The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-10-31
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Darcy is to have a girls basketball
team.
Logan county is a great duck hunt
ing ground.
An attempt at Jail delivery at Milton
was u failure.
A horse zee for $500 a side is slated
for Lango@
L. J. Nsmois of Oakes lost his gran
ary by fire., y.
Sharon is one Of the sowing towns
q Stee1o county.
!9unte1 around Grand Forks have
en- seeing ghosts.
Havana has an application in lor a
farmers institute.
The cement sidewalk business II
booming in Mandan.
Wolves are reported numerous along
the river at Grafton.
Nineteen-foot cornstalks were raised
near Hankinson.
The militia boys are rejoicing over
the new rifles.
Some new kind of ducks are being
killed jamestown.
A linilhent peddler in Wells county
paid a $50 license.
The Glenullin fair was a success, de-
spite the baA weather.
McHenry county is to have a new
Jail after many years.
Some good roads are to be built in
the viciz1ty of Lawton.
Valley City will have a large colony
IN California this winter.
The people of Hunter regret the
transfer of Rev. Fry 20 Page.
The charity ball at Cando for the
hospital fund netted $3.50.
The Syrian colony around Rugby is
said to be increasing IN size.
The mayor resigned at L~idgerwood
and aldermen followed suit.
Rev. N. Linnett is the new Congre-
Agtional minister at Edmore.
Bottineau and Rugby are both agitat-
.ng the incorporation question.
The dollar wheat business man
seems to have been sidetracked.
John Dowie is reported to have sew
eral converts in Ransom county.
A mail carrier into Ransom had his
ear bitten almost off by a horse.
A dope f1end was arrested at Devils
Lake, but was allowed his liberty.
Some of the fall fakirs were drowned
out by the recent wet weather.
The officials of Grand Forks county
will blow $4,000 on a new Jail.
Under the new law no county COM
missioners are to be elected this fall.
A class of sixty-four was confirmed
IN the Grafton Catholic church Oct. II.
Minto's ne wPolish Catholic church.
va c~onsecrated by Bishop Stanley.
Bootleggers and horse thieves are re-
ported in many sections Of the state.
There was q three-cornered fight at
q Knox hotel as q result of too much
booze.
Casselton is to have a home talent
minstrel show for the benefit of the
library.
Postmaster Berg Of Marion had q
fierce fight with the flames to save his
home.
The L~idgerwood school has been ad.
mitted to the second class of high
schools.
At Mckinney there was a prize fight
h1fxya1- %uy0 ~ u,h0 bod 0rlu Nra
arm each.
James Hanson got four months in
Jail and $500 fine for blind pigging at
Williston.
Farmers are being urged to get their
machinery under cover before winter
storms begin.
Young boys were arrested at Michi-
gan City for shooting firearms inside
the city limits.
Farm labor sclaim they had more
difficulty this ear than usual in col
lecting their wages.
There was some dissatisfaction over
the adjustment of insurance on fire
losses at Bottineau.
The Salvation Army at Jamestown
started to raise SITS by a harvest fes-
tival and secured $215..
Duck hunters are numerous along
the Northern Pacific grade between
Edgeley and Dawson.
E. H. Wallace, formerly of Drayton,
is becoming prominent as a lawyer and
politician in New York.
Oficers found a carload of beer at
Kensal and it was hurried out of the
state to prevent c~onfiscation.
Daniel Van Dyke got a sixty-day
sentence at Hillsboro for obtaining
money under false pretenses.
James All Yellow was the name Of
the noble brave who had the red men
in charge at the state fair.
The farmers find less difficulty in
disposing of macaroni wheat than was
experienced earlier in the season.
Many laborers are planning to work
in the Ignite mines this winter instead
Of returning to the lumber camps.
The row over the kind Of telephone
that should be used has been
transferred from Fargo to Bismarck.
Lakota Methodists are rejoicing over
securing the return of the popular pas
tor, G. A. Mcnamara, for another year.
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