Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1896-04-17

cage.
Mrs. Mellenger and Mr.. Benia-
min and expect to start next week
Tuesday for Rochester, N. Y. MIR.
Benjamin will remain with his rela-
tives in tho east and Mrs. Mellenger
will visit her son in Chicago on her
return.
One of the elevator companies has
sent out a circula giving points on
the best manner to put in grain
crops. 1t advises using drill for
seeding and to SOW east and west as
this way best protects the crop from
hot winds.
The election of officers for the
Presbyterian Sunday School was
held last Sunday. VIM. Mills was
elected Superintendent, Jas. Scott
Assistant superintendent: Anna
Root, Secretary; Wm. Mills, Treas
urer; Mrs. Coulter, Librarian; +. l..
Bradley, Choirister.
The Leader reports Mrs. VanMeter
and Miss Eva Irwin as re engaged by
the Ellendale school board for their
school. The board paid Miss Irwin
quite compliment by giving her
raise of $50 per month on her salary
for the coming year.
Last week an Ellendale citizen
blew out the gas and went to bed,
this week another one tried to ham
mer loaded cartridge into gun
barrel that was to small for it.
! They are both alive but only because
the fool killer was busy somewhere
else.
Sargent Co. Independent Owing
to some defect in an abstract he GER
titled to, r, S. Adams, OF Lisbon, we
understand will take action to col
lect about Sl1OO from j. D. Yaiser
and his bondsmen during Mr.. Yai-
ser's first term as treasurer of this
county.
Under wlaw in tho q. S. Land
Department it is not necessary for
parties living outside oishe state to
return in order to make final proof
on their tree claims but the proof
can be taken by any U. S. commits
sioner wherever they may happen to
be. This is a great accommodation
to non-residents.
Aberdeen News--At Dickinson,
North Dakota, we'll diggers claim to
have found a human skull in fair
state of preservation at a depth of
forty feet, beneath solid four-foot
vein of coal. This beats the cardiff
giant and South Dakota's petrified
man, and is probably off the same
piece eff goods.
Elk: The man who devotes only
tsweelk to the advertising of a new
thing and then rails because he did
not get greater returns, is like the
boy whe studied with lawyer for
two days and then came home and
said: "The law amt what it's creek
ed up to be, I'm sorry learned it"
Forsyth Times.
Leader-Professor w. E. Hicks
has been appointed institute con-
ductor by the State Superintendent
Bates and leaves Saturday for Steele,
North Dakota, to enter upon an en-
gagement at the teachers institute
there. Mrs. Hicks will assist Mrs.
Van Meter in the high school during
MIR. Hicks absence.
T. w. Bush has rented the under
rooms of his house on Main street to
a MIR. Cooper who will put IN balS-
cry as soon as the buil,!ing is fitted
up with shelves etc. Mr., Bush it
now engaged in building q brick
oven in the rear of the building
which will be No. arrangement
with all OF the latest improvements.
Tho weather has been very wet
l lately and Judging from outward
appearances Tuesday evening, we
have concluded that there is a layer
, of hardpan underneath the surface
north of town, which held the wa
} ter until it has become stagnant, as
r it did not seem to agree with some
of those who attended othe races on
that day.
} 1t is rumered that a new time card
7 will go Into effect on the G. e. N. w
I. next Monday, April goth. The pas
> senger train will leave Oakes at 6:3C
a. m. and return at midnight. By
a this arrangement passengers going
i south can sleep an hour later in the
morning but those wishing to make
n connection with tho N. p, have oul
!, sympathy.
Valley City Times Record -Messr
d Hortland q jacobson of Fingal have
: recently purchased from Nichols
Bros. of Oakes, a registered Short
It horn bull. The farmers in th,
S southeastern part of Barnes county
have long been noted for raising d
superior grade of horses, and now
s. are turning their attention to improv
Q ing the breed of cattle.
It w. T. Garfield left on the So,
l. Tuesday morning for the east where
he goes to look up location for
-, photograph gallery. Mr., Garfield is
:, - an old citizen here and a good pho
- - tographer and we hope that he may
~ secure suitable location in the nea
- future.
y Later--W. T. Garfield has rent
ed rooms in Forman and will open
le photograph gallery there.
" Lisbon Gazette-It has been decid
it ed to run the experimental farm a
10 this place in connection with lh
Soldiers Home, for which purpos
a 20 acres of the Home farm will b
/ fulfilled and 20 acres belonging to r
IS s. Adams. The profits of the farm