The Washburn leader., 1891-07-11
Local Brickbats.

Local Brickbats.
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The choicest Lot Of candies, nuts ani
canned goodsi in the city can be found al
T. Fitzgerald's.
Those wishing the Session Laws can pro
I cure them at the Leader Office for IS cents
per copy. Come without delay.
Buy your hats while you can get them .,
cost, at Ramsett Bros.
Chas. Brady and A. P. Thyberg were
down from Conkling Monday. ~
A sample of wheat brought in by A. H
Wahl, this week, measures four feet.
Miss Jessie Cumberland's term of school
in Sverdrup district, closed yesterday.
A good supply of frst-class boots and
shoes still left at Ramsett Bros.
The equalization board will meet next
Monday, and remain in session not to ex-
ceed ten days.
Another heavy rain on Friday night OF
last week visited large area in this region
of North Dakota.
Clerk of Court Frank johnson of Inger
soil broke bread with friends at the Mer.
chants Hotel Thursday.
Chas. Hoover went to Bismarck Wednes.
day with load of wool, clipped from the
Hoover Bros. band of sheep.
Geo. w. Hathaway of Coal Harbor proved
up on his pre-emption claim last Tuesday
Louis L. Anderson and S. N. Willborg
were his witnesses.
Judge Ranard returned from Bismarck
Thursday afternoon and made the Leader
a neighborly call. His stay in the sane
tum, however, was brief.
The luscious June berries are ripe, and
the denizens of Washburn are making
daily raids upon the overloaded bushes
that fringe the timber along the river bot
toms.
Maj. J. s. Murphy, DR.. Chattle and A.
o. Davis, of Ft. Berthold, passed through
Washburn the first of the week enroute to
Bismarck on business. They returned
Thursday evening.
Minot Journal: Mrs. House who has
been about a year in Minot departed fol
Mclean county Wednesday. Mrs. House
has many friends in this city who regret
to see her leave.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says: "The
rough and ready cowboy is liable to be.
come extinct, but the vegetating dude
appears to be on the increase. There are
exceptions to all rules, even the Survival
of the fittest.'"
1t is said that Frank Nordquist has the
finest piece of standing grain of any farm
er in the vicinity of Turtle Lake. He has
one piece of wheat which stands evenly
four feet in height, and has just COM
menced heading out.
The celebration of tho Fourth at Turtle
Lake is reported to have been grand
success, large number of people from
the surrounding country having been pres
ent. Surely, the settlers of Mclean coun.
ty are happy people.
A letter received here by County Auditor
Wells from friends in New York state
says that southeastern New York has suf-
fered greatly with drouth. The crops are
all burnt up, and the hay crop will fall
short at least two-thirds.
H. R. Rohrer, of Canton, Ohio, arrived
in Washburn Monday. He is father Of
S. D., A. B. and Henry Rohrer, of Hancock
and Coal Harbor, and has come out from
the Buckeye state to visit his sons and
to look over this section of country.
K. S. Ramsett has this week been busy
putting up the Plano binders he had left
over from last year, and which he has sold
to farmers within tho past ten days. That
old machine dealer and expert, Ole B
Wing, has been assisting KS, in the work
Louis Hanitch, ESQ.,, one of Bismarck's
most brilliant attorneys, came up from
the capital city last Sunday on legal bus
mess. He spent Monday and part OF
Tuesday among the salous of this county
and returned to his quiet home at Bis
marck Tuesday afternoon.
p. w. Anderson, one of the old-time
bachelors of Weller, left last Saturday fol
trip to the coast. he will spend the
summer in Butte county, California, and
when he returns in the fall it is thought he
may bring back with him lump more
precious than gold-in his eyes.
A brief note from our county surveyo,
and friend, Samuel Fairman, of Falconer
states that crops are looking splendidly in
that section, and everybody is preparing
for 1892 by breaking and summer-fallow'
ing. Surely, the index points to bright
or future and wealth for our people.
Mrs. Lena Peterson, proprietress of the
Pacific House at Bismarck, was visitor