Sioux County pioneer., 1922-12-07

averaging III days worked.
Mercer county was second with
129,9O8 tons, valued at $359,O00 and a
total number Of 1853 workers, averaging
265 days worked.
oberon-A Boy Scout troop will be
organized here.
MohaIl-A movement is on for the
establishment here of public library.
HamIet-Contract has been let for
the plumbing and heating in the new
$4,000 school house here.
venlo-A livestock shippers associa-
tion has been organized here. The 500
recently enlarged the -stock-shipping
facilities.
kiIIdee-Local business men bought
the light plant sold at sheriff's sale at
Manning to insure continuance of
power here.
University-One from among seven
candidates soon will be chosen to rep
resent North Dakota as Rhodes
scholar at Oxford.
1 LitchviIIe- 90-horsepower Curtis
airplane has been received by DIR.
Platou, who will use the engine this
winter to drive an aerosled.
EgeIand- purebred Holstein
heifers were sold in one week by M. w.
Skeen, local breeder, who reports that
the demand far exceeds the supply.
i Fargo-The head of the ninth district
Federal Reserve bank in Minneapolis
reports that the car shortage has been
greatly relieved throughout the North
west.
Wahpeton-At the time of the Rich
land county poultry show, January
1926, the official state single comb
White Leghorn poultry show will be
held here.
Brinsmade-The Belgian Croix de
Guerre was awarded Private Oscar
Clauson, who went to Minneapolis to
receive the medal from General
Pershing last week.
Grand Forks-Extensive advertising
of the North Dakota state mill flour
Dakota Maid, is now being carried on
and the sales are satisfactory, reports
the mill superintendent.
Mandan-One applicant for citizen
SlllD AL u IOCcuL lCIlu VI ulStl4SI NOu1
who claimed exemption from the army
! during the World war, was denied his
petition and another who has been II
years in this country and cannot speak
English was admonished to learn how
and petition again for citizenship.
Bisnnarck-"No illiteracy in 1924
was the slogan adopted in North Da.
| yofo hon a. IN q
campaign to bring at least elementary
education to every resident of the state
It corresponds closely to the nationa.
slogan, adopted for national education
week. December 80, which is: "No ILL
teracy in the United States in 1927"
Devils Lake--Three women and II
men qualified rs Boy Scout leaders ir
the training school recently conducted
here. This is the first time on record
that women have qualified for Scout
leadership and correspondence now |:
under way with national headquarters
regarding the eligibility Of the ladies tt
serve. They are Miss Gertrude Rior
dan, Mrs Harry Kneeshaw, Mrs. J. D
StensOn.
Agricultural College th'
tEowner- Sterling education bill, forensic
n Representatives of this institution vii
y this winter, for the first time, touch tn,
Atlantic coast. Seven years ago A. G
debaters invaded the west coast. Thi
season they will debate ut Connection
Agricultural college, Massachusett
A.. c., New Hampshire A. G., Universit.
of Maine, Pennsylvania State college
and Michigan A. c., between January
and January Is.
Forman Monroe Smith and Mis-
vesta Steer recently were married ii
Minneapolis. Miss Steer was born nea
Mott and was the first girl to complete
with honors the livestock and anima
husbandry course at the North Dakot'
u Agricultural college. Five years ag
\ she won international honors at tn
I. Chicago livestock exposition as d live
stock Judge, and admitted at the tim
tthat she probably would someda
"A marry q farmer. The family hav
moved to Wisconsin, but when Mis-
Steer married she chose d North Da
kota accountant, which profession MI
Smith follows here.
Lidoerwood-No Sunday trains hay
ing been run from Hankinson to Sthi
s point for some time. past, the postofic
department has established a star mai
IA route to leave here at $50 a. m. eac
8 Sunday and return from MdgerWoo
5 at IL q. M. ;s.5S "A ..,S
IN Grand Fori<s-W Winning the trip a
holder Of the state champi pionship in til
4 i, sow and litter department Of the stat
2 livestock projects, Mary Mckenzie 9
i Logan township will be the guest at til
! Internal tional livestock show in Chicag
!. of. the Armour bureau for agriculture
j 4 research. z 'sal .8