The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-15
EAST SIDE NOTES.

Authorities say. that there is IS pei
cent more blowing done in Polk coun'
ty this fall han there vas done las
year and much of it was done very
early, the same as has been done ovel
Clay county in the center of the Rec
river valley. In Polk county the pota-
to yields are from sixty to 100 bushels
to the acre. : .<
The attorney general has held that q
peck Is not necessarily a quarter Of q
ousllel n grocers who sell commodi-
ties prescribed by law under the
weights and measures law must sell
by weight unless the customer speci-
fically calls for a peck. The ruling OF
the attorney general was announced
yesterday by c.. C. Neale, state inspec-
tor Of weights and measures, in ar
address before the Minnesota GrocerS
association at a meeting at the old
Capitol building, st. Paul. The gro
GERS who for the first time learned of
this tangle in the law and who find
that it subjects them to unfair compe-
tltion with the hucksters passed a res
olution providing that the legislature
will be asked at it's next session to
s~tandardiZe all measures and put the
selling and buying of commodities on
a strictly weighing basis, a%bolishing
the distinction as to peck measure. -
In Minnesota the corn crop this year
will average 80 per cent; potatoes, SO
per cent: fax seed, IS per cent; apples.
100 per cent; cabbage, SO per cent, and
onions, SO per cent of a full crop. The
ten-year average of these has been as
follows: Corn, SO: potatoes, 78; fax
seed, 80; apples. 96; cabbage, SO, and
onions, "a per cent. T., .
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members in a business way is to be
seen in a report from the Litchfeld,
Mimi, club, which was organized in
1908. The year it vas organized this
club shipped fourteen carloads Of live
stock. In 1912 it shipped 146 carloads,
which sold for $181, 544.10, leaving a
net return to the shippers of SILL
1909. The club, in other words, has
solved the problem of cooperative
shipping, and a evidently stimulated
activity in the livestock business.
According to the police reports at
st. Cloud an apple peddler was fined
So for selling bushels of short weight.
The peddler cried out from his wagon
choice cooking apples only IS cents
a bushel. The city weighmaster was
near and instructed a lady friend of
his to buy a bushel which was done
and turned over to the official. The
alleged bushel only weighed thirty
eight pounds instead Of fifty pounds
according to the state standard and
later the seller of the apples was ar
rested.
Different county agricultural agents
report that hog cholera is not spread
ing as much now, although an &C.
casional report of infection comes
from new farms. Serum is being
secured as fast as it is demanded and
It is conceded that the outbreak ia
now probably checked for this fall at
least.
A merry time was in progress in the
grill room of the. Hotel Comstock at
8 o'clock this afternoon, the room ring
ing with the joyous laughs from up-
wards of thirty little misses who were
assembled to assist Catherine Hunt in
Festivities arranged for the observance
Of Miss Hunts birthday anniversary,
The festivities began with the service
of a prettily appointed course Dime
winch, or course, was greatly relished.
Miss Hunt was the recipient of a mum
Der of very pretty and substantial me-
mentoes of the day.
Atty. N. I. Johnson has leased the
Moorhead house to Fred Adsero who
began moving his effects" into the hotel
today.
IL. Il dul CldIh, III d letter TO Edwin
A~skegaard, states that he Is now in
attending different meetings
of directors of enterprises he is inter-.
ested in. On his way he attended a
of the directors of the Brink
Stamp Vending. Machine Co., at
Clinton, Ia.
William Wagner stated today that he
had completed the digging of his forty
acres OF Triumph potatoes the yield of
which was 5000 bushels or 1875 bushels
Tn tho nnrn His Ifrrir~ %1s-1 T..
at work on a field of 33 acres of Irish
Cobblers which promise a yield Of at
least $50 bushels to the acre.
The new double truck car is again
in service on the interurban line, Fargo
and Moorhead to Dilworth, after being
equipped with a set of new wheels.
His friends will be glad to hear that
Peterson, who is suffering
with an attack Of typhoid fever, is
progressing towards very
ports a normal temperature.
At a recent meeting of. the fire de-
partment N. B. Remley was elected
to be chief of the department for the
ensuing year. The other officers elect
ed We're, assistant chief, P. N. Peder-
Erickson.
DR.. v. e. Verne Is all we'll and
hearty again after an illness and he
Is now attending to professional calls
as usual. D..
Guy A. Aubal, deputy internal rev.
enue collector, was In the city on bust |
ness connected with his office.
feature in the bazaar which .
ed today in st. Joseph's hall and con-
Quoted by the women workers of ST.
Joseph's Roman Catholic church is a
of work made. by, the girls of
seventh and eighth grades in the
training department of the
parochial, school. The bazaar will
close tomorrow night and supper will |
be served this evening and also to-
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