The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-05-28
Conway has q new bowling alley.
Williston may have q third neWspa

The Northern league baseball season
is fairly under way.
The state school for the deaf closes
it's years work June 6.
Ransom county has a new newspaper,
+ the Sandoun Enterprise.
An Aneta blind pigger pleaded guilty
and got the usual sentence.
Quite a number of Lisbon people are
attending the St. Louis fair.
Mayor Wall drove the first spike for
the new Fargo street railway.
A number of sections in the state re-
port seeding about completed.
The Washburn steamers plying Cd
the Missouri may change hands.
The foundation for the addition to
the state capitol has been completed
Ethel Hardness of Benson county
has been committed to the state asy'
lum.
Maj. Black of Valley City has re-
turned after q prolonged sightseeing
tour.
McHeEry sports are taking up the
universal inquiry, "How about q ball
team?"
Pembina county farms adjoining
Tongue river were flooded again lsf
week.
Balfour may have to get a fire de-
partment or corral the kids with
matches.
One thousand trees were planted In
Dwight Park at Finley the day after
Arbor day.
Edmore has a new flour and feed
store and may have a mill established
in connection.
Sheldon people had to dig up the e c
ords to and out where their townsite
boundary was.
A couple of Cathay citizens claim to
have found n~ve.dollar gold pieces while
digging a well.
Grand Forks may secure ex-Mayor
Johnson Of Fargo as secretary OF It's
Commercial club.
The Casselton high school closes its
year vita a large graduating class and
pleasing exercises.
Recent fires in the state seem to
have spruced up the sale of f%1re-extin-
gushing material.
Implement dealers of Cass, Richland
Traill snd Steele counties have form
ed an organization.
Efforts are being made to locate the
relatives of L. Shannon, recently muir
dered near Edmore.
Former Custom Collector john T.
Duffy of Walahalla is back In the
state visiting friends. d.
Peter Dick of Engelvare, was carried
back to Nebraska, where he is wanted
on a criminal charge.
Sidney Adams, private secretary to
CONGRESSMAN T. F. Marshall, has re-
turned home to Lisbon.
The Workman order is receiving on.
comiums for the prompt payment q q
death claim at Park River.
The late DR.. Critchfie1d Of Hunter
left $4,000 in life insurance policies
among his personal effects.
A ~six-yearold girl at Abercrombie
fell under a disc harrow and sustained
injuries which may prove fatal.
women's improvement leagues are
becoming important factors in the de-
velopment Of many small towns.
Henry Hoffman, former superfntend-
ent of the Valley City lighting plant
has been reinstated to the position.
Unburied animals between Larabee
and McHenry are so numerous and Of
fensive as to be declared q nuisance.
F. A. Wilson, who recently sold the
Hamilton Independent, will devote his
attention to the sale Of Cuban real e.
tate.
President Merriield Of the state uni.
versity has been out on a tour of in
spection of the high schools OF the
state.
The bonds of Messrs. McGillivray
! and Simpson as register and receiver
| of the Dickinson land Office have been
approved.
County Supt. Fancher Of Ransom
county announces that he will retire
from his position at the end Of his
present term,
Prof. Ladd, the state chemist, an
nounces that he will prosecute viola
lions of the pure food law by the use
of coal tar sugar.
The Band, public school and music
class at Finley will wind up the pres
ent month with an interesting series Of
entertainments.
Wells county Republicans nominated
J.. A. Regan for state senator and G. v
Brown, A. Peterson and H. G. Scheel
for representatives.
The clerks and scrubs" got togeth
er for the first baseball excitement o.
the season at Park River, the scrubs
winning out, 6 to 3.
A Minot correspondent reyerts tt
business realities and writes thu
Forum that politics is not the onl!
thing in Ward county.
Finley property owners are said t.
be vieing with each other in friendl!
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