Farmers State Bank (Hoople, ND)

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News of the State Condensed for Busy Folks Steele Gets New Church. The new English Lutheran church at Steele has been dedicated. Big Watermelon Crop. Five thousand watermelons were grown this season by Paul LaCrosse near Parshall. Drowned In Swill Barrel. The body of the five-year-old son of John Wolfer of Linton, was found in a swill barrel near the hog lot. Hoople Bank Reopened. After being closed a year, the Farmers State bank of Hoople has reopened with $27,000 in excess of the required reserve. Bank Crash Again In Court. Petition has been filed in Cass county asking another grand jury investigation of the failure in 1921 of the Scandinavian-American bank in Fargo. Cow Equal of 14 Acres. That the annual production of one cow is equal to 14 acres of wheat is proved in figures recently published by George A. Eckert, Ward county farmer. Basement Contract Let. The first contract let for the new state Odd Fellows' home at Devils Lake comprises the digging of the basement. The superstructure will be begun early in the spring. North Dakota to Set Pace. This being the first state in the Union called upon for the annual Red Cross $1 membership roll call, a quick completion of the work of signing up our quota of 32,274 is urged by all interested in this work. The quota is figured on the basis of 5 per cent of the state's population. Lakota Woman on G. O. P. Body. As associate member of the Republican national committee, Mrs. C. N. Frick of Lakota, appointed by John T. Adams, national chairman, will have charge of organizing the Republican women voters in this state for the next national election. Gunder Olson is state national committeeman. Walks to Minneapolis In 58 Minutes. Leaving Fargo on foot for Minneapolis, to enroll in the University of Minnesota, Robert Chapman, formerly connected with the Fargo Y. M. C. A., carried a sign on his back suggesting that a ride would be acceptable. He started on foot from three different points and was picked up for long lifts, his walking time being only 58 minutes. New Salem Is Dairy Mecca. Since the regular annual tour of the New Salem dairy breeding circuit in June, which attracted hundreds of people from North and South Dakota, two smaller pilgrimages have been made to this center of North Dakota dairying. A party of automobilists from Warwick, and later some 60 cars from McHenry county visited the farms on the New Salem circuit. Unique Explosion Jars Fargo. Average pressure of 125 pounds proved too much for an air tank 15 feet long and four feet in diameter in the plant of the Union Light, Heat & Power Co. of Fargo and it exploded, causing a leak in one of the boilers, blowing several holes in the roof and walls, and breaking many windows in the business district. The only injury was a slight cut on the forehead of a passerby. Governor Makes Credit Suggestion. "All creditors of any man who is willing or can be induced to stay on his farm should pool their claims and take one renewal mortgage running to a trustee for all, giving the farmer enough time in which to pay back interest and principal." This is the gist of a suggestion advanced by Governor Nestos of North Dakota and heralded all over the nation for a method of enabling every deserving farmer to work his way out. Gathering Postal Statistics. Six North Dakota postoffices will participate in the first nationwide postal count ever attempted. Two years were spent in perfecting forms on which postal clerks in representative offices throughout the country will report the number of pieces, weights, routing, and so on, of all classes of mail handled during the month from September 20 to November 20. Accurate figures on the cost of handling mail will be compiled from the reports. Two Hunting Fatalities First Week. Donald MacGregor, 16-year-old son of Dr. M. MacGregor of Fargo, and Michael Clementich, 19, of Tasker, Ward county, were the state's first two victims of wild shooting at the opening of the hunting season. A youthful companion of MacGregor, failing to note that the lad had stepped out in front of him while he was loading his gun, accidentally discharged the piece, inflicting an almost instantly fatal wound in Donald's side. Clementich fell, his gun discharging and blowing a portion of his head away. Numerous other fatal accidents in harvest fields and automobile smashes have been reported throughout the state the past week or two. $5,000 Loot from Two Banks. Two North Dakota banks were entered, damaged, and looted of some $5,000 in cash and securities. The victims were the Cooley State bank and the Farmers bank of Golden Valley. Grain Growers Meet In January. January 14 to 18 is the period fixed for the annual meeting in Fargo of the Tri-State Grain Growers. The same officials have charge of farmers institute work in this state and the grain convention. They announce that institute work will begin about the middle of November. Two New Masonic Lodges. Masonic lodges have been instituted at Tioga and Wildrose. New Depot for Bordulac. A new standard depot will be completed on the Soo here by December 1. Hunting Lodge Erected. Cathay hunters have erected a well equipped lodge in the Kidder county hills. Association Handles Seed Potatoes. About 20,000 bushels of seed potatoes will be handled by the Arnegard Potato association this season. High Tension for Reynolds. Permission has been granted the Electric Construction Co. of Grand Forks to construct an electric high line to Reynolds. 145 Pound Calf Born. A calf weighing 145 pounds at birth on the Boehnke farm near Bottineau is believed to have established a state record. The average weight at birth is 75 pounds. Dairy Cows to Argusville. About 25 farmers around Argusville are co-operating in the purchase of a carload of dairy cattle. They will visit Minnesota dairy sections in making their selections. One Death In Auto Crash. When two automobiles crashed into each other on a highway near Buxton, the two-year-old son of Frederick Lien of Hillsboro was killed and seven other persons were injured. To Finish Big Roundhouse Soon. Between October 15 and November 1 the large new Great Northern roundhouse at Fargo is due to be completed and put into use, making Fargo an important terminal point on that line. 18 Months for Robbing Benefactor. After the Salvation Army captain at Minot had staked W. C. Booth to food and lodging, Booth entered his residence and robbed him of $18, for which he got 18 months in the state penitentiary. To Dedicate Hankinson Memorial. Two granite pillars at the entrance to the high school athletic field, bearing the names of the service men from that community, will be dedicated by Hankinson on Armistice day, November 11. Banks Warned of Yeggs. This is "open season for yeggs," according to a warning sent to North Dakota bankers by W. C. Macfadden, secretary of the North Dakota Bankers association, who urges that every bank employ a night watchman. Northgate Entry Closed. The immigration port of entry at Northgate has been abandoned and traffic will be diverted from this point through Portal, the federal immigration inspector in charge having been transferred to San Francisco. North Dakotans In California Fire. Several North Dakota people were in Berkeley, Calif., at the time of the $8,000,000 fire which swept that beautiful city, and some lost various personal belongings, although all escaped without harm and most of them without loss. Coulter at National Meet. "The Problem of the Wheat Belt" is the topic upon which Dr. John Lee Coulter, president of the state A. C., will deliver an address before the seventeenth annual session of the International Farm Congress in Kansas City October 10 to 12. High Dive Made Without Harm. Driving his car over a bluff obscured at a sharp turn, and falling 350 feet into a quagmire below, Pat Horrican, Mandan commercial traveler, lived to laugh over his experience. The car landed upright in the soft mud and it took 12 horses to extricate it while Horrican told a big assemblage of astounded listeners all about the sensation of falling 350 feet. 100 Degrees of Heat Rare. In nine of the summers during the 43 years for which meteorological records have been kept at the United State weather station in Moorhead, has the Red River Valley temperature reached 100 degrees or above. In 1883 and 1886 the thermometer reached 100; in 1893, 101; in 1894, 102; in 1900, 1911, and 1913, 100; in 1917, 110, the highest point on record in this section; and in 1921, 100. Reapportionment of Seal Money. Proceeds from the sale of Christmas seals this year will be apportioned on a new basis, according to the state health officer. A quarter of the money will go for local work in the communities where the seals are sold, a quarter toward a children's building at the state sanitarium at Dunseith, 10 per cent to the national association for federal work in this state, 40 per cent for general state work. New Trail Markings Through State. The National Parks highway, which follows the newly designated state highway No. 1 through the state from Fargo to Beach, probably will be jointly marked with low steel posts carrying the parks highway and the state symbols. The general manager of the National Parks Highway association is in the state to make arrangements for adequately marking the route through North Dakota, and expects to make similar arrangements in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Kiwanis Clubs Chartered. On October 8 and 9 Kiwanis clubs will be chartered at Bismarck and Mandan. A Casselton club was to be chartered September 27. Milwaukee Branches Abandoned. Failure of certain branches of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad in Sargent county to earn maintenance was adjudged by the interstate commerce commission as cause for their abandonment by the company. Five miles of the line between Cogswell and Harlem and a portion of the line between Hastings and Andover will be junked.