The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-29
North Dakota
Kernels
Next Friday is Arbor day.

.~ Kernels
Next Friday is Arbor day.
Bad weather has made seeding a
little bit late at Marion and Vicinity.
Great Northern yards at Osnabfock
are being improved by the installation
of new ties.
The Norwegian school neaf Wynd-
mere will open for the spring term
Monday, May 4.
Sunday school workers Of Pembina
county will meet in convention at st.
Thomas, June II and Is.
A full-slzed basement and other i'm
provenents are being added to the
Lutheran church at Larimore.
Implement dealers in Stutsman and
Kldder counties report an Unusual de-
mand for corn planters this year.
Rural route No. l, out OF Beach, has
been extended south four miles, ac-
commodating eighteen more families.
Considerable fat stock has recently
been shipped to Chicago from Marion
by farmers living tributary to that
station.
During the war excitement The
Mandan Pioneer will publish a daily
edition, with associated press dis
patches.
Prospects are good for the erection
Of several silos by farmers in the
vicinity Of Medina. the coming sum
mer and fall.
P. B. Wickham Of Glen Ullin will
spend the summer in the Idaho noun
tains with his wife. for the benefit Of
her health.
The people Of Hanover have opened
up negotiations for the construction
OF a telephone line from that town into
New Salem.
The second district convention Of
the North Dakota Federation of Won:-
ems clubs. will be held atDevils Lake,
May + and 9.
Rev. J. krogstad, formerly of Min
newaukan, has been called to take
charge OF the Hauge congregations at
Edinburg and vicinity.
Ine latest plans IN Darn COnStruc-
ton will enter into a monster barn
which is to be erected by James Muir
dock near Wimbledon.
Up to April "A there were thirty-one
signed up members of the commercial
club at Leeds-a campaign is on to
make a total of sixty.
Country correspondence in the state
papers indicate q rather large exodus
of people going to Norway among them
a number of young folks, going to see
centennial doings.
The young women from the domestic
science department Of the high school
at Wahpeton served luncheon to those
attending the meeting of the federation
Of women's clubs.
Concerts by the celebrated Science
School band at Wahpeton will be a
Saturday evening attraction from now
until the lose of the school, June II.
Every other Saturday q concert will be
given in Breckenridge.
improvements are promised in the
passenger service of the Midland Con-
tinental railroad, and it Is very prob
able that a better and more frequent
service will be put on the line between
Edgeley and Wimbledon. The use of
up-to-date motor-driven passenger cars
is contemplated.
The attendance at the teachers and
officers meeting held in jamestown in
March was the largest in the history of
the association. The exhibition Of gen.
eral work from one-room rural schools
was held in connection with the meet
ing. After careful scoring the judges
q IVA r1o1 RI PniInI Ton cplnn1 No I
Miss Julia Mccarthy is the teacher.
Rev. j. r. Bursett of C1ermont, Ia,
has been appointed pastor of the
Lutheran church at Beach and he has
already assumed his duties. Besides
being the guest Of honor at q dinner,
attended by 200 Of his Pensioners,
the retiring acting pastor. Rev. Mr..
Thorpe, who goes to Belteld, was pre-
scented with a purse of 500 as a token
of esteem mo appreciation for kind
services rendered.
Beach has some postoffice. The sale
Of stamps, box rent and matter enter
ed as second-class, for fou quarters,
ending March 81, 1914, amounted to a
total Of $10,6S9. During the same per-
iod 1886 money orders were issued to
the amount Of $54,137.65, the fees
amounting of $494.51. making a total
Of $54,632.16. Nine hundred n eighty
five orders presented for payment
amounted to $9.486.40.
The Beach Progress: The Ekre &
Ogden Hart-Parr outfit and the Miller
Bros Hart-Parr blowing outfit. who
nave ben blowing the Lowell section
eight miles northwest of town the past
week, finished VI. work there Monday
and pulled into Beach Tuesday on
their way to the Lowell section ten
miles south. where they contemplate
being done with that job in about ten
days. They claim that they have been
progressing much faster than thew ex-
Dected and find the soil in the best OF
condition to work. making a fine job
Of the section north Of town.
President Smith Of the State Science
school at Wahpeton and County Super
intendent Thornton slept on benches in
a school house out in Sheyenne town
ship last Friday night. President Smith
and Superintendent Thornton went out
to Sheyenne last Friday to address a
meeting in the consolidated chool
house in that district and o the
time OF the close of the meeting a
terrific rain storm came up, making 1t
impossible to make the drive back
to Walcott to take the train. They
therefore spent the night in the school
house, and they don't seem to be
much the worse for the experience.
Medina Citizen: Quite a number Of