The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-05-07

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There is some talk Of a new paper at
Enderlin.
A telephone line is to be extended in
Williams county.
Page had a merger of general mer-
chandise stores.
The Cando band is reported to have
been reorganized.
Havana will have a lot of improve
ments this summer.
An Odd Fellows lodge was insti-
tuted at New Salem.
Good artesian wells are being Sc
cured around Fingal.
Hannah had a sparring match and a
tootrace on the streets.
The Forman people are enthusiastic
over baseball prospects.
Railroad men report heavy freight
shipments into the state.
Carl L. Vinges is the new postmaster
at Vinges, Burleigh county.
The rural mail route out of Litch.
vile will get busy May 16.
The Northern Pacific trains finally
got the track to Linton opened.
The Mclean officials are distributing
the s%trychnine for the gophers.
The people of New Rockford fear
the dam will be washed out.
Dr.. MacLachlin. of McHenry vas re-
Gently welded to Miss Helen Oliver.
Will Pewonka Of Page had his eye
injured by the explosion of a cartridge.
A number of fast horses will be
trained at Page for the summer races.
Agents are locating in the state to
handle harvesting machinery not in the
trust.
Articles of incorporation have been
prepared for the Minot Commercial
club.
Hobos are placed at work on the
streets by the authorities at James.
town.
North DaEctans have rapidly in.
creased the number of hogs raised in
the state.
Two Jamestown men were fined for
fast driving on the sidewalks, while
intoxicated.
The Mandan fair management has
decided on Sept. 27.29 as the dates for
its annual fair.
New towns are springing up on the
Northern Pacific extension from Edge
ley to Dawson.
There is a scrap at Jamestown over
the legality Of the w and water
main ordinances.
Postmaster Kcpner of New Rockford
is nursing a, sore hand as the result
of a bucking gun.
The farmers may organize a com
oany to put in an elevator and lumber
yard at Omemee.
A r~cs1ctfce has been established at
Claire, Stutsman county, with M. b.
Olson as stamp destroyer.
A great many farmers have decided
to drag their grain this spring, If they
can ever get it in the ground.
Receiver Fox of the Minot land Office
is improving in health and expects to
be able to resume his duties Don
There is a suit at Hankinson be-
cause the marshal shot a citizens dog
for non-payment of pound charges.
Four asylum attendants paid over
800 costs, and the prosecution against
them for assaulting a man was drop.
ped.
Druggist Rich of Litchville is said
to have crawled through a half mile
of mud to shoot at a bunch of decoy
ducks.
The roads we're so bad between
Neche and Pembina that the stage had
to be abandoned and the mail was car
ried on horseback.
The ghost of county seat removal
has been revived in Pembina county,
with Cavalier looking with eovetous
eyes on the court house.
Some Hankinson men are busy buy
ing up stock now while they are cheap,
and will sell them this fall after they
are fattened and the price advances.
Both the Great Northern and the
500 Lave suffered from floods in North
Dakota, which is not Sc bad for a state
that is said to be in the semi-arid belt.
The Congregationalists feel they
have. been especially fortunate in Sc
curing Prof. Aldrich Of Indiana to be
principal Of the academy at New Rock
ford.
Devils Lakers are jubilant over the
prospect of the opening of the reser-
walton. Minnewaukan, Oberon, Shey-
enne and other towns will join in the
prosperity.
The trial of the defendants in the
Rott murder case at Ashley cost the
people a large sum, as a change Of
venue was taken in all the to
Dickey county.
Near Drake a woman is reported to
have deserted her husband and to
have moved rel to another farm:
where she is living with a man. The
husband has arranged to get a d.
vorce.