The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-27

1t is said that twenty horses, stolen
in South Dakota, have been located in
Hettinger county. They were sold to
the farmers who were innocent pur-
chasers,
J. L. Schmidt was arrested near Nc
Clusky for alleged violation of the
compulsory education Jaw. This was
the first arrest in Sheridan county on
that charge.
The Twenty five Year Ago column
of The Towner News Tribune, in
charge of Mrs. Jean McNaughton
Stevens, makes a hit with the old tim
ers In that vicinity.
the Midland extension from James
town to Wimbledon, people in the lat
ter city expect to see trains on the
Midland before snow flies.
Oscar Olson had part of his shin
bone Clipped off when a piece of old
boiler fiue in which he and others had
placed a small charge of dynamite,
near Wimbledon, struck him.
A Makoti mar who went to Plaza
and got drunk, just missed a fearful
death when he staggered up against
a coach of a. moving train and fell
between the platform and the rails.
He escaped with the drunkard's pro-
verbal luck. IT,
John Fox, cashier of the Merchants
National bank of Wimbledon, was
elected secretary of the commercial
club Of that place to take the place of
II. NJ. Stroud. who has been secretary
for three years. The other old officers
were all reelected.
The Carpio Free Press says: Friends
Of ex-G Governor Burke are urging him
to make the race for u. s. senator next
year under the provision Of electing
these men by the direct vote of the
people. The Free Press Is almost sure
he would be elected.
The artesian well at Wimbledon
| which has been raising hob for some
time has finally been placed under
control. Two farms were nearly ruin
ed while the water vas or the ramp
age and the town was without ade-
quate fire protection.
Some of the old G. A. r. veterans are
up in arms over the popular subscrip-
ton" deal to send them to Gettysburg.
One Fargo veteran expressed himself
in no gentle terms regarding what he
| called the effort to make 1T appear that
the North Dakota veterans were all
paupers.
The auto driver who chased two
| horses ahead of him on the road near
F~essenden until the animals dropped
from exhaustion and later died, has
received some "pannings'' from the
state press that would curl his hair If
he could see them all. but he deserves
worse than that.
Under the guise of being a friend of
old, Bernard Ashley, a youth of only
% years, was apprehended at Devils
Lake by Detective Waite of Winnipeg,
Young Ashley was wanted at Boisse-
vain, Can, for ~defalcation, the bank in
which he had worked as a ledger
keeper having been several thousand
dollars short and the shortage was d.
rectly attributed to the young man,
The steele County Tribune says:
"At Ash Grove farm, East Sherbrooke,
they had trouble waking a hired mar
and tried a Baptist service on him, He
got up, when ten quarts of cold water
soused him, but his ire also arose and
NOW Green's are short a man" Editor
Anderson has got his religions crossed.
That's not the Baptist way. That's
Methodist. IL that had been a Baptist
family they would have put a tub of
water under the bed and pulled the
Stats out.
Ananoose Progress: A MInneapo-
lis correspondent sends us a recipe for
killing the pocket gopher. which he
has found excellent. 1t is. so simple
and inexpensive that we will give II
here in his own words. 1T is evident
that early spring is the best time &c
use it: I'VE We're troubled last year
L to- xr,i l. \ .-E.AcAE Neil. s-EGL.
spring / made a hole in their run with
a broom handle. Into this 4 dropped a
raisin, having first replaced the seeds
with crystals of sulphate of strych-
nine. One or two early applications
rid the whole place of the pest, and
there has been but n recurrence, and
a single dose ffxed this ALSO
Plaza Pioneer A couple of Sun.
days age we had the pleasure Of at
tending church services at Berthold
1T was a. pleasure to us to sit there aTC
see a large congregation assemble, and
to see the prominent nlen of the town
there and taking part In the services
The congregation showed that there
was q good healthy moral interest liz
the welfare of the town along spiritu-
al lines. at could not help but be "a
strong drawing card to- anyone who
Happened to- sit in that congregation
from out OF town. The singing was
good and the preaching was able. The
! service seemed more like an eastern
church service. 1T was not married by
the rough western air, and everyone
seemed to realize that they were til
4 church, Many of the North Dakote
towns are missing these church .serV-
ices; many are too busy making money
playing ball, enjoying automobile rides
and doing other things that are hostile
to church work. Co pity The com
Organization toward the upbuilding d
1.-The town.