The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-06
North Dakota
Kernels

The Ward County Press association
is in session at Minot.
Several families of new settlers
have arrived at Buchanan and Pin
gree.
Flasher will incorporate as a village,
the proposition carrying by a small
majority.
There are to be elaborate Easter
services in the Presbyterian church at
New Salem.
A Good Samaritan club supplies
llealthful entertainments for the peo-
pie of Logan. ..
The Independent at Minot prints a
good picture of the famous Des Laos
axe bridge.
Wheat thieves at Minot were sent
to the p~enitentiary for two years, by
Judge Leighton.
Live ones at Sheyenne, near Wynd-
mere, wan a farmers telephone line
and connections with other lines.
Nursery agents are ~canvassing the
state-be sure you are right and then
go ahead and don't pay out money n
til you get your goods.
New Ellington, Richland county, has
voted to incorporate the town as a
village, and Veblin. nea there. has
voted to incorporate as a city.
Amid a host of trials and tribula-
tons the attempted recall of President
Henke from the city commission at
Mandan was not successful.
H. A. Springer, a recent caller at
the office of The Pioneer, at Wyndmere,
stated that he had been a resident Of
that township for t~hirty-one years..
Dealers in Richland county report
brisk sales of spreaders, plows. drags,
and seeders-in many cases farmers
are adding to their present plant so
as to facilitate their work.
Insurance men are reminding the
farmers that with the coming of
spring and u1nne there come
storms, big and little and some of
them are destructive hail storms.
A foreign advertising agency tried
to put one over on Editor Parratt Of
The Courier, at Donnybrook, by getting
him to do advertising at a rate much
less than cost. but he respectively de-
clined.
Applicants for ~"handouts," at the
back doors of homes in Surrey are to
be put to work on the streets of the
village, some Of which are rather IN
slightly in spots made vacan by
fires.
William Humphrey, at Logan, has
gone into the business of raising hogs
in earnest-he has fenced eighty acres
for pasture for his herds Of swine, and
this year he will have also a small
flock Of sheep.
The school grounds at Hankinson
are to be made a beauty spot, now
that the school building has been
modernized and there are no insight
ly buildings to mar the perspective
trees hedges and bushes are to be set
out.
Sven A. Hanson, candidate for sup
erintendent of schools of Benson
county, is 81 years Of age, was born
in Texas Of Norwegian-Danish-Ge Ger
man ~parentage. He is a graduate Of
the teachers department Of the Uni
VSISlLy OIL
The ladies of the Alfredian club, at
Leeds, have done a good work in the
way of identifying the interior of the
c=Rr library building. The walls have
tinted, all of the woodwork made
to harmonic in color and dainty cur
tanning hung al the windows.
There are. 200 telephones in use in
Wimbledon md 1.jniy,ifX- -onnrlio- -
the new directory just published there
by the Northwestern Telephone Elk
change Co. A number Of prominent
will be made by the
company in Wimbledon this season.
Some newspapers are like some
merchants, leave old cards
long after the event has come and
quarter column reader Of an
entertainment given March 16 is not
very interesting in a paper dated
April 2.
The town board of Lansford has
voted against the festive gopher. At
a recent meeting the board adopted a
resolution providing for the purchase
Of one ounce of gopher poison for each
quarter section in the tonship TO be
used by the land owners and renters
in an effort to e~Xterminate the pests.
Portland Republican,: In Walsh
the other day, a married woman
and her married daughter each gave
birth to a baby the same day. Both
were boys of the same same complex
ion, size and weight. When the neigh
bors came in they, of course, took the
babies, and in some way got them
mixed. Now neither mother a tell
which baby belongs to her.
Petitions are being circulated among
the farmers, asking the Ward county
commissioners to redeem the old
Ward county fair grounds, which were
sold under foreclosure recently for
$500, about half the actual value,
providing this can be done without
increasing the taxes. The Farmers
clubs are talking of taking over the
grounds ultimately and conducting a
fair.
The plant of The Finley Beacon
was moved into the street one night
recently when the building next door
fire and burned. Editor Mon
teith was called up to the commercial
! rooms, the next evening, and pre-
sentcd with a well-filled purse by the
business men. which more than paid
for the trouble that he had had. Edi-
tor Monteith is far. from being an OBJ
ject of charity, but the business men
wanted tn show their arnranin fio, af