Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1881-08-26
Mr. Lloyd expects to open hM bank
about next Monday.

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All-n-Judge Allen-tells the boys that
Ire will 20 to Michigan soon 70 see bis naa
ina, but the boys are ION" oil the same.
John yennum hasn't caught his breath
since he started on that wheat field and
doesn't expect to until he has it tn reshed
/ some Of the wheat being brought in
is loaded direct into the cars without ths
formality Of going through the elevator
There should be fine aud elaborate
exhibit OF garden produce at the Stutsman
county department Of the Minneapolis
fair.
Jas. Lees has an elegant club room con-
nectcd with his saloon. 1t is furnished
with tables aud easy chairs and is cosey
place.
Judge Stelnbach hastily swallowed his
breakfast this morning and departed for
the rural district to see about threshlng
his crops.
Cots are being called into requisit,on at
the Dakota House, which signifies that
We are commencing to catch our fall rush
of visitors.
Mr.. Learned has just sold ono Of his
lots On Front street to Fargo party for
800. A very good sale, likewise, very
good lot.
Mr.. E. Elmer was exhibiting bouquet
yesterday IN the shape Of monstrous
head of caulitiower, raised and presented
to him by Mr.. Merrick More.
Mr.. William Bowman has bought out
the Fort Totten stage line from Ed Lob
mis-. Frank Adams will drive the upper
end Of the route in the future.
Mr.. DoolittIe, Of the Boston One Price
Clothing House, is making preparations
to receive large stock Of fall and winter
goods at his store in Klaus block.
If Stutsman county sots to the Mime
apolis fair she will make showing to the
little outside world that will make her
notorious as an agricultural section.
Jas. Lees informs the Alert that he has
hnished tbreshing and that his wheat, of
which hc had several hundred acres, av-
eraged 1874 bushels per acre, machine
measure.
Again We would rise to ask the County
Clerk when that promised financial state
msnt will be forthcoming: 1t be-
gins to look as if big game OF bluff had
been tried on us
1t is the duty as we'll as the privilege OF
every farmer in this county to contribute
something in the way Of G ain or produce
to the exhibit Stutsman county proposes
to make at Minneapolis.
]. NJ. Eldridge, the we'll known Dav-
export gentleman, ir in town and called
at the Alert Office this morning in com.
psny with ]. J. Comstock and j. N. Fleet,
two gentlemen from Illinois.
Steel rails are to be laid At once from
the depot east as far - the top of the hill.
The road west Is far a. The top of the
hill beyond the Pipestem will also be
similarly laid at an early date. s,
Our worthy contemporary publishes
cut of tank and represents it to be tie
new elevator This is the only instance
in which our celebrated railroad map of
last spring has been equallsd.
Rev. G. ". Hanley, Baptist missionary
on the Northern Hacifc, will preach ut
the Presbyterian church Sunday morning
and evening. The Baptists Of this COM
munity are especially invited to attend.
Capt. McClellsnd, of Pittsburgh, Pa
the guest of Mr.. McGinnis, expresses
himself as agreeably surprised at the as
pect Of our country, and says that il far
exceeds his anticlpasions. He will own
Dakota soil before he returns to the Qua
ker state.
We are informed that al soon az Mr..
Klaus new building is in condition
grand ball for the benefit of the firemen
and to raise money to put up a hook and
ladder house will be held therein. 1t 10
proposed to have Fargo band to furnish
the music and to have supper.
We understand that Mr.. Abingdon, the
English gentleman who was here in the
summer with small colony, and who
went to England promising to return
with a large party in he fall. is about to
make good his word, and is expected to
arrive here within ten days with party
of 50 or 80 young men who will take up
land and 60 to farming.
Mr, Adam Walters, the victim of the
confidence game on the N. P. train Sat-
urday morning as it was leaving ST. Paul.
and from the Joss Of which he landed in
jamestown 'broke," received message on
Monday announcing the capture Of the
victimizer. He departed with his wife
to interview him and it is hoped will re-
urn with his ducats.
Surveyor Foster dropped int the Alert
Office this morning to subscribe for the
Daily, and before he got out he informed
us that he had just completed the survey
oftwo additions to Sa.torn~ He Is going
up to Cooperstown, north of Sanborn, to
run a few lines. Mr. Foster has made
the survey Of eighteen towns and adds
irons within 50 miles sf jamestown. He
always keeps busy, which speaks we'll for
his ability as a surveyor.
In giving q report Of wednesday eve
nings fair meet,ng proceedings the Alert
neglected to give notice Of the important
'act that resolution Was passed at the
meeting extending cordial invitation to
La Moure county asking it TO join Stufs-
man county in preparing an exhibit for the
Minneapolis fair. aud that Mr.. b. T. Ell
rfott had been invited to take ch,rge of