The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-06
Moorhead Department

big touring a. on Friday morning
making the journey in a little more
than ten hours. .
County Attorney Dosland left for
st. Paul this afternoon to attend the
opening Of the supreme court. E. E
Sharp, J. M. Witherow and F. H, Pet
erson will follow tomorrow.
Mayor Beck is at Minneapolis at
tending an adjourned meeting of the
state Municipal league which was or
gained a week or two ago.
The dancing party given by the
Royal league, last Friday night. was
greatly enjoyed by the goodly number
Of Young men and women who accept
cd Invitations.
r. A. Woodward, one Of the promi-
nent farmers OF Glyndon, and his fam
liy will leave Thursday next for Cali
%orNia where they will spend the win
:eT and If they like it may take UP
SER permanent residence there. Mr..
WooGWar Is heir in the matter Of
&Wo estates in h south, one of which
has been closed UP and the other soon
% be: Atty. f. Z. Sharp was counsel
for he heir and spent some time in
California assisting in the adjustment
or a number Of matters in connection
with the estate. &c.,.
Despite the light rains this morning
operations We're resumed on &he new
postoff1ce building n the Harris
Bros new machinery office building
and warehouse. Contractor Miller on
the new government building is using
all the bricklayers he can use and the
substantial basement walls are fast
nearing the street level. Work on the
new Clay county jail is also progress
ing, but not as rapidly as it would If
the ironwork was on the ground. The
Jail fittings and steel work was billed
out of Cincinnati, O., Sept. Is and it
is being rushed westwards with orders
Of no delay. ,
district court of Becker county was
opened at Detroit, Mimi, this morning,
Judge c. A. Nye presiding.
Judge Ira B. Mills Of this city, chair
man Of h railroad and warehouse
commission Of Minnesota has gone east
to be away for a month. Today he
state Commerce Commission at Wash
ington. D. c., and he will attend the
meeting Of the National AS
ISOLATION of Railroad Commissioners
at Washington, Oct. %.
Potato shippers and others, at Ulen,
are complaining because Of the short
age of cars and the railroad and ware
house commission is to be appealed
to with a sharp stick.
The job of re-assessing the township
or EglOn is going abegging because the
state tax commission will not pay
more than Sc a day, the party doing
the work to pay his own expenses.
Miss Gussie Thompson. a teacher in
the public schools at GAINESVILLE, spent
the week n at her home in Dill
The Potato Growers association at
GAINESVILLE announce a decision to
erect a storage warehouse at Halstad
to cost $1,000 and operations are under
way. The town of Halstad donated
the site.
According to The Headlight, an
other attorneys office is to be estab-
lished in GAINESVILLE.
The Union at Ulen printed a large
picture showing the con-
testants. boys n young men, in the
recent corn contest being instructed
by c. F. Brown the agricultural agent
for Clay county.
The annual cost Of heating the
twenty-seven rooms comprising the
Moorhead public schools, last year was
S1.415.11: the cost of heating forty
schol rooms at Detroit, Mimi, was ST.
forty-seven rooms at st. Cloud,
491.41; thirty-eight rooms at Thief
River Falls. $1,000.
The Otter Tail Power Co. is arrang-
.ng to extend its electric light wires
westward from Wahpeton to Fair
mount. N. D.
The organization Of Boy Scouts at
Falls has been dissolved on ac-
Of the lack of interest among
and boys.
E. o. Erickson has sold out all of his
interests in the Crystal theatre at
Falls to parties at Akeley,
Mimi, also he has sold his residence
will o to Fargo.
Proceeded by unusually low
a heavy rain and hail
storm swept over Crow Wing and ad-
counties Saturday night. At
Sylvan, six miles west Of Brainerd,
it was the worst storm known in
years. Hail covered the ground in
many places to a depth of six inches.
The new departments in the public
of Lake Park, domestic
science, sewing and cooking; and
manual training are working nicely
and the students are. showing marked
and enthusiasm.