The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-06-17
NORTH DAKOTA

An old maids convention has beer
held at Lisbon.
Work on the Park River new. city hal
has been started. .
Grand Forks is still having troubl,
with the Griggs house.
The new State Bank Of Wimbledon
has opened for business.
The ~dog-poisoner got away with four
of them at Sanborn last week.
The Fargo school board tabled the
proposition for a new high school.
And now Darlington will have a fair
ground, race track and ball ground.
Now Mayor Johnson is going after a
Spanish gun from Manila for Fargo.
The arrangements and the cash for a
water toboggan are up at Waihalla.
New Rockford will vote, June 20, on
$4,000 bonds for a new school house.
Minors new mill is well under way,
and will soon be ready for another fire.
The town of Bowdon, in Wells coun.
ty, is plated and ready for the boom
act.
The staff of teachers for the Langdon
schools will be increased from four to
six.
Fargo's strong box was made $25
heavier by the bicycle ordinance dur
ing May.
Senator L. B. Hanna will build a
new brick bank building at Page in the
near future.
Glendale, by ordinance, has made
riding on it's sidewalks punishable by
a fine of from So to So.
A couple of parties are said to be
selling green goods at Valley City, and
finding lots of customers.
! The Jimtown artesian we'll is down
446 feet. The drill goes easier since
they struck that vein of soap.
Prof. w. r. Fitzpatrick, principal OF
1.-The Mandan schools, will occupy a like
position at Wahpeton next year.
Joe Grace, son Of Station Agent Grace
of Grafton, lost two fingers by getting
them caught between two cars.
Ten-year-old Frank Palmer Of Fargo
was thrown from ahorse and sustained
a very severe fracture Of an arm.
Bisbee expects nothing less than two
elevators and a twenty-room hotel,
from the excellent crop prospects.
The North Dakota Harness compa-
ny at Fargo will soon add to their busi-
ness a complete collar mandatory.
The Devils Lake Incandescent Lamp
company is another Ramsey county
corporation, with c. A. Grow at the
head. .."
Burglars started to crack a safe In
the office of Lumberman Wall of Far
20. but got tired and quit after remov-
ing the lock
The Walhalla band has ordered new
uniforms of scarlet and gold. This IN
dicates that Walhalla will have q
bright band.
The Great Northern depot at Port
lend had q marrow escape from de.
struction by fire the other day, caused
by lightning.
An order has been issued for the es-
~tablishment of a p%ostofhce at Svold,
pembina county, and Haldow WATSON
commissioned postmaster.
The school population Of La Moure
for 1899 numbers 1919, an increase
over 1898 of s.. There are 30
girls enrolled than boys-777 to az.
The horse meat cannery at Medora
will be operated but three months OF
each year. A contract has beer mace
for 1,5OO head Of bronchos at 81 each.
Government recruiting agents made
a trip through the northern part OF the
state without securing a recruit, ana
other expeditions Of the same nature
will be abandoned.
Spartaca Radaellia. an Italian lanor-
er in the employ of the Northern Paci'
fc at Crystal Springs, was cut IN Two
by falling under the wheels OF q Doaro'
ing car near jamestown.
Deputy Revenue Collector Dan NC
MILAN Of Langdon has resigned his 70
sition. A petition has been circulated
N jamestown asking that John Ihonip-
son of that place be appointed.
The new law makes both personal
and real estate taxes delinquent on the
list of February. This change will b4r.
den the t%reasurer's office very much pc
that date.
Judge l.. D. Dana of Bottineau died
at his home on his large farm, north pt
that place. Mr.. Dana was q OF tle
old settlers and a public-spirited, prFp-
gressive man.
The decision of the supreme court IN
the stark county case vii; take twenty
four Of the fifty-two townships away
from Mercer county, and leave them n
rather bad shape.
Peter Kaebel of stutsman count,
took refuge in his hay loft during q
thunder storm, and a bolt entered and
consumed the barn, hay and a4 other
contents except Peter.
One hundred and fourteen 4pplica-
|tions were received for the pr1ncipal-
lship of the Dickinson schools, eighteen
being from this state. TheUniv9fsits OF
Wisconsin furnished eight.
The silver jubilee of Bishop Stanley
" az celebrated at the dedication OF the
cathedral, and Father Conaty. on be-
half of the priests, gave the bishop o
purse Of $1,000 as a token OF apprecla
ton.
La..ota ,s to have a new A.. GU W.
lodge with a frontage OF 1N rect.
brown stone trimmings, heated q
!Iighted by gas. The cost will be about
so. 900, and the estimated rentals are
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