The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-10
North Dakota
l. Kernels
Minot plans a big booster campaign.

Jan. %.
The snuff law goes to the supreme
court.
Evangelistic services will be held at
Casselton.
w. w. Duncan, a prominent Minot
merchant, has disappeared.
North Dakota's balmy summer
weather caught a severe chill.
The Tri-State convention at Fargo
Jan. 20 to % will draw a great throng
from every part Of the northwest.
The democratic love feast, scheduled
for Minot Feb. IL was postponed to
Feb: II so John Burke could be in at
tendance.
Bismarck Tribune: The times when
a farmers personal knowledge Of
finance was limited to a very faulty
Judgment Of gold bricks are away
back in the past.
Morris Lawyer, the 15-year-old SON
OF a farmer living thirteen miles
northeast Of Devils Lake, had a toe
amputated this week, the result Of a
bufn received eleven years ago when
~N~ WY SLNPPEA va So{itS Ol4 l3lliS
grass.
More than a dozen patients Of the
North Dakota insane asylum at James
town are afflicted with smallpox. and
officials Of the institution are using
every precautton in an effort to head
Off the further spread of the disease.
Asylum officials believe the disease
was brought to the institution by a
new nnflpnt CnLnrn1 yTnn1Fo a on
The Bismarck auditorium was given
a severe test to an extent which
would guarantee it against any crowds
Which might be placed in it. In each
balcony chair was placed weights to
the extent of 200 pounds. According
to statistics the average man weighs
IA pounds. This gives a leeway of
ffty-siX pounds per head for every
to it's capacity.
Representatives of ten banks of
North Dakota. in which the TalIman |
Investment Co. Of Wilmar, Mimi, is
interested. will meet at Grand Forks !
next Wednesday to confer with D. M.
Tailman, president of the WiIImar
concern. The investment company |
a. a large interest in the state banks |
at a number Of points in the western
part OF h state, including Powers
Lake Antler, MaXbass and Towner.
Stutsman County Democrat: Sec
rotary Houston is of the opinion that
there isn't any reason why farmers,
with their excellent land security, |
should not have cheaper rates Of in
teTesr. Ine only reason that has here
tofore existed has been that the sur
Plus capital of their section, which
should have been available for them,
was down in New York working for |
the stock SPECTATORS. The presidents
currency bill aims to cut off this mon
ely siphon.
Henry Tierney, an insane man COM
mltted to the asylum, did considerable !
to the plumbing and the
shower bath fixtures in the county Jail
Jamestown. He became very yio-
efforts Of the sheriff, and broke the
fixtures and allowed the water to run
onto the floor of the Jail. before he
could be Subdued. He was taken to
the state hospital, after having been
v~accinated for tw~enty-four hours be-
fore he could be admitted.
Charges have been made against
States Atty. S. G.. Skulason of La
.ota, seeking his removal from office
the plea Of inten1perance and con-
duct unbecoming an attorney. The
charges are recitei by several Nell
county business men, and were
placed before Governor Hanna YES
terday Sku1ason is known through
out the state n is q son-in-law of
late United States Senator Martin
N: johnson. He IS serving his second
term as states attorney.
The LidgerWood Monitor tells of a
DAD accident north of that city, last
wednesday afternoon. Frank MIanV-
nlcka was driving a team home from
Wyndmere, and when about nine miles
north OF LidgerWood his team became
n ran away, throwing
him out Of the wagon and the wheel
Sunlng over him. His knee was dis
located and one Of his hip bones was
He was picked up by an auto
md taken to Lidgerwood, where the |
injury was attended to by DR.. Maertz.
Valley City Times-Record Work
IN the rebuilding of the old depot is
progressing very satisfactorily. All of
he old siding has been removed, as
we'll as the lath n plaster on the
Interior and the workmen are now
preparing to stucco the outside and
the inside. The interior will
,e entirely modern with ladies' and
rentlemen's waiting rooms, toilets and
heat. While it will not be ex-
actly a new depot to all practical pur-
poses it will he. The track nearest the
lepot will be removed and a brick
pavement nut down that will extend
% the second track or about forty
'eet.
Russell Sentinel: 1t is interesting
% note the heavy shipments Of hogs
rom all parts of the state, even from
remote and newly settled portions,
hog raising is and will be very profit
ible n the numerous cars and train
Dads of hogs that are shipped out.
means the return of large sums of
money TO the farmers throughout the
state, money that is certain in the
profit end and comparatively easily |
The farmers in, the vicinity |
If Russell, Kramer and NeWburg, we
ire gla1 to state, are right there when
t ome to raising hogs. Hence they
ire getting a goodly share of this hog
money.
Bottineau News: The record for
marriage licenses issued the past year
s eight shy of last years record, but
Judge parkway refuses to admit that
he new restrictions placed on mar
'iage in this state are to blame. He
the warm winter we are hav-
and the rather Door crop. And we
of the opinion the Judge is right,
specially as to the Influence Of thai