The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-02-28

ing large shipments OF spring goods.
The Braddock News is prospecting
next week it will increase it's issue tc
one of eight pages.
The FryburE Grain & Trading Co
has added a full line OF farm machin-
cry to its elevator business.
The Methodists at Deslac have tax.
en- steps towards securing the appoint.
tnent Of a resident minister.
The Neville Journal advocates the
maintaining OF the stock supply on
the farms. and the building OF silos.
The fourth district meeting of the
North Dakota Federation of Women's
clubs will be held at Wahpeton, April
"a. -
w. A. earns and Thomas G. Johnson
will be opposing candidates for the
office of states attorney for Dunn
county.
Basketball tournament between
teams from Bismarck, Mandan, Dick
inson and Beach is in progress at
Dickinson.
The seats for the new Roman Catho-
lie church at B%raddock' have been in
stalled and the edifice is nearly ready
for divine worship.
The National bank of Wahpeton an
nounces the setting aside of SO, 900
to loan to farmers for he purchase
Of pure blood cattle.
Farmers from Stark county, ILL.,,
haEa hnI0hf frnnfu nf ar1 IN pioC1o III
county. n neal Wahpeton, and the
other west Of Galslut.
a team Of sound Percheron blacks
was sold to a Nelson county farmer
for 1925. The kind Of horse power
exclusively on his farm.
The 500 line has increased it's
freight service in and out of Cakes.
Two trains each way daily. A great
convenience to the travelling pub
lie.
During a fire at Dickey the village
artesian we'll proved equal to the oc-
casion. but the fire department was
handicapped because it had only one
line of hose.
The Dickinson Golf club this year
van AOR a. 1SodlLOllJ SIldSGO
silver loving cup, the gift Of James
c. Young Of Minneapolis. This is the
second cup donated to the club.
Editor Smith Of The Ryder News is
a philosopher, this is what he says:
Some folks are always trying to peel
other peoples onions; they shed man
tears because of what someone else
did or said.
Editor LABEL Of Portland states
that there is more money in Portland
in a minute than in Neville in a year
and yet wonders why Neville should
have a successful lighting plant and
Portland none.
A little tot at Deslac set a piece Of
paper ablaze in its home and, not
knowing what else to do with 1t, threw
1t On the bed nearby, setting fire to
the clothes and causing a blaze which
nearly destroyed the home.
With the proceeds of a load Of seed
barley from the Everett-G erlich farm,
on the Cannonball river, south OF
Dickinson, a Stark county farmer
bought a cream separator and other
equipment for the farm.
There was an exchange OF courtes-
les at a recent meeting Of the Masonic
lodge at Dunseith. The retiring Master
was presented with a beautifully en-
bossed Past Masters apron and he In
turn presented the lodge with a hand
some picture of George WASHINGTON
arrayed in full Masonic regalia.
The Rustler at Woodwork thinks
the commercial club there has been
dormant long enough, and urges the
president and secretary to leave their
trial balances" long enough to call a
meeting, and other people to cut out
factional differences for the benefit Of
the town Of Woodwork.
The Cakes Journal: W. T. Jones
of the Crete country vas trading in
Cakes last Thursday and told the
writer that his silo was a great sue
cess. He had a one piece wood staVe
silo 16x30 feet which holds 1870 tons
and cost him 1858 including founda-
ton and work. 1t look about twenty
acres of corn to fill it, and furnishes
feed for forty head Of cattle for six
months.
A barn belonging to James Hopkins
a farmer near Ryder was recently des-
troyed by fire. The boys had placed
three lighted lanterns around the
pump in the barn to thaw it out, COW
ering the pump and lanterns with q
blanket. The blanket caught fire and
the flames quickly spread. The har~
ness was saved but nothing could be
done to save the building. The loss
amounts to $500, with no insurance.
North Dakota has a Irvine plant at
the ~penitentiary, where the farmers
can get their 1914 binding twine at a
slight advance above the cost price of
manufacture. The quality of the Irvine
is guaranteed as good, or better, than
any Irvine Of similar grade offered up
on the market and any person inter-
ested should write Warden +. S. Tai
colt at Grove, N. D., soon, as the
supply is limited and contracts are now
being made for the seasons delivery.
The CogswelI Enterprise: r. +.
Craigue, the Forman druggist, who
was recently arrested and bound over
to the district court charged with
keeping and maintaining a null
sance, has disappeared, and his
bonds have been forfeited and q bench
warrant issued for his arrest. 1t Is
understood he Is in Minneapolis and
arrangements have been made to re-
imburse his bondsmen. The drug
| stock is said to be heavily m~ortgaged
and the store is temporarily closed.
A farmer southeast of Woodwork
| with his son was engaged in digging a
well, n were down about twenty
five feet. The father did the digging
and the son attended to the windlass.
In some unaccountable manner the
bucket full Of mud slipped off the hook
1 ryhi1n 1afnr ho1YInH I'm onI fall $n fhn