The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-02-16

ing was recently sold in communities
tributary to Verona.
The stage of the public hall at Cogs-
well has been enabellished with a new
drop curtain of %freproof material.
The Northern Pacific has promised
considerable improvement In the yards
and buildings al Sheldon soon after
the spring breakup.
Olof o. Guttu is being held in the
county Jail at Bottineau On the charge
Of attempting to kill his wife, and the
hired man. Andrew Lokken.
It is evident that farmers in the re-
mote parts of the state are going to
| exercise great care this year in the
selection Of their seed corn.
New financial interests have invest
| &c in the roller mill at Krern, an en-
| terprise which is particularly success
full in that part Of Mercer county.
Superintendent Lorin Of Morton
county reports a growing interest In
the consolidated school system In the
southwestern part Of the county.
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farming activities In Cavalier county,
has contracts signed for 600 acres of
alfalfa for the coming season.
The Parents league at Enderiin,
after thorough investigation, have de-
cided that the school building must be
enlarged and otherwise improved.
The home of Gust Johannson and
family, at the foot Of one of the buttes
north of Fryburg, vas destroyed by
fire. caused by a defective stove pipe.
Excavations have been started for a
town hall at Alpha, a. small town near
! Beach, which will be completed his
winter. It will also be used for lodge
meetings.
A Bismarck firm has completed a
storage of 5000 tons of Ice, doing the
work in four weeks, finding employ
ment for sixty-two men and thirty
FIVE teams.
Sheriff Kunkel of Wells county ar
rested Joseph KeifeT, who was wanted
in Burleigh for securing money under
false pretense from a bank at Regain.
keifer vas taken to Bismarck to stand
trial.
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Stutsman county was organized at
Pingree, with J. NJ. Smith, president;
c. B. zoos, vice president, and Andrew
Mckay, secretary.
Sheep raising or the Red Lake VAL
ley Stock farm, near Burnstad. Logan
county, Is a profitable Investment
sixty lambs have been added to the
flock already this year.
The term Of district court which has
been held at Linton the past ten days
has adjourned and Judge Nuessle has
returned to Bismarck. A large num-
Der of cases were disposed of.
Secretary Newcomb of the Valley
City normal announces the fifth annu-
al convention Of the North Dakota So
ciety for the Friendless to be held at
Valley City Feb. rs and &c, 1914.
Hancock Bros, Fargo, have been
new banking house which the Scandi7
navian American bank at Grafton
proposes to build the coming season.
L. S. Thorp of Norway township,
Trail county, won the first prize in
the professional class at Grand Forks
for the best ten ears Of corn raised
in North Dakota, and a young son Of
his won the third prize.
President Hitler of the Mayville
Normal will attend the conference Of
normal school presidents at Chicago
next week, and from there will go to
Richmond. Va. to attend a big edu-
~cational meeting.
The cultivation of corn and the
choice Of seed for that cereal seems
to be the prominent subject for dis
cussion and enlightenment at meet
ings of farmers clubs in different
parts Of the state.
The big potato meeting called to be
held at Sheldon, March 3, is being an
%ticipated by tributary growers. The
committee in charge has assembled
considerable data On the subject Of
marketing potatoes.
Grafton business men appreciate a
dispatch of eastern mail via the
Northern Pacific at 9:19 p. m. Direct
pouches for the cities and points east
will be forwarded-the service mean
twelve hours quicker delivery.
The La Moure Echo: Judging from
the generous number of editorial bou-
quets that the press boys are throw
ing at Judge Spalding, he will be re-
elected to the supreme bench without
serious opposition. Worthiness GEN
orally begets hearty endorsement.
The district meeting Of Odd Fellows
| has been called to meet at Langdon,
Feb. IT. Grand lodge officers will at
tend, there will be conferences Of the
three degrees, Friendship, Love and
Truth. and a banquet will be furnished
by the ladies of the Rebekah lodge.
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Jordan Of The Enterprise at Cogs-
we'll is occasionally interestingly sar-
castle. In, his current issue he prints
! the following: 1.-THE Forman News an
nounces there will be a few interest
ing political items in that paper for
which the editor will be entirely re-
| sponsible'. This will be a radical de-
parture from the curse pursued by
The News in the past, but is good
news-if true" g., ". ..-
Walsh County Record: Word reach
ed the postoffice here Monday that
after March Is the lakewood postoffce
would be discontinued. The mail will
be supplied from this point. The Oak
wood p~ostof1ice was established many
years & and has served a large nunl-
her Of people, but rural routes out Of
this city have gradually reduced the
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