The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-05-13

North Dakota ranks high from the
standpoint Of literacy.
900
There is to be a state butter con-
test in Bismarck May %.
900
Judge Fisk of Williston will have no
opposition for reelection.
900
J. A. Risk raised a fund to improve
the roads around LaMoure.
900
Farming conditions in LaMoure
county are regarded as ideal.
The newspaper gang is looking for
ward to a great time at Minot.
There has been considerable variety
to the spring weather this year.
900
There have been a number of recent
shifts in North Dakota p~astorates.
900
The editors are getting lined up for
the state meeting at Minot in July.
The Wahpeton Globe Gazette is en-
joying a splendid advertising patron
age.
The park commission at Minot will
provide the city with a permanent ball
park.
The commercial clubs OF the state
are getting into closer touch with each
other.
Efforts are being made to give the
boys Of North Dakota longer terms in
school.
Geo. B. Winship has left his happy
home in California to make a trip to
Panama.
The crop conditions are reported
just what the doctors ordered-in most
localities. .~t ~,
More than the usual number Of
Dakota towns are planning to cele-
brate July 4.
Colonel Whitehead of The Bismarck
State chides the republican presiden-
tial candidates. .r .
The Hunter Herald man believes
that shooting his dog is worse than
kicking him around.
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The arrival of a boy at the home of
Editor and Mrs. Wood of Russell has
made the publisher happy.
There may be a young newspaper
war between The Monango Journal
and The Bismarck Times. 8
900 .
The editor Of The Russell Sentinel
is planning to bring an action against
a long standing delinquent. d.
600
The autoists laugh at the horses
but have to use 'em to improve the
roads on which the autos run.
900
The Kathryn Record man seems to
think Billy Sunday put the insurgent
executive committee on the blink.
900
The candidacy of Colonel Tutt1e of
Dawson for congress appear to be
meeting with a great deal of favor.
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John Purcell, who lived in Wahpeton
a number Of years. recently died in the
east, where he was a captain in the
navy.
Parts Of Sargent county had a regu-
lar cloudburst. At some places the
rainfall is said to have totalled eight
inches.
A correspondent writes asking why
the preachers with the least religion
are generally the most popular. They
are not.
The Hankinson News thinks the at
Jnrna1y ,n1hroI &C. anry a 6rn, haI{aHyay
in the recall of ju~dges-since recent
decisions.
A county commissioners of Richland
defends the board on the charge that
it is meeting too often--to fatten the
purses of the men.
900
The federal government appears to
have an idea that publishers who starr
advertising contests must deliver the
goods-as exploited.
900
There is a great deal of telephone
construction work being done in the
state. The extension of rural line:
seems to be very popular.
900
Editor Eberhardt Of The Hunter
Herald has the proper idea. Some one
shot his dog and he intends to prose
cute and stop the practice.
900
Many towns of the state sent small
representations to Fargo to hear Billy
Sunday-but the attendance from out.
side was not generally large.
, 900
The friends of Congressman HannI
expect him bae.s in the state aroun'
MY 20 to begin an active campaigi
for the gubernatorial nomination.
The pot holes down in Sargen
county should be in good shape 70
Z duck shooting this fall-if the eight
inch rainfalls occur very frequently.
al 900
From the amount of advertising be
ing given by democratic papers Their
appears to be some truth in the rumo
I that the next democratic ticket is t
be Bryan and Gaynor.
900
Editor VanArnam Of The Kindre
: Tribune is up against a hard PROPOSE
ton. He announced he would he'll
find soul mates for a few heartsick-
and now has applications galore.
go
The Burnstad Comet tells OF al
ancient murder in that v~icinity-an
says most people have q firmly fixe
idea of the Identity Of the guilty part
though no arrests have ever bee
made.
r Fl. G.. Myhra Of Wahpeton thinks p
Fielde OF Abercrombie, who has don