The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-06-12

the state from Governor Burke down
to George Fisher of Langdon."
after we adopt and concur in all
your resolutions, senator, we will give
Senator Bessessen an opportunity to
explain his vote, after which the joint
session will stand dissolved" said
| Senator Steel.
T. L. Gordon of Detroit, Mimi, ar
rived in the city to attend to business
and make some purchases. and he Is
at the Waldorf. "The season at n
lake this year." said he, lis decidedly
backward. It has been too cool to
make the average Fargo man and wo-
man and child sigh for the AXE
breezes, and until they begin this sigh
ing there is not much doing down our
way in cottagers. But really, though.
| these stiff breezes from off the water
are calculated to make the most slug
| gish blood sort of loosen up a bit n
/ think it does n good to get the
kind of a shiver that a be secured
from a good stiff breeze off the lake
when the weather is cool. Yes, the
| hshing is fairly good and there have
been some bass caught, while the pike
fishing is really good. There have been
some improvements at the lake in the
past few months, for many of the
| new cottages are showing up with new
coats of paint, while there have been
several new ones constructed"
c. ]. Powell of Billings, Mont. is
a guest at the Prescott hotel for a day
or two. and he s~peaksvmost enthusl-
asticaIly of the way business is OPEN
ing up in his state. Seldom. If ever.
has a season opened SO auspiciously as
| this year. said he this morning. Our
| city is grow nicely and the class of
buildings that are being erected would
do credit to any city in the country.
Billings is growing fast and the sur
rounding country is being rapidly set
tied up and the crop conditions are
very generally good. We hear a great
| deal of Fargo out our way, and / don't
believe that there is a better adver-
| tised town anywhere and you have the
goods to show when n gets here"
Lee C.. Pettibone, prominent business
man and land owner of the town of
Dawson is stopping at the Waldorf
for a day or two and he reports that
everything in the nature of crops is
looking fine out his way. II find that
business in every line is looking up,"
said he. "and the average farmer has
a smile on his face as he contem-
plates what nature is doing for him
right now. The indications are first
| class for all kinds Of crops.'
L. e. Olson of Sharon has been at
tending the big conference in the city
for q day or two and has been much
pleased with what he has seen here.
He is a great friend of Alex Currie,
the Sharon banker, who a been Wis
iting here for the past week. "Our
crop conditions are excellent" said he
Yesterday evening at the Elliott. In
fact we could not ask better conditions
and everything about u section of
the state is first class. There have
been many people from u town and
vicinity at the conference nj we have
been very much pleased at the Ia
ner in which Fargo has handled the
crowd. 1T is a great conference, the
biggest I have ever attended, even in
the old country"
Herbert N. Wells, proprietor of the
| Northern hotel of Grand Forks, who is
a member of the federal court jury this
term, is a guest at the Gardner hotel
today.
."This rain is going to do US lots Of
good" said Sen. G. L. Elken Of May
Vile to a Forum representative In the
Gardner hotel lobby this morning.
From every indication I think North
Dakota lis going to have a fine crop
this year. The small grain, I under
stand, does not need the moisture SO
much as the potatoes and corn. / just
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