The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1913-04-15
North Dakota
30 Kernels

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! Time to trim the trees.
i Seeding Is on in full blast.
The Democrats are meeting in Far
go.
! Williston is undergoing a big build
ing boom.
Many new settlers are taking land
near Ambrose.
The Leonard creamery will begin
operations May 1.
Tom Thompson Of omemee was
| found dead in bed.
Mrs. o. H. Larson, pioneer OF Mel
! son county is dead.
| The McHenry Tribune will get out
a big booster edition.
Neal Mathie who settled near Ink
ster In 1880 died at Grand Forks.
One year ago today the Titanic dis
aster stirred the world with its aw-
full horror.
E. G. Fields, coroner of Burleigh
! county, was killed in an elevator shaft
| at Bismarck.
A large number of jamestown peo-
pie attended the funeral of the late
Fred M. Wanner.
There is approximately $15,5o0,o00
more In the individual deposits in
| North Dakota banks this year than
last year.
Guy H. Germany Is now editor and
business manager of The Mott Spot
light, owned by c. H. Crockard Of
| Bismarck.
Joseph Lobsinger of Grand Forks
who was killed by a train at Crooks
ton was laid to rest with impressive
| services Monday.
Work has been started on the big
interstate fair for Fargo, which prom
ises to eclipse anything before at
tempted in the state.
The Minneapolis Symphony or
chestra's concerts at Grand Forks
and Devils Lake were great successes
from every standpoint.
Ed Johnson of Devils Lake had his
collarbone broken while playing ball,
| the first baseball accident of the sea-
| son in North Dakota.
Hettinger County Herald: The Far
go Forum contained fine writeup of
Beach and The Golden Valley Chron-
icle one day last week
New Rockford will get its new
electric light plant. will get a num-
Der Of new buildings and will under
go a big boom generally this summer
The North Dakota Press association
has been invited through Secretary
Karr Of the Valley City Chautauqua
association to attend the Chautauqua
during one day.
The school election at Bantry to de-
eide on issuing bonds for a new school
resulted in the hottest school fight in
the history of the town and a tie vote
on the question, S5 yea and IS no.
The Red river went on terrific
rampage at Winnipeg, raised five feet
In fifteen hours and a lot Of barges
and other property was destroyed. It
| caused no trouble in North Dakota.
Backnrlng was started on the res
ervation near Toxic, to protect the
dwellings against prairie fires and it
got away. became a sweeping prairie
fire and burned a lot of hay, some
stock and several buildings.
Albert c. Lahlum of Lincoln Valley
is said to be the champion office hold
er Of the state. He is justice of the
peace. chairman of a board of super
~ i1t~
and holds several other Offices.
The law against publishing lottery
schemes does not apply to the biggest
lotteries run in the country, those by
the government in parceling out land.
Which leads The jamestown Capital
to make some caustic comments.
Mimic Journal: This is about the
season Of the year when high up rail-
road officials ride in their palace cars
through this state, and from what they
see through the window, predict enor-
nous crops for the next harvest time
Al Calkins of Blaisdell sold out and
went to Florida. He was disgusted
with what he found there, wired his
wife not to come, shipped his goods
back and will go back to farming in
North Dakota better content with his
~. tIlS experiment COSL ulHl over
$1,000.
Clarence e. Funk, cashier of the
First National bank Of Washburn was
shot in the back and killed. 1t is
believed to have been the work of an
enemy who has been threatening Funk
for some time. w. T. Anderson, a
clerk in the bank was arrested largely
on circumstantial evidence. ,.. -.
A family row in the Soren Myhre
family near Regent is growing into
the proportions of an old fashioned
feud. The row started over some
horses In which the family of Myhre's
wife claimed ownership and last week
Gulick Aase, Mrs. Myhres father,
threw hatchet at Myhre which mar
roWly missed the latter's head.
Russell Sentinel: Russell seems now
to be garden of Eden for travelling
men. During the past week we no.
ticed twenty-five making calls on mer- |
chants here, principally advertisers.
There is a moral. These merchants
must renew their stocks regularly.
Another inducement for the travelling
men is that there is a comfortable
hotel with obHging management to be
found in Russell
A man who started from La Porte,
Ind, for Glenburn, N. D., lost his tick
ct at st, Paul and became stranded.
He was arrested for vagrancy and
when his family heard of it his son
wrote a letter I'm cara of tha nolica