The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-01-12
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at Grafton last week.. A
Granville is growing about as rapids
" as any town in h state.
Granville has arrived at the surprise
party period Of its development.
Bernard Decker Of stutsman county
went to Germany on a visit aad died.
Miss Maggie Lewis has been appoint-'
ed librarian for the Grafton public lis
brary.
The Larimore papers report the re-
cent farmers institute there as a huge
success.
John Paul, a we'll known farmer
south of Buffalo, suffered a stroke OF
apoplexy.
County Commissioner Brown of
Wheatland will probably remove to
Casselton. ~.
w. F. Cookies lumber office and yard
at Balfour burned. Loss, $500; n
surance, $4,000.
Bob Wallace is preparing to quit be-
ing deputy bank examiner-to again be
the head push.
Efforts will b. made to effectually
stamp out the smallpox in the Turtle
Mountain country.
At Grand Forks a man sought to es.
cape payment of a seed lien because he
signed the note on Sunday.
Sam Brand of Taylor disposed Of a
lot Of seven-months-old pigs at the
Dickinson market at $14 each.
The farmers around Edgeley enjoyed
the institute held there by officials
from the agricultural college.
Tommy Hines Of Grand Forks got.
eighteen months in the per for att
tempting to ~burglarize a store.
The proprietor Of a blind pig at
Litchville said his place was a legiti-
mate one, as water was scarce.
A Gardner farmer is said to have
whipped an elevator agent so-the.
agent had to go to the hospital.
The general opinion seems to be that
the efforts to secure a pardon for joe
Remington will not be successful.
Prof. Dohbyn has resigned his posi@
ton as principal of the Crystal schools.
to accept a similar place at Harvey.
The high price of flax last fall seems:
to have pretty well cleared out the
stock, n little is now being marketed.
Ex-County Supt. Taylor Of Grand
Forks is to be deputy states attorney,
which pleases the many friends Of E. j.
The Great Northern will close all of
it's stations this winter that do not,
show a business of 5000 0 for the year.
The case of the Wahpeton policeman
who shot a Breckenridge saloonkeeper.
has gone over to the next term OF
court.
The aldermen of Darlington. newly
Incorporated, are holding sessions twice
a week to get a list Of ordinances
passed.
Charles Freden, a young Swede, was
cared for by Trail county officials. He
is said to have become insane over a
oma
The physicians think a Dickinson boy
who o up one morning blind-will
recover his eyesight. The optic nerve
was paralyzed.
Five blooded Herefords, ranging in
sold by the Cannon Cattle company OF
Dickey county for $3.50.
The railroads will ship in seed wheat
for the farmers at reduced rates, but
may draw the line on feed, as the mid
dlemen get all the profit in such cases.
The state was without an attorney.
general for n whole day between the
resignation of Judge Cowan and the,
appointment of Attorney General Conc
stock.
Frank Meade of Dickinson shipped a
car Of horses in the name of Jack
Joyce, who worked for him. Joyce sold
the animals and skipped with the re.
ceipts. +.
The smaller towns are attempting to
break the monotony Of the long winter
by putting on amateur plays and Civ
ing benefits for next summers base
ball teams.
Supt. Lyon of Stutsman county was.
among the educators who refused to-
support a raid on the school fund, sug-
gested by State Supt. Halland in his
biennial report.
S. E. Flaa of Abercrombie cut a hole
in the ice and left the place %unprotect-
ed. John Smiths COW fell into the hole
and was drowned. Smith sues for the.
value of the COW.
Mrs. Frank G.. Holmes of Great Falls.
Mont. is e%ndeavoring to learn some
thing of her husband, who was last
heard of working on a threshing crew.
west of Devils Lake.
Litchyille-on the new Casselton-
Dickey Northern Pacific extension, H.
reported by some Of h papers to ber
in Barnes county II by others to be
in LaMoure county. Where is Litch-
vile at?
Erie people are getting madder-and
madder-because the Great Northern
closed the depot and telegraph Office.
The citizens are compelled to drive to-
Arthur. Page and G%alesburg to send
kilograms. @
A tramp was arrested at Valley City
and, became i'll. For q time he wan
thought to have smallpox, and Old
Man Bassett had his trunk packed to.
visit relatives in the East, when the
case developer into c~hickenpox. (
Census figures show that $500, 900.
men failed to vote at the last election.
In North Dakota Al per cent Of tho
male population over twenty-one years
old failed to vote. Indiana was the.
banner state. but 2 per cent Of the men
failing to vote.
Adam Shoe, a young Grand Forks
boy, lost his leg in an accident at the
Oil works in that city. The accident In
particularly sad, as the father OF the
little fellow is suffering from detective