The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-09-19
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Eight autos are owned at Wahpe-
ton. .s,--.
Anamoose is to have telephone con-
nection.
Three hail losses were reported at
Bowbells.
A well AIS feet deep has been sunk
at Wilton.
J. B. Burley died at Casselton, aged
eighty-nine.
There is a demand at Ashley for
corn binders.
There is a teacher famine in Nc
!ntosh county.
Judge Gallup is recovering from his
long illness.
Bismarck is in line for a modern
fiat building.
There was almost a %cloudburst in
Ramsey county.
Donnybrook is proud of the era of
prosperity there.
Fifty residences have been built this
summer at Minot.
Wheatland is the center of a good
crop belt this year.
School lands in Trail county will
be leased Sept. %.
Owners of threshing rigs are get
ting them insured,
A class of forty was confirmed at
Minot by Bishop Stanley.
There seems some %indecision about
the townsite at Lansford.
The Lidgerwood people regret the
resignation of the 500 agent.
At Blanchard a teamster lost his
purse, containing a $50 bill.
One Minot firm did a business of
over $4,000 n day last week.
There is a beer drouth in Linton
since the authorities got active.
v. Long of Wheatland will remove
to Reynolds to conduct a fax mill.
Cooperstown people want a CONNER
cial club to help boost things along.
Much fall breaking is being done in
the new portions of Mclean county.
Cover Lake, twenty-five miles west
of Esmond, is being stocked with fish
New Rockford is boasting OF the
new cement sidewalks being put down.
The high school officials cannot d.
vert the fund received from the state.
Eddy county people are proud OF
the extensive system of rural tele-
phones.
The wheat crop on the slope is yield
ing a larger crop than was antict-
pated.
Some of the Syrian homesteaders
near Rugby are said to be creating
trouble.
Druggist Kurtz of Omemee secured
the first druggists permit in Bottineau
county.
The Presbyterians are to erect q
stone church at Underwood, In Ward
county.
Velva is to have a new school build
ing that will cost between $4,000 and
$4,000.
The Wahpeton street fair, Oct. 6 to
9. will be a big event for that section
of the state.
The authorities in McHenry county
have not yet located the Granville
bank robbers.
A farm laborer at Wahpeton at
tempted to pass a forged check, but
was detected.
John Daeley, a son of the Devils
Lake postmaster, had a leg broken In
a runaway.
The steam laundry at Rugby has
been reopened and the baths are again
m operation.
It is thought that the same men who
:obbed the Granville bank did the safe
blowing at Colfax.
The bank at Granville carried burg.
lar insurance and will lose nothing by
the recent robbery.
Some SNrk county cattle were quar-
antined in Chicago because they were
alleged to have scab.
A Ccoperstown man has a big roar
on the methods of grading wheat by
different elevator men.
Some phenomenal wheat yields are
reported from lands that were In pota-
toes and corn last year.
supt. of Schools Fancher of Ramsey
has purchased an automobile for WIS.,
iting the country schools.
The mother superior of the B%elcourt
mission was in a runaway accident at
Rolla. but escaped unfnjured.
A St. Thomas nan has a hitching
post that was formerly a marker on
the international boundary line.
The Downing farm elevator at
Mooreton was burned and several
thousand bushels of fax damaged.
Mrs. Heazlitt of Casselton" jumped
from a rig when q runaway was
threatened. and d%islocated an ankle.
The first conviction under the new
city laws at Harvey has just been Sc
cured. James Connors was the vic.