The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-02-25
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Local Brickbatsa:
PRAYER meeting every Thursday evening
at 1880 D. NJ, held at the parsonage. AL
are welcome. B. A. BuRns, Pastor.
Henry Rohrer and wife went to Rismarch
Thursday.
J.P. Peterson returned from Bismarck
Wednesday.
Sheriff Heath and John Z. Allen were
4 down from Conkling last Monday.
CA. Burton superintendent of the Ft
Stevenson school returned from Bismarck
Wednesday.
G. F. Huston and Mr.. and Mrs. G. e. w.
West were down from Turtle Lake this
week on business.
Tom Peterson and Fred Mellin, having
Washburn last Friday.
w. E. Low came down from his Lake
view ranch last Monday, and is now a
guest at the Merchants.
Dan. Tjenstrom and Bernt johnson re-
turned from Bismarck last Saturday loaded
with goods for Axel Nelson.
BORN-On Saturday FEBRUARY 11th to
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred W. Bixby, a gir'.
Mother and child are doing we'll.
Happy and content Is nome with THE Ro.
chester, a lamp with the light Of the morning.
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A brother of G. T. Lange, clerk at the
Berthold agency is reported to have made
good strike in the Kootenai mining dis
trict.
Ed. Olson of Bismarck brought up too
loads of goods for Robinson g. Casselman
last week, and loaded back with pork, beef
and hides. as
Miss Florence Bates was passenger on
Mondays stage from Bismarck, enroute to
w. E. Lows Lakeview ranch, where her
parents reside.
We regret to learn that Oscar Gustafson
had the misfortune to lose one of his
horses last week. He was found in the
stable with his neck broken.
Miss Lydia Staley came up from the
capital city with Louis Baardsou last Mon
day, and Tuesday, accompanied by her
brother Alfred, went to her home at Coal
Harbor.
Doc. Price returned home on Fridays
stage. While on his trip he secured about
800 head of cattle between Painted Woods
ana Bismarck, which will be added to his
herd next spring.
J.C. Whitlock has the agency for Jay
Gould's book, for which he is taking sub
scriptlons. The work is very interesting
and cheap, prices for the same ranging
from $1.25 to $3.50.
A letter from our former fellow citizen,
Nolan Katz, dated at Porterville, California,
sends greetings to the writ's many friends
, in Mclean county. Mr.. Katz says he is
getting lonesome without the Leader.
T. J. Haugeberg is about as happy as
any man in town, and on account of the
news he received from Bismarck Monday
announcing the fact that he was the father
of another boy, the event occurring last
Sunday.
Louis Anderson of Coal Harbor returned
from Bismarck Thursday. bringing with
him large steele wind mill. Mr.. Ander-
son intends using the mill for grinding feed
and other purposes, and in that respect
will be independent of the ordinary gr,st
mill
The Washburn postofioe has been made
money order Office, and those Wishing to
send money abroad can now be aocommo-
dated with money orders or postal notes.
It will be great convenience for the
people and will be appreciated by the
public.
Martin Handy came up from Bismarck
: last Saturday, bringing with him some
repairs and extra for the portable saw
mill he purchased Of Anton Peterson last
fall. Mr.. Handy will begin turning out
lumber as soon as he can put the machinery
in shape.
The salmon syndicate of the Northwest
are all busted in encouraging the increase
Of the PaicAc coast salmon. Fifty thou
sand million salmon are turned loose into
the rivers of Oregon by the syndicate
alone every year, and, as the Industrious
female salmon lays 800 eggs to evory
pound Of her weiget, the prospect Of the
fsh seems encouraging.