The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-09
North Dakota
Kernels

DlTIHuay lasL week.
Grand Forks Is again talking MUM
cipal slaughterhouse.
The Woodlawn hotel at Steele is
being improved and enlarged.
The slot machines have received
the death notice at Edinburgh.
President Mcvey of the U. talked
at Leeds on The Making of a Town.
The Drake News mourns over the
remains Of the Drake Commercial
club.
UP by the roots by a runaway team at
BufOrd.
Fred Ruehl is building a store at
Funston, a new town northwest of
Anamoose.
Simond D.. Trent, a G. A. r. veteran
aged "A, died at his farm home near
Bottineau.
Will Johnson was kicked on the
knee by a horse at Hastings and was
badly injured.
Many of the commercial clubs Of the
state ave recently been revived and
elected new officers.
The Pembina Pioneer says that win
ter fingered in the lap of spring-in
fact Tapped way over.
Apple creek, hear Mckenzie, went
on a rampage and a lot of graded
road was washed out.
A former Devils Laker has asked
the man who stole his first wife to be
best nan at his second wedding.
Arthur Risley of Neche shot himself
to death at Winnipeg. He left a note
saying he died because Of a love af-
fair.
Prescott township. in Renville coun-
| ty. has bought a lot of gopher poison
which will be distributed free to farm
ers.
The Nome Tribune thinks the state
might adopt this slogan: Millions
for chewing gun but not a cent for
snoos."
A Valley City farmer netted 175 per
cent on an investment of $2,420 in
livestock in one year not including
labor.
A gang of FIVE boOtleggers who had
been operating in a cook car at New
Rockford were rounded UP by the
sheriff.
The Pearl Lake & Gladstone Farm
ers' Telephone Co. is planning on con-
~solidating several farmers lines near
LaMOure.
The newly elected county t~reasurers
are just taking office under the law
which changed their time for taking
office to April l,
1t is reported that the Granville
Sherwood branch of the Great North
ern may be extended twelve miles
west Of Sherwood.
MIR. and Mrs. Bert Phillips drove in
a covered sleigh from Erhard, Mimi,
to their claim at Max, making the trip
in twenty-five days.
AS a result of absorbing too much
jOywater Pete Konka of Galicia mark
ed up the COuntenanCe of his bosom
friend with a bottle.
The AnamOose Progress warns the
high school boys Of that village who
indulge in the cigarette habit, to be-
ware of the village marshal.
The bursting Of the big Healy dam
at Red Lake Falls, Mimi, for a time
threatened high water at Grand Forks
but there is no ~perceptible danger yet
The livery barn at Crary is called
The Palace. What's in a name?
Crary's streets are said to be in ex-
cellent shape compared with neigh
boring towns.
S. F. Mercer, a florist of Larimore
has a lengthy communication in The
Minneapolis Journal in which he de-
plores the neglected condition of many
rural cemeteries.
Some miscreant entered the lumber
offices of w. L. Marchand at Rolette
was placed in the stove, saturated
with kerosene and set on fire.
Bryan Coons of Mckenzie was al.
most put out of commission when the
crank of his auto slipped off just as
the engine started and hit him owe
the eye. He was not seriously hurt.
The women Of Rugby are c~irculat.
ing a petition asking hat electric
power be furnished in the day time fol
two days a week so thai electric wash,
ing machines, irons and other labol
saving devices can be manipulated.
The prize of $25 in gold offered b,
The Farm Press for the best essay oil
Mans Best Friend in the Anima
Kingdom was won by Mrs. w. c. Pal
mer of Fargo. Mrs. Palmer's essa!
was under the head: The Cow L
Mans Best Friend.
Farmers still continue to hunt TO
dairy stock. The entire state seem
: to have realized the value of dairyinl
in North Dakota all at one time. Their,
is more money in raising COWS thai
raising wheat. The forage crop neve
fails and d~airying brings in an incom
regularly instead of once a year.
Bottineau Courant: Tuesday morn
ing Editor and Mrs. j. F. Haskell act
ed as reception committee for a littl
4 visitor from Stork- Land. The youn
= lady weighed Sh pounds and give
promise of growing up vigorously
Mrs. Haskell is doing well and tn
editor, looking to the future, can sa
= more ~fervently than ever, now is tn
line to subscribe for The Courant'.
Grafton Record: Don't run dow
our w town. BE loyal to its insti
.utions as you are to your persona
interests. Don't condemn it's enter
rises and at the same time Withhold
orr SuDnOrf and ~patrOnage. whic