The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-05
CITY IN BRIEF
For good photos see Erickson.-Advt
Erickson photographs everybody.
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Erickson photographs everybody.
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The gift shop Of Ruth L. Pelton at
Holderman's Hat shop.-Advt.
The complete shop, engraving, print
Ing, blank book. knight Printing Co.
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Engraved and embossed work OF
every description. knight Printing CO..
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Your printing Is appreciated at
Ulsaker Printing Co.. 315 Broadway.
Phone 791.-Advt.
When you want office equipment,
from desk to note heads, go to Walker
Bros. &c Hardy.-Advt.
Thorn Olsen made petition for
naturalization at the office Of the
clerk Of court this morning.
The Christian Science Monitor is for
sale at the Broadway and Waldorf
news stands. A clean daily newspa-
per for the home.-Advt.
The dictaphone enables you to do
better work and more of it. Your
s~tenographer writes more letters, and
does it more easily. Call up Walker
Bros. & Hardy and ask for a demon
stration.-Advt.
This is the time Of year when every
business concern is ready to consider
the transferring Of it's papers and rec
ords. Before doing SO, see us about
duplicate equipment. Walker Bros.
& Hardy.-Advt.
The county commissioners are in
session today, and will continue to-
morrow also. The matter of the sale
&c -1END l1Z~l~ --l~s
morrow, is the chief thing of interest
at this session.
Today is the opening of the second
term in the "Y" gas tractor school,
and there Is a largely increased en-
rollment. The evening school opens
tonight also, which probably partially
accounts for the increased enrolment.
Sen. George E. Duis of Grand Forks,
former mayor of that city and recent
ly mentioned for the democratic
nomination for congress from the
First Congressional district, spent
Sunday In the city a guest at the
Gardner hotel. .
w. T. Perkins, long a resident of
Bismarck, and well known in this
city, has been named regent of the
University Of Washington; at Seattle.
Mr.. Perkins is president of the North
ern Securities Co, Of Seattle, and of
three state banks, as well as director
of a number of banks and trust COM
panies. g. ,. ..s -
George P. Jones of LaMoure, we'll
known owe the, state as Jones of
Rock, spent Saturday and Sunday in
the city at the Gardner hotel. 1t is
understood there is a probability of
Mr. 81. 1OnaSn 5IInJ1in0 oooir -t for tha
democratic nomination for governor,
for which he was defeated two years
ago by Frank 0. Hellstrom.
Miss Marie Mccormick of this city
will contribute a group of fine songs
to the programme for the next regu-
lar concert Of the Minneapolis Thurs
day Musical, Jan. s, and the group
will comprise Minstrel Boy, air The
Moreen; Low Backed Car, MY Loves
An Arbutus, The Pretty Girl Milking
Her Cow; oh Dear! What Can the
Matter Be? ~(Ireland). The Thursday
Musical is one Of the exclusive organ
izations in the flour city and the pro-
grapmme makers are reputed very dis
c~r1ninating in their selection of those
who are to appear.
Sen. w. P. Porterfield took his de-
parture from the city last night for
his winters vacation in the south.
He will proceed at once to Pass
Christian, Miss, where President Will
so mis- at present spending his vaca-
ton. The Fargo senator will spend a
few weeks there as the guest of his
former partner, w. Il. Fout, before he
goes to Ocean Springs in the same
state where he will visit Mr.. and Mrs.
j. r. Edwards. formerly Of Fargo. At
ter a trip to Costa Rica, Mr.. Porter
field will return home in March,
stopping on his way IN Kansas City
to visit his brother, Judge Portertield
of that city, and In Chicago.