The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-01
CLUB NOTES

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The st. Cloud, Mimi, Reading Room
society is one Of the federated clubs of
Minnesota which is starting a very
busy year. While the clubs year book
schedules only study meetings, the or
~ganization is doing a great deal in a
civic way for St. Cloud. 1t has a civic,
health and hygiene, Improvement and
pure food committees, all of which
meet regularly and carry on a system
attic campaign for the betterment of
conditions in that city. The literary
section of the club is studying the
drama this year.. 1t has already taken
up Belasco, The House Of Rimmon, by
Henry Van Dyke, The Great Divide, by
William Vaughn Moody; Rahab, by
Richard Burton; The Man From Home,
by Booth Harrington; The Devils
Disciple, by George Bernard Shaw,
and Strife. by John Galsworthy. At
the next meeting, Feb. s, the society
will have a review of The Earth, James
Bernard Pagan, q by Miss Marianne
Clarke. The programme for this year
includes the study of works of Israel
Zangwill, Robert Kitchens. Rudolph
Besier, John M. Synge, William Butler
Yeats, Victorien Sardou, Henri Bern
stein, Stephen Phillips, A~nnunzio,
Bjornson and Ibsen. June 10 Miss
Josephine Brewer will give a lecture
on Cut of Door Pageants. -.
The Minot Woman's club has voted
to take up as its work next year the
Bay View study course which includes
India, China and the orient and to sup
plernent this with a miscellaneous pro-
gramme to cover subjects of current
interest in the magazines, legislation
and up to date events. The meeting
at which this action was taken vas
held Saturday afternoon at the COM
merc!al club rooms with an attendance
of seventeen members and those talk
ing part in the programme were Mrs.
Andrew Carr, Mrs. Lowe and Mrs.
Hardaway, all of whom read excellent
papers. The Lesson of the Prairies
was the usbject of Mrs. Cars paper
and h conducted a very interesting
discussion at the close. Mrs. Lowe
gave an excellent character sketch of
Helen Gould who is so much admired
for her philanthropy. She also spoke
of her many good works, mentioning
the club house for sailors at Brook
Ign, the home for crippled children 1T
Woodycrest and several others, and
said she is a woman who dresses sim
ply n cares little for society, is
very sweet and gracious to her callers
and says she shall never cease to
preach the gospel that women OF
means should do more than rush
through life for nothing but their own
bEleasure. 1t is their duty to help
others, especially other women and
make life for them worth living. Mrs.
Hardaway continued the programme
with an original paper on The Geology
Of North Dakota as Shown in Rivers,
Lakes and Mountains. She said in
part: North Dakota Is distinctly a
prairie state. All Of North Dakota
east Of the Missouri river is embraced
in the area covered by the glacial ice.
Biologists agree that the ice was the
cgent that transported the boulds rs
end rounded pebbles to this region a ID
the peculiar hills and rolling p~rairies
have been formed by dumping these
materials from the great ice sheet.
The Coteaus of the Missouri resemble
" AAlA LIS anu GAIGIil
across the state diagnally and they
serve to hold back the ice sheet in It's
course south. The most interesting
formations in the state are found IN
the rugged hill lands west of the
Missouri. The f3attened hill tops with
sides Of sand stone differ much from
those east of the river with their grass
covered round tops. Along the valley
l ~ a. n sAklA E NAsz-A.-4 n l-A, q
broken buttes and valley and called
the Bad Lands" This name came
from the early fur traders VIC thus
named it because it was a bad land to
travel through. The name is mislead.
ing for they are rich in Goa and clays.
The valley and plateau land is valua-
BILE for farming while the buttes and
coulees are excellent for grazing.
Travelling over the bad lands one sees
many points of historic interest. 1t
was at Medora that the French noble
man established his once famous stock
yards and Strengthening houses in
tending to make this a shipping point
for dressed beef. "A few miles south
of Medora is the train by which the
i'll fated Custer led his army across
the Bad Lands in the famous cam
paign against Sitting Bull in 1876. The
buttes on which the picket guards
were stationed while encamped here
are still visible. During the ummer
of 1872 the first survey for the Union
Pacific was made through the Bad
Lands and the party met with unusual
hardships. The Turtle mountains In
the north central part OF the state
is another point of geological interest
and in the hollows of the mountains
are not less than 300 lakes, among the
most beautiful of which is Fish lake.
Devils lake is interesting not only
because 1t is the largest lake but be-
cause it is the great salt lake of North
Dakota. Since Fort Totten was built
thirty years ago this lake hag fallen
ten feet.
"A man at 20 is worth 1920" says
a statistician. This will be good news
to a great many men Of 20 who are
looking for meal tickets.