The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-07-07
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!. NORTHDAK0TA
STATE
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Crops around Northwood are said to
be in fair shape.
~Grasshoprers are reported numerous
in TOwner county.
The Wyndmere sports are enjoying
some horse racing.
1t is predicted that the price of hay
will advance 50 per cent.
There is no gopher scare this year,
as there is little for them to eat.
The Wimbledon fire company has
been organized and officers elected.
The unanimous verdict of the census
enumerators is that the job is no snap.
The prevailing drouth has caused a
celebrated spring at Park River to go
dry.
The good town of Northwood will
have a new school house and a good
| one.
Attorney Gram of Sheldon is a candi-
date for probate judge of Ransom
county
Miss Christina Monroe, who was sent
to the asylum from Page, died in that
institution.
The Leonard depot was visited by
hobos recently and the till was relieved
of IA cents.
Park River business men are supply
ing themselves with pneumatic tired
buggies.
The Casselton city council insists on
the construction of perfect sidewalks
in that city.
Mrs. Reuben Hyslop of Page vas
thrown from a buggy and suffered a
broken arm.
The water in Goose river near May
vile has been condemned by the
health board.
The wind was so strong at Rolla that
it moved a large barn six inches off its
foundations.
The 500 has Ills patent weed burlfer
doing business with the Russian thistle
along its line.
Darlington Maccabees went to New
Rockford to assist in the initiation Of
a large class.
Dickinson wool growers expect to
get 20 cents a pound for their wool
this eason
A new town has been surveyed be-
tween Crazy and Bartlett. 1t has been
named Doyan.
Fred Matthie of Inkster has arrived
in New York IN his way home from
South America.
G. F. Clarke, accused of burglarizing
a shooting gallery at Grand Forks,
was acquitted. - +
Tom Beisecker Of Fessenden is said
to be a leading candidate for insur-
ance commissioner.
Leeds vote;l against bonding the vii
lage for a steam fire engine by an
overwhelming majority.
The Wimbledon water.system is at
tached to an artesian well and is said
to be the best ever had.
J Joe Plourd, formerly a blacksmith at
Courtenay, was injured in a hunting
! accident and sent to the asylum.
st. Anthony is the name of the new
! postofice to be established in the Lit
tie Heart country, near Mandan.
Miss Bessie Duneen of Forman will
lose an EYE as q result Of the explosion
of Il pop bottle she was handling.
The band boys at Casselton will soon
! discourse, sweet music from q band
stand to be erected in the. city park,
Some farmers are buying sheep to
fatten on the wheat fields and will
then sell them at an advanced price.
Maj. Black has returned to Valley
City after a severe illness in Milwau-
lee, where he was treated by his son.
Louis Pearson OF Kensal threatened
to exterminate some Of his neighbors
and was bound over to keep the peace.
The electric light plant at Casselton
is unable to supply the proper amount
| of power and the council NAV enlarge
it.
A fellow with a long list of aliases
tried to jump his board bill at the Cas-
selt0n Occidental hotel, but didn't sue
coed.
- '-"''""N's horne at Cando was
struck by lightning. He and his wife
We're stunned, but not seriously in
jured. H.. t
A queer condition exists in Pembina
county. The best crops, prospectively,
are on the hills where the soil is light
and sandy.
There are queries about certain for
mer politicians, but many Of them are
SO dead that to explain would be like
disturbing a funeral. So.
It is claimed that Col, Creel Of Devils
Lake is getting back into the Repub.
lican camp and will support Henry.
Hale for the state senate.
The gold finds around the Sisseton
reservation were on Indian lands and
an agent drove the would-be miners
and prospectors off the claims.
Attorney Murphy Of jamestown, who
owns a large farm in Foster county,
thinks the public is becoming alarmed.
too quickly over the crop scare.
A soldier named Wagner, who served
In the Philippines with Company A of
the North Dakotas. fell under q train
at Spokane and lost a few toes.
A party Of ladies and children drove
into the lake near the eChautauoua
grounds at Devils Lake and got in too
far. They floateds in the wagon box
till it sank and were finally rescued.
Last fall a Shelly, Polk county
farmer placed a sack Of wheat. In the
middle of "a 4O0-bushel bin and left
another exposed to the air. There was
a difference Of one pound in the shrink
age, the exposed sack losing two and
half pounds weight.
Special Agent L%0unsberry of the land
department says: persons who have
commuted homestead entries NAV now
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