The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-06-24

IbuSOy gives governor HdH1a q DIE
send-off and highly commends him tt
the voters of Pierce county-the apel
says that the record of Mr.. Hanna is
his sufficient guaranty.
The recent teachers institute held
at Langdon was the best ever held in
that part of the state. Over 100 were
in attendance and they demonstrated
enthusiasm and interest which was
most gratifying to the conductor and
his aides.
1t is a common occurrence to see
upwards Of fifty cans of cream on the
railroad platform at Mandan, con-
signed to creamerieS at New Salem,
Glen Ullen, Fargo and other points
what about establishing that creamery
by business men?
Tennis is taking in Medina and
several courts have been fixed I'D By
lovers Of this outdoor sport for their
use. Theodore Stramblad and e. F.
LANCER are the prime factors in this
movement and are getting quite a
number Of the young folks interested
in the game.
The recent Good Roads day at Rug
by was profitable and entertaining. A
4ScIAI was LLS aLICIlud1C6 VI - w
King, the inventor of the well known
drag of that name. Mr.. King gave a
practical address to the upwards of
1000 people in attendance.
The Rebekah lodge at Paramount at
tended a big meeting of the recently
organized lodge at Wahpeton and as
sisted very prominently in the initia-
ton Of thirty candidates. Paramount
lodge is distinguished for having a
very competent degree team, possibly
n of the best in the state for making
the works" lastingly impressive.
The Pembina Pioneer Press: The
sidewalk crew will be about done
with their work for this season this
week and will leave but few distant
crossings to be finished another year.
while all the built up part of the city,
except in a few places, as now cement
ed as to walks. But some of us old
timers sometimes wonder how we
will get about if We happened to have
another flood. These walks won't
float.
A prominent farmer, near Taylor,
while in Dickinson a few days age,
said there was more moisture in the
ground than he ever knew ~hereabouts
at this time of the year; that con-
dttions this spring were much like
those in 1891 when Stark county rails
ed the biggest crop in it's history, the
whole country having raised an aver
age Of about thirty bushels of wheat
per acre, and some farmers as high
as forty-fiVe or bushels an acre that
year. ~
A number of farmers near Medina
were struck by lightning as they were
getting their teams ready to go into
the field. The bolt knocked all of the
men down and also twelve horses,
killing two of the horses outright and
injuring a third so it is thought it will
have to be killed. Calfee Williams
injured by the bolt. The horses killed
were two of the best belonging to Mr..
Williams and were partly covered by
insurance.
Young ranchmen at Dickinson are
shipping in n and two-year-old
steers and heifers from Texas. The
view of assisting in restocking his
country with cattle. The changed
conditions necessitates placing the
animals with farmers. a few head at
each farm selected, and as the cattle
could be secured from the shipper on
easy terms most Of them have been
disposed of to farmers on that basis.
However, they still have some of the
cattle to place.
With ready presence of mind, Mrs.
Michael Lenheardt saved her own life
and that of her baby by %grasping tho
reins of the horses attached to a lum-
Der wagon and holding fast to them
with one hand, her other arm cling
in o. 10 thu hohy iii tho horcno bod
dragged her to safety, The woman's
husband was carried to his death in
the swollen Knife river, near Regain,
while attempting to ford the stream in
a lumber wagon. The river had risen
two feet between the time the couple
had forded the stream early in the
morning, and their return home in the
afternoon. .. ~I.
Some statistics and comments on
the history of the Lisbon high school,
printed in the Free Press, should be
of great interest to the patrons and
alumni. Since the establishment of
the high school in 1898, 220 young
men and women have received diplo-
one for the year 1883, was B. S. Ad-
ans, now DR.. Adams of Hibbing,
inn. The following year there were
no graduates, but since that time a
class has passed from h school each
year by the diploma route. About
40 per cent of the school alumni have
attended other institutions of learn
ing after graduation. :.
Mrs. Andrew Dotson of the hotel
at Woodwork had a very narrow es-
cape from being burned to death
Tuesday evening. She had filled the
tank connected with the lighting sys-
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spilled a small quantity on the floor.
She then went to generate the lights,
and in filling the generator with wood
alcohol she ran 1t over, and when she
lighted the generator the flame
Dropped to the. floor, igniting the gas
oline. In trying to put the flames out
her dress caught on fire n both of
her, arms were terribly burned. For
tunately assistance was near and the
flames were extinguished. but not be-
fore Mrs. Dotson sustained severe in
sjurfes.