The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-02

The ghost Of county division has
a"ain appeared in Morton county.
Many ura school teachers got mar
ried during the holiday vacation.
Marquis seed wheat is here is the
brief announcement made in many
state papers.
Hazelton is to have a lighting sys-
tenn for the streets of the village, both
business and residence streets.
sons of Norway at Minot had a
Christmas celebration, banquet and
dancing party which vas immense.
Editor Dence Of The Belfeld Times
we'll knows how to make the best OF
the purely local news at his disposal.
The First National bank of Willow
City is to enlarge the scope of it's work
of encouraging the raising of corn and
diversified farming.
The current issue of The News at
Bottineau is embelllshed with q big
half-tone view of the school Of forest
ry n a group Of the studenth.
The Missouri river at Bismarck has
not yet frozen over. Old timers say
1t has been many years since the river
has remained open to SO late a date.
Bottineau farmers are realizing the
benefits derived under well organizes
farmers clubs and cooperation with
an efficient county agricultural agent.
Seelct dancing parties given by the
Eastern Star chapter at Minot are
very popular-a feature is the splen-
did music supplied by the Quigley or
chestra.
E~nterprising ONE church workers
at Hazelton are to publish a cook
book designed to be Of great practical
assistance to both young and old
h~ousekeepers.
The new Marquis wheat seems to
be growing in favor n state millers
next spring-its milling and yielding
qualities are emphasized.
An itinerant speaker on socialism.
Leon Durocher, made himself unpop-
ular at Wolford by enga ging in an al
legged debate which he is said to engi-
neer for his own financial benefit.
Glen Ulin News: When in the city
this week, our old friend, John Blood
good, of New Salem, informed us that
the progressive party will have a full
state and county ticket in the field at.
the. next eelction. Mr.. Bloodgood Is
the organizer for this county and he
says old Morton will go progressive
as sure as shootin'.
The Leeds News: North Dakota,
dirt seems to have about everything
in it that is necessary to make a for
tune in any line of business. Now
comes the discovery that UP near
Leith, while parties were sinking 81
shaft for a Ignite mine, they found a
clay deposit, said to be the finest in
the northwest. 1t is practically unlim-
tied, and experts say that it is e9peJ
cially adapted to the making of tile.
A feature Of the Christmas display
made in the Corbett meat market at
and decorated hog weighing 800
pounds and another was a hog which
weighed no pounds on the hoof and
netted the owner $60-the animals
were fattened on corn raised by he
seller. The poultry and other meats
shown were all local products ana
properly cured for sale. This In a.
small village west Of Dickinson.
Ninety-fve new banking institu-
lions have been organized in the Mis-
souri, slope district within the last
ten yeads, according to q statement
prepared by Mandan financiers. Ten
years ago only five banks were oper-
ating in North Dakota southwest of
the Missouri. Loans have grown
from 1888, 900 in 1898 to $S,S4O, 900 this
year; banking properties have in
creased in value from $42,0 200 to $685.
600; the capital has increased from
$500, 600 to 1883, 600, while deposits
have grown from $325,00O to $11, 200,-
600.
Bismarck Tribune: A man by he
name of Billy Schultz arrived in Raj
elgh a short time ago from the south,
and was employed by Manager F. l..
Bachmeier, of one Of the Raleigh ele-
vators in that place. Schultz proved
to be Of a quarrelsome nature and of
a disposition to shirk his work. When
ordered by Bachmeier to get busy with
his work, Schultz drew a gum, maxi
ing an assault, Bachmeier caught the
gun, taking it from his assailant and
administered to him a sound thresh-
ing. Schultz was CARED into a res
taurant in an unconscious condition,
but was restored later.
"The Indians are in a good average
condition IN the Standing Rock agen-
cy," said E. D. White, an engineer
in the government employ at the
Standing Rock Agency Agricultural
school, who was in Bismarck recently.
White is 48 years of. age, and is a
full blood Sioux. He has lived on the
standing Rock agency the greater
part Of his life and knows the condi-
tons there thoroughly. He was edu-
Gated at st. Mary's training school
at Des PLANES, near Chicago, where
he was trained as an engineer. and
has been in the employ Of the gov
eminent in that capacity since 1887.
A steam laundry is being installed at
the agency agricultural school and
White came here to secure Informal
ton as to what modern machinery is
needed. He has been spending the
week with Superintendent Davis at
the Indian school here, and was favor
ably impressed with that institution.
He said he had not been in Bismarck
since he, with other Indians, were
transferred from the Berthold reser-
walton to Standing Rock and maryeled
at the great progress made here.
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