The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-24
North Dakota
Kernels

III NCA A1C1S
| A contract has been signed for a
chautauqua at Dickey.
There. are several cases of typhoid
fever reported at Ashley.
The interior of the wyndmere post
of1ce has been improved.
Work on the new -four mill at
Washburn is being rushed,
At Raub. the Pioneer State bank is
making arrangements to put up a new
building.
The Kindred Tribune believes that
| kindred should have a hotel and a
town, hall.
Herman Witt of LaMoure, in a round
with fractions horse, had one of his
egs broken.
At LaMoure, Claus johnson had a
shoulder blade broken when wagon
ran over HIM.
The LaMoure Grain & Fuel Co. has
| installed electric power in it's elevator
at that place.
The Boy Scouts have been reorgan-
lied at Cooperstown. w. L. Bennett
is scoutmaster.
The Thompson Yards. Inc, at Garri-
| son, are having cement warehouse
erected. 20x50' feet.
At Garrison a large u. S. flag was
| stolen from a staff above the G. F..
| McGray hardware store.
Miss Brandt of st. Paul arrived at
Hettinger to take a position as deputy
in Auditor Sticken's office.
The Dickey Reporter believes that
an electric light plant will be put in
at that town this coming summer.
Pembina is entirely out of debt. The
town doesn't owe a cent, according to
the annual report of the treasurer.
It is expected that work will be
started erecting the electric light pole
lines at Pingree in the near future.
At Leonard the people of the school
district voted to Change the district
to special one. The vote stood 26
to 5.
Educators of Hettinger county are
DESTROYS Of establishing a summer
school to be held during the present
year.
Some Of the streets in Garrison,
torn up on account Of the installation
Of water mains, are being leveled and
put in shape again.
The Mott Tennis club elected George
Galloway president and w. T. Wake
field secretary and treasurer. An as
sessment Of So was levied.
At Pingree the Sorenson brothers
purchased the Pingree Grain & Sup
ply Co. elevator and coal sheds and
will take possession July 1.
The Ashley Tribune has made
number Of notable improvements TO
its plant and building. Considerable
new material has been purchased.
An evidence Of progressive and di-
versifed farming is brought out at
Carpio, where the local creamery re-
news operations after long idleness.
Archie .Nygaard, who resigned as
deputy county treasurer of Mclean
county the first of the month, has ac-
cepted a position in the First State
bank at Underwood.
At Underwood 81 men have signifed
their intention of becoming members
of a company of infantry If the ad-
jutant general can use them as a part
of the national guard of this state.
At Cando the Boosters club was
reorganized in an effort to put it on
more permanent basis. There are 25
Or 80 members of the new organiza-
ton that have paid an annual assess
ment of 50.
The Hettinger Tennis club held its
annual meeting and outlined plans for
the coming summers work. A. J.
Ogaard was elected president and c.
L. Torgerson was made secretary and
treasurer.
Surveyors are at work laying out the
proposed route to be covered by the
extension of the Concrete branch line
of railroad through the northwestern
part of Cavalier county. Work of grad
ing will probably not begin before |
May Is.
At Washburn Rev. Mr.. Spangenberg,
pastor of the Congregational church, |
preached a baseball sermon and had
tne largest crOWQ OF people Jhat mad
been out, for some time, especially |
men. His subject was The Great |
American Game.
Ernest Quinnell, nine-year- old son |
of James Quinnell of Neche, had his |
hand badly mangled. He had a dyna- |
mite cap which he took for a. % car |
fridge, and hammered it on the stove. |
1t exploded in the palm of his hand, /
terribly lacerating it.
At LaMoure. following a muskrat |
hunt, George Fettz was the victim of /
a peculiar accident. He was returning /
home in an auto, holding the first two |
fingers of the right hand inadvertently |
over the muzzle of a hammerless pump |
gun. In some way the weapon was |
carrying away the ends |
of the two fingers up to about the |
first joint.
Pembina Pioneer Express: A letter |
by Mrs. Basken from her son, |
Reginald, who has been laid up in |
for six months with a COM |
pound fracture OF the elbow, states |
that he may start for Canada at any
time, there to go to the hospital again |
to have his arm reset. Mr.. Basken |
went overseas with the Canadian con- |
tingent two years ago.
"A number of North Dakota news |
paper men are complaining that since !