The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-06-21
City in Brief

The next circus to visit Fargo will
come here July 20, two days before the
state fair begins.
The board OF equalization Is meet
ing every day now at the council
chambers in the city hall.
Ladies OF st, Mary's cathedral will
give a card party this evening at
8 O'clock in K. c. hall.
Tutoring in grades or high school
subjects. Ina r. Johnson, 1909 Sixth
avenue south. phone S2S-L.
There will be q meeting OF the city
council on Monday Of next week and
another on the next Thursday night.
1 have for sale a handsome 16.fout
launch complete, fast and safe; can
be seen at S29 Eighth avenue south:
price 500. Phone ISL. Harold d.
Sweet.
1t is barely possible that the board
Of education will be called together
before the regular meeting night which
will be the first Wednesday night Of
the coming month.
Several Fargo citizens are planning
to leave tomorrow afternoon for De-
troit lakes and among them is Police
Magistrate Miller, who will 20 to Per-
ham for over Sunday.
Secretary Talcott is issuing the
premium lists as well as other adver-
Using matter for the Fargo state fair.
and is receiving mar letters of In
quiry concerning the same.
Rev. %. E. McCracken says that the
public in general is invited Il attend
the Free Methodist campmeeting at
Oak Grove afternoon and evening, for
they will hear some fine sermons.
Detective Day has not vet received
the requisition papers for the Slavish
boy murderer who is confined in the
county Jail, awaiting his removal to
Chicago, where the murder took place.
Court Daisy of the Foresters win
hold a meeting this evening in the
A. o. u. w. hall and following the
business meeting there will be cards
and dancing, and q very pleasant time
is anticipated.
Miss Helen Shea, daughter OF United
States Marshal Shea, who was recent.
ly operated on at st. Johns hospital,
Is getting along nicely and her friends
viii be pleased to learn that the opera
ton was entirely successful.
DR.. MalIarian has sold his handsome
residence on upper Broadway across
from the Sacred Heart academy, to e.
e. Cole, the price being $500. The
doctor desires to take up his residence
down town so as to be nearer his Of
fee.
The display OF machinery at the
| state fair this year will be far superior
to any display that has ever been made
heretofore, for already more are en-
tered than were ever entered, even the
day before the opening Of the fair.
Today the track crew OF the street
railway company under the direction
i OF Inspector Hackett. was busy INSTALL
ing new frogs on the railroad cross
ings on Northern Pacific avenue near
the north bridge, the old frogs being
completely worn out.
The United States district court il
still in session trying the Adrian State
bank VS.. the u. s. Fidelity & Guaran-
tee Co. case, which has been on trial
last several days longer. There is a
long list of witnesses vet to be heard.
The concrete is all in for the BIZ
luminous concrete paving on Seventh
| street south and around on First ave-
nue. as far as Eighth street south. The
Birch men are bustly engaged now In
pouring concrete, and have almost I'm
ished the work Of pouring the concrete
curbs.
The veteran creamery man, M. j.
Cort, was greeting his many friends in
Fargo today. Since 1898 Mr.. Cort has
been the inspiration for the establish
ment of 327 creameries north Of the
twin cities, a good many OF them In
northern Minnesota and forty-fve OF
them in North Dakota. He a v his
one wish Is that some man will rise
up and make the North Dakota farm
ers love the COW more than they do
that when that time comes more Of
them will have balances in the bank
and certificates Of deposit who do not
have them now.
Robert Lester OF Mayville was In
the city exhibiting some Strawberries
grown by his father, John Lester, 90
years OF age. These berries were
about che and one-haIf inches In
length and two and one-half inches
i'm circumference. Mr.. Lester stated
that each stock yielded from twelve
TO twenty berries; the patch was three
years old and was started by bis
father from seed which he originally
secured in New York. The samples
he exhibited were far superior to any.