Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-05-11

Some of the papers do not publish
half tone cuts of candidates.
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Cavalier county may be redistricted
for commissioners purposes.
Casselton is calling for bids for
two-story high school building.
The village band will arrange better
drainage for the town of Jud.
The dandelion pest is about due to
make its appearance in the state.
The assessors claim that most wOm-
en- tell the truth about their age.
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The acreage of potatoes will be con-
siderably larger in the state this year.
From 8 to IL inches of water fell
during recent storm in Sargent
county.
There is not much complaint about
drought in some sections of the state
this spring.
A teachers summer school has been
planned for the Devils Lake Chautau-
qua this year.
Some of the towns that have no
paved streets are sprinkling with oil
to keep down the dust.
Editor F>yles of ;Milnor is to attend
the general assembly of the Presby-
terrain churchas a delegate.
Turtle Lake would like to be the
county seat of Mclean county If an.
other division is to be made.
Editor Mclaughlin will move his
family from Devils Lake to Kenmare,
where he is editor of the News.
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There seems to be a shortage of Ia
borers on the construction work of
the railroad branch north of Mandan.
Otto TollefsOn. a prominent insur-
Minneapolis after prolonged illness.
Leeds will have a greatly improved
train service now that Judge Cowan
| has ordered the fast trains to stop
there,
So much attention being paid to
agriculture in the state this year is
apt to make the campaign less inter-
| esting.
Since the recent meeting of the edi
tors of Renville county the prices of
job work and advertising have been
boosted.
There has been an effort on the
part OF some of the democrats to have
Doc Purcell run for either governor
or congress.
There is a general complaint in the
northern part of the state over the
present time card the Great Northern
has in effect.
The Pioneer takes issue with Rev.
Watkins for saying that Mandan was
the worst city in the state from a NOR
al standpoint.
Roy Sven, a son of Fargo photog-
rapher, was accidentally shot and
killed at Tacoma, where he was at
tending school.
Two violators of the prohibition law
at iMarmarth were brought back from
Montana and will be compelled to
serve sentences.
The spring rains have filled the
wells and the general water supply
Of the state may be considered as
near the normal.
Several blocks of curbing will be
constructed at Darlington this sum.
mer just to prove that the town can't
be kept from going ahead.
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Commissioner Gifbreath is a candi.
date for denomination in the coming
primaries and his petition are being
literally signed over the state
If some Of the towns that are so
anxious to install a white way light
ing system would get all the telephone
poles off the streets the effect would
be better.
Some Of the papers think the man
who knocks down child in the street
with horse and wagon is liable to be
dealt with severely in the courts, but
the autoists generally get off easy.
The case against w. H. Williams
former publisher of the Pekin Herald,
who was arrested by the postal au-
thorities for some alleged irrgeulari.
ties in a slibscrintiOn contest was