The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-07
North Dakota
Kernels

North Dakota
Kernels
Mr.. and Mrs. e. Z. Green were in
jured when their automobile turned.
over. Rupert and Kenneth Green and
Miss Anna Purvis were less seriously
injured.
Cashier Hoop of the Cayuga State
bank has arranged for a shipment of
carload of young mich cow which he
intends to place on easy terms with
farmers. 3
John Fulton, chief Of police at Plen-
tywood, Mont, who was a member Of
the Minot police force for a year, was
shot through both legs in a saloon
brawl at P~lentywood.
Judge Buttz will open the regular
term of court for Eddy county at New
Rockford Tuesday, Oct. IA. At this
time only court cases will be heard.
A jury term beginning Nov. 3 will be
held in Ramsey county.
George C. Smith, one of the early
residents and business men Of James
town, died at $40 a. m, Monday at his.
home in Minneapolis. He had been
critically i'll for ten days n his de-
mise was almost hourly expected. He
had been a sufferer for some months
with heart trouble. :. r. q =.
Joe Negosek places his loss in the
recent destruction of his barns at
Courtenay and stock at $500 over
and above the small amount Of insur-
ance carried. Just two weeks before
the loss of his property by fire he lost
fifty head of hogs from cholera and
he is practically put out of business
by the last disaster.
The county teachers institute open
ed at Valley City with an attendance
Of about fifty. Miss Nelson, super
intendent of schools, was so FORUM
ate as to secure DR.. Henry S. Curtis,
who was passing through the state,
to appear several times before the in,
stitute, as we'll as to give one of his
famous lectures at the normal auditor
ium tomorrow evening.
The ''get-acquainted" auto tour
which was to have been held Mon
day under the auspices Of the Devils
Lake Commercial club was postponed
until Thursday owing to the heavy
rain the first of the week. This is
the second of a series Of get
| acquainted" runs and will extend down
the Aneta line and east to Petersberg
on the Great Northern.
Mrs. Bert e. Green's left arm was
broken, and Mrs. Green's left shoulder
d~islocated in an automobile accident
two miles north of Lansford Wednes-
day afternoon. Their sons, Rupert
and Kenneth Miss Anna Purvis,
who were with them, were somewhat
shaken up but uninjured. The ma
chine turned turtle at a turn, taken
too sharply at a high speed. ..
Devils Lake is to Ia a portable
school house to relieve the congestion
in the fifth and sixth grades. The
building will be erected for the present
on khe Washington school campus.
The number enrolled in the grades of
the three schools in the city this year
is $50, over 100 more than last year.
The enrolment in the high school will
probably reach 1870 this year.
Brakeman H. L. Larson had a mar
row escape from accident, If not death.
at Courtenay Monday evening. When
switching there the heel of his shoe
became caught between the rail and
planking n he could not release 1t.
AS the cars were switched down upon
him he caught hold with all his might
and held on and though he received a
badly twisted ankle, he was saved
from death. He will be laid up for
some time. ~
Monday, Sept. 20, occurred the 102nd
anniversary of the birth of Ole 2. PVT
ten, who resides with his daughter,
Mrs. Bmber Skagen, four miles south
east of Kindred. Mr.. Pytten is enjoy
ing as good health as the average
man of 20, and while he had a brief
sickness, is again in fairly good health.
Mr.. Pytten is the Oldest Norwegian in
America. He is blest with all his fac
ulties and bids fair to enjoy many
more anniversaries.
Fred Williams, committed from
Bottineau county on a two-year sent
ence to the state penitentiary on the
charge Of highway robbery, escaped
Saturday n Is still at large. Guards
from the institution are securing the
country and the description Of the mar
has been forwarded to all sheriffs and
chiefs Of police. A heavy rain fell
Saturday night and made it impossible
for the bloodhounds to follow the con-
Wet. .... .
August Bohn, one of the best known
of the early settlers in Bradenbure
township, near suffered a fatal stroke
Of %apoplexy at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Gust Stach, at Darlington
Mr.. and Mrs. Bohn were on their way
I to Billings, Mont, to visit her daugh-
ter, Mrs. g. e. Berg. They stopped
II off to visit in Darlington and while
, in the yard at the Stack home hs
suffered the stroke that resulted Ii
his death a few hours later. .
Between $4,000 and $4,000 worth
Of hogs have died in the vicinity o.
! Columbia, S.. q. during the past tive
. weeks from hog cholera, which is sait
: to have beer transported to the herds
by the blackbirds along the james
river carrying the disease from on'
herd to another. Lars Harseth. 1
farmer heal Houghton, has lost v
200 Of his herd of 400 hogs from thil
l plague, and other farmers in tn
James river valley report simila;
l losses. ns .+ ri.
Fred Rittmilor met with a serious
. accident while blowing on the oil
: Bjornstad place south of Cakes. A
the same time he showed e~xceptiona
: nerve and pluck. The horses. five Q
. them, became unmanagable, and II
hopes Of stopping them he threw tn
plow into gear in the hard ground. Hi
right leg was fractured below the kne
so that the bone Nprotruded through
: the flesh. Despite the terrible injur,