The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-23
TN THE HOTEL LOBBIES

One day Bobby Collins, the real es-
tate dealer, was coming across the rlV-
er on a street car and he had with him
his heir, the eldest boy, whom he was
holding on his lap. The boy wanted to
look out of the window as the car was
passing along, but the boy became
nervous as most boys will do and as he
wriggled about his feet came in con-
tact with the skirts Of a lady who was
sitting across on the next Eat, which
was facing the father and son. 1t was
a nice corduroy skirt and practically
new and just suited for showing, mud
or dirt.
Bobby had been chatting across the
aisle to another man and was figuring
on selling a farm and he was not pay
ing much attention to his hopeful.
Suddenly he became aware that the
boy was being careless with his feet.
BE careful" he cautioned, pulling
his feet away. You'll dirty the lady's
skirt with your shoes"
"Oh, never mind said the nice
looking lady, with a frozen ice cream
sweetness. He has we'll cleaned them
by this time" Bobby left the car at
the next crossing and there was dense
silence for several minutes.
William Plath, Of the town of Woods,
near the city, was a guest at the An
liza o. N"S VI WV o5"I StAo SAANN 49,
that everything down his way could
hardly be improved upon. "All of the
wheat has been planted said he to
The Forum, "and there has been an
increase Of this in our locality but l
find that there will be a good deal of
corn also planted and l might say that
I have never seen the conditions app
pear to be better than just now. The
rain came just at the right time and
everything IOOkS fine" -. ~
w. M. Narius, Of Muscatine, Ia, who
has been a guest at the Gardner for a
few days attending the A. o. . U. w.
grand lodge" meeting, he being the
highest officer. in the United States,
was very much pleased with the re-
ception that he met with here. Il
have been very much surprised at the
beauty of your little city. I consider
it great because it shows progress on
every hand, | var to say, too, that
your grand lodge officers and your very
pretty lodge temple here are deserving
Of more than a passing compliment
The work in this state is in excellent
> shape and the building one of the best
in the entire country. The general at.
fairs Of the order everywhere are in
first-class condition and / can say that
the work done in the two states, North
Dakota and Montana has been effec-
tive s, .. .--... .. ".
DR.. Reardon Of Jamestown, who was
a business visitor to the city for a few
days, is one Of the most" prominen'
Elks of this state, and was made a life
;, member of hisIodge, for excellent work
that he did in days gone by. 1t II
| stated that he has the record for hav'
ing been successful in bringing more
men into the order than any other on
, man in tho state. I'VE are going tt
| give the boys who visit Jamestown a
' the state convention said he, "th'
very best kind of a time and we wan
+ every member of Fargo. lodge to shov
up. Yes, we can take care Of all VIII
come and it doesn't make any differ
ence as to the number, for we will loo
: after all ofthem. We are depending u
Fargo to show up in large numbers
Tell 'em all to GOMEZ