The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-30
North Dakota
Kernels
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The Herald wants a tow mill for
New England.
Mott will lay a lot Of new cement
walks this year.
II. w. Bromley is holding a big re-
vival at Dickinson.
Fred Becker was charged with sell
ing booze at Devils Lake.
Governor Hanna is planning a new
system of bookkeeping for the state.
The scrap over the m~ayoralty job
of Larimore will be bitterly contested,
The home of o. L. Peterson near
Braddock was totally destroyed by fire.
The drug store at Brinsmade caught
fire and was damaged to the extent
of $3.50.
w. w. Beebe, postmaster of Bel
field, will be succeeded In that Office
by John F. Galyen.
Divide county is said to be almost
as dry as Minot, which is some" dry
as dryness goes, from all accounts.
The Darlington fire department ap-
~propriated $500 from it's treasury to
buy a pressure pump for that city.
Prof. A. d. Weeks of the North Da-
kota Agricultural college is author of
a book on The Education of Tomorrow.
The 4-year-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Sam May of Mohall was caught be-
meath the wheels of a wagon and his
leg crushed.
The N. P. is now running all its
passenger trains except No. / and No.
8 through Valley City and not over
the high line.
Mrs. L. Schraw of Sanborn had the
h~allucination that the third of her list
of husbands was trying to poison her
and she has been found insane.
The Dunn County Settler published
at Manning by j. B. Howard, is START
ing on its sixth year. 1t Is a we'll
printed, prosperous looking little pa
per.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burt Thompson of Mott
have started on a 700 mile auto trip to.
Lake Okoboji, Ia, which they expect.
to complete in three days. They have
a Studebaker car.
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Mrs. Scarborough, formerly Miss.
Maggie williams of Cavalier, N. d.
and another woman are taking a 500
mile hike, from Los Angeles to SAM
Francisco, for their health.
A gasoline tank exploded in the.
butcher shop of Chas. Fox at Rolla,
and Mr.. Fox proved himself a hero by,
grabbing up the burning tank and
hurting it outdoors, saving the town
from a serious fire.
Geo. Dumont of AntIer suffered a
broken leg when a horse fell on the
limb. This is the third time the same
leg has been fractured and for a time
physicians thought it would be neces-
sary to amputate the injured member.
James Martin met with a serious
accident while blowing on the Alex
Waite farm neal Russell. His team be-
came frightened and threw him to the
ground in front of the pillow. It is
thought he will lose part of his left
ear.
The ladies of Valley City hawke be-
come inbued with the walking idea.
Besides the big hike to Tower City re-
Gently taken by a number of the nor
NAL young ladies another party Of
mixers went to Sanborn, a distance of
twelve miles.
According to Edward j. Trefz, field
secretary of the National Chamber of
Commerce of the United States, North
Dakota commercial clubs stand next
to Texas in efficiency in the United
States, Texas being the leading state
in this regard.
S. s.. Lyons, cashier of the Merchants
National bank of Fargo received a
wireless message from Prof. L. D., Nc
Mullen Of the Valley City normal, from
Grand Forks, via the state university
wireless station and a wireless station
operated by Harold c. Reinecke, a
Fargo boy.
Mrs. r.. C. Schiewek was overcome
by smoke while trying to save some
stock In the barn on their homestead
near Ryder, during a prairie fire and
her 5 year old son, assisted her from
the burning building just in time TO
save her life.
A slight change was made in the
official itinerary of the Glidden tour.
Instead Of taking a day going from
Fargo to Grand Forks and spending a
night at the Forks, it has been decid-
ed to make Grand Forks by noon and
go IN to Devils Lake that night.
The bodies of three Indians were
found in stone tombs about a mile
north of Alexander. One of the skel-
etons was that of a large Indian, and
1t was dressed in a pair of trousers, an
American soldiers coat and other ar
ticles of indian and modern apparel.
Thomas Mahoney, a quiet, retiring
man, died suddenly from Bright's dis
ease near Burlington and 1t was neces-
sary for the neighbors to make an in
spection of his personal. effects to find
track Of his relatives in the east, al
though he had lived there for years.
Mrs. Raymond O'Day, nee Miss
Luella X. Wright was married at
Grafton last week, went to Grand
Forks with her husband, and after
two days of married life her husband
disappeared and has not been seen
since. She has gone back to her
mother.
A family named Remsing lost all
their personal effects when their farm
home burned near Manning and are
said to be in hard shape. The mother
tried to save a little something, but
was forced to stay outside and watch
the house burn as her baby persisted
in following her back into the burning
building.
In a letter to e. C. Carney OF Willis.
ton. repIying tO an %inouiry. Sen p r