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

T~Wenty-elght years & Inc EN-
mons County Record was printed in
a shack or a pre-emptlon claim.
w. A. Curren Of Valley City will
build the new ward building for the
| asylum for the insane at Jamestown
at a cost of $99,4S0. '..
The new Methodist church building
at jamestown will cost $4,000. Heat
ing plant, interior furnishings and dec
orations will cost extra.
Farmers in oliver county are willing
to assist in securing the right-of-way
and establishing the proposed new
railway line, Mandan to Manning.
The yield of oats on the Leonberger
farm, near Dickinson, was thirty-f1ve
bushels to the acre and reports say
there Is some fine wheat on the same
farm.
The Dickinson Press embellished its
report Of the dedication Of the Elks
building in that city with splendidly
executed pictures of seven of the off1c-
ers of the local lodge.
H. C. Fish, curator of the State His
torical society, has returned to Bis
marck from the Kildeer mountains,
where he spent a week exploring the
old Indian battlefields.
The boys of the state reform school
at Mandan are. being given instruction
In house-building craft by being used
as assistants in the construction of the
new dormitory building.
Five casks, $50 bottles of beer. were
ordered destroyed by the county judge
at Mandan and twenty casks ordered
returned to the Northern Pacific to be
sent back to the shipper.
The band Of the state reform school
serenaded John Henry Mears, when
the record breaking globe-trotter
passed through Mandan. The band Is
one made up Of boys 10 years old.
r. X. Mckenzie, a prominent farmer.
of Cavalier, died from injuries sustain
ed while fixing his hay fork apparatus.
He owned the old Douglas farm which
is part Of the townsite of Cavalier.
The Times at Hastings says the
merchants there report this is the best
year they have ever experienced and
farmers alike say hat they have not
had as nice a stand Of grain in many
years.
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The fish which were recently planted
in Sweet Briar creek, Morton county,
are attaining a rapid growth. Game
Warden Reko was in that vicinity re-
Gently and declared that some of those
he was able to see were nearly three
and a half inches in length.
A company has been organized at
Flasher to establish a $50, 900 elevator.
1t is a local company and the elevator
is to be completed ready for occupancy
by Sept. 20. The excellence of the
crops in, that part Of the state is re-
sponsib1e for the increased number of
grain houses.
Geo. A. Holiday of Ardoch carried
off a few prizes with his hogs at the
state fair. Mr.. Holiday just had three
enteries and captured first prize for
grade Berkshire SOW and litter, second
prize for Duroc boar and fourth prize
for Duroc SOW. J. ]. Heffern, also Of
Ardoch won the eight firsts for entries
Of Duroc swine.
s. G. Baxter, northwest of Ryder,
thinks that alfalfa Is one Of the most
profitable crops that the farmer can
raise in this country. He has a fine
field that he intends to raise for seed,
dlIu Wlll pldIIL d. Larger dCISdSB nGNL
year.. He finds that 1t pays to feed al
falfa to his stock, as he gets we'll paid
for the extra cost n labor when he
disposes Of his beef cattle,
Citizens of New Leipzig, on the
south line out of Mandan, are hurrah-
ing because the we'll diggers have
struck a vein of very good water at a
depth Of seventy-two feet, the well
producing s~eventy-five gallons pei
hour. Experts say that the we'll dem
o~nstrates the existence of an artesiar
basin to furnish a permanent supply.
Rev. G. L. Wilson. formerly pastor
Of the Presbyterian church of Man.
dan, where he made a close study Of
Indians and Indian lore, was there the
latter part of last week calling on ole
friends. He was en- route to the For
Berthold reservation, where he will
study the agricultural methods of thu
old eros Ventres tribe of Indians II
the interest of the museum Of natura
history of New York city.
One of the reasons why the annua
sessions Of the Northwestern Summe
school are welcomed by the Velva citi
zens Is the fact that a number of yer,
excellent lectures are given each yea
under the direction of the school ad
mission being free in most cases. TIL
list for this year was even more in
teresting than that of the two previou
years. A rural school expert from tn
department at washington visited tn
school. ~r. ~ " ~.
The members of the faculty Of tn
new convent school, The Academy O
Mary Immaculate, to be established a
Pembina have arrived to remain per
manently. Their religious names or
as follows Directress Sister Mari
Joseph de Sacre Occur, Sister Marie d
Lourdes, Sister Marie du Saint Esprit
Sister Gertrude, Sister Marie de la Ma
tivite. They are. all from st. Bonifacs
Man, and the Rev. Mother Superior O
that convent is also on the groun
looking after arrangements temporar
lily. The school will be opened in Sep
TENDER.
Parties at Lisbon have leased, unde
proper terms, a ten acre plat of lant
upriver several miles at what we
known as the Krause place. This the
intend to devote as a legitimat
amusement park and chautauqua an
have 1t in readiness for the summe
Of 1914. 1t is almost an island cover
ed with a fine growth of native timber
and, with the art of man will make
delightful amusement park. The Ere
Press suggests IdleWild ais the nam
Of the park-a place to spend the idl
hours, and wild to describe tn
scenery in it's natural setting.
The Mandan Republican says ths
Governor Hanna made the suggestio
al the dedication OF old Fort Ric
that 1T would be advisable for a
historic sites to be dedicated an
made the property Of the state. Thi