The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-06-10
NORTH DAKOTA

all So pension.
Langdon is building considerable
sidewalk this season.
The Hankinson Touring mill will put
i'll a dynamo for lighting purposes.
Judge Young Of the supreme court
has returned from an Eastern trip.
J.. H. Bowers got the contract for the
Masonic temple at Fargo, at $21,63l.
Ex-senator Casey has returned to
Jamestown after an extended Eastern
visit.
At Kuhn a committee has been ap-
pointed to agitate the question OF ire
protection.
July LIST the Mimic postofice will be
raised from fourth-class to a pres1den-.
tial office. s.H... .0.
The new asylum buildings will re-
uuire the enlargement of the electric
light plant.
A golf club has been organized at the
state pen. Jimtown hospital ought TO
have one
Cooperstown has decided to buy some
twenty acres of land, fence it j ana
have a fair.
The NJ. E. church at Jimtown will
provide a shed for farmers teams. A
good scheme.
Martin Markuson of Cooperstown
had a choking fit, and died before help
could reach him.
Little May Foshay of Langdon had
her foot severely injured while playing
at the turntable.
Walsh county residents propose to
have a county fair this year that will
be second to none.
G. G. Koerner of Portland was spilled
by a runaway team and sustained d
lislocated shoulder.
Railroad business has SO increased at
Unknown that Supt. Wilson has been
given an assistant.
Miss Preston, Of the w. G. T. u, has
started on her summer %lecturing tour
through the STAGE.
Gus Bell Of Jimtown lost two fingers
in q roundup out at Dickinson. Ihey
got tangled in the lasso.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed by parties who will erect a $l5,OOO
125-barrel mill Mt Drayton.
Mrs. ]. L. Brown Of Hamilton IS
cl0lu1eu 10 Dc OuS d111OA6 ~ uCAAS
$40, 100000 estate in England.
CRYSTAL reports that every shop there
has had to increase its capacity this
e Looks bad for hard times.
Dinnie Bros. are building a kiln OF
16O, 900 brick, the first new Red River
valley brick on this years market.
The d. s. B. johnson company is ask
ing S5OO for corner lots in the new
townsite Of McHenry, in Eddy county.
Langdon seems to be furnishing O
sort of continuous performance of vari-
GUS kinds of misdemeanOrs this season.
A we'll caved in upon doc" Reed OF
Fessenden, but he stood the pressure
all right, and will soon be as good as
ever.
A Is e cent dividend has been de-
| clared on the First National Bank OF
Larimore's assets, amounting to some
100000.
Mrs. Bertha Nj. johnson Of Minor,
an aged widow of a veteran of the Civil
war, has been granted a pension of 81
per month.
The electric light plant at Dawson
City, the property of ]. d. Trenholm OF
Bathgate. was not harmed by the big
Klondike fire.
The town of Kenmare, recently al
most totally destroyed by fire, will be
rebuilt at once. The origin of the fire
Is still a mystery.
G. r. Hamilton, druggist, Hunter,
was pulled for violation of the prohibit
ton law, but the charge fizzled and the
case was dismissed.
n kIv..A 49, ,,o~,1on r 0nnd0n
druggist, is trying to organize a *. +.
lodge ut Northwood, with the assist
ance of Henry Dillenbeck.
A wholesale grocery house is soon to
be established at Valley City. it is said,
land great things are expected of the
500 in the way Of freight rates.
Alfred Masters, the five-year-old son
Of George Masters of jamestown, was
fatally injured last week by falling I'M
| der q dray, the wheels passing e
him.
Wells county is in line with the prog
ress of the state, and reports more fax
and wheat sown, and more settlers az.
irving than ever before in the history
of the county.
June 8 the board of management Of
l1C NullcJ ISANyt AOAAAu NAAA
open bids to award contracts for inn
provements and the. erection Of an add
itional building.
According to reports from Devils
Lake, that city is gradually becoming
q prohibition city, liquor now being
sold by the glass instead of by the
quart, as heretofore.
DR.. Flaten Of yA!dinburg has his resi-
Idence about completed. and with the
improvements recently made, will have
one of the handsomest residences in
that part Of the state.
A blacksmith and machine shop, a
large two-story brick. a livery stable,
a creamery, a lumber shed, a bank, and
several fine dwellings are under course
OF erection at Edinburg.
Frank I4athrop of Darlington will
open a drug store at Bowden, the new
town at the cpd of the Sykeston d.
vision. He. bought out the John ,FOos
drug stock at Fessenden.
Ed Rose, youngest son Of Attorney
u. IA. Rose OF Fargo, has been appoint
OIL rnUiafor NJ tho .T1ntfod Nfofoc Land