The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-02-07
Washbmn County, NothDak February
Local Brickbats.

Local Brickbats.
FOR SALE MtV5 6R TRADE.
One good work horse and harness.
Inquire of R. h. Copeland, at the Leader
Office, Washburn, N. D.
For late telegraphic news read inside.
The choicest lot of candies, nuts and
canned goods in the city can be found at
T. Fitzgerald's.
The LEADER will take coal, wood, oats,
wheat, or any other farm product on sub
scription.
Prof. Wells visited Bismarck last week
on business.
Geo. Pease, of Livingston, Mont, passed
up river to Berthold last Monday.
Editor Britton went to Bismarck Friday
of last week and returned Sunday.
Captain Fitzgerald returned from the
capital city on the stage last Friday.
We had summer again Thursday. The
thermometer going up to "a degrees above
zero.
John e. Allen of Conkling, and John
Bettendorf of Turtle Lake, were in town
last Monday.
Gust Burg's wife and two children came
back from their eastern visit on Wednes-
day of last week.
County Auditor Wells says that Mclean
county is above the debt limit, and at pres
ent he can issue no more warrants.
Having completed their work as an ap-
pointment board, Judge Lacy and j. R.
Mann returned to their homes Thursday
morning.
Little Miss Florence Satterlund, who
spent last week visiting her aunt, Mrs. L..
A. Larson, on the old Satterlund farm, re-
turned home last Friday evening.
Maj. Murphy is advertising for propos-
ais to furnish field seeds, such as wheat,
oats, fax and potatoes, for the Berthold
agency. Bids will be received until Feb.
81.
Miss Jenett Ward came up from Bis
marck on Friday of last week, and opened
tho Washburn school Monday with 21 pu-
pills, most of whom are from adjoining
districts.
j. g. whitlock, who started for Montana
about two weeks ago, returned last week.
He was taken i'll on the read, and sensibly
concluded that home would be the best
place he could seek.
G. T. Lange took Saturdays stage for
Fl. Berthold, where he will assume the du-
ties of clerk as heretofore mentioned. His
household goods left here on Sunday, and
his family followed him on Wednesday.
We understand there is serious trouble
brewing at Ft. Stevenson. In fact, Dame
Rumor says they have had "a h-lroaring
time" there, and that the services of spe-
cial inspector will be required to investi-
gate affairs. We are not prepared now to
give details.
People are wondering what detective"
is aiming at in his little weekly effusions
in the LEADER. Well, the reader knows
just about as much of the matter as we do,
for we are as sorely perplexed over the
subject as you are. However, those etfu-
sions are probing the scab on somebody.
County Treasurer Haugeberg has this
week received notice from the State Audi
tor that second apportionment of school
moneys has Just been made, of which $240
will be apportioned to the school districts
in Mclean county. This will help out
some of the districts which are now on the
verge of the debt limit.
A change came DER the spirit thermome-
tor last Friday night, and since then the
mercury has been raising hob. It got
down to business last Sunday and Monday
mornings, registering IS and 80 deg. re-
spectively below zero. It was quiet re-
minder of former years, and the average
Dakotan began to feel happy over the pro-
poets of the return of the good old days
We used to have.
Henry s. Wood, present clerk at Fort
Berthold, drove down from the agency last
Tuesday with a government conveyance,
and returnd Wednesday morning with
Mrs. C. T. Lange and her nurse girl, Miss
Matte Nelson. Mr.. Woods health has
greatly improved since his residence at the
agency, and he now feels like new man
as though he could again wrestle with the
vicissitudes of this wicked world and flop
himself on top with Herculean strength.
The "devir' in the Minot journal Office
must have edited that paper last week, if
We are to Judge by the way "the devil was
raised" with the names of prominent men
on Mouse river. In referring to our old
friend n. n. T0rsOn Of TOvnsr. the jOur.