The Devils Lake world., 1922-07-19

Carl 'Brudsseth, manager Of the
Farmers Grain Co., at Keith, was a
business visitor in the city yester-
day.
George Shepperd and family of
Brocket were in the city Sunday to
attend the ball game, which was play
ed at Lakewood Sunday Afternoon,
between Devils Lake and Brinsmade.
Fred P. Mann left last evening for
Williston where he will be one of the
principal speakers at q convention
of the retail merchants Of the north
western portion Of the state, which
takes place today.
Fred P. Mann returned last Mon
day night from Washington, D. c.,
where he attended session of the
National Chamber of Commerce, of
which he is a member.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto E. Hagen and
Mr.. and Mrs. Gust Fjelseth went to
Fargo and Davenport, this state, to-
day and will be gone about a week
visiting friends and relatives. Mr..
and Mrs. Hagen will visit at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. L. N. Nodtvedt
of Davenport, while Mr.. and Mrs.
Fjelseth will visit in Fargo. They
made the trip via car.
H. B. Heald, a prominent figure in
financial circles of Canton, Illionis,
and cashier of one of the leading
banking institutions of that city,
the Canton National, arrived here
last week to visit at the home of his
brother, H. r. Heald. Mrs. Heald
has been here for some time. Toget-
her, Mr.. and Mrs. Heald plan to visit
Glacier National park, Seattle and
other points west.
The Civic and Commerce Associa-
tion of Devils Lake was represented
last Monday at St. Paul by Fred P.
Mann as a meeting of the CONNER
cial clubs Of the several states in
the northwest held at the Northern
Pacific offices for the purpose of re-
questing that the 500, the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific rail-
roads give reduced rates to farm
laborers desiring to come here to help
harvest the big 1922 crop.
Bert Reep Of this city and Miss
Bernice Williams of Warwick left
yesterday morning by auto for Far
go where they intend to be married
today. They were accompanied by
and Mrs. c. A. Anderson, who will
witness the wedding. After the
ceremony the couple expect to drive
Alexandri, Mimi, where they will
spend their honeymoon of two weeks
at a summer resort, and will return
to Devils Lake to make their home.
Two automobiles were stolen in
Devils Lake during the past week.
The Dodge sedan belonging to Mer-
rill Finch was taken from the gar
age last Saturday night, and was
found Monday, near the 500 track.
On Monday night of this
week Sydney Bakers Buick car dis
appeared from Arnold avenue, and
yesterday morning was found by
Sheriff Elliott near the mill. The
key and robes which were in the car
were missing.
Auctioneer H. G.. McMurray and
family Of near Edmore were among
the prominent people from out of
town to take in the Lake Region Fair
during the last two days, and Mr..
McMurray told The World that, he
never expected to see anything big
ger or better than what we had here
this year both in the way of enter
tainment as well as splendid exhibits,
and wished he had made arrange
ments to spend the entire four days
here instead of only two. Mr.. Nc
Murray is a prosperous farmer of
Highland Center township as we'll as
an auctioneer of more than ordinary
ability. During the fall and spring
months he is kept very busy at the
auction game, and predicts that there
will be just as many farm sales in the
Lake Region during the coming fall
as there were several years ago. On
account Of the short crops and con-
sequent money stringency the farm
sales had been very few during the
past year or more.