The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-04-06
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John Zoos has closed his hotel at
Fessenden.
A term Of court is in progress at
Washburn.
Judson, west Of New Salem, will get
a creamery.
There are fifteen cases Of mumps re-
ported at Dickey.
There promises to be another election
muddle at Bismarck.
A mar named Coffee was held up and
robbed west Of Fargo.
Billy Duvall is selling Queen Victoria
books in Barnes county.
There is a movement to seed flax
earlier than usual this year.
The Company d boys at Devils Lake
are hustling for that armory.
Fred Shore is buying horses in South
Dakota for Benson county farmers.
James E. Daley, who was sheriff Of
Eddy county four terms. died at Devils
Lake.
A Wells county man shot a hole
through his foot while monkeying with
q rifle.
Herbert Metzgar, a Williston Juvenile.
fell from a hay loft and broke his
shoulder.
There were forty-five births and
twenty-five deaths in LaMoure county
last year.
Billy Halliday, formerly of Buffalo,
has purchased the Einshuth drug store
at Darlington.
The watch taken from John Miller
near Finley, was found in a haystack
near the house.
When the new road reaches Wash
burn its importance as a river point
will be enhanced.
Two Hankinson men received pay
ment recently on a long-outlawed debt,
from an unknown.
Those people who have been dab
bling with amateur theatricals are now
arranging for picnics.
At Casselton the voters will deter
mine whether the electric light plant Is
to be sold or enlarged.
William Pitcherof walhalla went to
the we'll once too often. and one of his
legs was broken by a fall.
A Lidgerwood man is said to have
eloped with and married q fourteen
year-old South Dakota girl.
A LaMoure county debating society
decided that gold was more valuable
than iron--by the pocketful.
The Braddock woodmen have select
ed a site and completed arrangements
o.. xhn eroo<3o~ ~ a hfO ho1I
Justice King Of Harvey has the dis
tinction of having served seven years,
and has never been reversed.
Dickey county is caring for the de-
mented sister Of Tom Jacobson, and h
will not be sent to the asylum.
The Northern Pacific lands out west
are cheaper than the government lands
and title is more easily secured. 81
Crary people want Sheriff Rutten Of
Ramsey county to appoint q deputy
sheriff in that end of the county.
A horse st1ayed from sherbrooke and
returned to his former home In South
Dakota, a distance Of over ESQ miles.
At come society functions in Wells
county the guests take alcohol with
them, and considerable trouble results.
"A Grand Forks, Darlington & Bis
marck railroad would certainly be a
good thing for the territory along the
une.
DR.. Pease of Wahpeton. who accepted
a position as surgeon in the regular
army, is serving with the rank Of cap
tain.
Some of the people of Richland
ty are wrought up over the acquittal Of
the defendants in a recent murder
trial.
The Jamestown Boat club is reported
to have been sued for an alleged lum-
Der bill, due for the spiritwood pleasure
craft. ..
A little child of Michael Stoos of Har-
vey, jabbed the point. of a pair OF
shears into her eye, and may lose her
eight.
Last week Bowdon got two car loads
Of immigrants, Wilton, four, and Bar.
low four. This included families and
outfits.
y Judge Glaspell refused to release q
Cooperstown blind -pigger until he had
served the full term for which he was
sentenced.
"A class from the Agricultural college
1T Fargo will visit the Minnesota Ag-
sicultural college to see low things are
done there.
A man was arrested at Yankton for
stealing q lantern and a doubletree.
The articles were found at the home Of
his mother.
A Dickey county farmer lost three
turkeys, and found them in a snow
drift after q weeks search. They were
alive and hungry.
James river base ballists have been
trying to nix up q league among the
valley towns, but have not been very
successful thus far.
Henry F. Radke. who served in the
Philippines with Company "A Of Bis
African diamond mines.
Contractor Mayer has everything in
readiness to begin work on his water
works contract at Walhalla 10 o Q al
the frost Ii out Of the ground q few
inches. s&f
AT wimbledon the butcher went Il
- his si6l. and remained 20 long that
some of the residents Kicked because
shsy 1itn't ct their portsrheuss steaki
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