The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-06-09
Travellers Tales

Comp" has his /" lip" back again.
or at least he's getting it. Everybody
about Stones music store knows. at
least, that he is making manful eff
fort to recover it once more. Only
once or at the most twice a year does
George Compton need the kind of a
lip he Is working so heroicany to
acquire. He is a member of Ell ZagaPs
Shrine cornet h0nd and this band is
to furnish the music for the big par
ade that is to be given by the Shrine
next Friday afternoon. He plays a
horn in this band. Now, when man
drops horns playing for any length of
time he "loses his lip" and this is lust
what Comp. did months ago. He re-
ceived due due notice from slide from
bone player that he must play wheth-
er or not, and it was up to him to get
busy and acquire his lip again.
Quietly he withdrew to the depths
Of Stone Co.'s place on First avenue,
and here, at his leisure moments, he
practiced. In getting a lip back again
that has once lost it's touch, there is
strange tickling sensation that
makes man feel foolish, and Comp.
had that for many an hour as he sat
on box in the cellar and "blew him.
self away" The sounds that eminat-
ed from his horn were sounds that
one might expect on the crack of
doom, but not sounds that would a.p-
peal to the ear of lover of music.
In fact it became necessary to keep all
of the candidates for the Shrine for
Friday from walking on that street
for fear they would hear the peculiar
sound and imagine that some one was
Welding chains or using rasping iron
in making instruments of torture for
their discomfort. The Stone people
stood 1t as long as they could. when
| consultation was held and it was
| found, upon careful investigation by
DR.. Irish, that the lip could be ac.
quired by simply blowing through the
mouth-piece of an unattached horn
This will doubtless explain why for
the past week Mr. Compton has been
| going about with such a piece OF horn
between his teeth.
| A. z. johnson, whose home is al
Brainerd, Mimi, was in the city yes
/ terday guest at the Hotel Elliott
/ He was on his way back from Para
| disc, Mont, where he had been looking
over the country with view to be
coming a possible settler. He wasn'i
at all pleased with what he saw. fol-
In conversation with The Forum hi
said: Paradise, Mont, I'd rather
| ten times over be in North Dakota
along the Red river or in Minesots
along the same river than anywhere
saw in Montana. The state is greatly
/ boosted beyond its worth, and the mar
who has a good farm in North Dakota
had better stay here a long time be
fore he thinks Of going to Montana
j It's too dry there. The land don't be
/ gin to look as good as ours, and n,
one can make me believe that 1t viii
ever beranything nearly as good pro.
Queer as our own Red river territory
Paradise which is touted as a grca
place, Is a dead town. and nothing
what you might expect from a tow
] that has been talked so much about
The soil is dry and there Ii not tina
healthy appearance OF the crops tina
HI have noticed all through North De
kota as came along In the cars d
my trip from Montana. I've seen
great deal OF the west, and I want t
cay now that ! am ready to sta
here"