The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-28
North Dakota
Kernels

There is to be a GOOD Roads Week"
at Beach.
An enterprising mechanic at Bot
ttneau makes cycle cars.
The Northern Pacific has promised
to build stockyards at Ha2en.
The premium list for Bottineau
county fair Is ready for distribution.
Recent moisture at Willow City has
helped to keep the crop conditions
above lar.
The Missouri Slope bankers will as
semble at Mott, In general convention,
June 8.
The spire of the new Roman Catho-
lie church at Beach Is in yours of
completion. .
The seeding Of wheat, oats and
barley has been completed at Neche
and vicinity.
The May apportionment, $532, 900 is
being distributed among the schools
of the state.
The commercial club at the new
town of C~harbonneau will build a hall
for the town. a.,
The Crystal Call is regaling it's read
ers with a special news letter from
the state capital.
Orrien E. Walker Of Rugby will be
principal Of the public schools at
Hamilton next wear
The Lansford Journal hopes the
commercial club of that town will ar
range for a Fourth Of July celebration.
A big Pioneers day is being planned
at Tolna and President McVey of the
state university will make the prin-
cipal address.
George A. Monteith. Of Finley, has
been elected q state delegate to at
tend the head am of the Woodmen,
at Toledo. o.
The seeding Of small grains is a.
thing Of the past at Wyndmere and
Vicinity for this season and corn plant
ing, having an increased acreage. Ia
being rushed,
Telegraph construction crews are
nusy on the Northern Pacific line
through Mercer county, being a part
OF the construction work which was
suspended laSt fall for the winter.
Wolford township. according to AS
SCISSOR Creamy, has 108 voters. or
these ninety registered as republicans.
ten as democrats, six as socialists. and
two refused to give their politics-or
else didn't have any.
The Rolla high school debating team
lost the decision in the contest with
the finals at Grand Forks. The debat-
ers, the two defamation contestants,
and other Rolla visitors at the uni
Vers1ty were royalty entertained and
thoroughly enjoyed themselves during
their visit.
A gang Of alleged jokers made a
recent visit to the Hotel Sevilla, at
Devils Lake, and made it their BUSH
ness to ring the bell Of every room in
the building during the early morning
hours. Manager Wilson knows the
men who turned the trick, and it is
eitner a public apology or prosecution
Tor the offense committed.
Robert Norheim the well known at
torney n politician of Mckenzie
county. according to a postal a to
The Mckenzie County Journal was the
escort for a party Of thirty-two North
Dakotans who were sight seeing in
London, May S. The party exnected
70 see the sights Of Berlin, German,
May s.
me Knife river has been very
nigh lately or since the heavy rains
out 1t is not receding to where people
can cross without going miles around.
Ihe people of Hazen and those south
VIII be happy and greatly convenience
cd When the new steel bridge Is built
which has been promised to be put in
sometime in July.
The Willow City Eagle: A fund was
o on s4 last yea for good roads dem
o~nstration purposes and the county
commissioners have planned to build a
cfoss-country road that will be .
boon to the county. The road will start
at overly on the east boundary of the
county and run to Omemee, run one
mile north from there to the township
me and thence straight west to the
western county line.
The New England territory. Het-
finger county, was visited with anoth-
er soaking rain on Sunday night and
crop conditions couldn't be better, The
only complaint is that some wheat
could not be sowed two weeks ago on
account of the wet weather and that
some other crop Will have to be nut in
TO take its place, or leave the land to
be summer fallowed. The corn and flax
acreage will be increased because of
the delay in wheat seeding.
According to a Mott paper, a Trail
county assessor Is alleged to have
worked his diplomacy on voters whom
ne knew to be progressive republicans,
by simply asking them whether they
were progressive, and would sign them
up accordingly. In Hettinger count
a socialist assessor Is alleged to have
worked a similar game, but eleven
voters who signed UP Internationally
as socialists were unable to make the
change before the county auditor had
received the records.
The Mott Spotlight: Farmers who
took to the raising Of alfalfa in Het-
finger county are the very men today
who are mighty glad Of 1t. Many who
put In small patches a year ago are now
preparing their land for from ten to
twenty acres. This week the editor
obtained possession OF some plants
from the farm of Henry Larscheid in
Berry township. Already this year the
Larscheid alfalfa field has attained a
growth of at least twelve inches,
which means that the first crop will
be cut 500 after June /.
A warning has been SEM out from
New York regarding a lot OF. Syrians,
Turks, etc., who are swarming this
country under the s1lisa of being sent
out as solicitors for funds for the sup