The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-04-01


try to "harvest" good butter. The freight
is light on these products, and you don't
have to mortgage the teams nor the farm
to buy the machinery to gather them.
Some person or persons in the vicinity
of Washburn, who are too modest to sign
their names, have written letters to the
Leader ridiculing the report that Sheriff
Heath killed wild goose week before last.
Ono of the writer's asserts that Jim missed
the bird, which sought safety by fight
over the river. Wonder what these would
be correspondents know about that goose
affair, anyhow
Hon. John Yegen and Miss Anna Peter.
son were quietly married last evening.
The wedding was quite surprice to ma
ny. After the ceremony the happy couple
were serenaded and for time sweet mu-
sic reigned. The newly welded couple
have the best wishes of all. Mr., Yegen is
one of Blsmarck's substantial business
men, and the bride in every way an esti-
mable lady.-Bismarck Tribune.
Christian s. Langballe, who visited this
county last week, started back to his home
at Henning Minn., last Sunday. He was
we'll satisfied with McLeaa county, and in
tends returning here with his family in
time to put in crop this spring. he will
locate in the vicinity of Coal Harbor, and
expresses the belief that several other
families will follow him.
8. W. Hagy of Hancock went to Bis
marcd last Monday. He was accompanied
by his wife and children. Mrs. Hagy will
spend the summer visiting friends in the
south and east. She will first go to Kan
sas City, Mo-, and before returning home
next fall, she will probably visit relatives at
Canton, Ohio. She takes with her the two
youngest children, leaving the two Oldest
boys to remain with their father on the
farm at Hancock.
There is scarcely anything woman can
not do with a halrpin. says an exchange.
They use it to pick their teeth, button
shoes, clean finger nails, punch bed-bugs
out of cracks, fasten up stray bangs, clean
out the stem of their husbands pipe,
scratch their heads, run into cakes to see
if they are baked sufficiently, and about
million other things the poor deluded man
know nothing about, and they do it with
the same hairpin, too.
Mandan Pioneer: Upwards of 1000
head of two and three-yea old steers rep
resenting close upon $4,000, purchased
by Mr.. w. Richards, representing the
Bright Richards Cattle Company, whose
range is on the Kill Deer mountains, north
of Dickinson, will be shipped from Albany,
Texas. early in May. The cattle will be
sent to some point in Wyoming and from
there will be driven across country to the
range upon which they will be fattened for
market. Some of the choicest cattle sent
to the Chicago market are fed on the Kill
Deer mountain range.
The World Grows.-Noah Webster would
not know his old dictionary in the perfec-
tion it has attained IN the hands of modern
scholars. The world grows, however, and
dictionaries with 1t, so that cheap reprint
of the A years old 'original" Webster is
Webster's International Dictionary, the
recent successor of the latest and still
copyrighted "Unabridged," is the best
work of it's kind ever published, and, we'll
used in family, will be of more value to
the members thereof than many times its
cost laid up in modey.
Co. supt. Wallin apportioned the state
tuition fund among the various school dis
tricts this week. $490.s2 was apportioned.
of which sverdrup district received the
lions share, having ~ children of school
age. There are 253 children of school age
in the county, and this apportionment
gives $1.94 per child. County Treasurer
Haugeberg says that since November he
has paid into the state over $500 of school
money, and in view of the fact that no ap-
portionment from the state has been made
since last August, the sum of $490.S2 seems
to us as very low apportionment at this
time. To the taxpayer in this neck of
the woods 1t looks as though we were pay
ing for the music to which the eastern por-
tion of the state is dancing.
A nomadic canary bird visited Louis
Olson's residence, north of Washburn, about
two or three weeks ago, during the cold
snap. The little bird came over the
prairie and took shelter in Olson's stable.
Mrs. Olson went out to the stable to assure
herself that it was canary as represented
bv her husband, when the confiding little
thing few over to where she stood and
perched itself upon her shoulder. She
took 1t into the house, where it seemed to
make itself quite at home. Last week Mr..
Olson came to town and secured q cage
for it. The strange part of this birds his
tory is yet to be learned, as Mr.. Olson says
none of his neighbors have canary birds.
It is evident the bird is pet, which the
riohtful owner would regret to lose. Who