The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1913-08-20


North Dakota
Kernels
Fifteen new binders were sold at
Russell last week.
The Fordville Chronicle has been
sold to s. s. Haislet.
The construction crew Of the 500
Is working near Plaza.
Twelve more days and many of the
schools bells will be ringing.
discontinued. Mail will be sent to
Rolla.
Manual training has been added to
the curriculum of the high school at
Mott. "
There are too many cats at Mott
and war has been declared against
them. +" #..
Late grain, corn and flax have been
greatly benefited by recent rains at
Darlington.
The Spotlight Is certainly for Mott,
first, last and all the time to very
practical extent.
The. Fish Lake country was blessed
with copious rain showers a week ago,
greatly benehting the fields and gar
dens. Il
The yield from $50 acres Of early
flax on the Lowe farm on the Bert
hold reservation was ten bushels to
the acre. .-
The entertainments under the aus
pices of the. Odd Fellows at Des Lacs
are appreciated as they bring the peo-
pie together socially. -
The stockyards at Litchville have
been enlarged and according to The
Bulletin it Is a sign Of the increase
of diversified farming.
Implement dealers at Litchville had
to send in second orders for binders
and the demand for threshing ma
ch1nery Is greater than expected
Farmers about Forbes made an auto
trip to the big Johnson farm at Marion
to spend Sunday and view the sights
and methods on that monster place.
The people at Russell, In Bottineau
county, are making disagreeable COM
ments, about prices-bacon 50 cents
and summer sausage at 25c a pound.
A farmer at Forbes is shipping in
several carloads of sheep which he
will range and fatten up on corn this
Fr1
for butchers stock he will ship them
east.
The proper kind of spirit seems to
be extended to Fire Marshal Reade in
the town he visits with a view of aid
ing the work of fire prevention. At
Mott the commercial club entertained
Mr.. Reade.
The grain in the vicinity Of Ender-
lin is nearly all cut and in shock or
stack. The grade and yield have prov
en- beyond the expectations of those
who made a careful study Of the indi-
cations early in the season. ".
Walsh county is not going to allow
Grand Forks to be the whole thing in
the way of fairs and one is being or
ganized to be held at Grafton next
year, and it is to be a close second to
a state fair. SO the promoters say.
Tuesday a daily freight was installed
on the Nome branch and will probably
be maintained until late in the fall, as
| 1t was last year. The freight service
will be further improved by running
the trains directly through to Dilworth.
Some threshing has been done near
Hankinson and some big yields have
been reported. Sixty acres of wheat
on the Coppin farm west of town
yielded 1,180 bushels. or nearly twenty
bushels to the acre. Other farmers
are reporting sixteen bushels to the
acre as general average.
At Rogers a number Of strangers
appeared who did not seem very anxi-
Gus to work, but made themselves
busy agitating high prices for labor
and endeavoring to create trouble of
different kinds. A heavyweight watch
man and a few determined citizens
made short work of the fellows.
A bolt of lightning hit the residence
of Karl Thomte at Lisbon, knocking a
few bricks off the chimney by which
it entered, piercing the wallpaper past
ed over the stove . pipe hole and
throwing open all the doors. Though
badly frightened, the occupants of the
house escaped injury. The linemen
Of the Northwestern Telephone Co.
reports much damage to country
lines.
Striking figures are shown in the
comparison Of the colored population
of the state of North Dakota and in
the percentage of the negro convicts
in the state penitentiary at Bismarck.
The negro population of the state is
only l per cent of the total population
of the state which has more than 500,-
900 inhabitants. Theonegro population
of the state penitentiary is 10 per cent
of the total number of convicts in the
| state prison.
Sen. AISLE J. Gronna, Sen. Porter J.
McCumber, Gov. L. B. Hanna and
Hon. R. M. Pollock will represent
North Dakota at a monster jubilee
convention to be held at Columbus, O.,
Nov. 10 to 13, by the anti saloon
league in North America. This is
planned to be the largest anti saloon
demonstration ever held in the world
and according to the announcement
twenty -four Of Americas greatest
orators will deliver addresses on that
occasion.
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