The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1889-05-30
LOCAL NEWS.

Wheat is ga and 67 cents.
The children will picnic in Cen
tral Park tomorrow.
There is large stock of black
smiths coal on hand at Gull River
Lumber Co.'S. 7tf
Fred Northey has gone to Olivia to
visit his brother Hival, and Miss
jamie Northey accompanied him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Kiezer's
little son, fourteen months old, was
buried from St. Johns church Tues.
day afternoon.
We don't care about continuing
in the paint trade, and will close
out stock of ready mixed, cheap, at
the Gull River Lumber Co.'S. 7tf
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Kozick have
lost their daughter, fourteen years
of age, and the remains were laid at
rest from St. Adelbert's church,
Tuesday morning of this week.
Dry pine slabs, sawed and split
stove wood, lime, cement, plaster
ing hair, smithing coal, tamarac
posts, barn and roof paints on hand
at Gull River Lumber Co.'S. 7tf
The public school teachers desire
THE TIMES to thank those gentle.
men who assisted them in taking
the school children over to
Central Park to see the "war dance, -
Tuesday, and for paying the ferry
man.
The union memorial services, at
the Congregational church, Sunday,
were very pretty, indeed, being
conducted by the Rev. Messrs.
Mower, Hill and LaBach, the SER
mon by the latter being, we think,
an especially fine effort and per-
fectly appropriate.
James F. Alden is prepared to
loan money in sums of $500 and
upwards on first mortgages of
improved farms in Richland County
Dakota. at legal rates for term of
years, without brokerage, commits
sions or bonus. May be found next
door to the Hyser House, Brecken-
lidge, Mimi. 6tf
August Hoefs was in the city,
Tuesday, for coffin for Ida, one of
his little daughters, eight years old,
who died the day before with a COM
plication Of diphtheria and typhoid
fever. The remains were laid at
rest Wednesday from the Lutheran
church. Mr.. and Mrs. Hoefs have
the sympathy of a large circle of
friends.
Twenty OF thirty Indians from the
Sisseton reservation, in the city on
their annual hunting trip into Nor
thern Minnesota, favored a large
concourse of people with a "war
dance" in Central Park, Monday.
Those rascals go up into Northern
Minnesota to kill deer during the
summer and dry the meat to live on
during the winter on the reserva-
tion.
1t is seldom that an entertain
ment gets two such full houses as
Beach & Bowers Minstrels have re-
ccived this week in their engage
ment at the Academy of Music.
"These people could play here for a
month to a full house," said an old
theatre-goer to an Exchange reporter,
and the scribe coincided.--[ Sioux
City Daily Exchange, Nov. 2, 1888.
A good house witnessed splen-
did performance which was given at
the Grand last evening by the
famous Beach & Bowers Minstrels.
The performance differed materially
from the usual run Of minstrel per-
formances, and was greatly appre-
ciated by the audience. Each and
every member of the company is a
star in his particular line..- Topeka
Daily News, Nov. II, 1888.
A miniature cyclone pushed open
the front door OF II. M. Christian
sons dwelling, Saturday, and cros-
sing the front room passed into the
kitchen and from corner darted
up against the ceiling and cut the
solid plastering off in circular shape
to the lath, some four feet across,
all the time making a roaring noise,
scattering sand and lime all over
the room and frightening Mrs.
Christensen nearly out of her wits.
The Grand was filled last evening
from the font boxes to the back
gallery with an audience that was
delighted for two solid hours with
out hitch or halt by Beach & Bowers
burnt cork galaxy of mirth, music
and mystery. The whole arrange
ment was new-even the chestnuts
were OF this seasons crop. The
whole show was prime, surprising
anything in the minstrel line that
ever visited this section.-T Sioux
Falls Daily Press, Oct. 10, 1858.
G.. J.. Carlton who lives in the
western part of the county and who
has just returned from trip
through the coast country and Mon
tana, says that few days ago a
man made a dying confession in the
latter territory Of having murdered
the man found dead upon the prairie
in the western part of Rlchland
county in the summer of 1880. 1t
will be remembered that the man
driving across the country at that
time was said to have camped at
Browns Valley the night before the
supposed murder. The man drove
fine team, and from the wagon
tracks in the grass and the position
of the body, it looked a good deal