The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-02-02
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are under consideration.
Wiliiston-The community has =.
philharmonic orchestra.
Minot-A religious census of the city
Is being taken.
surlington-Thirty thousand pounds
of potatoes are being held in the com
munity warehouse here.
Enthusiastically increased activ
lty in the state circulating library has
been reported Of late.
Fargo-Nine North Dakota men are
enrolled In Harvard university this
year. r.
Marmarth-A committee of five was
named at community mass meeting
to determine ways and means of re,
srenching civic expense. -
carrington-Burns sustained when
ne fell and pulled over a small stove
apon himself resulted fatally to Nor
nan McKinnon, 7e.
Bottineau-The local -four mill will
be reopened after several years of
dleness, the Commercial club backing
The project.
Dickinson-The annual tournament
# the North Dakota TrapShooting as
ISOLATION will be held here June IA,
Is and 16.
Fargo--Motor bus transportation on
branch lines lis urged by local business
nen and may be adopted by the rail-
roads.
Hatton-The body of T. H. Moss
was found after several hours expos
Ire on the streets of Minneapolis where
ne had gone to visit a son and evil
iently had dropped dead unnoticed.
Mandan--A 2,200-foot causeway from
he Missouri river bridge across
the river bottoms is asked of the state
and federal highway commission by
he Morton county commissioners.
Hazen-The purchase of 10 head of
2urebred Holstein cattle by two local
farmers is considered the starter of
another dairy circuit for the west
slope.
Rugby-One of the only two appli-
nv va Au1SS I'LL IL pdSSCo
the examination in Chicago for ad-
m~ittance to the United States avia-
ton service, Shable Rosseau has gone
to southern flying fields.
Wahpeton-Miss Georgiana Clark,
teacher In the Science school, is proud
IF a personal friendship with iona
Gale, the noted authoress, with whom
she chummed when they were girls
together In Portage, Wis.
Fareo-Reports of the auditors of
the firm indicate that the Equity
packing plant lost more than a mil
.ino dollars during the period of oper-
alton. A new board of directors has
been chosen, headed by c. w. Reichert
Of Darlington.
Dickinson-After having been sought
far and wide since her disappearance
August s, Lillian Sibley, IS, has >writ-
ten that she Is ready to return home
after having "bummed" back and forth
across the country between Montana
and Minnesota points during her long
absence.
Fargo. NJ. Anderson of St. Paul
was reelected president of the Equity
Cooperative exchange in annual ses-
sion here along with many other farm
bodies. Transportation and market.
ing were the main topics of discussion
at the man ysessions, where author.
lilies On every line of farm activity
from all over the United States were
heard. ~
Page-The most celebrated Aber
den-Angus herd in North Dakota and
the greatest single Aberden-Angus
animal in the world are credited to
the Hartley stock farm of this com
munity by D. M. Allen, Aberdeen
Angus expert of Scotland. The win
nings of a herd of 10 animals sent by
Mr.. Hartley to the International stock
show in Chicago recently were unpre'
cedented in the annals of that great
exposition. These North Dakota ami,
mails brought back the senior and the
grand female championships, the
junior championship, an Argentine
special medal, five first prizes, foul
seconds, two fourth, and a fifth.
Niagara-The North Dakota Farm
Bureau federation has adopted the
following resolutions Whereas, there
Is a world surplus Of wheat OF approx
imately IL per cent of normal, and
Whereas, the trend of prices Of farm
products indicates that the cost Of
production of wheat can scarcely b.
attained in 1922, Therefore, be it re
solved that the North Dakota Farm
Bureau federation fayors a substitu
ton Of other crops such as forage
corn, and potatoes for wheat to thu
extent of approximately - per cent OF
the wheat acreage. This change In
acreage is in accord with principles Of
good farm management and seems de
sirable from the standpoint of prospec
tive prices for wheat.
Grand Forks-North Dakota's fieIt
crops in 1921 were worth $127, 793, O0(
as compared with S207, DS9.000 In 1920
and over O0,OO0.OO0 I'm 1919. accord
ing to figures just made public by A. ]
Suratt, U. S. agricultural statisticiar
for this region. Potatoes led in value
per acre last year, with tame hay sec
ond, and corn third. The total acre
age OF the principal cultivated crops
was Ii, ,OO0, wheat leading both in
acreage and value, with a total worth
OF more than $62.Oo0.Ooo; wild hay
was second iii value, at 81, $4,000;
oats, tame hay, rye, barley, and far
follow fl order III total value of crop
Kfiideer-A Dunn County Potato