The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-04-18
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Renvtlle intends to have q ball cam.
Palermo seems to be growing rap
idly.
Minot's gun club is getting in the
game.
Edmore is having a lot of sidewalks
put in.
C%asselton is to have a new jewelry
store.
Not a druggist in Steele county has
a permit.
A Sanborn lady, aged eighty-seven,
died recently.
Otto Wagness of Grafton has re-
moved to Fargo.
The small boys have started to kill.
off the gophers.
The Grand Forkers cen to have a
strong ball team.
Leonard's new state bank will soon
be doing business.
Casselton has two hundred tele-
phone subscribers.
York intends to have a fast ball
team again this year. .
Morton county horses seem to be in
good demand everywhere.
Many towns are already discussing
Fourth of July celebrations.
Judge Palda will hold his first term
of court at Minot April q.
The proposed Masonic temple at
Lisbon will cost l 5000.
On account of bad roads some towns
complain of a hay famine.
Joe Flanagan, the ball player, will
not be in the game this year.
Ce%nterville is a new townsite thirty
i've miles southwest of Minot.
John Kirk of Minot will have to an
swer to the charge of SANDER.
Steam plows are popular this spring
in the western part Of the state.
There is nothing doing at st. Thorn
as on account of the scarlet fever.
Mrs. B. T. Martin of Glendale fell
on a sidewalk and fractured an arm.
There is a general demand for less
nax, largely because of the low price.
A team was found at Minot that had
not been watered nor fed in thirty,
hours.
The Lidgerwood school board has
decided to employ only normal gradu-
ates.
Cavalier county farmers claim they
have exercised great are in seed Sc
lection.
Wilton seems to be getting the worst
of it on account of the smallpox quar-
antine.
Devils Lake threatens to have a
trolley line before any other town in
the state.
Two engines smashed into each 9TH
| er in the 500 yards at Portal, but little
| damage was done. .
The western part of the state Is
adding some high grade stock for
breeding purposes.
Postmasters will not be permitted to
rent boxes to minors without the con:
sent of the parents.
Mrs. o. H. Will of Bismarck was
badly burned while cleaning some
clothing with gasoline.
Grand Forks seems to have a man
who wants to regulate the stun the
newspapers should run
The hotels in the towns in the
northern part of the state have been
doing a rushing business.
There is an increased demand for
macaroni seed wheat. The farmers
want to get the extra yield. E
A Sunborn man warns the public
that he will not be responsible for the
debts contracted by his wife.
Telephone franchises at Grand
Forks were discussed as much as
wooden trolley poles at Fargo.
Two hundred tons of fax straw have
been purchased ut Lakota for a plant
that is to be established there.
Great interest is being taken in the
briquetting plant to be established on
the Missouri by Gen. Washburn.
Settlers are going to the Sentinel
Butte country and unbroken land is
selling from So to $12 an acre. ~.
Some of the Independent baseball
teams in the state have already ar.
ranged for games the Fourth of July.
A shipment of ten barrels of beer
for Devils Lake was stolen and detec-
tives are trying to round up the hop
Juice. 4
Some settlers around Ashley left for
the Canada nNorthwest' and farmers
from Iowa are coming In to take their
places.
Some Ward county people kick On
poisoned grain being put out for go
pliers because It kills of the prairie
chickens.
Lawrence Pierson was the name of
the man run over by a train at Man
dan. He died the following day from
his injuries.
Twenty swedes have. been brought
direct. from the old country Ia Car.
rington to work on the Darlington
Casey farm.
The efforts Of the 500 to get IN ars
tesian well at Hankinson were aban-
,doned whom quicksand was struck ct .
depth &c $50 feet.
II the 500 invades the Red river val.
ley with two OF three stub lines there
will be something doing inzthe way Of
competition for freight.
The son Of Or. Potter. 1t Bismarck
has received i letter from q fellow
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