The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-08-04
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Summer schools + rival attractions
to the political conventions.
Many Of the Jim River valley people
are talking Russian thistle.
Sixty-two teachers are attending the
state summer school at Cakes.
The Masonic offices in Fargo are be-
ing moved into the Masonic temple.
Several thousand bass and croppies
are to be placed in Maple lake at
once.
Polk county has Just sold $40,5O0
ditch bonds at 4 IL per cent and $50
premium.
Game wardens are publishing the
usual call down notices to prevent pre-
mature hunting.
Agricultural machinery is still being
shipped into the state, Notwithstanding
the short crop.
During a storm at Wilton lightning
struck the hotel, and a number of the
guests were stunned.
' A pair Of bootleggers, who tried to
operate at the LaMoure races, weDe1
chased out Of the county.
Farmers are 80 busy around LaMoure
blowing the grain under that they don't
have time to come to town.
It Is said that more improvements
are noticeable around Buxton than al
most any town in the valley.
Owing to the repairs at the Bismarck
pumping station there Is a temporary
shortage Of water at that place.
The three 1celandic congregations at
Akra, Pembina county, will combine
this year for a Sunday school picnic.
John Davidson of Stutsman county
reports a hustling hen. All her chick
ems died, and she cared for two kittens.
The barn Of Walter Rogers, five miles
from Walcott, Richland county, was
burned and eight horses were cremat-
ed.
The feeling of the farmers for Presi.
dent Hill of the Great Northern, seems
to be changing from hatred to admira'
ton.
From various sections come com.
plants of typhoid fever, due to ban
drinking water and drouth. Boil the
water.
Prospective hunters are being urged
by the state papers to secure permits,
before the prairie chicken season be-
comes ripe.
The increase in. the personal valua'
ton Of Burleigh county property was
$4,OO4. The real estate valuation was
reduced $4,000.
Warren reports considerable damage
by the Hessian fly, and the prospective
average Of five bushels per acre Is con-
siderably cut down by it.
The youngest daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Miller Of Mandan drank
a cup of fly-poison and died. The little
one was fifteen months old.
Peter G. Thompson, living a mile and
a half north Of Lee, in Nelson county,
dropped dead while helping one of bis
neighbors unhitch a team Of horses.
Many fields of wheat in LaMoure
cvounty, which would otherwise pay
for cutting will be plowed under be.
cause of the presence of Russian cactl'
A Bowbells attorney and a divorce
who didn't want to pay for his legal
services had a lively scrap in the street
that furnished amusement for every
body.
An attempt was made to burn the
barn Of Erick Skauge, in Richland
county, but the blaze was discovered
and extinguished before 1t had made
any Roadway.
Harvey imagined It had an Indian
outbreak last week, at least one family
did, and sat up all night, to find the
hired nan the cause of all the trouble,
and asleep in the barn.
Valley City has a firm Of gardeners
who don't care whether it rains or
not. They have irrigated their truck
farm and, are said to have the dnest
vegetables in the state.
Hay sells for SIS per ton at Bagley,
and the people 60 out on the country
roads carrying bouquets and other
things to get on the soft side of the
farmers coming in on their loads.
Aneta people are about convinced
that p. L. Wilberg, who left there TO-
commit suicide, was mor inclined to
create a sensation than to present a
new face in the celestial realms.
Miss Helen Schmidt Of New Rock
ford was horseback riding, when the
animal ran into a wire fence In me.
dark and threw her to the ground With
such force that her collar bone was
broken.
In the list Of those who have been
granted pensions recently appears D
Grand Forks. Mr.. Dorman 10 granted
q pension Of SIS per month for wounds
received in the Philippines.
Cattle shipments from the West are
beginning q month earlier than lass