The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-10

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stad. eight miles north of Enderlin
was destroyed by fire.
The Lutheran Free church has
bought ground for a new cemetery
near Cottonwood Lake.
The population of Rock Island town
ship in Williams county was found to
be 204 at a recent census.
Farmers in all sections of the state
continue to purchase thoroughbred
live stock in large quantities.
Judge Nehemiah Davis has closed
up some pool halls at Minot and they
will stay closed for a time at least.
A mad bull trampled and gored a
little blind boy, Michael Kilwein, in a
fearful amer near New England.
The engine Of G. N. train No. 2
went off a switch while travelling slow
lly at Minot. No damage was done.
The Minot Optic says there will be
a big decrease in wheat acreage in the
northwest part of the state this year.
A large number of Greeks have ar
rived at Grano and have been placed
at work in the gravel pit here by the
500.
The Leeds News comments on the
fact that the work of the North Da-
kota Enforcement league is beginning
to tell.
Fred Rische. who lives near Het-
finger, lost a granary containing a lot
Of grain, some haystacks and other
property by fire.
The 500 railway is digging a large
well at ComstoCk where they will put
up a water tank and expect to water
| all trains there.
Miss Lulu Satterlund, manager of
The Washburn Leader, who is in Cal
ifornia, writes that she is having a
delightful vacation.
The death of DR.. Knowlton of Fargo
college has occasioned deep regret
throughout state educational circles
where he was widely known.
Atty. Aubrey Lawrence of Fargo has
been retained to assist in the prescott
ton of w. T, Anderson, accused Of
the murder of Cashier Funk at Wash
burn.
Rev. Edwin A. Clattenberg Of Devils
Lake. who has been pastor of the
Church of the Advent there for a num-
Der of years, has resigned and will go
to Philadelphia.
Portland Republican: If something
isn't done soon about that commercial
club we threaten to publish an obitu-
airy fully explaining it's death and
burial. Get busy!
August Huord, who carried mail in
the Red river valley in the real pio-
neer days from Fort Garry to Fort
Abercrombie, recently paid a visit to
Pembina and renewed old acquaint-
arlceS.
DR.. J. G.. Moore of Grand Forks is
confined to his home with a bad case
Of poisoning, which resulted from the
twig of a tree breaking and scratching
his face. The infection spread rapidly,
but is not believed to be serious.
The Grand Forks Times says: 1.-THE
State Medical society will come to
Grand Forks in 1919 There are some
rabid Fargo, partisans who claim, hat
Grand Forks is behind the times but
no one believed they would admit it.
Construction Engineers Taft and
Watkins Of the Great Northern made
q our of inspection over the new
Great Northern line down the Little
Missouri in Mckenzie county. Engi-
neer Taft is a distant relative of form
err President Taft.
DR.. J. M. Dodson, dean of the Rush
Medical college Of Chicago, took a rap
at kissing in his address at Minot be-
fore the State Medical society. He
said that kissing young children was
especially to be condemned n kiss
ing in general vas a prolific means of
spreading disease. .
Joseph Hanback, of Coleharbor, NJ
D., is the first to be sentenced under
the new law for violation of the pro-
hibition law. He was handed a sem
tence of six months in the penitenti-
ary.- the minimum sentence for boot
Logging or plugging under the law as
1t exists at the present time. It is
quite likely that there will be less of
the practice as this law becomes more
generally understood.
A Ford auto going at high speed at
Portland had a narrow escape from
collision with a railway gasoline
speeder driven by Section Foreman J.
F. Rooney. Neither driver saw the.
other and spectators. stopped SPELL
| bound but when about twenty feet
away the Ford man saw the danger,
damned on his emergency brake and
the car stopped a foot from the rail-
road track. just as the speeder
WINGED by.
There is an ordinance in La Moure
which provides that no teams shall BID
hitched upon the main street of that
city. The Echo offers the suggestion,
considering the number of autos there
and the narrow streets. that the ordi-
nance should be made to apply to ma.
chimes also, as, with a line Of them on
each side Of the street, 1T is impossi-
do much more than wend it's way
through. The ordinances should be
brought up to- date to conform to the
new conditions