The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-08-13
North Dakota
Kernels
Burkey has a bank.

Cleveland scheduled a boxing con-
test.
Beach is to have a new motion pic
ture show.
Some editors are living high on
sweet corn.
The people of Stanton want a better
train service.
The Devils Lake Inter-ocean chides
a Fargo editor.
The litigation over a Fargo publica-
ton continues.
North Dakota mills are turning out
some good flour.
Hannaford had a touch Of high life
with the burglars.
The black rust didn't hurt the dairy
cows and the hogs.
Wheat in Mercer county will aver
age about fifteen bushels.
The O'Keefe Bros. of Lansford nave
purchased the Sharon mill. .
Black rust raised cain with some Of
the wheat in Griggs county.
Mckenzie county is erecting a num-
Der of new school buildings.
Around Pekin the crop prospects
were considerably cut down.
M. Sweeney of Minor purchased the
Shaw dray line at Paramount.
Corn and hogs are regarded in Mer-
Ger county as mortgage lfters.
Crop yields and the European war
are ~favortte topics in North Dakota.
Some towns had a successful base
ball season, and there were Others
A number of small children were
crippled by harvesting machines this
year.
Some of General sibley's old camp
sites have been located around Tap
pen.
Violators of the game laws are
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There was excitement at MONTPELIER
when a kid set fire to a haystack near
a house.
In many towns the health boards
are insistent on weeds on vacant lots
being cut.
The section house at Cayuga was
in daylight n considerable
money stolen.
The Aneta line Of the Great North
ern will be the mecca for shooters
again this year.
1t will require more than mediation
to adjust the troubles between the ed
ttOrs at Beach.
Up in Dunn county a scrap over the
seat matter can be started with
little difficulty.
The Northern Pacific will extend its
line only from Golden Valley to Dunn
Center this year
The arguments over the European
war have caused a number of scraps
IN North Dakota.
The war at Beach may not AXE in
as much territory as that of Europe,
but it is just as bitter.
1t is easy to Sc that Emperor Will
helm doesn't take any stock in his
watchful waiting business.
Speakers in the interests of the tenn
perance movement are at work in the
western part Of the state.
The side tracks at Stanton are
crowded with materials for the N. P.
extension to Dunn Center.
The hot weather the last eek O.
July killed off what looked like a
bumper crop in Trail county.
Rust proof" wheat was a success in
Stutsman county and the seed from
the crop will be in great demand.
The board of health found some of
the Stutsman county school buildings
in a decidedly ~unsanitary condition.
Experiments are being conducted to
successfully poison the gophers which
so greatly damage crops in North Da-
kota.
The European war boosted the price
of flour even in North Dakota, where
the people nave so much of the
"makings''.
The Great Northern is constructing
a steel bridge just east of Watford
and will soon have the railroad to
that point.
Women handling guns caused two
fatalities in North Dakota within q
week. One shot her only son and an
other her sister.
There is a great change in the news
paper business in North Dakota. Many
editors now ride in their own autos
and take vacations just like other
people.
The usual number Of shock loading
devices were tried out in North Da-
kota this year. Some seemed to work
quite satisfactorily, and there were
others.
North Dakota farmers are planning
to raise some dairy cattle, a few hogs,
tatoes and oats, instead of wheat. That
will mean a rich state. p
More sanitary grocery stores are re-
ported in North Dakota in proportion
to population than in most states. The
inspection by the pure food represent
atives has done the work.
Governor Hanna had receptions ga