The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-01-21
OFFICIAL PAPER OF MCLEAN co.
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Rev. B. A. Burns will hold services at
/. the Washburn school house on Sunday, at
IL o'clock a. m. At Hensler 2 o'clock p. m.
Prayer meeting every Thursday evening
at 7:30 p. M; held at the parsonage. All
are welcome. B. A. BURns, Pastor.
Mrs. Chas. Weller was trading in the city
Thursday.
The reports of the several school clerks
are now in order.
Prof. Wells has been laid up several days
with severe cold.
Alfred staley and Henry Marsh passed
Washburn Thursday with grain.
T. J.Haugeberg and A. L. Granger re-
turned from Bismarck last Sunday.
Hon. John Satterlund received three
votes for U. s. senator last Tuesday.
Marion Lacy and Ansel Colby we're
down Thursday with wheat for the mill.
John Reuter- and h. G. Nygard of Turtle
lake were doing business in town Wednes-
day.
The Washburn mill will probably close
down for the winter during the coming
week.
The Commissioners proceedings from
an interesting feature in this issue of the
Leader.
A. L. Hartle, one of Coal Harbor's hust-
ling merchants, was in Washburn on busi-
ness Thursday.
L. NJ. Wallin is in Bismarck Watching
the proceedings of the legislature during
the senatorial conflict.
Skating on the Missouri is one of the
pleasant pass-times enjoyed by the young
people of Washburn nowadays.
We understand that Geo. Rhude has sold
his claim adjoining Washburn to- Anton
Peterson for seven hundred dollars.
Ole Gradin has charge of the Merchants
hotel in the absence of Hon. John Satter-
lund, and he makes a hustling landlord, too.
Happy and content Is home with "The Ro.
chester. lamp with the light of the morning.
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The children of the Washburn school
participated in an enjoyable candy y-pull at
the residence of Mrs. Brady Thursday
evening.
Fred Hollembaek, who has been for the
past month engaged in posting up Messrs.
Robinson & Casselman's books, left for his
home in Bismarck last Tuesday.
w. E. Low, treasurer of the Third House,
came up from Bismarck this afternoon.
He says that he is on collecting tour, as
the treasury just now very slim.
Prof. Foster, nor that prince of hum
burgs, Prof. Hicks, can come within a
hundred miles in foretelling the weather
which blesses the Missouri slope.
Joseph Mann, accom- panied by Herb.
Bartron, one of his witnesses, went to Bis
marck last Sunday and made final proof
on his homestead claim at Hancock.
Tom Christianson who came near having
his leg broken last week by an unbroken
broncho, is able to be around again, but
assists his locomotion by use of a cane.
Frank w. Alond and John s. Mills went
up to the agency last Tuesday, for the pur-
pose of examining the survey of tnat res
ervation made last summer by Geo. Beard
sley and his partner. /
Dave johnson, the senior member OF the
new law firm of johnson Bros. q Co., re-
Gently formed in Bismarck, came up from
the Capital City last Wednesday to visit
his old friends and collect few debts.
Dave says his law firm is doing very fair
business, and they take all cases-if there
is anything in them-even beer case.
The firm prefer the latter class of cases,
and charge according to the number of
bottles they contain.