The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-08
City i'm Brief

The complete shop, engraving, print
tng' blank book. knight Printing Co.
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Engraved and embossed WORK Of
every description. knight Printing Co.
-Advt.
Patronage the only l~ithographing
plant in North Dakota. Operated by
walker Bros. & Hardy. -Advt.
Steamship tickets to all foreign
ports. Wheelock Insurance agency
eo2 Front street, phone 1006.-Advt.
There will be more automobiles his
year than ever before. More accidents
will happen. Do you know Carpenter?
-Advt.
Men for work on lawns and odd jobs
OF all kinds. Call at Glad Tidings
mission, 116 Front street OF phone
35S-L. Advt.
Public ste~nographer. Phone 112.
Dispositions, specifications, CORE
spondence, reports, etc. 101 Broad
way.-Advt.
Lost-Either in Fargo or M%oorhead,
Sunday, while automobiling, mink fur
collar. Return to 1920 Fifth street
north for reward.-Advt.
If you can't find the labor saving de-
vice You want at Walker Bros. &
Hardy's stationery department., it
hasn't been invented.-Advt.
Geo. NJ. Boswell, superintendent of
travellers for the Acme Elevator Co,
whose headquarters are at Tower City,
was greeting his friends in the city
yesterday and reports business as
excellent.
500 Front street will be bargain head
quarters for those who want the best
clothing Saturday when Murphy &
Young open their sale Of the bankrupt
stock Of II. A. Jackson & Co. Don't
miss this sale.-AdVt.
Murphy & Young have received a
large amount of clothing and added it
to the stock they purchased at the
Jackson bankrupt sale and they will
open a big clearing sale Saturday at
5O2 Front street.-Advt.
The John S%chlanser Co.. have secur-
ed the contract for general repairs on
the local federal building. T. M. Ingle
has the contract for repainting the
screens. Wright & Sons, Of Moor
head have the contract for the new
awnings.
Harry O'Neil will begin the work in
a day or two of the excavation for the
new three story brick and stone
building that will be erected on First
avenue north, the upper stories to be
used by the Independent Telephone
Go, which will have the building
erected to meet the requirements of
the company.
c.. 0. Smith, and Mr.. and Mrs. F. A.
Bristol and daughter of this city left
this afternoon for Chicago, for a visit
and from there the entire party will go
to Richmond, Va. where the two men
It'll -AL~-l -
convention which begins next Tues
day and will last the balance Of the
week.
The new council of the United Com
mercial Travellers will be organized at
Fergus Falls, Mimi, Saturday even
ing and among those who will attend
from here will be William L. Grasse,
of this city who has been asked to
act as grand page in the ceremonies.
He holds that position in the grand
council.
Lulu Hall. a colored woman who was
charged before the police court yes
terday with soliciting on the streets
of Fargo. was a%djudged guilty and
upon sentence she paid a fine of S. n
was warned to behave herself in the
future. The man who had been ar
rested at the same time was held as a
| Witness anu was "ulSCIdTS6u.
In order. to string the telephone
wires over the proposed new O'Neil
building that is to be erected on First
avenue north just in the rear of the
ScandinaVian-American bank, the
Northwestern Telephone Co. has been
engaged for a day or two. in erecting
mammoth poles on that street, and in
a day or w will be stringing the
wires.
Secretary Hardy of the commercial
club is getting out circular letters to
all of the organizations affiliated with
the commercial club, as we'll as all Sc
cret societies in the city asking them
to participate in the great parade Of
June Z. which commemorate the
twentieth anniversary of the great
Fargo fire, and it is hoped that all will
respond.
Street Commissioner Johnson. with
in the past two weeks has hauled on
to the improvements on Seventh street
south over 700 loads of dirt for the
purpose of filling up the street. Much
of this came from the debris caused by
the tearing down of the old county
Jail. It is hoped that before many
weeks it will be possible to lay a side
walk on this th~oroughfare.
This evening at s o'clock at the hall
of the G. A. r. in the Carnegie library
building there will be a meeting Of he
Sons Of Veterans of the civil war and
it is hoped that there will be a very
large attendance, for the idea is to or
ganize a large ann of the Sons of
Veterans for Fargo, and it is hoped to
have one of the best camps in the
northwest. All son of veterans are
earnestly asked to be present at this
meeting.
President Lewis of the North Dako-
ia Automobile club and Secretary
Richardson are of the opinion that
there will be a large attendance at the
state convention which takes place in
the commercial club next Saturday,
for they have been receiving man in
quiries concerning the business to
come up. There will be several towns
make application for membership and
a good deal of business is expected to
come. up.
Tomorrow evening at $50 at the. as
ISOLATION building the. annual banquet
of the members of the Y. M. G. A. will
take place, Int at the sane time the
annual meeting of the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
be on when the reports of the different
officers and committees will be set be-
fore the members in printed form. il
is expected that there will be a fine
dinner, as fwell@as some fine addresses
. Fl. r. Emery, president of the y. M.
. A, will be the presiding officer.
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