The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-29
North Dakota
Kernels
Is this real spring?

A scarlet fever scare at F1axton is
over.
A farmers club was organized near
Dickey.
F1ngal has sent 800 to the food
sufferers.
Minot hopes to get some new paw
ing this year.
Devils Lake will name it's first com.
missioners next week,
The blockade Of the 500 line west
Of Fordville has been lifted,
March is apparently preparing to go
out in regulation lamb style.
1t is said the Midland Continental
will build through Forbes next year.
Twenty head of high grade horses
were sold at auction at Grand Forks.
The Palace clothing store at Minot
had a narrow escape from a serious
blaze.
The Madsen Bros. general store and
Chas. Colton's store at Cleveland were
burned out.
The Stbil Kan murder trial at Min
neWaukan dragged three days and still
the jury is not complete
A ~receivership has bee ndenied in
the case against the International Sc
curities Co. Of Grand Forks.
A Greek was killed near Devils Lake
when a gasoline speeder ran wild and
struck a group Of Greek laborers.
Mrs. James Spaulding of Ypsilanti
sold a fat COW recently which brought
$50. The animal weighed 1900 pounds.
Ben Moon had his foot torn off in the
wheel of a gas engine near Garske and
died from loss of blood and exposure.
The new Methodist church OF
jamestown will be erected at the COR
ner of Fourth avenue south n Paci-
fc streets.
The Grand Forks county courthouse
will cost $685. 05 and will be built of
stone and will have a dome that will
cost 1900.
A two days convention Of the teach
| ers of southern Nelson county will be
held at Neville, Friday and Saturday !
Of next week.
The progressive republicans of
North Dakota have decided to "go 1t
alone and there will be 10 merger
with the bull moose.
Michael Janisch who has been con-
fined at the insane asylum at James
town for ten years, died this week.
He was from Tower City.
ID Sn111In,. Pnrtoo orIyy Of SiO,,xr
Falls, S. D., has succeeded L. F. Greer
as manager of the Grand Forks branch
Of the Morrell Packing Co.
Thomas Callahan and Joe Harris
have been taken to Leavenworth from
Fargo to begin serving sentences of
one year each in the federal pen.
1t is said that a moving picture con-
Germ will operate largely through the.
state the coming summer, taking pic
lures Of North Dakota farming scenes.
A number of telephone and tele-
graph linemen have been rushed to
the food and tornado stricken districts
in the central states from North Da-
kota.
A Mandan lad aged II ran away
from home but only got as far as Bis
marck. He CHANGED to get into good
hands n was taken back to his par
ents.
1t is said that the Northwestern
Development league which held big
land shows in st. Paul and Minnea-
polls respectively during the last two
years, will be allowed to quietly die.
Miss Laura Johnson. aged IS of
HnUHnl6 Mimi tpaPhinOr school nnaTs
Sheldon, met a pathetic death among
strangers. She was taken i'll at school
Thursday and died the following Sun
day.
Former County Judge Dunning of
Sheridan county lost out in his suit
against Editor w. J. Burt, for $4,000.
damages, the court ordering the jury
to bring in a verdict on technical
grounds.
The st. Paul Pioneer Press said:
IF North Dakota wants an anti
cigarette law It should apply to Din
nesota. We have a perfectly good one
that is only -four years old n has
never been used"
1t is said that Casselton is making q.
strenuous effort to get the Portland
branch train back to the old schedule,
DuJ Ill inc LOWuS dlOllS JlldI llue dEO
fighting the move as they are delighted
with the present service into Fargo.
Willard Pierce, a farmer living
north of jamestown, claims to have
the story of the wild ducks that win
tered in North Dakota beat a mile.
He says a. bIackbird has wintered on
his farm and came through in good
shape.
A couple of Lisbon kids filed up a
sack with their belongings, including a
revolver, and started out to "see the
world" They got as far as Sheldon
where they were headed and it is prob
able they will think it over at the re-
form school.
The pastors OF all Scandinavian Lu-
theran synodS in the Red River valley,
in convention at Grand Forks, passed a
resolution declaring that the work
among thesstudents of the North Dako-
ia u. should be undertaken Jointly by
all the Synods.
Outside of a subscription of 81, 900
made by the L. S. Donaldson Co., Far