The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-12

Il 6UhUM AND DAIl
North Dakota
Kernels
The Casselton Reporter locks pros
porous.
The Boosters club Of Gwinner have
called a big meeting Of business men
Of the county for Friday, Jan. 16.
The Catholics of Forman and vicin-
ity are planning on building a new
church at the county seat in the
spring.
Weddings are so frequent and mum
erous at Kindred that the local printer
is always on the hustle to keep enough
in stock.
The autoists at Cogswell and vicin-
ity have made early applications for
1914 licenses SO that cars a he used
now if desired.
City politics at Casselton are getting
animated-one side wants to see new
blood and the other side says leave
well enough alone.
The Cakes Times lauds Editor
Streeter for his services in North Da-
kota newspaperdom, from which he
retires with high honors.
President McVey of the state uni
versitv will be the speaker at the an
nual meeting Of the Casselton Com
mercial club next Tuesday.
City politics at Casselton is getting
Minot, Bismarck and south Of there
are to be blazed by the official associ-
alton for the convenience Of autoists.
A bequest Of $500 was left to the
public library at Casselton by the late
Egerton Watts of Leonard upon con-
dition that a library building be
erected within three years.
I. w Spencer has retired from the
editorial chair of The Globe Gazette at
Wahpeton n has bought the plant,
etc, Of The Wahpeton Times-which
is to be put in the democratic ranks.
James Kneeshaw bought a flock of
seVenty-fVe sheep from J.. A. Dunn at
Hamilton n with other stock Mr..
kneeshaw accumulated recently he
will nave to build another silo before
long.
Anna w. Platter, who with her
three children, for the past three
years has made her home with her
mother-in- law, succumbed to a third
stroke of paralysis at Jamestown. De-
ceased a been an invalid for about
six years and death comes as a re-
lief to her long suffering.
The county commissioners of Penn
blna county r~eorganized, and Com. A.
B. Purdy elected as chairman of the
board. So far the board has been
listening to many complaints relative
to tax n county poor matters. There
is a large amount of county business
before the commissioners to be trans
acted.
Cakes Times: Mrs. J. w. S. Guild
and Mrs. r. d. Twaddle were visitors
from Hecla last week. Mrs. Guild is
a sister Of the late Montgomery Ward
Of Chicago, and has just inherited
100000, left in trust by her brother.
Harry, Lester and Gordon Guild, and
Mrs, Herman Louck, nephews and
niece Of the dead millionaire. Each re-
CeiVed $4,000 in cash.
Cogswell Enterprises: The month OF
December just passed was the warm
est. driest n clearest December in
years. There We're twenty-four clear
days in the month and a snowfall of
one-half inch. amounting to .O5 of an
inch Of water. The highest readings
of the thermometer were on Dec. 9
and Is when it reached SO above zero.
The lowest was Is below on Dec. Is.
The annual meeting of the directors
of the Walsh County Mutual Insur-
ance Co.. held at the secretary's Of
flee in Mimic, was we'll attended. The
annual reports Of the business of the
company for the past yea were act
ed pom and showed the company to
be eminently satisfactory. The re-
ports showed the amount Of insurance
that is being carried by the
is over $771,000 Twenty-one new
members We're taken into the com
pany during III past year.
The Young Mems Farming ~associa-
elton Of Kindred will hold it's annual
poultry show in the town hall of Kin
dred, Jan. IA and Is. In connection
with the show of hens and their con-
sorts there will be exhibits of wheat
and other grains and prizes will be
offered tor a few grasses and potatoes.
Judging and addresses will be by pro-
fessors from the agricultural college
at Fargo. l.. D. Canniff Of Fargo will
judge the poultry which will be sent
from Kindred to the chicken show at
Fargo.
A meeting was held in the Wahpe-
ton armory for the purpose Of or
ganizing the Armory club. A general
invitation was extended to the public
to attend the meeting and a special
invitation was sent to all members of
Co.. | n all former members of the
company who hold an honorable dis
charge, to join the club, the purpose
Of which will be to promote the in
terests of the militia company. About
$50 people attended and a large num-
Der of signatures were secured to the
| pledge for membership in the club.
A hearing of the injunctional pro-
ceedings, a civil action, incidental to
the criminal prosecution of Jos Bo-
LANCER, proprietor Of the York drug
store, was held before Judge c.. w.
Buttz in the chambers of the district
court at Devils Lake. The York
drugstore was closed by a court order
the middle Of December and whether
that INDUCTION will be made perna-
nent will be decided as a result Of
the hearing. States Atty. T.. H.
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