The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-01-06
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New Rockford woodmen have organ
lied a band.
I. Bottineau is anxious to have a farm
ers' institute.
Lanpdon 10 10 have a farmers fnst-
tute in the spring.
A Finley farmer recently lost three
horses by CHAMBERS.
Wilton expects to have a lumoef
yard in the spring.
The scales for the fax mill at Wnea'-
on have been put in.
Charles Smart expects 10 open Nv
cry barn at Bowbeils.
The Enderlin %couEcil will issue $4'OVo
bonds for fire protection.
The Woodmen contemplate the ere
ton of q hall at Kuhn.
James Forgaard of Park River had
his leg broken last week.
A -four mill is to be erected at iron
Springs, N. D., next spring.
The Alliance Hail association mas
paid 81 per cent Of it's losses.
The new elevator at Wilton now con-
tains 10000 bushels of e
Foundation stone is being hauled
for the L. O. o. +. hall at Rugby.
Oberon has a new Lutheran church
society with about thirty members.
Rev. J. T. Killen has accepted. a can
to the Congregational church at Hope.
A modern hotel is to be erected at
Wilton during the winter, it is report
ed.
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Elm is the name of a social club IN LID
gerwood.
Hall g. Davis new roller mill at
Leeds is all completed and ready, Tor
business.
o. T. White of Devils Lake has the
contract to rebuild the roller mllis TOT
MI. Hanson.
Martin Thompson Of Wells county
was operating a feed mill and ground
off his thumb.
Fargo is now beginning to prepare
for its grain-growers' convention, to DC
held Jan. 1926.
A L~idgerwood butcher left town sud
denly last week, leaving a host I
mourning creditors.
A. J. johnson of Mayville will re-
build his hardware store building, re-
Gently burned, of brick.
w. C. Parker of Minot has had plans
completed for the new Leland. to be
erected early next season.
A building will be erected at Medina
at once, to be occupied by a state bank,
which will be organized soon.
The Devils Lake council appropriate
ed $3.50 to Chris Gorder to remove his
boiler shop from Cakes TO that city.
There are now four deputy game
wardens in Mclean county. and things
may be made quite lively for pot hunt
erS.
A course of instruction in the S of
farm machinery is to be added to the
regular courses at the agricultural col
.lkege:
Cashier Laidlaw'saccport of the Cit
liens Bank of Lisbon shows careful
management of that popular institu-
ton.
Several people have had narrow es.
capes by falling through air holes
while crossing the Missouri river on
the ice.
Majors livery barn. at Hope, has
been overhauled, and is now in excel
lent. shape. 1t will accommodate 100
head of stock.
When Sheriff Halls of Bottineau
county seized t%wenty-eight original
packages containing whisky, there
was sorrow for the boys.
An artesian well recently struck in
Richland county furnishes water con-
tanning only 1853 parts of solids per L.
100000 parts Of water.
A man named Wyndmere bought a
quarter section of land three years ago
for $500, and sold it last week for
$1,000. Not a bad speculation.
Christian Splitter, a young Russian
resident of Bismarck was fatally in
jured by a falling tree while chopping
in the woods near Bismarck.
Dickinson people will dig a we'll and
erect a windmill on their cemetery
property. Dickinson is determined to
have fire protection at any cost.
The Mandan Catholic church and
vestry has been wired for lights. and
will have forty-one electric burners
when the new plant gets In operation.
A new time card is to be issued by
the Northern Pacific. The principal
changes will be the running of mixed
instead of passenger trains on some of
the branch lines. =
The Forman Telephone company in
vltee bids until II M, Jan. 10. for the
purchase Of all or any part Of S. 5000
first mortgage bonds, five years, G per
cent, semi-annual.
Mrs. Joseph Crawford of Langdon
died at that place, after being sick for
some time. Mrs. Crawford and her
husband came to Langdon in 1887, and
was one of the Oldest settlers of that
place.
Harry Hunter, formerly elevator
agent at Kensal. is in Jail at James
town awaiting trial for a%ppropriating
$500 Of the company's money. He was
arrested last July, and has been out
under bonds, but his bondsmen have
withdrawn.
Mandan has a resident named Mi
chael Hindrich, who is a fit subject for
the whipping post. A few nights ago,
in a drunken rage, he beat his wife, bit
her fingers and drove her out Of doors.
He will answer to a charge Of assault
with intent to kill.
immigration Agent Lowson, Of the
500, recently conducted a party of six
ty-ave excursionists to Bowbells, and
every one Of the visitors filed on gov
eminent land. This of itself ought to
be. a pretty good advertisement for the