The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-09-19

The state bank at Wimbledon WILL
have anew building erected by Nov. /;
The states attorneys.are rounding
up a lot of booze ~peddlers.
A neighborhood roWsoccurred in the
Finnish settlement in Towner county.
People at Ryder are ~anxiously await
ing the awarding of a mail route con.
tract. -
Some fat cattle are being shipped
out of Pierce county to the Eastern
markets,
Some fine wells are being secured in
Emmons county at a depth of 600 to
700 feet.
Farmers around Anita have forbid.
den the public to pick plums on their
premises.
The city c~alaboose at Minot seems
to be sufficiently insecure to please any
old hobo.
Farmers around Steele are sore owe
the way game is shot on their farms
by transients.
Ward county will furnish some of
the grain exhibits for the state at the
st. Louis exposition.
The school SUPPLEMENTARY row in
Ward county seems to be as muddled
as before the last lawsuit.
A man at Souris had a private Great
Northern passenger coach while he
was quarantined with smallpox.
An ex-blind pigger at Tioga is said
to be in trouble in Canada on a charge
of stealing $500 and an equine.
Clerk of Court Hoskins Of the state
supreme court and family are to spend
six months on the Pacific coast.
A divorced woman in western Trail
seems to delight in taking a few shots
at her ex-lord and his new wife.
Because of the number of tow mills
to be started in Richland county, the
farmers are urged to save their fax
straw.
The reports from the threshing ma
chimes are generally more encouraging
than the preliminary estimates Of
the crop.
The Great Northern will put on an
extra local freight between Mimic and
Williston to accommodate the new
towns.
A Drayton man had a runaway a
month ago and has just found one of
the horses dead and the other several
miles away.
At Rugby some strangers who re-
fused to work were arrested and put
on the ball and chain gang to clean
the streets.
A blind pig was started at Steele,
but the proprietor got a tip that it
wouldn't be healthy to stay in the bus
mess and quit.
Ingorbit Hagan of Kenmare was in
Jail once for mistreating his wife and
recently broke In again on the charge
Of beating small children.
Domestic troubles are said to have
driven a former lady resident of Fort
Bufard insane. She left five children
to be cared for by relatives.
Some people claim that wheat
threshes better after having been
rained on in the shock. The 1903 crop
seems to have been rained IN some.
]. Johnson stepped into a thresh1ng
machine cylinder neal Lidgerwood,
and the doctors took fifteen small
pieces of bone out of his smashed
foot.
The North Dakotans who have been
successful in raising fruit are expect
ed to assist the st. Louis exposition
commission from this state in making
a showing along that line.
A fine picture of Supt. of Public In.
struction Stockwell has been placed
in the Grafton high school building.
Mr.. Stockwell was formerly superin-
tendent of the Grafton schools.
Some of the farmers along the Great
refuse to settle with the company for
right of way and a few condemnation
and damage suits will be mixed up.
Langford had a big celebration in
honor of the railroad extension, and
for the people of the town and country
to get better acquainted with each
other. There was also an agricultural
display.
A Ward county man has been in the
state three years and has spent
a cent in cash for groceries. From
the first he has raised enough butter
and eggs to trade for all the groceries
he needs.
At last the farmers are beginning to
realize that they can get wheat
in three crops from land that was in
corn n year than in four crops IN
land not in corn, and they have the
corn crop ahead of the game.
Fortunate.