The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1885-09-24
e. W. Milburn and wife have re.
turned from their Iowa visit.

No service in the Congregational
church Sunday evening next.
Miss Eloise Darbellay has taken a
school in Ottertail county, not 90.
ing to Bell Prairie, as she expected.
Charlie Dockstader, the tonsorial
artist, hats returned after a vacation
OF several weeks at his old home IN
Iowa.
Mrs. L. S. Woodruff sang in the
Congregational choir Sunday last,
Mrs. w. is \ most entertaining vo-
calist.
Col. Gray, father of Justice Gray,
OF this city, is here visiting, and
occasionally goes out shooting with
the boys.
The assassin of human rights at
Dwight, Mcdonald, evidently thinks
he struck 4 brisk community when
he got Judge Lauder after him.
Banker Van Derveer and the man
with a clear head, NJ. r. Rich, will
go to Milnor and Sargent counties,
on business, the latter part of this
week.
Mayor Miller and wife Adolphe
Bessie and family, Mds. Rice, Jur.
genson and sister, Farnsworth, Keith
and Peck visited tile Ottertail cOun-
ty fair, last week.
VIM. Riddle did a good job in the
walling up Of the water works we'll.
1t was done with brick. The we'll
is 81 feet deep and "a feet in dame
ter and now holds 81 feet of water.
There was Il rumor in the streets,
Wednesday, that Il farmer near
Dwight had lost his grain, stacked,
house and barn from prairie fire.
We tried to run the rumor down,
but couldn't.
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.
Mr.. Yarnell, the fisherman of Ot-
tertail Lake, and the man who for
some time supplied Wahpeton with
fish, has lost his house and every
thing in it from fire. The old gem
tleman's friends here will be sorry to
hear this.
1t seems like old times to 60 over
to Breckenridge and see D. Wilmot
Smith and Ransom Phelps driving
about the streets, and Andrew
vending his way through
the principal thoroughfare of the
city. Breckenridge seems to be
getting a better grip.
Beck & Mountain deserve credit
for enterprise. They are having
their rink announcements printed
on good big poster, representing
various business houses Of the city
as we'll. This pays the printing bill
and helps advertise the business
community. Good plan.
Chief of Police Mears went to
Minnesota's capital, this week, and
obtained a requisition for AIcDon-
aid, one of the men who so brutally
attacked Mr.. Myhra, at Dwight, and
obtaining it, brought Mcdonald ov-
er from Breckenridge this (Thurs-
day morning, when he had a hear
ing before Justice Gray and was
bound over to the District court,
meeting the latter part of next
month.
Bishop Walden, who is the presid-
ing genius of the North Dakota
Mission Conference, in session now
in this city, will preach in the Opera
House next Sunday morning. The
Bishop needs no complimentary in
PRODUCTION, being, as he is, one of
the shining clerical lights of Ameri-
ca. The other churches of the city
have been invited by their NIetho-
dist brethren to join them on this
occasion, and those who fail to at
tend Will miss Il rare intellectual
treat.
Rev. H. i. Crandall, of Colfax,
was in town, Wednesday, and said
that four inch tubual well had
just been put down 130 feet at that
place, when water was found and
flowed at the rate of six barrels per
and the indications are that
should a small tube be put down
water would be thrown into the air
80 feet high. 1t was flowing sand
when MI. Crandall left, but it was
thought this would soon cease and
the water come out clear and pure.
The mill there has flowing well
also.
Messrs. Beck & Mountain had a
complimentary rink opening, Satur-
day evening last. The boys are ad-
vertising mile race to come off be-
tween Will Purdon on skates and
lrye Farnsworth and Tom Hughes
on foot, the latter to run alternate
ly, of course, Saturday evening, at
nine o'clock. This will be a spir-
tied contest. Will is the boss of all
the boys on wheels and Irve has rid
den Gray Billy so often that we pre-
sumo that he will f1v as if on the