The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-05-14
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A big band is assured for Graudin.
Seed wheat is In demand at Saw.
yer
Balfour business men favor incorpo.
ratidh.
Napoleon is a popular place for duck
hunters.
Walhalla has an epidemic of the
mumps.
A Berthold boy was shot through
the heel.
The Granville bottling works are in
operation.
Sandoun in Ransom county has a
new paper.
starkweather is to have a $500
school house.
The Towner ball team is to be all
home talent,
The Minot telephone exchange haa
been improved.
Ward county people killed thous.
ands Of gophers.
Wyndmere is to have a fast ball
team this spring.
Ward county will pay out about
$2,00O*inagopher bounties..
There 'wasaslot ar opposing vote to.
incorporation at Westhope.
Jamestownites are after the N. P.
Tor the long promised depot.
The first payment has been made
on the McHenry county Jail.
A thirteen-year-old Des Laos girl
killed thirty gophers in two days.
Many cattle died arouni Fort Berth.
old from some mysterious disease.
Some of the nurses at the asylum
have resigned to go to their claims.
The Stanley grocery stock in Cassel.
ton is said to have been sold-aaain.
Nineteen packages Of booze we're
c%onfscated at Lansford by the off,
Gals.
An effort is being made to establish
a vegetable, canning factory at James
town.
The present staff of teachers at Wal.
halla is popular and may be re-en-
gagged.
The prior Of st. Mary's at Richard.
ton will be raised to the dignity Of an
abbot. ~
Fargo's Baptists haYe raised $1,000
of the $4,000 desired for a new church
ediice.
The shipment of quails to be turned
loose in Stutsman county arrived in
good shape. 4
Atmospheric electricity is causing a
lot of trouble with the telephone lines
at Bismarck. 1ss 7s~ &
"A Sunday school was organized at
Norwich by ]. B. Clapp. the Presby.
terian worker &S Z
The gopher hunt at Norwich result
ed in the destruction of about 1000 of
the little pests.
w. H. Mann sold $3.50 worth of
vegetables off eleven acres at Minot
during last
Havana has signed a fast ball team
and is going after the state champion
ship in great shape. n
German .Evangelicals have Just dedi
= Gated the first church edifce to be
erected at Balfour.
Independent electric light and tele.
phone men meet at Grand Forks this
week to reorganize.
Minoters are working to ecure the
Presbyterian college that seems to be
slated for Bottineau.
Some of the Williams county publ
cations are 80 sore at each other that
they do not exchange. ~
Capt. Herman, a Devils Lake pio-
aeer, predicts q good a as a re.
suit of the late spring. !,
I A forthcoming directory of Fargo is
expected to show considerable increase
in the city's population.
Local Improvement leagues are &C.
curing substantial improvements In
many towns Of the state.
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ia summer carnival will be held In
Fargo again this season, the dates hav-
ing been set for July IL to 18.
New postofaces have been establish
ed at Gravely, Bottineau county, and
Marston Moor. stutsmsn county.
High school athistea of the state.
held q meeting n & the university
grounds at Grand Forks Saturday.
a Ward county man ~as upset from
! wagon into. four feet of water and
lost q pocketbook containing over
$500,
"a Grafton. man is building his own
automobile, and viii have two engines.
Ifsone goes bump he a still get
home,
.lG~reatSenorts are being made in Will
Mams county to improve the horses
BY the importation Of fine thorough.
breds. ii
Mayor Connolly of Mandan will
regulate" the resorts tn Mandan. In
other towns the mayors have to chase
a residence destroyed last week by
ssfre at Abercrombies was the last re-
maining relic, OF the buildings constf.
4utingg old Fort Abercrombie. The