The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-01

"dc VIGIL dhtGLuSu.
A good grade of wheat is being
marketed at Kindred.
An important duty Is the selection
Of seed corn for next year.
No jury will be called for the fall
term of. the district u at Bis
marck.
Several farmers, near Hankinson,
had wheat yields OF twenty bushels
to the acre.
DR.. Charles H. Hart, veterinarian,
has selected Hankinson for a location
and will open a hospital.
Judge Burke and family, who spent
the summer at the lakes, at Detroit,
Mimi, have returned to Bismarck.
On the Ulmer farm at Fullerton
there are 500 acres under cultivation
and the corn promises early maturity
and a big yield.
Nebraska owners of farm interests
In Dickey county are perfectly salts
fed with their North Dakota invest
ments this year.
Steele has been laid for about
twenty miles on the new Veblin-Fair-
mount road, is the report OF The
Great Bend Examiner.
The state papers contain attractive
reading notices telling Of the opening
Of the state normal and industrial
school at Glendale.
A petition is being circulated at
Dickinson asking the city council to
fix a date for the people to vote on a
commission form Of government.
The dates of the Golden Valley
county fair have been fixed for Sept.
1926. J. P. Reeve, the veteran race
starter, has been elected secretary.
The homeseekers excursions to the
exposition at Bismarck will learn of
one potent fact-North Dakota Is fast
becoming a corn raising state, grow
ing corn is no longer an experiment.
A facetious exchange says, Wibaux
has a Fox on it's ball team, Dickinson
has a Wolf hotel, a town up north has
a Lamb in the real estate business,
and now Beach is to have a Bear for
postmaster.
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John P. Jungers of Regent has taken
an option for twenty days Of c. G.
Mead for an elevator and -four mill
site at New England. The location is
just south of the Milwaukee railroad
and near The Herald office.
The Sentinel at Warwick says:
Chas. Scroggs is here from Iowa look
ing after threshing interests. He has
q hnn fo rSoo r1o. -rr;1 ~ l. L~15
ing 1t at $50 ar acre. It's worth it on
accoun of the fact that great alfalfa
and cattle country.
To lose a roll Of $3.50 in currency,
the roll picked up by three hoboes and
divided equally, one part buried, the
other two carrying their share of the
booty in their pockets, shoes, and
underwear, the three boes captured
and the money recovered, was the ex-
perience of Leonard Schaffer, a
pioneer farmer of Hankinson.
The city Of Cakes has had a quiet
season on the outside at least from
troubles with laborers going in there.
1t is not known surely whether it is
the better class of workmen that has
happened to come along this way or
because Of the extra care and vigil
II VI lLS Guy OFFICIALS IN OOhlIR
after the welfare of the city, but it
Is the case nevertheless.
Throw not the bottle into the road
a No matter whether it be a beer
or a catsup bottle. beware Their has
been on the books for some time a
state law providing a heavy fine for
throwing bottles about the highways.
Probably ignorant Of that fact, be-
the law never has been enforced
to any extent, persons have tossed
their bottles Unfortunately over city
and country roads.
The Journal says it is a surprise to
most visitors and to many of the old
settlers to see fine apples and cherries
and other fruit that is grown in the
city of Cakes. 1t is only another fact
OF evidence that good fruit can Oe
raised here. One thing needed is to
plant good wind breaks of willows and
other hardy trees. This country can
be made to blossom like the rose in a
few years if the people will give at
tention to the planting Of good groves
and wind breaks.
M~tnneWaukan and other friends Of
B. D. Townsend, a former attorney Of
Devils Lake, now assistant United
States attorney general, will be inter-
ested in hearing of a recent accident
which he was in near Portland, Ore.
With a party Of friends Mr.. Town
send was returning in a machine to
Portland from a business visit in one
of the suburbs. The chauffeur was
driving the high power motor car at a
lively rate when the car suddenly be-
came unmanageable, running into a
telephone pole, instantly killing the
driver. Townsend was thrown fifty
feet but escaped with a few bruises.
His companions were unhurt.
Woman Fought a Combine.