The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-03-09
Reform has struck Darlington.
Lideerwood has a case Of smallpox.
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Page challenges Hope to a
contest.
H. D. ALERT Of Langdon is taking IN
the coast.
Valley city has two more cases OF
diphtheria.
The village blacksmith is the q
Of Bottineau.
The recent fire losses at Mimic have
been adjusted.
GRANDMA" Morrow. an old resident
Of Erie, IL dead.
The implement dealers are after tns
state Irvine trust.
Real estate men report an unusual
demand for land.
Bottineau people suspect there are
wood thieves around. Il
Louis Goudrie was arrested at Wall
halla for passing bogus orders.
The Belgian hare craze seems to have
lost its popularity In this state.
The chances for new federal buildings
seem to have gone glimmering.
The new school building at Mandan
has been accepted by the board.
Fred Brewer, an old-timer Of Lewis
ton, has removed to New Mexico.
Mrs. Kermott Of sheyenne was in
jured by falling OF an icy sidewalk.
Grafton had a campfire. at which
veterans Of both wars were present.
The Great Northern branch to st.
John was blockaded by N last week.
The train on the st. John branch was
blockaded last week, the first time for
years.
Prof. Babcock, Of the state UNIVERSE
ty has issued his geological report Of
the state.
Preparations are being made for the
seasons work at the Pembina Portland
cement plant.
The Crockett blind pig case at End
erlin was settled by the defendant pay
ing the costs.
have returned from an eleven-months'
trip to Europe.
]. w. Boeing has sold his drug bust
ness at Mimic and started a seed store
at Grand Forks.
The stepson of w. E.. Irons Of Willis
ton died of lockjaw, which resulted
from vaccination.
Dickey county is to have two new
creameries, n at Whitestone and an
other at Merricourt.
Morton and Burleigh counties are
working together very harmoniously
in legislative matters.
Charled Hanks of Bowdon will serve
ninety days in jail for selling liquor
without a government license.
Representative spalding has recon.
mended the establishment of free de-
livery at Hillsboro, Trail county.
Taxpayers at Bathgate are kicking
on being compelled to pay from $40 to
$40 per quarter section as drainage
tax.
The jamestown Northern and the
Cooperstown branches Of the Northern
Pacific were blockaded by snow last
week.
North Dakota will be a corn state.
yet. Each year a larger acreage is
planted. and the crop is. growing in
popularity.
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With sufficient. Goa to supply the en-
tire Northwest for many centuries. we
have ceased to be alarmed over the
fuel question.
Maj. Lockwood inspected the govern
ment property at Grand Forks, which
consisted Of an old steamer and a few
scoop shovels.
John Chandler Of Kidder county
killed two rabbits with one shot. The
gun exploded and nearly killed him at
the same time.
It is said many aptelopes have been
seen e Williston, but hunters are
forbidden to kill them under the pen.
atty Of 500 fine.
Somebody offers an electric light me.
ter for sale at Casselton. There are
some in Bismarck who would like to
dispose Of meters. also.
Louis Goudrie Of :Walhalla was ar.
rested on the charge Of forging the
name Of J. D. Peters to an order. He
was held under $1,000 bail.
A man went down the river at
Grand Forks in a boat. This speaks
well for the warmth of the country-if
the boat was not on sleighs.
The Bemidji string fiend who has re-
counted SO many wonderful things of
late, has, just had a bear killed by q
party Of lady homesteaders. s.
Senator Hegge Of Nelson county
sends copies of all bills to the post
master at M~innewaukan. so that every.
body can see and read them.
It is said a Minot lady will organize
a Carrie Nation smashing society in
adjoining towns, and do more to blind
piggers and druggists than was ever
heard Of.
The storm during the past week
seems to have played havoc with the
Jim River valley lines, and the running
Of trains was practically impossible for
several days.
Among the names involved in a dou-
BILE wedding in Walsh county recently,
were Janskowski, Myszkowski, Grewe-
ski-and 1t wasn't q good day for
names. either.
A Ulen man. locked his woodshed
door, and his neighbor got so huffy
about 1t that he went out, chopped
down all the clothesline posts in the
yard aud burned them in his kitchen
stove.
The wakeman family in Bismarck
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