The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-06-21
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A building boom is on at Leeds.
Minot is to have a new drug store.
Lidgerwocd has two base ball teams.
The bank OF Marion will open about
July 1.
Steele county has redeemed its old
bonds.
wheatland has some expert tennis
players.
Bottineau people will celebrate the
Fourth.
Kathryn is the latest applicant for a
creamery.
The new telephones It sanborn are
proving popular.
The demand for city property in Bis
lnarck continues.
Pembina county people a some
more drains put in.
One company is putting in $4,000
acres of flax near Rugby.
The Darlington ball team is putting
up a fast game this year.
Emmons has the largest corn creag
this year ever plarted there.
Base ball playing on the streets has
been stopped in Grand Forks.
The capacity of the electric light
plant in Minot is to he tripled.
Wilton has raised $500 to- blow in on
the Fourth Of July celebration.
Kensal had one case Of smallpox and
some one magnified it into fifteen.
Lakota will have a base ball team,
even II she IS not in the big league.
There are still some smallpox and
d%iphtheria cases in Stutsman county.
The water works system of Minot is
again in operation, after some repairs.
The QUESTION of %instructing delegates
seems to be an,issue in n or w coun-
ties.
Grand Forks and Crookston seem to
be working up some base ball antago-
ntsm.
the state firemen in the 1903 tourna-
ment.
The continuous procession of land
seekers shows the wide advertising the
ate has received.
The popularity of the horseless EAR
rfages doesn't seem to have stopped
,he raising of nice horses.
Judge Glaspell continued the jury
term Of court at New Rockford until the
farmers would be less busy.
South Dakota immigrants are invad-
ing North Dakota by the schooner
route, boycotting the railroads.
A new settler drove off a bluff in
Ward county, and his load of lumber,
team and wagon fell sixty feet.
Cando will celebrate July 4th and 5th,
and wants to get Devils Lake and Win
nipeg to play on the latter date.
Hoople has a state bank, with Ohm
Dinnie of Grand Forks, president, and
Fl. W. Bum of Hoople, cashier.
Pastor Rich, Of the Congregational
church at Sanborn. has resigned, to ac-
ccpt'a call from Northport, Mich.
The people Of all sections Of the state
except near the Red river, are feeling
highly elated over the crop prospects.
A poorhouse in&cne of the North Ia
kota counties has been compelled to
close up on account of lack of business.
A farmer west of Conway differed
with his wife regarding a little matter
of etiquette, and left home, permanent
ly.
The Osnabrock contingent Of Compa-
ny e of Langdon is doing a lot of drill
ing, preparatory to the state encamp-
ment.
The farmers Of the Missouri Slope
country are approaching h value OF
the excursions to the agricultural COLI
lege.
The wash-out of a bridge at the low
er end Of Jim Lake, near Jamestown,
caused the farmers to drive many extra
miles.
Jim Collins, who murdered a MAJ In
Mimic a decade ago, was recently sent
to prison in Montana on a similar
charge.
Clerk of the Supreme Court Hoskins
of Bismarck presented each Of he girl
graduates at the Capital City with CUT
flowers.
Charles Watkins, formerly of Lidger-
wood and more recently of, Courtenay,
has purchased the DR.. Johns drug store
at Cathay. gE
I The wind blew SO in the sandhills of
Ransom county recently that. the people
an the wrong side thought a volcano
had broken out. sss 9
The cutSof Col. Hankinson In a Rich
land county cornffeld was recently pub
lished and labeled "A Billings County
Corn Field Scene"
"a Sheldon man has gone back east on
% visit to his old home, and intends TO
again swim In the old swimming hole
of long-ag0 memory.
The Winchester hotel, at Pembina,
was closed rather abruptly, and efforts
are being male to organize a stock
company to- REOPEN it.
Grand Forkers are co~ngratulating the
Fourth Of July committee for securing
the Ringing circus on July 3-as 81
boost for the big show.
Among the things to be considerably by
the United States grand jury, to meet
at Fargo.sis the disappearance Of 5000
from a mailssack at Harvey.
1t 10 reported that certain interests
would secure the kindred postofice Tor
Edward Weatherhead, to keep him from
beings candidate for clerk Of the scOurt;s1
Windy Smith 81 Buffalo urges 5sonaes
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