Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1881-08-19

Jimmie Herbert has put an addition on
to his house.
Attorney Bill has resumed the practice
Of law.
There is talk of satrting q concert sa-
loon in town.
Mr.. DuBoisscn IS putting large addi.
tion on to the Empire store.
E. P. Wells bought the building &C.
cupled by Mrs Davis.
Mr.. James I.yttle is gning to Fargo to
work in the N. P. freight Office.
Several car loads of wood arrived the
first Of the wesk and we're speedily taken
care Of.
Brown & Brown vii! have to rush the
new elevator if they get in this years
crop.
Geo. Case has lett the country. 90 it is
reported, and has "lsft" several parties in
town.
Messrs. Brown & Brown propose to
have their elevator ready to receive grain
BY the 1st Of October.
John Moore and his wicked partner,
attorney Dodge, have gone to Aberdeen
an business of course.
Mrs. Tisdale has Just secured the ser.
vices ef an experienced milliner and
dressmaker from St. Paul.
Mis-, Florence c. Barton, Of Ninneapo.
lis, is visiting with her old friend aud
PLAYMATE, Mrs. z. P. Wells.
It is becoming quite evident that our
citizens do not prepose tn make display
at the coming Minneapolis fair.
Mix. Murphy hss commenced to build
q 81 500 house for Mr.. Hicks. II will
De 2exse in size, with 20 feet posts.
Engineer Newman commenced The work
OF locating the grade stakes to-day. The
graders will commence work at once.
Fourteen Indian teams came down from
Fort Totten yesterday and returned with
me, chand,sc, lumber and flour.
Now is the time to get in q supply Of
fuel for the winter It will not pay to
wait until coal gets up to ST Or SIS per
ton before buying.
Mr.. Flint's wheat was put in late and
he feared it would not pan out we'll, but
has been agreeably surprised with yield
Of 1s bushels per acre.
Drs. BALDWIN, Thorold and Hall are un-
usually busy NOWADAYS. The warm wealth
er together with unripe fruit is too much
TO- an average constitution.
Pat Norm has h ID large cellar dug
IN the street pr paratery to moving his
saloon out onto line Fields and Turner
have already been put to the front.
The First National Bank of Nandan
has elected the following officers: c. Ed.
gar Haupt. president; James Bellows,
vice p resident; Redney Lyons, cashier.
Nj. JEFF Smith, of Grand Rapids, was
10 town Monday eve exhibiting some fine
specimens Of coal taken from . six inch
vein just discovered near that place.
The Western Union Telegraph Co., is
altogether too slow for Dakota. It takes
four days for message to get from this
place to Bismarck, distance Of 1O1 miles.
Mr.. Glaspsll is threshing on the Dav.
.
enport Farm near town, and says m uch OF
it will yield IS bushels per acre, aud the
averags of the 400 acres exceed 20 BUSH
| els.
It IS iutirnated that Mr.. Kelley will
move the postoffice into Mr.. Lloyd's usw
building. "A very good scheme and one
that would meet the approval Of the most
chronic grumbler.
The Bismarck Tribune says that the
purchaser Of lot at Dawson has one ad.
vantage, he can dig twenty feet and have
q dry cellar, or he can go three feet and
strike water.
Capt. Elliott has returned frcm Fargo,
and saws the railroad is going right along
towards Grand Rapids and :hat new
survey is to no made which will run the
road through town.
Master Fred Lyon give birthday par
ty to his young friends Wednesday after
noon. Some so ar 40 we're present and
were royalty entertained. Fred has now
reached bis 9Th year.
There was . false alarm Of Dire
on the north side Tuesday after.
noon at 1 O'Clock. Wind drove smoke
under the caves Of the Eagle Restaurant
and some ene seeing it started the alarm
There has been some difficulty already
experienced by the railroad company in
securing right Of way. Several farm
ers living north of here refuse to let thu
company cross their farms. The ccm
pany will undoubtedly go through just
the same.
D. NJ. Kelleher contracted with Pet,
Aubertin for q coffin at 4 certain price
Pete brought in the till, but charged q
cents extra for brass nails. Kellehe
kicked at that and said d--d if he'd
stand it, he'd live first. Another exampl,
Of western grit.
Jas. Lees commenced threshing yester
day, and 10 new able to closely approx
mate the yield, which he thinks will av
erage "a bushels per acre of No. hard
Mr. Wells has glass jar of it or exhibi
tion in his Office labeled "Grasshoppe
Leavings
superintendent Hobart was in tow
Tuesday and picked out spot for nev
elevator. It will be erected at once an,
located just east Of the enc owned b.
Messrs. Bush & Corwin. It 10 understood
that our enterprising real estate agents
, Brown 4 Brown, ore the parties who pro
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