The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-05-09
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Page has q building boom.
Rugby" wants . street sprinkler.
Ardoch has organized . baseball
team.
McHenry county il to get some new
roads.
Kensal's new schoolhouse is to cost
$500.
Fingal expects a fax fiber mill this
summer.
Cooperstown will have both gas and
electricity.
The epidemic of measles at Hank
ins0n is over.
Bismarck defeated Kensal at
bowling game.
Both Minot and Rugby are after bus
iness colleges.
The band at Page is getting some
good practice.
Real estate men at Kuhn are doing
a big business.
There is a new proprietor OF the
Hotel Gladys at Souris.
| The dates for the state firemen's
tournament are June gil.
Valley City is to have some more
fine residences this summer.
A lot of shooters at Crazy have Sc
cured 1903 hunting permits.
Ward county has only twenty-one
weekly papers and one daily.
The hammer and the saw are being
worked overtime in most towns.
McHenry has grown SO rapidly an
addition to the town is necessary.
Steele county farmers have raised
$1,000 toward a farmers elevator.
The entire state seems to be par
%ticipating in the general prosperity.
On a farm near Hankinson a lady
and six children are i'll with smallpox.
The question of a Fourth of July eel
sbration is being discussed at Buffalo.
Valley City is planning a two-day
celebration about the Fourth of July.
The high price of good seed corn
didn't seem to head off many farmers.
A Grandin team had a wild runaway,
because there were too many drivers.
There is a demand for some paint
fng at Towner on the older buildings.
Darlington is planning to have a
fast Independent ball team this sea.
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There was no advance in North Da-
lota fire insurance rates, as was pre-
1icted.
Volunteer firemen at Mayville were
fined 81 each for failure to respond to
an alarm.
In many towns in the state the only
way to get a house is to either buy or
build one.
The people of Valley City are con-
graduating themselves on the growth
of. the town.
Morton county people are congratu-
iating themselves on securing some ex-
cellent teachers.
No clue has been secured as to the
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the Armenia store.
The lands beyond the Missouri are
being appreciated at a small percent
age of their value.
r. N. Stevens has decided to remain
in Bismarck instead Of returning to
the Nome country.
The price of good seed corn is rather
high, hut the indications are that the
acreage will be large.
Mandan discovered a counterfeiting
outfit, and not to be outdohe, /. Bis
marck dug n up, too.
At Grand Forks a number of young
sters were arrested for careless shoot
ing inside the city limits.
Some of the towns in the northern
part of the state are organizing. foot.
ball instead Of baseball teams.
The machinery for the fax mill 1T
Cooperstown is on the ground and the
building will o be erected.
H. v. Church, who left this state for
Montana, writes back to Sanborn
friends not to follow his example.
There will be no change in the a
lgement of the Elk River Valley farm,
as the Larimores control the stock.
Ben Tronslin, formerly superintend-
emit Of schools in Walsh, has removed
to Inkster and opened a real estate
ofice.
In the northwestern part Of the state
considerable fax was not threshed
early and 1t is not regarded as good
Tor seed. 4
There wal never, perhaps, a time in
the state when the farmers more thor
oughly appreciated the advantages of
diversihcation.
Sheldon seems to be taking adj
vanced. position in emitting the pub
lication Of %senselcss cards Of thanks
and resolutions.
Rev. Wheeler Of Minot has removed
to his claim a Williston for the
summer. "A recent prairie lire do.
stroyed his house.
There seems to be q sentiment In
favor Of accepting the invitation Of
Valley City to entertain the editorial
meet this! summer.
There 10 . renewal Of the talk about
using Indian laborers on railway ex.
tension work. Former efforts were
not q huge success.
II 81 reported that considerable
damage has been caused along the