Towner County, ND, Hansboro News published between December 1, 1917 and December 31, 1917 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. http://www.usgwarchives.net/nd/ndfiles.htm ************************************************************************ The following news items and articles are all transcribed from the Hansboro News newspaper. The items included in this file were published between December 1, 1917 and December 31, 1917. Note: when searching for names in this text, I recommend using various spellings of a surname. I noticed during the transcription that some names were not spelled the same throughout. Since many of the names were not familiar to me, I typed them exactly as they were published. North Dakota State Historical Society microfilm numbers 09492 Transcribed October, 2000 by: Mary Lindbo, mjlindbo@msn.com (c)2000 Mary Lindbo December 7, 1917 ROCK LAKE RIPPLES Billy Gulholz departed Wednesday of last week for the Twin Cities where he expects to spend the remaining winter months. Miss Selma Jahnke and uncle dined at the Claude Elsberry home on Thanksgiving Day. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Walder and family ate Thanksgiving dinner at the farm home of their daughter, Mrs. Adrian Kidder. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Sibley and Mr. and Mrs. Hurt spent a jolly Thanksgiving Day at the Wm. Brunnemeyer home. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Jahnke and little daughter went "home to Grandmas" at Thompson, North Dakota for Thanksgiving leaving on Wednesday and returning Saturday. Mrs. Harry Lichty and little son Kenneth departed Tuesday for the home of her parents at Thompson, North Dakota to bid farewell to her brother, Ernest Brown, who expects to enlist in the aviation service of his country in the near future. The Red Cross ladies have cleaned their building on main street and made ready for an all day meeting on Wednesday of this week when their members have planned to spend as much of the day as possible in Red Cross sewing, cutting, etc. A large amount of work is expected to be accomplished. Another meeting will also be held on Friday. Art Rimel was a passenger to Devils Lake last week, where he visited his brothers, Gene and Enley, who were both confide to the hospital there. Edley was able to return home Monday of this week but Gene who has been a patient there for over two months, is improving slowly and could not come then. Anxious friends sincerely hope that he may soon be able to return to his family. Rock Lake friends and relatives were happily surprised Monday of this week when Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Seibert arrived for a short visit in our village from their home in Great Falls, Montana. They had also visited friends and relatives in Canada before coming here. Mr. and Mrs. Seibert have a host of friends in Rock Lake, having taken their last departure from our town as bride and groom. They will be guests at the farm home of Mrs. Seibert's sister, Mrs. A. Kendig. Miss Edith Mills returned Monday from Kenmare where she visited with her sister Ruth. The Steve Wagner family of Crocus spent Thanksgiving at the Vogel farm home. Mrs. J. J. Beeghly departed Monday for the home of her daughter in California who is seriously ill. The teachers from the Henle and Elsberry schools were among those who participated in the spell down held at the Rock Lake school last Friday. Louie Perch returned Monday from the Devils Lake hospital. A large number of young friends gathered at the home of Ben Robinson Wednesday evening of last week where a farewell party in honor of Flossie Rice who expects to leave in the near future for Indiana. A good time was reported. Miss Lona Rimel of the Hansboro school accompanied by a friend Miss Risch, spent Thanksgiving at Miss Rimel's home in Rock Lake returning to Hansboro Saturday. Mrs. Alta Nephew, a sister of Mrs. Sam Keeney who is visiting at her home here, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Thorson of Calvin and Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Keeney composed a Thanksgiving day part at the Sam Kenney home. Kate Ruth Elsberry, Lela Briggs and Cleo Barker of the Egeland school, spent the Thanksgiving holidays from Monday at Rock Lake being visitors in our high school room Friday. The Spell-Down, which our school children had planned for some time took place in the high school auditorium Friday evening of last week and met with such success that another is being planned for Friday evening December 21 of which further announcements will be given when arrangements are completed. A very merry time was had and the proceeds, $15. 00, was given to the Red Cross. Miss Mabel Latham was first prize winner, which besides the honor of having spelled down each of her school mates and all other participants, consisted of $2. 00 in cash. Small cash pries were also awarded as second and third prizes to Loren Keeney and Jessie Dayton, a great deal of amusement as furnished with Mr. Berry as leader and all around jollier and much sport was had at the expense of several of our grown-ups who were forced to be seated while some youngster spelled their word for them. An arithmetic test and a pleasing program completed the evening entertainment. CONCERT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RED CROSS Friday, December 7, 1917 Piano Solo (Chopin's Polonaise) - Genevieve Byrne Quartette - The City Choir (V. Murdick, Mrs. McDonald, G. Byrne, R. Converse) Piano Solo - Mrs. Leon Agarand Vocal Solo (The Sunshine of Your Smile) - Mrs. D. B. McDonald Recitation - Vera Walker Piano Numbers (Butterfly and Ase's Death) - Mrs. O. Anderson Violin Solo (Borowski's Adoration) - Richard Converse Vocal Solo (One Fleet Hour) - Velma Murdick Talk - Miss Clara C. Hjerpe Vocal Solo (It's Nice to Get Up In the Morning) - Charles Brown Quartette (Story of a Tack) - V. Murdick, Mrs. McDonald, G. Byrne, R. Converse NORTH DAKOTA EVENTS OF THE WEEK Within the last few days there has been a marked decrease in stock shipments over the various lines of the Northern Pacific that tap the stock raising section of the state. The building occupied by the Belfield Creamery and Produce company, one of the pioneer business structures of Belfield, was completely destroyed by a fire which is ascribed to spontaneous combustion. The death of Rev. B. H. Fisher, pastor of the Evangelical Church at Bowbells, former pastor of the Evangelical Church at Jamestown, occurred at a Bismarck hospital following an illness of two weeks with Bright's disease. Upon hearing that her son had been convicted at Minot of manslaughter in the first degree, Mrs. J. W. Crowell of Pulaski, Virginia, collapsed and soon died. Killdeer is three years old, the community having had its first town lot sale on November 12, 1914. The town now has 600 people, four blocks of business houses, three churches, two newspapers, three banks, five elevators, four lumber yards, a garage, two blacksmith shops and a few other things. With requests for 293 cars, the Great Northern has on hand at Breckenridge, Minnesota but three cars to supply demands from the Surry cutoff, Devils Lake, Grand Forks and Wahpeton divisions, Superintendent C. E. Hoffman advises the North Dakota railway commission. The car shortage throughout the state seems to be growing more severe instead of becoming less. Word comes from Camp Mills that Ben Cloud, veteran of Company A, First Regiment and one of Bismarck's most efficient young military men, is scheduled for a commission. He has been serving as regimental sergeant major and it is probable that when he goes up Sergeant Major Walter H. Hecker of Mandan will get his present booth. Cloud is an Indian and a good one, and his commission will please many Bismarck friends. Sheriff A. M. Ross of Cass County announces that 294 parcels of Fargo and Cass County real estate will be sold for delinquent taxes on December 11. Some of the taxes due on lots are as low as 13 cents. Anton Bethke and Fred McEwen of Balfour, while driving north of town, almost ran down two full-grown deer, which apparently were not familiar with the operation of an automobile. A short time ago a fawn was killed on the road near Balfour. Deer have not been seen in the vicinity of Balfour, far from their native haunts in the river bottoms, for many years until this season. With an enrollment of 70, the Dickinson night school, though but a few weeks old, already has outgrown its original quarters. The typewriting course is being taken by 49 students; 40 are taking stenography and there are classes in bookkeeping, penmanship and English. The Dickinson school board is in charge of the night school and it has wired for more typewriters and has prepared to engage additional teachers. Two brides and two grooms at Grandin, each of whom is doubly related to the other are now endeavoring to figure out their degree of relationship as a result of a double wedding at St. Thomas Church, in which Ambrose McCoy married Miss Mary McNamee and his brother, Alfred McCoy, married her sister, Miss Harriett McNamee. The people of Elgin have agreed to furnish the required right of way and the Milwaukee has agreed to pay its half of the construction of a connection between the Northern Pacific and Milwaukee railroads at that place. Mineola, New York, December 8 - It required but one hour and 43 minutes for a jury in supreme court here to reach a verdict of not guilty in the trial of Mrs. Blanca De Saulles for the murder of her divorced husband, John L. De Saulles, former Yale football star and clubman, at his home near Westbury, Long Island, the night of August 3. Mrs. De Saulles, who had maintained an air of extreme self-possession throughout the two weeks of the trial received the verdict smilingly. She shook hands with each of the jurors as they left the box and to each gave a nod of appreciation. As Mrs. De Saulles left the court room a photographer touched off a flash of light. The stock of the explosion, coupled with the young woman's heightened nervous tension, caused her to stagger, but she was prevented from falling by Dr. J. Sherman Wight, her physician. She was taken into a nearby room, where she soon recovered. In the verdict, no reference whatever was made to insanity. It was a plea of temporary loss of accountability which formed the basis of the defense. "I'm so happy," was Mrs. De Saulles' only comment, according to Mrs. De Saulles' attorney, Henry A. Uterhart. Mrs. De Saulles' acquittal automatically establishes her as the only legal custodian of her son, John L. De Saulles, Jr., according to her attorneys. LOCAL NEWS Mrs. N. J. Clements is reported on the sick list. Alfred Olson has been assisting in the drug store this week. D. A. Blackburn was a passenger to Devils Lake Monday on business. The Red Cross is meeting today at the home of Mrs. F. A. Kellogg. Messrs. Leary and Lentz were passengers to Devils Lake Monday. Mrs. Chas. Tribble and Mrs. Wm. Disher went to Devils Lake Tuesday shopping. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Tribble and son were guests to supper Sunday at the Wm. Disher home. The Royal Neighbors met at the country home of Miss Jennie Leslie on Thursday. The Whist Club will hold its first social this winter at Grimes Hall next Wednesday, December 12. D. A. Blackburn was a business visitor to Devils Lake Monday returning Tuesday. The Ladies Aid held a very pleasant meeting Wednesday afternoon at the country home of Mrs. Emmet Watts. Born to Mr. and Mrs. S. Kelleson, Wednesday, December an 11 1/2 pound boy. R. S. McNurlin was a passenger to Devils Lake Wednesday going down to visit his wife. Mr. Horricks of Crystal City is expecting to give another one of his popular musical concerts next Thursday, December 13. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wilson and family and Mrs. Mary Laing were guests at the J. D. Leftwich home Thanksgiving. Miss Ruth Brown has been unable to attend to her duties as clerk at the G. A. Olson Co. store on account of sickness. The little Misses Jean and Jessie McDougall are spending the week with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Murdick. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. McDougall and son Frank left Monday for Bismarck where they will visit. They will also visit other places before returning home. Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Wehrly and family and Mr. and Mrs. Clate York and family and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Stahl spent Thanksgiving at the Oliver home. Mrs. W. Wilson and little grandson went to Devils Lake last Wednesday returning on Friday from a visit with her daughter, Mrs. R. W. McNurlin, who is at the hospital. Mrs. C. W. Carter received a box of persimmons from W. H. Feagan, an old friends of the family of Macon, Missouri for Thanksgiving. This is certainly quite a treat to people in this country. Wm. Wilson went to Rolla Monday taking Hazel Lawrence and Freddie Underwood to catch the train for Fargo. They were joined at Cando by Miss Mamie Sorensen, County School Superintendent and some of the school children from other places in the county. Russell Wilson informed us this week that he is prepared to give your shoes a first class shine now at the Barber Shop. Miss Pearl McGreager of Cartwright spent Thanksgiving with Miss Velma Murdick. December 14, 1917 ROCK LAKE RIPPLES Our village school board met in regular session Tuesday. Russell Kennedy departed Tuesday for a few days stay at Devils Lake. Geo. Petsinger was taken quite ill at his home north of town last week but is reported improving. Ed Walder accompanied his mother to Cando Monday where the latter had dental work done. Mrs. Oscar Moore returned last week from Fairdale where she was called by the serious illness of her father. The many friends of Eugene Rimel were pleased to note his return from the hospital last Wednesday after a tedious siege of confinement there. We are pleased to report that little George Bullock, son of Harry Bullock, who was taken with what was thought to be a serious illness is much improved. We are to have electric lights in the very near future. In fact, the wiring for them has already begun and as soon as the necessary apparatus arrives, we'll no longer be "afraid to go home in the dark". Harry Roberts and family are the latest addition to our village having last week moved into the residence formerly occupied by DeVores. Miss Vernice Briggs was this week enabled to resume her position in the N. W. Hawkinson store, after an enforced absence caused by having her tonsils removed. Tom Gall returned last week from Cando having shipped a Shetland pony from there to his farm at Rock Lake, a gift from Alex Currie to the little Gall children with which they are highly delighted. Saturday evening, December 8, witnessed a very jolly gathering at the Walter Mitchell farm house, when revelry, in the form of a Hard Time Social, held sway until the wee small hours of the morning. The guests were many and arrayed in their "raggiest rags". Miss Grace Shaffer and Earl McCord however being elected as prize recipients. Merry games were played and delicious refreshments served. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wagner and daughter, Mrs. Will Groves, departed Tuesday of this week for a several week visit with relatives of both Mr. and Mrs. Wagner at Knapp and Waukesha, Wisconsin. They will be joined there by Mr. Groves who, accompanied by is brother Mark, autoed through some time ago. A very pleasant trip is anticipated. RED CROSS ITEMS A general meeting of the Hansboro Chapter of the Red Cross was held in the church immediately following Monday evening services. The resignation of Rev. Old as chairman was very reluctantly accepted and nominations were in order. Wm. Wilson was elected chairman and Harvey McLean chairman at large. The concert and shadow social given Friday night netted about $70. Thanks to our people at home. The concert was well attended considering weather conditions and the audience showed their appreciation and enthusiasm in welcome applause. The Red Cross work is only begun! A wealthy treasury is of course essential, but to have a great big living, breathing, working Red Cross Society join the Red Cross workers. Show that you are no slacker. Everyone has time, some time. Your chapter too will exhibit the Red Cross flags in their home windows. Each family having a Red Cross member will have one to past in their window with additional smaller crosses if there are more than one member. From December 17 until December 24 they shall stand to show that there is a warm heart ready to back his country. On Christmas eve at 7:30 p. m. candles are to be lighted behind these crosses all over the United States. Chapters have been requested to arrange with their local church to have the church bell ring at that hour and to continue the chiming at half hour intervals until 9:00 p. m. Hansboro can do and will do what she should. Hansboro people can knit and will do their part in this part work of charity and patriotism. The chapter has on hand a good quantity of yarn to be knit. Telegrams are even now being received from headquarters urging our people to prepare their boys for the great final blow. NORTH DAKOTA EVENTS OF THE WEEK The North Dakota State Grange in annual convention at Bismarck, adopted resolutions endorsing the presidency of Dr. Edwin F. Ladd of the State Agricultural College and favoring the establishment of another agricultural college for the slope at Mandan. Krohn Herbst, son of Mrs. I. Herbst and manager of the Herbst department store at Fargo has received orders to report at once to the headquarters of the quartermaster at Chicago. Mr. Herbst enlisted in this section of the service several weeks ago. He expects to be sent to France at once. Gus Sunblad has discovered a 9 foot vein of coal on his homestead near Shafer. The coal is said to be an exceptionally good quality of lignite. The vein is only about 18 feet below the surface. Heavy winds at Parshall rolled tumbleweeds in vast armies throughout that section and even into the main street of the town. They are piled up to a height of ten feet in many places. A number of Walhalla businessmen and their clerks put in half of their Thanksgiving holiday fixing up the Vang Road. The new road will materially assist the people of that section in reaching the town. Donald McCumber, son of Senator and Mrs. P. J. McCumber of North Dakota is in the naval hospital at Norolk suffering from a bullet wound in the left shoulder, accidentally inflicted by one of his mates. The body of G. W. Anderson, a bachelor homesteader, who lived alone northeast of Baldwin, was found lying on the prairie with a bullet hole in the head by two young Trygg boys, sons of a Trygg Township farmer. He is presumed to have shot himself. The fire hall and jail in Dunn Center is now complete. Fire equipment will be secured at once and the only thing that is lacking is an occupant for the jail. No trace has been found of Clark Hovey of Minot for many years public administrator of Ward County and a deputy sheriff up to the time he dropped out of sight several weeks ago. Two Germans, with 100 sticks of dynamite, 100 feet of fuse and several boxes of caps are being sought in the Badlands near Medora. The explosive was stolen from the Consolidated Coal company's mine at Medora. Manager Brodie discovered the boxes from which the dynamite was taken west of Medora, partly imbedded in the soft earth in such a manner as to indicate that they had been thrown from a westbound Northern Pacific train. Tom Terry, county road contractor, was seriously injured about twelve miles south of Dickinson by the overturning of his car which left the road owing to a broken steering gear and turned turtle, pinning Terry beneath it. When found he was unconscious and on examination it was revealed that he had a wrenched shoulder, a black eye and a broken left forearm. Farmers in the western part of North Dakota who suffered heavily when their crops were destroyed by last summer's record drought are contemplating calling an extra session of the state legislature to secure funds to carry them over the winter without selling their seed wheat, according to reports received from the western part of the state. The question of food, feed and seed for the farmers in this section, the reports say, is getting serious. Unless some action is taken, the reports say, a serious problem will face the farmers of the western section of the state and unless this is remedied the farmers will not be able to do their duty to the nation in raising bumper crops next year. LOCAL NEWS Geo. Williams left Monday for St. Paul with a carload of hogs. Mrs. J. E. Knight is reported on the sick list this week. Jack Brooks was a passenger down the line the first of the week. Miss Ruth Brown is again back on duty at the G. A. Olson Co. store after an absence of over two weeks on account of sickness. K. Eckerdt returned the first of the week from a visit with relatives in Canada. Rev. and Mrs. T. Old returned from Rock Lake Monday where they had been for several days. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. McDougall returned Monday from a visit to Bismarck and other points. D. B. McDonald and D. A. Blackburn went to Cartwright on business Tuesday. The Red Cross is being entertained at the home of Mrs. Harvey McLean this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Wehrly and family are visiting at the Oliver home his week, A. Price driving them up from Perth Sunday. Miss Lona Rumel is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Harvey McLean taught her room last week for a day or so. December 21, 1917 ROCK LAKE RIPPLES Mrs. Rice and daughters, Nellie and Flossie departed Wednesday of last week for Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Seibert departed last week for Cando after a short visit at the A. L. Kendig home. Miss Edith Smoot went to Cando Tuesday, returning Wednesday. Royal Crouse and Hubert Armour returned Monday of this week from Canada. Mrs. Jake Walder and son Adolph autoed to Cando Monday of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Preston Cain and little child were guests at the Jack Gall home in Rock Lake Sunday. Frank Elsberry departed Friday of last week for a short visit with C. W. Greene family at Duluth, Minnesota. Aziel Elsberry was a guest of Curtis Mateer at his home over Saturday and Sunday of last week. Miss Helen Latham was an overnight guest of Miss Bernice Elsberry at her home in the country Wednesday of last week. The little son of Roy Santman who has been ill for some time with pneumonia, is reported much improved at this writing. Ed Hoff shook hands with his many Rock Lake friends when in our village Monday on a short business trip. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Dougherty moved Monday from their temporary residence in the E. E. Brooks house to their fine new cottage just completed east of Joe Lichty's on Main Street. Pat Elsberry was on the sick list last week suffering from the effects of a cold but we are glad to note that he is now able to be about his work again. With the large supply of coal daily arriving in Rock Lake we should count ourselves fortunate to thus be fortified against the cold days to come in these times of suffering and sacrifice. A few young folks from Rock Lake attended the Egeland dance Friday, December 14 and reported splendid music and a fine time, though a very small crowd was in attendance owing to the severeness of the weather. Mas. O. P. Briggs and son Russel are quarantined at their home in our village, both ill with small-pox. Though this contagion does not seem to be of a serious nature it is hoped that the patients may soon recover and the quarantine be removed from their house. Mr. Dickerson arrived in our village last week for a short visit with his brother Prof. C. R. Dickerson who will remain in Rock Lake during the coming vacation weeks. The remaining teachers of our school have all departed for their respective homes to spend the holidays. Nine splendidly equipped comfort kits were presented by the Rebekah Lodge last week to nine of our soldier boys next in order to leave for training. The boys are very grateful to the Rebekah Lodge for these practical and useful gifts. Our three drafted boys departing Wednesday, December 19 were recipients. On account of small-pox in Rock Lake, school was closed for a period of three weeks at least, to prevent the spread of this infectious disease. Fred Lindsay is loading a car of baled hay to be shipped to the eastern markets soon and has a crew of men steadily occupied on his farm bailing, hauling, etc. Wesley Lindsay, who has been visiting for the past week at the home of his uncle, John Lindsay at Rock Lake, returned to his home in Canada Tuesday of this week. Mrs. Fannie Elsberry returned Friday last from Elsberry where she had been caring for her son Bob, who has been confined to his bed at his home there with a serious attack of lumbago. NORTH DAKOTA EVENTS OF THE WEEK James Samman, alias James Shannon, committed for 3 1/2 years from Fargo, walked out of the state penitentiary upon the completion of 20 months time into the arms of Chief Martinson of Kansas City, on a charge of arson, the alleged crime having been committed four years ago. Paul Cysewski, young farm hand employed on a farm near Courtenay during the summer months, pleaded guilty to grand larceny in district court and was given an intermediate sentence of from one to three years in the state penitentiary by Judge J. A. Coffey. Cysewski is alleged to have taken a load of grain owned by Caspar Wojick and disposed of it to the Courtenay Elevator company. Alex Schnaible is not afraid to fight his relatives even though they are massed with the German army. Schanible recently passed through Fargo with a number of recruits from Bismarck enroute to the Jefferson barracks, from which point he will probably be transferred to the south. He has 52 cousins in the German army and is going to fight them from one of Uncle Sam's aeroplanes if given the chance. Adjutant General Fraser has received authority from Provost Marshal General Crowder to send 200 North Dakota drafted men to the coast artillery corps of the national army stationed at Fort Stevens, Oregon. Brily Douglas of near Carlyle, a pioneer settler of Golden Valley was immediately killed when his skull was crushed in a collision between a Ford car driving by his son, Fred, and a wagon loaded with lumber. Eight hundred feet of track was torn up when the southbound freight on the James River Valley line jumped the track about two miles north of Grand Rapids. Six cars were deposited in the ditch and two others derailed. The sum of $32,000 in cash figured in the sale of the L. Diekmann farm, six miles north of Tower City and comprising 640 acres to F. C. Burns of that city. Smoke pouring from the oven of the stove of Henry J. Ramsey of Killdeer caused that gentlemen to turn in a fire alarm. When the firemen arrived they discovered the trouble to be a burned-up roast which had been neglected by the family. N. E. Pitsch, Fargo photographer, charged with bootlegging, was arrested in St. Paul on information filed by his bondsmen, Anordale and Charles Narum, who furnished bail in the sum of $750 for Pitsch's appearance in the Cass County district court and are said to have become uneasy over the defendant's long absence from Fargo. With a bullet lodged in the muscles of his neck after passing through the collar bone and through the neck, Donald McCumber, son of Senator Porter J. McCumber of North Dakota who was accidentally shot by two of his shipmates, lies in a serious condition in the naval hospital at Portsmouth, Virginia. LOCAL NEWS Jake Cherry was a caller in Hansboro Monday. Mrs. Bob Elsberry was shopping in our village between trains Monday. Lee Gibbons and Jake Carey of St. John were Hansboro visitors Sunday. Geo. Williams returned Saturday from St. Paul where he had taken a car of stock. Melvin Olson returned home Tuesday from University to spend the holidays with home folks. Mrs. Mary Laing left Monday for Logansport, Indiana where she will visit relatives for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Wehrly and family left Monday for Syracuse, Indiana where they will spend the winter. It is rumored that Herman Hoerer is going to open a restaurant in the building just east of the post office. Miss Clara Hjerpe and Miss Lona Rimel left today for their respective homes to spend the holidays. Miss Genevieve Byrne will spend Christmas with her parents at St. John. Men have been busy installing electric lights on main street today. Chas. Blackorby was a Minneapolis business visitor this week. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fernyhough and family expect to spend Christmas at Wahpeton, North Dakota. Thos. Lonson who has been visiting at the Harvey McLean home has joined the Navy. Mr. and Mrs. Orra Wills were Devils Lake visitors Wednesday returning home Saturday. J. W. F. Johnson was a business visitor to Devils Lake Wednesday returning home Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson who have been at the McNarlin home for some time left on Monday for their home at Sebeka, Minnesota. Leonard Converse took Mrs. Lymburn to Cartwright the first of the week to consult the doctor concerning a felon on her finger. Rev. O. Lottes came up from Devils Lake and gave a very nice sermon in English followed by a German one for the Lutherans at the school house last Sunday. Geo. Wilson this week received a letter from his son Claire, who recently enlisted in the U. S. Navy and is now in training at the Great Lakes stating that it was the life and for the boys who were expecting to go into the service to join the Navy. Our school closed today for the Christmas vacation. An appropriate program was rendered by the students. FAREWELL FOR HANSBORO BOYS Konrad Eckerdt, Alfred Olson and Robert Richardson were given a farewell party at Grimes Hall Tuesday evening by their Hansboro friends. The early part of the evening was spent in games when later on dancing was indulged in until a late hour. Mrs. Clements served supper during the evening. The boys were each presented a gift by the Red Cross. A large number of friends gathered at the station Wednesday, when they left for Cando where they will be joined by a number of other Towner County boys who with them will go to Camp Stevens. Their many friends wish them good luck and hope they may soon return home. December 28, 1917 ROCK LAKE RIPPLES Mrs. Harry Lichty returned Wednesday from a few weeks visit at her parents home in Thompson. Elmer Kennedy returned Saturday from a few days visit with relatives at Devils Lake. Miss Lottie Hindman commenced her duties Wednesday of taking invoice at the N. W. Hawkinson store. Rosie, the daughter of Wm. Brunnemeyer is reported seriously ill with scarlet fever at her home. Miss Ruth Dahl, of the Ellison school departed for her home Saturday to spend the Christmas holidays. Mrs. Spencer of Oberon, North Dakota came up Saturday for a holiday visit at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Roy Lean. Miss Kate Elsberry assisted with the Christmas rush at Jahnkes Store Saturday and Miss Ruth at Hawkinsons. Miss Hepburn of Minot will visit at the home of her friend Mrs. Harry Lichty during the holidays having arrived in Rock Lake Saturday last. Our Egeland high school girls, Kate and Ruth Elsberry, Lela Briggs and Cleo and Chloie Barker came Friday to spend their Christmas vacation at their homes here. Miss Vernice Briggs who had been staying at the Sam Keeney home on account of the small-pox quarantine at the Briggs home was taken with the disease last week and is reported quite ill at this writing. Miss Bertha Birkman of the Egeland Central office, came up to spend Christmas at Rock Lake being a guest at the Lish Elsberry home. Mrs. Fannie Elsberry also Miss Marie Hronesh also partook of family Christmas dinner there. Among those dining out on Christmas day were the Tom Elsberry family who took dinner at Bests, the Hindman family who were guests at the Harry Copley home and Mr. and Mrs. Sibley who spent Christmas day at Kendigs. Miss Hulda Vogel spent a few days at Devils Lake last week returning Saturday accompanied by her little brother and sister from the School for the Deaf at that place and also Mrs. Steve Wagner of Crocus all of whom spent the holidays at the Vogel farm home near Rock Lake. Miss Canfield of Cando is now assisting in the First National Bank having taken up the duties of Miss Hoye who recently departed. Carl Whiting of Rock Lake departed Wednesday of last week for an extended visit with his relatives and those of his wife at different points in Minnesota. Miss Clara Peterson is expected soon to stay with her sister, Mrs. Whiting during his absence. One hundred and seventy-six new members were added to the membership of our local Red Cross chapter as the result of the canvass of our village by the Red Cross committees. Reports have not yet been received as to the number obtained in the adjacent townships, but it is grand to feel that our community are so willing to do their bit towards backing our brave soldier boys. As a consequence of the recent increased membership, the Red Cross service flag shown from the window of perhaps every home in our village on Christmas eve in unity with millions of other homes throughout our United States. NORTH DAKOTA EVENTS OF THE WEEK Rev. F. W. Thomas, pastor of the Mandan Presbyterian Church ahs announced that he has accepted the unanimous call of the Deer Lodge Presbyterian Church, Deer Lodge, Montana and that his pastorate in Mandan will come to a close on Sunday, December 30 at which time the pulpit will be declared vacant. Henry von Bank, president of the board of education in a rural district near Buffalo, Cass County is under arrest charged with making insulting remarks about the Stars and Stripes. As a school officer, the defendant is charged with attempting to prevent the flying of the flag from the school house under his direction. He was held for a hearing on January 20. Three new lodges of the Norwegian beneficiary society, Sons of Norway, with headquarters in Minneapolis recently have been organized. Eidswold Lodge No. 186, in Landa, North Dakota, Midnatsolen Lodge No. 187, in Nemburg, North Dakota and Freya Lodge No. 188 at Cass Lake, Minnesota. The Sons of Norway now have more than 200 members in the American army and navy. The next general meeting of the Sons of Norway will be in Great Falls, Montana, July 18 and 19 according to a decision of the first president of the society, Michael Rosness. The police of Minot have broken a record by making a couple of arrests. These are the first arrests docketed in police court sine December 1. It is possible this is the longest idle spell in the history of the police department. Fred Graham of Kenmare engaged in the liquor business the other day. Inside of twenty-four hours he was arrested, tried, sentenced and had commenced on a sixty-day term. He will serve an additional ten days for $100 fine and $15 costs. Drake claims a record for its Red Cross roundup, consisting of a upper, entertainment and ball which netted $550. During the roundup 175 new members were secured. "Three Cheers! Devils Lake Regains Cold Weather Championship From Williston" This is the optimistic way the editor of the Devils Lake World looked upon the report reaching the east that Devils Lake with a temperature of 26 below was the coldest point in the United States on a certain day recently. Williston, also regarded as one of the coldest points in the United States, reported 22 below. W. A. Gilbert, a well known contractor of Grafton, died suddenly at his home there from heart failure. Mr. Gilbert had been enjoying his usual good health and his sudden demise has come as a shock to the residents of Grafton. He was a member of the city council for many years. M. O. Krogfos, a prominenet farmer living near Derrick, has been taken to a Devils Lake hospital, where he is receiving treatment for a broke leg which he received in the accidental tipping over of a rig in which he was riding. 41 LOSE LIVES IN TRAIN CRASH Sheperdsville, Kentucky, December 22 - Forty-one persons lost their lives and about 39 were injured when Louisville and Nashville train No. 1 from Cincinnati to New Orleans, crashed into the rear of a Boardstown, Louisville and Springfield accommodation train just south of the railway station here, according to W. F. Sheridan, superintendent of the Louisville division. First reports had placed the number of known dead at 67 and number of injured at between 40 and 50, but this was reduced when an official check was made. No cause for the wreck was assigned by Mr. Sheridan, who would make no statement pending an investigation. >From other sources it was learned that the accommodation had left the station after making a stop, when the fast train came in sight running at a high rate of speed and plunged into the train ahead. The two wooden coaches and the baggage car making up the lighter train were splintered. None of the passengers aboard the fast train were killed and none of them received more than minor injuries. Jesse Weatherford, telegraph operator at the station, said that after the accommodation train left the station he had set his block to show the track clear and left the office to handle baggage. When he got outside, he said, he saw the fast train approaching, ran back to the office, threw the block to show red, seized a lantern and rushed to the platform to flat it just as the locomotive thundered by. LOCAL NEWS Chas. Tribble was a Rolla caller Saturday. Richard Converse and Miss Velma Murdick were Cartwright visitors on Sunday. Jim Brown and family took Christmas dinner at the Leftwich home. Miss Thursa Brown who has been in Rolla for several weeks returned home Saturday. Miss Ruth Disher spent Christmas at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Disher, east of town. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Cowen and family of near Rolla near Christmas at the J. D. Leftwich home. Mr. and Mrs. D. B. McDonald spent Christmas in Winnipeg, the guests of Mrs. McDonald's sister, Mrs. Earl. Michael Epstein is assisting in the store here while his sister, Dorothy is visiting in Grand Forks and Fargo. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Anderson spent Christmas in Rolla at the home of Mrs. Anderson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Markell. The Misses Aletha and Myrtle Weeden came home from their schools Saturday to spend their Christmas vacation. Mr. and Mrs. L. P. McAneney and little daughter came over from Minot to spend Christmas at the home of Mrs. McAneney's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Murdick. R. S. McNurlin was a passenger to Devils Lake to spend Christmas with his wife who has been confined in the hospital for several weeks past. Miss Lulu Strawn closed a very successful term of school at Armourdale last Friday. She gave a Christmas entertainment for the children and patrons of that district Saturday evening. Miss Strawn expects to leave soon for Normal School. Misses Grace and Opal Tribble returned home Monday from their schools to spend their Christmas vacation. William Williams returned home Wednesday from a visit in the east with relatives and old friends. Miss Lois and James Kyes, who have been attending school in Fargo returned home Saturday for the Christmas vacation. Melvin Olson is assisting in the store during vacation.