The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-19
EAST SIDE NOTES

Breckenridge is taking advantage of
the new law in Minnesota which au-
thorizes the working of Jail prisoners
on the public streets Inc highways
and is deriving considerable profit
therefrom. The authority is given in
chapter 373, Minnesota laws of 1913.
A mass meeting is to be held at
GAINESVILLE next Wednesday,, the pur-
pose of which is to discuss school con-
solidation with six tributary school
districts which desire better school IA
cilities and the privileges of a high
school. Besides others interested there
will be addresses made by the coun
ty superintendent and E. M. Phillips
Of the state department Of education.
Wilkin County Gazette: One Of our
social bellies recently remarked, you
can pick out twenty young men in
breckenridge and not five out of the
twenty are making an effort to a
money. The indications are the poor
houses of the future will have to be
ten stories high with folding beds in
! each room"
The present school year at Wolver-
ton will close with appropriate COM
menCement exercises next Friday,
when fourteen boys and girls will be
awarded diplomas as graduates from
the eighth grade. During the summer
the school building and grounds are to
be greatly improved.
r. c.. Huntingdon, formerly at Man
dan. has been appointed trainmaster
at East Grand Forks.
A musical club has been organized
at Dibley, Mimi, Of which Miss Alice
Welton Is president and Frances Haw-
ley secretary.
At the twenty-ffth annual district
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Foreign Missionary societies addresses
were made by DR.. and Mrs. G. J.
Shellman. returned missionaries from
Siam, who are in this country or a
furlough. The officers elected for the
home division of the district were.
Mrs. S. F. Sharpless, president, and
Mrs. w. L.. Wilson of the town of
Maine. Mrs. Wilson is also secretary
of the division of foreign missions.
The News at Princeton, Mimi, is
to have a new editor in the person of
A. V. Williams. He has had fifteen
years experience in different parts of
the state. -
The engagement is announced by
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Christianson of their
daughter, Jennie, to Clai Hustled. The
wedding will be held on Wednesday,
June 4.
The score in the ball game at May
vile Saturday, between the normal
school teams of Moorhead and May
vile, N. D.. was 9 to 6 in favor of
Moorhead.
President Weld of the state normal
is again at his desk after his return
from Clinton, Mimi, where he deliv-
cred an address last Thursday even
ing.
Clerk Of Court McCubrey has re-
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Mabel McCubrey at Minneapolis to the
effect that his daughter, Mrs. G. G.
Smith, is a great deal better and that
hopes are entertained that she will
recover from her attack of pneumonia
A marriage license was issued or
Saturday to Charles J.. Cosgrove an6
Emma Ref, both of Clay county.
In the district court today the case
of Davis VS.. the Northern Pacific was
still on trial. During the morning ses-
sion the plaintiff was subjected to a
hands of Mr.. Hoke for the defendant
company.
This year the Moorhead G. A. r. post
will join with Hawley in the celebra-
ton of Memorial day, May 80. The
usual proceedings will be observed.
Miss Rushfeldt, county superintend.
ent of schools, mailed to the different
rural schools in the county the exam
ination papers prepared by the high
school board and they will be written
in the neal future.
At the convention of school officers
of the county,, next Friday, at the nor.
NAL school,, Miss Edith Marden and the
normal school orchestra will contri
butte music during the chapel hour ex.
e%rcises. 1t being Peace Day President
Weld will attune his address to the
being lone to ensure peace among al
! nations-to avoid war any more.