The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1913-07-12
North Dakota
Kernels
Flora is the barber at Leith.

now open.
The boys at Drake do just love
baseball. ..
There are some scrappy editors in
| Divide county, ..
Gophers in Sheridan county have
become nuisance. ..
| Editor Hughes at Wahpeton appears
| to be an adept at repartee.
| Red lake, near Burnstad, is being
| boosted as summer resort.
The Pembina county fair. will he
held at Hamilton. July 20. 80 and 81.
| w. A. Mcclure and others of Dick
| inson are to open a state bank at
| Dunn Center.
| The rain on the Fourth has a good
deal to answer for, according to many
state editors.
| Considerable proving up is being
| done for homesteads in the golden
valley country in Mercer county.
The News alleges that Fairmount
village and township are in the grasp
of an octopus-then kill the octopus.
A good many teachers are attending
the Velva convention of the North
western Teachers association this
week.
Some of the fax fields In Ramsey
county are not encouraging-the rains
were too late to help the grain to
recuperate. ~...,. ..~-
At Fairmount there is boasting of
some of the fine fields of clover to be
seen in the vicinity some of them
soWn six years ago.
The material improvements at
Wahpeton this year will include a new
| a new postoffice building which Uncle
Sam is responsible for.
Some Spanish cannon have been
| shipped to Minot by the federal gov
ernment and will be set up there to
beautify one Of the city parks.
Boats are hauling wheat from inland
points up the Missouri river to the
500 elevator at Washburn, helated
! threshing left over from last fall.
In the vicinity of Oakes the corn
crop is reported to be doing exception
ally well, Estimates for wheat are
from nine to twenty bushels to the
acre.
One of the first things Colonel
! Tuttle did when he returned to Daw-
son from his trip to the Orient was TO
| report the demonstration farm picnic
for his home paper.
The grand lodge of Knights Of
| Pythias will be held at Fargo, July Is
| and 16 Some state papers schedule
| the meeting to be held at Grand Forks
| which is an error.
The Buford Tribune warns the own
ers Of hunting dogs who allow their
| animals to range over the fields and
calls attention to the heavy penalty
imposed If they are caught.
Reports are that the crops on the
road between Burnstad and Napoleon
in Logan county look good for big
yields. Favorable comment is also
made about winter rye and corn in the
same vicinity.
Former Secretary of State Blaisdell
is leaving North Dakota for Montana
where he will probably locate at Bill
lings. The removal of the Minot at
torney will be a keen loss to the magic
city for he has been one Of the most
public spirited men there.
Melvin, 14-year- old son of Will
Landreth residing four miles north
east Of Cayuga, held a match to a
dynamite cap one day last week and
as a result the youth is now minus
the fingers on his left hand.
Joe Sauter who resides in the
southern part of Richland county, has
an orchard of sixty-five apple trees,
new six years old, and loaded with
nice big red apples, some of which
he is expecting to exhibit at the Wah-
peton fair this fall.
The United Norwegian Lutheran
church at Clement will be dedicated
July 13 by President Kildahl of ST.
Olaf's college, Mortified, Mimi. The
Sunday following President Kildahl
will dedicate church of the same
denomination at Cogswell.
New potatoes and other good things
early grown in the garden of the edi-
tor ,of The Times at Oakes are said
to be due to the excellent work Of a
gardner 78 years Of age, the father Of
the wife of the editor who is said to
know every plant, shrub and tree in
the very fine garden.
Steele has already been laid for a
distance of over ten miles on the
Spring Creek branch of the Northern
Pacific, running out of Stanton, the
terminal of the north line running out
Of Mandan. Dunn Center will be the
terminal of the Spring Creek branch,
and The Spring Valley Times hopes
soon to hear the whistle of the locomo-
tive.
Judge Shepherd, of the county
court of Walsh county, issued his first
marriage license under the new law,
July 5. The applicants were James
e. Miller, of Park River, and Mary E.
Miller, of Vernon township. The
physical affidavit was furnished by
DR.. N. 0. Sandven, of Park River, and
the affidavit of. disinterested person
ny d. j. Henry, Of Fordville.
M. E. Kenyon of Krem, Mercer
county has received notice Of an in
crease in his pension as private in
Co. e. 22nd Regiment New York
Cavalry and has received his back
pension. Mr. Kenyon was getting $12
per month but commencing June 5,
1912, he was increased to $14.50, and
again Jan. 8, 1913, Increased to $2150.
After Jan. 3, 1912, he will get $27 per
month.