The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-16

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The officers of the State bank at
Cottonwood are seeking a new loca-
tion-an expected railroad line pass
ed the town by.
!, Buffalo contributes about a dozen
young people as students to the higher
institutions of learning-mostly those
in their own state.
Il Lambs ~S-months-old marketed by
C. w. Reichert of Darlington, 1854 Of
them, topped the market at South st.
Paul selling at $T.85 per 100 pounds.
The case of the state VS.. J. w.
George, charged with assault and bat
terry upon the person Of Mrs. George
Bissel Of Minot resulted in q disagree
ment.
The manual training department Is
popular with the boys in the schools
at Lakota. The advanced class is now
doing lathe work and considerable
efficiency is shown.
B.. E. Huffman, a prominent young
farmer living west Of Minnewaukan,
committed suicide by shooting himself
in the temple-doing it while his wife
was preparing supper.
The new consolidated school at
Grace City is completed and pen for
the reception Of school children. Miss
Houlihan Is the principal and she re-
ports an enrolment of 1875 pupils.
The case of Harry Cooley, charged
with removing m~ortgaged property
from the county without the consent
Of the owner, was dismissed at Minot
in county court, by Judge William
Murray.
v. Koehmstedt, diversifyjng farmer
near Voss operates 800 acres. last
year he seeded fifteen acres to corn
which he says produced all the corn
feed he needs for his stock the entire
winter.
A~rnegard, on the Great Northern, is
to have a new depot-a combination
passenger n freight building. A
mixed train Is to be operated between
here and Fairview just as soon as the
poles for the telephone and the tele-
graph lines are in position.
The Mimic Journal: 1t is certainly
some different when in this good state
of North Dakota, skating rink fellows
find themselves up against 1t, be
cause they must wait until January
for weather strong enough to freeze
the ice to a thickness fer their re-
quirements. A salubrious climate has
this fine state Of ours.
Goodrich Citizen: Governor Hanna
promised the people Of his state a
business administration il elected. The
fact that over $3.50, 600 worth of state
bonds have been returned and about
81, 700 worth Of interest On the state
debt has been stopped in the past
three months, should prove that our
governor is keeping his promise.
Mrs. J. L. Dach of Reeder was the
victim of an unfortunate accident
when about to go horseback riding.
She had mounted her horse IL was
picking up her reins when the horse
became frightened and ran away with
her for about a block, when she fell
off and the horse kicked her in he
side, breaking several ribs.
According to The Sentinel Courier
at Cooperstown high class horsefesh
is a~voidable there, Oscar Nuremberg
recently purchased from Hammer
Bros, a pair of Belgian mares 8
months old weighing 1850 pounds.
Syver Odegaard' purchased at the same
time a Percheron mare s months of
age and weighing in the neighborhood
Ol oUu puulluS.
A committee appointed at Manning
last summer to investigate the feast
bility Of q Knife river railroad propo-
sition, has received blue prints of the
proposed line and a report and esti-
mate from the engineer, who made a
trip over the route some weeks ago.
| The members Of the committee are
busy preparing data and statistics for
| USe in connection with the engineers
reports. ...
One of the laws passed by the last
| session of the legislature to go into
| effect Jan. J., was that relative to
health certificate for pure bred cat
| tie. The law prohibits the sale of
pure bred cattle within the state I'M
less the animals are accompanied. by
a health certificate showing that they
have been tested by the livestock
sanitary board with the tuberculin
| and found free from disease. 49,
Judge Coffey did not pass sentence
on Oliver Mackey, former alderman Of
the First ward at jamestown and
prominent business man Of that place,
charged with a statutory crime pre-
ferred by a young girl, as the defense
has been granted more time in which
to prepare their motion for a new trial.
1T is expected that this motion will
be heard in a few days. Mackey is
confined in the county jail, being un-
able to secure bail, which has been
set at $4,000. If a new trial is de-
MED. Attorney Paulson will take an
appeal to the supreme court.
Jamestown Alert: There is an as
sociation in this state made up of the
owners and managers of large tracts
"a F---A 1~~I - 40 -
up these large bodies of land that are
operated as bonanza farms, has been
shown In recent years, but there are
still many such plantations whose ex-
istence in a township OF a. community
Is not regarded as Of any special VAL
ue to such communities Or county.
However, these estates are still in ex-
istence and the management Of such
a farm differs materially from that of
the family farm of 320 acres. .Econo-
mics in the operation of such large
farms are being sought, Inc there is
apparently no near date in the future
when such farms will be broken UP
into smaller. holdings An organiza-
ton of such large farm owners and
managers will have a business meet
ing at Fargo in the near future to dis
cuss questions that arise in the man
agernent of such farms. The tractor
engine, the question of putting on live
stock, the matter of dairying and of
labor will be discussed by such farm
owners. In the meantime the small
farmer n the real estate men are