The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-06-12

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the small parks facing the railroad
right of way and the band has agreed
to give them free concerts at least
once a week during the summer.
The Helendale township Lutheran
church, nea Leonard, was recently
dedicated. The ediice is completely
appointed INC the service was a most
impressive one. The sermon was
preached by Rev. j. N. Kildahl, presi-
dent Of the college at Mortified, MINI.
The Boy Scouts at Bismarck are
to have a market day July II, and
they will be joined by boys from the
surrounding towns and communities.
The boy who a the proof of killing
the greatest hummer Of gophers will
be presented with a Winchester re-
peating rifle.
The commercial club of Grafton
has planned a booster" tour on June
16, the itinerary to include visits to
Mimic, Ardoch, Forest River, Conway,
Fordville, Lankin, Adams, Eninburg.
Park River. Dinner will be served at
Fordville where a big celebration is to
be held on that date and supper will
be served at Park River. The Graf
ton band will dispense music at all
stops.
Westhope Standard: A couple Of
| Westhope lads got pinched and fined
the other day for fracturing the speed
ordinance and The Standard wants to-
know why the men who fracture the
ordinances several times a day are
not given a dose of the same kind, al
SO the fellows who fail to buy an auto
| lioareo fprt1I n taIv fnr tho 1ajS +ho,,
were probably not old enough to vote
this year.
August Skoog. a farmer and a
single man living near Wolf Butte,
while driving across the track at
Reeder on Monday evening vas struck
by the Columbian, one of the fast
through Milwaukee trains which does
not stop at Reeder, and injured so
badly that he died within half
hour. One Of his horses was also Ny
ed and the wagon demolished. Skoog's
home was at Wilmar, MINI.
Assessor Malen of Darlington has
completed his work and finds consider
ably more property that is taxable
than was here a year ago.. His fig
ures show that the 1914 real estate
and improvements is valued at $780,
236. whereas a year g the figures
were $170,773 8. The same rate Of
increase was found in personal prop
erty. the figures for 1914 being $117,-
t59 and for a year ago $111,866.
The two schools in the Erbstroesser
district near Leonard Miss Sullivan
and Miss Bracht, teachers, held a
joint entertainment and picnic in Au-
plISt FrhStropSSer'c oroye onrOco tho
Maple river from his residence on
Friday of last week. The teachers had
J made large preparations for the event
and the pupils were SO we'll trained the
| entire program was given with per-
feet smoothness, rejecting great cred
} it on all concerned.
, The crop prospects for Cavalier
county as a whole are very favorable,
according to the county papers. With
( the seeding finished about ten days
earlier than the average year, all that
can be lone is to wait for develop
5 ments on the part of the weather man,
The weather has been right and the
growth sufficiently rapid to enable
those who tried to kill weeds to do a
good job, and the well farmed land
will show a good clean crop. Some of
g the early seeding is Weedy and those
: who follow the slip shod methods OF
e farming can reasonably expect a good
crop of weeds instead Of grain.
For more than twenty years two
veterans Of the civil war resided to-
gether at Leonard, Engerton Watts
:, and J. L. Smith and in all G.. A. r. do
ings they were always together and
miserable. Death parted the two last
December. May 80 this year, Memoir
iai day it was a pathetic sight to see
Veteran Smith, lonely and alone wend-
ing his way to the local cemetery
where he planted a flag on the a
t of his long time comrade and strewed
the bare green sod with the best ~toi
flowers obtainable and after it was
e done some time was spent in deer
e meditation with his eyes resting or