The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-11-28
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New Salem has a Commercial club.

getting busy.
Cooperstown claims 1856 telephones
in use there.
Ignite operators are arranging for
. supply of cars.
The state has secured a lot Of new
lawyers this year.
A Souris man was arrested on a
bootlegging charge.
McHenry boosted six blind pigs be-
fore the recent raid.
A moose is reported to have been
killed near Dunseith.
The daily shipments from New Sa-
lem average eight cars.
Westhope is about a month old. but
insists on having a Jail.
all kinds of legal actions predicted to
head off the transfer.
Some Wells county farmers are To-
eating in Washington state.
The people of Willow City insist on
better theatrical attractions.
The Langdon people are intensely
proud of the new opera house.
In October there were nine births
and eight deaths in Bismarck.
Fifty loads of fax were marketed
at Westhope in one day last week.
The owners of Ignite mines are
about the businest men on the map.
La Moure county people advocate a
system Of irrigation by artesian wells.
The building for the creamery at
Cleveland will be erected this winter.
Wolf hunters are anticipating some
exciting and profitable sport this win
ter.
A number of Lidgerwood people
took claims on the Red Lake reserva-
ton.
There have been frequent arrests at
Bismarck for driving over the side
walks.
Director Peck of the CanGo band
has resigned and is succeeded by J. E.
Drake.
The Stutsman county school direc-
lO1o Hdo al enthusiastically 11SSt1AS ok
jamestown.
Ransom county is one of the IA
vored sections of the state this year.
the hotel closed.
John Van Ruben of heynolus raised
some fine corn that won prizes at the
Grand Forks fair.
ALT Hoselton. a Grafton Barber, was
presented with a watch OF his de.
parture from Alberta.
The religious census at Casselton
didn't make a very good showing for
the p%opulatio nof the town.
Fred Duggan of Grand Forks went
out to the farm on a wolf hunt and
was successful in killing one.
Miss Esther Dodge of Drayton has
been elected a teacher in the James
town school to fill a vacancy.
A lady homesteader in Ward county
got ahead Of some of her bachelor
friends by painting her shack.
In some sections portable gasoline
engines are used to elevate grain d.
rectly from wagons into cars.
The plan of the Minot high school
to organize a brass bandsis an limo.
walton and seems to be a success.
The death of Capt. Harmon, for
merly Of Morton county, will be
mourned by many old-timers in the
state.
Harry Forness, who was injured by
falling from a train in the Fargo
yards, is the son of a farmer near
Hunter.
A Foster county paper told about a
lady named Miss Duck being caught
in a rainstorm. That shouldn't have
hurt her.
Towner county, usually one of the
crop-producing regions Of the state,
was hit hard by the dry weather this
summer.
The Grand Forks council has cut
off the free water list and the hospi.
tails must pay now as we'll as other
consumers.
A. M. Hovland, the pioneer mer.
chant at Hixon, is interested in a
string of banks in the northwestern
part of the state.
Minot hopes tc GIN IS much fame
from her juvenile hand as was at
tanned by Mayville along the same
lines some years ago.
In the northern part of the state a
fellow stole money from a poor
widow. That GUS is meaner than a
delinquent subscriber.
1t is claimed that many of the peo-
pie who want mail along the rural
route out Of Cooperstown have failed
to provide boxes as prescribed.
A McHenry man was arrested on
the charge CT mortgaging property
that didn't belong to him, but was dis,
charged after a scrap in the court.
The people along the lines of the
railway kick because the companies
burn the old ties and snow fences in
stead of selling them to the farmers
for fuel.
Many people who have formerly
rented lands in the older counties
hive secured good claims in the west
ern part of the state and will own
names of their own.
Hon. E. G.. Palmer Of Williams
county, who is.sa practical irrigation.
engineer, will be able to give some
timely SUGGESTIONS to the Dromoters Of