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

there isn't a man OF 65 who
have the heart to stay ava from the
next meeting which will come on Sat-
urday night, Oct. 5. He has a hand
served and he says it will be the best
eve
William H. Way and his Nestor
were in the city this week and he says
out loud, so everybody can hear him,
that Where there's a will there's a
way" which IL an exceedingly good or
otherwise pun on his name.
John Fortin and Lewis Hart, each
with determination in his y and
money in his pocket, have determined
that the coming social session of h
council will be something in the way
of excitement that will equal any
ghost dance that any tribe of Indians
ever put on and the man who refuses
to perform when called upon will
think he is taking a side degree in the
Red Men.
L. D. Mcfarland. OF the Sand Point
Lumber Co, Of the state OF Idaho,
was calling on Sec. Tom Dunn the
past week and he says he hnds bust
ness good all along the line In the
northwest,
John Hillyer, the paper salesman,
who is known as one OF n great
hunters among the travelling men,
claims to have shot a wild goose that
weighed 20 pounds and in proof of the
same he is showing a breast bone OF
the bird, which he says VIII give the
weather indications.
James Messenger of the Hope, Ida,
Lumber Manufacturing Co., was CALI
ing on the William H. White Lumber
Co. of this city this week, and he, like
almost every other lumber salesman
who visits this state. says business is
looking up,
F. w. Martling, who sells shirts and
oVeralls, of st. Joseph, Mo, was greet
ing his friends in the city tho past
week and claims that the North Da-
kota merchants are buying a higher
quality Of goods than ever.
What's become of those items that
the different members of No. SIS claim
ed they were going TO send to the
travellers department of The Forum.
have appeared so far, but they
will be welcome even IL delayed.
A. A. Bloom, one of the best known
travelling men Of the windy city, was
greeting his friends in the city this
week.
william "Bill' Laimer. will you ex-
plain how-it comes that your friend
the tobacco salesman, hasn't showed
I'm in, 10, these many moons Was
you working a bluff?
r. E.. Keck, claim agent for the
rs~o,k ATnwfEopta paflrnad Was calling
on his friends this week and was a
guest at the Gardner. He didn't have
much to do in this section.
c. u. Beach OF Seattle, Wash, rep.
resenting the Rainier Lumber g. Shin
gle Co.. was In town this week call
Ing on the trade. His company 10
and he reports business as unusually
rood in the northwest and that Far
COS building companies are all order
ing material.
w. r. Camp Of Carthage. O., who sells
roofing and builders paper, was Wis
iting among the contractors this week.
Col. w. NJ. p, Mccormick of Min
neapolis, who has been UP in the
northwest for a few days has returned
home. Mac belongs to the Minnea-
polls council and is n of the old
timers.
Bob Mcintyre Of the Waldorf wants
it distinctly understood that he hasn't
given up the art Of poeting, but hopes
TO be prepared to introduce N OF his
enhancing poems In the next issue.
n. b. Holmes of the Big -Four Soap
Co. was greeting his fellow travellers
In the city this week. He claims that
from the amount Of soap that he sells
in the state the people OF North Da-
kota must be mighty clean.
Frank w. Clark, the big chief Of the
local Stone Ordean- Wells CO., hasn't
hunting much this season, but
claims that he will take a week off
later in the fall and take a fan out
of the big game.
The Crookston boys claim that they
have already organized a baseball team
for the contests of the coming travel
erg' convention, and their great desire
is to put to fight the aspiration OF
Captain McGrann's Fargo bunch.