The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-18

saye Canadian potatoes have paid $780,
600 duty this year at the Pembina port
of entry The Drsyton ferry is still a
tumble. $685. Perry Kelly's pony took first
money at the Gasston races =. Crystal
had q fire John Winchester is paint
ing the hotel.
Ransom County: Mott& Marsh have
leased McWilliams' stone building....
Ernest Billings has new potatoes and
remembered The Gazette editors. -.
Thomas Finks is engineering the Head
quarters:.Hotel at Lisbon. Good enough
49,. Register Oakley says there are lots
OF Inquiries for Ransom County lands
Joseph Deicer, near Elliott, has d
fine stand of corn. State Treasurer
Booker wires Frank Russell that
$40, 900 in cash is ready for the Soldiers
Home building 49,. Superintendent
Grange has a ley buggy....W. A. Cole
and Thomas Gelbertson have built new
fences. E. o. Fausett. president, calls
an alliance meeti ; at Lisbon for
July 18.
Kidder County: Pat Lyons partner
is now Colonel Woodmansee by Cover
nor Burke's commission 800. Ira Fair
banks drives to Dawson now in q new
buggy. Eastern wool. buyers insist on
heeces being tied with wool. A discount
of 2 cents is made where binding Irvine
Isl used, SO says The Dawson Times.
Henry Albrecht had new potatoes for
dinner July l.... Knight of Fargo is &C.
credited with telling that Dawson has
more pretty girls than any other town
of it's size in the state-"Oh you little
hobo T.
Cavalier County: Gardar had a cele-
bration, George Peterson reading the
declaration of independence and made
q speech, in which he said it could not
be "a genuine Fourth of July unless "a
speech was delivered in United States
Language. Quite right, George. 49,. Kin
las Township has good crops. Some
body is accused of stealing the candy
for Gertrude's Fourth of July celebra-
ton. 49,. Miss Peterson, the Byron
school teacher, Miss Shaw and Mrs.
William Spiker were ina sailboat which
capsized and but for William Hoy and
James Muir, who valiantly plunged into
the water and rescued the ladies, Wood
bridge might have mourned their loss
$50. Fifteen feet below the surface we'll
diggers for Robert Higgins found o
hole. we'll filled with what resembled
red paint. Why it is no fellah
can find OUT. Matt Sather of Wang
had q breaking bee. -. Harry boys went
to Wang on the Fourth.
Walsh County: Hon. Roger Allin was
the chief of ceremony at the laying of
the corner stone of the Forrest River
Presbyterian Church, the building to
cost 49, 600, frame, 3Ox40. The governor
did it well-as he always does. Sid
man, the wheat buyer, has gone to
Prakston, s. D.. Rev. Runions holds
prayer meetings Thursday evenings in
the Cashel schoolhouse ~. Gus Foog-
man has put a plate glass front in his
Grafton drug store. ...Dr de Barge, of
lakewood, has located in Grafton ...
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Cameron of
Mount View, publish a card of thanks.
-. .John Dane is breaking up O half
section of Shepparton lands,
Benson County: The siftings says:
"a little deputy county auditor put in
an appearance the other evening". I'D.
A. Risk has a $135 bicycle-the only
one in Minnewauken. III. Il. Hobbs
and John Grant have the bestest crops
in Viking. ...E. Jensen, of Oberon, has
improved his store. Farmers are MAX
ing hay. Peter Anderson has been
giving the Leeds editor o mess of onions
49,. Mrs. J. r. Jones gives The News
housewife a boquet of ''tame flowers"
Nv. P. Smiths sheep averaged twelve
pounds, and W. P. gets his frewood at
Turtle Mountain. ... Grain is heading
out at Graham's Island. 800 Abraham
Baldwin, of Obern, has q fine cellar and
cistern.
Nelson County: Orosier had q splen-
did Fourth. %. Miss Kate Allen has her
pupils we'll in hand. Gal Sterritt is
moving from Mapes to Lakota..
Robert Persons vegetable garden in
Cleveland township was damaged by
hail. -. Uncle Terwilliger of Bartlett
has been in Lakota. Joe Pierce and
Ole Tweto are back from the court; the
balance of the Nelson County colony
out there long to return. Joe says the
Chillian war is what done it. Harry
Durnell and Will Crocker have been to
Jerusalem (Ramsey County)with ''their
best girls. .[Both the Lakota papers
are better locally than usual. It helps
The Argus to make up these items to
find a good local paper.J
Mercer County: The Pilot mourns
the scarcity of chickens. John Cooks
team has beenpurchased byJoe Bobean,
and John is streaking' it westward, and
no more in state conventions will Cooks
stentorian tones be heard to yell out
Mercer County casts her two votes for
Hans and things like that 80.
Wheat is heading out. ... Baifoy, the
missing ranchman, turns up at Fargo,
The Pilot says. 80. June berries are COL
oring. .. Judge Heath wants the stealer
of the picket rope from the Beaumont
ranch to return it. The German Rus
SLAMS hear bad crop reports from their
old homes, and rejoice they are in
Mercer.
Cass County: Charley Kenyon has
gone to Kalispell, to join his father in
The R. E. business. The Methodists
of Wheatland are about building a
church. "A. L.. Powleson of Bows has
relatives from South Dakota visiting
him.. -. Mrs. Seth Newman has been
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