The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-10-09
EAST / B NOTES.

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II a bill which is to be submitted to
the coming Legislature, at the instance
OF the state tax commission, passes,
Minnesota will have a system of coun-
" assessors and thus do away with
the army of incompetent town asses
sors. The outline of the bill is to be
published by the commission and will
be OF great interest to all property
owners. 1t looks like a step in the
right direction. 1t certainly would not
require much of a change to improve
the present system, which is mostly
guess work by men who are not good
guessers.
The proper steps have been taken
and the nanle Of Carl Tonsager, dem
ocrat will be placed on the general
election ballot as candidate for sher-
c. A. Linder, who has been visiting
his daughter at Litchyille, N. D, has
returned home.
The potato crop in some parts of
Otter Tail county are reported to be
disappointing and surprise is express
ed at the o o yields, but the quality
Is reported to be splendid.
President Aasgaard of C~oncordia
college was a passenger to Fergus
Fails today to pay a visit to Park
Region college and join in a confer
ence with the president on different
phases of college work.
Nathan Butler, who is called the
grand old man" Of GAINESVILLE, made
he trip to Fergus Falls to heal Gov
ernor Burke of North Dakota and meet
chums of the Zeta Psi fraternity. Mr..
Butler asst his first vote sixty years
ago this fall, voting for Franklin Pierce
for president and he has been voting
the democratic ticket ever since. He
will cast his ballot for Wilson and
Rihgdal this fall Mr.. Butler is a rare
type of man in these days of party
disintegration.
Brainerd Tribune: When Chris
Larson returned from his old home in
Denmark last winter, his father gave
him nine small potatoes to bring back
with him for seed. These potatoes
were cut to plant tWenty-one hills and
after a season of car Mr.. Larson is
telling with no little pride the success
he has had from the seed. The nine
original potatoes nave yielded one and
one-half bushels of as fine potatoes
as one would care to see, of a variety
not unlike the white Burbank grown
in this country.
: Hugo NBachenheimer has gone to
Nebraska on a business trip, first go
ing from here to Omaha.
w. J. Bryan has informed the demo-
Gratis at Fergus Falls that he cannot
change the itinerary arranged for him
and he regrets that he win miss the
city as he travels to the cities via
another route. The commoner will make
platform addresses at Lake Park, De-
frnjt pnrhor NJ Nyo dana E4o n1or IlraiT1-
erd, Little Falls, Royalton, st. Cloud,
Elk River and Anoka.
The meeting of the board of educa-
ton called for yesterday afternoon, was
not held. there being no quorum and
the reporting of the annual budget
vas put owe to a later date.
One of the big football games of
the season between high school teams
will be one to be played in this city
next Saturday between Fergus Falls
and Moorhead. Here is a ripe oppor-
tunity for the enthusiastic fans of the
city, as 1t is claimed that the visitors
have something coming to them. Coach
Slingsby is working his men for all
they are worth to get them in the pink
of condition for this important game
of the fall series.
l.. A. Huntoon spent the day at his
bank at Sabind, Tomorrow he will
probably go to Baker.
County Auditor Houglum has re-
ceived from the state department a
sample copy of the general election
ballot for the fall election. 1t is with
an inch or two of four feet long and
and it contains 107 names, the long
est ballot used in the history If
elections in Minnesota. After wat:-
ing about a week to allow the re-
port of any errors there may have been
made, the secretary of state will then
order 100000 printed for the election.
Today Sheriff Whaley expected the
arraignment before Justice Torson of
Frank Miller and Pat Ryan. who. are
charged with attempting to aid pris-
oners to escape from the custody of
the sheriff at the county jail, and that
there would be an adjournment for a
few days to allow the assembling of
outside testimony which is required
by the state,
A father of tn. old school was heard
to say today that it did not require
"curfew" laws to get Mayor Davy and
the members of the Civics club in their
homes and off the streets at the ap-
pointed times when they we're hI,Ms
and girls, and he added, There may
have been exceptions, as there always
will be in the best of regulated fami-
lies, but the exception was made to
rememS@S the exception in a preetty
| smart sort of a way, and there Was
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