The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-03-19
Crary wants to incorporate.

Lineon way get an electric light
plant.
The Hankinson baseball fans are
getting busy.
New settlers are coming into the
state in a rush.
Rural telephones may be established
out of Kenmare.
Starkweather will vote on school
bonds March 26.
Devils Lake taxpayers insist assess
ments are too high.
There is a shortage Of dwelling
houses in Valley City.
senecal's blacksmith shop at Olga
was destroyed by fire.
The Germans of Dickinson organized
a ~non-partisan political club.
Mohall has organized IN athletic
club with forty-two members.
A canvas is being made of Gran
vile regarding incorporation.
The quarantine on some smallpox
cases at Dunseith was removed.
Williston people had a flour famine
while freights were snowbound.
Edmore people are much encour-
aged on the creamery proposition.
The jamestown mill has turned out
$4,000 barrels of flour since Sept. l.
Former Banker Baldwin Of Cassel.
ton is in the mercantile business now.
A Tioga blind pigger is said to be
in danger of doing a stunt in the pen.
The activity of the Ward county pol
iticians has created a lot of com-
ment.
Some Iowans are sending to North
Dakota for macaroni wheat and will
give it a test. 5,
North Dakotans who have been
| spending the winter in the East are
beginning to drift back.
The stockholders of the Mandan fair
will meet next week to elect directors
and get ready for this years fair.
If. present plans materialize there
will be three, possibly four, baseball
leagues in the state this summer.
A dairy has been established near
Kenmare and the people are getting
good milk.
The people of Cando want the plat
form at the Great Northern depot
made wider.
Miss Siocum of New Rockford, who
was fined for licking one of her pupils,
formerly taught at Neche.
The mortgages on the editorial ex-
cursion didn't seem to write back
many letters about the trip.
There seems to be some dissension
among the promoters of the railroad
between Leeds and Dunseith.
The Indications are that the Turtle
mountain country near Bottineau will
eventually be q great summer resort.
Peter Rae, a young Benson county
boy, was riding on horseback. His
steed fell and young Rea's leg was
broken.
Adolph M. Mikkelson, who won first
| place in the oratorical contest at the
agricultural college, is = Ramsey coan-
ty boy.
Some North Dakotans who have
been in the Minnesota woods this win
ter complain Of difacu'ty in securing
their pay
Some enc has been stealing cakes
cooked By q Starkweather lady, and
she got up q loaded one that landed
one fellow.
Rural telephones seem to follow the
$1,000 --A ->..A>~ A. A. R~oo~~u ~At
accustomed to n good thing they
want another.
Miss Sfocum, the New Rockford
teacher who was fined IS for licking .
pupil, has resigned, and Is now locking
after her claim.
There IRE said to be several fakirs
. over the state endeavoring to swindle
the people by collecting funds for
some scheme or other.
A. C. Newman Of Fingal believes it's
unlucky to walk under ladders. The
last one he monkeyed with fen and
cut q big cash in his head.
The alleged attempt to wreck the
Northern Pacific ear Medina is still
unexplained. The man arrested foE
the o6ense has been discharged.
Kenmare school children will assist
in the erection of . new school build.
INK BY contributing 10 cents each from
money earned by their " efforts.
A child was born to Attorney and
Mrs. George X. Shaw Of Fessendon,
Feb. %, and is the second n in that
town whose birthdays will be rather
far apart. Z,
Up in Ward county q rancher was
taking a short cut through . neighbor-
ing homestead and drove over Q hen
house which was covered by . big
snow drift.
Last year Ward county tried the
strychnine cure for gophers and this
year the bounty plan will be adopted.
Valley City kids have been making
a lot of trouble for patrols Of the post
Office by creating disturbances in the
lobby.
He Knew His Own Weakness.
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