The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-08-20
North Dakota
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Secs M#3
Lisbon held a carnival last week-in
the rain.
There was an attempted hoidup near
Walcott.
Grand Forks Is planning a Labor day
celebration.
The crops around Page are the sat
isfying kind.
The 500 was given the glad hand at
Devils Lake.
The Linton Record is strong for
strawberries.
Kenmare is to have a market day
in September.
There are 1913 school pupils in
Trail county.
The Bismarck Tribune Is installing
a perfecting press:
Cakes and Cayuga papers complain
Of sooner hunters.
The Journal regrets the hotel at
Neville was closed.
900
jamestown had an exciting weasel
hunt in the city park.
There was an exciting time at
Cayuga owe a runaway.
North Dakota dirt is about the SAT-
est investment these days.
90
The Panorama wants Aneta better
policed If the DRINKS continue.
The doctors Of Foster, Eddy and
Wells met at Darlington Monday.
600
The cost of the auditorium at Bis
marck has been brought within $S5, 900.
Dry ~weather-and a lot Of it-would
be appreciated by North Dakota farm
ers.
90
Too much wetness spoiled the fun
in some towns last Friday and Satur-
day.
The Medora Herald a scarcely be
classed as enthusiastic over the fair
at Beach.
The construction Of many silos over
the state is causing a lot of favorable
comment.
When schools reopen some of the
towns will again ring the curfew bell
at 9 o'clock.
The Sheldon Progress can't imagine
what a man with S250,0OO wants with
a newspaper.
Ira Silvernail of Cayuga was badly
burned monkeying with a gasoline
lighting plant.
The International Harvester Co.'s
hackers are getting into the newspaper
business in Fargo.
Most people are convinced that
North Dakota is in line for a great
deal Of prosperity.
North Dakota can raise husky to-
bacco-but the quality is not exactly
the wrapper varistyi
The editors of weekly papers note
the price Of plates has advanced
since that injunction.
The park and river at Walhalla are
so attractive people from other towns
go there to spend Sundays.
The Schafer Record man still has
fun with a delinquent subscriber he
has invented down at Page.
900
There were complaints in some sec
tons that dealers ~endeavored to hold
up farmers on twi1e prices
The Lidgerwood Monitor tells Of a
man who will vote for Taft, pray for
Roosevelt and bet or Wilson.
900
Editor Long of Egeland is running
an elevator-apd is the republican
candidate for clerk Of court Of Towner
county. f'.
The money found sewed in the shirts
of the dead sheep shearer. in Fargo,
will probably be ta~inted-unless it's
fumigated.
The Valley City Patriot avs three
prominent Valley City men lost heav-
per in Fargo.
The cats out of the bag. 1t is said
that Judge Lauder wants to be a
Roosevelt candidate for congress from
the First district.
Frank Corson of Fargo, who recent
ly took over the electric light plant in
Devils Lake, may also purchase the
chautauqua railway line
AS long as there is a state twine
plant-The Denhoff Voice wants the
capacity enlarged to a point where 1t
will supply every farmer In North
Dakota.
Pat Neary, of Buffalo, has converted
a dog belonging to Rev. Mr.. Johnson,
a protestant minister, till the canine
won't eat meat ON Friday-according
to The Express.
The Aneta Panorama started on
Vol. xviii and The Petersburg Record
on Vol. viii in their last issues-and
both are helping to boost Nelson
county to the front;
The Minot Democrat wonders If
Burdick and Aaker are In d contest to
see which can do the most political
hurdling. Did The Democrat over
look Judge Lauder?
The Hankinson News alleged there
were violations OF the game law
around there-and this was disputed
by the game warden. The News cited
some cases in past years.
The present political situation has
caused more speculation in the state
papers than usual-despite the fact
that the editors are paying less atten-
tion to politics than formerly.
600
At Fessenden q woman with q child
in the waiting room Of the 500 depot
was insulted by a transient, who made
his escape before the operator and d
travelling man could reach him.
A number of men whose names APP
peared to a call for a Roosevelt con-
| vention in Fargo insist their names