The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1886-08-12

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fax, paid The TIMES a pleasant cal
to-day.
Mr.. Solomon Prices many friends
are pleased that he is now on the
upward grade and will ere long be
out again.
Jas. w. Cargill passed through
Wahpeton Monday on his way tc
the west, looking after his line Of
warehouses.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. B. Fisher having
been in the city most of the week,
expect to soon return to their home
Minneapolis.
w. H. H. Peirce was in town last
week and rode gracefully down
Fifth street on his iron horse.-
Breck. Gazette, 6.
Peter Devlin, hurt last week on
the Manitoba branch at the crossing
of the Bois des Sioux, is improving
at DR.. Swaine's hospital.
j. Schoenborn is putting up an
addition to his hotel 24x26 feet, 20
foot posts, finding that he has not
room to accommodate his large and
increasing business. Math Rauch
is doing the work.
Late Express Agent Bigger of the
N. p. road has been taken into a
st. Paul Office of that road and Geo.
A. Hawkes. has assumed the position
vacated, all OF which is gratifying
to the many friends of the young
men, respectively.
Andrew Olson, who some time
since had his leg broken while
working on the Manitoba grade,
west of Paramount, is improving
nicely at SclloenbOrn's hotel, this
city, where he was taken at the time
of the accident.
Engineer Blanding this week laid
out the line upon which a sidewalk
is to he laid down from the Head
quarters to the Milwaukee depot.
This is an improvement needed very
badly and if it is finished before the
fall rains begin, everybody will be
made happy and the credit of the
city redeemed.
Jesse French las returned from
West Virginia where he has been
at work for Col. Davenport, in the
construction of water works at
Charleston. Jesse says he likes
that country first rate, but is pleas
ed to get back to Dakota. Col. Da-
venpOrt will be back for IL short
business trip in two or three months.
A little electric and wind storm
accompanied by rain, passed over
the city Monday evening, the light
ming striking the chimney of w. Z.
Howry's residence. and set fire
to the building outside which was
soon extinguislled. No damage was
done inside the building at all. The
firemene were called out. but fortu-
nately were not needed.
James Ross of Milnor is in the
city looking after his property, hav-
taken the glass front out of his
building in Roots addition and
closed up the same, converting the
building into residence from 4
business house. He proposes also to
overhaul the store building near the
Novelty Works, and after these
shall have been repainted, they will
make good pieces Of property.
d. E. Rice is among the first to
thresh and market gram. Mr.. Rice
says to us that his grain measured
20 bushels to the acre, and that Mr..
Dunlap of the N. p. Elevator Co.
pronounced it the best No. l hard
wheat lie had ever seen in the coun-
ty. Mr.. Rice marketed 1900 bushels.
This is another indication that
Richland county deserves the ban
ner for fine crop productions this
and every year.
Fred Formaneck, who is making
his headquarters at Chicago and at
tending a medical college, as many
another young man has done, by
working part Of the time for
means to carry him through, went
to work for the Mccormick reaper
com pany in the southern states and
has worked the season right through
having reached Wahpeton and his
home and friends early in the llar-
vest and has done good work for the
company here this season. Fred
departed for Chicago and his studies
Wednesday Of this week, expecting
to graduate the present winter, and