The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-06-17
Travellers Tales

This is hard weather on the travel
ing man, and there is no one who
knows this better than the average no
tel clerk. When the man with the bag
or grip drops into the hotel on days
like yesterday and today and has that
weary look that only hot weather and
travelling can bring about, the hotel
clerk smiles his sweetest and his voice
is like the cooling OF a dove to his mate
during a courtship and he bows and
scrapes his feet in his effort to lessen
the blow that is soon to come, for here
is about the way the traveller talks:
"Well, this beats hades (only he
doesn't say hades) all to pieces. Never
saw anything like it. Say, you, porter,
never mind bothering about my grip
only see that you set it down carefully.
What the devil are you trying to do,
break the leather? Say, clerk give me
room, one that is cool and has bath
to it. And mind you not up against
that d tin roof of yours. / don't
see why the devil it is that the dam
phool who built this hotel didn't put
false roof on it to kill off some of
this heat. Just cut out that soft talk,
Mr.. Clerk, it don't get you nothing.
I'm d sick of hearing you talking
like parrot or a barber. It's too
warm to talk at all. You don't hear me
saying anything, do you? Never you
mind how my health is. You don't
care. You just say this because you
don't have anything else to say. Here
gimme that grip and git out. I'm go
ing to my room and don't want any
son of a gun under the heavens to
call me till the sun goes down."
That's why the average hotel clerk
hates this kind of weather.
Hon. ]. c. Burns of Glen Ullin, this
state, has been in the city for day
or two, and last night he attended the
commencement exercises OF the Fargo
high school, when his daughter, Miss
Agnes and many other young ladies
and gentlemen finished their studies in
the public schools. Mr.. Burns, who is
a present member of the legislature,
and is a candidate for recollection, is a
firm believer in the efficacy of the Far
go schools. He believes the high school
here comes as nearly being college
as it is possible for a public school to
be and that is why he sends his daugh-
ter here to be educated. He recently
sold out his lumber and machine bust
ness at Glen Ullin, but may get into
the grain business next fall, for he
don't like the idea OF doing nothing
In speaking of Glen Ullin he said:
The town is growing fine. / don't
think there is town in the state has
anything on us in the rapidity Of
growth. / don't mean in size but in
the way we are growing. Our mer-
chants are all saying that business is
good. Our farmers all have the utmost
faith in the coming crops, and every
thing all along the line looks to be as
| fine as silk"
Il don't want you to think / am
boosting your town for any purpose, 2
said C. F. Wheatland, traveller for the
American Tobacco CO., who was max
| ing special trip here yesterday; ''but
/ tell you you have one OF the best
towns | was ever In. ! think that slo-
gan of yours, the biggest little city
In the world just fits Fargo to NICE
ty. This town is all right, financially.
socially and every. other way, and /
always Ike to stop here"
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