The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-02-14

New Leipzig has organized base
ball club and is expecting some sport
the coming season.
Earl Parker received the appoint
ment from the postoffice department
as carrier on rural route out Of Page.
The pupils of the Churchs Ferry
/ schools will give a patriotic program
on Feb. 81 in celebration Of Washing.
toms birthday.
The Noonan Telephone Co. received
a carload OF poles this week and will
extend it's telephone lines further
into the country. ~"
Mrs. Towsley of Nortonville, wa:
severely injured when she ran q
butcher knife through her hand while
at her household tasks.
Mrs: Jay England had the misfor.
tune to run crochet needle into hei
hand and 1t was necessary to call 9
physician to remove 1t.
Sec. j. j. Herlick, who was appoint.
ed to solicit memberships for the Bin.
ford Rife club, has secured the sigma.
lures Of twenty persons.
J. T. Alderman. Crazy drayman
was severely burned on the left hand
and wrist by a gasoline explosion
while thawing out a pump.
The young people of the North
Prairie Hauges Lutheran church, near
Velva, have started a library, the first
order including seventy-five books
The Velva council has made ar
rangements for the making Of a map
showing all water mains and sewers
installed as well as streets and alleys
The Velva Journal IL advocating the
starting of a Young Mems Christian
| association at that place as furnish
ing a place for the young men of the
town to amuse themselves.
John Nicolai. an aged man, residing
| northwest of Minor. met with severe
| injuries when he fell down the cellar
stairway and received broken
shoulder bone and other bruises
An effort is being made by some OF
| the business men Of Rhame to : re-
| organize the commercial club at that
| place. 1t is believed that the town Is
in need of an Organization of this
sort.
A meeting will be held at Minor or
| Feb. %, at which time protests may
| be entered against the building OF
| templatedN by the Sargent county
| authorities.
Sutton Reporter Sutton is now
experiencing it's first coal shortage, as
there is no hard coal for sale at either
Of the elevators. 1t is said the chances
for getting hard coal are going to be
rather slim the remainder of this win
ter.
August Ludtke Of Casey, Ransom
county. met with a very painful acct
dent. when in some unaccountable
manner he lost his footing, and fell
down a flight of stairs, breaking two
ribs and being badly bruised other
wise.
Marion Kirby. who is employed
with the Minot Dray & Transfer Co
at Mott. hhet with a painful accident
while unloading a load of coal. In
| air and in the fall the ligaments Of his
leg were torn loose.
Fryburg Pioneer: Residents Of
Rocky Ridge township, which territory
is a part of F'ryburg school district
are behind a petition being circulated
for the creation of a new school dis.
trict to include the territory now com"
prising Rocky Ridge township.
Adams County Record: Hettingel
has a brand new business mems club
known as the Hettinger Booster club
The new club was formed at a meet.
ing of business men held on Tuesday
evening. This club was born out of a
demand for a bigger, better and more
progressive Hettinger.
c. C. Tank Of Lodgepole, billed out q
carload of $500 rabbits Tuesday, fol
the Chicago market. At the present
market price rabbits range from 81
to $3.50 per dozen, which will make
the shipment amount to approximate
ly 5000. This is the largest shipment
Of its kind from Hettinger.
|, While at play the Swear old daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Scully, who
reside at Skogmo, accidentally got
bean in her windpipe. The parents
brought the little girl to this city to
take her to Minot, and while waiting
for No. 107 which was due here early
the following moaning, the little girl
passed away. Death was due to
strangulation.
Workmen are engaged at Dickinson
tearing down the walls of the old
unused portion of the round house
which has been in use since the fire
early last spring. At that time several
stalls were Quilted by the flames and
when the new portions were built fol-
lowing the second fire of a few weeks
ago. the entire ground plan was
changed and the old walls ordered
demolished.
Dickinson Press: Eighteen gallons
of perfectly good drinking" alcohol
were destroyed by the authorities
last Wednesday. The shipment was
confiscated last week and was ad
dressed to one of the foreign laborers
on the extra gang working in the rail-
road yards. 1t developed that the
shipment ordered by and consigned to
one party was to be distributed among
the bunch, but was too much for one
individual to have in his possession al
one time.
Memphis, Tenn, will have a great
pageant, May %, at a cost of 500, 900,
to celebrate the opening of the Har-
ahan bridge and the history of Mem
phis. A mammoth amphitheatre, like
the Coliseum in Rome, is to be built
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