Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-04-08
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Ed. Taylor wat in town Wednesday
looking after some farm machinery. He
will begin seeding this week.
The prosperity of the farmers all over
the country is being demonstrated by
, : the erection of new houses and barns.
; Ernest Voss of Mckenzie is one of 'em.
He is erecting ar addition to his house,
and also putting up a barn 24x30.
E. @. Rice: The Methodist church in
Mandan was ruined by fire Monday
night. I didn't learn the particulars but
it is instructed that it was set on fire.
The Methodist church has taken the
lead in the prohibition move over there.
D. A. Rea, chief of the division OF
surveys Of the general land Office, Wash
ington, was a passenger on Wednesday,
Atlantic express. Surveyor General
Williams joined him at this point and
went east to Steele, returning on the
midnight train.
A Dakem correspondent of the Will
Transport Record says that too much
credit cannot be given Miss Jessie
Slaughter, who taught school there
during the winter. She travelled two
miles and a half every day to school, and
many days the weather was very bad.
Justice Boyle evidently recognizes the
responsibility of the position to which
he has been elected by the people" of
Bismarck and has properly assumed the
dignity which belongs to his Office. He
looked quite judicial Tuesday as he
chassezed around the city in a bran new
tile.
The apportionment for the republican
county convention on the 23d inst, gives
the city fifteen and the country precincts
t%wenty-nine delegates. OF course this is
more than the country is entitled to on
vote but it is particularly desirable that
the country have no ground whatever
for complaint.
George Peoples was wei from Man.
dan Wednesday to tell what he knows
about that deed given by the city to Pat
Smith for the eight lots on the railroad
right-of-way, beginning at the Dietrich
corner and extending eastward on Main
street, to and including one-half of the
Capital bank building.
j. o. Jewett: You have the Missouri
river water here. That's good. I had
it for thirty years at st. Louis. We.
once shipped a barrel of it across the
ocean to the old country and back
again. It came back as it went-per-
fectly pure. This is the only water that
will retain it's purity on such a trip.
Mrs. Linda w. Slaughter received a
novel consignment on Tuesday,
being a little girl four years old-who
came from H%ooptown, Illinois, for MIR.
and Mrs. Chas. A. Swenson of Slaugh-
ter, who will adopt her in place of their
little daughter who died last January.
The child was secured through the
agency of the Christian Aid society Of
Minnesota.
Any person who thinks there is no de-
mand for farm lands in this county
should have attended the sheriff's sale at
the court house Thursday, when the ne
a of sec. 3, twp. 139, range 81, and lots
3, 4, 5 and 6, block ZIG, in original plat
of the city of Bismarck were sold by the
sheriff. The bidders we're numerous and
the bidding spirited.
The Q Ignite burner on exhibition
at Hare & Hollis was viewed by a large
number of people yesterday. Quite a
number from the eastern part of the
state called in to see it and expressed
themselves as satisfied that the introduce
ton of these stoves would bring native
coal into use all over the state. 1t is a
fuel-saver and a great heater.
Contractors on the 500 extension from
Aberdeen to Bismarck claim that the
road will be completed this year, says
the Alert. Grading is also to be COM
menced at once, IN the extension of the
500 branch from Monango, Dickey
county, west to the grade already built
between Aberdeen and Bismarck. The
distance from Monango to the old grade
is about forty-ive miles.
According to the Dickinson Press,
James W. Foley, Jr. of Medora, is stop
ping in Dickinson and has a position in
the county auditors office of Stark
county. By the way, this young man
has already achieved some fame as a
writer. In a recent issue of the North
west Magazine is published 8 story from
his pen, and the Dickinson Press of late
has contained articles written by him
of great literary merit.
Miss Adelaide Utter, who was sent to
Bismarck for a short time by Judge
Codwell soon after statehood and the
establishment Of the United States court
in North Dakota, has been appointed
clerk Of the circuit court of the United