The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-09-15
Bottineau wants a football team.

There is lots OF. water hemlock aroun0
Bottineau.
Stark county will have creameries at.
Richardton and Taylor.
Wells county Republicans hold their
convention on Sept. Is.
J.. A. Klovstad Of Hope has purchased
an elevator at Dwight.
J. E. jerks killed a porcupine sever
miles west of Bottineau.
A snake five feet long was found In
Lovejoy's store at Grafton.
Jamestown has decided to refund
1900 bonds issued in 1890.
Glenullin people sold 100000 pounds
of wool to one. firm last week.
Dickey county structures were raised
{ per cent by the state board.
Frank Harbaugh Of Nelson county
has fodder corn nine feet high.
Mayville keeps right on loaning some
of her good people to Rugby.
The little wait which was deserted by
Its mother at Grand Forks is dead.
M. NJ. Cook will retain his position as
deputy state treasurer IL Mcmillan is.
elected.
Mayville's ice supply ran short and
q supply was secured from Grand.
Forks.
Col. Lounsberry says the country
around Buford is the finest he has ever
seen.
Devils Lake is still after that fax.
mill and Corridor & Son may put In a
plant.
Paul Fretz, the West Point cadet.
from Grand Forks, is home on a thirty
day furlough.
The late rains have renewed the.
grass on the prairies till 1t looks like
spring again.
Roosevelt will be in Fargo Sept. "A.
instead of Sept. Is as many papers have.
published it.
The new we'll has been accepted at
Walhalla. 1t furnishes 100 gallons OF
water per minute.
The old parade grounds at Fort Blu,
ford may be set aside for a park for
the new town Of Buford.
A colony Of North Carolina immi-,
grants have reached Devils Lake and
will locate in that section.
A special term Of court will be held
IN OlChSy -COU1Sy dOVAS ~ AoSS. -
October to %naturalize citizens.
Russian thistle is said to be in evil
dence along the Great Northern be-
tween Williston and Buford.
The total attendance from North Da-
kota at the G. A. r. encampment in
Chicago is reported at about 500.
Edgar LaRue has a force Of men
working on excavations for the new
mill and elevator at Devils Lake.
Ross Hewitt was struck in the face
with a shot from a u fired at some
blackbirds at Balfour by a man named
Glenn.
Some Of the people claim williston is
getting too metropolitan and Buford
Is now the coming town out in Williams
county.
The sheaves Of wheat carried by the
North Dakota veterans on the Grand
Army parade at Chicago attracted lots
Of attention.
Farmers are trading work in many
sections Of the state to get the thresh-
ing done. as there are no extra men TO-
operate machines.
The children's new home building at
Fargo is ready for occupancy. Rev.
Breasted, state agent for the society,
will reside there.
There are swift people at LaMoure.
Peter Smith suffered a stroke of par
alysis and two days later was out on Q.
horseback ride.
The Larimore highwaymen who held
Express company are believed to be.
residents OF the city.
Ole t.. Gjevre Of Milton has invented
an attachment to an ordinary thresh-
ing machine to separate flax and wheat
threshed at the same time.
It is believed the necessary contracts:
for 5000 acres of beets for the James,
town sugar factory can be secured:
without a great deal Of trouble. .
It is said that Freeman Of Valley
City will be prosecuted by the game
warden for shooting those fresh young
ducks before the game season opened.
Mrs. Knutson Of Wang died al the
state asylum. Her husband died some
years ago and the children were UNI
able to have the remains brought home.
Register serumgard Of the Devils
Lake land Office is having trouble with
some new born newspapers UP in that
section. all Of which want final proof
notices. s5s
Carrington's volunteer fremen are
becoming tired Of the advice Of some
Of the self-appointed fire. bosses. and
q %drenching is in sight for q few Of the
ohicious guys.
The usual hard luck stories about
keeping q hunting dog for months and
having the canine swiped the day be-
fore the hunting season opened are
going the rounds.
The old artesian well at Jamestown
may be dynamited to see II the water
won't start up again. Some people be-
lieve the pipe is clogged and think the
dynamiting would open It up.
Complaints are registered from all
over the state about the swarms Of
flies and mosquitoes that have been
developed by the late rains sand con-
sequent heavy growth Of vegetation.
2. c. ,Tourtelot. who for the past few
years has been q resident Of Grand
Forks as receiver. Of the Grand Forks
National bank. has rendered his sresig-
nation as receiver Of that institution
and win leave in about three weeks for
Chicago.
II. G. Katzemeyer. the financial Sec
rotary Of the Grand Forks lodge OF the
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