The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-27

Nelson county are satisfactory.
Don't overlook that little but i'm
portant item Of hail insurance.
Col. NJ. A. Hildreth, of Fargo, will
make the Memorial day address at
Mayville.
A beautiful school garden at
| Churches Ferry Is one Of the attrac-
| tions of the town.
The name of the Johnston State
bank at Marion has been changed to
| the Marion state Bank.
HORTICULTURE was thoroughly discuss
ed at a. recent meeting of the farmers
club at Glendale, near Hope.
The operahouse at Neche is furnish
ed free of charge to the Neche mill
tary band for practice purposes.
The Old Settlers association of
Richland county will hold it's annual
meeting at Wyndn1ere, June 1S and
10.
AT a blowing bee southeast of Itch
Vile twelve plows in action turned
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day.
A rare specimen Of a petriied
stump, from the Bad Lands, adorns
the front yard of st. Joseph's hospital
at Dickinson.
The plant of the Dickinson Fire and
Pressed Brick Co., is working at high
pressure. filling orders for the west,
r-I ,,o3-%o -, ToraHo
The editor of The Litchville Bulletin
makes the following political forecast,
that A. P. Hansen of Barnes county
will be the next speaker Of the house
at Bismarck. .
Bernt Anderson is again a candidate
for the legislature from Churches Fer
ry. He is considered a good man
for the job. both for home constituents
and the state at large.
One farmer at Milo, RoIette county,
Euuietly went to work and planted
| forty acres of corn, greatly to the sur
prise of his neighbours, who considered
him very Venturesome.
A Dickinson man recently left Roam
Okc City. Va, at $50 one Saturday
morning, and the following Monday
stepped off the train in Dickinson at
FPS p. m, after covering 1000 miles
in round figures.
Stark county has 4,440 school chill
dren for whom the school authorities
will receive $13,675 from the state ap-
portionment fund, the city Of Dickin-
son has 1881 school children, for whom
it will receive nearly $4,000.
Cavalier County Republican,: Corn
and potato planting was general this
last week and the county will greatly
increase it's corn acreage this year.
Many would like to plant a larger
! acreage of potatoes if good seed were
| easily obtainable.
Parents Day is a feature of the clos
ing school days at Churches Ferry. 1t
was established a few years ago, and
much good has been accomplished, as
4 on tina day the parents visit the
schools, and view the work of the chill
dren during the last year..
improvements at he Dickinson
cemetery are attracting a great deal OF
attention. Much good work has been
ions by individual lot owners, under
the inspiration of Miss Crowl, the en-
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of the cemetery association.
Frank kim, who was popular as a
hotel man at Dickinson in the carly
nineties, died a few days age He was
one of the early settlers at Bismarck,
and was prominent in the freighting
business from points on the Northern
Pacific to the Black Hills. He was
born in Milwaukee, Wis, fifty years
ago.
People at Portal and vicinity will be
busy the end of the month. The coun-
ty high school declamatory contest
will be held at Portal, Friday evening,
May 20. The field and track meet at
Bowbells Saturday, May 80, and the
spelling contest at Flaxton, Friday
evening, June 8.
The 1914 class of the Dickinson high
school will number fifteen young men
and women. The baccalaureate ser
mon was preached by Rev. j. c.. Nor
rison, May "a. Commencement day is
4 Friday, May 20. when the address
: will be made by President Crane OF
the normal school at Minot.
The Mimic Journal: The rain on
Tuesday did all kinds of good. Not
ina the ground was really SuilSTlIS
for moisture, but the crop is pretty
, we'll in, n the moisture came along
as a booster" n the result is a
surprising growth. Fields turn greer
almost in a night and the growth is
3 started in splendid shape.
Senator Mcdowell addressed
gathering of farmers in the interest
e of building a new school building ir
Pearl Lake township, southeast o!
Marion. He gave one Of his fins
talks on the school situation in this
great state, and told the farmers how
G they could build a new school at thu
very best advantage, a subject 81
n which he is an apt authority.
Mayville Tribune: Already cars o
horses and equipment have gone for
ward on the 500, and work on thu
new extension west of Plaza is beint
started. The 500 will build thi
year across the reservation AM
. into Montana. An immense brtdg
will span the Missouri and once thi
important engineering feat Is com
u u pleted the construction work west
= ward will move very rapidly.
u Wyndmere Pioneer: If present plan
mature a nursery is to be. started nea
Wyndmere which will be in operatlo
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