The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-08-10
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There were 1,100 entries at he rys-
tai fair.
wahpeton will have the free text
book system.
Minors Prosperity, celebration was a
bowling success.
A new township map OF Rolette coun-
ty 10 being prepared.
Ramsey county claims q better crop
than that of Of 1891. "
The work train on the new Wash
burn road Is operating.
Now 1t is limited that there may be 8
shortage Of binding Irvine.
Dickinson isto have q new brick
manufacturing company.
Fargo's burglaries resolved them
selves into continued stories. Z
Stutsman county farmers are pre-
dieting twenty-bushel flax crops.
The crop, in Dickey county is said to
be the best in twenty-five years.
The steel range peddler has made his
appearance in Pembina county.
Grocery peddlers are getting ! n their
work in many parts Of the state.
The Hamilton fair seems to have
been as successful as anticipated .
Sunday parties are the fad in Wells
county, and the preachers are sore.
Dickinson people are taking stock In
the brick company organized there.
stutsman county has a fight on over
the payment for some school charts
A seventeen-year-old Pembina coun-
~ girl has been sent to the asylum.
The Ramsey County Educational as
ISOLATION had an interesting meeting.
Experiments with bronze grass in
Burleigh county have proven success
eul.
Many improvements are being made
around the Bismarck high school build
ing.
The Beidler & Robinson Lumber
company will establish yards at Kind,
red. ..M .
The business Of the telegraph office
at Grand Forks is larger than for four
years.
A Mercer county land contest occu-
pied three days time at the Bismarck
office.
County health boards are planning
strict methods this fall against small
pox.
Ward county farmers were pleased
with the trip to the agricultural col
1ege.
There will be a number of new towns
in Mcintosh county, On the 500 extern
sion.
Anton Fisher Of Richardson died OF
injuries inflicted from q kick by q
horse.
Two burglars were arrested at Will
liston and bound over to the district
court.
De Lamere had a Carrie Nation raid.
Collins Pratt of Galesburg gets a IS
pension.
Land crooks are said to be getting in
their work all over the western part OF
the state.
Col. Creel is giving a few lessons in
state politics along with his militia in
spection.
Samples showing what North Dakota
can do in the way Of vegetables are In
order now. 5.@
The grasshopper crop around Kind
red seems to have been a half-bushel
to the acre. 4
It is said that the soil is very dry for
summer following. despite the exces-
sive rains. M
It is said the grain north Of Dickinson
Is the finest ever seen west of the Mis-
souri, slope. -
Flaxton is a new town on the 500.
-.IiaI. -oo1rae n Don1 ohnvv{n0 for
y%oungster. t
John Zoos of F%essenden was fined
800 for forgetting to take out a gov
eminent license.
Some nogoods are numbering prairie
chickens before they get their pin
feathers, almost.
At Erie twenty-five farmers are re-
ported to have formed an organization
to erect an elevator. 55sNa
Efforts to interest Foster county
farmers in creameries have net been
entirely successful.
Experiments in irrigation In Will
fans county are reported to have been
decidedly successful.
jamestown business men have or
ganized a gold mining club, with a cap
italization Of 81, 500, 900.
The Ramsey county boys who stole
horses pleaded guilty, and are doing
time in the penitentiary.
The public library at Grand Forks
had only 1,1S6 borrowers last year. and
but three books were lost.
Charles DeFoe, a member Of Compn-
ny K, Of Dickinson, in the Philippines.
has applied for a pension.
Ranchmen in the western part Of the
state report lots of trouble in securing
sufficient help for haying.
Wool shipments from Dickinson this
year will aggregate 1,250,000 pounds.
The bulk Of 1t sold at IL cents.
John Alderman of New Rockford is
nursing a broken ankle, which was
crushed by a falling barrel of cider.
Portland's streets are now lighted
by gasoline lamps, and the oil trust
will o declare another dividend.
Henry !Tatley Of Bismarck Is buying
mp hne horses on the slope and selling
them to. Red River valley farmers.
! It IL said Litckville, on the Casselton
Dickey Northern Pacific extension. will
be q boom wheat market this fall:
Businees on the Jamestown Northern
has Increased to such IN extent that q
daily train will probably be run to
Leeds.
There a q small log drive on the
Missouri, when logs from rear Bis-ss
marck were taken down to- Emmonss
county. Il
The Bottineau county commissioners