Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1881-07-01
Mr.. Eager. wife aud child arrived yes

Mr.. Eager's wife and child arrived u
terday.
A number Of entries have been ma.
for the races.
The frame Of the Lloyd building "
raised to-day.
Born Monday. juno 27th, con
Mr.. and Mrs. William Mclean.
Born.--Thursday, June 3oth. son
Mr.. and Mrs. Soule. DR.. Thorold in 4
tendance.
| Mr.. Hanscom commenced this mornir
the erection of his house on McGinni
addition.
| Mr.. Joe Feldhmsen brou ght in Il
first load Of new potatoes and turnips {
the season yesterday.
| One hundred dollars worth Of d.
works and balloons will 60 up In blAz
and splendor on the Fourth.
The village council have appointed n
Shoemaker aud Mr.. Mansfield as speci,
police on the fourth of July.
Allen & Dodge have received the ager
cy for the Monarch line Of steamers, run
ming between New York and London.
Yesterday was E. Elmcr's birthday, bu
We won't give his age away any mor
than to say that he is less than sixty.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Presby
tcrian church will meet tomorrow after
noon, ut 4 o'clock, at the Dakota House
The Jamestown mill will be running il
about two weeks. The additional Hun
gariau rollers are expected to arrive daily
James Lees brought down wheat from
his farm, which is ~ inches high, fully
headed out aud couldn't possibly look
healthier
The wise will not fail to make arrange.
ments for his winter fuel during the pres.
cEt summer, but the foolish man will wait
and be bulldozed Is of &yore.
Anybody desiring Mccormick twin-
binder must give their order nmedistely
to- W. Johnston, as the supply il short
on these celebrated harvesters.
Mandan has a fall grown sporting club
They have just sent for two barrels Of
glass balls and revolving spring. Man.
dan is certainly coming to the front.
The reservation case in which Kelleher
and Elliott are taking prominent part
has been adjourned until the 10th of July,
owing to the absence of the register.
Chan Bassett brought in some splendid
samples Of whea, and oats yesterday.
The former is headed out, rank in growth,
and heavily stooled. The latter are IN the
milk.
Several large boxes of fire works were
unloaded here to-day for the Fourth of
July celebration. This feature Of the &c.
casion promises to be extremely success.
full
The creased pole committee decided at
their meeting last evening that the pole
should be doped with Frszels Axle
Grease, or, grade No 2, boarding house
butter.
VIM. Farr; Of Guelph, Canada, has
rented the stand formerly occupied by
Maltby and is fitting it up for meat
market. The gentleman is said to be an
exnerienced butcher
Mr.. Klaus has raised flag staff, so feet
high, in front of his block on Main ST.,
around which will be built band stand.
4 flag eighteen feet in length will foat
from the summit of the shaft.
The Methodist and Presbyterian socie-
ties have united and will hold union
service in the school house on Sunday
morning at 1890 o'clock. Rev. David
Writ, of Chicago, will preside.
Attorney Dodge informs the Alert that
the rumor to the effect that the Kelleher
and Elliott contest case has been decided
in favor of Mr. Elliott II without found..
tion. As yet the case has not been tried.
Parker, the pen man, gave his enter.
tainment in front Of the Dakota House
last evening. He found plenty Of men
willing to invest their dollars, and about
one in q hundred came out ah,ad of him.
Joe Freeman brought samples Of wheat
and barley into the Alert Office Tuesday
noon that take the palm. The longest ef
the wheat measured nearly 40 inches in
length and was headed out. The fax
measured ever 80 inches and was in bios.
som.
The Gray Bros. are doing a good work
for Stutsman county. These gentlemen
are not exhausting themselves BY telling
the many great and glorious things they
propose to do in the way of public inn
provements, but like men of sense they
proceed to do something. Such men are
of great benefit to new country.
Chas. Loomis will on the Fourth of
July perform the feat Of saving one cord
of dry oak wood twice in two, in one
hour and forty dve minutes. With an ordi-
nary buck saw handling the wood him
self. Mr.. l.. is the champion sawyer of
the states of MINES ,ta, Wisconsin. Ohie
and Illinois
George Case fell against some big luck
lately whereby he is $500 better off than
he was previously. At the opening of the
late unpleasantness between the north
and south George was living in Portland,
Maine, and lent a man the above amount.
The meney was never returned and was
considered lost until package containing
$500 and consigned to Case reached here.
When some one remarked interest to Case
he replied, I'd -n the interest,""
The band have had same ..dodoar.,