Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1880-02-24
IA a. NJ ESTOWN

pestive Glance at lts Ear1y
history, tsgether With : Draef
sketch y it, Frsseat "a fstur,
RIespeets.
CONTINUED from No. 8o.l
cxAPIR v. "
w. W. Bill, Of whom ws hav. previous.
y made mention, came to Jamestovn Il
July. 1879 in tho interests Of Hubbard.
RAYMOND & Allen. whom hs and lr..
Clark bought out and continued bu,ines.
under the firm name Of Clark q Bill. This
latter firm afterwards moved to Bismarck
in June. 1872, continued there till sprinr
Of 1875, then moved to the Black Hills
and the same sunmsr Of this year. M.
Clark was mysteriously killed on the road
between Yankton and the Hills. In 1877
Mr.. Bill returned 70 Bismarck, clerked
thai season on Missouri steamer, and in
tbs spring Of 1873 entered the employ Of
n. 3. Harwood & Co., Of Minneapolis
In September Of the same year be came 70
Jamestown to take charge Of q stock Of
goods fornely owned BY 81. @. Miller q
Co. but at that time bought by Nj. j
employer. The goods remained the prop.
erty Of Harwood 8 Co until September, 79
when they were bought BY 9. F. Lambert
Mr. Bill remains head manager 10 this
enterprising house, has taken up one
hundred and sixty acres Of land IN close
proximity to town and is one Of stutsman
county $ most popular and favorite men.
s.F Lambert. smigrated from Mime
sofa to Bismarck in the spring Of 1872
where he remained till August, 1879, en-.
gagged IN freighting and government con-
tracing; he then came to this place
bought the stock Of goods a. above men.
toned; engaged with other parties under
the firm name Of s. F. Lambert & Co, ii
carrying freight from this point to Fort
Tottsn; entered ono hundred and sixty
acres Of land within . few miles Of town;
and is one Of our most successful and
3enterprising business men.
The building occupied BY S. r. Lambert
Vas put up in September 1878, 81 81. q.
Miller, who immigrated to this yicirity
July 1872: he at first kept 4 meat market
and dealt IN cattle, but afterwards opened
. general merchandise stors which Is run
until his death, March 1879.
George w. Braunie, one Of our justices
OF the peace came in the summer of 1879
with Capt. Bates company, and was
hospital steward at Fort sewart until the
abandonment Of the Same. He then enter
ed the employ Of 81. G Miller d bosk-
keeper; afterwards, started ia business
for himself; opened !. saloon in the
building now occupied by Thompson th
barber. He sold out about q year ago
and has been in the employ Of Nj. .Kslleher
nearly ever since
In the forepart Of the year 1879, Canton,
st. Lawrence county, New York, lost one
Of its most amieble men in the parsonage
of Will Elmer who came to this place in
March of said year, with the words Of
old Horace Greeley burning in his mind.
He cpened>a small stock of drugs in his
present location, and has kept adding to
and increasing his business until now he
has one ofthe neatest and best selected
stocks Of the kind on the line Of the N
P. Will, in common with all the. boys
has taken up one hundred and sixty acres
of land as the foundation Of the fortune;
awaiting his perseverance, and pluck.
Henry Ringuette, our shoemaker, left
Unity, WISCONSIN, in May 1879, with q
view to settling III the best and fairest
place he could find in his travels. Natur-
ally enough, jamestown proved his choice
Ehe opened shop in the house now
occupied 81 John NcGee, moving thence
into q room in the Jamestown hotel, and
lastly, into the building erected by HIM
last summer on Front street. He has
taken up a very desirable claim about TIVE
miles west oftown, and this season will
find him engaged with both his trade and
the business of .arming.
10 N CONTINUED Hnxr WEEK
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