The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-04-13
Park River wants waterworks.

cling libraries.
Towner county farmers are urged to
raise more corn.
Smallpox is reported at Granville.
McEenry county.
Harvey people are preparing to re-
build the burned district.
A tract Of 5000 acres Of land has
been sold in Logan county.
Logan county hunters have been
killing wild geese in large numbers.
Clean up your back yards is the sage
advice given these days by many an
editor.
The death of Black Hawk removes
the last Of the murderers of n Spicel
family.
There are few towns so small they
don't have a Buffalo society and-the
smallpox.
Attorney Ledrue Guthrie Of Grand
Forks is at the Springs. for relief from
rheumatism.
Wimbledon boys seem to have ac-
quired the habit Of going to Pennsyl-
vania for wives.
Some Of the alleged wolf hunters OF
the slope country are suspected OF be-
ing horse thieves.
Misses Louisa Erickson and Patrina
Dorseth Of Fargo are residing on
claims lei Balfour.
The forehanded gardeners will soon
be setting out cabbage plants for the
early worm to catch.
The Homestead thinks there are
Al-n4c ~,,ho- - <7a~$fof would hova a
bonanza at Napoleon.
There is already talk Of rebuilding at
Mimic. 1t takes more than a fire or
two to keep those people down.
Many cattle in the hills Of Ward
county are said to be in better condi'
ton than when turned in last fall.
The last Of the Barnes county De-
mocracy Is reported to have been re-
moved to the dump pile last week.
A new p%ostofice, to be known as
Lewis, has been established northeast
of Kenmare. A store has been started
there.
Nate Upham of Walsh county, has
just bought a 2,000-pound Aberdeen
Angus bull. which he had shipped in q
special car.
John Young of Berlin offers a reward
Of $50 for the arrest of any n start
ing a prairie fire that burns over any
of his land.
In addition to the fiber secured from
the flax straw, at Sheldon. about a
bushel and a half Of iax seed is saved
from each ton.
James Kline of Pleasant Lake was
arrested on the charge of cutting Ben
Hawkinsbury with a knife. An old
feud is alleged.
People who have been East for the
winter are telling their home papers
how glad they are to get back to the
land of sunshine.
The annual suggestions about the
importance of planting trees is going
the rounds of the press, and it's rat
thing good advice.
The Cavalier town marshal orders
the "hoodlums"-boys and girls-to be
good. Must have been a misprint re-
garding the-girls.
Preparations are under way for h
summer school season Of 1901. The in
dications are that the attendance will
be larger thar ever
"A Ed1IIllOuIlI 4d0y o0tS ShSS0 = "
handkerchief. lost several weeks ago.
That's the kind of faith to have in the
value Of advertising.
Congressman Marshall 10 an old
schoolmate of Indian Commissioner
Jones, and the Mandan school should
be an easy proposition.
Joel Peterson and his father, IN old
man Of eighty-four, are fighting in the
courts over the possession of a valu-
able farm near Ayr. cass county.
The wife Of Hon. N. p. Rasmussen
of Barnes county had the misfortune
to fall into a cellar. She was badly
shaken up, but no bones were broken.
Gus Torkelson of waicott was as
sisting in operating a well-boring ma
chine, when his arm was caught In a
cog and the flesh torn of to the bone.
Mrs. John Dave who. while insane.
Jumped into a well on her sons farm,
near Stephen, and was drowned. has
been a resident Of Grafton for the past
two years.
Mrs. Campbell Of Darlington seems
inclined to exhaust all her
before she will relinquish the office of
school superintendent to her opponent.
Mrs. Eakin.
M, e. Robinson will have charge of
the presentation of "Queen Esther at
the C%hautauqua this season. The cho-
rus will be the largest ever organized
in the state.
Ward county people have no kick
canning on lack Of advertising. The
per Of that section Of the state are
whooping things up-and the 'dailies
are helping-some.
A consulship in Germany is said to
be one of the plums Editor Tuttle is
after, and his trip to Washington. en-
route to Europe. was for the purpose
of securing the place.
Because a Morton county young lady
walked in the middle Of the street.
some papers allege she v saw
sidewalks. Possibly she didn't have q
s%tep-ladder to climb. up on that high
sidewalk at Mandan.
President Robertson. of. the Method
list university at Wahpeton. is PLAN
ming to take the members Of the N. r.
conference from Fargo to his town to
inspect the university. He will make
an effort to secure q special train.
when a petition for a school 10
signed by the parents of fifteen Chill.