The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-12-20
North Dakota
Kernels
Christmas poems are in season.

The lodges of the state are planning
winter entertainments.
There is still a. scarcity Of school
teachers in North Dakota.
A white way lighting system is
practically assured for Cando.
People Of North Dakota are taking
advantage Of the parcel post.
A prisoner in the Minot Jail eats
crushed glass with his bread.
Electric plants are being establish
ed in many North Dakota towns.
J. P. NuessIe at Hebron, cut off one
Of his fingers in a sausage machine.
Nearly all Of the commercial clubs
of the city are discussing immigra-
ton.
High school basketball games are
keepin~ up the excitement in most
towns.
Former State Sen. Grant Trimble OF
Bottineau county now lives at North
Yakima, Wash.
Fall blowing was continued later in
North Dakota this fall than for any
season in history.
The people at Max are we'll pleas
ed with the new school building that
has just been dedicated.
There are twelve counties in the
state that have increased jurisdiction
for their county courts.
Editor Landon of Hebron, who is also
a United States commissioners, took
fifty affidavits last week.
Newspapers in McFIenry county are
already predicting the reelection of
State Senator Hookway.
The discharge of the firearms within
the city limits at Mimic will hereafter
be sufficient cause for arrest.
The people along the Missouri slope
appreciate the efforts the 500 Line is
making to secure new settlers.
Mohall has a substantial brick
op~erahouse where a lot Of attractions
for the winter have been booked.
The Hebron Tribune published a pic
ture Of the wreck Of the briquetting
plant recently destroyed by fire.
The talk Of removing the county
seat from Steele to Dawson is caus-
ing some agitation in Kidder county.
Harry Clsby has been appointed
clerk Of court for Barnes county to
succeer his father, who recently died
in Office.
The Kenmare News threatens to
give the sanitary condition of Rhe
depot of that town in editorial dis
cussion.
Two prominent citizens at Valley
City have been arrested for having
been criminally intimate with a young
girl OF that city.
Robt. Cl%endenning of Wimbledon
has a lot of friends over the state
that hope he will be a candidate for
state treasurer.
The horses used the past season by
The Bismarck Tribune o~Yerlanders will
be kept through the winter o N a ranch
near HurdSfield.
The town of Rhame in Bowman
county. boasts Of being the highest
point in the state above sea. level. 1t
stands 800 feet above the sea.
A young man near Willow City had
his arm nearly severed in a circular
saw when his foot slipped and his
| sweater sleeve caught in the machine.
Though Burt Thurston has sold his
| Hazelton Republican and holds a
| position at the capital he may soon
again engage in. the journalistic field.
Many towns Of the state were de-
lights over the fact that they were
this fall before the poet left for Cali
fornia.
A warrant of arrest has been issued
for a typewriter agent at Devils Lake
who fell short with his firm for hay
ing spent too much money on a lady
| friend.
There was some excitement at Dris-
coll when the old postoff1ce building
| caught fire, but the bucket brigade
arrived in time to prevent destruction
| OF the building: 3D."
Editor Trubshaw of The Valley City
| Courier. and president of the state
1 press association, expects the meet
ing in Bismarck in January will bel
one of the best ever held.
Considering the large amount of i'm
provements that have been made in
farming properties in Barnes county,
the Valley City papers think that taxes
have not increased greatly.
In a criminal case at Cando the jury
failed to agree, but after a jury had
been selected from among the specta-
tors, the fellow drew a term of one
year and eight months in the peniten-
tiary. .
Editor Richter Of Larimore was in
dignant over the in which the
telegram he sent his wife reached her.
He wrote it, Am leaving for there
tonight. The one she received; read;
II am longing for thee tonight"
Because the car had no lights no
damages were secured in a suit
brought in United States court for
l:the accident, near Devils Lake when
Editor George Chambers of Churchs
Ferry was killed.
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