Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1880-08-24

Henry Vessey, who has tor several
months past been engaged in the general
mercantile business in this place has sold
out and gone to Burton, some eight miles
further west, to engage in the same busi-
ness. Mr.. Vessey is one of cur solidest
citizens, and has many friends in James
town, who will wish him success. His
able manager, King Bohall will go with
him and continue to look after the busi-
ness interests of the concern.
During the past week the Alert gang"
with the exception of your most humble
and much tried paste-pot maripulator,
have been on the sick list--''too dead to
skin"-and if this issue is not as good as
those which have preceded it, we don't
want to here any back talk; for if we
have to wrestle with three mems work
another week, we will in all probability
be laid up for life. If we have neglect,
ed to give any one "h-l," who feel as
if they deserved it or to give any one
a puff that don't deserve 1t we hope the
slighted parties won't feel offended.
DR.. satterthwaite, Of Bsllaire, Ohio,
arrived on Thursday. he has purchased
teams and employed several men to work
on his land in the vicinity Of Grand Rapids
and contemplates improving his property
on an extensive scale. He has on the way
from the East several carloads of pure
blooded sheep and cattle, and is now
erecting sheds for their accommodation.
If other gentlemen Of large capital would
follow his example, and improve their
lands, or offer them at reasonable price,
instead of holding them at figures that no
one can touch, they would not only swell
their bank account, but materially add to
the prosperity of the James River Valley
J.C. Dow, who has just come in from
the lower James river valley region, says
that the Chicago and Northwestern rail-
road IS graded to the Elm river, seven
miles south Of Columbia and will get no
nearer that point. The east and west
line of the Chicago, Milwaukee &. St.
Paul road, better known as the Hastings
& Dakota line, will run fourteen miles
and half South Of Columbia. The
grade stakes being set to that point and
the grade being pushe1 with oil possible
vigor. The north and south branch of
the same road, called the Mitchell and
jamestown road, is graded from point
about forty miles south Of Columbia to
point twenty miles north of Co.
lumbia. running by that point nine and
one half miles west. It would appear
from this statement that none Of the roads
now in progress will touch Columbia at
all, and that the nearest Is the Chicago
and Northwestern, which runs about seven
miles south. Mr.. Dow gives it as his
opinion that the Chicago and Northwestern
will eventually strike Grand Rapids.
MI: Dow has just come off the survey,
and his statement regarding the different
routes these new roads are taking is, with
out doubt, correct.
We publish the following in justice to
Mr.. Pohl and his wife, who are now in
this city:
FoREsrv1L1E, July "a, 1880.
JOHN READ, Kewaunee.
DEAR SIR: In the last issue of the
Enterprise, in announcing the departure
of Rudolph Pohl and Mary Wanninger,
there was quite an error made in the state
ment, saying that Mary Wanninger took
with her two trunks of millinery goods.
She took nothing but her own wearing
apparel. You state also that old gentle.
man Pohl objected to Rudolph going with
her. That may be true; but. no one OBJ
jected more than her mother. Rudolph
did not 60 to the house when mother was
in, as she forbid him coming there. Who
said that Mary took any millinery goods
told an outright falsehood. Please correct
the error in your next issue, and obliee,
Your friend,
GEO. j. WANN1NGER. q.
[The article in the Enterprise had no
other foundation than the reports which
we're current on the streets the day after
the departure of the young couple. We
regret that any misstatements were made,
and cheerfully give place to the corrections
which Mr.. Wanninger desires to make. -
EDITOR.
Grain Wanted.
We desire to inform the farmers of
Stutsman county aud vicinity that We will
be prepared to receive grain at our new
elevator in jamestown by the first of Sep.
tember. We wish to buy oil the grain
for sale in Stutsman county and will pay
the highest cash price for the same. Ster-
age capacity to the extent Of forty thous-
and bushels, after the wheat season is over
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