Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1881-05-13

Y Geo. Vennum is out again.
Dan Long is nursing fslon.
= Where shall the cemetery be located
D. Curtin has new awning in front o
E his store.
, There il not vacant house in James
; town.
Will Mclean is calsomining the James
town Hotel.
Tae P. o. building looms up with ,
new coat of paint.
McKechnie expects car load Of fai
, cattle for bis market to-day.
Mr.. Turner las put up . neat awninf
ia front of his store.
Out Of the eight prisoners in the cooler
two weeks ago, but one now remains
The frame Of s. K NcGiunis' new
house Is up and being enclosed.
Bush & Corwin are doing considerable
business in the farm machinery llue.
Mr. Woodruff is finding employment
for several parties every day.
r. A. Bill is putting in so acres Of
oats on bis farm south Of town.
Nj. Russell had an increase Of 80 lambs
on the spiritwood farm Sunday.
Will Knapp and his painter bad row
Tuesrdsy. Will came out drst man.
AKA is going down east. He says this
place is not large enough to hold him.
Charlie Ross is soon to commence the
erection of his house on the north side.
White and Nickeus have the north side
Of their Office deconted with Z business
sign.
Mr.. Hall, of the 6m ii Hall 4 sox,
Grand Rapids, is stopping st the Dakota
House.
4 petition is being circulated to raise
funds to erect building for the hook
aud ladder company.
Chan Bassett was in town today aud
said that he had sowu all his grain for this
year.
A. Steinbach has . new sign on his
furniture store. He has . full stock and
Is selling cheap.
Major Lyon says the late rain has saved
his banana crop and he expects nearly .
full yield.
VIM. Llyod, Jr, owner of the Lloyd
addition to jamestown, is stopping 1t
the Dakota House.
Some people say that our late rains are
due to the fact that Lees Moon has been
full for nearly week.
Thomas and H. T.. Smith, friends ofA.
A. len, have arrived from Coldwater,
Mich, and will probably locate here.
We see by an exchange that something
terrible is to happen in Jamestown. Per-
haps Judge Allen is to be married.
Waller & Carr will ill their stable with |
horses and cattle as soon - completed,
which will be within few days.
snoudy, who says he is St Peter, ex-
poets to hold camp meeting in Bismarck,
commencing about the Let OF August.
Mr.. Fuller has been predictin that
Maltby would not drive the milk wagon
for week, but be only laid off one day.
J. c. Wolf has flushed his paint shop
and Is now occupying it. He is q first
class painter and will prove it by bis
work.
Our carpenters say that at no time in
the history Of Jamestown have they been
% crowded with work - at the present
time.
At meeting of the County Commis.
sieners Of Kidder county, held on Tues.
day last, the Alert wac appointed the Of.
fetal paper of that county.
E. B. Eddy, president Of the Fiut Nat.
Bank Of Fargo, aud the Fargo Hail In.
soranoe Co., has been in town, the
gusst of Allen & Dodge.
N. W. Thsyer, prominent citizen Of
Milwaukee, is taking in the sights Of |
Jamestown, and will without doubt .pur-
CHASE more land in this vicinity.
Seventeen German smigra1ts direct
from the old county, arrived Tuesday
and will locate near Grand Rapids and bs.
come tillers of the soil.
4 man advertised in the Alert Nra cit |
uation, the other day, and in lees than
three hour. after the paper was out had |
two COED chsucss to 70 to work on
farms.
Company K left Fort Tottsn on Sun.
day for Fort Buford. going acrosa the
country. The other company of caulry
is still detained st Toetsn for want Of !
transportation.
P. Plunkett, the clothes cleaner, has
commenced business and parties desiring
| anything his line can be accommodated.
He lives down beyond the elevator and |
advertises in tho Ale:t
Judging from the 6ct that Granger
Johnston hes already sold Is MC6mick |
self binders. one would naturally conclude |
that some one in this vicinity intended to
| raise some wheat.
The night sPerator At this place has
been dispensed With, and Mr.. Walters,
who held the position. has been appoint.
ed day operator and ticket agent, Mr..
King having taken = posision in the |
freight department.
1t is altogether probable that the light |
sand and dirt now adorning Fifth Ave.
will be hauled away again. It 10 hoped |
that something will be done with it, ~ it
is nuisance not only to the people Of that