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

/ Kernels
A new plat of the city Of Grafton
has been prepared.
A civic league is actively at work in
the interest of Darlington.
This Is the open season for rummage
sales in rural communities
The brother Of Mayor Blewett Of
jamestown is i'll in a Fargo hospital.
Farmers near Bowesmont are add.
ing pure blood Ayrshire cattle to their
dairy herds.
A heating and ventilating plant has
been installed in the consolidated
school at Hope.
Miss Jeanette Rankin, the Montana
suffragette, will speak tomorrow even
ing in jamestown.
O. NJ. Young of Bowman has placed
an order for fifty Ford cars-indicat-,
ing some prosperity in that part Of the
state.
Careless people tether their cows
close to the church ediices at Walhal-.
Ia and complaints have been made as
1t Is not considered decent to do
that.
Down to the minute fixtures are be-
ing installed in the ~postof1ce building
at Bowman as the structure has been
leased to the government for a term of
years.
Shoriff1 l., 4ho Cnr4Ioor,, rporf sc t5A
state are after q gang of smooth talk
ing kerosene oil statesmen who are al
legged to be selling under false pre-
lenses.
The Midland Continental line is
completed I'D to Wimbledon, where the
crossing Of the 500 railroad has been
completed. Work is rapidly going
ahead on the new road.
The Bowman County Pioneer is
wise to the fact n caustically refers
to the people who refrain from sup
porting their local papers, but rarely
let a fake advertising scheme go by.
Governors day at the North Dakota
Industrial exposition will be on Thurs
day, Oct. ia reproduction will he
made on that day of the battle Of
Little Big Horn, which will be Of great
IAI NoL " SOiIC'
People at Sykeston are proud of the
new public school which has Just peer
completed. 1t Is equipped with a.
heating plant and other conveniences.
A corps of five teachers has been en-
aged for this school year.
The women of the Methodist church
at Rolla gave a supper last week at
which fifty-seven prairie chickens and
thirty domestic fowls were consumed.
The game was secured by the men of
the church who formed hunting par
ties for the purpose.
The teachers institute for Rolette
county held at ROlla, was a great sue.
cess. 1t was attended by rural school
teachers, grade teachers Of the town
schools and the teachers Of the gov
eminent schools of the Turtle Noun
tain Indian reservation.
Many Elks' lodges throughout the
state sent delegations to Bismarck to
attend the dedication of the new Bis
marck lodge building today, and take
in the festivities in the capital city,
as today is Elks' day at the North Da-
kota Industrial exposition.
G.. F. Tiff, farming about seven
miles southwest of Bowman, reports
durum wheat which went twenty
three bushels to the acre. With durum
wheat bringing nearly the same price
as blue stem, it seems to be the Wheat
to raise in Bowman county.
Isaac Harbottle is n of Foster
county's progressive farmers who is
going into stock raising more extens-,
lively. He has fenced in one quarter
this season for pasture, and later in
tends to do more fencing. This fall
he is buying a lot of sheep to turn on
the stubble fields and tbs gather in a.
lot Of feed that otherwi~a would go to
waste.
Albert Meyers, from west of town.
was in Darlington Monday, and
brought over with him a wagon load
Of potatoes. Mr.. Meyers this year had
in about an acre and a half and has
dug more than 200 bushels of as fine
Early Ohios as one could ask to see.
He has finished threshing and says
that threshing is pretty we'll over in
his locality. He did we'll with his bar
ley this year, getting a little better
than thirty bushels to the acre.
M. B. Monsoon of Portland has made
a record for threshing which we be-,
lieve will DE hard for anyone to exceed
or equal. He pounded out 3,470 BUSH
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ty-five minutes. This included an hour
stop for dinner and some fifteen BUSH
els Of clean grain vas picked up be-
tween the separator and straWstack.
The threshing was done from las
acres on the northwest quarter of Sec
ton 10 south Roseville and the aver
age was a little over twenty-four
bushels to the acre.
John Weber of Cleveland has had
to have one finger Of his right hand
amputated, the result of blood poison
ing which resulted from the bite of
a hog. Some eight weeks ago Mr..
Weber started in to butcher a hog
and in doing, so was severely bitten
on the right hand by the animal. 1t
is said the bite Of a hog is as deadly
as that of a rattle snake, n every
thing was done by the local physician
to treat the injured member. The
treatment did not seem to stay the
progress of the Inflammation and
about a week ago Mr.. Weber came to
the city and a hospital where the in
jured member was amputated. He is
now getting along nicely and the worst
may be over.
Everybody Wants Cotton.
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