The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-03-25
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There were four or Ave dfun1rners
Tor to be more polite, travelling sales
men seated about THEOLOGY Of the Hotel
! Waldorf last evening swapping stories
and Bob Mcintyre, clerk of the hotel,
was an attentive listener. Some how
or other the talk drifted on to the mos
| quito question, when one of the COM
mercial men who has been coming here
| for years made the statement that
Fargo during the mosquito period in
the summer could give cards. and
| spades to almost any place in the Unit
ed States and beat it out. One of the
men who comes from the far east and
makes Fargo about once year said
that the thoroughbred New jersey
"skeeter" had anything skinned alive
that wore wings and had a singer.
| The lean clerk of the hotel after plac-
ing Moorhead filler with a Fargo
wrapper between his teeth lit the other
end and said that one time when he
was summering at Detroit Lakes, he
| struck a gang of the real critters and
he doubted whether anything could
beat them.
I'VE were fishing away down by
Nason's Point and were camping out"
said he. TT was sultry day in Au-
gust, when we started to fish. but had
to give 1t up. One by one the campers
left the boats and got into the tents
which were so dosed with peppermint
that the mosquitoes would not enter ]
was left alone. The fish were biting
nicely and / made up my mind to stick
1t out. We had big iron kettle which
we used for various purposes, and the
mosquitoes got so bad that / crawled
under this for protection. / could hear
the birds sort of treading the bottom
of the upturned kettle, and then j
heard sort of a boring noise and Ii
wasn't long until the bill of one of the
mosquitoes poked through. There was
a hammer there and as true as tell
YOU | clinched the critters bill There
were thousands OF them boring holes
in the kettle, and as fast as they got
their bills through / used the clincher.
i kept this up for more than an hour,
when suddenly felt the kettle move
/ don't suppose that will be believed,
but | can affirm that all at once the
Kettle was lifted from the ground and
] saw 1t go soaring over the lake and
disappear had clinched so many
mosquitoes bills to that kettle that
their combined strength enabled them
to ny away with 1t, can show you my
head where the kettle struck me as IL
was lifted from the ground
G. p. Peterson, prominent farmer
and land owner OF Bisbee. was guest
at the Metropole yesterday. and he said
that considerable work had been done
in the fields about his home town al
ready this season, He isn't so sure he |
said ia, The Forum hotel reporter, that |
the winter was really over, and stated |
that no seeding had as yet been done in
his vicinity. Bisbee Is d town of about /
400, Is healthy and growing and Mr..
Peterson was OF the opinion there
would be u good deal of building done
this year. Trade has opened UP fine
In Bisbee and the merchants OF the
place are all we'll pleased at the pros
poets There will be more wheat put In
this year than ever before. but not SO
much fax as formerly.
Harry Curtis who was at Nome talk
ing typewriters this week, returned
home yesterday and he reports thar
Nome IL on the boom right from the
shoulder and that the people Of that
town are wideawake and ready tol
srasp any and every opportunity that
comes up. He says that the typewrit-
n business IL picking np all over tlfel
state, just az every other kind OF bnsi-
aess ID doing and from what he has
seen this spring III going to and fro
over the state he thinks North Dakota
vii have the biggest year 20 Tar az