Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-08-20
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Granville seems to be short ceme-
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A coon vag escaped from the Jail at
Grand Forks. ~
= There are rumors Of an advance in
4he price of hard coal.
The Edmore telephone exchange will
soon be in operation.
George Dodge is the new round
aouse forman at Minot
A cripple worked Rugby people for
Us one day last week.
Dunseith insists the time is ripe to
start a creamery there.
Noxious weeds are becoming great
nuisance In Ward county.
Blind 'Pigger Taylor of Fassendeniis
getting notoriety, anyway s..
The school building at Devils Lake
- being greatly improved.
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+ big business this summer.
There are twenty-five boys and four
girls in the state reform school.
The railroad commissioners have
been busy on the Great Northern.
Roy Cornford of Ward county is
building himself stone residence.
Bishop Mann is endeavoring to Sc
cure more clergymen for this state.
A Jamestown witness testified to
nslng a scertain road there since 1873.
There was a one-round prize fight
Rugby people are still rubbering for
those Kokomo girls that never came
The Indebtedness of the Methodist
church at Devils Lake has been paid
OF.
Flour mills over the state are being
shut down for repairs for the fall
rush.
Prof. Colvin of Portland has been
selected as principal Of the Cando
schools.
The large farms around Finley pre-
vented the establishment of a cream
cry there.
The government is to send a ship
men of fish to the lakes in the Turtle
mountains.
1T is said there are some unsavory
scandals in the northern part of Kid
der county.
Great damage has been done to the
crops in certain parts -pf Ward county
by gophers. T.,
'Itfere is trouble at Starkweather
over the big school building decided on
by the board.
It is now claimed that the mother of
the baby deserted at Flaxton lives
near Bowbells.
Miss Bessie Waggoner, the popular
Bismarck stenographer, has valu.
able claim near Goal Harbor.
A man who was arrested at Souris
on the charge of gambling went free
after the preliminary hearing.
The railroad contractors in this
state are having hard time to keep
their men since harvest bevlln.
"A 'Larimore limb Of the law boasts
of securing more divorce cases than
local pastor performed marriages.
Up in Ramsey county public scales
ARE kept at the expense of the county.
Many other counties pass the matter
up.
The ONCE of the telephone exchange
ut Fessenden has been moved and
there is better .ong-distance connec-
4ion.
Absolam Kraft of Hoople was the
first druggist to apply for permit un-
der the new law from that section of
the state.
John Brow, herd boy in Stutsman
county, was riding horseback when
the animal fell on him and broke the
boys leg.
A stranger who has travelled over a
good part Of the Red river valley
urges the farmers to repaint their
buildings.
A colored man who has been caring
for the horses of DR.. Johns at Bowdon
became insane and endeavored to Kill
.the animals:
AT Kenmare a man was driving a
load of hay and concluded to smoke.
He enjoyed it, and never set the load
<of hay on fire.
The two telephone lines headed for
Esmond have been sold to a firm and
will be consolidated. "A local exchange
will be put in.
MANY people are becoming con-
vinced there will be great deal more
wheat raised in the state than the
estimators assert.
It is claimed the town Of Richburg
has offered a bonus of $4,000 to the
Great Northern if the branch is ex-
tended to that town.
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