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

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Sanborn has some excellent stores.
Minoters are still after the cream
cry.
Balfour is said to have some tough
joints.
HOBBS are reported to be numerous
at Lakota.
Minor rejoices that it has a resi-.
dent dentist,
Harvest a around Drayton were
$3.50 per day.
Tower City boasts of a fine ne"
bank building.
The w~aterworks at Cando have
been completed.
The jamestown bike thief continues
to work overtime.
The hail storm is said to have alll'
ed a few chickens.
Starkweather will issue bonds for a
new school building.
An Indiana man may put in a -four
mill at Willow City.
The grade is complete for the street
car line at Bismarck
Two carloads of pianos were recent
ly sold at Paramount.
A woman claims there are five blind
pigs running in Minot.
Harvey gets a big loading platform
to be built by the 500.
The streets of Northwood are be-
coming filled with sand.
Abercrombie and Walcott are con-
nected by telephone.
A Harvey man was victimized by
purchasing a stolen steer.
Many towns in the state will have
good football teams this year.
The sentiment for a county fair at
Grafton seems to be growing.
Minor is having a new heating
plant put in the school building.
Efforts are being made to stake out
a trail from Berthold to Ryder.
The school row in Ward county at.
tracted a lot of attention, anyway.
The Leeds fair was such a success
it will be a permanent institution.
Four new rural delivery routes are
to be established out of Kenmare.
A burglar was caught in the act OF
footing a hardware store at Leeds
The Minot people are kicking on
the quality of the cement sidewalks.
George w. Marshall has purchased
H. S. D%ickinson's drug store at Crys-
tai.
Minot claims the first rat eve seen
in that town was recently klil.d
there. .a.p
). The safety vault of the Kidder
county court house has been com
pleted.
The first wheat threshed around
Reynolds showed a yield of twenty
bushels.
The obstruction of the sidewalks
by merchants at Maddox has evoked
protest.
Judge Murray of Minot has per-
formed the wedding ceremo for
379 couples.
Richland county farmers will save
their fax straw to sell to the tow mill
at Wahpeton.
A travelling man was arrested at
Kenmare and fined IS for taking too
much hop juice.
At the last account Davenport
claimed to be ahead of Kindred By
one bath house.
Minot is kind of a divorce center
for the people in the northwestern
part of the state.
Fire insurance rates at Candu are
expected to be lowered with the new
waterworks system.
There is a kick at Minot because
so many young boys are seen on the
streets late at night.
Nelson Bros. formerly of Towner
county, are said to have made a big
/. gold strike in Alaska.
49, A large number of the mills in the
state have shut down for repairs.
preparatory to a long run.
Walcott is another town that de
plores the fact that there are not MOI
residences there for rent.
Grand Forks is catching on and fol.
lowing the good example of Fargo by
securing q trunk factory
/! Fine crops are reported along the
line OF the Great Northern extension
from Granville to Mohall.
Some Of tie. grocery peddlers are
said to have taken to the tall shade
trees since Pure Food Commissioner
Ladd got busy. :.
A deputy game warden says the re-
ports OF illegal chicken shooting 1t
Lakota have been exaggerated.
, Certain farmers around Northwood
are determined to prosecute tres
passers who bunt on Their lands.
It IL claimed that any country that
can raise corn can raise apples. North
Dakota Seems to be in both belts.
4 500 freight car was set on fire
by q spark from an engine and was
extinguished when the train reached
Minot.
A Nome man was buncoed b. .
short-change artist, and drove over the
country in an unsuccessful effort to
locate him.
The small towns in the state are
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