The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-09-08
dickinson has electric tights now:
Jamestown had ~ inches Of rain III

Hazel nuts are said to be plentiful
this fall. Chestnuts likewise.
Now is The merry note of the CHM
ney cleaners bugle heard in the land.
The wolf hunt at Williston was: q
izzle and Uncle Ben Corbin is wanted.
The automobile seems to have been
sidetracked since the recent dampness.
Threshers in the vicinity Of Grand
Forks are hauling water from he city.
The opening Of Hotel Lincoln at
Northwood was one Of h social events
Of the season.
The Baver school district in SUITS
man county does not have to make a
levy this year. (,
North Dakotans who are at Cape
Nome write back discouragingF letters.
on the situation. hn;'S
C. A. Hunt of Darlington a re-
turned from Nome. He says the coun-
try is on the bum.
Miss Farrell, the Langton postmis-
tress. has been compelled to resign on
account Of i'll health.
The lady selected by the Jamestown
officials to teach music in the city.
schools has resigned. !
The Enforcement league will appeal
the case of the state against Druggist
McGruer of Langdon.
Thomas Pasch of Aneta died a few
days ago and his wife last week, leav-
ing five little children.
Visitors to Bowbells pronounce that
one Of the best sections of the north
western part Of theestate.
Gus Shilling, the r~estauranter at
Oriska, was ~quarantined because OF
diphtheria in his family.
A man named Wells swiped a horse
from Ferd Lutz at Cooperstown, but
was captured in Eddy county.
'Pot Pie Pete" was the name Of a
prominent member of Grand Forks 400
who was arrested for smuggling his wife.
The blind pigs were closed at Harvey
and the boys imported a snake charmer
Just to have things natural around the
town.
The hot weather has been hard on
the hunting dogs and the sudden de-
mise of some valuable animals Is re-
ported. "n-.
Cooperstown married men licked the
single fellows and at Rolla the single
fellows put it all over their henpecked
opponents.
While Peter vanderly and family Of
Mcintosh county were away from home
miscreants entered the house and broke
up the furniture.
IA third store has been opened at
Medina. The proprietor is Adolph Graf.
Medina is in the center of a large terri
tory, north and south.
Some thief had heard the chicken
season was open at Fessenden and
swiped twenty-five fine-blooded fowls
from j. L. Lees coops.
This is one year when the North
\Dakota farmer is not taking much in
terest in the fight over. wheat grades.
he hasn't much to grade.
Farmers around Crystal Springs are
Indignant because a herd Of $4,000 sheep
from Oregon has destroyed all the
range hay in that vicinity.
The williston school house is to be
completed in the second story. Kids are
becoming SO numerous that the first
floor can't accommodate them. }
There was a wedding near the Turtle
mountains recently. The next day the
groom was taken Ill with smallpox and
AN the guests were quarantined.
Over in the Horsehead valley In En-
number Of fine vineyards. One man
put up 200 gallons of grape wine.
Mike De la Bere is worried. He seems
to be unable to discover whether the
prevailing fashion to abandon garters
has reached Sheldon. He might yell
rats.
Dave Mong of Buffalo hurried to
Fargo to get repairs for his engine and
found on his return to Buffalo he had
gotten stuff for the wrong side Of the
old thing.
Prof. G. NJ. Hall Of the theological
department of the North Dakota agri-
cultural college Is putting in some time
In Ransom county on the new govern
ment work. !
Two daughters Of Henry Komroskf
Of Sanborn, aged fifteen and seventeen,
died Of consumption within a few hours
Of each other and were buried in the
same grave.
The bewhiskered story Of the man
who went chicken hunting with a
twelve-gauge gun and ten-inch shells
Is making its annual rounds among the
newspapers.
The Larimore Chinaman who was re-
ported to be avenging the killing Of the
Boxers was only firing a revolver to
brighten a kid who was soilfng the
laundry work.
John G. Birch's wife has returned to
her husband in Sargent county since
he has fully established his innocence
Of the murder Of a man named Hagum
a few years ago..
The record says the threshers tell 81
mournful tale around Page. The yield
is running from two to thirteen BUSH
els. The recent rains have damaged
the grades badly.
DR.. Graham Of walhalla has asmallss
threshing machine operated by SIX
men. "A gasoline engine furnished the
power. It is about the right size for
the crop this year.
]. B.. Wescum Of Edmunds had 1900
acres Of crop and will thresh about 100
bushels IL the straw doesn't rot. Last
year 10000 bushels Of wheat were sold
from the same land.
The number Of school children Of
Dickinson is said to be so great the
present building is too small and one
Of the churches may be rented to &C.