The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-12-05

The town without a skating rink is
the exception this winter.
A lot of Minot hunters were success
full in their chase after deer.
A lot of Montana sheep were fat.
tened in Stutsman county.
The new school building at Minot
will be completed by Dec. Is.
Around Courtenay the people will
grow less flax and raise less cattle.
Many l!omesteaders are taking
claims around Ryder, Ward county.
A man was sentenced to ten days in
Jail at Westhope for stealing a coat.
There have been a lot of violations
of the Shiels law in Bottineau county.
Pat Purcell was fined $50 at Grand
Forks on the charge OF assaulting his
wife.
More building was lone in Sargent
county this year than in many former
years.
Lars Larson has been appointed
mail carrier at Drayton, with John A.
Larson sub.
1t is claimed that there has been
more fall blowing done this year than
ever before.
No trace of the thief who robbed the
safe in the Staples store at Arabaska
has been secured.
The residence of County Commits
;sioner KOrsmo of Grand Forks county
Nas destroyed by fire.
Mollall is located in the fertile and
famous Mouse river loop, one of the
richest spot son earth.
States Attorney Johnson of Ward
county lost a pocketnook containing
$3.50 and valuable papers.
The baseball management at Bow
bells is giving dances to raise funds
for q fast tea mnext year.
Westhope is to have a schoolhouse,
anc the one formerly used at Richburg
will be sen to the country.
Barber Kelly of Grand Forks and
Mark Nelson of Portal want to smash
each other at so much per smash.
Some Portal Piggers had sudden
cuisines sover the line when they heard
Sheriff Scofeld was headed that way.
There is general disappointment
ever the failure to establish briquet-
ting plants in the western part of the
state.
Valley City has 421 telephone sub
.scribers and about steen hundred 9th
GER people who use their neighbors'
phones.
It is said that trains 7 and 8 on the
Northern Pacific will run to Leeds in
stead of stopping at jamestown, as at
present.
Gy fire. His neighbors got busy and
in lust two weeks had a new one built,
snug and warm.
The dynamos for the power house
ist Bismarck have arrived and the hum
.if those Bismarck street cars can al
most be heard.
Mandan attempted to work up as
much trouble securing a jury as Lang
ron lawyers experienced. but failed to
win the championship.
A concert company is said to have
neglected to pay some bills at Grand
Forks and in the future some people
viii insist on a cash basis.
A Crary man mixed things with an
.~,bstreperous acetylene light plant and
IS shy a few forks full of whiskers and
sve eral square feet of hide
The trains on the Farmers road
from Starkweather to Devils Lake are
aid to run so slow that passengers
..hoot flying geese from the windows.
The Valley City football team went
10 Casselton to play football, but there
was a row over the eligibility Of some
f the Casselton players and there was
&c game.
The fire at illsboro made one less
paper in the eastern part Of the state,
},ut a bunch of new ones in the west
prn part OF North Dakota keeps the
average up.
A Ward county man, recently mar.
ried, awoke the other morning and
found his wife gone. He applied to
the Minot officials to aid him in the
search for her.
Mrs. Alice Davidson. the Wahpeton
postmistress, married a preacher
named Medlar. They will locate at
York, Neb., ard in March will make u
trip to Europe.
A Sheldon man plowed under q
purse containing sos. but as he did not
treat it with formaldehyde he is not
expecting a very large yield from 1t
next ssaason.
The contest over the Wahpeton post
office is exciting considerable interest.
There are three candidates. Myhra,
Powrie and Sleeper, but the latter is
said to be living up to his name.