Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1882-02-03
AMESTOWN STUTsMAN COUNTY, FRIDAY, FEB. 8, 1882
Commercial men come thicker and

Commercial men come thicker and
faster.
Geo. Vennum started for New York
yesterday.
Mr.. B. W, Marion has returned from
Y psilanti
Fuller & Kelley are selling lots in their
addition daily.
Mr.. H. =. Van Cleve has returned to
jamestown again.
Freight trains came in from the east
last night with two engines.
CO Holcomb, treasurer Of La Noure
county, came up Yesterday.
The receipts from the entertainment
last evening were trifls short Of 4l00.
Mr.. Chess will soon commence the
erection of the chimneys to the new Alert
block.
The shipment Of freight to Jamestown
is daily increasing with the approaching
offspring.
The village board have been unable to
do any business for some time for want Of
quorum.
The honorable board of county COM
missoners met this morning to consider
Pete Aubertin's bill for bridge construct
cd by him.
Mr.. Newman says that operations on the
jamestown & Mouse River branch will
be resumed 1T the earliest possible date.
The entertainment last evening was .
rare treat, and 20 far a. the Alert can
learn, everyone who attended was entirely
satisfied.
The building association did not loan
any money at their last meeting, as the
previous loan drew in advance upon the
monthly dues.
A. B. Balcan, formerly Of Fargo, but
now of jamestown, called on the Alert
this morning and ordered the daily sent
to his address.
At the meeting Of the board of county
commissioners this morning the Alert was
made the official paper Of Stutsman coun-
ty for the year 1882.
Several calls for our "Boom Edition.
are obliged to go without filling So par
ties at home and abroad who have not re-
ceivcd them will understand the cause.
Mr.Ransom and family and MIR. Holmes
of Eldridge, came down to the enter
tainment last evening, and had supper
at the Northwestern hotel before re-
turning.
Neuville Tanning, Jr., has obtained the
agency of large quantity of Sanborn
property, from Morton 4 Co., Of Fargo.
Our young friend seems to be "catching
on" immensely.
John V. Aalnight, formerly the obligj
ing clerk at Du Buisson's, has purchased
the photograph gallery at Valley City
and departed for that city to-day. We
wish him success.
There il some kicking in town over
the closing of saloons. Those who close
at II O'Clock claim that others pay no at.
tention to tho ordinance, and keep open
- long as they wish.
Pete Aubertin has commenced moving
Curtln's store. Pete seems to have
monopoly in this business, and well he
should for whenever he gets hold of
building it always goes just whore he
wants it to.
1t is held by superstitious persons that
bears come forth from their dens to-day,
the I'd of February, and if they can see
their shadow, 60 back and stay six weeks
longer. 1t is bear-ly possible, but We
don't believe it.
The poor farm question which has been
agitated to some extent by the Alert has
taken root in the breasts of our efficient
board of county commissioners, and at
their meeting this morning they took in
to consideration plan to secure the
necessary ground.
Gen. Beadle, superintendent of instruc-
ton for Dakota, is Of the opinion that the
minimum price for school lands in Dele
gate Pettigrew's admission bill is much
too low. He thinks that the school lands
will bring six or seven dollars per acre -
fast as it becomes necessary to place them
on the market.