The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-09-12

t1neau.
There has been a road row at FEES.
sender.
Balfour aspires to be a stock ship
ping point.
P~ickpockets ore working the trains
over the state.
Some sections Of Ramsey county
had fine crops.
Some Aneta sports were cleaned up
at a horse race.
More mills are preparing to grind
macaroni wheat.
Company E Of Langdon may estab-
lish a gymnasium.
There are some bitter land contests
In Stutsman county.
Land men are making some good
sales around Rugby.
A band of gypsies has been working
the people of Wilton.
Some crops around Hannaford
were damaged by hail.
The town Of Cogswell in Sargent
county is growing rapidly.
Courtenay is planning a series OF
entertainments this winter.
There doesn't seem to have been a
great rush for peddlers' licenses.
The people of Edmore want to know
what has become of the road tax.
Cavalier county people took out a
large number of hunting permits.
Oats around Bowbells yielded as
high as seventy and eighty bushels.
Mrs. Rohan of Clifford and Mrs.
Rollan of Walcott both died recently.
Will GRADER of Glasston was struck
by a horses head and had his cheek
broken.
James Curtiss and Lewis Pearce of
| St. Thomas have raised some fine ap-
pies this year.
A black man named White and an.
other niger at jamestown had a scrap
and we're fined.
The flax crop in the northwestern
part of the state seems to be out OF
the way of frost
A lawsuit at Finley resulted n a
judgment of $65 for a man whose cog
was lost in the shuttle.
A Velva man is said to have killed
twenty-one prairie chickens two weeks
before the open season.
Fl. F. Strehlow of Casselton recent
ly purchased q farm near Durbin Tor
which he paid $50 an acre.
Now there is some fear that wheat
may grow in the shock on account OF
so much rain since harvest.
Prof. Carr is the new principal Of
the Courtenay schools. He formerly
taught at Mimic and Rugby.
The people along the Granville ex-
tension of the Great Northern are get
ting the townsites surveyed. ~
Deputy game wardens are Of the
opinion that the game law was we'll
observed-then there are others.
A skunk strolled into Fingal and
in about seven minutes had the right
of way, till the people fumigated.
Some horses have been injured by
q barbed wire fence which was built
across a road in Towner county.
It is claimed that many ~treasurers
of school districts have violated the
law by failing to publish statements.
Gwinner is becoming a great wheat
market not only for a part of Sargent,
but also from Ransom county points.
The home of Lawmaker Gulack of
Ashley was struck by lightning and
he is now eligible to any kind of po-
litical honors.
Several new threshing machines
have gone into Williams county,
which c%ontradicts the report that that
section doesn't raise grain.
There are a lot Of people in the
state who favor increasing the debt
limit, as the future of the state is as
sured and in no danger of being tax
ridden.
Some of the men employed on the
sewers at Devils Lake wanted to quit
and 20 to the harvest fields and there
was quite a row before work was re.
sumed.
The Northern Pacific is httlng out a
lot of it's engines with spark arrest
ers in an effort to prevent starting
prairie fires along the track with
sparks from the engines.
Some Indiana fellows who went to
Cando to work in the harvest fields
found they would have to labor a
little and returned home. They put
up a big nowl about the country.
A. l.. Parsons, formerly of Fessen-
den, who was brought back to the
state on a warrant charging failure
to turn in some premiums paid him,
was bound over to the district u
The merchants over the state are
determined to give the growers Of
macaroni wheat a chance and will
wait for their accounts while The
farmers hold the macaroni for better
prices. -
It cost Sargent county $1,S9o.4o and
Mcintosh county s2,S10.15 at the last
term of court, according to the figures
of Clerk of Court Baker. These sums
were for jurors and witnesses. The
other expenses were paid from tho
other counties direct.
A Ramsey county farmer reports
his wheat crop this year-after de-
Quoting all expenses-will pay for the
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