The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1888-08-31

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AUGUST 81, 1888.
LOCAL ITEMS.
Wheat u cents.
Chickens tomorrow.
The public school will open Monday.
Charley Ward got back from Fargo last Tues
day.
Mr.. E. j. Mcmahon returned from the Water
town convention Tuesday.
Frank Gilmore went to Minneapolis Tues.
day to attend the exposition.
Born-To MIR. and Mrs. Ryther, four miles
north of Sherbrooke, Sunday. a son.
George Luce was somewhat under the
weather Sunday last, but is all right again.
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Kistler, Sunday
night son. Cigars were forthcoming in pro-
fusion.
Jacob Lang pulled out his new Buffalo Pitts
thresbing outfit Tuesday and threshed out a lot
of oats.
Commissioner John Oxton was in Hope on
Tuesday. He reported his wheat crop as being
allOK.
John Laramore had valuable COW killed
by lightning during the thunder storm Wednes-
day night ...
Mr.. W. P. Hawley has been appointed deputy
sheriff and Is acting sheriff during the absence
Of MIR. Walden.
Mr.. Jacob jacobson and wife expect to re-
turn to their home in Clinton Junction, Wis
consiD, next week.
Dan Clark returned from Erie Saturday and
has gone to Sherhrooke to work on the addi-
tion to the county building.
Oliver Z. Molsterteigen, who, until recently,
was employed in the Fargo Argus Office, is
clerking for H. H. Wasem.
Mr.. E. G. Reynolds arrived Saturday from
Westvlle, Indiana. He will commence thresh-
| ing as soon as grain is ready.
Work was commenced on the addition to the
county building Monday, and Contractor Knapp
proposes to push it right along.
The Wood boys have their building COM
pleted all but the shelving. They will not
move in till the harvest rush is over.
Rev. T. w. Thurston will preach in the Con-
gregatlonal church Sunday morning at IL.
subject: ''sounding an Alarm" lisa. 6S, ].
Mr.. M. B. Cassell informed us on Monday
that on the Thomson farm they would prob
ably lose between two and three hundred acres
of wheat.
Treasurer Brunsdale was at the county seat
Saturday. He says his wheat was damaged
somewhat but thinks it will go twenty bushels
to the acre.
Arthur Mclaughlin has been appointed
wheat buyer for the st. Anthony and Dakota
Elevator company at Colgate, and Wednesday
took charge of the house.
Farmers have already commenced stacking
their grain, and we hope farmers generally
will this year stack, as 1t will materially i'm
prove the grade Of their wheat.
Workmen have been at work all week on the
Methodist church, and the edifice is about CON-
pleted, but Mr.. Shawkey informs US 1t will not
be dedicated till some time next month.
John Lehart came in Tuesday and remained
over till yesterday. He informs US that wheat
threshed around Everest graded Northern.
One load received at Ayr graded Northern.
Mr.. Thomas J. Foster took run ont to Great
Falls the early part Of the week, returning on
Thursday, :n time to attend the threshing oi
his crop of wheat which promises heavy
yield.
John Wamberg goes to Minneapolis next
Tuesday to attend the exposition and Minnesota
State fair, and also to make personal selection
Of stock. Returning he will escort Mrs. Wan.
berg home.
Harvest Is under full headway In this neigh.
borhood, and under the influence of the warm
weather grain is ripenlng rapidly. 1t keeps
farmers hustling to prevent the grain getting
ahead Of them.
II you want warm meal, served In nice
style, or II you want cold lunch and a cup Of
coffee, why, call at Hawley's new restaurant,
where you can have your wants supplied. See
advertisement
A new classification of prices has been made
by the elevator companies which increases the
difference in grades from to cents, making
the difference between No. hard and rejected
20 cents per bushel.
Sheriff Walden left on Saturday for South
Bend, Indiana, where he has gone to attend
a reunion Of the survivors Of the 29th Indiana
Infantry, Of which Mr.. Walden was mem.
ber. The reunion occurred on the 10th and
Both.
Mr.. George Lang, brother Of Jacob Lang,
and Charley Lang, nephew Of the same gen.
tleman, arrived last week from Muscatine
county, Iowa. They report the wheat crop in
that section Of Iowa as being entirely ruined
by rust