The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1885-05-21

bound over in the sum of$300. Mr.
K. says that the young man looks
to be fully % years of age, and that
lie says he was hired to go in and
secure the beer by parties desirous
Of making the proprietors trouble.
Mr.. K. is certainly very law abid-
ing and exemplary young man, and
under the circumstances it is hard
to tell why any one should thus seek
to make trouble. We hope the boys
will be able to get out Of the diff
Guilty with little or no loss, for they
don't seem to deserve trouble and
loss in that way.
The rink has been very materially
improved of late. Besides the en-
largement and new floor, a very
nice room has been well fitted up
for ladies, a new bell has been pur-
chased and an endless piece of can
vas containing the various changes
or programme for the evening has
been placed upon the wall, which
not only shows taste and enterprise
but is of much convenience to the
skaters. With the other improve
ments, the rink band, as it is called,
has purchased new music and now
furnish very acceptable music, so
that there should not, now, be much
kicking on the rink. The manage
ment is doing the best possible to
give the town a creditable institu-
tion and it answers very we'll, we
think.
A few nights ago some one or a
party Of young men or boys-more
or less-went to the trouble of re-
moving various signs about town
and putting same up in odd places,
tipped over water barrels, piled up
dry goods boxes where they should
not be piled, &C., in the supposition,
we presume, that they were doing
something funny. Not only this
but cut the glass Of several front
windows and doors, including those
of Eugene Rischard, the tailor. The
glass in his front door was cut
through and entirely ruined, while
the windows were badly disGgured.
Now this is all wrong, and the man
who cut Rischard's glass front, who
ever it was, is undoubtedly ashamed
of it, and should at least reimburse
him for the loss he will surely sus-
tain in putting in a new glass front.
This should be done even if an esti-
mated was made and the money
dropped into the postoffice addressed
to Mr.. Rischard. This is the least
that the party can do, and then
thank his stars that he was not ar.
rested.
The Aberdeen Pioneer, Brown
county, has had a most terrific fight
on it's hands, over bill authorizing g
the division of that county. 1t
seems that the business men of that
place in large measure, supported
division on the ground that it
would give Aberdeen county seat,
and went so far as to withdraw pat
ronage from the paper, but this had
the effect, simply, to urge Editor
Drake on to greater effort in oppo-
sition, which finally so enraged
friends of the. measure that they
one night entered his Office, "pied :"
his forms and emptied cases of type
all over the back yard. However,
the Pioneer came out on time, a
little disfgured, but full of fight,
and finally when election came off
the scheme was defeated by ma
jority of 1923 votes, there being
1902 cast in tue county. And now
the parties who previous to election
went about the streets of Aberdeen
crying "we'll crush Drake" have
the satisfaction of seeing how very
small they are in the world, and are
themselves being boycotted by in
farmers, The city of Aber-
deem, through persistant bulldozing
by certain elements, went nearly
solid for division, footing up a ma
jority of 500, there being but IS
against. However, Drake is man
possessed Of ideas and he stands by
them in. good shape, always intimat-
ing to his opponents that when lie
goes out it will befeet first. Many
people Who voted wrong, are COM
ing to the conclusion that Drake was
right when he pointed out the Afri-
can in the brush heap. It looks