Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-08-22
News Of tho State

80
The construction crew Of the 500
is working e Plaza.
Twelve more days and many Of the
! school bells will be ringing.
The postotiice at Gronna has been
discontinued. Mail will be sem 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 a very
practical extent. Rs.
Don Nierling of jamestown will go
with a delegation from st. Paul on.
a pilgrimage to the Panama canal.
The Fish Lake country was blessed
with COpiOus rain showers a week ago
greatly benefitting the fields and gar
dens.
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 Laos
are appreciated as they bring the PEG.
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
chinery is greater than expected.
Farmers about Forbes made an auto
trip to the big Johnson farm at Mar
ion to spend Sunday and view the
sights and methods on that monster
place.
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The people at Russell, in Botttineau
county, are making disagreeable con
ments about prices-bacon IS cents
and summer sausage at Csc a pound.
A farmer at Forbes is shipping in
several carloads of sheep which he
will range and fatten up on corn this
fall, and when they are in good shape
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 has prov
en- beyond the expectations of those
who made a careful study of the indi-
cations early in the season..
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Walsh county is not going to allow
Grand FORKS to be the whole thing
in the way of fairs and one Is being
organized to be held at Grafton next
year, and it is to be a close second to
a state fair, SO the prompters say.
Tuesday a daily freight was install
ed on the Nome branch and will prob
ably be maintained until late in the
fall, as it was last year. The freight
service will be further improved by
running the trains directly through
to n; D}illworth. ~.
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.,
yielued l,1oO bushels, or nearly 20
bushels to the acre. Other farmers
are reporting 1G bushels to the acre
as a general average. .l,yan
% " o.
At Rogers a number of strangers
appeared who did not seem very anx.
ious to work, but made themselves
busy agitating high prices for labor
and e~ndeavoring to create trouble OF
different kinds. A heavyweight
Waterman and a few determined citi.
zens made short work of the fellows
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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 wall
paper pasted over the %stovepipe hole
and throwing open all the doors.
Though badly frightened, the occl-
pants Of the house escaped injury.
The linemen of the Northwestern Tel
ephone company reports much dam
age to country lines.
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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 | per cent Of the total popula-
ton Of the state, which has more
than 100000 inhabitants. The negro
population of the state %penitentiary is
/ IN n $500. - X - ----Et ~