The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-15

seem TO be looking forWard to the ap-
pearance Of the Minneapolis Sym
phony orchestra at Fargo, April II.
In The Devils Lake Inter Ocean OF
April 10, 1884, appeared the first no
tees Of final proof on homesteads In
Ramsey county - the homesteaders
were Franz Zilske and James Brit
ten.
Louis Bale was the first to dc any
wheat seeding in the vicinity Of Gar
April 4. He reports the land in excel
lent condition for the reception of
seed.
Baseball fans at Minor are having
difficulty in arousing the business men
to action. but they are a determined
lot OF young fellows and propose to
see to 1t that the town has a place
on the map of the national game.
There was a heavy. fall Of snow at
BoWdon and vicinity on April 10,
but under the rays Of a. warm sun it
disappeared within tWenty-four hours
and the faramers now are hoping for
a Quicq drying Of the land for seed
ing.
At Medina they expect good rain
showers about July|1;; as. according to
old time weather prophets. there will
be three days Of rain ninety days aft
er a fog an the country about the
town was ~enveloped about a week
ago.
New Salem Journal: The village
Of Flasher held it's first election last
week and elected the following Of
S1Tnrcs HTryfrEn@-. W.,
James D. O'Hanlon, A. r. Middlemas;
clerk, NJ. C. Hoff; treasurer, John p.
Hof.
The enforcement Of all laws. espe-
cially those of sanitation. will be the
policy Of Mayor Noltimier of Churchs
Ferry, and he proposes to make the
lie Of the careless and don't care for
his ~nelghbors' kind Of a citizen very
unhappy. =.
The Glendale Farmers club, Steele
county, meets at the homes Of the
members and at the meeting this week
the subjects to be discussed will be
potato culture. the. farm garden and
pork production-the reading Of the
papers to be interspersed with music
and readings.
This year the Odd Fellows Of the
state will celebrate the ninety-third
anniversary Of the founding Of the
fraternity. by John Wildey and friends
at Baltimore, Md, April t26,' 1921, as an
offshot OF the order, In England, known
as the Manchester Unity OF Odd Eel
Flows. This year the date falls on Sun
day.
Twenty-six road drags have been
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~sioners' of Ward county for use this
spring throughout the county by the
different township supervisors, At
least n drag will be sent to every
township and where a great deal of
work is being done, two and even
three drags will be supplied.
Sherwood Tribune: Now is the time
to swat" the gopher. There's be
thousands of them in June to the hun
dreds there are at. present. 1t is said
that one gopher is often-more often
than not-responsible for the destruc-
ton Of II bushel of wheat. So it's a
pretty good plan to nip as much of
this as possible in the<bud at once.
With considerable force to his argu-
ment, a taxpayer says the officers OF
Mercer county are not making many
friends by conducting their election
campaign by a lot Of alleged mudsling-
ing. The people are looking for eff
cheney rather than an airing Of likes
and dislikes among the candidates. He
says merit will count at the primaries
The ianitor of the courthouse at
Stanton has resigned, but. he ,is such a
gem in the position that everybody
wants him back again-he was partic-
ularly valuable, as he not only kept
the building in the pink of perfection
but, coupled with that work, he was
an enthusiast in the heautifying OF
the grounds surrounding the county
building.
Wyndmere baseball fans got busy
on Monday evening Of last week and
had a meeting. The sentiment among
the representative men of the town
for a winning team was cry strong
and $500 was subscribed in less than
one hour. Several hundred dollars
more were promised in case it was
needed. There will be several paid
men in the team. "-
Hope Pioneer: The meeting held
at the city hall Saturday, by the farm
ers in this end Of the county, was wei.
attended, n the South enc Farm
ers' Shipping association was organ
Iized. The association will be incor-