The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-08

she was struck by a motorcycle ridden
by liner Hagasetth of, Devils Lake, at
DeMers avenue and Third street.
j. j. Pettijohn, the newly appointed
head of the extension work at the
state university, will speak on Univer-
sity Extension Lyceum at the meeting
of the International Lyceum associa-
ton to be held at Chicago, Sept. II.
In this months issue of the Am
erican Economic Review is an inter-
esting article on Farm Credits in
North Dakota, by DR.. Meyer Jacob
stein, formerly instructor of economics
at the University of North Dakota.
John Proctor, the bird dog of H.
Curtis of Texas, won the champion
ship Of the all-American field trials
which ended at Towner after nearly a
week Of exciting contests between
some Of the best bred dogs in North
America.
public health laboratory at the state
university, has left for Colorado
Springs, where he will address the
annual meeting Of the American Pub
lie Health association on Laboratory
Tests for Typhoid.
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Pres. H. F. Emery of Fargo will
probably be one of the principal
speakers at a big banquet which is
being planned by Bismarck Y. M. c.
A. boosters and which will be held on
Friday evenings Sept. 10, if plans now
under consideration are carried out.
E. S. Sperry, a farmer living north
Of Bismarck, was hurrying to shelter
rI,hn- ~ e+Nrr, AryA,.4N~1- 1s-. 49, H.
sought shelter from the rain by lying
behind a shock of corn in a field. A
binding fash Of lightning lit up the
field and Sperry saw the third shock
from him had been struck and com
| pletely burned.
While driving a colt hitched to a
road cart Burr Tande of Aneta was
injured. The colt started to kick and
Mr.. Tande in trying to jump out was
caught and dragged by one leg for
some distance before he could extri-
cate himself, the horse her proceed
ing to make kindling wood out of the
cart, and he did.
The Minot Commercial clubs free.
employment bureau a been espon-
sible for placing 375 men in jobs, and
the demand for men has become SO
great that farmers are now meeting
incoming trains and hiring the men
before they reach the platforms, many
men, en- route to points farther west,
being induced to disembark and go
to work.
Material has arrived for the CON
struction of a new farmers telephone
line to be constructed out of Mimic.
The new line is known as the Harris
ton Telephone Co., and the officers are
John Popowski. president, and Galen
McDivitt, secretary n treasurer.
The line is to start from Mimic and
run north to George Piezpouri's, then
east to John Popowski's. a distance Of
about ten miles.
Minot Optic: The rumor has been
going around the magic city that an.
I. w. w. was shot to death near Nor
witch, twenty-four miles east of Minot,
by enraged farmers. 1t was said that
the man was caught in the act Of tut
ting a piece of a log chain in the grain
of a farmer in an effort to ruin the
farmers ~threshing outfit. Efforts have
been made to trace the source of this
rumor and have utterly failed. Long
distance telephone calls to Norwich
failed to throw any light on the re-
port. The report of the shooting was
received at the sheriff's Office in Minot
this morning, but the truth of it is
doubted.
Bismarck Tribune: Al short time ago
mention was made that the state
board of equalization has again re-
duced the levy in mills for general
fund purposes, thereby saving the peo-
pie Of the state about $1,000 in taxes
the coming year This morning it is
I AA-a,1tNE%- ~ ..AtNzxEHAIx- fnANts4t L.
Thomas Hall, secretary Of state, saved
the snug sum Of 81, 800 in the purchase
of automobile tags for 1914. Mr.. Hall
contends that a "tag for service not
for ornament, is wanted, and as a re-
suit there will be nearly $4,000 of extra
money for distribution to5counties for
road purposes. 1t appears that the
heads Of the state departments are
not asleep.
Probably the first alfalfa seed
threshed in North Dakota east of the
Missouri was threshed this week by
the Doughty Bros, q. M. and w. HI.
Doughty, at their farm near Ypsi-
lanti, marking a distinct step In the
production OF alfalfa in this vicinity,
as home grown therefore super
ior, acclimated seed will be obtain
ed. The yield from two acres was
threshed, running about three bush
els to the acre. AS the thresher does
er does not clean the seed 1t must
later be run through a tanning mill
when about six bushels Of fine, home
grown alfalfa seed will be obtained.
This seed, about $50 pounds, Will
be sufficient to seed seyenty-two acres
next year. The seed is worth 20 cents
per pound, and ait this rate Of yield
land from three to- four bushels is
would be about $50 for the seed.
with no cost except for cutting and
threshing, as the seed came from a.
! 3-year-old alfalfa field