The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-07-20

Dickinson--Bids for construction of
the main building of the Dickinson,
Normal School Will be opened July 28
by the state board Of administration.
Hatton--Elmer Asking and Royce
Dean have purchased the Great Wes-
tern elevator here and are remodeling
1t into a potato warehouse.
Dickinson-Improvements are being
made on the fair grounds here In pre-
paration for the first annual Stark
county fair set for Sept. 3-5.
Pinoree-Entering through a win
dow, thieves obtained several dollars
in small change from the Piercy hard
ware store.
Gaekle-Alice, IA year old daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Conrad of Alfred,
N. D, is in the are of a physician here
and in a precarious condition following
an attempt at suicide by taking poison.
Valley city-The largest summer
school ever held In North Dakota is
now in session at the Valley City State
Teachers college. The enrolment for
the first term totals 1922.
Minot-Archer ID. Poole, an attache
of a carnival company that is showing
here was shot and killed by J. Sharar,
policeman. Sharar is in a hospital,
shot through both legs.
Sharon-Clifford Paulson was badly
cut up when his car was overturned in
a ditch. Returning with help to right
the car it was found that thieves had
stolen all four tires.
StanIey-The loss of three fingers
was the result when Geo. Peterson
placed his hand onttop of a post, which
his hired man was driving with a
sledge hammer.
Minot-Eight hours after they We're
married, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Davis
were in cells in the Minot Jail. They
face charges of giving liquor to a
minor girl.
Fargo-Forty-six North Dakota
towns within a radius of 120 miles will
be visited July 81 and IS by business
men of Fargo on q get acquainted'
tour.
Bismarck-Work has been completed
or is being done this season on 800
miles of federal aid road work in
North Dakota, at a cost of $1,400,-
194.5S, according to FL. o. Wray of the
state highway commission,
Bismarck-Gov. r. A. Nestos has
started an appeal On its way to the
Interstate Commerce commission ask
ing that body to grant rates on Ignite
coal low enough to make it's use profit
able in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa,
South Dakota and Montana points.
Beaeh-Considerable damage was
done to barns and crops in this section
by a 6O-mile wind. Within half an
hour so inches of water fell. Several
barns and granaries We're wrecked.
Two horses crushed to death and
two killed by lightning.
New EngIand-State engineer Geo.
Mcmahon made a survey of the new
bridge dam which is planned to be
built across the Cannon Ball river at
New England. 1t is hoped to have the
bridge built with federal and county
aid during the coming year. 1t will be
the first bridge of its type in the state.
Observation-Disclosures of the Kid
der County Old Settlers association,
originally former in the sos, and which
quit functioning in 1911, was perfected
at a picnic recently held at Lake Isabel
near here, which was attended by a
large number Of pioneers of this Sec
ton.
Stanley-Presenting the defense that
a boiler with a small hole in the top of
the cover, which was found in their
home, was being used to cook feed for
the hogs, instead Of being used as a
still, as the state charged, Arne John
son and John Johnson, charged with
manufacturing Intoxicating liquor were
acquitted by a jury in district court.
Bismarck-News Of the splendid
crops that are 10Y about to be harvest
ed throughout western North Dakota
has spread throughout South Dakota,
and many farmers will visit western
North Dakota in a few weeks for the
purpose of locating homes, according
to L. j. Foss of Rosyln, s. D., who is
visiting here.
Devils Lake-Ramsey county farm
ers will stabilize the harvest and
threshing wages, as we'll as the price
to be paid by the farmer for threshing
grain this fall, if the movement now
or foot develops. At a meeting here of
farmers and threshermen the harvest
labor and threshing situation was dis
cussed. The following scale of wages
was thought reasonable and accepted
as the standard for Ramsey county:
Harvest (shockers and binder men), So
a day, 30 cents an hour. Threshing
(bundle men and field pitchers), $3.50
a day, 35 cents an hour; spike pitch
ers, 81 a day, 40 cents an hour; team
and wagon (bundle teams), 81 a day,
20 cents an hour. Cook for 12-team
right, So a day. Separator men and en-
gineers, $40 a day. The rate a bushel
for the different kinds OF grain thresh-
ed to be held at Devils Lake July 20.
Mandan-A dairy show with double
the number of animals ever shown at
any fair west of Fargo or Grand Forks,
in North Dakota, will be The feature of
the annual Missouri Slope fair to be
held here Aug. % to 81.
Eargo-To the question do you
want your daughter to marry a far