The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-02-07
North Dakota
Kernels

ing q suit case at NliHot'
A p~ostoffcie may be established at
Nortonville, near Edgeley,
The state engineers will meet al
Bismarck, Feb, 10 and ii.
The house has passed the initiative,
referendum and recall bill.
William Huseby was killed in a
railroad accident at Williston.
A 2-year-old child died of acute
Bright's disease at jamestown.
Edgeley has shipped half a million
bushels Of wheat since harvest.
There will be a teachers exami-
nation at Devils Lake, Feb. Is and IA.
Church bro]therhoods are becoming
active in many North Dakota towns.
: 1t is said that Plaza is to be the
center Of 500 building operations this
year.
A splendid educational exhibit was
l. feature of the mid winter fair at
} . The Minot library issued 2,376
books in January which broke the
Minot record.
The Minot park board has ordered
a number of two foot rustic bridges
for the Minot park.
Five dairy COWS have paid John nj.
Miller, a Bottineau farmer, $L.S3 a day
during the past yea
Hits and Mrs. Pierce is welcomed
back with open arms by the newspaper
fraternity of the state.
North Dakota investments are be-
coming more attractive to capital with
the passing of each year.
The Bottlers association of North
Dakota and Western Minnesota will
meet at Grand Forks next week.
D. B. Ferguson of Mallory, Mimi,
won the dairy butter contest at the
Corn and Glover show at Grand Forks.
Atty. A. f. Eberhart, brother Of
Governor Eberhart of Minnesota is
visiting Minot and other North Da-
kota cities.
New Salem is expecting to have one
of the biggest farmers institute meet
ings ever held in Morton county, Feb.
20, II and %.
A bill calling for a probe of the
offices of a number Of North Da-
kota institutions and officials has been
introduced in the legislature.
Ignatz Youngwirth was sentenced
to two years in the pen by Judge
Butte at Devils Lake for a second
violation of the prohibition law.
A boys short course in agriculture
will be one OF the interesting fea-
lures of the Mouse River Loop fair
to be held at Minot, Feb. 1922.
Pembina turned down the PROPOSE
ton to appropriate 5000 for the pur-
chase OF the Pembina Light Co, at a
special election, by a vote Of IA to 3S.
Miss Katie .Trettle, formerly a
nurse at Minot is now in an insane
asylum in Minnesota. 1t is claimed
she Is still a resident Of North Da-
kota.
HegbePt Halvorson Of Des Laos has
been i'll for weeks in a Minot hospital
and this and other misfortunes have
driven Mrs HalVorson hopelessly in
sane.
Oscar Frederickson, believed to be
dementSd, was found in a pitiable con-
dition near Larimore, wandering on the
prairie with his face and hand terribly
frozen.
The Bismarck Tribune says that
Judge Leighton made twenty new citi-
Sens at Minot asst week, all Of whom
were "furriners with the exception of
| ona
The St Cloud people were rejoicing
that they would get a better line Of
shows because OF the burning Of the
Fargo operahouse-and their house al
SO went up in smoke.
The Nome Tribune thinks that If the
legislature passes a law barring, dogs
in hunting prairie chickens, the OIL
factory organs Of the hunters will have
to be greatly developed.
Supt. r. L. Watkins of, the state en-
forcement league makes q final ap-
peal to North Dakotans to wire their
congressman or senator in favor of
the passage Of the Kenyon bill.
The New Rockford Improvement as
ISOLATION, organized for the purpose
of, erecting residences in New Rock
| ford, wa organized and will erect a.
number of buildings this summer.
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w. e. Mccarthy, who Just missed
death by being thrown into a separator
belt when he fell from the separator
two months ago., has just been dis
charged from the Drayton hospital.
The remainder, of the Standing Rock
reservation in South Dakota has been
opened for settlement. The tract con-
tains over 100000 acres, and will be
open for entry during the coming sum
mer.
Roy Hanson, an escaped convict
from the Williston jail, who had been
recaptured made a Desperate effort to
escape again by Ieaping from a NOV
ing train at Minot, but was once more
taken into custody.
The business men of Crystal did not
realize the value of their newspaper
until 1t burned and there was some talk
of leaving the town without a news
paper. Then they hustled around and
raised the money to put in q new OUT
fit.
Col. Clement A. ~I.ounsberry, founder
of The Bismarck Tribune, for ten years
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