Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1880-01-27

Mr.. James E. Herbert left the village
yesterday norning for sauk Centre, his
old home, for the purpose Of visiting his
old friends and for tho purpose of pur~
chasing . car load Of working horses
which he will ship to this point in about
Dix weeks. The ALERT, a. we'll ss his
many friends here, wish him . pleasant
and successful trip.
Miss Hattie Smith, who has bssn .
fsithfdl employee At the Dakota house -
dining room girl, since the frat day it
opened has resigned her position and
gone to live with her parents, who reside
on fifth avenue. Miss Smith bsing .
fsvorite with the other girls At the house,
and we'll liked By oil the sojourners, her
retirement isgsnerally regretted.
1sel's sss.
Thirty persons in Michigan were
poisoned by eating sausage. There il
where the danger is in poisoning dogs.
II dogs must be killed, and there are
times when they should be killed, for
goodness sake shoot them. Don't give
them poison. for you are liable to poison
innocent lovers Of the festive sausage.
The dress party given at Mr.. Timm's
new store, on Front street, last Tuesday
evening, drew large crowd from both
sides of tho track. The music was, as
usual, first class, and everything passed
off very pleasantly. Supper was prepared
by the Pacific House, which was pro-
nounced by oil as having been the best of
the kind ever gotten up in jamestown.
Mr.. E. p. Wells, of the Land Journal
and his family have moved from their
dwelling on Fifth avenue to their new and
elegant residence on Fourth street. The
ALERT extends to Mr.. Wells and his pleas.
ant family its heartiest congratulations and
hopes that the days they shall spend in
their now home will be many and full
of happiness.
We a1e in receipt of grist of very
pathetic poetry supposed to have been
written by . talented friend Of the female
persuasion. We take all manner of
pleasure in favoring onr readers with the
last stanza:
My pen is poor, my ink is pale,
And my heart 1t trembles
Likes little dogs tail.
Never mind, sis, we know of other girls
III jamestown whose - hearts tremble
in the same way.
"JAM1E" in the Fargo Republican.
The Fargo Argus says good many
witty things in its way) but it rather
overdid matters when recently it attempt
ed to slur our newspaper, the ALERT. The
latter is OF much more consequence than
the Argus, and will probably have much
longer existence, as its life does not
depeEd upon the pap Of any "gang."
Stutsman county is able to attend to its
own affairs without the help of Spencer.
Thanks, jamie, we don't care what your
real name is, since you are our friend.
Mr.. James Roberts says if we don't
apologize for stating that he attempted to
jump his board bill he will put head on
US. We hate like thunder to get licked
and dislike very much to apologize. But
placed as are, between the great sea andlthe
devil, as it were, We naturally take wa.
ter" Well retract,-No be darned if we
will.-Yes, guess we'd better. So here we
60, Upon interviewing Mr.. Roberts,
whom we so severally upbraided in our
last issue, for as we supposed, attempting
jump his board bill, he says he did not
attempt to do any such thing; and that he
owed Mr.. Kclleher for two weeks board
instead of three as stated by us. Further.
more that we lied.
The surprise party given by George
Vennum, and Others, at the jamestown
hotel last Friday evening was one of the
gayest and most brilliant gatherings Of
social nature, our village has experienced
this season, At an carly hour in the
evening, young men accompanied By
their "cousius aud aunts," and older men
by their wives and children. commenced
hocking in until every available seat in
the snug little parlor on the second floor
OF the house was occupied. About nine
o'clock the music, which was furnished
by Delgeye's full string band led off in
its usual inchanting manner and all hands
were soon con deck s, to speak. Mr..
Kelleher as usual, spared no pains to make
it pleasant for his unexpected guests and
about twelve o'clock invited all present to
enjoy an oyster supper at his EXPENSE
The oysters were prepared by Mr.. Dow,
who, Judging from the superior quality of