The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-07
North Dakota
Kernels

NOEIkN D3k0E0
1 Kernels
A number OF rural schools are in
recess this week-the week before
Easter.
The Wimbledon Better Farming club
discussed corn cultivation very fully
at a recent meeting.
Nearly $4,000 has been subscribed
towards the establishment Of a Farm
ers' union -four mill at Bismarck
The MinneWaukan presbytery is in
session at Rollette. AN excellent pro-
gram was prepared for the meetings.
There were t~wenty-one cars Of stock
and immigrants, in the Milwaukee
yards, at Hettinger a few days ago.
The editor of The Teller at Minor
deftly expresses the belief that spring
shooting of geese, ETC., is being indulg-
ed in.
Rev. w. H. Haly, Dawson, has ac-
cepted a pastoral call from the Con-
gregational church Of Forman and
GWinner.
Towns and cities along the 500 like
the rates made for intending settlers
and land buyers from Chicago and
other eastern points.
Evidently a big war Of extermina-
ton has been started on the gopher
and II he wants to save his life will
hike to other regions.
Miss Nelson. president of the State
Federation Of Women's clubs, Is COM
piltng a book on the part women have
taken in making the history Of the
state.
1T Is becoming more and more ap-
parent tina a good many newspapers
are beginning to look askance at the
Imlddleman" in all departments Of
business.
Editor Maltby of The Independent
News at Forman says that the people
OF North Dakota are back Of Governor
Hanna, that Is all the backing he
has. and that will be all he needs"
The pupils of the public schools at
Hettinger assisted a number of ladies
- " SPAS4AAldAS A4Il16Su HuSlCdl ana
dramatic entertainment. the proceeds
of which, $50. was devoted to the gen.
eral fund of the public library.
The Byron Farmers club decided
almost unanimously after debate,
three speakers On each side, that the
Percheron horse is more profitable on
the average farm than the Clydesdale.
James Austin led the affirmative.
The front page of The International
at Portal was adorned last week with
a we'll executed picture of the $40, 900
high school building, said to be the
peer OF school structures In Burke
county. AS an educational enterprise
the pictures tells it's w story.
A number Of state papers comment
faVorably on the pictures of the State
Science school at Wahpeton recently
printed in The. Globe Gazette but they
balk at the unsightly plank sidewalk,
half a mile long. which runs up to the
front Of the handsome pile of school
buildings.
c. E. Leverich. assistant general
superintendent Of the Great Northern
at Grand Forks, has been transferred
to Spokane, and assistant general
ToApS AtAISAkACAI ~ SACCSGO y. II.
O'Nein, who has been promoted to
the office of general superintendent
with offices at Seattle.
The members of the school board at
Portal may be called upon to refund
about $4,000 of the $685. 900 expended
for a new school building because the
former amount was in excess Of the
debt limtt-the members Of the school
l hnn ~ ~ -~A1 ~
sponsible If the courts decide against
them.
The Hettinger Journal: Consider
able snow has been falling for the past
week and now the ground has a cover
ing Of several inches which will put
the ground in fine condition to start
the grain and grass, as the frost is
nearly all out of the ground and the
moisture will be absorbed as fast as
it melts.
In a number of communities officials
and business men r paying some
attention to the usefulness Of the
erection Of guide posts. a. post that
will stand the elements and neither
rust or corrode. There Is a demand
for this practical improvement, and a
number of townships are considering
the erection Of such q post at the prin-
cipal crossroads
The extension of the Midland road
from Wimbledon northeast to Coop
erstown Is indicated his year BY
numerous active preparations now go
ing on. Among these is securing the
right Of way by Agent Britt Of James
town for the line Of road between
Wimbledon and CooperstowR. It II
reported that Cooperstown has offered
the company a substantial bonus and
favorable local advantages.
The Portal International: L. A
Welsher thoroughly believes in diver,
siied farming. While many of tht
farmers have been asleep and dream
ing how many bushels Of wheat they
are going to harvest per acre mex
year, he has been feeding hogs. Las
Saturday he brought in a carload o.
hogs, siKty-one in number, which III
sold to Smith e. Donahue of Flaxton
for IN cents per pound, amounting tt
81, 052.25. These hogs averaged $17.2I
per head. Ii you are not raising hogs
why not? ~,
More school consolidation. A
ment is on foot to attach nine quarter
sections Of the northwest corner o
Rutland township to F'orman schoo
district for school and school-tax pur
poses. The Rutland district has beel
obliged to pay Forfnan district a good
ly sum each year in the past for tut