The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1892-12-24
OFFICIAL PAPER oE MCLEAN co.

OFFICIAL PAPER OE MCLEAN co.
Local Brickbats.
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Merry Christmas.
Geo. Heffner is now making Al flour at
the Washburn mill.
A.. L. Granger started on another trip to
Bismarck Thursday evening.
Sarvices will be held at! the Washburn
school house att IL o'clock tomorrow
morning.
J.C. Dwyer and J. w. Price came down
from their Snake Creek ranch yesterday.
Judge Winchester and stenographer R.
M. Tuttle came up from Bismasck Tues
day morning.
That mince pie sent to the Leader Office
yesterday by Mrs. G. M. Griffeth was eager
ly devoured and highly appreciated.
Washburn was full of people during the
past week. Seventy-fve persons took
supper at the Merchants Wednesday night.
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Mr.. and Mrs. John j. Robinson of Coal
Harbor have been spending several days
in Washburn visiting their daughter, Mrs.
Laurence Casselman.
The gentleman who carried away Swan
Hanson's dog-skin overcoat from the Mer-
chants hotel this week, during session of
the court, is requested to return the same
without unnecessary delay.
August Fallgren, who has been working
in the Edgeley Sentinel for the past year
for our fellow-townsman, j. Britton,
returned to the home of his parents in
this county Thursday.
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March 15, 1898, containing full reports of
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N.F, Boucher and Geo. w. Newton came
up from Bismarck last Monday. Mr..
Newton is attorney for the contestees in
the election contest cases, and Mr.. Boucher
fights for the contestants.
The Steele Ozone, onw owned by our
friends Henry S. Wood and August John
SON. passed through its second fiery ordeal
last week. Fortunotly, the material was
all saved, but the building was totally
DESTROYED. The Ozone still lives.
The election contest cases were brought
mn and started in court Thursday, but
little progress was made, and yesterday
co,rt adjourned. The cases will be re-
ferred, and further testimony will be taken
at Bismarck next Thursday, to which place
all the witnesses must go.
Fred Hallembeak came up from Bis
marck Wednesday night. He has been
engaged by Robinson g. Casselman for the
purpose of fixing up their books. the work
on which has become somewhat behind in
consequence of the vast amount OF busl
ness which the firm has been doing the
past season.
]. w. Price intends to take stock to
herd again next spring. The excellent
condition in which people found their
cattle in the fall, which he had herded for
them during last summer, guarantees him
much greater next season. That's right
Let him who is worthy have your patronage
The agony is over, and John P. Lavine'
the would-be assassin, is clear. The
county will no longer be encountered with
daily expense on his account. Perhaps
this is AZ it should be. Being impossible
to secure jury in Mclean county who
would convict him it was eminenlly proper
that he should be .acquetted and set at
liberty. That he WAS guilty of the crime
charged many people believe, but as the
evidence was not sufficiently clear to the
minds of the jury, and the testimony OF
the complaining witness, doubt arose in
the minds of those who held the matter in
their hands, and virdict of acquittal was
the result.
Minot journal: One Of the most pleas
|, ant of the social events of the season was
tie birthday surprise rendered Miss Eta
Lacy, at the residence of her uncle and
aunt. Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Lacy, on Wednes-
day evening. She was taken completely
by, surprise, having attended prayer meet
ing and returning found house filed with
q merry party who informed her that it
was to celebrate her birthday. The
evening was wiled away until the wee small
hours, by music and pleasant games. The
affair was voted one of the most pleasant
the season and the host and hostes
oroved themselves royal entertainers.
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