Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1881-07-08
David Curtin has gone to St. Paul.
Jake Barnl,oldt is going to Montana. Y.
Farm machinery men are selling NOV.

carm InHcnlueVv ulel arc seAihS NV"
ers lively.
Fl. S. Van Glove is back in town again
and his iatEsly is with him..
There is rumored change in the sd-
ministratiuD of the Eagle Restaurant.
Work on the new Kldder county conr:
house at Steele has been commercial.
Mr.. n. Russell is nov d,scbarging the
duties Of post Office clelk ut this place.
Mr.. Truax, the crack checker player, is
assisting Mr:: Hsrker, our station agent.
I Bismarck and Fargo papers speak OF
their celebrations as being very success
ful.
The proceedings Of the Village Council
will he read with interest by the saloon
men.
Our County Board met yesterday for
the purpose of equalizing the tax Of the
county.
L,vervman Moore can now boast of the
finest livery outfit between Fargo and the
Black Hills.
D. NJ. KelIeter informs the Alert that
he will in no sense be "a candidate for Of
6ce this fall.
Messrs Learned Bros. & Hathorn have
their addition we'll under way and Mike
Murphy ls doing the work.
The School Commlttee selected Miss
Davidson to fill the position Of assistant
in cur school for the ensuing year.
1t is now Understood that all ealoons
will charge ten cents glass for beer.
This is to be done t. compete with the
new license law.
Col. S. P. Brockway, Of Albion, Mich,
is in town. The gentleman is an old
neighbor ofour highly respected citizens.
Messrs Eddy and Miner.
The people at Grand Rapids did not
quite live up to their published pro.
gramme on the Fourth, but they had a
close game of base ball and picnic.
Fields has received a new safe which
he has been expecting for some time. 1t
Is beauty and IS fitted uD With special
regard to the requirements OF his busi-
| ness.
| S. X. McGinnis, of the Bank of James,
town, has been appointed to fill the va
cancy in the Board Of County Commls
Sloners, caused by the resignation Of Hon.
D. NJ. Kcllehcr.
A reward of $40 is offered for the re-
turn of "a red morocco pocket book which
was lost on Monday morning on the road
going south. 1t contained money and pa
pers. See notice concerning it.
Mr.. Gasal has moved into his new quar-
ters on Fifth avenue. He will run sa-
loon, selling lager beer exclusively, and
in connection will keep restaurant and
facilities for giving meals but no lodg.
ngs.
The saloon keepers are endeavoring to
firm an organization the nature Of which
has not been made public 1t is probably
a protection venture and points towards
the avoiding, it possible, the payment of
the late tax, which to them Us class, ap-
pears unjust.
Tho School Committee were in session
Wednesday and after examing the cre-
dentials of eighteen candidates for princi.
pal of our school, selected Mr.. Smith. of
Bismarck, for the position. The commit
tee were in session this afternoon aud will
select an assistant.
The Willard party arrived at this point
from the east al one o'clock to-day. The
party goes west to the end Of the track
and will return vt an early day to James
town and remain for several days. Mr.
Willard will make personal examination
of the proposed lines running north and
south of this pluce.
Mr.. Henry F. Elliott brought sample
of oats into this office to-day, grown ON
his daughters tree claim. three miles
south Of town. Parties who have seen
the piece of grain from which this sam.
pie was taken pronounce it the finest in
this vicinity, aud judging from this spec.
linen we should say the same.
Hon. Henry Mulberger, from Water.
town, Wis. is visiting at the residence of
E P. Wells. with whom he is largely ir-
ttrestcd in Dakota lands. Mr.. Mulber-
ger is prominent as capitalist and poll
tclan. having been mayor of his city,
state senator and leading candidate last
fall for the Congressional nomination,
which was finally refused by him.
The Alert desires to return a vote of
thanks to Major Edwards of the Fargo
Argus, tor valuable information concern
ing the condition of President Garfield
The MAJOR has shown the Alert many ia.
vors in the way of news, and we trust that
since cur people have had the benefit of
his courtesy toward their paper, they will
n It forget the Argus, which is benefit to
, jamestown in many ways.
Brewer Danner has figured up and cal
culatcs that it tnok about 900 extra kegs
of beer from his brc very to put the peo-
pie through the Fourth. He is now brew
| ing four davs in the week and his sales
run up tn 400 kegs per W eek on an aver
age AID this week will reacI. 600. He is
| sending beer west to Bismarck and Man
dan, east to Fargo, M'orhead and inter.
mediate stations. and south to Grand Rap
ids. He Is about to ship In another car
load Of malt from Chicago, and says if the
barley crop is a success he will build 6
malt house Of his own this fall.
Proceedings Of the Board Of Commis.