The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-05-07
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Work will soon begin on a mill at
Westhope.
The skyestpn creamery has opened
for business.
Seeding was commenced early in
Mcintosh county.
The Tower City Telephone exchange
has 100 subscribers.
A big racing meet is planned AT
Hope this summer.
Blind piggers At Hannah are said to
have come to gyief.
Tree peddlers are doing a big bust.
ness over the state.
The boats are making the regular
run on the Missouri.
Wheatland's new hotel has been
opened to the public.
A few cases of cattle seal have been
reported in Dickey county.
School land leases in Stark county
made at a good price.
The northwestern part of the state
had food troubles Of its own.
Grafton is assured of the Carnegie
funds to complete the library.
The contract for the new school
building at Hope has been let.
The state firemen's tournament will
be held at Darlington June 10.
Tom Allshouse is said to be the com.
ing Warwick in Kidder county.
Rev. Koehler Of wheatland has gone
to Pennsylvania tc be married.
North Dakota stockmen still have a
grievance against the beef trust.
The leap YER party at Minot is re-
ported as very much of a success.
Minnewaukan wants better train
service on the jamestown Northern.
The La MoIre creamery pays a bet.
ter price for cream than Eastern buy.
ers.
Beer stealers at Hope kept out Of
the pen by paying SIS for the key they
took.
Spring housekeeping has been de-
layed along with the seeding and other
things.
The business men at Cleveland have
raised sufficient funds for the cream
cry there.
Five children in the family of Jacob
johnson of Nelson county d:ed Of
d%iphtheria.
Two members of the Lidgerwood
fire department were injured while
fighting a fire.
Wheatland kids are said to be caus-
ing a lot of trouble by catching on to
moving trains.
Some ex-Wahpetonians who removed
to Spokane 90 not like the country and
want to get back.
The Washburn people hope the ferry
will be operated this summer more sat
i%sfactorily than last.
The people OF Paramount are rejoic.
ing over the establishment of a rural
delivery out of that town.
The board of directors of the cream.
cry at Enderlin elected officers and
will soon have things in shape.
Mrs. Chris Rott, the widow of the
man murdered in a dive at Ashley, will
sue the five defendants for damages.
Cooperstown people will vote on the
issuance of $4,000 school bonds to re-
place the recently burned schoolhouse.
Maj. Fawcett, a Bottineau druggist,
was arrested at Grand Forks on the
charge of violating the prohibition
law.
The states representatives at Wash
ington are doing everything to hasten
the opening of the Devils Lake reser-
walton. .
DR.. Winslo's Plymouth Rock gentle
man bird at Cooperstown continues to
lick all the games the other fellows
can import.
A new bank is to be started at Ellen
dale with B. W. Schouwciler president:
Miss Matte Irwin, vice president, n
H. G. Peck. cashier.
A lot Of people c~o ,e1deavoring to
revive the memory Of relatives who re-
side in St. Louis, so they can save no
tel bills at the exposition.
Mrs. Posey, the wife of the farmer
zeal Lawton charged with the murder
of his hired man, is said to be in Bot
tineau procuring a divorce.
..ccording to supreme Chancellor
Bangs of Grand Forks, North Dakota
now has 2,5O6 knights of Pythians, an
increase of 80 during the last year.
It is claimed that some young lady
hcmesteaders will have difficulty in Sc
curing witnesses when they want to
prove up, as no one has ever seen them
on the claims.
A barn belonging to Mrs. Adair and
containing stock owned BY John He'd
lund was burned at Lisbon, and three
horses we're burned to death in addl-
ton to some harness
The site for the Indian school at
Wahpeton will be secured Ibis sum
mer and the contracts may be let Tor
.ae buildings, though it is not expected
they will be erected before 1905.
A new settler in Mclean county
was hit in the head by a falling rail-
road tie. A barber patched up the
wound and the new conner will raise