The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-02-03
North Dakota
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| mas occupied Its new nome.
The International Oil Co., has de-
cided to establish a station at Par
shall.
The Sherwood band will give a real
minstrel show and concert in the
near future.
A new engine, generator and switch
board is being installed in the light
plant at Portland.
Considerable improvements have
been made to the Norwegian Lutheran
church at Gorham.
A room has been fitted up in the
| fire hall at Bowman for the meet
ings Of the fire ladies.
| At a meeting held recently the
village board of Rhame, appointed T.
| M. Eide as village justice.
F. C. Lord was made chief and John
| Gergen assistant chief, at the annual
meeting of the Park River fire depart
ment.
| The Garrison fire department held
its annual meeting electing A. Southey
| as chief and A. A. Yonker as assist
ant chief.
The little town of Milestone will
soon have a Norwegian Lutheran
church. 1t will be a structure 24x36
! feet IN dimensions.
' A F. Hahn Of near Sherwood re-
Gently had his granary broken into
and $50 bushels of wheat stolen. The
loss Is estimated at $256.50.
Ninety cars of livestock were ship
| ped out of Garrison during the year
1915, according to the report Of the
railroad agent at that place.
The home Of Ed. Martin on the Tay-
lor farm in the vicinity Of Dickey, was
destroyed by fire. Practically nothing
was saved from the building.
Mary Welan of Calvin met with a
painful accident. While playing up
| and cut cash at the corner of her
eye.
G. E. Leighty,; who for the past three
years has been employed as operator
| at, the Bowman depot, has received
| promotion to the ticket agency at
Wakpala, s. d.
The people of Sherwood are quite
| indignant because of the poisoning of
| several dogs of that town. All the
animals killed have been valuable
| ones.
The Great Northern railroad is to
| build a new depot in Stanley in the
| spring. 1t is reported that the new
building will be a modern one in every
respect.
A crew of about fifteen fathers. ma
sons and plasterers has resumed work
on the new school house at Killdeer
and is pushing the work as rapidly as
possible.
The first church bell to ring in Ray
| was used last Sunday. The bell has
been installed at the Methodist church
| and was the gift of the members of
| the Girls Bethany club.
w. A. Shelton, janitor at the library
at Williston was quite seriously hurt
by being struck by an automobile
Two cars were approaching and in
| avoiding one NJ" shelton got in the
| way of the othl
The Washburn Boy Scouts will have
two scout masters after this. M. E.
McCurdy found that he could not be
on duty regularly and the work is
now taken up by Rev. Spangenberg
and Prof. Thompson.
| The City drug store at Belfield is
now under the management of We A.
Knoop, the former sole owner propri-
etor and p. F. Morch, jeweler, and
watch repairer in the Rexall stere
who purchased half interest.
At Kindeer Frank Ray and Frank
Clark, members of the Dickinson
Hardware Co., consummated a deal
for the building and stock of Carl
Hanke, the stock to be CONSOLE
dated with that of Ray & Clark.
The firm Of Corey & Burnson at
Hettinger has been dissolved and Mr..
Corey will have entire charge Of the
business henceforth, while Mr.. Burn
son will devote his time wholly to his
bank.
Over $1,000 worth Of storage bat
teries were destroyed in a fire which
partially burned a small building in
the rear of the Stockholm hotel at
jamestown. The building was used
as a storage house for auto bat
teries.
The oil and gas prospect hole at
Williston is reported to be down 500
feet with indications showing well. A
strong artesian flow of water was en-
countered at the same depth as the
Burdick we'll, which will be shut off by
means of casing.
It seems that the dog killer is get
ting in his work at Donnybrook re-
Gently. One dog was found shot to
death and the other was ground to
pieces by a train. It is believed that
placed on the track.
Emery Hewson, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ira Hewson. OF a short distance east
of Dickinson, is in the hospital with
a dislocatetd knee. The accident oc-
CURED when the boy was out horse
back riding on rather vicious horse
which he was trying to break.
Dickinson Press: The Dickinson
fire department received a check for
S25 this week from the fire fighters at
Gladstone, as token of the apprecia-
ton of the Gladstone people because
of the ready effort on the part OF the
local boys at the recent Gladstone
fires.
The explosion of gasoline lighting
plant in the A. o. Ridgeway store at
Dickey, started fire that was ex-
tinguished none too soon to prevent a
bad fire. Only the fact. that there
were a large number of people in the
vicinity at the time prevented a blaze
of greater proportions.