Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-10-09
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Edmore is growing rapidly.
Donnybrook is to have a dramatic
club.
Geese are reported to be flying
south.
At jamestown thieves are stealing
clothes
Col. Hanlzinson's apple crop was
well advertised.
Threshers got gay at Hope, and
some were fined.
There are 1913 students at the Val
| ley City Normal.
Sheldon is to be presidential post
! office from this date.
Two hodups were attempted re-
Gently near Enderln.
The state school department has 100
travelling libraries out.
e. C.I2ice of M.::;3an is Offering 81
for livC pound G:;.:ues.
A. c. Conant i: a candidate for clerk
Of court in StutS;oan county.
bismarck p"o0ie captured thirty
premiums at the Mandan fair.
An effort is being made to have a
creamery erected at Enderlin.
Daniel A. Corkings, ageu sixty eight,
escaped from the state as. lm.
Hankinson people were we'll pleased
with the success OF the street fair.
Valley City has no empty houses
and no empty rooms in the blocks.
Farmers are well pleased with Che
returns from the Oberon creamery.
Even Williams of Harvey, who was
shot by hobo for $40, is improving.
Lena Thompson of PiuEroe secured
divorce on the ground OF desertion.
McHenry boasts of five elevators,
three track buyers and three blind
pigs.
The thresh:;,g machine of Wynes'
Sons, near Wimbledon, was destroyed
by fire.
A farmer in the Turtle mountains
reports yield of III bushels of oats
per acre.
In the period of plenty the prosper.
Gus farmers are not overlooking the
printer man.
Some hoboes endeavored to run the
town at Willow City, but were landed
in the coop.
Farmers around Davenport are pro-
testing against the grades given by
the elevators.
G. A. Searles' threshing machine
engine boiler, at Dickey blew up. No
one was injured.
If the North ern Pacific builds new
route to the Bad Lads Medora will be
once more on the map.
J. s. Smith, living south of Wheat
land, reports yield of twenty-eight
bushels Of wheat per acre.
Langdon claims the largest primary
grain market in the state, with Har-
vey second and Leeds third.
A blaze started in Chris Larsen's
wheat field, near Buffalo, and burned
forty acres OF shocked grain.
S. S. Aas, former member of tho
legislature, is an independent candi-
date for auditor in Nelson county.
Pupils at Cooperstown don't have.
to attend school nor church, on &C.
count of the diphtheria epidemic.
James Kennedy, a Northern Pacific
enploye at Mandan, died of injuries
received from being struck by a train.
Wheatland had a jail delivery. A.
man charged with breaking a. plate
glass window was the delivered one
Grand Forks is improving, and a
number OF new brick buildings add to
the metropolitan appearance of tho
place.
The football team of the Red River
Valley U, promises to be strong one
this year. A good coach has been Sc.
cured.
At Wimbledon a horse bit the lip of
a man In two, and several stitches
were required to draw the parts to,
gether.
There is some dissatisfaction in
Bott1neau county about the amount
on hail losses by Minnesota
Some wells in Ward county have to
be bored $50 feet deep, but when the
vein Is struck there is an abundance
of water.
A threshing hand at Buffalo was
stabbed in a drunken jambOree, but
refused to make complaint against
his assailant.
Two transents were given lodging
at Wheatland by Mrs. Emmons, and
the next morning she missed her
purse and s25.
w. J. Hawk of Buffalo raised 100
acres of rape this year to feed to Mon
tana sheep before shipping them to
the Chicago market
F. Sacheurider, living west of Ed
more, is reported to have lost his barn,
granary and seven head of horses and
a lot of wheat by fire.
1t isn't every negro hobo that can
get an engine to chase him. as hap.
pened at Casselton, when a Senegam-
bian shot Brakeman Bdewett in the
heel.
The people Of Jamestown are con.
vinced they were buncoed by an al
legged preacher, who claimed to be
making collections for the unfortunate
Beers.
At McHenry one man attempted to
brain another with beer bottle and
was run in. The bottle was empty
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