The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-03-05

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Extensive experiments In irrigation
will be made this summer nearA.New
Salem.
IL" A Rutland man deserted his family
and is supposed to have returned to
Germany. A.. ~.
There is regret that the creamery
organization at Cooperstown failed to
materialize.
The Coe Commission company has
closed its offices at Bismarck and
Dickinson. /.
The Northern Pacific is making IN
usual efforts to get new settlers in the
Northwest.
A Grand Forks boy stole a hide.
The father settled and then took it out
of the boys hide.
Grand Forks has a breach of prom,
Use case in which a schoolmarm is the
complaining witness.
At Couctenay some wicked boys
swiped "a silk tile from q book agent,
and never came back.
Some n has discovered that oat.
meal is not a good food, and all the
Scots are on the warpath.
"A Barlow man burned his straw
stack to prevent it being eaten by
stock belonging to q neighbor.
The Grafton hen show was not q
success financially and some of the
promoters are discouraged.
Grafton offers to give Valley City
some pointers on how to run an cleo
trio light plant to advantage. !.
There seems to be nothing in q
name-a boy named Christ was badly
injured near New Rockford.
Grafton people are rejoicing over
the reinstatement Of some rural deliv-
cry routes that were cancelled.
The nationality of q man at Darcy
was suspected and he published 4
statement about the matter.
There were many narrow escapes
from death in the western part Of the
state during the recent storms.
The Evolutionary entertainments by
Miss Tillotscn are said not to have
given satisfaction in several towns.
Dealers report a falling of in the
sales % ice crea freezers. fans and
ny screens during the past three
weeks.
There is a silver lining to all kinds
Of clouds, and the talk of a good crop
following the severe winter should be
true.
Many men came from the woods in
Minnesota to asst: in shoveling the
trains out in the drifts in North Da-
kota.
Sargent county is about as proud of
its fine artesian wells as La Moure is
of the oil well and Kidder of gold
finds.
An effort will be made to hurry up
the trial Of Murderer Rozum of Pisek,
whose victim. was q Philippine war
veteran. as !.
From the excessive snowfall tp,some
sections o. the Red river valley it is
expected there will be another food
this spring.
Grandville had a fire in which the
furniture belonging, to Peter Peterson
vas destroyed and a canine was burn
ed to death. =.
At Kenmare some one left q silver
dollar with p. N. Cole. with a note that
the amount was due him and came as
q. conscience fund. ~ r
Some 81. the teachers are talking of
organizing q teachers union with a
uniform scale of wages for the differ
emit grades.
There is a plan to organize a big
Benson county band with players
from Oberon, Leeds, Minnewaukan
and other places.
The Bottineau county board of
health will be invoked to secure the
removal of some defunct equines from
ear Westhope. ~ -.
Perseverance will win in the long
run. Washburn has been agitating a
creamery proposition for two years
and. finally won out, ; ~ III. ssa s3as.>s,
Supt. StcckwelI has rendered an
opinion that school districts. SHOULD
stand: the discounts on the warrants
for teschers' salaries. is.qf sH.
The Wahpeton preachers win insist
ona making the candidates for, once
declare themselves on, the prohibition
question at the coming; elections. ~
A farmer, at .Prattford, Pembina
county, invented q; big tanning mill.
which he operated with attraction en-.
CINE and cleaned his seed grain
A Binford elevator man found, his
dog down In the pit Of the; concern.
The caa;ssshad been missing . week
aid was a tribe .c::!ly and hungry.
The people df Steele are aroused
and r hustling iiof q lot Of things
that will benefit the town. A business
men't association will be organized.
Despite the fact that q new batch OF.
meiics were recently authorized to
practice in the state, several towns
still imagine they want . physician.
The destruction Of the Minor school
building was especially unfortunate at
this season Of the year, when it Ii diff
icult to secure comfortable rooms to
continue the work.
Macaroni wheat. lie being advertised
for sale in many sections 'sof. the state
where It has not been grown before,
and the acreage this year will be larg-