The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-03-12
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Bowbells clairns-a lot Of expert me-
0hanics.
Drayton may secure an electric
4ght plant.
A young boy at Walcott attempted
q burglary.
Shack thieves have been operating
around Des Laos. ,a
Denhigh and Towner continue to
jibe at each other.
At Lakota the sports have consid'
cradle fun with snow boats.
The Richland county court house
seems to be a good fire trap.
Willow City business men are
planning to have a city hall.
The rural mail carriers are not
Boosting of snaps this winter.
Claim shanty thieves are said to
have operated north of Medina.
Devils Lake will take on a boom il
the reservation is opened this spring.
j. D. Cooler and r. Goer Of Devils
Rake have formed a legal partnership.
Many farmers around Donnybrook
will seed macaroni wheat, this spring.
Two children from Flaxton we're
cent to the North Dakota children's
home in Fargo.
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fine grain samples in the states ex-
hibit at st. Louis.
George H. Rirgenheimer, former
agent at Standing Rock, is q candidate
for the pen ~wardenship.
At Kenmare school will probably be
neld in some of the churches till a new
building can be erected.
Some of the stockmen on the slope
deny the report that cattle have been
suffering for lack Of feed.
The row between Methodist Parson
Aemery of Forman and County Audi
tor Herolz of Linton is still on.
A woman elocutionist is said to
have the same sore throat in every
town she strikes in the state.
Threatened coal strikes have few
terrors for North Dakotans now that
the end of winter seems in sight.
The state militia officials predict
that the next state encampment will
he the best the boys have ever had.
Some farmers refuge to purchase
fbrmaldehyde for treatment of seed
anless it is officially Endorsed by chem
lists.
The Southern North Dakota racing
circuit has been r~eorganized and some
exciting sport is promised this sum-
mer.
There is some talk of organizing a
baseball league to include Hll!sboro,
Mayville, Hope, Halstead and other
towns. -
North Dakotans are beginning to
appreciate the possibilities in raising
seed potatoes for farmers in other
states.
E. F. Russell of Larimore, who is
alleged to have invented a perpetual
motion machine, formerly resided at
Walcott.
There have been a lot of estray
ley a wholesale business was done in
that line.
Abercrombie people want to get IN
airline railroad to Duluth. A. K.
Tweeto, a prominent resident, is in
terested.
Some people at Edmore have been
making life a burden for the Great
Northern officials because of the poor
train service.
d. Since the completion Of the Pelican
Point bridge several thousand dollars
worth of hay and wood have been sold
in Devils Lake.
R. L. Rinehart and family, formerly
Of Cando, who were supposed to have
persisted in the theater in Chicago,
are alive and well.
The old Red river cart that was
shown at the Chicago worlds fair will
be shown at the st. Louis exposition
by North Dakotans. 4
There is said to be heavy snow {
along the Northern Pacific from Me-
dina clear to the Montana line, heav-
lest about New Salem.
The railroad AolArup scare may re-
suit in the rounding up of some cattle
thieves that have been operating In
the hills south of Medina. i
At Ashley a merchant refused to
shovel CT the snow from the, sidewalk
in front Of his store and the marshal
hired a man to Go the job.
Some OF the Cavalier county people
advise the officials to accept a plea
of guilty by Barry on a minor charge
TO avoid another expensive trial.
If the new regulation of the gen.
sral land Office regarding proofs be-
comes effective, the United States
commissioners will lose a lot of bust
ness.
Some of the progressive farmers
have their machinery repaired, har.
ness oiled, seed wheat cleaned, and
everything ready for the spring work
10 begin.
Every section of the state where
nacaroni wheat has. been grown prom
ises to increase the acreage, and lots
of other parts of the state will try tho i