The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-02-03
Ground hose stayed out.

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Sheep raising is said to be a
splendid way of insuring a North Da-
kota farm against crop failure.
Ehe battle ovCr the t~reasurershio Of
Mercer county ended by r. S. Enge
giving up the Office to j. l.. Cass.
A school near Alta was closed after
being in session -four days because no
one would board the school ma'am.
The fight over the office Of register
Of deeds Of Billings county will prob
ably be fought out in the courts.
Admiral Dewey says banquets are
deadlier than bullets and advises those
who would stay young to avoid them.
There is not a dollar, of the $177,-
600 appropriated to be ready Jan. IS
for the Minot Normal school, avail
able.
Three ~freproof buildings are
planned for Darlington and will he
started as soon as spring weather ar
rives.
Ed Ives barn near BalfOur was des-
troyed by fire and three horses, seven
hogs and a lot of hay, harness, etc.
were lost.
While Workmen were digging a
sewer in Fargo they uncovered a cof-
fin in which were the remains Of a
little child.
Over 200 members of the Grand
Forks U. c. T.. are planning on going
over to CTOokstOn fOr the big meet
ing this summer.
Peter Deitz and Nick Michel were
arrested, pleaded guilty and were fined
at Almont for lot sending their
children to school.
The Leeds State bank n the
Farmers & Merchants bank Of Leeds
have been consolidated and the latter
name will be retained.
Miss Barbary schlinger, the girl
who was so terribly burned in a gaso-
line explosion at Mandan, has been
saved by skin grating.
Joseph Kovash was shot in the head
with the Wad from a blank cartridge
and badly burned about the eyes by
the powder near Dickinson.
States Atty. U. L. Burdick of Will
Iiams county says the compulsory
school attendance law is to be strictly
enforced in that county hereafter.
Frank Dvorak, a section hand Of
Dresden, loaded up on whiskey at
Langdon and three hours later was
found dead. An investigation is be-
ing made. IT,
A romantic wedding occurred at
Rraddock when q Finnish couple were
united in Wedlock after the girl had
waited seven years for her lover to
earn a home for her in North Da-
| kota.
Two farmers living near Flasher
were charged with selling grain.
grown from seed furnished by the
county, without paying for the seed
but the cases against them were dis
missed. ~
H. w. Foght, specialist in rural edu-
cation, in the employ of the govern
ment, will spend the first two weeks
rural teachers during their summer
meetings. So
The open. Winter.~has been a great
boon to the. railroad contractors.
Work on the New Montana
branch of the Great Northern has been
carried on during almost the entire
winter. ~ ."@ -
Williston has a public skating rink,
consisting of one city block, centrally
located and a. move is on foot to buy
the block for the city to be used for
a playground and park in summer and
"a rink in winter.
Miss JdIel1a. Ogden of -Arkaosoa
Wis, went to Mandan to take a coun-
try school near that place, tainted
during her first day of school, and died
in a hospital at Mandan after a few
days illness, from pneumonia.
Deputy Sheriff Ed Barnes of Bur-
leigh, county, went to Two Harbors,
;Wis., to get George Coma who was
wanted in Bismarck on an embezzIe-
ment charge, only to find his mar had
been released on habeas corpus pro-
~ceedings.
S. A. Mikalson, recently appointed
deputy sheriff at Hazelton, collected
a livery bill from a travelling man who
forgot that little ceremony, but in the
excitement of his first experience al
enforcing the law, forgot all about
his fees.
The Mclean County Independent
says that when a farmer who has
spent thirty years in a state sells his
farm, investigates land values in
other sections and then returns to
his old home and pays the ~top-notch
pretty good evidence that the value
lis there.