Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-05
Social Notes,

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Social Notes.
Sheldon Herald: Mr.. G. G. Wright and
| daughter, Katie, of Fargo, were on a visit
to Sheldon friends last week. Mr.. Wright
has Eeen resident of Fargo for the past
eleven years.
G. s. Torkelson has gone to New Tacoma,
M T., on business trip. He will return
in few weeks.
Prof. Cowen has returned to Fargo to
see that everything is in shape for the be-
ginning of the schools tie last Ct the
month
Frank Kirkham has gone to st. Paul to
meet his sister from Chicago who will re-
turn with him. They will arrive in Fargo
this morning.
W. B. Mcconnell, attorney for the
| Northern Pacific railroad, has gone on a
| trip to the Yellowstone valley. His desti-
nation is said to be Glendive.
Colonel Tyner, Fargo's amiable postmas-
ter. was made happy Thursday by the arr1-
val in Fargo on visit, of his niece, Miss
! Lille Tyner, of Berwick, Illinois.
Bert J. Mabey left for the east on short
visit Thursday evening. He will visit
friends in st, Paul and perhaps go to Chi
| cage, returning in about ten days.
D. B. Durgin is rusticating down east,
and has been for some time. 1t is said
that he will soon return and once more as
sumo the responsibilities of business and
social enjoyments of the metropolis of the
northwest.
Miss Matte Mathews, who has for some
: time been stopping with her sister, Mrs.
! Slverson, in this city, has left for her
! home in Benton, Minnesota. Miss M. has
many friends in Fargo who sincerely re-
| greet her departure.
Miss Mary Egbert returned Friday
morning from visit of several weeks
with her aunt in Hastings, Minnesota. She
doubtless comes to renew her former con-
| quests, midst a multitude of friends and
| acquaintance here.
Mrs. II. W. Pratt and daughter, Miss
Maude, came to Fargo from Faribault
early in the week and have been visiting
the cid schoolmate and friend of the latter,
Miss Sela Hunt, in Island Park. Mrs,
Pratt departed for home Thursday evening,
but Miss Maud will remain during the
summer.
Valley City Times: The elder and
younger Mrs. Clapp, of Fargo, are the
| guests of Mr.. and Mrs. B. W. Benson. Rev.
S. Maddox. formerly resident of Valley
City, passed through here yesterday after
noon en- route from Standing Rock to
Fargo.
| 1t is rumored, and the rumor comes
from peculiarly authentic source, that
the daughter of one of Fargo's esteemed
ex-mayors, will soon wed knight of the
quill, who inhablts the editorial rooms of
a bright Sunday morning newspaper pub
lished in Minneapolis.
The Argus says that Manager Ellis, of
the Fargo portion of the Moorhead Even
ing News, is rusticating among the pine
| trees and Indian graves of BrGinerd, Min
nesota, where he is searching for geologi-
cal proofs that Fargo was a city before
Brainerd was thing of conception.
Irwin E. Rockwell, former friend and
associate of the GLOBES Northwestern de-
partment when in Montana, a year ago,
came up from Minneapolis Saturday
night to spend few days in Fargo. Heis
now editor of the Sunday Morning Call, of
Minneapolis, and is alleged to be out rus
ticating.
Col Geary, the receiver of the Fargo
land Office, has gone down East to meet
Mrs. Geary, who has been visiting friends
| in New York for some time. They will 90
to the colonel's farm in Minnesota for
few days, after which they will return to
Fargo, and be welcomed back by their
hosts of friends.
On Friday Colonel Crockett, one of the
best known gentlemen in the Red river
valley, had the pleasure of showing Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher, his wife and Major
Pond, his business manager, over the two
cities. The public spirit of the colonel is
a matter OF congratulation. The colonel
is generally spoken of as one of the most
am1able men in the country.
Republican,: The presiding genius of
the Fargo bureau of the st. Paul GLOBE
seems to think that he ought to be de-
ferred to and patronized by Fargo society,
| and takes occasion t. slur, in his CORES
pondence, social party held at the resi-
dence of one of our citizens, because he
was not invited to attend. The GLOBE
managers ought to be looking after this
untamed ass of the prairie.
Miss Alice Johnson, who has for some
weeks been visiting friends in the east and
south, has returned home. The pleasures
of the alleged civilized countries down
east could not keep her spirits up any
more than could its natural and in many
respects actual counterpart, a graveyard.
She comes back to Joy the dazzling So
ciety and the free air of the northwest.
saying, there's no place like Fargo
Argus: b. s. Conover and A. GAYLORD
had narrow escape from drowning while
at Detrois lake last week, the boat sapsiz-
ed when they were about a quarter of a
mile from the shore and with the little
knowledge they had of the natatorial art.
| they put to their best TO reach the shore.
which they did in d state of exhaustion.
During the thunder storm Friday night