The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1913-08-13

| twenty boys about IA years or age
having been enrolled. -
The Herald at Omemee published
the complete list of awards made at
the Bottineau county fair.
| There is an optimistic feeling in con-
nection with crop conditions in COM
munities tributary to Souris.
The editor Of The Searchlight at
McClusky Is preparing the copy for a
directory Of Sheridan county.
The first threshing Of the season at
Sarles was done a week ago when "a
big field Of winter rye was threshed.
One upstate editor tells his readers
that ere long buttermilk will take the
place Of linseed oil for mixing paint.
The ground has been broken at
Beach for the new Roman Catholic
church which is to cost. completed,
$4,000.
| The Sun at Churchs Ferry has been
sold to H. S. Harding, formerly prin-
cipal Of the high school in the town
named.
Many of the farmers about Goodrich
draw checks from the local creamery
amounting to about 800 a month the
year round
The Fargo Foundry Co. has been
awarded the contract for building an
IRON fire escape on the Crary public
school building.
!, Report reaches The News at VIM
oledon that the managers Of the new
Midland road will make that town
division terminal
The chief of police at Beach has
been discharged by the mayor of the
town. the trouble arising out Of an as
sault committed upon the editor Of
The Chronicle.
The first threshing at Beach was be-
gun in a large field of oats, Aug. s..
They weighed forty three pounds to
the bushel. but no report was made Of
the Yield per acre.
The officials at Wimbledon are ex-
ercised over auto drivers exceeding the
speed limit and with recent narrow es-
capes the public is demanding enforce
ment of the regulations.
While attending the funeral of his
father-inlaw at Edmonton, Canada,
w. M. Prince of Grafton received a
telegram telling of the passing away
OF his father at Grafton.
Edward Shorthand the Tioga repre-
sentative in the boys encampment at
the state fair, wrote a splendidly de-
scriptive letter to his home paper Of
the encampment and all that the bows
had to do with the fair.
A farm hand was caught shooting
ducks out of season on Rock lake,
cavalier county, he being spotted by a
game warden with field glasses, fol-
lowed into hay mound, arrested and
later fined SO and costs.
McClusky has done an immense
amount of work in the line of town i'm
provements this year. A system Of
WaterWorks has been completed and
provides an abundance Of fine water. A
vast amount of work has been done on
its streets and several blocks of ce-
ment walk has been put down by the
property owners.
In his diary In The North Dakota
Sheaf for August, Bishop Mann tells
OF his visit to the Indian conVocation
held at a camp twenty five miles from
Devils Lake, and of one incident which
was pathetic, the gift of 81 for mis-
crippled child. coupled with a request
for prayers over him,
The Democrat at Cando expresses
itself in this wise: The recent clean
ing out Of the buns in the cities is no.
ticeable in rural communities. The
Jungles are rapidly filing up, the good
peoples cows are being milked nightly
and traces of bootleg whisky crop up
here and there. Until such time when
1t shall be a prison offense to bring
whisky into the state, prohibition will
be more or less a farce.
Reversed rules were used on the
front page of The Souris Messenger
tor. H. B. Halldorson, who passed
away last week. He was an Icelander
and settled in Pembina county with
his parents in 1884. After leaving the
public school he attended the state
university. He succumbed to heart
failure and was writing a check at his
desk when the end came very sudden
ly.
Jamestown Alert: Prices for
threshing for the season have not yet
been fixed, but it is probable that
threshers will charge 10 cents a pushel
for wheat, 6 or cents for oats and
barley, and 20 cents for fax, where
there is a good yield, and favorable
conditions for threshing; otherwise
the charge for fax threshing will be
by the day. So far there are plenty
of men for harvesting and thresh-
ing.
Finley is to have Harvest festival
and Market day in October It is the
intention to have a regular fair and
good time generally. Prizes will be
given for all kinds OF stock, poultry,
vegetables, grains, etc. This will be
given for the territory included in the
north half of the county, Hope having
made arrangements for similar fair
and market day for the southern half
fered. p. Q. Sathre is chairman of
the executive committee.
The country tributary to Wing, on
the Pingree- Wilton line, will have q
good harvest this year unless a hail
storm spoils 1t inside the next few
days, says The Wing Statesman. True
there are some poor fields near town,
some being almost total failures, but
a short distance both north and south
the grain is better and in many fields
is extra fine. The best, perhaps lis
near Lein and Stark postoffices, from
reports the former having alittle the
tell the story, as wheat harvest will
be in full blast.
Devils Lake Journal: Friday
marks the opening Of the legal dog
u,