The Hope pioneer., 1922-08-03
|PassingGhmpses
ofLate Euents in
North Dakota
Underwood-Three frame building.
burned with a loss of $25,OOO.

and Sully's Hill national park.
Fargo-The North Dakota Retail
jewelers. and Opticians are meeting
here in joint session.
Dickinson-Bidsa are being asked on
a new $4,000 building at the state
normal here.
Wehpeton-The city's new fire truck
was successfully tried out here in a
barn blaze.
Menoken-Caught in a belt on a
home power plant, Cyril King, IL,
was so badly injured that amputation
of his right foot was necessary.
Grand Forks-The Commercial club
has appointed committee to CO.
operate with the state in pushing work
on the state mill and elevator.
Edmore-It is the plan of citizens to
turn out en- masse Labor Day and
prepare the town ball diamond for
parking next spring.
Mott-The question of employing a
county agent for Hettinger county
will be submitted to the voters at this
falls election.
GranviIle-A potato warehouse, with
improved methods of grading and ship
ping potatoes, is planned for this
vicinity.
carrington-The two candidates for
Foster county auditor in the recent
primary election tied with $40 votes
each.
MapIeton-The first threshing of rye
near here showed a yield Of about
25 bushels Of extra fine grain to the
acre.
center-At the graduation Of 81
boys and girls from the eighth grade
schools of the county so many specta-
tors were present that tent was
necessary to house the exercises.
Enderlin-Dr. Fred w. Harper, vet
eran of the dental corps and active
Legion member, has left his practice
here to take position with the War
Veterans bureau HI Minneapolis.
Grand Forks-Twenty million BUSH
els of wheat will be handled in North
Dakota this year by the North Dakota
Wheat Growers association, which has
5000 members in the state.
Fargo-A $4,000 budget to provide
for the employment of three full time
and several part-time workers has
been adopted by the North Dakota
Sunday School association.
Minot-The Northern Produce CON-
pany plans $4,000 building here,
/ increasing the butter manufacturing
capacity to five million pounds an
nually.
eismarck-Reminiscen of the e
Roosevelt days, views of the state
| capitol, and general statistics on the
state are incorporated in an attract
i've eight-page folder just issued by the
state immigration department.
Werner-Dunn Center, Kildeer, and
half dozen other towns of this vi
cinity will get electric current from
a central plant at the Hi-Grade Ignite
mine near here. The service will
begin some time in August.
Maddock-Lax burial of the carcass
of a COW that died with anthax per-
mitted the germs to be spread by dogs
and chickens and eight head of cattle
died of this disease on farm near
| here.
Valley city-Eleven hundred thirty.
seven students in the state normal
school here, $50 at Minot, 435 at Dick
inson, 300 at Mayville, and 21O al
Glendale constitute new record in
summer school attendance, according
to state school officials.
Washburn-Buying North Dakota
Ignite coal now will help the mines
and ease conditions this winter, ac
cording to Governor Nestos, who urges
that people of this state lay in thei,
winter supply Of native coal during
the summer months.
Washburn-For the first time since
she rode in Bismarck on the Northern
Pacific 80 years ago, Mrs. Constance
Falck recently took train ride, goins
back to Bismarck, whence she drove tt
the place when first coming to thu
country.
Cannon saii-Sioux county, Morton
county and state highway commission
representatives will meet to perfec
arrangements for steel bridge owe,
the Cannon Ball river near here. Thi.
will be the last bridge necessary t,
complete the Pierre to Bismarck, o.
capital-to-capital, highway.
8ismarck-The North Dakota rail
roadcommission will join with min,
other western states in objecting t,
proposed increases in interstate an,
lntrastate express rates.
Bismarck-The daughter of the lat,
Alex Mckenzie, early political leader
born to his second wife in New Yorl,
may contest the will which left NOR
than half Of his 100000 estate to tn
two daughters of his first marriage
residing In Canada. Each of the thre
children of the second marriage wa
left only $50,OO0 and an attorney re
res"nting them has filed protest in
81 Paul court