The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-24

Farmers heal Bowman are adding
pure blood sires to their cattle herds.
The Wasllburn Leader does not suf-
fer for the wan of legal ADVERTISING.
Better postal service is asked for
west of Fayette and the new office at
Grassy Butte.
The annual convention of the
Equity union will be held It Mott
next winter.
Dickinson contributed several stu
dents to the agricultural college, Far
go, for the winter term.
The annual masquerade ball given
by. the Ladies of the Maccabees at
Dickinson was a success.
Stanton has a Shakespeare club and
a thorough study of The Tanning Of
the ShreW is to be made.
There are sixteen honor pupils in
the Hettinger High school who recciv-
ed a class average Of 80 per cent for
the period before the holidays, five Of
them in civics.
The Bowman Citizen: The Dakota
& Montana Telephone Co., nave made
arrangements to give GU a daily
weather report from each Of it's local
exchanges along the line.
There was a recent scarcity of kero-
sene at Washburn. BY accident a tank
Of gasoline was emptied into the kero-
sene storage tank. Fortunately the
mistake was soon discovered and no
mishap resulted.
The German State bank Of Stanton
opened up for business in the building
formerly occupied by the Stanton
State bank. The fixtures of the Ger
man State bank were taken to Krem,
and will be used by the Krem State
bank. This new location is much more
desirable and will enable them to
handle their large volume Of business
with greater ease.
r. r. Morris, one Of the Transfers
hauling coal from the bitulnina mine,
driving one of John Satterlund's
teams, hauled in d load to Washburn
which weighed owe five tons. There
is no wagon scale in town that will
weigh over five tons, SO the exact
weight Of the o a is unknown. 1t is
believed to be the heaviest load ever |
hauled by n team from the mine.
Washburn Leader: There certainly
is something solid and substantial be- |
hind the Mercer county boom. Re-
Gently several thousand bricks were
ordered by the Adam Hannah bank
ing concern of Minneapolis for the
erection of two substantial buildings
along the Spring Creek line of the N.
P, west from Stanton-one at Hazen
and the other at Olanta or Golden
Valley.
H. E. Easton north of Sentinel Butte
keeps books and systemizes his farm
affairs. From three cows his family
had all the cream and milk necessary
for his family of six persons, raised
four calves and his wife sold 1857
worth of butter. He started the year
with SO chickens. raised so more and
sold S75.27 worth of eggs as we'll as
having eggs and chicken for table
use right along. These three cows
and fifty chickens have paid the
grocery bills for his family Of six.
The clerical force in the Office of the
commissioner of agriculture at Bis
marck has had a busy time the past
few months re-recording livestock
brands and 1t will keep the clerks 60
ing for the balance of the month to
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the last legislature provided that all
brands not re-recorded by Dec. i,
1913. would be declared abandoned
after Jan. ], 1914, and new certificates
issued to those who made application
! to re-record. About $500 of the orig
inal brand holders made application to
re-record in time and some 500 have
since made application to have their
old brands re-instated. Commission
er G~ilbreath has sent final notice to
those having incomplete applications
that the limit set for such cases Isl
Jan. 25.
The Northern Pacific Ry. Co. shows
by actions that it intends pushing the
construction of the new branch line
through Dunn county by putting a To-
eating party into the field west of
Dunn Center, says The Pioneer at
Mott. The party, under the direction |
Of Engineer Norman Woody, will be |
camped in the Bad Lands, about twen-
ty miles west Of Dunn Center, at a |
point ten or twelve miles northwest
of Fayette. Their purpose will be the
revising of the present located line,
which runs south of the Kildeer
mountains and into the heart Of the
| rich Mary country, with q view to OBJ
tanning a better grade through the
| Bad Lands. The Western Dakota
railway, as the branch is called; runs
north, and west of Stanton, through
! Mercer county n along the valley of
| Spring creek into Dunn county. The
| terminal will be Sidney, Mont, 140
miles from Stanton.