The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-03-03
GRAFTON is trying to reorganlse het

| Reynolds TOE S6V.
Alex Ain Of Rosebud has a few
orange trees that are bearing fruit.
Curt Brainerd has purchased the
Estes hardware store at Devils Lake.
Mrs. Carr was fined 500 for con
Quoting a house Of i'll fame at Grafton.
Walhalla,s civic societies are doing
big work this year and all Of them are
growing.
Judge Gaspell delivered the dedica-
+orv address in the rev court house at
| New Rockford.
!. f. eKratzer Is a ne warrival at
Mandan and will venture in the CLOTH
ing business.
". J. Brden and w. A. Murphy Of
Crystal have consolidated their furni.
tule business.
David Smith will launch in the gen.
eral merchandise business: at Crystal,
Pembina county. ID
Geer & Randall Of Glendale recently
| sold seventy-one quarters OF Dickey
county land in n bunch.
The fax fiber mill at Sheldon is said
to have paid out 5000 to the farmers
for straw since last spring.
DR.. W. J. Proctor and n. w. Fish are
successors to o. II. de Irgens in the
drug business at Valley City.
Andrew Johnston, an early settler
at Forest River, died last week at the
advanced age Of eighty years.
Alden and Henry n starting a
movement to bring about q daily mail
| service, with bright prospects for sue
cess.
A location has been bought and a
lumber ward will be established at
Crystal by the st. Hiliare Lumber com-
paDy.
Douglas & T%horlackson of Hoople,
after holding a piece Of land for a.few
days, sold it for $1,000, at q profit Of
$1,000.
From Lisbon comes reports Of a
large influx Of homeseekers, many Of
whom have taken land in Ransom
county. 81 ut
While after a load Of hay A. B. Laut
! of Willow City had both feet frozen so
badly that he will have to undergo an
operation.
Work will soon be commenced at
Hankinson on a new p~ostof1ce build
ing to be 24x60 In size and two stories
in height.
W. r. Cahall died Of hemorrhage Of
the brain at Bismarck. He was an old
settler in Burleigh county and a Con.
federate veteran.
A company wants to build a cream
ery at Hensel, and the farmers are
holding meeting with a view Of giving
aid to the project.
A meeting was held at Col. Peake's
office at Valley City and steps were
taken for the organization Of a bust
ness mems union.
Three of Gordon South's greyhounds
! were poisoned at Casselton recently.
The dogs were valuable ones and Cor
don feels his loss keenly.
The directors Of the Citizens bank at
Walhalla held their semi-annual bust
ness meeting and the bank found to be
in q very prosperous condition.
A team belonging to T. R. McLaugh-
lin became frightened at some dogs at
Walhalla and ran away, one horse be-
ing so badly injured it had to*be shot.
Civil Engineer Park Of the Great
Northern Is ut. Rugby running out
some more surveys for changing the
track between Pleasant Lake ana
Knox.
Mr.. volk, a venerable Bohemian
living in Grafton, fell recently and
broke several ribs. His age q zee
| bleness make it q serious case with
him. sS
DR.. H. W. Piper, a physician and
surgeon of prominence In Chicago, Ill.,
has purchased property in COurtenay.
and will hereafter make that town MS
home.
Binford is solving the booze question
| with a vengeance. A vigilance CON-
mittee has been organized and three
~bootleggers have sought a more COL
genial climate,
While at supper and in b act OF
swallowing a piece of beefsteak Jonn
Schock, county commissioner from the
Fist district Of Mcintosh county
choked to death. n =, III .
The town Of Neche has organized3e
company composed Of her p~rogres9.ss<
citizens, whose purpose Is 70 auu
the town. The first move VIII be tne
erection of a commodf0us pubic q u
A new Jail and sherin's residence
will bebuilt the coming spring IN NC
Henry county. The matter has been
thoroughly canvassed. and has o as
sumed definite shape.
An extensive stock raiser from Min-
nesota, a Mr. Good, has rented large
tracts Of grazing lands in Clay county
and will feed several large punches OF
cattle there this spring.
Articles Of Incorporation for the or.
| g~anizati0n Of the Rugby state Dans
at Rugby have been fled. OH
men Of the town r behind the lnst''
tuition, and this insures its perma-
nency.r
Glendale is just now experiencing 2
| decided boom In real estate circles. =
number Of Iowa capitalists have cen
looking over the ground the past week
and several large transfers have Deen
made. N IN t4,;
Father Barnard. the sole survivor Of
the pioneer missionaries q this state
resides at Benz0nia, Mich, and 10 now
eighty-four years old. He - snow en.
gagged in writing his autobiography q
his work as q missionary.
Lidgerwood 10 to- have 4 new state
bank. The company has beens0r8an--
lied and show that the mean bushes
by putting q force fpf menrt0 work Y
the erection Of q substantial building
for banking and ONCE pYFpesesL- 55
Little warner. Peterson q y Ro ll.