The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-01
IN THE HOTEL LOBBIES

One Of the prominent guests at the
Gardner hotel ove Sunday was Prof.
Neil C.. Macdonald of Valley City, state
inspector of high schools and formerly
president of the North Dakota Educa-
tional association. Professor Macdon-
aid has completed a years work in a
most successful n has re-
ceived many compliments for his eff
cheney during the last year.
A very entertaining talker is w. b.
Lysle, who travels for a tobacco COM
pany. He was a guest at the Waldorf
Saturday afternoon and left on an
evening train for his home in the twin
cities. Il represent just n company
in the state of North Dakota" said he,
land you would be astonished when /
tell you that for the month Of Febru-
airy my sales amounted to no less than
10, 900 pounds for that month. Febru-
airy is looked upon as one of the dull
months, but it was exceedingly good
this year. / expect my sales to reach
the amount of $4,000 pounds fof the
month that closes tonight. There are
probably a dozen other tobacco COM
panies doing business in this state,
selling tobacco in one way inc an
other. You see, / only handle the
chewing variety. Each man has a
department of the tobacco trade so
that il viii be easily seen that North
Dakota used a asst amount Of tobacco
in a years time.
"I never saw business in the state so
good as it is now. Ii has been getting
better ali the time. / meet many trav-
cling men on the road and without an
exception they have told me that trade
was just fine. They look so bright and
cheerful w the prospects that / know
they mean what they say. / drove in
from Tower City to Fargo and never
in the years that / have been travelling
in the northwest did I see anything
like the crops that are growing nov.
1t was a grand sight. / talked to many
Of the farmers over my route and
without exception they say that the
conditions at present are better than
| the state was never in better shape
than at the present time"
William Larson Of Mapleton was in
the city the latter part Of the week,
a guest at the Prescott, and he made
the remark that a sight Of the crops
between this city and his home town
was something that was grand. II have
lived in this state for some time he
said, 'and in all my experience / never
saw anything that presented half as
fine an appearance as the crops this
year. The Red river valley is noted
for good crops, but / believe that this
season we will show something that is
away ahead OF other years. Everything
is looking just splendid and / can't
see anything that can come UP now
that will destroy or even injure our
crops next fall"
MI. and Mrs. H. Dyer and daughter
of ST. Cloud. Mimi, drove into Fargo
yesterday afternoon in their touring
car n became the guests of their old
friends, Mr.. and Mrs. A.. H. Leim-
bacher Of the Hotel Gardner. They
were on their way to Bowbells, this
state, to visit friends. 1--WE found the
roads to be excellent" said Mr.. Dyer
to The Forum. ''In fact we could not
ask for better, but the weather was
simply scorching. However we enjoyed
the trip very much and were greatly
pleased with the indications of pros
perity that we saw all along the road,
for the crops simply looked magnii-
cent" They left for Bowbells this
morning.