The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-03-30
Ellepdale is getting e the small


be postponed until another year..
Township elections seem to have
passed of quietly in most places.
The Wells county teachers held a
| lively meeting at Cathay last week.
All the carpenters in Williston are
busy, as considerable building is COINS
on.
Herbert Metzger, a Williston lad,
broke his shoulder by falling from a
barn loft.
Kermare now expects a four-story
brick bank block and a national bank
soon.
Now they say that Tommy Poole is
trying to make trouble for Bot Wall
lace. ,
There is a row on the st. James
branch about III way mail should be
carried.
Business men of Rolette county are
sending out circulars descriptive OF the
county.
J.. D. Lewis was renominated for
mayor in Grafton. There is no other
candidate.
1t is reported that Principal Hoover,
of the Park River schools, may return
to Casselton.
Now it is claimed that the fiber of
the Russian and the Canada thistle Is
very valuable.
Geese ard ducks are arriving In
Williams county. and the people there
think it's spring.
Williams county people want cream
cries, and more mich COWS to keep the
creameries going.
The gold excitement at Minot was Of
short duration, and NJ sales of mining
stock are recorded.
The Odd Fellows in walhalla have
purchased Tetrault hall, and will en-
large and improve it..
One great advantage about
les is that they furnish farmers M
ployment all the year.
The telephone exchange will not be
put in at Park River until the new
buildings are erected.
1t is remarkable how many office.
holders seek new locations as soon as
they fail of reelection.
Some Richland county people intend
to leave the land Of plenty for the des-
erts of Western Canada.
A new town is to be located about
twenty miles north of Lakota, on the
Lakota e Northern branch.
Jamestown people + still worrying
over the lack of water to keep the
shade trees alive this summer.
There is so much snow in the eastern
part Of Mclean county that the stock
is said to be in bad condition.
The Fargo Packing company evil
IDENTIFY appreciates the value of print
ers' ink, as they use it literally.
The ~beet-sugar people want James
town to subscribe $780, 00, but will not
ask any subscriptions at Kenmare.
A Mcintosh man named French, who
went insane owe religion, died five
days after being taken to the asylum.
bismarck will keep praying for the
500 extension, and has hopes of secur-
ing the Milwaukee extension from Ed
reka.
Ranchmen are congratulating them
selves on the advance in price on the
horses raised in the western part of the
state.
The W. c. T. u, it is said, will be
well represented at the meeting of the
Prohibition state organization, in Far
go, April 8.
A man at Cakes was so indignant
over his valentine that he turned i,
over to the postal authorities as OBJ
scene matter.
Some people want North Dakota to
celebrate the centennial Of the Lewis
and Clark exploration of the Missouri
river in 1904.
BoWbells a n citizen who is a
Prohibitionist-unless he bellies his
name. He signs Ed Drinkwater when
he writes a check.
I. J. Baird has been corresponding
with a prominent Iowan. with a view
to inducing a colony of Germans to
settle in Nelson county.
The father Of a Wells county child.
who secured a verdict of $50, 900 from
the 500. failed to make his annual re-
port, and was Jailed.
Many North Dakotans filled their.
cisterns with ice this winter, so they
would have water during the summer.
whether It rained or not.
A Pierce. county farmer named Ju-
mich, and his wife are trying to be d.
vorced, and are fighting for the possess
sion Of certain children.
Will Robertson of Valley City is fig
uring on running an automobile stage
tween Park River and Grafton.
With good roads. the trip can be made
in IN hour. When it rains-but maybe
it won't rain much.
Historian Taylor Of Washburn DIFF.
fers. with Historian Lounsberry on
some important points regarding the
Indians who assisted in the Lewis and
Clark expedition.
George 8. Montgomery, as receiver
for the Red River Mutual Hail Insur.
ance company, is securing judgments
against all the delinquent members.
and will continue until he u suf-
f1cient funds to pay the 1899 losses.
The law repeating the wolf bounty
will not not be effective until July 2.
which will give an opportunity for
some Of u e%nterprising w~olf-farmers
to rob the state with the increase this
year.. and there will be a general kill
ing about the last Of June.
Hay Is becoming dangerously scarce
in certain parts of Mclean county, and
reports Of suffering among the cattle
cOnfin1ia.