Sioux County pioneer., 1922-11-30

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killed.
McviIIe-A new 25-horsepower en-
gine Is being installed by the local
light plant. e.e
Grand Forks-Flour is being shipped
from the state mill at the rate Of 200
to 300 barrels daily.
Havelock-The Potter Mercantile
company of New England has opened
branch store here.
Dickinson-Numberi 81 men, Com:
pany K Of the national guard has been
mustered in at this point.
Minot-The Commercial club has set
aside q portion of its budget for the
employment of traffic experts.
Van Hook-A federal highway from
here to Belden has just been surveyed
and work will start in the spring.
Diclinson-The latest mild-winter
story is that trees are budding. here
and robins have been seen building
nests.
Grand Forks-Payment on govern.
ment seed loans is being delayed by the
car shortage, according to the federal
director here.
6ismarck-The founder of the North
Dakota State Nurses association in
1911, Miss Bertha Erdman, recently
died in Minneapolis.
Minot-At a cost of approximately
$250,000, the city's new sewage dis.
posal plant has been completed and is
ready to be put in operation in the
spring.
eismarck-Only one vote was east
for l.. w. Sperry for assessor in the
fifth district in Burleigh county, but
since there was no opposition it was
sufficient to elect him.
Grand Forks A milling-in-transit
ruling Of the Great Northern, fixing the
charge at TX cents per hundred pounds
of grain, will be Of material help to
the state mill here.
Sutton-Hurrying six a. m. fire
with kerosene resulted in fatal burns
to Miss Agnes Frydenberg, 20, and
the burns sustained by her 14-year-old
sister, Lydia, may prove fatal.
Faroo-National Yeomen are con.
sidering this city as the location for
model city Of childhood to cost several
million dollars, to house their exten-
sive chifdren's home activities.
Fort Yates-Nine of ten bids for
several scores of Indian land tracts on
the Standing Rock reservation were
successful;. the prices ranged from
$1,000 to S3,636 quarter section
Bismarck-Claims that total $177,.
S3997 were paid by the workmen's
compensation bureau during the year
ending June 80, the total number being
1,145. Death awards were for $4,000.
cooperstown-With every bank in
Griggs county except one represented
at recent meeting here, the bankers
went on record as favoring minimum
price Of So, fixed by the government,
on the best grade of wheat. Copies of
resolutions were forwarded to North
Dakota lawmakers in Washington.
DEMONSTRATING lost his money in a
poker game and alleging that he was
to be married in ST. Paul, Peter Scheile
drove Towner automobile to the
cities and then continued the ride to
Texas. He and his younger brother
were arrested in that state 10 days
later and are now serving in the peni-
tentiary and the state training school,
respectively.
Reeder-A few years ago the infant
son of Levi Puariea toddled into a
water tank and was found dead little
later. A year afterward an older son,
wading after shower, stepped into a
hole and was drowned despite his
mothers efforts at rescue. Last week
the eldest daughter, Miss Ida, took her
life by drinking carbolic acid.
Grand Forks-More than so per cent
Of North Dakota's 1922 wheat crop
falls in United States Grade No. 1,
according to ]. G. Diamond, North Da-
kota statistician of the United States
bureau of crop estimates. Mr.. Dia-
mond estimates that the 1922 crop
grades in the following proportions:
Grade No. /, 53.5 per cent; Grade No.
2, 264 per cent; Grade No. 8, 1919 per
cent; Grade No. 4, 4.S per cent; Grade
No. s, 10 per cent, and sample grade,
3 per cent. This is a decided improve
ment over the grades obtained during
the last few years. In 1921 only IA
per cent Of the crop fell in Grade No.
1, and in 1920, only 31.7 per cent came
in that grade.
Agricultural College Six members
of the conference for the prevention
Of grain rust, headed by 81. B. Fuller
of the North Dakota Agricultural col
lege, director Of the conference, are in
Washington this week appearing be-
fore the agricultural subcommittee Of
the house in support Of $5OO,OOO
appropriation for continuing the bar
berry eradication campaign in the
spring wheat states next year. Besides
Mr.. Fuller the delegation consists of
President J. F. Reed, Of the Minnesota
Farm Bureau, DR.. 3. G. stakman, Of
the University of Minnesota, DR.. g. H..
Coons Of the Michigan College Of Agri-5