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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-27
Travellers Tales

Billy Van. the minstrel han who is
soon to appear in this city, ran across
the hotel reporter in the east. Billy
had been playing in a city in the west
ern part of Pennsylvania. His grand
mother lived there and she, like a
good many people had heard something
about Vans reputation on the stage.
She was a serious old lady, and Van
wanted her to see the show. He sent
tickets and she attended.
Billy Van has a great reputation as
a fun producer all over the United
States. His grandmother hadn't seen
him for years.
He was a funny little tike when he
was a boy, and was brought up in a
religious manner.
1.-THE grandmother was seated in the
second row from the front" said Mr..
Van, and l had her placed there to
see if she was enjoying herself, for
you can't see much from the stage
after you get past that third row. /
watched the old lady and when l came
out to do my monologue, / saw her
take a long look at me, trying if she
could discover anything that looked
iiNt AiiC DGAllilu NitG UIdCh Oh lace.
She knew my voice, and as the crowd
began to laugh at my stuff she pulled
out handkerchief and placed it up
to her face. The crowd laughed until
there was at times a roar, but the old
lady never cracked a smile, keeping
her face concealed. When / was
through, I saw her jerk the arm of my
uncle and then the two slowly left the
house and saw them march away.
THE next day was Sunday and we
didn't leave until II that night, so
went over to the house to see grand
mother and the rest, but she wouldn't
come down to see me- neither would
she let me go and call on her, but she
sent me word that had disgraced the
whole connection and she never
wanted to hear my name again.
Uncle Bill, for whom / was named
was chuckling all the time l WIS
there and when l left in the evening
he called me to one side and said
grandmother thought it was awful.
She could not realize that You were
getting paid for making people laugh
but she thought they We're making
fun of you, and she remarked Just as
we got outside the house, 'Aint or
William a fool / considered this one
Of the incest compliments / had ever
had In the show business"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-27
FRIDAY, JAN. 81, 1911.
RAUs MITT as"

New York business women are about
TO eliminate IS" from the alphabet and
replace It with 81"
They haven't asked the permission
Of Theodore Roosevelt and Brander
Matthews and the rest Of the fonetic
crew which owns the English Ian
guage. But then why ask them? 1t
is hard on milady's throat to make the
IS" sound. 1t draws the muscles and
makes wrinkles in her swanlike neck.
SO down with the letter IS" and UP
with the substitute 81"
To the Woman Professional League
which IL boozting the elimination of
the make like hizz pay your rezpectz.
No alabazter neck zhould be CORFU
gated for a little thing like letter in
the alphabet.
! OF courze it makez one talk like
cold in the head to uze ~" but what
IL talk when a neck IL at ztake?
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-27

me school year is half gone.
Courtenay is becoming a wrestling
Both Cleveland and Streeter wish to
incorporate.
Lieutenant Governor Burdick is
making good.
400
Winter was en-faced--before the
first Of the year
600
Towner is to have two weeks
course in agriculture.
900
The New England Herald has added
much new equipment.
This Is the period Of biennial re-
ports-on state matters.
North Dakota win establish new
record this year in the auto business,
900
A minstrel entertainment failed to
please the editor of The Stanley Pro-
moter
At Marmarth there was "britches''
party-presumably it was attended eX-
clusively by the sterner sex.
600
At New Rockford there is still an
effort being made to have the snow
on the sidewalks shoveled off.
900
There were some editors quite dis
appointed over the selection of Of
fetal papers in various counties.
Are you carrying any blank certi-
ficates of deposit on the state treasury
around for use when you need little
cash?
The entente cordiale between the
editors of The State. and The Herald
at Williston is somewhat ripped up
the back.
Stutsman county farmers are haul
ing stone to the railway for shipment
to Bismarck for use in riprapping the
Missouri river.
The editor is oftenest told by other
people how to conduct his own affairs.
No wonder he sometimes retaliates by
butting into other peoples affairs.
900
1t is now claimed that only one
death resulted directly from football
during the last playing season. Deer
hunters still retain the championship.
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GUARDING PosTERITY.

Henri Watterson Of The Louisville
Courier Journal swings a sarcastic
pen, and he likes to keep it in good
working order by exercise. That il
doubtless why he trains IL on a little
city in CalifOrnia-with the shrinking
name Of Modesto which presumably
never sought such notorietv as the
colonel gives it. And it is all because
the citizens of Modesto. Cal. got to
worrying about posterity, and the
problems they may have to meet. That
is a prevalent disease just now. Teddy
and Pinchot scattered the microbes
right and left in their new nationalism
conservation alarm guns. Now every
one has 1t. But this is what the col
onel has to say about Modesto and it's
plans for the protection of future gem
erations;.
The town Of Modesto, Cal, evidently
Is inhabited by a progressive lot Of
people. The place is a newly-incor-
porated one in dry-farming district
and in constructing their city charter
recently the city fathers looked far
enough ahead to make what they
deemed suitable provision for govern
Ing air traffic Fairly complete regu-
lations were embodied in the city's or
dinances and some attention paid to
the subject in drawing up the citv's
organic act.
The news dispatches are irritatingly
vague as to the precise nature of these
regulations. One would like to know
for instance, just how the authorities
propose to enforce their DEGREES. Pre-
sumably the regulations include a
clause forbideing the throwing over of
refuse or ballast while passing over
the town. This would seem to he
about as far as municipality can 60
In the direction of protecting pedes-
TRANS unless provision is made for
stretching nets over the streets from
housetop to housetop to catch aviators
who, while passing Modesto, sudden
~ find it necessary to exercise stop
over privileges. A couple Of good wing
shots might be added to the police
force.
The control of traffic along the
crowded thoroughfares above Modesto
offers an even more perplexing prob
lem. Freight carriers and air draws
undoubtedly ought to be confined to
the lower levels and compelled to keep
to the right The sudden descending
OF a load of coal or truck
full OF pig-iron from above evil
IDENTIFY would somewhat discombobulate
passenger planes passing under
meath. The ordinance should pro-
vide that no vehicle be left standing
unhitched. and they should he brought
to stop headed in the direction OF
their next objective point. JOY riding
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-27
North Dakota Kernels
stanlev las another revIval.

Stanley has another revival.
@S3@
The Turtle Lake Wave has turned
militant.
Stanley is reported to have an Of
fetal sensation.
Napoleon held mass meeting TO
discuss fire protection.
The Florida land agents have a per-
iod of strenuous activity.
Judge Leighton of Minot is pushing
the work in his district.
600
At williston the architect objected
to the floor in the library building.
100
Several residents of Kidder county
are spending few weeks in Texas.
900
Since the first of the year firm
changes have been numerous in many
towns.
Norval Baptie's skating entertain
ment failed to please The Bottineau
News man.
NUT bbil Is LllH palmer udlEy GOullbS
of the state. It's good thing of
which to be proud.
900
Ward county farmers are securing
good seed and will plant large acre
age Of corn this year.
900
People in other states congratulate
North Dakotans on their freedom
from adulterated food stuffs.
900
It's rather strange to pick up The
Lidgerwood Broadaxe and find it isn't
roasting The Forum folks-or any one
else.
Some Of the deputy game wardens
may be asked by the legislative smell
ing committee-where they game
wardened.
The past year was the driest ever
known. If nature plays even there
may be a lot of moisture in North Da-
kota in 1911.
900
Editor McGahan of The Minot DEM
ocrat was another of those editors
boosting for Burke, who got a deputy
gamewardenship.
900
The Minot Independent learned some
families in Minot really in need of as
sistance were too proud to let their
condition be known.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-27

demned as unfit for human food, have
found their way into the meat mar
kets?
8. The city milk and meat inspector
states, in his reply, that 119 Of the
said animals were kept in the base.
ment of a barn, poorly lighted end
ventilated and under unfaVorable con-
ditions to health.
10. Seven cows reacted in 1909 ANA
were condemned; in December last
one COW was classed as in bad condi-
ton after clinical inspection by the
city inspector, and said animal, ac-
cording to the reports, was killed and
burned, and yet during that period no
further examination had been made
of the herd to ascertain whether the
disease was spreading or whether the
milk from this herd was in a suitable
condition to be sold to the people of
Fargo.
IL. Is it probable that a person,
unskilled, could have selected six ami
mails from herd where there was
no reaction to be sold for meat in
the city of Moorhead, two of which
were condemned as unfit for food, (ac-
cording to some reports, nine rather
than six) and six animals sold to the
city Of Fargo, all of which were unfit
for food and all afflicted with tuber-
culosis from a mere casual inspection
of the animals?
II. In the tests about one month
ago none of the animals responded to
the tuberculine test, or at least the
test was unsatisfactory, and yet in
addition to the sixteen animals which
had been removed from the herd. tests
made by the city inspector since the
exposure of the condition of the ami
mails slaughtered at Eggert's slaughter
house shows sixty additional animals
of the herd to be likewise afflicted, or
a total of seventy-six.
10. The evidence clearly shows that
the milk was being supplied to the
people of Fargo from this herd with
out proper inspection. and from ami
mails many OF which were afflicted with
tuberculosis, and said animals were
associated with the balance of the
herd.
IA. DR.. Van Els says that it does
not seem creditable that the disease
could have spread so rapidly through
out the herd if there were none affIict-
ed one year ago.
Is. The animals disposed of and
the meat sold in the city of Fargo with
out permission from the livestock
sanitary board was in violation of the
statute.
16. It is clearly evident that the in
spection for the past year of the herd
in question has not been such as to
render safe the milk supply for the
people of Fargo.
This bulletin, giving the full account
of the case in detail is published by
Professor Ladd of the agricultural
college as the pure food commissioner
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-27

II Alfred r. Urion, former Far
goan, recently resigned as president of
the board of education in Chicago. The
board adopted strong resolutions re-
GREETING his resignation and paying a
high tribute to the work he had ac-
complished as a member of the board.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-27

FoIey's Kidney ReneGy-An Appre-
citation.
L. Mcconnell, Catherine street, FL
mira, N. Y. writes: Il wish to express
my appreciation Of the great good I
derived from Foley's Kidney Remedy.
which / used for q bad case of kidney
trouble. Five bottles did the work
most effectively and proved to me be-
yond doubt it is the most reliable
kidney medicine I have ever taken"
H. II. Casselman.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-27

Es' The st. Louis woman who seeks
a divorce because her husband refuses
to attend church-is seeking to estab-
lish a new precedent.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-27

a. Now that the Cinnamon have de-
cided to cut off their pig tails they
will have to learn to part their hair.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-27

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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-27

sB'It's difficult to get any one to re-
sign these days. Ballinger won't and
Dr. Cook hasn't anything to resign
from.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-27

IA While the good roads movement
is being urged the people of the viii
lagos are also talking good streets.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-27

,f9 Kansans-some of the more prud-
ish of them-want the chorus girls to
wear longer skirts.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-27

IT Sleeping outdoors-or with an
open window is becoming the proper
thing for healthfulness.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-27

n The currency problems now con-
fronting the country are not party is
sues.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-27

should be dealt with firmly. A maxi
mum speed of fifty miles an hour while
passing over Modesto would seem to be
about the right limit. Splitting off
street planes and seeing Modesto"
planes is, of course, misdemeanor
punishable by a fine, but there should
be an extra penalty provided for to-
baceo users who squirt in the eyes of
persons passing underneath. Any avi-
ator who falls from his machine with
out warning or calling ''Fore!" should
be fined at least $3.50 and the cost
Of his funeral.
The founders Of Modesto, 1t is to be
hoped, have dealt wisely with these
problems and with the
more serious ones having to do with
the franchise of public service cor
porations and common carriers. Their
foresight in tackling the issue thus
early is to be commended. and their
new city charter and ordinances will
doubtless serve as models for other
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-27

ss- The spring poets may be waiting.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-27

CANARiEs
For sale. the very pesf. Ben Hart
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Continued From Page One.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-11
Street Making In Rutland.

Barre sent a committee OF its board
OF aldermen to various points in Massa
ehusetts to observe and report on the
best methods of street making 1t is
safe to say that Rutland business men
are fully conversant with the best pave
ment. They do not Heed education
along this line. The only trouble in
this city is that we do not live up to
the best light that we have.
If the policy had been iaugurated
30 years ago of paving our principal
streets with vitrifed brick, charging a
third of such cost to the abutting prop
erty holders on either side, the city
paying its third, it Is safe to say that
Rutland would have had to-day not
less than 10 or Is miles of paved
streets being in fully as good shape as
they are now A makeshift policy,
however, has always prevailed here
The macadam road is satisfactory for
residential streets, where the traffic is
not too heavy But on the principal
streets the macadam is probably more
expensive in the long run and it is GER
tainly less satisfactory than brick paw
ing Some day Rutland will awaken
to the fact that it is good business
policy to pave its streets with brick
The sooner it enters upon this policy
the better salts ed win its taxpayers be
Glens Falls, n Y few years ago
had just such an awakening and al
ready has several miles of permanent
paving. Rutland could well take its cue
from the New York neighbor, abandon
its hand-to-mouth street making policy
and enter upon an era of similar per-
manent paving Take look at the
main streets here, macadam- made, note
the ruts and holes in the newest of
them, see how the surface powders
and requires scraping off and be con-
WINGED of the pennywise and pound
foolish system to which we have been
welded for 50 many years.-Rutland
News
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-11
Current Comment
aStay at Home

Another Vermonter has made good
in his adopted state, William w. Sey-
mour, formerly of st. Adams, who has
just defeated the present mayor Of Ia
coma, Washington, in a spirited contest,
Too bad that the best sons of Yer
mont have to go out OF the state to
get political preferment. Is this a state
where the silver tops monopolize all
the offices always ?'--AIorrisville Mes
senger.
No, it is not, neither should the OPP
portunity to get political Office be the
principal indueement for young men to
stay in Vermont We need never fear
about shortage in the crop OF ambi-
tious politicians but we are constant
ly put to it to maintain sufficient
force of the highest quality of home
bred useful men in the arts and crafts,
business and the professions There's
where we need our best product OF young
Vermont brains the most, and there's
where the most attractive inducements
for them to stay and help build up the
state should be offered. This success.
full st. Adams boy did not 90 out TO
Tacoma because he had political bee
in his bonnet, indeed, his rise in politics
has been merely an incidental thing in
his career there. He came to popular no
tice and popular confidence because OF
his success in business and his well
balanced moral character and high
minded ideals OF decent government.
The silver tops" do not monopolize
political offices In Vermont in these
days, whatever they might have done
once. A little study of the biographies
of men in Vermont's officialdom to-day
will satisfy any critic that most of them
came onto the stage at about the age
when the world generally expects that
the maturity of a man of ability is
beginning its most promising usefulness.
And this age does not vary many years
either way throughout the eastern
states--St. Adams Messenger.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-11
No PLACE FOR UNCLE SAN.

The talk about formal recognition of
new government in Mexico is as inn
mature as talk about United States in
Prevention between the contenders in the
civil war now going on there, The fact
that the rebels have captured Juarez
on the northern boundary of the eoun-
try and just across the line from the
Texan town of FL Paso is not surety
enough for the United States govern.
ment to base grounds for recognition.
The capture Of Juarez was merely an
incidental battle ana Of no great conse-
quenee except as it may have added
prestige to the cause OF the revolution
lists. Hence, it is not the time for the
United States to take any but neutral
stand in the conflict The policing of
our own borders with United States
troops should be the extent of this
eountrys movements Mexico is able
to work out It's own salvation without
let or hindranee from other powers; and
President Diaz knows how that course
viii be better than anyone else.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-11
COUNTY S. S. CONVENTION.
In Mortified Methodist Church May %
and "a.

The annual Sunday school convention
OF Washington county is to be held in
Mortified Tuesday and Wednesday, May
% and "a, at the Methodist church
with supper and dinner served in the
dining room Of the Congregational
church.
The program commences Tuesday aft
ernoon and lasts through Wednesday
afternoon. 1t is as follows;
Tuesday, p. M, praise service, lead.
er. Bruce Mcdonald; 2:l5, convention
conrtesies; 2;30. appointment Of com
mittees; 2:40, quiet hour, subject, THE
Purpose of the Convention" Rev. A. II
Webb; 4, business, seeretary's and treas
urer's reports; AGO, elementary depart
ment, "0ur Work for the Child" Mrs
+. +. Perry, state superintendent.
Evening session, 1870, praise service
led by Bruce Mcdonald; 7;45, greetings
from state association. "The Ideal Re
lation of State Association and County
Association" Rev Edward A. Mason,
state vice president; 500, address, "The
Sunday School as a Field" Rev A. p
Pratt, Phi. D., Bellows Falls; $40, adj
dress, "a Three fold Task" Rev. Will
liam Shaw, state superintendent inter-
mediate department; gil5, quiet hour
Rev. J B. Sargent.
Wednesday, a. M, conference hour,
informal, place OF meeting and leaders
to be annomced 1000, praise sery-
ice, Bruce Mcdonald; 1915, quiet hour,
Rev. A. II, Webb; 1890, report Of com
mittees; 1850, adult Bible class, Rev.
J. H. Kirahan, state superintendent
adult class department; 1880, report OF
tour through Washington county, Rev
H. A. Durfee. general secretary.
l;l5 D. M praise service, Bruce Nc
Donald 1880. quiet hour, Rev. ]. b.
Sargent; LAS. home department, an
nual report and presenting banner, Mrs.
II M Powers. county superintendent,
address by Edith NJ. Balch, state super.
intendent; 2;l5, temperance, "Shall We
Have a Temperance Department in Our
Sunday School Work ." Rev. w r. Dav-
export, state superintendent, Bellows
Falls; 2:4o, Some Thoughts to Garry
Home Edith NJ. Balch; $500, final adj
journment.
Each school in the county should be
represented by four delegates, includ-
ing, if possible, pastor and superintend-
emit Conventions officers are: President,
D. B. Dwinell, East Calais; vice presi-
dent, Walter Grearson, Barre; secre-
tary, r. A. Hoadley, Montpelier; treas
urer, Robert R, Edison, Montpelier.
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WATERBURY.

NJ
Mrs @. b. Wallace has returned from
Syracuse, n Y.
1 Mr.. and Mrs. d. Il. Demeritt left
to-day for Boston,
/ Mr.. and Mrs. S S. Foster are visit.
ing their son in St. Johnsbury
/ Mr.. and Mrs r. e, Campbell are
spending the week in Boston and vicin-
lity
| S. w Guptil is able to be out
after being confined to the house for
several days
Miss Mary Drew, formerly of this
place, has accepted the position Of city
missionary in Dorchester, Mass
Frank Fallansbee, postal clerk on
the ST. Adams and Boston r p. o.,
was guest at the home Of Allen
Fogg yesterday
Mrs Mary T. Wells was taken very
| i'll Tuesday Mrs. Frary was tele-
phoned and Mr. and Mrs Frary ar
rived by automobile last night
D., II. DtiutiiNb Ida bOiu 70 ~ n
Arkeley his Moretown pasture land
He will reduce the stock on the farm
- the number kept orr the original
farm
Frank Barrett was in town the first
of stbe week Mr. and Mrs Barrett
are moving from st Adams to Mont
pelier, where he has recently purchased
a home
Last evening at the Congregational
church d successful May supper was
served A neat sum was realized from
the name.bags which goes into the
treasury of the society
O. T.. Clifford, who has been fore.
man in Boyce and Perkins box shop,
has resigned his position and moves
this week, he having accepted posi-
tion as foreman in large mill in
Turner's Falls. N II
Tomorrow evening at the Methodist
church, Professor Spencer Of the De-
partment Of Elocution and English in
the Rhode Island state college will
give reading on the Servant In the
House. A number Of musical selec-
tions will be given by home talent and
Hazeltine Spencer~ Of Norwich univer-
sity will render one or two solos. There
viii be social gathering under the
auspices Of the Epworth league