The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-11-07
North Dakota
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Langdon has organized a debating
society.
Grand Forks has a new messenger
service.
A prairie fire did some damage near
Cogswell.
Jamestown defeated Bismarck at
basketball.
A lot of Jamestow npeople will win
ter in California.
The p%ostofhce will be moved from
Walker to Glenburn.
The Grafton high school has a crack
football team this fall:
There are a number Of typhoid fever
cases around Towner.
w. r. Movius is now sole owner Oh
the Lidgerwood flour mill.
A pair of "%peeping toms were ar
rested and fined at Edmore.
Some family rows at Edmore re-
suited in court proceedings.
Martin Rood is the new rural oell''
cry man out of Cooperstown.
The annual rumpus over a shortage
of cars for Ignite coal is on.
Once more Mimic has demonstrated
the necessity Of a better jail.
Tom Whalen Of Rugby is said to be
having some domestic trouble.
Goodrich rejoices over the fact that
a physician has located there.
A Brinsmade druggist was refused
q permit, and there is trouble.
Work has been commenced on the
new school building at Barlow.
George Hohaus of Sargent county
lost four stacks Of grain by fire.
A deputy sheriff at Minot was ar
rested on a dog-s,caling charge.
A new town has beer started at
Emrick and a p%ostofice is petitloneo
for.
Mrs. John DuMars of Kenmare fell
INTO the cellar and smashed a shoulder
bone.
The Great Northern telegraph poles
along the Larimore line are being re-
placed.
Mrs. L. F. Hays of Lisbon was badly
burned while cleaning some clothes
with gasoline.
Geese hunters are said to be having
rare sport around Minnewaukan and
Church's Ferry.
The Barry murder trial will occur
aext month at Langdon, if a change OF
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At Nortnwood a tramp attempted
to assault a woman and was rounded
Up by the officers.
Bowling contests are the rage be-
tween some of the towns in the north
ern part of the state.
With w. H. Brown as secretary of
the irrigation association there should
be something doing.
J.. w. Straub of Sargent county is
referred to as the Tall Sycamore"
-He is only seven feet.
An alleged nutty man regained his
reason since his Incarceration in the
in the Fessenden Jail.
The first irrigation congress is over
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work has just begun.
The Fessenden merchants are meet.
ing all competition in the -four war in
that section of the state.
The meteorological analysis Of the
water from many wells in the state
shows typhoid germs.
Some Of the grain around Thomp.
son that was stacked turned out rath-
er badly when threshed.
: A Towner county man was away on
a visit and on his return was informed
of the arrival of triplets at his home.
Minot claims to have an "oracle"
who can locate stolen property, miss.
ing husbands, sweetherats, and things.
The Mandan people are proud of the
selection of w. H. Brown as the sec.
rotary of the state irrigation associa-
ton.
Two tin horns skipped from Ken
mare without paying their board bill,
and the sheriff is still searching for
them.
A watermelon was opened at Hank
inson and the seed counted as the re
suit of a contest, the counters report
ing 1857.
Football is more popu1ear in North
Dakota this fall than yer and nearly
every high school town has a fair to
good team.
A gang of hobos camped near Bow
oells and refused employment at any
wages; then there were a number Of
burglaries.
Creamery promoters over the state
do not feel much sympathy for the
-people who lost out with the Minnca.
polls concern.
There is a big row on at McHenry
over the death of a lady of that city
at Cooperstown and the matter may
be investigated.
It is claimed that some McIenry
sports who went goose hunting with
Indifferent success purchased a supply
ron, some Indians.
McHenry people are interested in a
waterworks system. An artesian well
may be put down.
Ben S. VenDeuzer died in JameD
lown soon after being brought to the
city hospital from Minnewaukan. He
was seventy-six years old.