The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-10
CITY IN BRIEF

The complete shop. engraving, print
ing, blank book. Knight Printing Co.
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Engraved n embossed work of
every description. Knight Printing Co.
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See A. V. Miller's Moorhead Con-
f]ectionery Co.'S ad for specials for
Sunday.-AdVt.
For sale-Wild upland hay in stacks
four miles west of Fargo. Gilbert w.
Haggart-Advt.
See A. v. Miller's Moorhead Con-
~fectionery Co.'S ad for specials for
Sunday.-Advt.
It's there for some one; $6S at booth
AZ, Merchants Building, N. D. State
Fair Grounds.-Advt.
How would you like to be the lucky
one? For particulars see Booth Al,
State Fair week.-Advt.
Seventh Day Adventists are making
several improvements at their church.,
located at Eleventh street and Fourth
avenue north.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Kurke nave gone
to Minneapolis for q weeks visit. Mr..
Kurke is an architect in the office of
County Surveyor Crabbe.
For Sale: House, Moorhead. eight
rooms and bath, modern except heat.
Excellent location. Bargain. Address
No. 1T care Forum.-Advt.
Considering the fact that it is circus
day, Chief Of Police Bingham and his
force maintained order with little diff
ficulty, and no serious offense had been
reported up to this afternoon.
w. S. Hurry, former editor of The
Forman Independent and Staples
Headlight and now editor of several
good Montana newspapers is spending
the week in Fargo on business.
The board of county commissioners,
which has been in session since Tues
day, will adjourn late today until next
Tuesday morning, when it will resume
its deliberations as a board Of equali-
zation.
Funeral services for the late Jasper
O'Dair will be held at the home of his
parents, 1884 First avenu south, to-
morrow at 2 p. m. Rev. ]. M. Walters
will off1ciate, and interment will be
in Riverside cemetery.
Deputy Sheriff A. M. Ross of Cas-
selton left today for Bismarck with
Cornelius V. Donohue, who will begin
SSIN1uS d i've year I6ELn LOT aSSaulI
and attempted assaults upon women
in local hotels.
Next summer Fargo's splendid shade
trees will receive greater attention
with less effort. The park board has
decided to purchase a high powered
spraying machine, which will help save
the trees and make Fargo more beauti-
full. -~
Almost too hot to go to bed some Of
these nights, and the hotel chairs
strung out in front of the hostelries
are more popular than the best
occupied until long after midnight
during the very warm weather.
Fargo's building activities are not
confined to any one locality this sum-
mer, but new houses are going up
rapidly in all parts of the city. About
a dozen new residences are being built
in the Oak Grove district at the pres
ent time, and they are growing" like
mushrooms.
H. ]. Sticken, sheriff Of Adams
county, came in from Hettinger today
to see the circus inc called upon Sher-
iff Ross at the courthouse. Sheriff
Sticken declares that business in his
line is dull in Adams county, except
for the cattle rustlers, who lead him
occasional chase.
Persons who fail to pay their water
accounts for the mex quarter by to-
night will lose the benefit Of a 10 per
| cent discount. A majority Of patrons
have taken advantage of the discount
plan, and Auditor Watkins and his as
sistants have been kept busy during
the past few days.
Poor kids! They don't have very
much luck in finding ~unoccupied
swings in Island park these days.
They are mostly occupied by the
grown-up boys and girls who have
discovered a way to make a breeze
even If he wind does lay down on the
job. And he poor little kids have to
| wait.
Many farmers nave been in Fargo
during the past few days procuring
parts of and buying grind
| stones n other equipment in antici-
patton of beginning in earnest to cut
the new crop of hay. The heavy rains
have contributed to a healthy growth.
and there is plenty of hay and good
| pasture.
Cupid is having a hard task in try
ing to keep up with the hot weather.
Only three marriage licenses nave been
issued this week. They were procured
by John Trede and Helen ZanggeI Of
Fargo; C. B. Nelson of Moorhead and
Emily Baker of Fargo, and Lloyd Clay
ton Quinn and Alma Susanna Nickel
son of Fargo.