The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1916-07-08
North Dakota
Kernels

An addition will be built to the
school house at Egeland.
The new steel elevator of the Haynes
Equity exchange is in readiness for
business.
considerable amount Of work is
being done on the roads in the vicinity
of Gackle.
During storm, lightning killed Ave
horses belonging to Fred Entze Of near
Golden Valley.
The village fathers of Tolna are
greatly improving the main street of
the town by graveling 1t.
Egeland has new telephone opera
tor and considerable interest is taken
in the exchange nowadays
The Farmers & Merchants bank
Of Robinson has awarded the contract
for the construction Of a new banking
house.
The telephone line running south
and east Of Deering has been COM
pleted and the entire line is now in
operation.
Two Stanley boys. Squire and Bert
Warren, spent several days hunting
coyotes in the Bad Lands and returned
to the town with six scalps.
Gravel, beams and other material
for the two concrete bridges to be in
stalled near Kathryn have arrived and
been unloaded at that town.
The Balfour Messenger believes that
an auto club at that place would assist
materially in improving the streets
| and roads in and about the town.
The Clark feed barn at Sherwood
has changed hands, G. F. and c. E.
Carter having purchased it. The firm
will be known as Carter Bros.
The band at Hazelton believes in
preparedness and has started a cam
| paign to bring the membership of the
organization up to war" strength.
Dickinson has not only cleaned up
its streets and alleys, but has also put
a ban on speeding, driving without
lights, cutting corners and the like.
! Some extra braces have been put
under the operahouse floor at Bantry to
| hold up the big crowds that are ex-
pected to patronize the establish
ment.
John Moore of Sherwood lost the end
Of an index finger when 1t was crush
! ed OFF between the ends Of some heavy
iron building frames which he was
handling.
]. G. Dicky assistant state superin-
tendent of the Congregational church,
was in Shields and vicinity in the
interest of the building of the new
| church at that place.
A change in the business circles of
Glendale took place recently when
Messrs. Berket and L. Hubert became
proprietors Of the City meat market. |
owned by U. G. Schaper.
Jess Webster of Sherwood accidental |
ly fed the middle finger of his right |
hand into a sausage grinder with the
result that the end Of the finger to
| the first joint is missing.
The four room school house at Tay-
! lor, Stark county, burned to the |
| ground. the flames being pretty we'll |
spread before the conhagration was |
discovered.
Kathryn is getting in the class with |
the manufacturing cities. A whistle |
has been put on the creamery and it is |
blown at o'clock in the morning, |
noon and 6 o'clock in the evening
Leeds News: The Old Hurricane
Lake bed which has been drv for sew
eral years is filled this summer and
prospects are that duck hunting at
this point will be good in the fall.
Orville Ackerman, oldest son of Mr..
and Mrs. Chas. Ackerman of Crosby,
met with a serious accident when he
engaged in a scuffle with one Of his
| playmates and had an arm broken.
Robinson Times: Wick Bros. have
| a force Of carpenters busily engaged
in constructing the large auto garage
and operahouse which they are erect
| ing on the lot just east of The Times
office.
Glendale Leader: The contract for
the new plant of The Leader was let
! last week to the Laussen Cement
Stone Co. Of Aberdeen, and the work
will be started within week. we
hope.
| During an electric storm a bolt Of
| Mrs. Nels Ekanger. ten miles west Of
Hazelton, setting 1t af1re and totally
destroying the structure together with
| the contents.
By fall through a staging at his
farm near Steele, H. M. Smith, living
two miles east Of town and north Of
the track. had his arm broken, his
| back severely wrenched and many
| other strains and bruises.
The city commissioners of Hills
| boro have decided to tile portions of
the business street facing the rail-
road, with the hope that the surplus
water can be gotten rid Of and the
| street made more passable.
At Mandan the Mandan Electric Co.
has prepared plans and specifications
| for the establishment of central
heating plant, which will be installed
| this summer and fall and be in full
operation before next winter.
Miss Laura keenan,, teacher Of the
| primary department Of the Wilton
| schools. has organized a kindergarten
| there. The sessions are being held in
| the Presbyterian church and the term
| will probably be of two months dur
alton.
| A new elevator will be erected at
Fort Rice by a new organization
capitalized at $4,000 to be known as
the Fort Rice Equity exchange. Shares
ara issued at S2S aach and ora finding