The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-11-14
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Coal has been found near Palermo.
Sanborn people want a high school.
Corner lots at Granville bring $1,000.
A white swan was killed near Gran
Vile.
Bottineau may purchase q fire en-
CINE.
Track buyers are wanted at Botti'
neau.
Morton county real estate is on the
boom.
The Fingal opera house has been
opened.
Goodrich has a ~new-fangled holiness
religion.
Several booze cases are TO be tried
at Minot.
A lot of Trail county lanc is chang
ing hands.
District court brought large crowds
to Minot.
Mrs. Peter Moe was adjudged insane
at Bottineau.
Towner is planning to have a farm
ers elevator.
Residence property in Bathgate is in
great demand.
The open season for hoo,!csgers will
soon be ended.
Lansdon Presbyterians will erect a
$4,000 church.
The instruments for the Binford
band have arrived.
A pair OF St. Thomas girls were in
jured in a runaway.
At Granville $500 bushels of flax
were sold in one day.
Valley City is becoming a mutual in
surance headquarters.
At a recent fire at Miaot some Of the
hydrants didn't work. =
The church steps at Eunter are a ia
vorite resort for lovers.
Grain is hauled as far as twenty-five
miles to Berwick elevators.
A sneak thief zeal Goodrich is be-
comm gdecidedly unpopular.
Wolf hunters have been meeting
with success around Balfour.
Kidder county was we'll represented
at the state irrigation meeting.
Many towns in the state have ar:
ranged winter lecture courses.
There is a court session at Mandan
with both grand and petit jnries.
There are said to be some Dowieites
in Sargent and Ransom counties.
The Red River Telephone company
has extended its line to Portland.
One hunting party at Devils Lake is
said to have spent $500 in the city.
A stranger at Minot ilnsulted two la
dies and disappeared to avoid arrest.
The Chafee bank people are plan
ming the erection of a fine building.
The commissioners Of Ward county
seem to be after the county surveyor.
Excavators at Minot continue to un.
earth fine specimens of petrified wood.
There is opposition to the petition of
some Bismarck druggists for permits.
Casselton had a religious census. 1t
is presumed the editors were enumer-
ated.
Ore of the prisoners who escaped
from The Jail at Williston was a wife.
beaten.
Contractor Kennedy of Fargo has Sc.
cured the sewer contracts at Devils
Lake.
The Bowbells band is doing business
since the recent agitation by the news
papers.
North Dakota received a lot of adj
vertisement through the irrigation con-
vention.
It took a justice court and a jury
two days to settle a family row at
Granville,
Robert McCosker. of Wheatland is
with the battleship Wisconsin at Che
foo. China.
Tho Dickinson pccn!e regardless OF
religion, are proud OF the new Catho-
lie church
Dickinson continues to increase as
rapidly as any other town in the state
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The 100000 Great Northern depot
for Mirot is reported to have been lost
in the shuttle.
Davcnporters are reported to be
%rubEering for Tire new printing plant
promised there:
There were a lot OF threshing ma
~ec:.ines burned this fall, but boiler eJ
,luent than usual.
Jimmie Campbell of Mandan loaned
a hunting dog to two friends and got
u dead dog back.
A Northern Pacific ticket agent In
the western part Of tie state is re-
ported short $3nn.
Minoters are somewhat divided on
the subject of the location of the
Standard Oil tanks.
The city council meeting at Devils
Lake was e%nlivened by a threatened
pugilistic encounter.
A good race track will be. built at
Forest River, where there are a num-
Der Of fine equines.
The flax raisers have concluded the
price cannot go.much lower and an
ticipate better results.
Some of the young lady homestead
ers in Ward county are said to have
laid in a supply of artillery.
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