The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1891-05-21

Mrs. B. f. Lounsbury-There will
be Union meeting at the Baptist
church, Sunday evening, May oath.
at which Miss Elizabeth Preston,
Superintendent of the w. C. T. U.
Evangelistic work, will speak.
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Chas, Bladow-I have some wheat
on high land which has been damaged
by the frosty nights. The plant has
been cut down; and the roots pull up
out of the ground as if about dead.
On low land the wheat is o. K.
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Ed Carter-At the conference of the
Evangelical church at Great Bend,
last week, $1,758 were raised for local
missionary work in a few moments,
at one sitting of the conference. And
then ! attended the NJ. E. church
services. at Paramount, Sunday, and
counted an attendance of 80 people;
and the good people of Fairmount have
another church or two there, as we'll.
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Wm. Murphy-It is astonishing
what little water there is in the Red
River. was out fishing with a
friend, Tuesday, and at places we
were obliged to get out and haul the
boat over sand bars. At oHe place
we saw fish, / think more Chan two
feet long, struggling over a sand bar
for some two rods, half out of the
water,-but he got away before we
could get him. OF course there was
deeper water in that part of the river,
but the fish had gotten out of it.
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DR.. Quick would have laugh
ed could you have seen me capsized
few nights since, in the German set
tlement. 1t was dark and 1 was
making my way along graded road
and got off the turnpike a little, when
a wheel struck a big boulder and 1
went over on my head into the ditch
and my horse going but step or two
further. horse and buggy turned COM
pletely over, the former lying upon
his back in the ditch. Ittook half an
hour to put things together and get
started again.
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Ed Carter-Speaking of pelicans,
reminds me of the fact that seven Or
eight years ago was down on the
Wahpeton Indian reservation, and
saw some Indians come into camp on
the shore of Lake Traverse with a
canoe, sixteen feet long two-thirds
filled with pelican eggs. The Indians
got the eggs off of an island two acres
in size, which it was said was Just
covered with pelican nests. The In
dians boiled the eggs very hard and
kept them for winter use. There was
not room for man to sit in the
canoe containg the eggs.
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Conductor Fox.-A sad drowning
occurred at Verndale, Minnetonka,
Sunday afternoon. The MP. operator
at that place, named McDougall, was
out upon mill pond with his wife and
two children, aged six and ten, when
the boat upset and Mrs. McDougall
and the ten year old boy clung to the
bottom of it while the husband under
took to swim to the shore with the
other child, when both were drowned.
McDougall was found at the DO. tom
of the mill pond on his back with the
child in his arms. The boat was
known to be unsafe for such party.
knew McDougall well and he was
a fine fellow.
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| Gordon Thompson - Yes, Frank
Clause will move to the coast in a
couple Of months. Oh, we sold all
our birds. 1t required three or four
}, pounds of beefsteak per day and all
4 the fish we could catch to keep the
| pelican going, he was nuisance, but
Ed Nelson getting him last fall had
j no trouble in securing food for the
bird while he was butchering, but
this season being over with, the bird
at times got little hungry. till one
day Ed's fayorite sow produced q
! litter ofi pigs a blooded variety, and
the pelican had a feast, but unfor.
tanatsly swallowed some Of the pigs
wrong end first. and they kicked and
lclawin0 ahn,lt and killad tho hird