The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1892-03-26
NORTH DAKOTA.

NORTH DAKOTA.
me News From Over the State Con.
dcnsed and Made Interesting
by Towns
BENSON COUNTY.
Minnewaukan: A donkey sooiable
will be given at the church tomorrow
evening, March 49,. Fred. Shore is
having . we'll completed ct his new
livery barn.. -. Clarence F. Plummer ar.
rived home from his trip to the Twin
Cities
NoHENRY COUNTY.
Towner: Twenty-Five families from
Canada will arrive at Towner during
the coming week, and take up farms in
turned on Friday from jamestown,
where he had taken Thomas MoNicholas,
an insane man.
NORTON COUNTY.
Mandan: r. T. Carroll and wife will
go to Chicago this week for . short visit
with relatives. 800 Born, to MI. and Mrs.
Neil McLain, Q GIRL. The ladies of
the Baptist church will give q social at
the home Of their pastor, Rev. j. r.
Deckard, tonight.
ToWHER COUNTY.
Cando: @. J. Lord and wife have re-
turned from their eastern trip. Mr..
Lord brought with him two carloads OF
fine horses. The business men Of
Oando are workirg;fora bonus for the
establishment of q Touring mill.:..
James Atchison and family have re-
turned from Warrington, and will re-.
mainin Towner county.
STEELE COUNTY.
Hope: One of the best illustrations
of what can be done in North Dakota, is
shown by the experience Of Nels P.
Rasmussen, az given in The Farmers
Alliance Of Valley City. He came
to North Dakota in the fall Of
1882, with $1,000 in cash, and
is now worth $160, Quo, end
has 1000 acres under cultivation. This
ia as good q recommendation for North
Dakota farming al the most enthusiastic
would wish to have.
CAVALIER COUNTY.
Lapgdon: MI. and Mrs. James Tenn.
pleton of Hannah had an adventure
during the blizzard that they will not
soon forget. They had been visiting at
q neighbour during the day and started
for home when the storm commenced.
They did not reach home, however, until
next morning, having spent the night
wandering about in n of their own
wheat fields. Both escaped serious in
jury. although MI. Templeton was
slightly %frostbitten about the face.
LaM0URE COUNTY.
E7geley: Prairie fires were noticed
southeast and southwest of town last
week. They seem to have commenced
eoon. Mr.. Ray Pattee, nephew of
Mr.. Jonas l.. Potts. who has been
e%oiourning in Bismarck for the past few
months, returned to Edgeley Tuesday
lin the drawing of the jury for at
tendance at the April attendance of the
United States court to he held in Bis.
marck, Messrs. +. W. Neasmith Of
Adrian and @. II. Monk of Dickey,
were drawn rs grand jurors.
BURLE1GH COUNTY.
Bismarck: Died, the infant child OF
Mr.. and Mrs. james McGarvey, of
whooping cough. Mics Edith Win.
chester who is attending college ut
Mortified. MIMI, is spending the two
weeks Easter vacation mt home. De
partnent Commander W. A. Bentley
has given notice that the third annual
epcampmeht of the G A. r. for North
Dakota will be held in Fargo on the
fourteenth, fifteenth ard sixteenth Of
June. :. Born, to Mr.. and Mis-. w. r.
Moffo,t, daughter.
RICHLAND COUNTY.
Wahpeton: The Wahpeton turner's
will proceed within Q few days to build
an extension to the real end of Turner
hall. 1t will be 24s30 feet in size, and
will contain parlors aud librery for the
use of tho members,
L;dgerwood: The citizens of this
place wisely invested q sum of money in
advertising the advantages offered to
settlers on the reservation and for the
purchase of decided lands. and the'large
number of inquiries now being received
convinces auy that it is good policy to
advertise.
RANSOM COUNTY.
Sheldon: Died-Janes Anderson,
oged 20; Jane n. Brown, aged TO-.
The NJ. Il. church society will erect a
church editice during the coming sum.
mer.
Lisbon: The A. o. U. W. lodge has
leased new rooms and will ft them no
with handsome new furniture. ...W. Fl.
Best of Fargo, grand lecturer of the
North Dakota A. F. & A. NJ, was here
on Tuesday and gave the lodge members
q lot of valuable instruction .... The
Northern Pacific will put in a new pile
bridge over the Sheyenne river.
BARNES COUNTY.
Sanborn: Mrs. Martha Blair returned
from her visit to Canada. lon the
evening OF March rs the farce, Not Such
q Fool as He Looks, will be presented
by the pupils of the city sohools....J
w. Widde6eld is new resident here.
having come from Cansda.
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