The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-17

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There is a rumor that the N. P. will
s~traighten out the line from Fargo to
Lisbon. This would leave Verona
about half a mile from the track.
John Stevenson, a hardware mer-
chant of Esmond, died recently, aged
so years He was a brother of Con
gresham Halvor Stenerson of Min
neSota.
Oscar Ness of Starbuck, Mimi, was
ribly muti1ated under the a wheels
that it was hard to tell how the acct
! dent occurred.
The Hellesvig brothers separator
! caught fire while threshing near Mad
dock and was badly burned inside.
The fire caught either from q hot box
or the winding fax straw.
Park River is advertising for a cop"
who must be a citizen of the United
| States, act as janitor Of the city hail.,
perform the duties of street commits
sioner and last but not least be a total
~abstainer.
Bald Hill creek, near Cooperstown,
is said to have the purest water in
the state. 1t runs over sand, does not
run through any alkali and 1t may be
damned and a small lake created for
cold water fish. X
Grafton is figuring on celebrating
the Fourth Of July in the good old
fashioned way, even to the turning
loose Of the creased pig. 1t is expect
ed that If Grafton celebrates Park
River will not.
The North Coast limited on the N.
p. had a narrow escape near Buffalo
Monday Of this week. An open switch
was discovered about ten seconds be-
fore the fast express went roaring
through at high speed.
Alex McNiven drove his big Case
tractor over a well at L~angdon, one
Of the drive wheels going in. The we'll
was eight feet square, forty feet deep
and full Of water and the whole outfit
had a narrow escape from going down.
A ~14-year-old st. Paul boy died Of a
broken heart when told his team in
the grade school of that city had been
defeated and We're out of the cham
pionship race. He had pitched and won
-, <: nles. but did not pitch the game
that was lost.
DR.. L. Schultze of M~innewaukan,
while riding behind a team belonging
to Thomas C~ochrane, was thrown into
a barb wire fence when the horses
bolted and the doctor received several
serious gashes about the head and
neck.
Mayor Jacob Thai received last
week a large cannon n thirty pro-
jectiles, or cannon balls, which were
secured for Lakota through the efforts
4 20 Ca r 100000, n. a. rI,- les -
twelve FOUNDER and weighs 1,25(
s. 1t will be mounted on a brick
foundation in the schoolhouse yard.
Forbes Republican,: This vicinity
was blessed by nice steady rain Mon
day and Tuesday nights, and 1t rainec
most of the day yesterday and the
1t is worth thousands of dollars fol
OUR growing crops, and indication
now point that we harvest another
bumper crop this fall.
? The law Of North Dakota which, TO
the last twenty years, has requires
{ the payment of fees from estates, has
ed upon the valuation Of the estate t.
the various counties, has been hell
unconstitutional by Judge j. A. Coffe,
OF jamestown. The ase came befor
the court from LaMoure county, on a,
aCllOn TO recover C6Eldlu Lees pau uti
: der protest.
The Kindred Tribune says: Cor
planting will be practically complete
this week and the ground is in perfec
condition. What we need now Is war;
weather to boom things. There ha
never been a season when the graf
> has made a more sturdy growth tina
this. The cold weather has caused
= to roo deeply and firmly and 1t Is thu
in a condition to Withstand almost an
degree Of weather. Rye is in the shoot
ing blade and Is of a heavy uniforI
stand throughout the entire section.
' The 1913 convention of the Mort
3 Dakota Firemen,s association, whic
: will be held in Bismarck, June 10, ]
: and IL, promises to be the largest tn
association has ever held and the biz
gest meeting that has been held
that city for some time. The fire lac
dies met there in 1910, there bein
ID an attendance Of over 500. and the
= all stated that they were better trea1
# ed in Bismarck and had a. better tin
ri than at any other place they had evs
ID met says The Bismarck Palladium
" Secretary Reade states that he expecl
a mountaineering crowd to atten
next month.
oyerburdened.
Boston Transcript: II saw Lusl
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