The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1885-09-17
A. Miksche lost a valuable horse
this week, with fever.

A. Miksche lost valuable horse
this week, with fever.
John Kotschevar went to Moore
ton Tuesday, to look after the thresh-
ing of his grain.
II. w. Beatty has opened fruit
store in Howry's block, near M. T.
Stevan's hardware store.
Miss Briggs, the milliner, has re-
turned from the east, having ordered
a fine stock of fall and winter
goods.
Mckenzie & Ladd are putting up
a coal shed for F. II. Butler & Co.,
on the south side of the Manitoba
track.
The conference of the Methodist
church for North Dakota meets ut
Wahpeton Wednesday evening of
next week.
Judge Buxton has removed his
office from room on the first floor
in Howry's block to rooms on the
second floor over the store.
VIM. E. Purcell has returned from
the east, looking hearty and rested
from the vacation. We are glad to
see him upon the streets again,
Sam Lockerby has sold the Minor
Free Press TO ayoung man of Minor
named Porter. Sam will now turn
his whole attention to his profess
sion, the law.
B. B. Fishers Billy, the race
horse, is at Fergus Falls, during the
county fair, expecting to enter race
Wednesday and again tomorrow.
Services will be held in the new
Methodist church Sunday next. But
the finishing coat Of plaster will
not be put on the walls until after
the conference.
A teachers institute will be held
in Wahpeton, commencing Monday,
October 18th, 1885, at 2 p. m., and
lasting till the following Friday
evening. w. NJ. HOUSE,
Supt. of Public Schools.
Miss Annie Dawson has removed
her dressmaking shop over NJ. Ber-
nard & Co.'S store, in Bessie's new
store building, where she will he
please to met her lady friends, and
continue the business.
Lost: A thick blank account book,
containing two or three receipts from
Joakim Bauer and several other
papers of no value to anyone but the
owner, S. G. Fritz. A liberal re-
ward will be given to the finder by
leaving said account book at this
Office. %
1t has been expected for the past
few days that water would be placed
in the mains of the water company,
(to-day) Thursday. If it does not
occur to-day it will not lie long be-
fore this thing is done.
Wallace Olmstead is building a
neat residence on Fifth street, near
that of M. T. Stevens. There will
be five nice rooms down stairs and
two or three up stairs, making for
him a very comfortable home. F..
S. Lewis is the contractor.
J. c. Giddings, of Pennsylvania,
father of F. G. Giddings of this city
has been at Wahpeton the past two
weeks enjoying Dakota sunshine and
chicken shooting. The old gentle
man is making friends about us fast
as Frank did when he came to town
a few years since.
A man from Pennsylvania was in
Wahpeton this week with All i'm
proved sash balance instead of the
old weights that 80 inside the cas-
ing. r. ID. Perritt, the contractor,
bought the right for Richland Co.,
and has other territory for the sale.
Mr.. Perritt thinks it a good thing.
Stock will soon be on hand.
DR.. G.. T. Fulton of St. Paul, oc-
culist and aurist, will be at Wahpe-
ton the 25th Of this month, making
his headquarters in the office Of Dr..
G. Wiensma for one week, and any
one wanting treatment in this line
will do well to be on hand when the
doctor is here, as lie comes highly
recommended.
Frank Crowle, for the past two
years OF more having ably filled the
position of telegraph operator at this
point, has been promoted to station
cent at NJcCann this torritorv