The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-06-25

North Dakota
Kernels
The Hotel Brown at New Rockford
has been improved.
Now is the open season for the poll
ticians' cards Of thanks
Park River will have a ch~autauqua,
beginning the week Of July IL.
Fordville, Walsh county, has a nat
ural park Of which it Is very proud.
A circus parade made a detour so
that 1t could be seen by a lifelong
~bedridden boy.
The school officers association of
Eddy county will gather in annual
meeting at New Rockford, June 80.
The ladies' club at Langdon sent a
check for $40 as their contribution to
the Scott memorial monument fund.
Talk about crop prospects! why, if
North Dakota doesn't have the biggest
crop in its history, this season, we'll
never again call a spade a spade, says
The Sheridan Post.
The Park River Commercial club
dined a party Of 100 Grafton boosters
on their arrival in the former city at
6 o'clock in the evening.
Hail Insurance men estimate that
less than 20 per cent Of the recent loss
| Nv has1 tn nA,,4hor~ H4-&. oo,,H%sI
was covered by insurance.
A baseball tournament is in progress
at Inkster, with four crack teams Of
the vicinity competing for honors. The
Gilby band supplies the music.
Good road advocates at Rolla, auto
ed to Bottineau to attend the lecture
on the building Of good roads, by
service.
The ~12-year-old daughter of a
prominent farmer near Ray was made
very happy on receiving a Shetland
pony as a prize she won recently in a
newspaper contest.
The FordviIle Booster club made a
tour of Walsh county which was con-
sidered very successful in its purpose.
The party Travelled in thirteen auto
mobiles and was accompanied by a
brass band.
The Beach fire department receives
$349.SO this year, being a 2 per cent
rebate of the insurance premiums
paid during 1918. This means that
Beach people paid $17,5O0 for fire in
surance protection during 1913.
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A Park River farmer has returned
from the Saskatchewan country, hav-
ing decided that the Red river valley
held too many charms for him to stand
being isolated, the greater part of the
year, sixty miles from a railroad.
Chiefs of police, over the state. are
issuing orders similar to this: Please
observe the law of the road by turn
ing to the right when turning cor
ners, and by blowing horn when APP
preaching vehicles or pedestrians"
The market day enterprise at Bin
ford, the towns first attempt, prov
ed a very successful venture. The at
tendance was encouraging, remark
ably so considering all the conditions.
The business men profited consider
ably by the enterprise commercially
and socially.
The official program for the 1914
Chautauqua assembly at Devils Lake,
which has been termed North Da-
kota's Summer Resort De Luxe" has
been issued. Parties who nave not al
ready secured copies can do so by
mailing their request to E. w. Gilbert
son, secretary.
A number of 500 surveyors have
been at work for a week or more in
the vicinity Of Dimmick lake, north
of Schafer. 1t is reported that the
contractors who have the work Of
grading the 500 line from near Plaza
to the Missouri river, have doubled
their force of men and have orders to
rush the work.
Turtle Mountain Star: The con-
templated change of time n plan Of
running the passenger trains on the
Brandon-Devils Lake line has ap-
| parently little to commend it. 1t
practically shuts out all local traffic
on the line between ST. John. and
Devils Lake, by giving no opportunity
Of returning on the same day.
Golden Valley Chronicle: The
lIIdJOIAIy IdAOoJ AOI ohAy IA S4Ly Z
tons, but in cooperative enterprises
as we'll. The minority in both cases
should submit to the wish Of the many
and assist them in the building up of
their city or company, as the case may
be, instead of attempting to tear down
simply because they couldn't con-
troll the majority. Be men!
Because there are no church build
ings, in communities in the vicinity of
Schafer, does not prevent the holding
Of church services, where there are
schoolhouses and other rooms avail
able, and where no church services
are possible Sunday school Sessions
are conducted by those who have the
welfare of the young people at heart,
and this good work is in progress in the
remotest part of the state.
Walsh County Record: People who
have been driving over the Meridian
road from Grafton to Mimic during 1.-The
past ten days have had an object les
son in the value of dragging roads.
On Sunday afternoon, within fifteen
hours after a downpour of 81 Of an
inch, the editor of The Record drove
his automobile to Mimic. The road
was in almost perfect condition. There
was no mud and no heavy road the