The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-03-15

A new hardwood floor has been laid
in the basement Of the school house
| at Grace City.
The opera house and the Congrega-
tional church at Sentinel Butte have
both been wired for electricity.
, The residence of J. J. GIFTS, south
OF the VIM. Nordman Lumber yard at
Noonan was destroyed by fire.
The people of Grace City are much
pleased with the new town hall which
has just been completed in that town.
At a meeting Of baseball fans in
Omemee. held recently. A. A. Harring-
ton was elected manager and j. I.
Soucie was made treasurer.
Work was begun at Belfield on the
Farmers State bank building which
will be rushed as rapidly as possible
in order to be ready for occupancy at
the earliest possible date,
An important change was made in
one Of the business houses OF Velva
when the Velva Supply Co. passed into
the hands of a farmers company
which was recently organized.
A crew of men are at work taking
down the old N. p. coal dock~at Dray-
ton. The dock has not been in use
for the past two years and :Drayton
people are glad to see 1t go down.
| A park association has been formed
| in Russo The purpose of this organiza-
ton is to raise money to be used in
Improving the park this coming
spring by planting trees and shrubs.
The Grace City Mercantile Co.'s
store at Grace City was sold to ]. J.
McGrath, of Greenbush. Mimi. and
the new owner has already taken over
the business
It has been announced at Sanish
that as a result Of the excellent ice
harvest which has just been reaped,
the people of that town will get ice for,
rs cents per hundred instead Of 81 as
formerly.
The new school barn at Russell
lcame nearly being destroyed when a
Isleigh which had recently been put
in the structure caught fire. The run
ners and pole were all that was left
of the sleigh.
Aleck Campbell. night man at the
round house at OVERLY met with a
serious accident. While repairing a
brake beam the wrench he was using
slipped. striking him below the right
eye. cutting dep cash,
The Grace City Gazette just ceIe-
lbrated its first birthday. The Gazette
has made good during its first year of
business and has kept the people OF
that vicinity in touch with local hap
penings In a commendaole way.
A $4,000 garage will be one Of the
first buildings to be erected in New
England when the season opens this
spring. The Regent Grain. Co. will
put up the building, the material for
which has already been contracted for.
The Farmers Union Elevator Co. at
Belfield has let contract for the con-
struction of a new machine shed BOX
80 feet. to be erected at once. The
work will be rushed as rapidly as pos
sible in order to take care Of the
spring trade.
deal was contaminated at Velva
whereby f.. w. Kinnoin disposed Of
his interests in the Economy store to
J. Fl. Mus. The store has been con-
Quoted the past few months by Mus
Kinnoin &, Co. The firm name will
now be changed to Mus Hamre & Co.
|
ton has accepted the offers Of the
Velva Civic league, giving the use of
the Livdhal building for school work
to the proposed college. Buildings will
be arranged for Immediately after the
church meeting which will be held in
June.
The first steps in the organization OF
a. commercial club were taken at New
England and another meeting has
been arranged for when organization
will be completed. Quite a number OF
the business men of the town attended
the first meeting and were quite en-
thusiastic over the proposition.
At Golden Valley: A fire starting
from an unknown origin burned the
Roy Long residence to the ground at
2 o'clock in the morning. Mr.. and Mrs.
Long, who were asleep, did not
awake until the bed was on FIRE and
they had a narrow escape from suf-
location. Nothing was saved.
A deal was made at Rhame where
lby the Webster Conover Lumber Co.
took over the Rhame Lumber Co. of
that place and the Slope Lumber Co.
at Amidon. 1t will not however. be
an entirely new company, as the
stockholders in the old company re-
tain an interest in the new concern.
Tioga Gazette: The Tioga Commun-
lily band celebrated it's first annivers-
larry last Sunday by holding its annual
Injecting and electing officers for the
ensuing year. The officers elected were
IC. r. Cole, president; e. p. Schelberg,
secretary treasurer; H. r. Easton. F.
ID. Evans and Robt. Lund. trustees.
Wahpeton Times: At the council
meeting Monday night the horseshoe
park was discussed. The bridge
iacross the slough leading to the park
was carried away a couple Of years
ago and no care has been taken of
the park since. Now the proposition
of rebuilding the bridge and putting
1.-The park in shape is being considered.
Rhame Review: In moving the Stei-
70 house out to the Hager farm Tues
day the movers accidentally hooked
onto the telephone line and pulled r.
D. PERKINS, chimney down. The tele-
phone was put in late last fall when
the ground was too hard to dig a post
hole, and the line was fastened to the
chimney. Ralph is now busy shovel
ing smoke.