The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-03-16
Bowdon gets a lady physician.

Meadow larkS are reQorteo ~ Sdiles~
town. &
Bottineau's free delivery is being. ex-
tended.
Mandan is complaining Of false fire.
alarms.
willow city fremen will give a BALI
March II.
Park River is to have q telephone
exchange.
Perth is to have a physician and .
drug store.
Balfour is to have its third hard->
ware store.
Predictions for a bumper crop are
being made.
Logan county stockmen report a few"
cases of blackleg.s
Ed Lieby is getting his telephone Inv
order at Glendale.
Hay, water and beer are said to be
scarce at Fessenden.
Otto Grethen is a new United States
commissioner at Washburn.
Darlington doesn't owe a cent and
has money In the treasury.
Knox has it's first pool table. and the
BOYS miss their meals to play.
o. 7. Lowen has been appointed
postmaster at Sogn, Logan county. !
Sargent Brothers of Armenia have a
profitable ranch in Ransom county,
An unsuccessful attempt to burglars
ize a store was made at Bottineau.
Andrew Poe of Tower City a made
some investments at Towner and Vel
va.
Jamestown had a poverty social.
cess.
A twenty-four-year-old Valley City
boy eloped with a ffty-year-old wo-
man.
There is said to be a big malprac-
tice damage suit against a Wahpeton
physician.
A Drayton man paid $500 for 200
acres of land along the banks of the
Red river.
The Farm Mortgage, Loan and
Trust company has been organized at
Darlington.
Some idiot at Mandan is turnin in
false alarms, and the firemen are lay
ing for him.
LaMoure county will assist all farm
ers who are unable to furnish their
own seed grain.
A t mail route may be estab-
lished from Perth to Rock Lake, in
Towner county.
At Rugby the landlord of a hotel
was evicted, and there was a torrid
season for a while.
Retiring County Auditor Schallern
of Morton county will engage in the
real estate business.
Larimore boasts Of having n of the
finest flour mills in the state, n 1t
runs day and night.
Williamsport young men have a
boxing club, and black eyes are popu-
lar adornments now.
Morton county had a cutting scrape
last week, and h cuttee is wearing
all kinds Of bandages.
A coon skin coat and a few boxes of
| cigars, stolen at Fessenden We're dis '
covered in a straw stack.
Ward county commissioners villa
provide farmers with %strychnine for
destruction of gophers.
Tune 10. II and IL are the dates for
the third annual meeting Of the Walsh
county Industrial exposition.
Once more It is announced that the
smallpox cages on the Turtle Noun
tain reservation are all cured.
County auditors turned over their
offices to their successors March l,
those who were not reelected.
Marvin Stewart, an eighteen-year-old
McHenry county boy, accidentally dis
charged a shotgun into his foot.
The 640-acre farm in Grand Forks
county formerly owned by Senator
Roach was sold recently for $4,000.
An Iowa man with three pretty
daughters is moving to ,Edgeley, and
all the boys in town are sprucing up.
Some of the people who object to all
the deer killing in Mclean county are
killing the dogs the pot-hunters use.
Joe Nogosek Of Kensal has returned
from a trip to Wisconsin, and is pre-
pairing to grow more dairy products.
The Company G ball at Valley City.
and Company D ball at Devils Lake
were pleasant events In NATIONAL
Guard circles.
The men injured in the Northern Pa
cifc wreck near Oriska declined the 9
company's offer Of a settlement, and
will bring suits for damages. \
The new orders compelling mail car
riers on star routes to deliver individ-
ual mail at all places where boxes are
provided, helps the farmers.
Rhodes Of Mayville and Nelson OF
Ransom county, alleged pugitsts, were
arrested at Grand Forks for attempts
ing to slug some laundry employees
Cattlemen are having dificulty3m
finding ranges for their stock in Nc
Henry county. The influx Of settlers
has raised Cain with the big rancheA
The killing of Charles Brucker, ns1e
Merricourt, by his wife. may be In
vestigated, despite the fact that the
woman was e~xonerated by the cor-
oner.
Among the other things Kenmare
wants. after the sugar beet factory, y
a pottery plant, tile plant, grist mill. \
electric lights, creamery and things
like that.
Ed Prentice. a Great Northen brake
man, stopped a 5o0-nound crate WITH
his foot at Cavalier the other day. and