The Hope pioneer., 1922-10-26

Valley ctty-A chapter Of DeMolay
has been organized here.
cuba-Fire destroyed the Atlantic
elevator and $4,000 bushels of grain.
couIee-Caving dirt in a Ignite
mine buried and smothered Ludwig
Sterud.
Hankinson-The Hankinson Farm.
ers Shipping association has just been
organized.
Cando-Exhaust steam from the city
light plant is being piped to heat the
city auditorium.
Beach-When threshing machine
belt broke, Clarence Wilde sustained
a fractured skull.
EllendaIe-Two local stores were
entered and rifled of merchandise with
a value of $1,000.
Bismarck-This years hail loss
figures are more than million dollars
less than the total for 1921.
Bremen-Three men were badly in
jured when their auto struck freight
train standing on crossing.
RoIIa-A. N. LeBrun, young sales
man, was killed when truck in which
he was riding overturned.
Snow-When hayrack he was talk
ing from wagon toppled onto him,
Julius Krogh sustained fatal injuries.
chrfstine-When a midnight fire
gutted his home Matthias Matthieson,
a local bachelor, was burned to death.
Grand Forks-A reunion of 164th
fnfantrymen Sand veterans of the SSth
division will be held here Armstice
day.
Dickinson-Bonds for the construc.
tion of a new $35,O0O grade school
building were approved at a special
election.
Noonan-When brick pulled loose
human fly who was giving an exhibi-
tion here fell two stories but had his
fall broken by an awning.
Fargo-All of North Dakota is inter-
ested in the proposed merger Of the
Great Northern, the Northern Pacific,
and the Burlington railroad lines.
University-A circulating library OF
phonograph records for use in high
schools of the state is planned by the
music department Of the University.
Jamestown-The Oldest man in the
Northern Pacific express service, S. E.
Mattison, died here at the age Of Sc,
after 33 years of residence in James.
| town.
Bismarek-Forty-two one-ton blocks
of concrete will be used in construct
ing the underpass on the road from
the city to the new vehicular bridge
over the Missouri.
Shafer-A county agricultural high
school to cost 100000 and the question
of continuing county agent work in
Mckenzie county will be voted on at
the fall election.
Agricultural colIege-Several prom
inent persons in North Dakota educa-
tional circles were present at the
laying of the corner stone last week
of the new practice home for students
in home economics.
RosegIen-A reward of $500 has
been offered by the State bank for the
return Of 100000 worth of nom
negotiable bills receivable recently
stolen from the bank vault.
Devils Lake-Passengers on the gi-
gantic ocean liner, Acquitania, Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Wickert experienced some
real thrills when that ship ran into a
terrific storm on recent voyage home.
Fort Yates-Only three bids all ac-
cepted, were received on the many
tracts of Indian land offered by the
government. here. Two quarters went
at S2,4OO and $4,000, respectively, and
half at $6.04O
Devils Lake-"Bones," the champion
grade Holstein COW Of the United
States, was purchased at the dairy
show in st. Paul by E. w. Gilbertson
of this city, and was given royal
reception when she arrived here.
Mandan-The builder of Fort Lin
coin, as well as Fort Sully, S. D., was
Colonel N. N. Fuller, who now lives at
Horne River Falls, Wis, living link
between present times and the frontier
days Of pioneering and Indian welfare.
Blsmarck-Mrs Minnie Clark Bud.
long, for many years head of the North
Dakota library commission and an
active worker in the state federation
of women's clubs was recently or.
! dained pastor of the Peoples church
at Kalamazoo, Mich.
MohalI-Four years in the federal
prison at Leavenworth, Kas., was the
punishment meted out to ]. G. Peters
former president of the now defunct
MOhall State bank, who pleaded guilty.
before Judge Andrew Miller in federal
court at Minot to the charge of using
the mails to defraud. w. w. Bergman
former assistant cashier, was sen.
fenced to two years, and Frank w.
Wiebe, cashier Of the closed bank. to
a year and day in the same institu.
tion. .
carson-Production costs recorded
by several Grant county farmers have
just been made public; the average
cost of wheat was 1925 per bushel; {;
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