The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-30
EAST SIDE NOTES

This is spring cleaning ~season-let's
go to it. =. 3 Il. . 81.
The Young Peoples society of the
Swedish Lutheran church will be en-
terta1ned this evening at the home OF
Mrs. E. L., Bjorquist. The hostesses
Tor the occasion will be Miss Johanson
and Miss Wahlgren of the Northwest
ern hospital. ..
From the. Lewis office at Comstoc5
II is learned that north of Halstad
about 80 per cent of the seeding has
been done and the fields now are full
OF water. East OF there and at VOL
Verton not. so much seeding has been
done and fields are covered with wat
er, after the recent four days Of. rain
and at best it will be some time be-
fore work with the drills can be re-
sumed.
l. Up to 8 o'clock last night the rain
gauge at the weather bureau station
in Moorhead recorded 1.76 inches OF
2:20 o'clock. The official reading of
the guage in the Red river shows a
rise Of a title over six inches.
A term of the United States district
court at Fergus Falls will open there
Tuesday next, May 5. One case on
the civil calendar is j. L. Price Brok-
erage Co, Peoria, ILL.,, VS.. Norman Ros-
holt as receiver of the Red River Po-
tato Growerg'. association of. Barnes
county citizens on the petit jury for
this term.
Considerable rain is reported at
Hawley and Hitterdal.
Crooksto7 boosters are looking for
the establishment of a Irvine factory
in that city.
Scarlet fever is said to be spreading
at st. Cloud II health officials are
busy in the effort to stop the spread.
At Little Falls the city council has
refused to grant a saloon license to
Isaac Gottstein, who has been in the
liquor business here for many years.
Little Falls is entitled to twenty-five
saloons, but the council recently pass
eighteen and it now has eliminated one
more.
Howard Kerkamp of Ohio State uni
versity is to be added to the force of
men engaged in the manufacture of
hog cholera serum at the agricultural
college of the University of Minnesota.
Kerkamp will take the place vacated
by the resignation of J.. T. Dinwoodie.
The demand for serum has been large.
and since the resignation Of Din
woodie, H. Preston Hoskins, in charge
of the plant. has been conducting a
search for a man to help with the
work. Kerkamp will take UP his du-
ties May /. He has worked in the de-
partment during three vacations.
A two weeks temperance crusade, in
which the various churches Of Thief
River Falls are. united under the lead
ership of A. c. Rankin, was opened
Sunday. The first meeting was a mems
gathering in the afternoon. In the
evening a mass meeting was largely
attended, crowds ~thronging the doors.
One hundred persons signed the total
abstinence pledge.
Senator Marden is spending a day or
two in st. Paul on business and he will
take>a glance at he political situation.
Mrs. A. j.. Hanson was hostess this
afternoon for the meeting Of the wo-
men OF Grace M, F.. church, at her
home on Fourth avenu south.
E. c.. Schroeder has returned from
Iowa where, he inspected a number or
prominent herds of Holsteir cattle.
At the request Of the conductor OF
Northern Pacific train Mo-. 8, yesterday!
two of the local policemen removed
from the train q woman, believed TO be
insane, and her son who was with her.
The woman refused to give her name
and all that could ba learned was that
she was from Neehah, Wis., and was