Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-03-04

with the firm of WirSz Brothers ia,
is now stopping at home. undecided
what to engage in. Later: A lin,
from Tom Gill was received from
Lansing, Iowa, requesting us to seni
the Sun to him at the latter plac.
where he and his wife are visiting al
the home Of the la.ter's parents.
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EDMORE.
From the Herald.
c. G. Honey, of the First National
Bank of this place. transacted brsi.
ness at Devils Lake Friday and Sat.
urday.
| JACK Cant returned home Tuesday
after spending few days down the
line. he returned by team from
Lakota.
Ed Crary returned to Edmore
Thursday evening. He went over to
Crazy for visit and had to remain
ten days before he could get train
back.
j. Keimer left Thursday for Lari
more, where he spent several days
attending to business matters. He
returned home this week.
John Dougherty an uncle of the
Dougne1ty brothers of this place.
came up from Lakota Friday last and
spent several days with his nehews.
Mr.. and Mrs.. J.. C. Reinertson
have another son. He arrived the
morning of Washington's birthday
and Jake says that he is going to call
him Washington <,%
1t is reported that the Standard
Oil man left Devils Lake Monday for
Edmore with a tank of lumlnary,
but up to the present time we have
seen nothing of him. i
We are informed that Geo F. Wal
lace, of Lawton, has sued the State
Bank and P. A. Larson of that Ilace
for 5000 damages. The c,mplaint
alleges extortion and false imprison-
ment. L. j. Wene represents Wal.
lace. - 5
Probably coal was the scarcest in
Edmore Tuesday that it has been at
any time this winter but fortune
seemed to favor us as train came up
the line and with it several car loads
of both hard and soft coal. Had the
train been one cay later, many hard
coal fires would have been dead.
The Herald claims that the city
marshal is not attending to his duties
as an officer and duplicates him in a
blind pig deal that does not read him
mis- title clear. Someone nit the Off
Ger of the law over the head with a
beer bottle AID after having had his
damages repaired by the village doctor
the watchful guardian retired for a
few weeks to let the cuts heal up.
We are pleased to see the interest
that is being taken by our farmers
with regard to the starting of a
creamery in Edmore. It looks now as
though it would be an easy matter to
secure the necessary number OF cows
to make creamery a paying invest
m.nt here and we hope to see the pro-
ject pushed. Let us get up rousing
meeting some time in the near future
and have the farmers come in and
talk the matter over and decide upon
an organization. ~
Commissioner Mccormick re turned
Saturday from Devils Lake where he
spent several days with other county
commissioners checking up the work
of the several official papers of the
county, Mr.. Mccormick being under
the impression that said papers have
regularly overe harged the county for
the past eight years or more for the
publ alton Of the county commission
ers' proceedings.
E J. Fowler, alias "Slim.'' who
has been rustling freight at the dep 1t
and carrying the mail for the past
year, was called to Grand Forks Sun
day to undergo an examination with a
view to promotion in the railway SER
vice. He passed west Tuesday enroute
to Rugby to take position as passen-
ger brakeman on the Bottineau
branch.
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HAMPDEN.
From the Reporter.
Miss Anna Iverson departed Satur-