The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-11-10
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James kennedy gets two more
contracts in Fargo.
One hundred persons were naturai-'
ICED at Napoleon the other day.
Grafton Foresters have increased IN
numbers very rapidly this summer.
d.angdon is the only town in avalie
county in which the voters had TO reg
lister.
The flax crop Of Harry Watson OF
Cavalier county brought him $32.lo per
acre. e..
Three Grafton boys ran away to see
the world, saw 1t, and are glad 10 oe
back home.
Diphtheria has developed in the asy-
lum at jamestown. The typhoid cpl
demic is nearly over.
Lewis Pope, who attempted to peat d
hotel bill at Casselton, was sentenced
to twenty days in Jail.
There is said to be a valuable spring
Of water on the claim Of Miss KATE
Kern, in McHenry county.
The water in the upper reaches OF
Red Lake river is at least three OCT
ayes above the normal,
Special p~ostofice service has been
discontinued from Brush Lake, NC
Henry county, to Balfour.
Postmaster Bake Of Nash is look
ing for a bull dog since his postofhce
was tapped the other night. M
The Wyndmere schools were delayed
three weeks because of the non-arrival
Of the furniture of the school house.
Two young men in LaMoure got
fresh and "sassed' the town marshal,
narrowly missing arrest for contempt.
A number Of North Dakotans are
planning to take the last boat out OF
Nome and return home for the winter.
r. Sykes of Sykeston, presented the
pupils Of the Bowdon school with
enough candy to make all the kids
happy.
The ~old-fashioned self-rake reaper is
being used to harvest flax that Is too
wet to permit the use Of the heavy
binder.
There is demand for the services OF
! every man who can handle a pitch
fork. and the farmers are paying good
wages. ,
Geo. Boehm Of Morton county acci-
! dentally shot himself in the arm
while placinog a loaded shot gun In the
wagon.
A young lady from Casselton visited
! in Fargo and left her purse on the
train en- route. She was unable to re-
cover it.
The potato crop was about the most
disappointing this year. Some farm
ers carried their entire crop home in a
common pail. +
The tower for the waterworks at
Hilisboro will be ninety feet high. and
the wooden tank on top will hold $1,000
gallons Of water. r&
Bismarck finds some advantage in
being located so far west-good Ignite
coal is cheaper than in the eastern
part Of the state. Z
Mr.. Fisk, who owns the island in
Black Duck laRe, will convert it into a
pleasure resort. The island contains
twenty-four acres.
III. r. Waugh has left Walhalla afte,
spending twenty-eight years there. He
intends to find q home in some of the
newer. sections of the country,
The yields Of wheat in Southern Nc
Lean and Northern Burleigh counties
viii average fully twelve bushels pei
| acre. which, for this year, is a Won
derful showing.
The deer and moose hunters will
ind their game plentiful out east this
season. The heavy rains have flooded
the big marshes and driven the deel
| from their Businesses.
At Devils Lake a man was given {
fury trial on, the charge of violating the
city ordinance regarding liquor NUS
once. The first jury disagreed and {
second soaked the man.
The decision of the federal land de-
partment in the Phil Short case, that
q soldiers service is to count on his
term of, residence on q claim, seems te
meet with general favor.
The people Of Cakes have q wheel
| barrow election bet on the wholesale
"a number Of pairs have been made
| the loser to roll the other over town II
Z wheelbarrow. No one is barred.
Two women. while driving in Fargo
ran into a buggy occupied by Theo
Hanson, an aged Minnesota farmer
and the old gentleman is so badly in
iured that he is not expected to re-
cover.
Quite a. number Of threshing ma
chine men have discharged their crews
and pulled up their rigs. owing to thu
scarcity of help and the unsatisfactor.
results obtained by trying to run will
short crews.
Cass county farmers who are in thu
drainage district. find that their. taxe'
win be materially increased, the In
crease running from $3.15 to 1884 PEI
Quarter section each year. The tota
cost Is ove $4,000.
The new steel-bottom cars on thu
Northern Pacific will not be popular
with the hoboes. There are no rodl
along the sides upon which the hobot
can catch and swing under the NOV
Sing trains for free rides.
A dne-looking woman about twenty
two years old was found in Sargen'
IScolnty, insane. She was an entire
stranger to every one,sand was sent +
thelasylum forSYtreatment. Efforts ar
being made 10 discover her identity.
The The Great Northern road is having
trouble to obtain steel rails for thu
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