The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1885-03-19

3. Q. Berg, near the n. P. depot,
will sell q full cord of maple wood
for $5.25, half cord for $2.75.
Mrs. Harff has returned from her
visit with Mrs. p. j. Giesen of st.
Paul, and is pleased to get back to
Wahpeton.
The other day our Fairmount cor
respondent made mention of diff
Guilty between one of the Pelham
boys and Chas. F. LaFlare, the con-
vert to religion. We met Mr.. La
Flare in town one day this week,
when he explained to us that he
thought The TIMES had done him
an injustice. Said that it was true
that he professed religion but it was
not true that he had forsaken it, as
the correspondent said. And fur
ther he was forced into the difficulty
with Mr.. Pelham. The election
was held in his house, and for some
days the Messrs. Pelham had been
boisterous, casting improper and
untruthful reflections upon him,
and when it was kept up, even in
his own household among his family
over election matters, lie took off
his coat and attempted to fight and
thinks he was perfectly justified in
doing 50. Il
G. B. Stanford, of Stanford Bros,
contractors, of Fergus Falls, is at
the Headquarters hotel with dozen
or fifteen men finishing up that spa
cious and we'll appointed institution.
There are some three weeks work
yet to be done on the building be-
fore it is ready for the furniture,
when the house will contain seven
ty-fve or eighty fine rooms, four ell
egant sample rooms, a beautiful
bar and billiard parlor. The dining
room will he enlarged. 1t is a we'll
understood fact that Wahpeton is
the most natural headquarters for
the travelling men "in this upper
country" as Mr.. Rich would say,
and it is perfectly in keeping with
sound business principles that Mine
Host Bell thus finishes up this we'll
begun work.
There was probably, never a more
suspicious day for an eclipse of the
sun than last Monday, and as per
promise by the astron omers, old Sol,
about half past ten o'clock seemed
to slowly but surely push his west
ern and upper edge into a mammoth
ink keg (printers' ink keg) in it's
natural state the king of darkness,
and gradually this process went on
till all of the SUMS face excepting
the lower one-fifth surface, allowing
for the prongs up at either side, was
obscured, and the effect was most
singular. The world looked like it
was lighted by subdued and flick
ering electric Lighter like the
effect of such light in mammoth
skating rink, beautifully mild and
waving light, the climax being
reached about noon; at not far from
two O'Clock the great king Of day
passed entirely out of the obstruc-
tion and "Richard was himself
again." in one of those beautifully
mild and sunny Dakota days. At
noon the mercury was some 20 de-
grees lower than it was Immediate
ly before and after the eclipse. This
is the last eclipse of this descrip-
tion, the moon between the earth
and sun, in this century.
Saturday of last week the N. P.
elevator of this city had close call
from fire. The wind blew perfect
gale from the north, and it is
thought an engine set fire to Mr.. B.
G. Berg's large pile Of wood that at
the eastern end laid almost against
the coal shed attached to the eleva-
and disaster was averted only
by an engine being attached to the
end Of the shed and hauling it
around out Of the blaze. Manager
Dunlap and his elevator help, and
Mr.. Berg, Agent Hawkes., and per-
haps others worked most earnestly
for two hours, pitching wood and
fighting the fire, and when the dan
ger at that point was about over,
the fire bell rang and in just eleven
minutes from the first tap of the
bell the Mazeppa hook and ladder
company was on the spot with their
apparatus, it being nearly half a
mile from the truck house to the
scene Of the fire. But shortly after
the reinforcements arrived fire was
discovered several rods further west
In the same pile of wood, when
Foreman Richmond directed his
mon to take care of the blaze, and it
was well done. All told 10 or IL
cords of wood were lost. The rea-
son the fire was not discovered soon.
er, in the principal part Of the city,
was because the wind held the smoke
down back Of the wood in such a