The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-25

Chicken hunting is reported to be
good in stutsinan county,
There vas a snowstorm in the
northern part of the state.
Corn harvesting machinery is in big
demand in North Dakota this fall.
The Max Enterprise is publishing a
pamphlet boosting that town and sur
rounding country.
The proposal to make good farmers
of the prisoners in the North Dakota
pen has attracted wide attention.
The annual fall reunion of the Grand
Forks consistory of Scottish Rite
Masons will be held, Nov. IL to Ia.
A fine new Lutheran Synod church
Is being built at Bergen, N. D.,
through the efforts of Rev. A. M. Bus
lee.
Bert Hayes of Streeter got mixed
up in a threshing machine belt and
had his nose broken, his arms hurt
n he was otherwise bruised.
The people Of Brooklyn township,
Williams county, have erected a
modern consolidated school building,
which will, when completed, be up to
date in every detail.
While working on the euler Bros
threshing rig west of New Rockford,
Frank Carlson stood too close to the
heels of an unruly broncho, with the
result that when the animal let Loose
with his heels Carlson was struck in
trent of the left ear and a gasn. cut
from the cheek bone ta1a poin. back
Of the eur. Fl
Farmers near Hartland are very
much exercised over the possibility
that the disappearance of a team Of
horses from a t%hreshing rig belong
ing to Geo. Johnson may be due to
the operations Of a gang of horse
thieves that has been rustling across
the International line from Williams
n Divide counties.
Many new building contracts are
being made this month in North Da-
kota, the jobs to be concluded during
the fall months and early winter.
Generally satisfactory crop conditions
have resulted in the active building
season being enjoyed by the state,
which is quite remarkable for this
period Of the year.. usually considered
slow. .
Some one entered the Dallman poll
hall at Drake and carried away about
$50 worth of cigars. Marshall Koehler,
who is working on the case, believes
he has 6. clue hat will result in the
capture Of the guilty parties. Entrance
to the building Was gained through
a side window. The building has been
closed for some time under an injunc-
ton. s.. a.. 49,.
The Portal International puts the VT.
tai question up this way: Pay that
subscription to The International. We
must buy oil and gasoline to run the
paper and the dealers kick like the
deuce if we don't pay them. OF course
he ink is thrown in free but we must
charge q little for oil and gasoline.
Lest you forget-our subscription Is
$3.50 a year-a little less than 8 cents
per paper. " ~ tH
Warwick Sentinel: Four thousand
seven hundred sheep were unloaded
here yesterday and were put to pas
ture by the owners prior to being ship
ped back to Montana. The large num-
Der just filled eighteen cars and we
are under the impression that this was
one OF the largest shipments kof sheep
eve unloaded in this particular part
Of North Dakota or for that matter
anywhere in the state. s
A fly alighted on the nose Of Claude
Rector, q young man employed in d
Garreston, S. D.. barber shop, last
evening, while Rector was shaving
himself. Remembering the injunction,
Swat the fly" the man struck sharp
ly at the insect with the hand in which
he held his razor. The fly buzzed away.
Other BARRIERS rushed to stay the flow
of blood from Rector's neck where the
razor had sunk close to the jugular
vein. Prompt surgical attention SAY
ed his life.
Bennie Carroll, IL Years, today is m
a hospital at Hetting.r suffering from
a wound caused by a bullet that pene-
trated his abdomen ant rlrctured his
int"stines. The bullet that lodged III
the boys body first passed through the
body of a dog, instantly killing that
animal. Leonard Carroll. an older
brother, had taken a rifle into the
dog just as Bonnie came out Of the
house. The bullet after passing
through the body of the dog struck a
stone. and, being DETECTED about
thirty degrees from its course, hit the
boy in the abdomen,
The editor of The Carpio News
hands out the following shot pack
age" Ye editor has been Informed
that a certain business man has re-
marked that the reason why we were
boosting to make the harvest festival
a success was for the sake of the extra
advertising we would realize. Ac-
knowledging, for sake of argument,
that he may be right, vet how much
better to have those aspirations and
boost than to sit on our launches and
knock everything that is of interest to
and Of possible betterment for town
and community, like our worthy (?)
critic is subject of doing?
Balfour Messenger. We believe that
Balfour will in the near future be one
Of the beauty spots of North Dakota
We have the soil for raising trees, bet
ter soil than you generally find in the
towns throughout the state. OF course
our town Is a little low and for this
reason our cement walks have been
badly cracked and peeled by the freez-
Ing OF excess moisture, but We can
turn this overplus of moisture to a
GOD use by raising trees such as few
towns can, raise and thus make our
little city a veritable park and gar
den. Next year. liz anybody raises a
weed patch in Balfour, let us not be
slow to give him to understand that
this city is ashamed of him. Plan right
now to plant all you can of trees,
shrubbery and flowers next year.
Inkster Enterprise: Someone has
we'll said that a. town unlike a large