The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-11-07
The car famine hit Bowbells.
McHenry is to have an orchestra
Linton has had it's first masquerade

ball.
The people Of Drake want a town
hall.
Hobos have been swiping gloves at
Enderlin.
Banker Beisecker of Fessenden has
two autos.
Sanborn boasts Of a fourteen-pound
%rutabaga.
Iowa potato buyers are working this
state hard.
The Wahpeton tow mill will soon be
in operation.
Geese hunters claim the weather has
been too fine.
Two of the three drug stores at Min
to consolidated.
Michigan City lays claim to fame as
a health resort.
Another effort is being made to get
a fax fiber mill.
Cando boasts of the excellence Of it's
telephone service.
Some men in a tent near Willow
City were robbed.
The Sharon -four mill is receiving
big eastern oredrs.
An automatic telephone system may
be put In at Barlow.
The citizens of Brinsmade want to
incorporate the town.
The Great Northern will increase it's
s~idetracks at Bottineau.
The Reynolds flax fiber mill is said
to be a decided success.
The Missouri slopers + discover
ing they are In the potato belt.
Mclean county expects to poll 1000
votes at the next state election.
A number of counterfeit bank notes
have been passed at jamestown.
A pair of Berwick men started a
little Sunday fracas on the streets.
Eighteen new schools have been
started in Morton county this year.
Farmers assert they never saw the
soil in better condition than this year..
Some people insist in rather en-
phatic language on being paid this fall.
An effort was made to prevent the
erection of a livery barn at McHenry.
The Mohall people rejoice because a
painter has been located in the town.
Additional Office room is being made
in the Northern Pacific building at
jamestown.
Rugby claims to have the best light
ed streets of any of the smaller towns
In the state.
A Ward county man got mad be-
cause he couldn't corral the stock and
blew his head off.
Bottineau is in line for the location
of an academy that may be erected by
the Presbyterians.
Cavalier county farmers are said to
have done more blowing this fall than
in any other year.
A travelling man notes the fact that
few drug stores are being started un-
der the Shells law.
Ole Olson, who lives near Ransom,
threshed forty-one bushels of fife
wheat to the acre.
DR.. Virgo of Bottineau county an.
nounces that he will prosecute all un-
licensed dealers in poisons.
The people of Ward county find that
repeated fax crops are improbable. Is
the soil has flax-wilt disease.
Hector Logan, who was killed In
Fargo recently, formerly resided in
Grandin, where his parents live.
Four tramps robbed a farmhouse
near Grand Forks, and in two hours
were comfortably located in Jail.
At Lakota the booze room of the
depot was broken open and q bunch
Of Dutch excitement was extracted.
Court Stenographer Rose of James.
town, who has been in st. Paul for
medical treatment, is much improved.
The New York law barring married
women as school teachers would be
popular in many sections of North Da-
kota.
An engine backed off an open switch
at Lisbon and delayed things for some
time.
A nine-year-old child was recently at
Jamestown. It had the body Of a year.
old child, but it's head was fully de-
veloped.
A man was arrested near Litchville
who seemed to have wheels. Rela-
tives came from Pennsylvania to take
him home.
The fact that the Edmore postoflce
has been boosted from fourth to third
class indicates the rapid growth of
that town.
An ordinance was read the first time
in the jamestown council advancing
the salaries of policemen from $50 to
$40 per month.
The men who fired straw piles to get
rid of the stuff to have burned
up about as much grain and buildings
this year as usual.
The wife and children Of the insane
man who escaped in Fargo r said
to be In almost destitute circum-
stances in Portland.
The optimistic fellows are predict
ing a mild winter, and the other kind
say it will be colder than the arctic
region, and there you are.
Mayor Fred Mclean of Langdon is
still in California experimenting his
gold mine, and reports he has gotten
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