The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-11-16

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1t would help a lot if the travelling
men who belong to s. would occasion
ally SEM in items Of news or happen
tngS while they are out on the road.
This department belongs to the tray-
elers and they ought to use it more.
There is always something going on
that would be all right for the de-
paTtment.
John McGrann, who is intent on or
ganizing his baseball team of travel
ers, says he had the nucleus for a fine
team to go against the other teams at
the Crookston district convention.
Senior Counselor Bishon SAYS that
there Will be another big time at the
meeting which win be held on the
first Saturday night of next month,
and at this meeting the entertainment
committee will announce a date for
the neXt social session which will be
devoted to the ladies of the council.
Frank X. Gravel, chief of the travel
ing men of the Stone-O Wells
Co., with branch houses all over the
northwest and the main house at DuL
luth, MINI, was calling OF his friends
in the city the first of the week and
they were all glad to see him. He
took dinner with Frank w. Clark,
manager of the local branch house.
William H. Way, who travels for
Reinecke & McKone expects to have
another ride on a different kind of
looking for some steep places to climb
over.
There are fewer cases on the sick
list at the present time than there
have been for a year, a fact that the
local and grand councils are pleased
to be able to announce.
Gus Leiber, fat, good natured and
smiling, who halls from the city of
jamestown was greeting his friends
in the city a day or two ago, and they
were glad, as they always are, to grasp
his hand. Gus is already assisting in
making arrangements for the big
meeting OF the state Elks in his town
next June and he says the boys there
will make things just about as lively
as they were in Fargo on a like &C.
casion. Gus ia ON the committee.
p. M. Grice, who recently had his
arm injured, and was OF the "sich
list is able to be about his usua
duties and is getting along nicely.
I t# H' -
1t is stated that. Bob Mcintyre, of the
Waldorf can name more travelling meT
than other hotel clerks in the state
This faculty has been acquired by Ions
and continuous practice.
Leonard Thorsell, who was off duty
for some time, is again calling on the
trade. Leonard some time ago raI
a splinter into a finger right under
A - -. - a. Gnn a an az 49, E~4-
joint, making a most painful and
dangerous wound.
According to those who know "Bilrf
Way is still practicing that story he
was going to tell at the last meeting
of the travellers which escaped his
memory. He says hSInas it now at his
finger tips and he will spring it the
next meeting night.
Herb Mason! claims the boys ma
poke fun at that new suit of his as
much as they want to, but he neyer
saw a. suit before that wore so well;
neither did he ever before see one
that no one else wanted to pattern
after. a2
Wi liam 'Bill" Laimer of the Gard
ner, says that business is picking up
all right and that travelling men are
| numerous at the house, especially dur
ing the latter part of the week.
Some one remarked that William
"BilP' Grasse never yet had been on
the 'sick list" whereupon Tom Dunn,
the secretary OF So, murmured, "Bilr'
moves so slow that no accident would
stop long enough to get him, and
William sBiIi'' pulled that sad sweet
smile for which he is noted.
Every once I'M a while The Sample
Case has a nice correspondence from
Fargo. The boys think 81 should re-
ceive mention in the official magazine
every month, as 1t shows that the 10.
cal council is made up of a Lively
bunch
w. III. Hagen, who sells tobacco foi
the Lorrillards, has been travelling II
the Winnipeg territory and is expect
ed back In this territory In the near
future. Mr.. Hagan headquarters ii
IsGrand Forks, but is a frequent yisi: