Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-06-15
LOCAL ROUNDUP.

Monday.
Beiseker and Davidson have estab-
aished state bank at Kenmare.
Ingebret Barstad Of Hofflnnd was
transacting business in the city Tuesday.
- Hunter Hardaway came down from
Culbertson tnis week. and is now doing
service in Hedderich Bros. & Co.'s Big
Store.
George Newton is making preparation
to construct new dwelling house this
summer.
Mrs. E. A.. Woodward is naying a
stone foundation placed under her
residence.
f. A. Sharp has broken ground for his
new residence, which he will erect on
one Of the lots on Broadway east of his
livery barn.
The baseball boys are putting in good
time nowadays practcing up in the
national sport.
George Mathewson has moved his
family into the Wittmeier house on
Bruegger avenue.
A car load of thoroughbred rams
passed through Williston Tuesday
enroute to Benton, Montana, consigned
to Merrill & Libby.
IF. Rowell is building new frame
house on the lot adjoining the east side
oftie courthouse grounds. The frame
-:Sas erected this week.
Steve, Marmon, chief of the White
Earth Big Sitting Lodge, came up from
his Grinnell ranch Tuesday, enroute to
Montana after bunch Of horses.
There is considerable hustling among
property owners just about now. 1t is
the anaual spring round up of cash for
lots bought on the installlnent plan.
w. D. Atterhery, son Of Great North
ern Agent E. NJ. A,terbery, arrived in
Williston yesterday morning from KAN
sas City, and will reside here with his
parents.
H. V. Smith has re-engaged in the
sheep business, having recently pur-
chased $50 head Of the wool producers
from H. l. Merrill, the Yellowstone
sheep king.
Carl Opsahl OF Velya, N. D., committed
suicide by hanging himself last week
Mr.. Opsahl Was one of the oldest settlers
on Mouse river, having moved to that
section in 1883.
John Sassen last week sold his home
stead Of IS acres to Mrs. E. A. Wood
ward for the very moderate considera-
ton of $3.50 This land all lies in the
corporate limits of Williston.
While in the city last Tuesday, Mr.
John Mercer, sr., sold his improve
ments on his stock ranch, Is miles down
the river, to John Sassen, who intends
engaging in the cattle business.
John Mercer, sr., was down from
Buford Monday on business. Mr.. Mer-
Ger has just recovered from an indispo-
sition which has kept him confined to
his house for nearly two weeks.
G. NJ. Hedderich and wife went west
early in the week. Mrs. Hedderich has
gone to Poplar, where she will visit with
her sister, Mrs. Major Cowan, while
Gus NJ. is off on the roundup.
On July IL next Dawson county, Mont,
will vote to expend $4,000 to recon-
struct the bridge across the Yellowstone
at Glendive, to replace the one carried
out there by the food last spring.
Herman Roehr returned home Mon
day night, drifting into town from the
east, where he had been selling horses
along the 500 line. He left for the west
again Tuesday evening after another
band.
So popular has McPhee, the druggist,
become since his short residence in our
city with his Pasteur vaccine. that
even the calves of the town call at the
drug store and wait to be vaccinated for
blackleg.
Miss Amalia Bruegger came down
from Culbertson. Mont, yesterday, and
will visit here couple of days, when
she will re-embark for Watertown, Wis, :,
where she will spend the summer with
her mother.
Hedderich Bros. & Co. are having an
immense sign painted on the north side
of their big brick store. Woodley & Nc
Kay are the artists, and when finished,
it will be the most elaborate mercantile
sign in the west.
= n. T. Lease Of Great Falls, Mont, and
I. c. Richards of Helena, Mont, were
in the city yesterday and formed the
Montana delegation of contractors who
submitted bids for the building Of Wi
ans county new courthouse.
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