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A building boom is on at Leeds.
Minot is to have a new drug store.
Lidgerwood has two base ball teams.
The bank Of. Marion win 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 q
creamery.
Rhe new telephones at sanborn. aFa.
proving popular.
The demand for city property in Bis
lnarck continues.
Pembina county people want some
more drains put in.
One company il putting in $4,000
acres of fax near Rugby.
The. Darlington ball. team is putting
up a. fast game this year.
Emmons has the largest corn acreage
this year ever planted there.
Base balt playing on the streets has
been stopped in Grand Forks.
The capacity Of the electric light
plant in Minot II. to be tripled.
Wilton has raised $500 to blow. In on
the Fourth Of. July celebration.
Kensal had one case Of smallpox and
some one magnided 1t into fifteen.
Lakota will have a base ball team.
even If she IS not in the big league.
There are still some smallpox and
diphtheria cases in Stutsman county.
The water works. system Of Minot is-
again In operation, after some repairs.
The qustion of fnstructing delegates
seems to be an issue in one or two coun-
ties.
Grand Forks and Crookston seem. to-
be working up some base ball antago-
nisn.
= Wahreton will do the proper thing by
the state Arenen in the 1903 tourna"
ment.
The continuous procession of land
seekers shows the wide advertising th@:>
state has received:
The popularity Of the horseless car
riages doesn't seem to have stopped
the raising Of nice horses.
Judge Glasper 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 VIM
nipeg to play on the latter date.
Hoople has a.. state bank, with John,
Dinnie Of Grand Forks, president, ana
H. w. Bum Of Hoople, cashier.
Pastor Rich, of the Congregational
church at Sanborn has resigned. to ac-'
ccpt cali from Northport, Mich.
The people Of all sections Of the state
except near the Red river, are feeling
highly elated over the Drop prospects.
A poorhouse in cne of the North Da.
kota counties has been compelled to
close up on account of lack Of business.
A farmer west of Conway Differed
with his wife regarding 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 the 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 man 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 the girl
graduates at the Capital City with cut
flowers.
Charles Watkins, formerly Of Lidger-
wood and more recently o1scourtenay;
has purchased the DR.. Johns drug store
at Cathay.
The wind blew so-in the sandhills OF
Ransom county recently that the people
on the wrong side thought volcano
had broken out.
The cut Of Col. Hankinson ina Rich.
land county cornfleld was recently pub
lished and labeled "A Billings County
Corn Field Scene"
A Sheldon man has gone back east On
q visit to his old home. and intends to
again swim in the old swimming hole
of long-ago memory.
The Winchester hotel, at Pennbina,
was closed rather abruptly, and efforts
are being ma 10 to- organize a stock
company to reopen 1t.
Grand Forkers are congratulating the