The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-05
North Dakota
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>, Secretary OF State Hall has refus-
ed to accept any more Of the 1913 blue
books.
The village council has arranged for
improved fire protection for Portal,
and two chemical engines have been
purchased.
The postofflce at Finley will be NOV
ed this week into the First National
Bank building, which will make an
ideal location for that purpose.
At an enthusiastic meeting OF citi-
zens at Bantry IL was agreed to sup
ply the town with fire protection. A
chemical engine Is to be purchased
soon. -.. .."
Work is being rushed on the new
Midland railroad depot at Wimbledon
to have it completed before cold
weather sets in. 1t will be a modern
structure.
A Masonic lodge, known as Coal
field Lodge A. F. & A. M, has been or
ganized at Noonan. J. A. Smith is
the w~orshipful master and Chas. Rup-
pert Is secretary. ,
The Marion Sentinel, the weekly
newspaper published at Marion, has
been purchased by Messrs. /. u. OH
Ger and J. r. Norgaard from Paul
Paulson, who now lives at Detroit,
MINI.
There Is q lumber war on at Mar
marth and on SOM grades of lumber
the prices have been reduced SO per
cent. AS a result trade is being at
tratced there for many miles in that
section.
County Auditor Harmon of Morton
county reports that 23I040 acres of
grain were insured in Morton county
by the state hail insurance department
and a single loss did not occur. The
number of acres is p~erceptibly dec
creased this year. - .>. ''
On receiving word from authorities
from Oshkosh. Wis. Sheriff Kunkel
arrested Walter Joyce at ,F~essenden
and took him back to Wisconsin where |
ne is wanted on a charge of deserving
his wife and children. 1t is said he has
q family Of seven and that he has fail
ed to provide for their support.
The tracklaying crew on the Fair |
mount & Veblen railroad has reached
the latter place, and now has only the
terminal tracks to lay to complete the
line. The work of ballasting the track
Will then be done when trains will
start running on, this new line. Veblen
will celebrate the event in the near fu- |
ture.
Bad roads and inclement weather
this fall have held down the attend
ance of h meetings of the Farmers
Social club at Sherbrooke, but a meet |
ing has been arranged for Saturday,
Nov, 8, when it is expected there will
be an extraordinarily large attendance
and plans made for the winter meet
ings. ,'
DR.. G. 3. Furness, one of the pio-
neer physicians of Mandan, has sold
his practice to DR.. c. G. Hickman, re-
Chicago, who has already arranged for
a suite Of rooms there. DR.. Furness
and his family expect to leave soon for
California where they will reside per-
manently.
Work or the electric light plant at
Velva has been progressing rapidly
and it is expected the new plant will
be put into service Nov. 10. The
street lights have been placed and
many of the business houses and resi-
dences have been wired. There has
been considerable delay in receiving
material.
Out of 1853 schools of Morton county |
over ESQ Of them are now in operation.
This means that there Is a school for
at least every two square miles. There |
are $50 rural schools n thirteen |
graded schools in the county at the
present time, in efghty-six districts |
averaging more than three schools to
the district.
The Dickinson Press says that for
that par of Stark county the total
precipitation for 1918 up to Nov. 1,
amounts to 11.43 inches, which is prac-I
tically 3 inches below normal. The |
normal rainfall, figured on a basis of
fifteen to sixteen years, is 14.40 inches. |
An average crop has been raised this
year Notwithstanding the shortage of
rain.
At Bowman a regular term of the
district court will be convened Nov. II. |
when Judge Nichols of Mandan will
try the Bowman county cases for
Judge Crawford. 1t is expected there
will be a good sized calendar. The
five libel cases against Editor Totten
of The Bowman Citizen will b. tried
this term, having been put over from
the spring term.
A masked man with a revolver in |
n hand and a big wrench in the
other appeared at the residence of
Thor Bakke at Edinburgh and de-
manded $4,000 or he would take Bak-l
ke's life. The robber was handed a |
purse which only contained $4S. !
Bake was struck across the face |
with the wrench and the robber easi- |
ly made his escape.
The twelve Bismarck postoffice en- |
ployes, together with the newly APP
pointed postmaster. Frank Reed, were
guests at a %banQuest Sunday evening |
given at the Hotel Mckenzie when
Mr.. n Mrs. E.. G. Patterson were
host n hostess. Mrs. Patterson is |
the retiring postmistress after hold |
ing the Office for the past sixteen
years. m the event was highly ap-
preciated by those attending.
J. D. Delaney, from TWENTY-FIVE |
miles northwest, was in Dickinson a |
few days ago with his first load Of
wheat, which he marketed at roc per
bushel. He has finished blowing over |
100 acres for next years crop and has
about 1000 bushels of grain to market
this season. Henry EaSton, also from !
the same locality, was in with flax on
the same day. Harry Hamilton, Joe
and Mckinley Fable were also market |
ing flax on Wednesday,, getting $1.18
per .bushel. !
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