liam F. Sternberg was selected a. delegate to the probate convention.
New Britain herald., 1922-09-01

Mrs. M. Nordstrom of Robbins avenue has been entertaining MT. and Mrs. Edward Tillotson of Pittsburgh Pa, and Miss Bessie Tillotson of Pennington.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-08-30
Provide Mail Box or
Delivery Will Stop

Washington, Aug. 30.-Instructions
were sent to all postmen today by
First Assistant Postmaster General
Bartlett to require all householders
within four months to install mail
boxes or cut slots in doors to facili-
tate the delivery of mail. Such of
those as do not meet the requirements
may have the delivery of their mail
discontinued. Mr.. Bartlett said.
"On account of the delays caused
to carriers at dwellings which are not
thus equipped, already" the Assistant
Postmaster Generals instructions
said, "it seems timely, within a rea-
sonable period to require all who are
to receive mail by street carriers at
their dwellings to provide such ac-
commodations, the expense of the
same being small. The
length of notice should not exceed
four months although there may be
exceptional cases where postmosters
should use reasonable di4cretion or
ask for instructions"
Mr.. Bartlett estimated that more
than 70 per cent Of the dwelling
houses of the country now have mail
receptacles.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-08-30
Edmore Hopes TO Realize
Some Highway Results

Edmore, N. D., Aug. 30.-Residents
Of this section are beginning to see
relaxation of their hopes Of complet-
ing that segment of the Northern
Trail that serves this and neighbor-
ing cities. The part Of highway that
local civic bodies are particularly in
terested in is that which runs be-
tween Grafton and Cando, striking
Park River, Adams, Edmore and
Starkweather.
The work which is done with fed
eral, state and county funds, began
with the surveying of 13 miles of the
highway from Starkweathre west last
summer. Construction On this piece
is under way this season, and sur
veying of the rest of it is now unde,
way by state engineers. A long piece
of the road in Walsh county is al
ready completed, and grading Of the
intervening strip is expected to sw-
ing a large tourist travel on the road
The Devils Lake world., 1922-08-30
Wife of Raub Farmer
Horribly Injured

Minot, N. D., Aug. 30.-Mrs. Bessie
Sholaas, wife of a farmer, residing
z miles southeast Of Raub, N. D.,
was brot to St. Joseph's hospital, Fri
day, horribly injured. While in the
act of the sliding down from load of
hay, she was impaled on the handle
of pitchfork, which entered her alb
dominal cavity, resulting in injuries
which may prove fatal. The accident
happened Thursday afternoon. AS
help is very scarce in that neighbor-
hood, Mrs. Sholaas volunteered to as
sist her husband with the hay. She
had thrown the fork to the ground and
it had stuck in the soil, the handle in
an upright position. The injured wo-
man was given first aid and was brot
to Minot, a distance of rs miles the
following day, being placed on a
cot in the rear Of an auto. An opera
tion was performed and she is re-
ported to be resting quite easily, tho
the outcome of her injuries will not
be known for several days.
Mrs. Sholaas is the niece of E.
E. Burdick Of Surrey and is the moth
er of three little children.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-08-30
FOLLOWING The BOY SCOUT TRAIL

The regular quarterly meeting of
the Lake Region District Council,
Boy Scouts of America, will be held
Wednesday September 6, at 7:3O P.
M. at the Civic and Commerce rooms.
This was decided at meeting Of the
Executive Board Monday.
At the board meeting, forty-five
additional representatives on the
Council from various other towns in
the territory were voted into member
ship. This followed the work which
has been done by Scout Executive
Fackler during the past two weeks
which he has spent in travelling over
the six counties comprising the Coun-
ell. In his report Mr.. Fackler in
dicated that he had met with most
cordial response in regard to the pro-
motion and extension of the Scout
program.
The September meeting will be the
first meeting of the full Council as
it is now constituted. At that time
definite plans will be laid for the fork
throughout the Council, permanent
standards will be adopted; and other
foundations laid for the future
work of the organization.
The new members of the Council
as result of Mr.. Packers work are:
Rugby: Attorney Harold Nelson
H. R. Danielson, county agent; Judge
A. G. Burr, Father Thiel, Carl Jul
srud, Helger Hagen.
Knox: ]. M. Nash, R. G. Berg.
York: H. o. Paulson, J. E. Nc.
Carthy.
Leeds: DR.. D. Lemieux, j. H
Dooley, Victor WARDROBE, 7. o. Chant.
land, Sidney Host, E. D. Marriott.
Minnewaukan: L. L. Butterwick
M. L. Haley, Prof. Alvin Elstad, C
H. Sheldon.
Oberon: Rev. Christensen, Milo
Matthews.
Esmond: C. M. Wilson.
Maddox: Oscar Larson, Prof. L
L. Dahl, Prof. Spencer Buster, Albert
| deSIa, Df. II. j. Crltchfleld, Arthur
c. Idsvoog.
Churchs Ferry: c. E. Harding, H
c. Hansen.
St. John: VIM. Coghlan, Rolfe Hes
keith.
Rolla: Rev. c. H. McVey, R. G
Mosher, R. H. Butterwick, Frank T
Flynn, A. P. Spencer, Dr.. j. P. Wild
meyer.
| Cando: George B. Denison, Der. F
J. Roberts, Charles H. Smith, Rev
Alfred Row.
i Michigan: Oscar Benson, Manve
johnson, G. F. Lamb, Edward Ryall
DR.. Wager.
| Baker: Theodore Lybeck.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-08-30
Lakota: Harry Groves, R. C. Wea

yer.
Crary: H S. Pond.
Warwick: o. H. Heimark.
Starkweather: DR.. w. G. Fawcett.
Definite election of representatives
from the following communities is
under way. Pleasant Lake, Rolette,
Brinsmade, Perth, Bisbee, Penn Peter
sburg, Aneta, Neville, Fillmore, Ed
more, Brocket, Hampden, and Lawton.
AS soon as the same are certified to
the Scout office, they will be made
members of the Council.
In addition to the work throughout
the Council in perfecting the organi-
ton, plans are going ahead in Devils
Lake under the supervision of Coun-
Gil committees for the organization
of several new troops and the next
thirty days will probably see the cul-
mination Of this large amount of. pre-
liminary effort. Among other pre-
parations, training course has been
outlined for Scout leaders and in
structors are being secured for the
course which will begin about the
middle of September. This course
has been worked out by local COM
mittee, of which C. j. Kelly is chair
man, and has already won high ap.
proval from the Educational depart.
ment of the national Scout organiza.
tion.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-08-30
FIRE DEPT. is
MOTORIZED

Two fully equipped fire trucks
which were brought from Grand Forks
Tuesday, Of las, week by William
Redmond, Bill Cooley and Everett
Alley, make the Devils Lake Fire
department. one of the most up-to-
date and efficient in the state. The
cars, which are Maxwell chassis with
the equipment built On are modern in
every way. one is a chemical appara
tus, sufficient for all small fires, while
the other has equipment with hook
and ladder, and chemical and hose
service. A large movable searchliyht
and small electric lights, on one truck,
can be moved during fire and will
aid much in producing quick re-
suits.
The trucks are being added at the
expense of the fire department en-
t;rely and are not costing the city
anything. The cost of trucks ana
ecu pment aporoXimates $500.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-08-30
HELLSTROM
BACKS OUT

Grand Forks, N. D., Aug. 30.-For-
NAL notice from F. o. Hellstrom Of
Bismarck, that he had dismissed his
action contesting the nomination Of
J. F. T. O'Conner of Grand Forks for
United States senator in the North
Dakota Democratic primary was re-
ceived Friday by c. F. Peterson at
torney for Mr.. O'Connor.
Peterson had previously served no.
tice on Hellstrom that he would ap-
pear Saturday before District Judge
Moellring at Williston in whose dis
trict the action was brought and
move for dismissed on the ground
that no service Of the affidavit and
summons in the case had been made
on Mr.. O'Connor within the time limit
set by law.
The North Dakota law provides
that notice to contest must be served
on the contestee within 10 days after
the canvas Of the vote. The papers
in Hellstrom's case reached Grand
Forks on the last day of the 10 day
period. Mr.. O'Connor was out of the
city and the papers were merely left
at his office by the sheriff of Grand
Forks county. Mr.. O'Connor and his
attorney maintained that this did not
constitute service.
Hellstrom's notice of dismissal gave
nj" reason for his abandoning the
case.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-08-30
TRIPLE CAUSES
BRING DEATH

Hettinger, N. D., Aug. 30.-John
Merkel, IL, son of a farmer near
here, was marked by fate for death.
The boy dismounted from the horse
he was riding to water the animal
and dropped the rains over his
shoulders. The horse lunged and the
boy was nearly strangled to death.
His father saw his plight from some
distance and was rushing to his as
sistance, but the horse kicked the lad
in the head, fracturing the skull, and
the unconscious boy rolled into a
deep hole in the creek. He drowned
before the body could be located
though help was near.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-08-30
SAYS WATER IS POOR so
FARMER HAS MOONSHTNF

Cando Herald: Farmers residing
in the districts where the drinking wa
ter is known to be poor may find
their places frequented by many thirs-
ty travellers, all as result reports
that one farmer explains the presence
OF moonshine on his place by the fact
that good water is not available.
This explanation of still and a
quantity Of liquor was given Sheriff
c. C. Stewart, Thursday, when he
visited the home Of Emil Ardnt, four
miles southwest of Thompson.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-08-30
SHOCK OF WAR
HELD CAUSEOF
PLIGHT OF Man

Bismarck, N. D., Aug. 3O.-Scenes
of battle in the Argonne, the training
of the soldier, and story Of mans
jealousy are all presented in the tran
script Of a case just filed with the
supreme court. The papers are the
plea of Joseph Thorndson asking that
his plea of guilty and sentence of life
against him be vacated and that he be
given a new trial. The case comes
Throndson was farm laborer before
the war and for a brief period after
his discharge.
The charge against Thorndson was
that on the 28th day Of December,
1919 he shot and killed Elmer Del
zell, his employer. Thorndson admit
ted the shooting to the states at
torney and pleaded guilty when ar
raigned before Judge Cole, telling
the Judge that he did not wish coun-
sci, that he would plead guilty with
out trial.
The remarkable story of the man
first became partially public when his
case was called before the pardon
board. 1t is practically from that
hearing that the present appeal to the
supreme court is understood to have
started.
Before the war Throndson was a
farm laborer, for six years, upon the
farm Of Delxell. Because of his linn
tied mental attainments he was hap
py and contended in this field. Re.
turning to the same place after the
warn he found himself to be subject
Of suspicion by the husband, who
stated once that he would kill both
Throndson and his wife if certain
suspicious were verified. His nervous
state intensified these warnings and
when, after particularly violent
family quarrel, he saw his employe,
struggling with his wife, he killed
him, protecting; So he thought
the woman and himself. His mental
state at the time of the shooting is
given as one of the three reasons fo,
the vacation Of the plea and the right
at least to new trial.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-08-30
Postdated Checks For
Threshing In Bottineau

Bottineau, N. D., Aug. 3O.-As the
result Of an agreement adopted at a
meeting here, Bottineau county farm
ers are to pay threshers with post
dated checks, due in Is days, allow
ing the farmer to market grain
enough to make good the threshing
bill. In case Of the farmer failing to
market grain within Is days thresh-
ermen's lien will be filed.
The following threshing wage scale
was adopted: teamsters, $3.50, a day
or 40 cents an hour; team, So day;
cooks on large rigs, where more thar
one cook is necessary, Sc.
Harvest wages were set at $3.50 &
day, and $3.50 day during rye
threshing.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-08-30
LISBON WOMAN
ELECTROCUTED
BY Live WIRE

Lisbon, N. D., Aug. 3O.-Mrs. John
w. Hayward, 45, wife of the proprie-
tor of the Bradford hotel, Lisbon, was
electrocuted yesterday when, stand
ing in bathtub of water, she grasp
ed an electric light cord at point
where the insulation had been worn
away. Her hand was badly burned, but
there We're no other marks OH the
body.
Death was instantaneous according
to the physician who was called.
The body was found by her daugh-
ter at 1:45 p. M, about three-quarters
of an hour after the accident oc-
Cured.
Cord Hung Over Tub
The electric light cord, which hangs
directly over the tub, had been at
tached to an electric vibrator which
Mrs. Haywood used for massage pur-
poses. This was turned on an when
Mrs. Hayward touched the worn spot
on the cord, the water in which she
was standing, provided contact and
short circuit resulted.
Force Way Room
Alarmed at her mothers long alb.
sence Mrs. Hayward's daughter, Es.
thel, young woman of about 10
called Mrs. Hayward's brother, an
employe ofthe hotel, and the two
forced their way into the bathroom
where they found the lifeless body
lying On the bottom of the tub.
Husband Absent in Country
MI. Hayward was absent on ar
automobile trip into the country anc
returned home about five minutes
after the body had been found.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Hayward
Is survived by two daughters, Esther
at home and Helen, a nurse a
Mitchell, S. D., sister, who lives il
Wahpeton, and her brother. The sis
ter flom Wahpeton arrived today.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-08-30
Disease Will
Cut Spud Yield
Farm Bureau News(

The effect of proper selection and
treating Of seed potatoes can be very
plainly seen this year On the demon
stration plots which have been MAIN
tained by several growers who
are cooperating with the County
Agent. A portion of each field re-
ferred to was planted with seed that
had been carefully selected and dis
eased potatoes eliminated and the
potatoes treated for diseases that
occur on the outside of the tuber.
On an inspection tour of the demon
strations which was recently made by
w. G. Couey, plant disease specialist,
and that County Agent it was abser-
cd that plots planted from treated and
selected seed showed diseases to the
extent of about three percent while
plots planted with seed of the same
kind but not treated and selected show
ed diseases to the extent of forty
percent in some cases. The diseases
most prevelant are Black Leg, which
is bacterial disease and causes the
rotting off of the roots and con-
sequently death of the vine and
Rhizoctonia fungus disease which
also effects the root and causes the
death of the vine. The plants ef-
fected with these diseases turn light
tn color wilt and finally die. Many
people confuse these diseases with
wilt and blight of which there is very
little damage being done.
Treating alone will not eliminate
Black Leg and many who treated their
seed but did not stem end and dis
card those potatoes which showed a
diseased condition in the inferior of
the tuber are experiencing quite lot
OF trouble. Black Leg and Fusiarian
wilt can be only be eliminated by sele-
ction methods. The treating effects
only the diseases that occur on the
outside of the tuber.
Usually the vines that the infected
with either Of the diseases mentioned
produce few very small potatoes
which are in turn infected with the
diseases. The yields of many fields
will be very greatly reduced this
year and the potatoes produced will
not be of good quality.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-08-30
Aged Woman at Hatton
Is Killed by Fall

Hatton, N. D., Aug. 3O.-Mrs.
Martha Kopseng, IS, mother Of
Christ Kopseng, farmer near, here
died few hours after falling down
the basement stairs. She received a
bad cut on the head and died with
in few hours.
Mrs. Kopseng came to North Da-
kota in 1873 and with her husband
settled on homestead near here.
Kopseng, who was a veteran of the
Civil war died in 1896.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-08-30
Lightning Starts
Fire Which Nets
Loss of $4,000

Grand Forks, N. D., Aug 3O.-Fire
starting from lightning which struck
the Halverson Hardware store at
Glasstown, Pembina county sixty
miles north of here, last night start
ed fire which burned the hardware
store, a general store and a confec-
tionary together with the entire
stocks in all three buildings. The
loss was $4,000, and $12,5O0 insur.
ance was carried. The general store
will be rebuilt. All were frame build.
ings.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-08-30
Big Wheat Yield
At Church's Ferry

The best wheat report in this To-
cality, considering both yield and
quality, comes from the Hans Sol
berg farm near Churchs Ferry, where
a 80 acre field of Marquis Yielded
SO IL bushels to the acre, the grain
weighing 63 pounds per bushel.
The Devils Lake world., 1922-08-30
Deodorized Skunks
Only Will Be Welcome
At Coming Ward Fai

Minot, N. D., Aug. 30.-When man
operating skunk farm at Makota in
quired of the secretary of the Ward
County Fair association if he might
bring an exhibition of his lisestock
to the fair it put the secretary to
thinking seriously.
The final answer was "Deodorize
them and you may bring them"
New-York tribune., 1922-07-18
Hearst Boomers Ignore
Shift to Mayor Hylan
William ]. Comers Leaves
Headquarters in Charge of
Rush Teague Statesman

Despite the effort of William Ran
dolph Hearst to shift his Corners
made gubernatorial mantle to the
shoulders of Mayor Hylan, noted in the
recent exchange of Alphonse- CASTOR
letters between the Mayor and his
editor friend, the Hearst agents were
still busy yesterday with the Hearst
boom for the Democratic nomination.
No one at Oonners- Hearst headquarters
would admit that there was any inten-
tion of dropping the Hearst boom
In the absence of William ]. Conners,
his first lieutenant, Edward Harris,
former Democratic State Chairman
and more or less in the state political
bush league since then, declared that
the pro-Hearst cohorts would go
marching on to the Democratic State
Convention. Mr.. Harris declared that
the exchange Of letters between Hearst
and the Mayer meant nothing in their
political lives.
Mr. Harris ives in conference yester-
day with Mrs. Louis Reed Welzmlller,
Deputy Commissioner of Public Mar
kets in the Hylan administration and
head of the recently organized Wom-
ems Democratic Alliance, who will sup
port Hearst if the Mayor says so, or
the Mayor if Hearst says SO. Mr.. Har-
ris, asked what he had discussed with
Mrs. Welzmiller, said that both he
and the Deputy Market Commissioner
were interested in the markets and
the price of food"
New-York tribune., 1922-07-18
Frelinghuysen Assails
Ford, Lauds Newberry

81 voted for the man with three
stars, as against the man with none,"
declared United States Senator Joseph
S. .Frelinghuysen in Jersey City last
night, in answering the attack made
upon him by Amos Pinchot for having
voted to seat Senator Newberry, Of
Michigan.
~ voted for Newberry because I be-
lieved him to be an honest man and
because l did not want to go behind the
Supreme Court of the United States,"
he added.
Nobody knows what Henry Ford
spent in the primaries. He never made
report of his expenditures. Senator
Newberry had three boys in the war,
but Mr.. Ford had none. Mr. Ford's
son was drafted, but his father ap-
pealed and young Ford was exempted"
Senator Frelinghuysen also took
Pinchot to task for declaring that he
Represented the privileged class" Mr..
Frelinghuysen said "Pinchot never
worked in his life. He never had q
job, except the one that Theodore
Roosevelt gave him, and he lived in
'millionaires' row. My ancestors may
have had money, but when 1 started
out | had nothing. l worked for years
in New York to establish a business.
That's how much of the privileged
class l represent"
Senator Frelinghuysen was speaking
before the Hudson County Republican
committee in Odd Fellows Hall.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-18
Gussie Humann's Baby
Goes to Its Grandparents
Mother Says She Hopes Boy
Will Live Until She Is Re-
leased From Prison
Special Dispatch to The Tribune


AUBURN, n. Y, July 17.-Thc son
who was born to Gussie Human, OF
Woodhaven, Queens, last Tuesday,
while she was serving term of from
seven to fifteen years in Auburn prison
for perjury, was turned over to-day to
the woman's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Human. They will care for him
until their daughter is released.
II am glad to have come through it
all right said the young woman, who
was taken back to her cell to-day from
the hospital. 81 am very anxious to
overcome the handicap of the past and
hope that my child will live until am
released from this place"
The baby's travelling outfit was
gift from Mrs. Florence Koch, the
deputy sheriff who had charge of Gus
sic while she was in Queens County
Jail awaiting trial, first on an indict-
ment charging her with the murder Of
Harry Garbe, one of her admirers, of
which she was ACQUITTED, and then con
victed on the Indictment charging per-
jury.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-18
Man Feus Woman Who
Halts Him as Shoplifter
Strikes Detective TO the Ground
When She Follows Him to 5th
Avenue From Store

Ethel Cummings, store detective for
Best & Co., followed Leo Mint. forty
three years old, butcher of 227 East
Forty-ninth street, from the store yes
terday after she had seen him take
articles from the leather goods counter
which the detective alleges were not
paid for At the crowded corner of
Fifth avenue and Thirty fourth Street
the woman placed her arm upon Mint's
shoulder, whereupon the man turned
and struck her to the ground.
After several men had run to her
assistance two traffic patralmen ar
rested Mint on charge Of shcpiifting,
George Britt, an elevator operator in
the store, and salesman who had
followed the detective had consider
able difficulty trying to handle the
butcher, who is six feet tall and weighs
1So pounds.
Magistrate oberwager, in jefferson
Market Court, held Mintz in $500 bail
for trial in Special Sessions.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-18
Hotel Hermitage Goes
Into Receivers Hands
Creditors Win Involuntary Pc.
tition for Bankruptcy; Ben
A. Matthews Amounted

Judge Knox, Of the United States
District Court, appointed Ben A. Mat
thews yesterday as receiver for the
Hotel Hermitage, Seventh Avenue and
Forty-second Street, on the application
of three creditors who filed an invol-
untary petition in bankruptcy against
the proprietor, Frank c.. Hurley.
The creditors who filed the petition
are the American Carpet Cleaning and
Weaving Company, with claim of
s4,2s6; William J. Fallon, with
claim for loan, and John C. Forster,
who has claim of $2,413.
They allege that four judgments
have been obtained and executions
issued upon which the Sheriff is about
to seize the property in the hotel and
dispose of it. They also assert the
hotel company owes more than $1O0 900.
At the request Of the creditors
Judge Knox granted an injunction re-
straining the Sheriff from proceeding
with sale of hotel assets, pending
settlement of the bankruptcy proceed
ings. Mr.. Matthews, whom he ap-
pointed receiver, recently was the chief
Of the criminal division in the United
States Attorneys office.
Recently receiver of rents was ap-
pointed for the hotel company pend
ing foreclosure proceedings on a second
mortgage. 1t was said at the time the
hotels difficulties were due to prohibi-
tion