Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-08-31
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ADDITION All. LO(

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The Presbyterian Sunday school picnic
will be held to-day 10 Riverside park.
The committee thought it best under the
circumstances to hold IL there instead III
down the river, as at first designed.
a story from the pen Of w. 3. Mans.
field, county treasurer, will appear II the
! Weekly Alert.next week entitled ss.Ihe
4 Delinquent Tax List''. It viii be the
4 greatest effort Of his life. .sfiguratively,,
! speaking.
! The residence Of Mr.. Kelly, about
| eighteen miles south Of TIE city was the
scene Of q pleasant social party and hop
night before last the occasion beng the
return home of Miss Sylvia Kelly ACCOM-
panied by her friend Miss Nellie Corn.
wall, Of La Moure county. 4
i The Alert is requested by tile Cinc,n-
nati exhibit committee % request those
who have fiue samples Of wheat. oats.
barley, and other field or garden products
to bring them in Immediately, as they
must be sent away at once. Those who
have fine samples which they do not feel
able to give will be paid for them.
About q dozen new threshing ma-
chimes came in on 4 freight tram yester-s
day morning. They are being taken out
every day, and their hum may already be
heard IN the surrounding wheat fields.
In about Q couple Of weeks they may be
seen on every hand knocking out tile No.
hard at the rate Of 1000 to /, 500 bush
els each per day They Will nearly ali bc
run by straw- burner engines.
For several nights past We haye heard
an unearthly noise coming not far dis
tant upon the balmY night air, but sun.
posed all the time it was some one prac-
ticing upon some new and fashionable
music Of the eperatic order and had begun
to think it very fine, but when we over
heard one sf the compositors down
stairs impatiently say "d-n that howl
ing dog" we discovered our mistake and
are disposed to kick against the annoy
ance too.
The carpenters we're at work yester-
day constructing the arches over the
walks across Willard park for the display
that will be made there next Tuesday II
honor of the Willard Party The park
will be filed with the productions OF this
county tastely arranged for the occasion,
and the display VIII be a fine one. Those
who have choice products should bring
samples III and leave them at the base
ment OF the First National bank where
they will be properly cared for. By every
one helping a little in this way the ~
gregate will be a beautiful and imposing
exhibit.
The Fargo Argus says: ssHon. g. f.
Kindred IS bringing a colony Of people
from Albany, New York, to settle at
Cleveland, Dakota, of which he is the
principal owner Cleveland is situated
IN o nice place for to sn and has good
country around it. 1t is not improbable
that 1t will loom up as a town of consid-
erable Importance sometime not far in the
future. As Dir. Kindred owns the prln-
clpal part of the town, and has the sand
and the cash to make nything go that he
takes hold of, it would seem that this
movement means town at that place
which will occupy q prominent place on
the map of the territory.
Mr.. FL. BTandenburg, president of the
Knife Falls Lumber company, accompa-
MED BY his wife, is IN the city visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Mcclure. They have been
out to Bismarck and are now on their re-
turn. Mr. Brandenburg has bought out
the lumber firm of Farr s. Leimnach.
which stock will be consolidated with
that of the jamestown lumber company.
already owned by his company Mr.. b.
took a drive out in the country yesterday
afternoon and was very much pleased
with the appearance and development OF
its resources, and after seeing what 4
country there is to back jamestown he
has decided to increase his already large
stock of lumber here to the amount of
$4,000 to SIS ,ooo Such acce ssions to
our business interests arc highly compli-
mentary to our city and country.
Last week d. l.. Wilbur went down
south TO show some land seekers the
country, and took his gun along to shoot
some ducks if the opportunity should be
offered Coming upon little lake whero
there was boat, he could not resist the
/ temptation to so out on the water and
4 make war upon tae feathcred citizens.
| The beat was somewhat inclined to turn
bottom side up, but he managed to bal
ancc 1t very wei! while rowing and he
went out in regatta style, the water be-
ing only about three feet deep. Pres
eatly duck came flying past to the leo
ward and in an instant Mr.. w. put tho
gun to his shoulder and fired The re-
! coil of the gun threw him little out Of
balance, aud the next instant the best
was bottom side up and Wilbur was max
| ing geological examination Of the bet
tom OF tie lake. As sttruth crushed to
earth viii rise agala-,s so did Wilbur, and
before he had time to catci, his breath be
was making for the duck he had hrought
/ down. After securing the duck and tow
ing the boat to shore he discovered that
his clothes were a little damp, and i1av-
ing TIVE days more drive before ceming
home, he applied TO a prairie shack and