The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-02-09
North Dakota
Kernels

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A contract was signed by Cayuga
boosters for a lyceum course next
year. The course will consist of three
numbers.
Linton Free Press: The material
for the white way is on the ground
and the citizens are anxious to see the
streets lighted.
T. d. Thorson was elected vice
| president of the Citizens State bank
at Maddox at the recent meeting of
the board of directors.
Epglebert Miller of Hague, has the
misfortune to be kicked on the lip
| while trying to crank gasoline
engine. The lip received a bad cash.
The North Dakota railroad commits
sion will hold a hearing on joint ex-
J press cream rates at The Commercial
club rooms at Grand Forks at 8 a. M,
Feb. Is.
!. J. Hauge has resigned his position
as cashier of the Citizens State< bank
! at Maddox to accept the cashiership
of one of the Thorson line of banks at
Black Duck.
| A stubborn fire at Mimic badly
| damaged the building occupied by
| Thomas Falconer as a paint shop and
| residence. The contents were also al
| most a total loss:
Mrs. Olaf Amundson of near Itch
| Vile, had the misfortune to slip on
some ice and sustain fall in which
! she broke both bones of her forearm,
! just above the wrist.
August Schall and John Sahli Of
| Hague, have organized to establish a
| ski factory at that place. The work
of manufacturing the first couple of
pair has commenced.
Philip Caldwell has resigned as sup
ervisor of the boys at the school for
| the deaf at Devils Lake and returned
to his home in Minneapolis. Henry
Norris, athletic coach, has taken Mr..
CaldwelIs position.
Owing to the fact that the train SER
vice delayed the coming of DR.. J. II.
Worst, the principal speaker Of the
exercises, the Community hospital at
Neville was dedicated Tuesday in
stead of Monday, as was first planned.
Medora is now quite Ignite coal
half mile east-Wf town. has put out
about 1000 carloads of coal the past
year. it is said. Just west of the river
is the j. F. Brodie mine, where twen-
ty men are employed.
At Minot, E. J. Gobel, manager of
the Weinrebe Furniture Co., was pain
fully injured, when refrigerator,
which was being unloaded from a car
on the 500 tracks, slipped and struck
him in the head, cutting a severe cash
and rendering him unconscious for the
time being.
The Mailer block at Grafton, which
was badly damaged by fire late in the
summer, has been completely restored
and greatly improved. A new founda-
ton was put under the whole building,
the store rooms on the first floor have
new steel ceilings, fine fronts and 9TH
er general Improvements.
A communication from Washington
at aSnish states that service of rural
route No. south and east of Sanish
VIII be established and service begin
on April 2, providing that the post
office can report the erection of 100
approved mail boxes, along the pro-
posed route on or before March 5.
Because of the refusal of DR.. Steel
of Havana, who was elected as county
coroner of Sargent county, to qualify, |
1t became necessary for the board of |
county commissioners to fill the |
vacancy by appointment. They ap-
pointed o. A. Stockstad. of Minor, to |
fill the office for the next two years
Mr.. Stockstad qualified.
Jamestown Alert: At the conclusion |
of the council meeting Alderman |
Hilton as chairman of the room loca- !
ton committee of the commercial |
club, reported to the city council the |
offer of Pres. ]. ]. Nierling, of the |
Citizens National bank, of the use |
free of charge for the commercial club, |
of the basement of the Citizens Ma |
tional bank building.
Grafton Record: The many friends
of F. o. Southland, of Drayton, will re-
gret to learn that he is doomed to |
permanent blindness unless a difficult |
operation should prove successful. Mr.. |
Southland has been losing his sight |
for the past year, and consultation
with specialists the past week gives |
no hope of recovery without a difficult
and serious operation.
The missing of the train service
Thursday and Friday of last week is
the first time such a thing has hap
pened on the McHenry branch of the
Northern Pacific for a number of
years, though many of the other
branch roads of the state have suffer-
ed a similar misfortune several times
this year and other recent years. Old
settlers report that some ten years ago
there was a time when the town was
without a train for nearly thirty days.
POLAND, IMMoLArEp.