The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-09-12
City In Brief

Lost, sorrel horse. Finder please
phone 1905 call 10.
The officials of the last state fair
with the exhibition and it has proven
to be very satisfactory,
According to the different banks of
the city the money continues to pour
into town and a good start has hard
~ been made yet for the season.
The members of the Red Men of
Fargo tribe held a most interesting
session in the Loyal knights hall last
evening and it was fairly well attend
ed.
A new front is being placed In the
Christianson drug store and the Ha-
gen-Newton jewelry store on Broad
way and the work will be completed
this week.
The members of the Jewish faith
are celebrating one of h solemn fes-
rivals of the year today and there are
services being held in the synagogue
on First avenue south.
The Great Northern railroad next
spring will erect a fence about the
Rollo statue which occupies a. promi-
nent place on the lawn of the G.. N.
just off upper Broadway.
U. p. Adams. of the main office of
Armour & Co, Chicago, who has been
in the city for a day or two has left
for the west. He remarked that Fargo
was a most agreeable city to visit in.
Saturday morning will see the usual
exodus of hunters from the city, and
the trains out of town will be CORES
p~ondingly heavy, although many take
the automobile n rigs to make the
trip.
Chief Sutherland of the Fargo fire
department his men were exer-
cising the big aerial fire truck on the
city building yesterday and their
movements were watched by a large
crowd of spectators.
1t is stated by those who have been
in the country about Fargo that this
season has Deer the best for plums
in many years, and there has been
much of this fruit put up and many
plum gathering parties have gone out
from the two cities.
Many of the people living in the
outskirts of the city have been greatly
annoyed by boys who have not only
stolen fruit, but have broken down
some of the trees. The city police
have been notified and in some in
stances have succeeded in stopping the
practice.
The members of the park commits
sion of the city will make no plans for
the park improvements before the win
ter months set in, although 1t was
stated that hot houses are among the
improvements that will be made and
there will be one in each of the parks,
Island and Oak Grove.
Some ine corn was grown on the
h. j. Headland farm, six miles south
OF the city. Two samples we're shown
TO The Forum today, They were mag
nificent ears of the Minnesota Is vari-
ETY.. A former resident of Iowa said
any state that could grow that kind of
corn was good enough for him.
Both Fargo college and the North
Dakota Agricultural college will open
their doors for the term on Monday
next and already several of the stu
dents have arrived Monday will be
registration day at each college, and
classes will be called the next day.
The football squads will be called to-
gether just as soon as possible after
the opening.
Frank Lockwood, formerly of Lock-
wood q Rowland, has been spending
some time in the city after an absence
OF fourteen years. The other day he
started on the cars down to Charlie
Howland's home in Island park. He
got lost and completely turned around.
finally wandering back to the N. p.
depot. The Rowland boys thought
that was quite a compliment to the
growth of Fargo.
Saturday and Sunday Oliver Denis
and DIR. Laland went duck hunting
along the sloughs near the border line
between North and South Dakota. 1t
was pr. Laland's first duck hunt, but
Notwithstanding this fact, they were
able to bag the limit. Mr.. Denis says
that the ducks were numerous over
Lake Traverse, on the South Dakota
side, and that the number of shooters
caused q regular bombardment from
break of dawn till late at night.