The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-03-30
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Grafton has a bowling alley.
Every one predicts a bumper crop for
this year.
wendt's blacksmith shop, at walhal-
After the city election In Bismarck,
the deluge.
ruth and Jacob" parties are popu-
far at Cando.
The penitentiary forces will o be-
gin spring work.
Dickinson will have q term Of dis
trict court April 2.
Lars Larson was found dead on his
farm near Bowbells.
Grand Forks has an idiot who turns
in false fire alarms.
The divine healer at Minot Is report
ed to have vamoosed.
About $50 settlers are expected to ar
rive at Wilton this week.
They want a young doctor at Ed
munds. Stutsman county.
Minot wants light-even II it has to
grant q long-term franchise.
Evangelist Reed is holding forth to
full houses in Grand Forks.
Many a loads Of emigrants' NOV
ables are arrivin in the state.
Preparations are under way for the
holding Of the Morton county fair.
stutsman county may issue bonds,
under the new seed grain law.
Travelling men are hustlin gfor North
Dakota trade, after a winters rest.
jamestown has had another little
Irritation with the beet-sugar outfit.
Wilton is expanding more rapidly
than even its promoters anticipated.
All the new buildings planned for
Park River are to be brick structures.
Miss M. w. La Tourette ives the first
lady appointed notary by Gov. White.
The Medina State Bank is furnishing
seed wheat to farmers in that vicinity.
Gustave Mattel of Donnybrook was
bound over on the charge of selling
booze.
The state auditor has called in the
registered wolf bounty warrants up to
No. $500.
James Daely, for -four terms sheriff
of Eddy county, died recently at Dew
lis Lake.
An electric light and telephone sys-
tenn are promised at Minot in the near
future.
Casselton has a row on over the cleo
trio light plant and an offer that was
made for it.
There are two tickets in the field at
Darlington, and the city election prom
Uses to be a warm me-.
The board of health at Lisbon has
issued an order that all school chill
dren must be yaccinated.
David Lloyd of Cathay paid $3.50 for
some Michigan Mining property, and
recently sold it for $500. s
". C. Humphrey, for twelve years an
attendant at the asylum at jamestown.
has been adjudged insan.
Seven families from the East will To-
cate at Windsor, April 1, through the
efforts Of Postmaster kellogg.
Insurance Commissioners Lentz is an
enthusiastic worker in the interests of
creameries in Morton county.
The decision over the boundary line
of Hercer county is expected at the
next term of the supreme court.
The beer intended for Bowdon was
wrecked, and the sports looked like q
temperance meeting a day or two ago.
Devils Lake seems to be the Mecca
for real estate men. r. Brownlee OF
Grand Forks is to open an office there.
c. H. Merry and A. Hilliard Of Dick
inson have sold 1900 yearling wethers
to Defenbach & Higgins at $3.50 per
head.
Dickinson is soon to have a minstrel
show. Mr.. George Hughes is drilling
the chorus, and George is n of the
end men.
Som people call 1t a detention hos
pital." Others speak palmer, n say
"pest house." where smallpox patients
are sent.
Deputy United States District Attor-
ney Allen is up again after his recent
illness, and will take q trip East for a
few weeks.
Sheriff Carroll Of Ward county re-
Gently pulled Mattei's place at Donny-
brook. 1t was complained against as a
liquor resort.
jamestown is being made a distrib-
uting point for California fruit. The
freight on a car from Los Angeles is a
little owe 800
Secretary of State Porter is one of
the most enthusiastic base ball cranks
in the state, and always played with
the nine at Melville.
The farm Of c. A. Malette, consisting
Of a section M mile west of Casselton.
was sold to Phil Austin for $4,000. or
nearly $40 per acre.
If those Amish farmers from Illinois
settle In the state, it is hoped there will
not be any more murders like the Mo-
sher affair at Pekin, Ill.
Postmaster Robertson Of Grafton
seems to hold office through all the ad-
ministrations. He has been a stamp
FOUNDER under three administrations.
Ranchmen in the western part Of the
state are shipping horses to Iowa,
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Montana,
and saving the best for North Dakota.
Jack Joyce. who stole a carload of
horses at Dickinson. is under arrest in
Nebraska. and requisition papers have
been secured for his return to North
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