The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-03
North Dakota
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II NGFneAS
zeigenhagel & Bowman of Lahr, are
constructing q garage at that place.
Q. j.. Bye was again chosen presi-
dent Of the village board at Ryder.
A number of improvements have
been made in the West hotel at Stan
ley.
| There should not be a home in the
| state without an American flag
exhibited somewhere.
1t begins to look as though Tower
| CITY would be the possessor of a
creamery in the near future.
8. z. Davis has started a harness
shop at Amidon. The business has been
opened in the siivius building.
general social survey of Williams
county will be made on May %. Plans
for the canvass are being formed.
The stable on the II. c. Anderson
farm, miles northeast of Ryder
burned. A small boy playing with
matches started the fire.
The long looked for street lights at
Napoleon have been put in place and
now the business street of that town
looks like the great white way.
A special election will be held at
Van Hook on April IA, for the purpose
of voting on the locations of the new
ortck consolidated school that will be
erected in that town.
A small section of the outer layer
of the brick wall of the new Olsen
building at Ryder fell during the high
wind. The bricks fell onto the roof
OF Meyers harness shop, slowing 1t
in.
A deal was made at LaMoure by
which V. Hutchinson purchased a one
third interest in the business of the
hutchinson Hardware C3, formerly
son.
At a meeting of the newly elected
village board of Binford. levy Of ST.
zoo was made for general purposes, an
increase of 5000 over the levy of the
past two years. A 5 mill road tax
was levied.
The people of Litchvine seem to
prefer the construction Of a new school
building rather than adding a. second
story to the present building. A new
building will cost. it is estimated,
about $4,000.
Geo. L. Wertzler has resigned as
manager of the Bovey- Shute Lumber
Co.'s yard at Ryder, a position he has
held for ten years, and will launch out
in the lumber business for himself in
that town.
While working at the blacksmith
shop at Epping. Ole Rude accidentally
fell over an old disk and received a
very bad cash on his right wrist,
cutting clear to the bone and sever
ing the cords and blood vessels.
A special election is being held at
Ray today in which the people are
voting on the proposition of setting Ray
aside from the balance of the school |
district in which it is now located and |
making a special district for the town. |
ARRANGEMENTS are being made by /
the ConSregationalists Of Grand Forks |
to entertain the twenty-tfird annual |
meeting of the Grand Forks Associa- |
will be held in that city on April 10
and IL.
1t is reported at Gackle that archi- |
tects are engaged in drawing plans for
new bank building at that place. |
Rumor has it that the new structure |
will be erected on the corner opposite |
Ruff Bros. department store. Gackel
now has two banks.
Rents are not cheap these days, but |
wouldn't it be nice to give little |
home free of charge to Mr.. and Mrs. |
Wren or some other couple of the
IA r.1 foT1 i1xY &nFp he Ill
work will make some very nice homes
for mans feathered friends.
A new hotel will be built in Drake |
at cost of $4,000 by Mrs. ]. M. |
Morris, owner of the Drake hotel. The |
new hosiery will be modern in every |
respect and will be erected this spring. |
1t will be three stories high, con- |
structed of brick and will be fireproof. |
A suit case which had been stolen |
from the depot trucks at Flaxton and |
for which the owner has presented a /
claim to the 500 line Nor SIS, was |
found recently near the Standard OIL |
station in that town where the thief |
had left it after rifling it of its con-
tents.
The Improvement club at Leonard |
held meeting recently and took ac-
tiers for the betterment of the town. A
straw vote was taken on the question
of Incorporation showing the majori-
ty Of those present at the meeting to
be in favor of the proposition.
The Van Hook Tribune is of the
opinion that the first man in the field
with a good brick hotel at that place
is going to make a killing. The
Tribune points out that travelling men,
as a rule. have a weakness for brick
hotels and that Van Hook Is in a good
location to get a good bit Of the knight
of the grip patronage. > =
At Amidon William Mccall was Civ |
en- a hearing before the insanity board |
and was sent to jamestown for treat
ment at the state hospital. He has |
been i'll for three months and has |
been unable to work. His weakened |
condition and the fact that he was |
unable to work caused him to worry |
until he was mentally unbalanced.
Ryder News: The Blue Hill con- |
solidated school building burned |
to the ground yesterday morn |
ing about q o'clock. No one |
knows the. cause of the fire. The |