The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-12
North Dakota
Kernels

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velva has the big summer school
This Is . bad year for family
There was a strange dope fiend at
Sheldon.
An italian mendicant was arrested
at McClusky.
The streets OF McClusky ave been
greatly improved.
The grounds for the Minot normal
are being laid out.
The farmers purchased the Monarch
elevator at coburn.
Former residents Of Michigan had
a reunion at Lansford.
The circuses that have appeared in
the state delight the Indians.
Careless shooting with small rifles
has caused trouble Ct casselton.
The farmers are on their vacations
but the harvest win soon begin.
Sheldon had too much water In n
artesian well and may sink another.
1t is claimed the losses in the bad
lands by the cloudburst will total
$500, 900.
The harvest win come soon and ev-
ryone hopes the sickle will beat the
hail to the fields.
Minot was quite ambitious to cap
ture congressional honors-but the ef-
forts were too scattered.
In the western part Of the state the
settlers are endeavoring to pick up
isolated tracts OF land.
At Milton Ike Slette and Joe F1an-
nigan. old time bali players, showed
they could come back.
Miss Kate Rutherford Of Page had
an ankle broken when she jumped
from a rig in q runaway.
The bouquet handed to Paddy Nor
ton by The Minot Democrat was a
scented one, all right.
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The little use some people make of
the primaries has caused the thinking
men to sit up and take notice.
A farmer near Minot drove a poor
horse into town. 1t looked so bad the
humane officials had him arrested.
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At Alexander the boys who cool
their beer in the city water tank are
requested to remove the labels first.
Special trains Will be run over the
Aneta line of the Great Northern to
Fargo for the sangerfest and the fair.
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DR.. Beard Of Fargo and VIM. WIDE
meyer Of Rolla played fifteen games OF
chess-and the Rolla maj got nine OF
'em.
At Darlington the people set q day
for weed cutting. The streets and va
cant lots have an improved appear
ance.
Attempts to wreck the 500 in the
northern part OF the state have put
alert.
The Indians Insist the white men are
fools TO work all the time-but some
times the workers eat more regularly
than the loafers.
Briquette companies have hard
shedding in North Dakota. The next
batch Of promoters will not be met
with open arms.
e. A. Greenwood, manager OF the
Johnson creamery at Marion, will be-
come q state inspector under the pure
food department.
At Spiritwood a little girl had
smallpox. whooping cough and pneu-
monia in succession. Outside of that
she was quite well
Some damage has been done In the
southwestern corner of the state by
the hot weather, but the recent rains
apparently overcome that.
Emily Carlson of Finley was acci-
dentally shot by a small brother who
was carelessly handling a 22-rihe.
The injury was not serious.
A. reporter on a weekly at Devils
Lake is endeavoring to gain fame by
having a county official arrested for
swattins him in ; snoot.
The newspaper boys think the Far
go police should have hustled a little
more in June and made it even 100 ar
rests. The official record was ninety
nine.
Editor Ayres OF The Dickinson
Press rather rubbed it in to General
Poole over the primary results.
Ayres didn't land his favorite for gov
ernor.
Neither of the national political
conventions went on record for more
baseball-and there are people
interested in that game than any
other.
Many North Dakota democrats are
greatly disappointed that Burke didn't
land the nomination for vice president
but want him to land a cabinet po-
sition.
When certain county officials gain
the idea the affairs OF the county
should be their own private matters
sometimes the voters arise and swat
tnem-and sometimes they don't.
The tin peddlers admit they cheat
the farmers wives but insist they
have TOTO get even on bad eggs-hen
feathers for duck feathers-and things
like that.
The managers Of creafnerieg In sorne
towns are making appeals for more
home support. They deplore the ten
dency Of some local people to ship to
larger csnters.
The Democrat wants more light In
the b. o. at Minot. In some towns the
postofice is the rendezvous for q lot
OF alternating people Of both sexes
and probably they don't want much
light.