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The broom brigade at Canton. the home of
Delegate GlHord, gave brilliant entertain
ment last week. Its ranks have been filed
and it is becoming very proficient in military
tactics. 1t is suggested by some of the papers
that Gen. Campbell may need this force to
sustain some of his erratic schemes.
1t is stated that the new town on the extern
sion of the Milwaukee railroad in Douglas
county, some forty miles southwest of Mitch
ell is TO be named Armour, after the Chicago
packer and director in this company. 1t is
expected he will invest largely in if and il
will bloom out rapidly into a fine town.
The United States government prisoners
from Dakota have heretofore been sent to
Detroit Mich, but wing of the territorial
penitentiary at Sioux Fails has been fitted up
for them, and the transfer will soon be made
Col Hale of Deadwood has been appointed
warden of this government wing.
A young lady at Oriska lately received a
somewhat novel present. Some time ago she
had the misfortune TO lose a lower limb. She
! was surprised and much gratified to receive
| by express a handsome substitute as pres
ent from her sympathzing friends at Oriska
| Her loss now is hardly observable.
Young ladies East who are mobbed for
wearing the Mother Hubbard ON the streets
should come to Dakota and enjoy perfect i'm
munity i'll that or any other attire known to
modern civilization. The Mother Hubbard is
! frequently seen on the streets in Dakota towns
without exciting mob spirit.
The Canton Advocate throws out this
challenge, which will not be taken up in Da-
lloka: If there is another city the size of
Canton in the Union that is blessed with two
excellent brass bands, ladies drum corps,
orchestra and girls broom brigade, let it come
to the front ii it can.
The chess game between the clubs at Fargo
and Jamestown, which has been in progress a
month or more, has reached the thirty-third
move and Fargo is pawn or two ahead. No
very brilliant play is being developed. but
surprises may be in store in a year two if
the game goes on.
Ipswich is little more than three years Old
but now has 1000 population and all the at
tachments of the highest civilization and
does the business usually done by towns of
three or tour thousand population. AS a
wheat market it claims to be the third point
in Dakota.
Editor C. R. Tinon of the Kimball Graphic
who lately married Miss Adelaide Argus in
Iowa, will spend May as his honeymoon in
Ohio and return in season for the editorial
convention at Aberdeen, June p, and will no
doubt receive special hOnors from that body
j. N. Tracy, the handsome postmaster at
Taylor, imStark county, is a special adnlirer
of the Dakota climate. He came to the ter
ritory year or so ago, after nine years of
childless welded life, and last week became
the happy father of bouncing boy.
Since the report that Gen. Allen of Fargo
has just cleared $50. 600 on one of his Black
Hills investments there is a rapidly growing
impression that he would be an available
aspirant for congress, provided he will ''Open
barrel several of them, in fact.
There will be an enormous increase in the
assessment of Dakota this year if the effort
TO secure general following of II two-thirds
basis Is as successful as seem S probable. The
notion is being dissipated that the lower the
valuation the less will be the tax
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Gated in Faulk county to open breeding farms
of fine horses. They believe Dakota offers
advantages to train from early in the spring
to late in the fall that can not he had in the
wetter climate of Kentucky.
The surveyors of the extension of the Red
field branch of the Northwestern are reported
TO have stopped four miles short of Gettys-
burg, in Potter county, and it is said that will!
be the terminus for Il time. A town is TO be
plated and doomed there.
The statement that one of the smaller coun-
ties last year lost fourteen of its female teach
ers by matrimony is evidently designed to be
sent East TO bring out Il food of teachers
who will work cheap, looking to the matri-
monial goal.
The papers are calling attention to the re-
ported case in Wisconsin where an infantie
quartet made Simultaneous advent, and in
ssting that the reputation of Dakota requires
some ambitious matron to "see and go one
better"
The opening of the Episcopal church at
Alexandria is to take place May l. under the
auspices of Bishop Hare and many other di-
vines. The dedication is of course deferred
until an unincumbered title can be given.
Mr.. and Mrs. Knud Thompson are the
parents of the first and last child born in the
thrifty town of Cooperstown, III Griggs county.
At least they were up 10 last week. and the
two children are not many years apart.
Sioux Falls puts its figures at S350000 for
improvements this year, and Huron proposes
70 see the figures and go 100000 better.
Fargo thinks it can double them if it gets nat
ural gas in time and abundance.
The Faulkton Times recalls the fact that
the law prohibits school directors trading dis
trict bonds for school furniture, but the law
is evaded, and it is believed the interests of
the people suffer from this source.
The Prohibition party of Edmunds does not
propose to rest upon the laurelS won in the
contest with the saloonkeeper at Roscoe but
will organize political party and run candi-
dates for Office this fall.
a large stockman, who has ranch ON the
Cheyenne river, will soon ship from Pierre to
the Eastern market 500 fat range steers that
have Wintered upon the native grasses, and
are in prime condition.
One index Of the growth of Edmunds
county is found in the statement that two
years ago there was but one school in the
forty-five next fail
The editor of the Brookings Press IS IN
patriotic enough to build himself cyclone
cellar taking time that might be used to
write editorials showing that cyclones cannot
get into Dakota.
A large number of the best farmers in the
north are this year putting in wheat with
drills. 1t has been commended that drilling
would not do except on old lands and in favor
able seasons
In digging well near Sheldon, in Ransom
county, chunks Of good quality of coal were
found at depth of thirty feet What it indi-
Gates the scienti SITS do not report.
a notable social event at Park River re-
Gently was the marriage of the pioneer lawyer
II. W. Phelps to Miss Allie C. Beecher. dis
tant relative of Henry Ward Beecher
AT the town of Heinrich, in Hand county,
twenty-five young ladies are wanted for
wives. The postmaster has a list of the
vacancies to be filled.
Aberdeen is laying out a program for
the editors who are to meet there in June
that will give them most enthusiastic impress
SionS of the place.
one small town in Pembina county set out
600 trees i'll public places on Arbor day The
occasion was more generally observed than
ON any former year.
Rapid City is having the show bills put up
for its first circus. There are young peopie
there who have never seen an ms titution of
this sort.
All the officers in the four land Offices in
North Dakota are Republicans and some
Democrats are not quite happy over the sit
uatiOn.
The Methodists have the first hell ever
heard in Park River 1t weighs about one
thousand pounds and can be heard several
miles.
Although Brown county is but six years
OLD, 1t has 2,954 children of school age That
speaks several volumes for the country
Yankton, Aberdeen and Grand Forks are
among the towns that are rejoicing over the
introduction of the electric light.
In Roberts county the increased acreage of
wheat over last year is put at % per cent.
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