The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-03

was sold to Ashley men.
Mrs. Joseph Watson. a pioneer OF
the Milton district passed away
? The Sarles school board will build
an addition to the school building.
The Hannaford Enterprise says a
farmer with six cows should have a
silo.
Bachelor and benedict teams have
been organized in many North Dakota
towns.
H%annaford citizens have been i'm
proving their property and he town
by planting trees.
Torger Helgeson of Spring Valley
lost a team Of horses in a fire which
destroyed his barn.
Cottonwood Lake school district
voted unanimously in favor of voting
bonds to build a new school,.
The German American Of Golden
Valley thinks that place Is the logical
point for a consolidated school.
Hundreds of gallons of paint are be-
ing used to brighten things up
throughout North Dakota these days.
The county auditor Of Mcintosh
county gives notice that he will not
accept gopher tails for bounty sent
by parcel post.
The Washburn Leader says that
weather conditions have never been
better for the planting of a crop than
this spring.
Seeding is so far advanced in Will
liams county that the farmers were
hoping for a good rain to start the
grain growing.
George Tanberg had his hands badly
burned while. starting his gasoline
stove while his hands were saturated
with the liquid.
Flax threshed after laying in the
| shock all winter near Lawton Is turn
in out ten to fifteen bushels to the
acre and good grain and oats is going
fifty bushels.
A lot Of booze, seized in a raid at
iceland. was taken back to that town
from Ashley and publicly destroyed,
which would seem to be adding insult
to injury to the dry ~Zeelanders.
L.. L. Peace of Egeland was knocked
down by his team when he went to
unite them, and the team tramped on
him, dragged the buggy over him and
ran away. He was not badly injured.
A prairie fire started near the Bal
liett farm nea Schafer and for a time
threatened to sweep the country and
do immense damage. Seven farmers
each with a gang pillow finally headed
it off.
The Langdon high school has plan
ned a county fair to be pulled off
in the gymnasium, to raise money |
with which to send the track team
to the athletic meets at Fargo and
Grand Forks.
Hugh Myers wagon and horse, lost
through the ice of the Missouri river,
near Charlson, were found on a sand |
bar. about a mile below where they |
disappeared. The wagon was in fair
ly good shape.
An action brought by the govern
ment in an attempt to cancel the
homestead entry of Ed Larson near
Ashley, and which caused quite a
sensation and involved the govern
ment in a lot Of expense has failed
and Larson will keep his land.
Thomas Huer of Iona was arrested
last fall OF a charge Of bOotlegging
and forfeited at $275 cash bond by
skipping out. A short time he
went back to that vicinity and was
promptly re-arrested. He is now out
his cash and faces a prison term.
The McHenry Tribune makes the
following pertinent comment: Rais-
ing blooded cattle in North Dakota
might have been a long time coming, |
one thing sure, it has come to
stay, and the farmers who are back
ward about getting in line are out just
much real money.
Woodwork Rustler: A fair little |
arrived in Woodwork last
Monday morning to assist in knocking
knockers. Mrs. Hammer and little
daughter are reported as doing nicely
and Rev. Ira e. says that she will be
appointed cashier of the dining room
at the camp meetings at Beulah park,
Jamestown, in June
North Dakota baseball teams are
beginning to get real chesty and are
strutting around with chips on their
shoulders. Some of them will make a
like hubby makes when he at
to sneak in at 3 a. m. and is
in the act by wiley, before
many moons, while others will be
CHESTER than ever.
Sixteen NorWegians who have made
fortunes in North Dakota in the twen-
ty-fiVe years just passed will visit
their fatherland nex month. They
will travel from Minneapolis to New
York city in a private car and will
sail on May s. The party will be
headed by Mr.. and Mrs. julius
of Minot.
Shields Enterprise. Monday was
pay day for the Indians of Porcupine
500 being distributed there at the rate !.
Of $12 per capita. However, a mum
Der of the Indians of his district who
south of Shields were not pres
ent, preferring to go to the agency
for their money. .z<%
Professor Waldron of the Dickinson
sub station, in a recent speech said:
1T is only the truth to say that as
long as grain growing is SO exclusive,
North Dakota can not expect to be-
come a, wealthy state. If we are sat
lsfied to sell our raw products, such as
he grains, we must be content to see
outsiders manufacture such products
at a profit greater than comes to the
grower"
Shields Enterprise: There has
paid to the county treasurer
at this time more tax money {
han ever before in the history of the {
There is a reason; in the first s
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