Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1881-10-21
Territorial News.
Aberdeen is without barber.

| lamps.
Chicken thieves are numerous in
Elk Point.
NTatcrtown boasts Of four good
livery stables.
Moody county wants township
organization.
| A new passenger depot will be
erected at M lndan soon.
The new school House at Mandan
iAnearly completed
a newspaper vii! doubtless soon
be started at Buxton.
Buxton is seven months old and
CONTAINS Thirty houses.
+ Several new buildings arc in
course OF erection at Butn.
Scotland wants i literary society
and a board of trade,
School district No. 3 has been
formed i'll Miner county.
The land Office at Mitchell is
doing a rushing business.
The last term OF court Of Turner
county cost 81, 1i4.20.
A Presbyterian church will he
built III Tower City this fall.
The First National bank of Grand
Forks is open for business.
Potatoes are worth seventy-fve
cents per bushcl III Scotland.
The Kingsbury County News is
just one year and Il half old.
Ehe new millaat Parker will begin
grinding about'the goth.
Denton, in Miner county, has
wide awake temperance society.
Work has been commenced on
the Ashton depot and coal sheds.
A normal teachers institute will
commence in De Smet Oct. Path.
Ordway, Brown county, wants a
furniture store and lumber yard.
Seven ear loads Of flax were ship
ped from Scotland Thursday last.
L1Nber is on The ground for the
depof j and coal sheds at ALelie'te.
A Akchco! house will he built in
Buxton soon which will cost $1,000.
Fully one thousand people attended
the Brookings fair last. Saturday.
Two thousand bushels of wheat
are marketed at Redheld every week.
The Congregational church at Yer.
million has very fine new organ.
Scotland feels sure Of a population
Of two thousand i'll less than year.
The Madison fair was postponed
one week,,,n account Of the weather.
Grand Forks chamber Of com.
merce is not in prosperous condi-
ton.
One dealer at Fargo sod over
thirty thousand pounds Of butter last
month.
The HHron band vii give q con-
cert in that town next Saturday
evening.
Egan has population of between
four hundred and five hundred peo-
pie.
Mrs. Tyler, wife Of tie station
agent, is telegraph operator at Mel
lettc.
The Gra"d Forks Herald (scml,
weekly will be made q daily at all
early date
The new postmaster at Tower City
will build a fine post Office building
at once.
Over one hundred dwelling houses
have been built at Bismarck in the
past year.
The one hotel at Ordway is con,
stautly filled to it's utmost capacity
with guests.
A good tcmplars lodge has been
organized at Aurora with twenty-five
members.
A Brookings county Sunday
school convention is being held in
Volga this week.
The Parker Era thinks that the
voters of Turner county will serious
ly oppose the proposition to bond
the county to build court house at
Swan Lake.
A miliner, first class painter,
ten good laborcrs, merchant tailor
and dres ;maker, could all find
steady employment 1T Scotland st
good prices.
The county commissioners Of Brule |
county have been requ ested to submit
the question Of moving the county
seat from Brule City to Chamberlain
to 4 vote of the people.
Vermillinn Republican: Station
Agent Pendcrs had a paralytic
stroke Monday evening at the depot
from the effects Of which he is still
suffering, having but little control
over his left ann.
Huron Tribune: No less than
twenty-five rc>i,lcns es are contracted
for to he built ut ol &c while probah-
ly three times as many more parties
are now tying to make arrangements
for the erection OF buildings.
The county superintendent OF
schools Of no, dy county announces
that an examination OF all persons
offering themselves as teachers Of
common schools VII, be held in tie
school house in Flandrau OH Tues
day, Oct. 25th.
AT the close of an entertainment
at Parker the other night votes were
sold to prove who was the aiostp"p-
p"lar lady in the town. Mrs. Hatch