The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-24

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The new fire whistle at Tower City
was tested out one night at midnight
recently. 1t aroused the entire town
and came near waking the dead.
Plans are being formulated at Portal
for the erection of a fire hall and Jail.
The firemen of the town are especially
! active for building of the sort.
| A petition will soon be in circula-
| ton at Pingree asking for electric
lights. The proposition was taken up
by the citizens at q recent meeting.
Dickinson is out for the summer
meeting of the North Dakota Press
association. The Dickinson Com
mercial club has taken the matter
up.
| The Cando baseball management
for the 1915 season reported that all
expenses had been paid for that year,
the 1915 deficit cleared up, and bal
ance of $102 still on hand.
Lewis and Oscar Baker, under the
! firm name of Baker Bros, have pur-
chased the grocery stock belonging to
| the Dickinson Mercantile Co. and have
taken possession of the business.
A plat showing the boundaries of
| the proposed Incorporation of the
village Of Pingree, and the census of
| the same are on file at that place, the
citizens to vote on the corporation
soon.
Hankinson News: The 500 has a
| crew of men busy on the construction
OF monster new ice house east Of the
| depot. The building will be 45x90
feet, 80 feet high, and will house L.
800 tons Of ice.
Joe Carroll OF Dickinson, has been
baling and shipping flax straw to a
st. Paul firm to be used in manufac-
turing purposes and has shipped so
far about thirty tons. He hauled the
straw in from nearby farms and
baled it before loading.
At Dickinson Ted Spears was will
ing to enter a plea of guilty to SELL
ing intoxicating liquor and Judge
Crawford sentenced him to 100 days
in the county Jail and fine of 5000
and the costs of prosecution.
S. NJ. Burcham of Hankinson, re-
ceived the plans for his proposed new
o-story brick building to be erected
on his lot just north of the Gem thea
ire building. The structure will be
33x90 feet, two full stories, with front
to match the rest Of the block.
The Security Bridge Co. was
awarded the contract of building and
installing the water system at Mar
marth just about four months ago.
The contract isn't completed yet, and
the municipality of ,Marmarth iS
drawing the tidy sum of ten plunks
per day.
The city Jail at Garrison was oc-
cupied by a drunk" who was for.
tunate enough to be picked up after
the recent fire Of that place, when
some Of his toes had been frozen. It
is doubtful If he would have lived un-
til morning IL this good fortune had
not befallen him.
Many hundreds Of loads of rock are
being used by the city board of Mar
marth for the purpose Of ripp-rapping
the piers of the bridge across the Lit
tie Missouri river. The high water of
last season threatened to undermine
the heavy cement work, hence the ac-
ton Of the city officials.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
new section of the round house of
the N. p. at Dickinson to take the
place Of the east wing which was re-
Gently destroyed by fire. Only a por-
ton Of the section is being erected
at the present time, although the con-
crete foundation work has been COM
pleted for the entire structure.
The new ice manufacturing plant
now under. course OF construction by
the Dickinson Ice e. Transfer Co., at
Dickinson, is rapidly nearing compile.
ton, although the work has been nee
essarily slow during the severe cold
weather. There is some work yet to
be done on the roof before the build
ing is completed and some inside fin
ishing to be completed.
Dickinson Press: The Congrega-
tional church at Wibaux, Mont, has
been without a pastor for several
months and a special request comes
from the church to John Orchard that
he preach there several Sundays,
which will call him away on that day
for the next few weeks. Mr.. Orchard
organized that church rs years ago
and in a measure feels responsible for
that congregation. Z > -
Marmarth is without electric lights
for a few weeks and as q result there
has been a lively scramble for oil and
gasoline lamps. An antique outfit, of
uncertain age, was installed in the
beginning, and last week the boiler
gave out, necessitating a complete re-
building. There is talk of annuling
the franchise OF the Western Electric
Co. and turning the electric light
plant into municipality owned CON-
Germ.
There is considerable thieving going
on at Fessenden judging from the
following from The Wells County
Free Press: We are informed that
some unknown party in the south
western part ofthe city has been pur-
Joining meat. Mr.. Kopang is said to
have lost half hog, while meat was
taken from sheds of Arnold Quarve
and Albert Solbert. Arnold heard the
thief and gave chase, but the weather
was so severe that he couldn't follow.
A lady's fancy waist was taken from
a counter in Quarve's store the other
day.
The Early Fisherman Gets the Hooks.
Marquette Chronicle: Only about