The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1892-04-16
Local Brickbats.

Local BrlCkDatS.
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Four timber culture contests were in
itiated last Monday before Deputy Clerk
of Court Wallin.
Frank West was in from Turtle Lake
4 Tuesday.
Luke Eskes returned from his Bismarck
trip yesterday.
John Merry was in from his Grass lake
ranch Wednesday.
The Josephine passed up river for Fort
Berthold Thursday.
Joe Reuter- made business trip to the
capital city this week.
&c. c. Wachter- -drova-up, from. Bismarck
Wednesday on business.
Billy Clark has gone to Menoken after
another bunch of his horses.
Cucumber pickles in bottles and barrels,
at Robinson's g. Casselman's.
SAO UdIIC4 VI 1IOou CIdADCII4OS 10lU, dU
Soc gallon, at Robinson q Casselman's.
II. A. Reynolds, recent teacher at Steven
son, went east this week, having resigned
his position at the fort.
Sheriff Falconer has been summoned to
seal-fsheries commission.
Prof. Wells yesterday bought one of the
new carriages just shipped up here by
Robinson & Casselman.
Chas. Weller was in town yesterday and
bought one of those new Rushford wagons
of Robinson g. Casselman.
T. ]. Haugeberg went down to Bismarck
on the Abner O'Neal Thursday to see about
the shipment of his goods.
s The steamboat Abner O'Neal made her
second trip to Washburn this week, and
took 1000 sacks of wheat Thursday.
George VanSolon was caller yesterday.
He reports 10. Brown quite sick with neu-
ralgia, and came up after medicine.
Nels Olson came up from Bismarck yes
terday and is stopping on his claim, which
he intends putting into oats this spring.
J.J. Nichols and H. M. Marsh, the two
famous broncho busters of Coal Harbor,
spent couple of days r. town this week.
Happy and content is home with The Ro-
chester, lamp with the light Of the morning.
fsreataAfxt, surixf Reehester Lamp Go. Mtw Yerk.
Isaac Falrman of Falconer has been IN
town several days this week repairing the
slide at the Mandan Roller Mill Company's
warehouse.
Louis Berquist, Hans Reeshagen and
Carl Berquam all made homestead filings
this week before Deputy Clerk of Court
L. NJ. Wallin.
David Carlson, Olof Nilsson and Louis
Anderson were down from Coal Harbor
this week buying implements of Robinson
& Casselman.
John L. Lindeleaf and Chas. A. Peterson
brought up two large loads of goods for
Robinson 4 Casselman. The mud between
Bismarck and Washburn failed to stick
them.
Geo. NJ. Robinson, who has been attend
ipg a commercial college at Denver, Colo,
for the past six months or more, returned
home yesterday. George is looking quite
: hale and hearty.
Miss Anna Braithwaite came up as a
passenger on the Steamboat Josephine
Thursday morning, and in the afternoon,
in company with j. G. Dwyer, went up to
her school at Hancock.
Last week Henry Tatley, of the Pacific
House in Bismarck, bought of Larry Cas-
selman one of the finest Shire stations
ever brought into North Dakota, for which
he paid $1,25O. He's perfect beauty.
The new government freight contract
boat, Libby Conger and two barges,
Richard Talbot, master, Ben. Jewell, pilot,
recently bought at st. Louis, is on her way
up the Missouri enroute to Bismarck.
The Libby was in the Memphis trade
fifteen years ago, and is fine craft.
d. W. Pennel made trip to Bismarck
this week, where he bought fine team of
horses, and returned to Washburn yester-
day, where he purchased new Rushford
wagon of Robinson d Casselman. Mr..
Pennel has given up his position at Steven
son. and intends farming his own claim
this season.
w. E. Low came up from Bismarck last
Saturday, bringing with him fine blooded
Percheron stallion and fve other horses
He ewas assisted on his trip by Billy Mclean,
son of the man after whom our county
was named. Mr.. Low has gone out to his
X old ranch, and will rebuild upon the same
ground where his buildings were burned
down last fall.
Miss Celia Conway, teacher in Satterlund
school township, was q visitor in Wash
burn Thursday. Miss Conway boards in
q A. P. Peterson's family, and on this coca
sion of her visit Mr.. p. was Miss C.'s es-
cort, and he freely acknowledged that he
had never felt SO proud since the DAYS of
his courtship. Wouldn't We all like to be
young again?