The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-28

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3. H. Nelson of st. Thomas has in,
vented a new shockloader and hai
been given a patent.
The postofice at Stone, a point OF
the Flasher road, will be discontinued
after next Thursday.
Rurnors have been heard at Mandar
that steel will not be laid on the Knife
river branch this year.
The editor Of The News at Mandan
does not seem to take kindly to Con-
tractor James Kennedy.
Owing to the illness of Judge Coffey
the term of court for Wells county has
been Indefinitely postponed.
Is a widow entitled to $500 or ST. 20
eemptions? The question Is before the
district court of Walsh county.
Civic league luncheons are among
the amenities commanding the atten-
ton of the ladies of Park River.
Following the example of other cities
the commercial club of Grafton has in
augurated a good roads" campaign.
The fire department at Lakota we'll
fills its mission; 1t prevents small
blazes from growing into destructive
fires.
Hustlers at Wimbledon have arrang-
ed for a series of five weekly open air
concerts by the crack band of that
city.
Preliminaries for the establishment
of an electric light plant and conse-
quent white way enterprise at Lisbon
have been settled.
An experienced Iowa farmer has ac-
CURED n of the big farms near La
kota n the crop off $50 acres is in
Guided in the deal.
The churches at Cavalier combine
on Sunday evenings and hold their
services in the city park-and the con-
gregations are larger.
The paper at Hamilton knows how
to play up its county fair matter to
the very best advantage and it ought
to draw a big crowd.
Lisbon hopes to be selected as the
site for the proposed Odd Fellows
home which Is proposed to be estab-
lished in North Dakota.
Experienced teachers with UNIVERSE
ty and normal school diplomas have
been selected by the school board al
Neville for the next school e
T. s. Underhill, former railroad COM
missioner, of Antelope, estimates the
yield this year for Stark county of
twelve to fifteen bushels to the acre,
While an autoist raj in a PROSTATE
position fixing his machine, at York, a
big dog grabbed him by the leg and
tor.
The Farmers Elevator Co, Buttz-
vile. handled 140, 900 bushels of grain
net. declared a dividend of 40 per cent
and placed 20 per cent in the surplus
fund.
To facilitate the handling of his
grain, grinding feed, ETC., a farmer al
Cathay has erected an elevator gran
airy equipped with a six horsepower
engine.
1t is pathetic to read the remarks o,
some Of the country editors when a
baseball game has been stopped by the
rain-what a catastrophe this and that
battery missed.
The business tributary to Fryburg is
growing to such an extent that two
young business men of Dickinson feel
warranted in establishing another gen
eral store in that thrifty village.
Old settlers at Oakdale tributary to
Dickinson, and what is now Dunn
county. will have their annual picnic
Aug. 16 and naturally there will be a
barbecue for the real pioneers of the
COW counties.
The Monitor at Lidgerwood philoso-
phizes on the holding Of state fairs In
North Dakota before harvest and ar
cues that several counties have dem
onstrated that September fairs are
more successful.
Dickinson business men are frovn-
ing on travelling carnival ~aggregations
after some recent experiences and they
say that they are not magnets for bus
mess from the country-especially i'm
mediately before harvest.
The influx of harvest hands, many
Of them itinerants who will not be
needed, has awakened country author
tiles over the state to the necessity OF
employing night watchmen to assist in
the protection Of the business men.
SGCT6Lary Oh interior Lane was una
bile to make his promised visit to VIII.
liston, but he will consider carefully
the petition Of water users on his re.
turn to Washington and inform him.
self on all Of the conditions.
There was much disappointment
over the fact that Elizabeth Bacon
Custer, widow of the famous Indiar
fighter who lost his life on the Little
Big Horn in 1875, refused to come TO,
the dedication of Fort Rice yesterday.
Being wholly incapacitated from
caring for himself with his afflictior
Of paralysis, Frank Hanson, the pio.
|neer travelling man Of Grand Forks
has been permanently provided with
comfortable quarters in the Elks' home
at Bedford City, Va.
To stimulate interest In the coop.
erative creamery at Edinbure the pro.
motors arranged for a big picnic. &
feature Of which was a parade Of dairy
cows decorated with signs and ban.
ners and led with a bevy Of pretty
milk maids with their pals and stools
Inspiring addresses were made.
The reports of the school census 70,
Stark, county show a marked increase
over those of last year, being 4,138 Ii
1912 and 4,440 In 1913. OF the latte,
there are 2,35S boys and 2,0S2 girls
THE school census Of Dickinson show
a slight decrease this year., being I,23l
while last year the number was 1857.
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