The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-06-26


North Dakota
/ Kernels
Street improvements have been
made at Darcy.
Ross will! have the biggest kind of
a Fourth OF July celebration.
The commencement exercises for the
high school at Darcy were a conspicu-
u success.
The Dunn Coal Mine Co., at Leith
has organized into q new to
be known as the Black Diamond Coal
Mine.
Several Sheldon men have interest
ed themselves in the newly organized
First National bank at Whitehall,
Mont.
The North Dakota State fair man
agement has hung up purses aggregat-
ing $3.50 for the speed program In
Fargo July 1925.
The Devils Lake Inter Ocean prim-
airy forecast that Burdick's majority
for governor would be 5000 must
look very funny now.
Rev. M. O. Dybvik, Lutheran mini
ster at Darcy, has been granted a leave
of absence to attending the centennial
celebration in Norway.
Editor Leo Ratcliff Of The CONNER
cial at Darcy reports the arrival Of an
assistant editor at his home and h,
says that all concerned are doing nice
ly.
Forty young heifers that will soon
be forty young mich COWS are eating
grass and waxing fat at the farm of
James A. Elliott about four miles west
Of New England.
The creamery at Pettibone has been
officially approved by A. Pierce, deputy
state dairy commissioner. For ~cleanli-
ness the latter's report will say that
it was second to none in the state.
A German Reform church building
is in course Of erection at edna. 1t
will be Of pleasing design and will be
built Of the best material and fitted
with modern convenienCes, heating
plant. etc.
Sheriff Henderson of Divide county
recovered IS horses which had been
stolen from farmers at a cost Of only
$25 to the county and yet some Of his
constituents argued that to spend the
county's money was all wrong.
The trustees Of Sheldon township.
Ransom county, have bought an acre
Of land on whith will be erected a
building for the proper storage Of the
graders n other Better Roads ma
chinery owned by the township.
The best of new machinery is be-
ing installed in the Jour mill at Carson
1t being the intention Of the owners to
put a product on the market which
will compete with the world-it should
do so, for where is there better wheat
raised h at Carson and vicinity.
A boy, II years old, living near
Absaraka is in Jail and has parents
in a heap of trouble because he will
fully placed distractions on the Great
Northern tracks and the officials of the
company are insisting upon an ex-
ample being made of the boy.
The Darlington schools seem to have
always ranked above the average in
the matter Of regularity and pune
tuality of attendance. A valuable
lesson for after life. The average for
the school year just closed was 1888
per cent for regularity and p%unctuaI-
ity.
Ramona, Stutsman county, is to
have a bank, and it will be known as
the Ramona State bank and is capt.
talized at $4,000. The incorporators
Edward Alison. The charter was is
sued Saturday by the secretary of
state.
A party of surveyors, who are en-
gagged in work connected with the
Interstate Commerce Commission
spent several days in and around
Hempden last week. The work they
do is that Of determining just how
much the railroads cost, n this by
actual valuation.
The News at Ross thinks it is alb
solutely unfair to the children md
young people when school patrons de-
cline to adopt the consolidated school
idea, when all things being even it is
a money saving proposition in the end
10 say nothing OIL Lne improved eQu-
cational facilities.
The Dunn County News: 1t is time
right now to begin thinking about the
county road work for the season and
the thinking should result in action.
For the past four years an effort has
been made to get some nue. needed
work o on the Observation-Disclosures
road. and very little has been done
yet.
The farmer who owe from one
farming region to another is not the
prosperous farmer, is the conclusion
Of the census bureau. The frequency.
with which American farmers move
from one place to another very likely
forms one of the chief causes for the
decline of rural prosperity or a hind
rance to greater prosperity"
McClusky Gazette: McClusky had
the appearance of a hog market on
Monday morning, when three cars of
hogs were shipped from the stock
yards to the Twin Cities market. Two
cars were shipped by R. c. oliver and
one car by J. P. Wentz. Farmers are
just waking to the fact that North Da-
kota is a great state for hog raising,