The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-02-08
EAST SIDE NOTES.

4 |AS Ollie WI TO-
S, o. Tang of Comstock was among
the guests at the New Columbia hotel
last night.
Senator Marden came up from st.
Paul this morning to spend the week
end. He will return to his
legislative duties next Monday night.
can leaders
w. Fl. Diemert went to Perham on
a business trip this morning.
Moorhead people were well bathod
in sunshine today and the weather
bureau people let some of it slip over
to the west side. The weather report
said that the highest temperature yes
terday was "a above zero and it was
considerably warmer today. At z a.
m. the reading of the thermometer
was 2 degrees above and the same was
the coolest point last night. 1t is to
be fair tonight and Sunday with no
expected change in temperature.
The funeral for Mrs. Carl Tall,
whose passing away was reported u
| day or two ago, was held at Hawley
this afternoon. Friends from Moor
head attended the funeral.
The Brainerd Tribune next Mon
day will celebrate its forty-first ami
versary Of it's founding, which means
that the first issue was printed Feb.
10, 1872.
Today country people generally
took advantage of the beautiful sun
shiny weather and the very excellent
sleighing conditions and came to town
to do some shopping and other bust
Eess. Also there SCENE dto be a good
patronage on the interurban line from
Dilworth to Moorhead and Fargo.
A missionary from China will make
an address at the Presbyterian church
at Dilworth tomorrow afternoon at 3
o'clock.
The people of Di1worth have made
a move in the effort to persuade the
street railway company to provide two
waiting rooms for the accommodation
Of patrons.
The Rev. Mr.. Yerkes of China will
be the preacher at the First Congre-
gational church on Sunday morning
and during the service the choir will
sing an anthem by Marston, The Lord
Is King, and an anthem by Buck, Lead
Kindly Light. The address before the
mems seminar will be made by ].
Adam Puffer. The evening service
will take the form of an open meet
ing of the mems seminar, the address
for which will be made by Mr.. Puffer,
who win deliver his lecture on The
Boy and the Gang. The music for
the evening service will include an an
them by Schneider, Onward Christian
Soldiers, with a solo by L. A. Hun
toon, and one by Roberts, Seek Ye
the Lord, with solo by Mr.. Bunce.
A Washington dispatch says that
Congressman Stevenson has intro
duced a bill increasing the pension
of Mrs. Maria BIaisdell of Pelican
Rapids from $24 to 500 per month.
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this part of he state as the Mime
sofa Blizzard" and she has been try
ing for ten or fifteen years to secur
the increase.
John Melin has disposed of the De-
troit laundry. to A. ]. Vigerust OF
Menominee, Wis, who took possession
a week ago. Mr.. Melin will go to
California to live. ..
The subject of the sermon at Grace
Methodist church tomorrow morning
will be a character study of Abraham.
There will be no evening service, the
congregation having been invited to
attend a service at the First Metho-
dist church in Fargo.
Sen. C. +. Gunderson of Alexandria,
has introduced a bill providing for the
leasing Of the ltasca park privileges,
instead Of allowing the caretaker to
appropriate all fees and emoluments
to himself, as is now done. The bill
is likely to become a law without OPP
position. .... .... .-..-. r. .
The public school building at Foss-
ton vas destroyed by fire early on
Thursday morning. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000 with a partial in
surance.
According to The News at Glyn-
don, the weather seems to be the most
pT eminent feature of the church serv-
ices in that town-the reports of the
services always begin with the cause
and effect Of the weather.
Miss Katherine Osborn of Glyndon
is soon to leave California for her
home in Clay county.
Miss VERNE Peterson, the teacher,
has arranged a very attractive pro-
gramme for an entertainment to be
given in the Spring Prairie school,
house a week from tonight.
The vacancy in the pastorate Of
the Presbyterian church at Crooks
ton q been filled by the appoint
ment Of Rev. r. Cooper Bailey, at
present pastor of a church at Falls
City, Neb.. He will assume his du-
ties at Crookston about the middle Of
March. For years he has been prom.
inently and actively connected with
the home mission department Of his
church.
A Crookston man has received n
of those fake letters from a Rus
sian nobleman who is in a Spanish
prison and asks a money subscription
to help to pay he fine necessary to
get him out of Jail.
Supt. G. H. Barnes has been re-
elected to be the head Of the public
schools at st. Cloud at g. salary of
S ,700.
John Lamb, ST., was submitted 10
an operation at st. Johns hospital,
Fargo, 1t being absolutely necessary
under the conditions which existed in
order to save his life. Mrs. Lamb is
a patient in the same institution.
gradually recovering from an attack
OF pneumonia.
A guest of President Lamb of the
Moorhead National bank, is william
Lamb of Harvey, N. D., his brother.
who has been attending the conyen
ton of implement dealers in Fargo.
This is the last day candidates for
mayor can file petitions for the com
ing city election which will be held
Tuesday, Feb. 18. After today the
several candidates for aldermen and
justices Of the peace will be free to
take the people into their confidence
as to their policies and how hard they
are going to work during the next two
years. There are several contesting
candidates for the justices of the
peace and there is q pretty fight on
in the Second ward for alderman. 1T
is not likely there will be any b
sition to 0. G. Beck for mayo