The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-05-16
Dawson is to have q bank.
Leeds has a Masonic lodge.

high quality.
Leeds sports recently had a success success
full wolf hunt.
Cando has hopes OF q strong %"
team this year.
Mountain fires did some damage
near Dunseith.
Kidder county could stand more rain
on the ranges.
steele is said to have some nne
brick clay beds.
Prairie fires damaged some ranges
south of Dickinson.
Land business is booming at Tap
pen, Kidder county.
The 500 has been asked to put IN
new depot at Balfour.
jamestown has begun to report accl'
dents to automobiles.
Cooperstown plans to give every one
a good time July 4 and 5.
jamestown men fought, and the
scrap was settled for $25.
Mandan dramatic talent gave an en-
tertainment at New Salem.
The reform wave seems to have
struck Leeds all in a bunch.
The farmers road at Devils Lake IS
to be extended this summer.
jamestown is to have a branch
house of the ]. l.. Case company.
A dozen homesteaders located IN the
vicinity of Braddock last week.
Eastern detectives are at Minot o
ing for a fugitive from justice.
Adolph Bessie of Wahpeton has re-
turned from a trip to Europe.
Devils Lake seems to have a bust
ness mems club that does things.
Officers have been elected for the
business mems association at Leeds.
The Cando officials have received
the money for the city bonds recently
issued.
The Minot baseball fans are very ac-
tive and a fast team is sure to be Sc
cured.
Some people at Cando think there is
q fine grade of coal underneath that
town. f
Page held a meeting for the purpose
of organizing a farmers elevator COM
pany.
Enterprising citizens of Leeds have
recently organized a business mems
association.
The dates of the Page rae meeting
have been changed from June 1917 to
June 7-18. +.
Organizers of beneficiary orders
seem to be meeting with success over
the state.
Seeding in q snow storm was n
of the incidents of spring work in Penn.
bina county.
Most towns in the state would like
to have as good a wooden mill as
Grand Forks.
M. Shepard of Gardner was a dan.
gerously ill man from the effects on
blood poisoning.
Some farmers claim to have been
s~hort-changed in weight and strength
in formaldehyde.
Old timers are laying in a big booze
supply in anticipation of a drouth in
the state drug stores.
Oliver county people are stirred up
over the recent prairie fires and will
have firebreaks plowed.
Pastor Danford at Jamestown seems
to be one of the most popular Metho-
dist divines in the state.
A pair of swindlers are said TO have
been operating in McHenry county,
afterwards going to Minot.
John Ritchey and Paul Reid Of Can
do were given the usual sentences for
violating the prohibition law. y
The upper Missouri valley got two
inches of rain last week and the grass
on the ranges has a big start.
The fishing season is open and the
anglers are taking especial pains to
secure a good brand of bait.
The commissioners of Mclean coun.
ty allowed Sheriff Grandin $3.50 for
the hanging of Jacob Bassanella.
Title Beach was sent to the bastile
at Grand Forks for twenty days on
the charge Of booze determination.
The farmers have scarcely gotten
their wheat seeded, but the agitation
for farmers elevators has already be.
gun.
Druggists report a big sale Of for.
maldehyde to farmers this spring for
treatment Of seed wheat to prevent
smut.
The >Minnewaukan band boys sere.
naded the business men and mad !
touch for subscriptions for new uni.
forms
It is said that lack Of funds have
delayed the efforts of the interested
parties to re.establish old Renyille
county.
It is now claimed that the Northern
Pacific extension from .DenhoR viii
60 thirty miles. but not all the way to
Coal Harbor.
The case at Minot In which suit wa.H
brought against q merchant Tor me
alleged sale Of gasoline Tor kerosene
was continued.
Sheriff scotleld Of MtnotSseems q, nv
enforcing the prohibition law closely
enough sto please the most ardent 8cpid5s
water advocate. &
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