The following local stories were published in June 1919.

Last call for dog licenses, June 3
The last call for Moorhead dog licenses is made today by Chief of Police C.H. Knapp. He announces that three days of grace will be given to owners to procure the licenses. Beginning next Saturday, all dogs that do not wear the 1919 tag will be taken up by the police department. If the owners fail to redeem them they will be disposed of as humanely as possible.

Normal graduates get good positions, June 5
The Moorhead normal school will award diplomas at the commencement exercises Friday night. The exercises, which begin at 6:15, will be held in the auditorium. Of those who graduate, all who are not going to continue school have secured positions as teachers. The salaries received by the outgoing students run as high as $110 a month, the average being about $85.

Burglars make raid at Baker, June 9
Burglars made a partially successful raid at Baker, a village between Moorhead and Barnesville, on Saturday night, getting away with $160 in cash, stolen from the safe in the Iverson store and post office. The Baker State Bank and the office of the Great Northern depot were also broken into, but nothing of value was taken except the small change in the depot till.
Entrance in all three places was effected by breaking in windows. At the Iverson store the safe was opened either by working the combination or because it had not been locked. The contents of the safe were carefully examined and only the cash was taken. The burglars passed up the postage stamps and several hundred dollars worth of Liberty Loan bonds in the safe.
At the Baker State Bank there was evidence of an attempt to force the safe, as the combination had been tampered with. The banking room had been thoroughly ransacked, but nothing of value is missed.
Only the small change in the money drawer of the Great Northern depot was taken, the silver and bills having been removed by the agent when the offices were closed on Saturday night.
There is no clue to the burglars as they did not take anything through which they could be traced and the burglaries were not discovered until Sunday morning.

Captain Torson returns home, June 11
Capt. Harry A. Torson arrived home last night from France, after nearly a year and a half of overseas service. He was accompanied by Loup Argonne, a German police dog, the first of the breed ever brought to this part of the country. Loup shows the predominance of the wolf in his breeding and he is a remarkably intelligent animal. This is now a recognized breed, produced by a cross of the collie and the wolf. Captain Torson purchased him from a young woman at Stenay after the armistice was signed. The dog is the most interesting souvenir of the war that has been brought to Moorhead.

Held to district court on robbery and assault charges, June 13
Frank Shoenborn was held to the district court by Judge E.U.Wade, in Moorhead yesterday, charged with assaulting and robbing William Draught, a laborer, of $45, on Wednesday night in the rear of the Diemart Auto agency on Fourth street north.
Draught was hit over the head with a malt bottle and knocked senseless. He claimed that $45 was taken from him after he was knocked out by the “stick up”. When Shoenborn was arrested, $45 in blood-stained currency was found in his pockets.

To organize American Legion Post tomorrow, June 13
Clay County men who served in the army or navy during the war, will meet in Phenix Hall, Moorhead, tomorrow evening to organize a post of the American Legion.
Major A. Roseberg, chairman for the Ninth Minnesota district, and Lieut. L.R. Goesman of Crookston will attend the meeting to assist in the organization.
All men who served in any branch of the army or navy service are eligible and an urgent request is made that every man attend.

Grasshoppers cause damage, June 16
Grasshoppers are causing damage to crops in several parts of Clay County. They are the local varieties not the Rocky Mountain locusts, but they are numerous enough to destroy the grain and other crops.
County agent A.C. O’Banlon and A.G. Ruggins, state entomologist, went to the Thorpe farm, northeast of Felton, on Thursday to investigate a report of the appearance of the hoppers. They found that the hoppers were stripping the leaves off the rye, leaving the bare stalk and the blossoming head.
On the Griffen farm near Baker, the hoppers are eating the wheat and are making a clean job of it. Both at Felton and Baker there are about 30 of the half-grown hoppers per square foot.
A report was received yesterday from Section 3 of Riverton township that the hoppers were destroying the flax crop there.
Mr. O’Banlon says the hoppers should be poisoned wherever they make their appearance. The poisoned bait should be distributed at the edge of the field late in the evening or early in the morning, when the hoppers begin to feed. It takes about a day for the poison to finish the hoppers that eat it; then the others eat the dead ones and they too cease to be pests.
Following is the poisoned bait Mr. O’Banlon says should be used: One pound of paris green or two pounds of powdered arsenate of lead – not both poisons; 25 pounds of wheat bran; three quarts of black molasses, the blacker and stronger the better; half dozen finely chopped oranges or a like amount of other fruit. Mix thoroughly with about three gallons of water.

Forty bodies found in Fergus Falls ruins, June 23
Dalton, Minn. — Forty bodies have been recovered and at least 25 to 35 more are believed dead as the result of the tornado that struck Fergus Falls at 4:52 o’clock Sunday afternoon.
A hundred or more have been wounded. Between 300 and 4000 business blocks, residences and public buildings are demolished with a property loss of at least a million and a half. The Grand Hotel, a three story structure, was leveled and the death toll there is between 30 and 40.
Fergus Falls today is under military law with General Rhinow of the Minnesota National Guard in command. Four companies of soldiers including Fergus Falls, St. Cloud, Sauk Center and a provisional company from Minneapolis are on duty.
The tornado, a funnel affair cut a swath three blocks wide from the east end of the city to the west side. It traveled across the city in the form of the letter “B.”
Instances of whole families being wiped out are recorded today by relief workers who are handling the situation. In one case five in one family were killed. In another case four children perished when their home was blown into at One Mile Lake on the outskirts of the city. Only one body had been recovered at noon and the widowed mother on a vacation at Elbow Lake had not been apprised at noon of the fate of her children.
Each of the three morgues in the city is filled with bodies of the dead, while each of the city’s three hospitals, including the state asylum for the insane is filled to capacity.

Temperance speakers to give addresses, June 28
Upon the eve of a dry nation everyone is thinking and talking about prohibition. Everywhere the people are asking “What is the Anti-Saloon League going to do now?” Sunday in three of the Moorhead churches, leading representatives of the Minnesota Anti-Saloon League are to discuss the issues now before the nation and the program of the future will doubtless be outlined. State Superintendent Safford of Minneapolis will speak at the Congregational Church in the morning and at the Methodist church in the evening. Another prominent speaker whose name has not yet been announced will speak at the Presbyterian church in the morning.

Arm injured on ice tongs, June 30
Arthur Knapp, son of Chief of Police Cleve H. Knapp, had his arm badly cut Saturday afternoon when it was caught on the ice tongs as he jumped from an ice wagon on which he had caught a ride. He was taken to a hospital where ten stitches were required to close the wound. His condition was improved sufficiently on Sunday for him to return home.

(Fargo Forum articles from newspaper archives, courtesy of the Fargo Public Library).