The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-16

W. A1O3S ~A
couraging.
Tom Hall, secretary Of state, is
spending some time on his farm north
of Mandan.
In the vicinity of Warwick winter
wheat and rye is standing over four
feet in height.
A Sunday school institute is being
conducted at Powers Lake with a very
good attendance.
Victor Olson shot himself at Belheld
because a girl, II years of age, would
not consent to marry him.
Major Dickinson of Velva came near
losing his little son when the urchin
ate some poison which he found.
The business men of Powers Lake
seem to be loyal to the local paper
and do advertising in an up-to-date
fashion.
Crop conditions have greatly i'm
proved about the country tributary to
Powers Lake in Burke county, accord
ing to The Echo.
A 17-year-old boy at Lakota has
bCCll Jun 0NSt W INV D u SOlal I
for a villainous attack on a little girl
ten years his junior.
A supposed gambling dive was
located in a room occupied by a
church in Minot. The police raided
the place last Sunday afternoon.
The Mail says that over 1000 people
attended the celebration of Independ-
ence day at Marmarth. The address
was made by Attorney Casey Of Dick
inson.
The country editors are acknowl-
edging tickets of admission to the
state fair at Grand Forks sent with
the compliments of the president and
secretary.
The Fourth Of July entertainment at
Knife River opened with a ride in an
old fashioned OK cart and following
that were demonstrations of broncho
busting.
In a mentally '~deranged condition
Mrs. William Huggett Of Chicago shot
herself as she was standing before a
mirror at the home of her son in Car
rington.
In some sections of the state reports
| L llduS TIA liz "llu L SIOp Ii
very short, with the exception of wild
cherries, which are said to be unusual
ly prolific.
The Warwick Sentinel approves of
the strict treatment of blindpiggers
by Judge Butte which seems to be along
the line of making the punishment fit
the crime. ~"
There being no church building
available services were held in d
hardware store at Dunn Center, under
the auspices of the Congregational
Missionary society.
A fire hic originated in a clothing
store at New England destroyed sew
eral business houses and homes before
It was ~eXtinguiShed, and the total loss
Is estimated at 100000.
The News-Tribune at Towner is
gathering exhibits Of alfalfa, grasses
and grains, and this fall hopes to show
some of h things that can be raised
to advantage in that territory.
Grand Forks county's new court
house was dedicated today. Ali the
former commissioners of the county
who could be reached, were guests of
honor at the dedication ceremonies.
The Mandan Jail has been a record
breaker among detention places for
North Dakota law offenders. Not a
prisoner housed there for a whole
week. Speaks pretty well for Man.
dan.
New England had a pretty serious Are.
Like many blazes of small beginnings
Its damage was attracting. >Chica-
90 burned nv a nnW kinRino nuar q
lantern. New England's fire started
in a small stove in the rear of a
clothing store.
Wolves are reported to be playing
havoc among the breaks along the
Little Missouri river south Of Schaffer.
The pests are the grey or buffalo
wolf. The pack have been killing a
"critter' a day. The topography of
the country makes it difficult to shoot
the wolves. ~
Through the efforts of the Better
Farming association and the First
State bank of Bergen, a carload of
pure bred shorthorn cattle arrived in
Bergen Tuesday for farmers in that
vicinity. Another carload or two will
probably be ordered a little later. .
George Gussner boasts of having
the best forty acres or alfalfa ever
grown in North Dakota. 1t was grown
on the river bottoms, near Bismarck,
and three tons to the acre is the esti-
mate for the first cutting. Wonder
how it compares with the fields on
the Holes farm in Fargo township?
II. M. Marcoe,. who lives north Of
Towner, has been displaying fine speci-
mems of alfalfa grown on his place.
The plant is a three year growth,
stands about three feet high above the
ground and there is no way of finding
out how long the roots are. Mr.. Marcoe
took the specimens from a twelve acre
plot which he has put in. He has cut
the alfalfa onc a year and it Is almost
ready for the second cutting.
The editor Of The Enterprise at
Shields, Morton county, wants a note
made that grain which was disced in
on stubble land that was ploWed deep
last year will make the best crop this
season, which caused one we'll known
farmer to make the statement that a
mar never gets too old to learn some
new wrinkle about farming in this
section. An inspection throughout the
country will bear out the fact that
grain on spring plowed, or clean land
that was disced in on stubble is by
long odds the best.
The Marmarth Mail tells the story
Of Bill Smith d local stockfnan who
was out sitting on his horse looking
for cattle. The horse was stamping
flies when a RATHER sank his tanks in