The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-10-03
i. Dakota.
"a good doctor is needed at Mill.

NJ Dakota
"a good doctor is needed at Mill
town.
A watermelon weighing 60 pounds
was raised by Reynolds Bros, of
Brule county.
The board of commissioners ac-
cepted the Dakota penitentiary at
Bismarck yesterday.
The Fargo carriage works were
totally destroyed by fire last Mon
day night, loss $4,000.
The business men of Huron sub.
scribed $168 this week for the Eene-
fit of their fire department..
Madison donated 10 @cres of
ground to securea $5, 500 creamery,
which will be erected at once..s
The Marquis dc Mores has ordered
the erection of new brick church
to be built at Medora Immediately.
Oak ota's exhibit of grain, vegeta-
bles, and fruit are being boxed ready
for shipment to the New Orleans
exposition.
Rev. A. G. Law died at Blunt on
Tuesday of last week, of typhoid
fever. He was missionary of the
Methodist church.
One thousand $40 gold pieces
were recently received by a firm of
elevator men at Fargo and paid out
to fa nm ORG for 1,hoof .
At the band tour nament in Water
town the Mitchell band took the Rrst
prize of 5000; Huron second, 500;
and Ashton third, $50.
The Methodist church ats Bis
marck, last Sunday, raised $730and
paid off all Indebtedness Of the
church for the building.
James Elliott, late local editor of
the Mitchell Republican, has been
commissioned as mail agent between
Sanborn and Chamberlain.
Small grain in Brule county is
not turning out as we'll as was ex-
pected, from eighteen to twenty-five
bushels being about the average for
wheat.
Geo. E. Sutton has sold his inter-
est in the Hutchinson County News
to J. S. Detwiler, a competent Jour-
nalist, who will have full charge of
the paper.
The first annual Of the Sioux val
ley farmers and dairymen's associ-
alton, met in Sioux Falls to-day,
424th) and will continue througI
the week. r
The band tournament at Water
town last week is said to be the
greatest blow that ever struck Da-
kota. 1t was splendid success in
every particular. +
The banquet given at Pierre
Thursday night in honor of the
press, is said to have been one of
the NEST delightful and recherche
affairs ever given in the territory.
The Turner county democratic
convention which met ut Swan Lake
the goth to elect delegates to the
Sioux Falls convention, instructed
for Bartlett Trip, of Yankton.
The second annual fair of the
Bon Homme county agricultural as
:sociation will be held at Tyndall,
commencing Sept. 30th and lasting
through October 1st and End.
Hanson county farmers state that
the cause of the difference in the
growth Of wheat this year-some
field giving an abundant yield while
adjoining ones will not give an av-
erage yields owing to the depth
of plowiig, the deep plowing bring
ing forth a bountiful crop.
Raymond, it is said will work
hard at Washington for a division
of the territory. Clifford is said to
be profound North Dakota man,
and in the event of Il division will
favor Mitchell for the capital of
South Dakota. Huron people are
dissatisfied with his nomination.
The depot Of the Fargo Southern
in Fargo is completed on the exter-
ior, and is a handsome building. 1t
will be the most convenient and
handsome structure of the kind in
Dakota. The work on it is being
pushed, as that line is developing a
business that requires commodious
accommodations here
Sioux Falls Press: A Scandinavian
farmer from Edison township,
named Trygstad, arrived in this city
yesterday morning with his fifteen
year old son, who is insane. The
boy became dem ented last Saturday,
and the father attributes his misfor-
tune to the persistent reading of re-
ligious tracts and papers. The boy
will he sent to the insane asylum at
Yankton.
An Irish woman, about thirty
years of age, who gave the name Of
Mrs. Haley, was found lying by the
roadside near Howard, a few days
since in the-pains of childbirth. A
man came along, and seeing her
sore need of assistance, placed her
in hiswagon and took her to a house,
where she soon gave birth to a pair
of twin girls. The woman says her
home is in OWatonna, and that she
was searching for her husband.
Clinton, Wis.,, Herald: Clinton
had quite a curiosity yesterday, it
being noting less than a man, wife,
and three children, who left New
York City last May. and had since
walked thus far, being on their way
to Dakota. Their household goods
they had loaded on a two wheeled