The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1913-08-26
North Dakota
Kernels


Kernels
Plenty of rain during the month a
Oakes.
Farmers about Bowman county ar,
Keeling chesty over their corn crops.
There will be busy time along tlls
Fargo, New Rockford and .Minot lines
Editor Totten of The Citizen al
| Bowman knows what the spice OF life
is. 'DA,' - 1AAs
! s. V. Saunders has received his
commission as postmaster Of Ellen
dale.
The public school of Kensall has
been equipped with complete ventil-
atinG system.
| Miss Sadie Olson of Cakes will be a
student in the Columbia university
New York, this year.
A section of land seven miles from
Bowman was sold to a Minneapolis
man at $22 per acre.
Locals in The Enterprise at Cogswe1l
indicate that building contractors have
been busy in that locality.
The Leader at Oakes is proud of its
! lineup of country correspondents-a.
| valuable asset for any newspaper.
T. r. Shimmin has just completed
10 miles Of telephone line through
the country between Forbes and Ash
ley. =.
The police at Cakes seem to be
handling the tourist element in good
shape-no disorder is tolerated in that
town.
An alleged fire bug" made an at
tempt to burn down the fire depart
ment station at New Rockford a few
days ago.
The commercial club at Dunseitn
has perfected plans for a monthly
market day during the late fall and
winter.
Bowman, Billings, Hettinger and
Adams counties will compete for $500
in prizes, given by the Milwaukee road
for best arranged grain exhibit at the
industrial exposition at Bismarck.
Young stock is being shipped from
the vicinity of Gackle to the stock
Yards at Chicago which some authori
ties say is very foolish thing to
do.
The Gun club at Kensall besides
having shooting contests works in CO.
operation with the state game COM
mission in specially working for tho
protection Of the game and birds in
that vicinity.
Cutting wheat and seeding rye with
the same team is the practice followed
by G. Wohlik of Ryder. He had a drill
the same width as the binder attach
ed to the harvesting machine. The
same horses pull both.
States Attorney Yonker of Dickev
county has big field of wheat near
Fullerton. Last year the land was
planted to potatoes and this year he
has big yield of wheat. He has a
large acreage of potatoes too this year.
Robert Halcrow of Pembina county
Is the first farmer in that part of the
state to use his auto to take cattle to
market, says The Call at Crystal. He
hltched a wagon behind, put bossy in
the wagon and took her to town at a
speed Of eleven miles per hour.
Three boys playing with a loaded
gun near Linton in Enmons county
and as one picked up the piece it ex-
ploded,' the charge striking the
shoulder Of a little fellow standing
by and injuring him to the extent
that an arm had to be amputated.
These are days when harvesting ma
iG mot TrrI1t + -.
der pressure-more bona -fide sales |
than a decade or two ago. Eighteen |
headers and thirty-fiv binders were
sold by dealers at Bowman this season |
demonstrating there was some grain |
to cut in that section of the state.
Miss Grace Greaves of Glencoe. |
Mimi, has been appointed preceptress
and teacher of English and history at |
the Collegiate institute at New Rock
ford. She is a graduate of the Uni
Versity of Minnesota and has had
special training in some of the best
institutions in Europe. The school
will open Sept. 9.
Beginning Aug. %, there will be
three excursion trains run through
New Rockford for ten days all of
which will stop forty-five minutes for
dinner Each of these. trains will
carry about 500 people, who are en-
route to the opening of the Ft. Peck
reservation, and this city will be the |,
first stop made for meals after leaving
st. Paul.
A severe hail storm passed through
the country about three miles north
east of Gackle last Tuesday evening.
The storm made its course down to
Alfred, Jud and on southeast being
from five to seven miles wide. These
who Rad grain standing in the path of
the storm suffered icss of from IS
to 60 per cent. The grain in shock
was badly shelled.
Several of the school districts Of
county are buildins new
schoolhouses this fall. District No. 20
Is building. two new school buildings,
and districts Nos. and 29 are build
ing one each. These buildings are to
be 20x26 in size and are modern in ev-
cry particular. They will accommodate
twenty pupils each and will have mod
arn systems of heating and ventilation
eyes, sir: we're right in the hub Of
the worlds garden. It's like entering a
paradise" This was the expression
Of Commissioner L. H. Mundt of
Devils Lake who attended the triennial
conclave of the Knights Templar at
Denver. Southern Kansas and
Nebraska are burned to a crisp" he
continued. There practically isn't a