The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-04-30

mems committee" suggested Presi-
dent Cole. my cousin, Bill Cole and
my other cousin, Percy Cole, and my
nephew, Jacob Kohl, were among the
committee, but I never expected to get
any work out of them. But industi-
GUS members like v. B. Noble and
Judge Frank Fisk, should be able to
make a report, We need it. We
get the report. Judge Leighton, too,
should be able to say something about
it."
You see, we have been expecting to
have a meeting" said Judge Frank
Fisk, but your cousins were unable to
be present and Andrew Noble, P. J..
McClory and George e. Duis were I'M
able to come and we decided to take
no action. We will be sur and have
a report, however, by the next meet
ing, as Colonel Noble has nine proxies
now, and we can make it legal and
very binding. Goose hunting has in
terfered sadly, / fear"
There was a lullaby song by the
Devils Lake amateur quartette COM
posed OF Messrs. Bjorlie, Belford,
IIGGl dllO oAL uobSl 81 JULY DdIS
wept c%opiously and Norman Black de-
manded to be heard in the interest of
music.
"Cn behalf of our friend, Judge
Spalding, here, I want to say a thing
or two" said Thomas F. Marshall.
There has been a tendency on the
part of some members of this club to
joke with Judge Spalding, and that
is a thing that should cease. He is
not a man to be joked with. Far from
it. He is a member of the supreme.
court, the chief justice Of that body,
and he was personally interpreted
many paragraphs of the constitution
which he helped to construct. But to
give you an instance of the low lev
ity of some of the members of this
club, men who were taken in because
we thought the moral influence would
help them, / will tell you what hap
pened the other night. Judge Spald-
ing was sleeping soundly and dream
ing Of beating Fisk and Burke and
Goss in an auto race. Suddenly there
was a loud ringing of the telephone
bell. 1t was 3 o'clock in the morning.
The judge jumped out of bed and
started for the stairs. Then he hesi-
tated. Perhaps it is a lady he said,
and I had better put on my pants
Then he hurried down the stairs. This
is the conversation that occurred:
This you Judge Spalding?'
eyes, yes. What is it?'
"rWell. / wanted to talk with you a
minute
"T know, / know. but what. is 1t? Is
there anything s~erious?' /.
why, you know, / was standing in
front of Porterfield's drug store today
and Pete Edwards came along and
told me that you wanted to buy a
dog. I've got a fine half bull and half
collie
"toh, pifIel' exclaimed the judge
and didn't wait. He went right up
stairs as mad as he could be.
Now, / have been tracing this thing
and I find that there was a joke start
ed by some members of this club, and
I could call names il / would"
s'Don't use any Of the Roosevelt
words" reminded President Cole.
"WelI, IL it is necessary I will tell
who is who, and use your North Da-
kota name, too. Just think Of the
Judge of the supreme court, the Judge
being called down stairs in his mighty
at 8 o'clock In the morning and having
some n ask him. while the judge
shivers in the cold, IL he a to buy
a dog. It's an outrage, gentleman, an
outrage. This ~out-asles AISLE"
IF Judge Spalding insists upon
going to bed before 3 in the morning
he has a right to complain" said DR.
Mclaughlin Of New Rockford, 'hut