The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1888-09-13
Vol. 10.
LOCAL NEWS.

We are pleased to state that Mr..
and Mrs. Clark Comstock's little
boy and girl are much better and
considered out of danger.
The management is doing all
possible to assure success of the
dance to be given in Turner hall
Monday evening next, the 18th inst.
Let there be a good attendance.
David Bradley and Ole Olson
gang plows and Ketchum wagons.
the lest in the market, for sale by
Scluler, Barnard & Huesman. We
guarantee these implements to give
satisfaction. "a.
Mrs. q. J. Farley and Mrs. VIM.
House, departed for the twin cities
and show yesterday. They expect
to be gone a week, and Miss Minnie
Slime will accompany Mrs. Farley
back home.
DR.. Geo. d. Swaine of Wahpeton,
superintendent of territorial board
of health, is here to-day and with
health officers, DR.. DeVex. is per-
forming a delicate surgical opera.
tion on - young man at the county
hospital.-[Valley City Democrat.
The frost Tuesday night must
have knocked out the corn which
at that time was not out of danger,
and the early summer having been
so backward and cold, there is
we presume an unusual loss in this
product.
Agent Fitzsimmons and Banker
Hawkes. did some good shooting
near Minor the latter part of last
week. The boys went out on the
morning train. having but four
hours to shoot, and got away with
40 ducks and three geese. They
had picnic!
A double funeral occurred at St..
Johns church. Monday morning,
an infant child of Henry Kosek and
Henry Botzen, respectively. having
died the Saturday before. The lat
ter was little boy four and a half
months old, and named Johnnie.
We were unable to learn the
particulars of the other.
Mrs. NJ. A. Browning, wife of
the young man managing Dameral's
hardware store at Foreman, Sargent
county, arrived in this city the
other day from England on her way
to join her husband. Mr.. Brown
ing IS a bright young xpn and is do
ing good service for MI. Dameral.
and is of course, glad to welcome
his wife.
| "A travelling man, stopping at the
Lee house. Campbellsburg, Indiana,
on learning that u lady in the vii.
lage was suffering terribly with
cramp collie, gave the landlady Il
bottle of medicine, which he had
with him and requested her to take
it to the sick woman. The med
iciene relieved her promptly and
she believes saved her life, it was
Chamberlin's collie, cholera and
diarrhoea remedy, the promptest
and most reliable medicine i'm use
for bowel complaint. Sold by Henry
Miller.
The Bohn brothers of the German
Settlement had the misfortune to
lose bran new separator-a Buff
falo Pitts--by fire last week. These
gentlemen had just put the machine
ut work. We did not learn the par
ticulars. They at once bought
another machine of the popular
dealer, NJ. J. Hughes, which is now
at work. 1t is hoped that 10 such
misfortune will soon again befall
these worthy and enterprising
young men.
Pursuant to arrangements, w. J.
VanDerveer was given very hap
py birthday surprise at Turner
hall, Wednesday evening Of this
week, in the shape of supbcrb
meerschaum smoking set and Il gold
headed cane. At about nine o'clock
the hall was we'll filled, when Messrs
Chas. +. Wolfe and A. i. Sunder-
hauf, who had been plotting Mr..
VanDerveer about, quietly steered
him into the hall where he was as
ton ished to find himself surrounded
hy many friends. and being lead up
to a table containing the presents,
was by DR.. Swaine presented with
the same in very pretty and az
propriate speech on behalf of his
numerous friends, many of whom
were present. The recipient re-
sponded in a happy vein, when
there was general hard shaking and