The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-12
North Dakota
Kernels
Houses are scarce in Paramount.
Wahpeton will have a white way

A1LAus
Paderewski will be heard in Fargo
next fall Or winter.
The Northern Pacific built some
stock yards at Sheyenne.
The National elevator at Mimic was
badly damaged by fire.
Valley City has an agitation for the
commission form Of government.
Judge Buttz will deliver the
Memorial day address at Devils Lake.
The Portal team has given a good ac-
count Of itself in the games played so
far.
Jamestown is making elaborate
plans to entertain the Elks June -
n 20.
Langdon is to have a new depot,
the replica Of the one built last year
at Lakota.
Vandals distributed tacks along the
roads near Hannah and many tires
were ruined.
Brantford will have a fourteen piece
band. The New Rockford leader will
instruct.
The new towns of Grace City and
Brantford on the Surrey line each have
ball teams
Fourteen head Of cattle were run
| down and killed by a Northern Paci-
fc train near Pembina,
T,-,o.4o~,, ,,,;11 - -,,~.1.~. 80 IT,
ball players who wore Valley City
uniforms in past years.
JOS. Bourassa, was charged with
bootlegging at Rolette and was held
to the district court for trial,
AT present Colonel Roosevelt is en-
| gagged upon his autobiography" COM
ments The ~StarkWeather Times.
The Michigan Arena says a great deal
Of damage has been done there by
stock that was allowed to run at large.
A. J.. Johnson, formerly a repre-
| sentative in the state legislature from
| Larimore, died at Alberta Lea, MINI.
Wheat seeding is we'll advanced at
| Omemee and The Herald says the
acreage will not be much reduced this
year.
Wheaton had a big fire scare during
a high wind and the entire town was
out fighting the blaze before it was eX-
tinguished.
J. Eitzen lost a valuable horse which
fell in a mud hole in such a way that
it choked to death before the driver
could get it out.
The crusade for a bushel Of wheat
from each farmer to build a boys
dormitory at the A. c.. is meeting with
widespread response.
Devils Lake has borrowed $3S, 900
from the state to a up the out
standing warrants. They may be a
hit to the Fargo commission here.
The Glenburn Advance man says:
The Buford Tribune editor makes it
hell on earth for some of Buford's citi-
zens by Showing them up" as they
live.
c.. J. Hambro, the representative of
the Norwegian government who made
quite an extensive tour of the state
has ended his trip to North Dako-
ia.
The latest scrap in the state is be-
TWEEN Osnabrock and Milton, the
Casus belli being as to which town
sported the first straw hat of the sea-
son.
The Bismarck Times has been plac-
ed in charge of Atty. w. L. Smith
who will act as trustee and attempt
to straighten out it's affairs which are
said tn he somewhat tangled.
The first trade excursion trip of the
Duluth business men will be made the
first week in June when 100 Duluth
ians will invade North Dakota in
charge Of Scout Frank x. Gravel.
Pastors Of the Mayville district of
Hauges Lutheran church, in session
at Mayville last week went on record
as being opposed to the marriage Of
either party to a divorce case while
the other party to the case was alive.
During the month of April there
were thirty-three applications for
homesteads filed in the u. S. lane Of
flee at Bismarck of which twenty-six
were allowed. There were also fifty
| four applications for public sale of
which fifty were allowed.
Major Murphy, the Soc expert On
better farming, hands out a hot criti-
cism of farmers who have disced in
wheat on land full of foul seeds. Only
ideal conditions, a rain every week
from now until the middle of July,
could give half a crop under such cir
cumstances, comments Murphy.
The Minot. Democrat is mentioned in
The Appeal to Reason as one Of the
papers that will be sued for publish
ing a certain article relating to the
life Of the late j. A.. Waylard, owner
of The Appeal. The article was first
published in The Remonstrator, an
Oaklahoma City paper INC copied by
The Minot Democrat. .
Spring work has been especially late
around Hamilton and Bathgate. The
chief result will be a greatly decreas-
ed wheat acreage. The Lane could not
be plowed last fall because of the
heavy rainfall last fall because Of the
this spring that teams could not be
put on it when work was in progress
in other parts Of the county. There
will be a greatly increased barley and
flax acreage. Corn will also be a more
popular crop.
The Mimic Journal complains be-
cause it was not till this late date
that the session laws of the state,
passed by the recent session Of the
legislature, are available, and that a.
COPY Of these laws is only procur-