The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-08-24
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Davenport wants IL telephone system.
Minot u to have ! poundmaster.
Barnes county has s.7sos school chill.
dren. Il
Fargo = agitating : hail project
again & Il
Bismarck people want the streets
lighted.
y map . being made q Billingsi
wahpeton is to have = street fair in
September.
Rolla and Cando ere sore over al
legged base ball deals.
The Walsh county term Of court win
be held Sept. "a.
Damage to grain by rust is reported
in some sections.
Cando business men are organizing a
commercial club.
Omemee people want a bridge across
the river west Of town.
Darlington machinery dealers report
q most successful season.
Cakes is assuming metropolitan airs,
with its cement sidewalks.
One dealer at Bisbee sold thfrty-eight
harvesters in q bunch.
Drayton's telephone exchange now
numbers sixty subscribers.
Weeds on the vacant lets at Sheldon.
are said to be eight feet high.
"A charter has been issued for the
Baldwin State Bank at Lucca.
Out at Enderlin the Epworth people
are holding hay-rack parties.
Frank Lathrop. one OF the founders
of Bowden. died suddenly Of heart trou-
BILE.
Maj. Fawcett has moved from Glass.
ton to Bottineau, and openedsa drug
store.
Ward county farmers figure on thir-
ty-bushel wheat and twenty-five-bush-
ell flax.
Complaints are made at Enderlin that
the grain in that vicinity is badly
shrunken.
Rev: Meyers, a Dunkard minister at
Cando, has been examined for m in-
crease Of pension.
C. II. Moore OF st. John was arrested
on a charge Of drawing q revolver on
Postmaster Smith.
The first frost occurred early in the
month at Pembina, where M garden
truck was slightly nipped.
The school census Of Trail county
shows a decrease of twelve from last
year. Hurley is not to be blamed.
Wimbledon has selected Prof. Warn
er, a. brother of the popular physician,
for principal of the schools next term.
Ward, Towner. Bottineau, Pierce and
McHenry counties, III said to have the
dnest crops that ever grew in the state.
A movement is or foot to establish a
convent, or sisters school, in connec-
ton with the Warsaw Catholic church.
The Washburn Coal company has re-
ceived the contract for furnishing coal
for the state penitentiary at 1874 per.
ton.
J. Dexter Pierce is getting up an ex-
hibit Of tame grasses from Grand
Forks county for the state agricultural
college.
Mrs. "A. c. Buck Of New Rockford
sprang from a buggy to which q run-
away team was attached. and broke q
shoulder. MIS-.
Fargo and cass county will. Jointly.
build pest house. It will be modern
in every respect, with sewer ard water.
connections.
c. v. Brown OF Wells county. who Is
an agent for a hail insurance company.
lost 500 acres OF wheat by hail. and did
not have q cent OF insurance.
The farmers who failed to use the
formaldehyde treatment for smut are
looking for. an able bodied man to kick
them over quarter section.
The wahpetons board of trade has de-
cided to hold q street fair during the
IL st days Of September, II the necessa-
~ arrangements cansbe made. s.
The state equalization board raised
Grand Forks county's real estate as
sessrnents a few----40 per cent. The rail-
roads are assessed at $17,951.927.
Ellsworth Davis has resigned his poei-
ton in the Minot land office, and will.
60 to Menila toaengage In the 'mercan-
tile business with y. =. WIZARD. 4
Pastor Achison. formerly Of East
Grand Forks. and4now Of Park River,
and wife, celebrated their flftiethswe
ding anniversary the other day.
Because States Attorney shippy Of
Steele county attempted to enforce the
prohibition law, q crowd OF ho0dlums
docnrafad Ma mice with eggs.