The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-11
EAST SIDE NOTES

Elk River Star News: The potat,
market opened yesterday with Messrs
Thorpe. Elmer, Hamlet and Bauer.
buying. There was no rush and only s
few loads were marketed, the price
ranging from 35 to 40 cents. Growers
are very busy with farm work at this
time and will not neglect this work tt
maui many potatoes at those prices.
City Attorney jerks of st. CLOUD
was n of the ~originators OF the
movement to organize a state munich
pal league, the organization of which
will be perfected at a meeting of city
officers Of the state to be held at Min
neapolis Aug. 81. Moorhead to be rep
resented by Mayor Beck. Fred G
Pierce, the head of the state league In
Iowa. will be one of the speakers.
Louis Olson has returned from an
outing with his family at Leon lake.
For the benefit of one Of their chill
dren, Mr.. and Mrs, P. H. Peterson and
FAMILY expect to leave in a short time
for California, where Mrs. Peterson
and the children will spend the com
ing year. AS now planned they will
make their home at San Diego and the
children will enter the schools of that
city, Mr. Peterson will return to
Moorhead after he has seen the family
nicely settled in San Diego.
Brainerd Tribune: Certificates of
incorporation are being sent out to all
Minnesota Woodmen who wish to Join
the new order to be called the North
western Plainsmen. Fifty thousand
members will be needed to incorporate.
Contractor Merritt is pushing along
the alterations and improvements
which the board of education have or
0HTP6 tn he M nc ~ thn TaY4n,T 1,,,tI5
ing and the Second ward school. In
the latter q permanent stairway to the
second floor Is being installed and a
room is being finished for the use Of
the library. In the Central buildins a
large room Is being arranged for the
use of the department Of domestic
science.
William Middaugh is busy taking a
census of the school children of Moor
head,
GAINESVILLE Headlight: The. Head
light does not desire to exaggerate but
we do "a to make mention this week
that the crops in the vicinity of
GAINESVILLE never looked so promising
as they do right now. What harvest
ing has been done is very satisfactory
n what grain remains to be cut has
an excellent stand n color. Potatoes
are making a great showing and corn
u not be better. GAINESVILLE and
Vlcln1ty with mention also being made
or Clay and Wilkin counties at large,
are fortunate in having such a big 1918
crop.
Miss Larson of Fargo is visiting
Miss Lucy McGrath at Pelican Lake.
The GAINESVILLE Commercial club has
appointed A. E. Nelson of that city as
chairman of a committee Of three to
solicit inc for the GAINESVILLE Moor
mead highway. Three hundred dollars
is expected to be raised. The matter
was presented to the local club by
Leslie Welter and Cashier Costain of
Moorhead.
A caller at the office Of the register
OF deeds today was Cashier Stiening
OF the First State bank Of FELTON,. Mr..
Stlen1ng says he made the trip in an
auto with Otto Dahl and it was made
IN n hour and fifteen minutes. No
wet roads were encountered until the
city limits Of Moorhead were reached.
They saw numbers Of farmers in the
fields cutting wheat. There was only
a sprinkle of rain at FELTON, yesterday.
Those who made auto trips yester-
day, amid more or less difficulty, say
that there was rain nearly all day at
Hawley. Lake Park and Cormorant.
County Attorney Dosland returned
from Culbertson. Mont, yesterday. Mr..
Dosland found his desk piled high with
correspondence. but today he and his
stenographer made short work of it.
Tonight Mr.. Dosland leaves for Duluth,
TO attend a meeting Of the state nor
NAL board n after the meeting there
the members will proceed to Bemidji
to join the site committee for the pro-
posed new normal school in that city
for a c~onferenceNas to further proceed
ure. An appropriation for the new
will be requested at the coming
special meeting Of the legislature in
October.
Miss Lund, stenographer in the office
or Attorney Sharp, has returned from
vacation, spent at Minneapolis.
Visitors to Comstock say that there
reported that threshing operations
will be general in the townships of
Holy Gross and Kurtz in a day or two
and good reports are expected.
Some fine samples of the Irish Cob
bier potato, from the Welter farm. are
exhibition at the Moorhead National
bank. The seed was planted May 20.
and the spuds were dug this morning.
good size and clean as a whistle.
The Christian Endeavor society OF
the Presbyterian church will have
of the services mex Sunday
evening Of which a special announce
ment will be made in the course of a
few days, of which all interested are
asked to make a careful note.
With warmer weather tonight and
tomorrow the local weather station
today promised more light rain show
ers. Yesterday there was IA of an
inch of precipitation, the maximum
temperature being SO degrees, with
dark and cloudy conditions all day.
Manager and Mrs. Hunt of the Hotel
Comstock have returned from the
lakes where they a been resting
for two weeks.
Among the arrivals at the Comstock
We're e. B. Barrett of Browns Valley,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter e. Baker of Nc.
Lean, III. John McGrath of Barnes
vile, O.. M. Leonard of Fergus Falls,
a. L. Felde and Atty. N. B. Hanson of
The annual meeting of the Western
Fruit Jobbers' association will be held
at Kansas City, Jan. % to 80 next. The
Welter house of this city and the firm
of Vidger & Lewis of Fargo are mem
bers from this section and will attend.
The directors of the association have
protested against a proposed duty on
bananas.