The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-27
North Dakota
Kernels

Kernels
Dickinson is to have a c~hautauqua
next year.
The enterprising town Of Shields Is
to have a suitably commodious public
hall.
With the coming new train schedule
Finley will lose its Sunday mail serv-
ice.
Darlington wants the annual. con-
ference of North Dakota Methodlsts
in 1914.
High-grade Holstein cows and bulls
were distributed In communities
tributary to Finley a few days age.
The postoffice at Josephine was rob
bed while the postmaster was at sup.
per. The thieves got away with 500
in cash and checks.
1t Is now Postmaster John Foran
at Mandan, a prince of goodfellows
and the best illustration Of honorable
citizenship-well tried and never want
ing.
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The Finley Beacon: Some little
comment has been occasioned the past
week on account of a new study being
introduced into the public school
something akin to ~phrenology.
A teachers institute for Foster
county is in session at McHenry and
on Thursday and Friday one will be
held at Darlington. Prof. Hardin
Lucas Of Valley City conducts both
institutes.
jamestown has added another to the
long list of fraternal orders repre-
sented in the city, the last one to
court patronage n members being
Peerless camp No. "a, Woodmen of
the World.
Professor Hollis of the agricultural
college of Fargo will be the conductor
Of the teachers institute at Mime
waukan. Miss Eula Miller of the pub
lie schools at Minot will be assistant
conductor.
Hazelton is to have the distinction
of being the starting point of a new
motion picture and vaudeville COM
pany which is now being organized
under the name Of the Waverly Enter
tainment Co.
Cornelius Walt a 1~4-year-old boy
residing at Devils Lake received
severe injuries while prying the top
off Of a wooden box. A stick hurled
into the air struck his face, knocking
out four teeth and cutting the upper
lip.
Dealers in Mandan are planning
against the possibility Of a shortage
in the supply of "taters' next spring
and avoid a REPETITION of some expert
ences last spring. City Commissioner
Clark has stored 1900 bushels of Early
Ohios and in the market for 5000
bushels more.
Plans are in the making for the
celebration in Mandan some time
next July Of a Pioneers day, when
all the oldtimers in western North
Dakota will be invited to go there
and renew acquaintance and enjoy
an outing, and possibly perfect a
permanent organization.
The statistician Of The Homestead
at Napoleon has figured out that the
Scandinavian speaking people Of the
state the German speaking
people-Russians, Germans, Austrians
and Hungarians-by 1888. The
NLoAlo OlI1p lO3)ooI ana IIl6
German, 1869. based on the 1910
census.
Supt. J. A. Haig Of Ramsey county
considers that Cleveland township
has a model country school. The new
structure which replaces the building
burned down a year ago, is we'll heat
ed n ventilated. The seats are ad-
Unstable steel and many modern
1nUiNnC for CNhNO1 TN~r1 1N~ofn-4 800
provided.
Litchville Bulletin: Lew White will
clean up $1,000 from a t~wenty-acre
patch Of potatoes this year. He nearly
finished digging by the time the cold
snap struck, and reports a yield of
three carloads. Lew ships to Kansas
City. He avs the only way to raise
potatoes is to raise some every year
and not be discouraged if you happen
to strike poor prices one year You
are bound to strike it high some
years. Besides this, potato ground
yields from five to ten more bushels
Of grain the next year.
The vicinity of Montpelier is be-
coming a timothy center Of import
ance. Fields of the crop were grown
this season for seed purposes and the
yield was above the average in GUAM
THY. While the quality was good.
Manns Bros grew eighty acres this
season for seed n Chinberg Bros.
threshed twenty acres that gave a.
yield Of 100 bushels. Hedge Running
threshed six acres from which he Sc
cured forty bushels of seed. The av-
erage yield of timothy seed is from
five to six bushels per acre and this
has been exceeded here. AS timothy
seed is worth about $3.50 a bushel the
| value Of this crop as a money maker
is seen, producing about $40 an acre
and beating the average yield of
wheat, oats or barley by a fine mar
gin.
MELANCHOLY DAYS.
The leaves are tumbling from the
trees,
The wind is getting surly;
Ere long the riVuletS will freeze.