Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1880-01-13
LOCALS.

LOCALS. ~
The best tea in town 1t LYONS.
The N. p. is still struggling with the
BE- .utiiul Snow. ....
Visiting cards neatly printed At TEE
ALERT Office.
What is mere cheering than cup Of sne
old Java coffee. LYON sells it.
old papers for salc..at this Office for
76 cents per 100.
LYON sells the Ace Flour. IT AL.
WAYS WINS. Janl2
Nothing like it! TRY1T! Charm of
the West Baking Powder at LYONS.
Several important news items are
unavoidably crowded out this week.
They say that goodly number of
Mlchlganders have settled on Goose river
What will the harvest be:'' ~
Pay your taxes and save expense.
After February 1st, they become delin
quent. Dec7ew
1t is estimated that eight hundred
people will locate in 6tutsman county
during the coming summer.
Now the winter of our discomfort
u made glorious summer by trading at
Lyons Cheap Store. Jamestown.
The rose is red, the violet blue.
Sugar is sweet, and so is the
White Rose flour sold by L. LYON.
The job of moving the safe to the
county building was awarded to A
McKechnie for $55. 1t could not have
been placed in better hands.
Mr.. J. A. Olds, County clerk Vennum,
sod several other prominent Jamestown
ties, who left the city for Fargo last
Thursday, are snow bound at Eckelson, 20
miles east of here e..
Ourabsent friend, Joe D. Mills, who
won so many laurels while connected with
the jamestown Dramatic Club, appeared
as "Crankey,' "a frontiersman from
Dakota Oh the evening of the 30th of last
month, at Momence, III. Joseph, come
back to the land Of the Dako,as.
A little two years old child of J.
Mclean, proprietor Of the Pacific House,
found drachm of creosote in the upper
sssh Of window, which he drank. al
though the child is in very prccarious
situation, the doctor expresses belief
that it will recover.
Mr.. lnman complains that some evil
minded person is making a practice of
tearing down his machinery posters. Who
ever the guilty party is, must be and
probably is, mean, low.lived, insignif-
cant, unprincipaled cuss, Tor whom
cremation without waiting for the
uusual peliminaries would be too mild a
punishment.
I. W. Fields, late of the firm of Fields
& Co.. jewelers., of Fargo has arrived in
town. For the present, Mr.. F. will occupy
window in Mr.. E)mer's drug store where
he will do all kinds of watch and clock
repairing. Mr.. Fields will remain With
US permanently and very soon put in a
first class stock of goods is his line. He
has the reputation of beinga 6rst.class
worker. r,a ....~ -'-~ $685..
We're never to old to learn, Maria, ,
We're never too old to learn. &.
Stick your finger in the fire, Maria,
And it's always sure to burn.
Thus began north side dame as she
glided noisely into the presence of
her daughter, Msria, You know" she
continued, after blowing her nose on the
left hand corner Of her apron, You know
that l told you, and so ha. your pap, time,
time, and again, that John was only
stuftin' of you, just leading you on, Maria,
just leading you on. Here ana working
and working, saviu' and savin', trying to
get enough to buy a new calico dress, and
you have been doing nothing but gadin',
sadln,' From morning till night, Maria, is
nothing but CAD, CAD CAD" Here the old
iady's voice died away INTO dead calm.
Maria, almost broken hearted arose, placed
a thin shawl around her shiverirr form
and moved toward the door. which she
flung open and standing on the threshold
tor moment. as if to bid defiance to the
clouds Of drifting snow with out, she shot
wildly into the darkness.
ITO BE CONTINUED /