The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-03-05
North Dakota
Kernels

| Hardwood floors are being placed in
the basement Of the school house at
Grace City.
A hardtimes party will be given at
Leeds on March Is for the benefit Of
the band at that place.
The town of Hanks on the Stanley
branch Is advertising for someone to
come and build 20-room hotel there.
p. M. Oslie. of Christine. has pur-
chased the interests of r. C. Madsen
in the Nelson County Implement Co..
at Neville.
Rhame is to have a new meat mar
ket. According to The Review Of that
town Smokey" Mcdonald is to put UP
a new building for the purpose.
A meeting will be held tonight at
the commercial club rooms in Devils
a band in that town will be taken up.
The Valley City lodge of the A. F. &
A. NJ. gave a party in honor Of Henry
Beal, the day being the fftieth ami
versary of Mr.. Beals membership in
the order. "a
The Lisbon parish Of the Catholic
church is to erect a new building on
| the site Of the old church this coming
spring. The new building will cost
about $4,000.
The Albert Reed feed mill at Iona
was burned together with all of the
contents. An overheated stove is be-
lieved to have been the cause Of the
flre. No insurance was carried.
Work has been started on the
remodeling of the Merchants hotel at
Grafton. The improvements will be
extensive and twenty-five rooms will
be provided with hot and cold water.
A. w. Fossum, who has been in
charge of the hardware department of
the Wilton Mutual store at Wilton,
has resigned his position and will open
a general tin and sheet iron repair
shop.
The Kindred Tribune thinks that a |
meeting should be called for giving
the members Of the fire department
instructions on what to do in case of
fire. Kindred recently lost hotel
by fire.
Fire was discovered in the Farmers
elevator at Hickson. but was ex-
tinguished before much damage was
done. The fire was started by q light |
ed pipe being left in an overcoat
pocket. |
The first political announcement in |
connection with the, approaching city |
election at Bismarck was made by&w. |
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the running for the Office of police |
magistrate.
j. H. Worst. editor of The New
Rockford State Center believes that a |
good band would be good thing for
that town. He says that there is plenty
of material, the only thing lacking be-
ing a leader.
At Mandan H. T. Corbit, alleged
horse thief, couldn't keep out of trou-
bic. He was arrested on the charge of /
obtaining money under false pre-
lenses, was arraigned before Judge, H.
l.. Henke and held to the district /
court.
D. Hoxmeier, who has been assistant l.
local manager of the Mandan Mercan- Il
tile company at Wilton for. the past
year, received a promotion and goes to
Dunn Center where he will have
charge Of the lumber yards of the /
Mandan people.
c. w. Bragg, who has been special |,
agent for the Great Northern with l.
headquarters in New Rockford, has
received an appointment as detective i
for the city Of st. Paul and has tender
ed his resignation to the G. N. Mr.. |,
Bragg has been with the Great North
ern for seven wears,
The Mothers club of Jamestown, at
recent meeting, passed resolution
asking the city council to pass an
ordinance providing for the inspection
Of milk supplied to consumers in that
city. A committee was named to pre-
sent the resolution and appear before
the council on the subject
The firm of Ellithorp & Arnes at
HaZelton. has been dissolved and the
partners have sold out their garage
and blacksmith shop to H. o. Batter,
who intends to organize a company,
build large modern, fire-proof gar
age and carry on an extensive auto
mobile and repair business. as well as
blacksmithinG.
At a meeting of the Langdon Com
mercial club the president was
instructed TO take the matter of in
creasing the size of the stockyards of
the Great Northern at that place up
with the officials of the road. It is
stated that the pens now in use are
not adaped to keeping stock in cold
weather even for few hours.
February 20 v. J. Flynn at James,
town asked leave of his employer to
"go out for half an hour" That was at
2 p. m. Since then no trace of the
young man has been discovered and
the general consensus Of opinion is
that he is no judge of half hour.
Mr.. Flynn was a bookkeeper and went
to Jamestown from New York city.
Judge Nuessle of the district court
at Bismarck directed that the jury
sitting in the case of the Red River
Land company of Fargo, against the Z
Harris estate of Bismarck, report a
verdict in favor of the defendant. The
jury had reported it could not agree
after being out "a hours. The verdict
in all probability means an appeal.
liver Iverson of Alsen had the mis-
fortune of breaking his leg below the
knee. Mr.. Iverson went up in the barn