The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-10

North Dakota
Kernels
Schools are reopening all over the
state.
College days will begin in North
Dakota ext week.
Velva's new electric lights will be
turned on in a few days. f..
The agitation to save selected seed
corn, has spread to all parts of North
Dakota,
Two little girls will select the lucky
winners Of land in the Fort Peck
reservation.
rush for the Fort Peck lands as had
been anticipated.
In ON sections of Adams and Het-
finger counties, there was little rain
and the crops are poor.
Minot seems to have gotten rid Of
Its band Of hoboes, masquerading as
organized labor opponents.
In the northern part of the state.
vandals still continue to put Junk iron
in grain shocks to ruin threshing ma
chimes.
The railroads of the state are ex-
periencing an especial rush Of grain
TINS year. unprecedented in the history
Of the state.
The present rain will be welcome
in some parts of the state, farmers
having reported that the GROUND is
rather dry for good blowing.
Sunday will be a busy day for Sup
~erintendent Danford and Bishop
Luccock. They will dedicate three
churches In Stutsman county.
Registration at jamestown college
has commenced and Pres. B. H.
Kroeze anticipates the biggest attend
ance in the history of the institution.
A Greek with a fearsome name but
of peaceful mien was arrested at Ur-
bana by Deputy Sheriff James Kelly,
charged with selling an assorted lot OF
firewater to a crew of Greeks who are
working for the railroad at that place.
Because he has been appointed post.
master Of Mandan, John Foran must
resign his position as president Of the
Mandan City commission. A special
election to name his successor will be
held as soon after he retires as pos
sible.
The thirty-second annual meeting
Of the North Dakota CONGREGATIONAL
conference will be held in Fargo, the
entertaining church being the First
Congregational, of which Rev. r. A.
Beard is pastor. The sessions will be-
gin Tuesday, Sept. %, and will con-
tinue for three days to Sept. rs.
Thrown thirty feet through the air,
striking the race track fence and hit
ting the ground head first, to escape
with but a few minor scratches was
the experience Of Chris Wetzstein. He
was riding his brothers motorcycle
around the race track at the fair
grounds, and was hitting too great a
speed to allow his control of the ma
chine.
New England Herald: The first
carload Of North Dakota wheat to be
shipped to the western coast from this
part Of the country was billed ont
this week by the Western Grain Co. at
New England to a f1our milling COM
pany in Seattle, Washington. Manager
Sattler states that his orders were to
ship one carload to this company at
this lime.
With 1850 bushels already prom
ised, the indications are that the Bet
ter Farming associations campaign
for homegrown seed corn will be sue
cessful in Grand Forks county. J. C.
Hoke, the associations field expert in
that county, has spent the greater part
of the past two weeks interesting the
farmers in the movement, and he has
secured promises from a large num-
Der Of them.
While Marcus Maley was driving
down Main street at Enderlin his team
became frightened at an automobile
and started to run n Mr.. Maley was
unable to control them. AS they turn
ed a corner the occupants were thrown
out. Mr.. Maley was rendered uncOn-
scious from the accident and receiv-
ed many painful injuries, but none are
serious. Mr.. Boland was also shaken
up and badly bruised.
Two engines for the Hamilton Creek
Railroad Co. passed through North
Dakota en route for the Rocky noun
tains. The engines are propelled by
direct connection with the rails by
cogs. instead of friction, and the en-
gines are dou~ble-jointed and able to
run on cures which would make the
ordinary prairie monster meet itself
coming back before it got started. The
engines are curiosities in ~railroading.
That apples can be successfully
grown in North Dakota is being dem
onstrated by G.. w. Gets, at Grand
Forks, who a just finished gather
ing six bushels Of the fruit from six
trees which he has grown in the yard
of his residence. The apples are of
good size and quality, the largest be-
ing twelve inches in circumference,
while the average size Of the crop is
eleven inches. Mr.. Gets expects a
still larger crop next year.
Bismarck Tribune: The Indian
dances at the third State Industrial
are to be a distinct feature of enter
tainment. These dances will be unique
and spectacular. Many of them hav
never been given off the tribal reser-
vations, and all of them have an indi-
vidual significance that is very inter-
esting to students of Indian folk lore.
Judge by our standards of the terpsi-
chorean art, the movements of the
participants seem weird and some