The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-20
North Dakota
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Il Kernels
Beach streets were improved.
The 500 Is drilling a. well at Max.
Garrison plants to rebuild at once.
st. John has a new commercial club.
Dunn county wants an agricultural
high school.
w. c. Listikow, a prominent miller
at Grafton, died at Chicago following
, a surgical operation.
The drinking water used in the
school at Elgin has been tested and
found safe for all purposes.
Increased city water pressure burst
the mains at Jamestown and many
north side residences were flooded.
During the roundup this fall nearly
100 stray animals were found or the
Standing Rock reservation and taken
to Fort Yates where the owners may
claim them.
Mat La Mar. who did some effective
work for the Enforcement league in
Kenmare this fall, Is in Jail in Minot
on q drunkenness charge.
The F1axton Times says it is mighty
hard to obey the TWO commandments:
thou shalt not lie" and DO unto
others al they do unto you"
Adolph Schlender OF Hebron lost his
barn with about 1900 bushels of wheat
and 1900 bushels of oats by fire which
was started by a gasoline explosion.
Attorney General Miller has ap-
pointed s. c. Hebron, Dickinson, as
Sistant attorney general. He served
as assistant attorney general till last
June. when he resigned after a on
troversy following the refusal of the
legislature to max an appropriation
to cover his salary.
A small fire, which might have prov
en- serious, was extinguished by quick
action at the home of Ed King at
Donnybrook. A table lamp was tipped
owe by the children and the window
curtains caught fire. The fire alarm
was sent in but before many could
reach the place the lamp had been
thrown out doors and the fire ex-
tlnguished.
The little 6~-year-old boy of Mr.. and
) Mrs. Peter Mcintosh whose home is
/ on the townline between Hannah and
Sarles met with a very distressing &C.
cident. Mrs. Mcintosh had set a dish
Of boiling grease outside to cool when
: the lad wanting to find out what was
in it pulled over the vessel, splitting
the entire contents over his body. He
is badly burned and blistered about
the hands and breast.
The supreme court of North Dako-
Ia has handed down a decision which
is a Tictory"for Stanley in the famous
Palermo-Stanley controversy for the
county seat Of Mountrail county. The
decision sustains the recent order OF
8 Judge Fisk diSsolving the injunction
restraining h county board and the
contractor from proceeding with the
3 construction Of a $50, 900 courthouse at
. Stanley,
August Idler, a prosperous farmer
living a few miles south of Rhame
ichurned eight gallons of cream and fol-
f the butter from the same he received
1 $40 or Ct IL cents per gallon fol
. his cream. He brought five gallons
e of the same kind Of cream to the Bow,
6 man creamery. Where he received 81
- cents per pound for his cream, net.
= ting him SAP, or 50 IL cents pei
e gallon, a difference in favor Of the
e creamery Of FL cents per gallon. Mr.
e Idler is now a regular patron Of the
creamery and a y that he will lei
n George do the churning after this.
o The jury in the Thompson-Luce cal
y case at Ashley awarded a verdict o!
e $25 and interest from AUG. 4, 1911 tt
t Alex Thompson, deciding that he wal
entitled to one Of the calves but d
which n they were not certain. Thi:
case is almost as famous as the Suits
man county calf case, although no
!, quite SO costly. The taking of testi'
= mony lasted from Friday noon t.
Il Saturday evening. The verdict wa,
- returned in an hour after being sub
- mitted, thus finishing a case that wa
expected to last for some time. TIL
two men each claimed a fve-months,
C old calf and a yearling heifer.
. J. G. Reitsch has made arrange
/ ments with the state public librar.
y commission whereby the farmers 0
the Darlington vicinity will have tn,
benefits Of the farmers travelling Ii
brary., He has received a consignment
= Of fifteen volumes, and these volumes
q are now at the service of those inter
ested in agriculture. The books MI
Reitsch now has are set No. S. Thi
y set is n especially adapted to tn
needs Of farmers Of that section. TIL
subjects are all live ones and ar
treated by acknowledged authorities
: These books are at Darlington for use
and the library will be kept there bu
= three months, when it will go to som
!, other point. The books can be takel
home by the farmers without any cos
to them whatever, and while Their
just as many farmers as possibl
% should make use of them.
At the Joe Fisher home southeas
Of Mohall, five persons came neal be
ing asphyxiated with coal gas. M
Fisher was the first to awaken an
h. discover their precarious condition
l. Hardly able to raise himself and in j..
e sem~i-conscious condition he manage
Is to crawl to the door and open it to ad
~ NIT ventilation, when he fell to tn
It floor and remained in the open door
TO way some time before regaining hi
}g senses. When he aWoke Mrs. Fishe
., who was sleeping with him in til
te am room with the stove that gay
a" off the deadly gas, was hard to arous
'P and for several hours after bein