The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1901-07-11

interesting.
ST Perkins at the opera house,
Saturday evening, promises to
be one of the finest dramas
seen here for long time. Don't
miss it.
Mrs. Stuart of the Western
Union telegraph station, this
city, departed last evening for
Duluth for an outing. Her
daughter, Miss Roberta, is at
that city, having preceded her
mother by some weeks.
The Miss Maggie Chezick
of Wallpeton and MISS NJ. O.
Novious of Lidgerwood are
ON h cir way to the Pan
American via the Great Lakes.
The young ladies expect to be
gone about a month.
Tuesday night Buck Thomp-
son was locked up on suspicion
of having broken into a trunk
at the Chas. Divet hotel. and
another young man named
Granroth is under suspscion of
having been associated with
young Thompson, who, Tues
day morning, departed for
Lidgerwood. We of course
have no. idea how the matter
With respect to those suspects
will turn out.
There We're no suspicious of
theft against the little son of
ID. c. McGregor. The little
fellow was locked up Monday
on account of his not having
slept at home for veral
nights. In fact the boy w&s
fearful of being punished by
his father and remained away.
Judge Dow released the bo.
and another one or two, latter
in on suspicion of having par
ticipated in the late sneak
thievery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Doleshy
are entertaining two of their
daughters who are at home on
a summer vacations, Miss Rosa
and Miss Jennie. The former
has graduated from a CONNER
cial college in Minneapolis and
has a position at type writing
and book excepting in that city,
while the latter is in bank at
Ninnewaukon, this state. and
the two having spent a week at
home will stay two more
among friends, and return to
their respective positions.
Smoking is expensive some
times, besides being senseless
all the time. In Kansas. Tues
day, a man threw a lighted
cigar stub in a stubble field
and the fire which followed
burned over $1,000 acres of stub
bic land and at an estimated
loss Of 100000 bushels of wheat.
The grain was mostly in stack.
The people fought hard but
the fire spread With great ra-
pidity. But then men must
smoke even if it is destructive
and foolish from every possible
point OF view.
G.. W. Billings of Rockford,
Ill.,, is among the new purchas-
ers of land in this section aild
seems greatly pleased with this
upper country. Mr.. Billings
came up here last winter and.
living through the trip nicely,
ventured back in the spring
and finds conditions so fine and
the country SO prosperous, that
he fastens onto more than a
1000 acres of land, and declares
that his trip here has been a
great revelation to him. Of
course there is no question
about this being great farm
ing country. no que s tion
about that.
Sneak thieves seem to have
gotten in their work to some
extent Sunday night. Daniel
Patterson lost a watch. pair
of pants and a lantern. The
last two articles were found
at Rev. Bakers, the presump-
ton being that the thieves left
them there. They entered Rev.
Shaw's summer kitchen but
got nothing; unlocked two doors
at Henry Motifs residence and
got away with coat. vest and
hat: got into VIM. Goddard's
place and took $50 out of a
sewing machine drawer and a
jar of fried cakes out of the