The Wahpeton times., 1888-07-05
Wahpeton, Rchland Dakota Thursday, July s. 1885,

pened to be standing near the elec.
trio shock, he down and she up
stairs.
Miss. Minnie Stewart, sister of
Mrs. NJ. o. Bickford-Wright from
Strawberry Point, Iowa, is here
visiting her relatives.
Mrs. G. NJ. Dawson started Mon.
day evening for Eau Claire, Wis.,,
where she will make an extended
visit with her parents and friends.
George Libby who had put in
several days work timing the roof
of Chas. Damerel's hardware store
ut Forman, returned home Monday,
For a Bradley self dump hay rake
a Ketchum wagon or the new Nc.
Cormick square steel frame binder
or mower, see Schuler, Bernard &
1Iuesman. 12
Stephen Radowitch and Miss Min.
ME Weber of the German settlement
were married Monday of last week
THE TIMES tenders congratulations.
Col. Hawkes. was appointed by
the board of education to take the
school census, ut its last meeting
and lie is putting down the names.
The colonel will get host of them
this year.
Auditor Sunderland, George A.
Hawkes., A. G. Beachem and Frank
Handing, latter having just re-
turned from his southern trip, made
superb Indians in the parade. And
the party with the oxen and old
wagon was funny make up, but
was carried little too far.
Humans orchestra was kept busy
during the celebration season. The
evening Of the Third the orchestra
played at Campbell, all day the
Fourth ut Wahpcton and the cven-
ing of the Fourth ut Britton, Mar
Shall county, part Of the band le;.v-
ing here ut $50 that afternoon via
the Manitoba.
The Brooks boys are selling out
their general store and will, when
the sale is completed both--includ-
ing their parents--depart for Cali
fornia, where one of the boys re-
Gently selected location. These
young men arc rustlers and will get
on, no doubt, in their new home.
They take the best wishes of;a large
circle of friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. r.. N. Ink who de-
parted for OHIO some two weeks
since, taking in the Republican
convention on their way, have re-
turned home looking we'll and happy
from the trip. Mr.. Ink says an at
tractive feature in that country
these days are the oil and gas wells
being put down. Wood and coal
seem to have had their day in that
country, gas taking their place.
Lehman & Rim, the drive well
men, have put a we'll down $40 feet,
two miles south of Ransom City,
Sargent county, on the Marshall
farm, and secured Il strong flow of
soft water, and even after piping
the we'll fifty feet above the surface,
the flow seemed to be just as strong
as ut the surface. 1t seems that the
most a man wants in the matter of
securing flowing wells, is the cour-
age to go down; and flowing we'll
on farm is great blessing.
w. L. Ames and wife of st. Paul,
are here visiting with the family of
Mrs. Ames' brother, Thos. Fitzgrr-
aid. Mrs. Amrs' health is not of
the best and she has tried various
southern and western sections, but
thinks that she feels better i'm Da-
kota than any place visited for the
past year or so. MIR. and Mrs.
Ames should make their home in
Richland county. Why not remove
their reaper manufactory out here
where the machines are needed.
G. +. Cole of Sioux Falls, was in
Wahpeton this week representing a
hay stacker. 1t is a machine which
in it's two parts is worked ''y horses
by collecting the hay from the
swath and drawing it mp to the
stack or wagon in from 500 to 500
pound bundles, loads the same sim
ply and easily--witl horse power;
making it possible for two men and
a boy to stack, on the grounds. 40
tons of hay per day. Fred Stewart
is agent for the stacker at Wah-
peton.
The best sort of reports are COM
ing back from Mcssrs. Kellogg,
IIunff lnnarf ..,.l Snu4lnr .vLn hayn