The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-10-19

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There is an increased cream shipping
business on the ~; branch lines
At Wing a man named Cotton ad-
vertises he will sell manila twine.
900
Down in Bowman one of the tickets
is referred to as the scrambled egg.
900
A Langdon man was arrested on a
charge of keeping gambling devices.
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Some of the school boys became as
sistant threshers and spud collectors.
The Pingree Wilton branch of the N,
P. is hauling out a lot of Ignite coal
The stretch of good threshing wealth
er didn't make the farmers at all sore.
Geese shooting has been a popular
pastime in the northern part of the
state.
State Senator Pierce of Ransom
county, who was a follower, has re-
signed.
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In some counties the contest for the
local offices is exciting a great deal of
interest. p
The Forbes Republican, whose ed
Itor was recently married, wants d lady
compositor. -
Since the new paper was started at
Pekin. Nelson county now has eight
weekly publications.
900
Fake photographers are reported to
have caught some people in North Da-
kota on farm views.
Several +hreshinS rigs and crevs
were shipped into McHenry to assist in
cleaning up the grain.
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Having been turned down by the
voters of Dickey county-Editor
Wright of The Cakes Times still sulks.
The Buford Tribune says in head
lines clear Gro the front page:
Taft and Hanna, peace and prosper
ity."
Sherwood claims to be quite a pri-
mary wheat market-and objects to
the claims of Mohall-on wheat ship
ping.
North Dakotans have recovered from
the worlds championship baseball Sc
ries and are paying more attention to
politics.
At Anamoose a stranger drank six
teen doses of medicine at one time and
he is now where medicine is never pre-
scribed.
C. H. Olsen, the Cando horse i'm
porter, brought a silk flag back from
New York and presented it to the Can
do band.
North Dakotans accustomed to the
| wide prairies-find things look differ
ent back east with the hilly farms and
rail fences.
The spud acreage was larger this
year than aver before. Even the low
| price is not likely to reduce it much
for next year.
The Rugby Tribune imagined Geo.
P. Jones would have been a stronger
candidate for governor for the demo-
| Gratis than Hellstrom.
900
The reduction in railroad fares on
the Northern Pacific at points adjacent
to the new G. N. cutoff between Fargo
and Minot attracts some comment.
900
Many newspaper plants in . North
Dakota are clear of~indebtedness-ac-
cording to the statements published
for the p. o. department under the new
law.
900
Editor Potter of The Enderlin indie
pendent evidently doesn't take much
| stock in the farmers cutting weeds
along the highways around their
farms.
900
There are many married men who
are sure they would have been better
off had they selected either a cook or
a woman who could make her own
dresses.
Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Anderson is
moving west by degrees. She was
formerly at Tower City, then at Val
ley City and will now be located at
Jamestown.
Editor McKinnon of The Denhoff
Voice is for Taft for president and
Marshall, the democratic nominee. for
vice president. He evidently doesn't
admire sunny jim"
900
A man who recently died in Ward
county announced during his fatal III
ness that he would return in another
life and wanted to live again in North
Dakota. Can you blame him?
900
Some of the papers claim that Burke
left the state to speak elsewhere as
he didn't care to boost further for
4 IISllSlIO1Il " SONSA LOboblJ IN
governor can discern the Hanna vic
tory.
The railroads had a lot of empty
cars sidetracked on the branch lines
These are practically exhausted now
and some of the own along the
branches are beginning to fear a car
shortage.
Former Editor Nye OF Devils Lake
and Valley City has completed his
threshing at Litchville and after a
brief visit to his brother and mother
at Medina, he will hike for his present
home at Medford, Ore.
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A Minnesota editor charged that
when the country doctors wanted a
trip to the twin cities they made some
of their patients think they had APP
pendicitis, then accompanied them to
the city for an operation.
The LaMonre Chronicle, speaking OF
the shortage of farm ~help-says it
would like to see the kernels maj
pitching bundles. He has done it,
and will bet q sack Of peanuts-he can
beat Taylor at the game today.