The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-05-04
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Griggs county offers q $2-wolf boun-
ty.
Decoration Day orators are being Sc
lected.
jamestown wants to collect poll and
dog tax.
The dog-poisoner is ut work at Coo
perstown. i, b
Logan county is to have a $1,000
court house.
A bridge is wanted e the river at
Donnybrook.
A jamestown man is shipping garden
seeds to Manila.
The De Lamere creamery is in sue.
cessful operation.
The ~gun-1ghters at Buford. have
patched up q truce.
Dickey county will pay a bounty Of 5.
cents on gopher tails.
The Northern Pacific depot at Dray-.
ton has been enlarged.
Aid. Cummings is the new president:
of Fargo's city council.
There is no Presbyterian pastor at
either Peche or Pembina.
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patients cured except one.
The fish in Lake Traverse are nil
grating and fishermen are busy.
The w. j. Howe ranch, near Sheldon,
has been sold to Will Mcintyre.
The farmers are being roasted for
sending dirty eggs to the stores . .
Mayville people will have the library,
even il they don't have a sewer.
The Forman Telephone company will
build a branch to Havana in July.
Emmons county stockmen are agi-
tated over the great loss Of calvess.
At IN auction sale at Brinsmade
farm, teams brought from $3.50 to 5000.
At Walhalla the boys catch fish by
hand as the inny fellows go over the
dam. "1
Melville has banished smallpox and
diphtheria, and is ready for the next
malady.
Work will be begun on the new Cath
Ollie church building at Lidgerwood on
July Is.
Northern Dakota dessicated potatoes
will be used by the North Pole explor-
ing party.
The creamery at Ransom, Richland
county, will be consolidated with that
at Cayuga.
Ransom county is arranging an ex.
hibit to be placed with that Of the state
at Buffalo. Fl
Tom Grifling denies that he has re-
signed his position as bookkeeper at
the asylum.
The department Of public instruction
will be kept busy when the summer
schools begin.
DR.. Critchfield Of Hunter has pur-
ch..ed~ps, Fisk's interests in the Cas-
selton hospital.
Thieves stole a team and wagon from
a Canadian Mennonite, and were ar
rested at Milton. +@
Gilbert Torgerson Of Davenport Will
remove to his claim, near Granville,
McHenry county.
States Attorney Blackwell is in the
East on a visit, hobnobbing with the
political dignitaries.
Senator Hansbrough may visit the
Philippines this summer, In
with other senators.
Senator's Hansbrough and McCumber
have donated 200 volumes to a public
library at Enderlin.
c. F. Merry, who achieved quite q
notoriety in this state, is said to be
Operating in Idaho.
Eighteen new townships in the Minot
land office have been surveyed ana
thrown open to settlement.
In Emmons county corn is such q
successful crop that hog-raising Is be-
coming a popular industry.
A boy struck a match at Perth, and
George Powelson will build a new barn
and buy a new team of mules.
Kidder county people do not believe
in the seed grain law, as only eighty
five people signed the petition.
Agent Jennings of Medina is said to
have disposed Of a hundred head Of
cattle recently at a fancy price.
In the southern part Of the state
prairie chickens are said to be more
numerous than usual this spring.
Rev. Reech, recently from Austria,
has been placed in charge of a Walsh
county parish by Bishop Stanley.
The club house at Spiritwood lake
was entered by thieves, and about ev-
erything movable was carried of.
Along the Jim river, 1t is said, there
are many fish, who were caught in the
small lakes when the river went down..
John Parks Of Mcaenry county. aged
seventy, is selling of his stock, that he
may go out to Washington and grow
up with the country.
It is reported thai the state UNIVERSE
ty foot ball team a already begun
practicing, to be prepared to beat the
A. c.. team next fall.
In Nebraska jack rabbits are killed
and shipped East at $3.50 per dozen.
In Eastern restaurants they masQuer-
ade as Belgian hares.
State supt. Devine has issued an Ar
Dor Day manual, containing some care.
| fully-selected matter for use in the
public schools on May /.
A false report that Cathay had been
visited by fire brought many visitors:
to view the ruins. They saw only a.
pretty little town instead.
The walhalla village election takes.
place on the first Monday in May, and
it is said there will be numerous,
| changes in the personnel of the board,