The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-05-14
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Tor clumsy work. :.
Farmers at Penn will build a CO
operative creamery.
A new Presbyterian parsonage at
Mandan cost $1,000. "
Osnabrock's new national bank is
ready for business.
New Rockford and Cathay will be con-
nected by telephone.
Many towns are getting new rural
mail routes this spring.
A Masonic Temple will be erected
at Edgeley this season.
Church people in Souris are support
ing a missionary in China.
A couple of telephone lines in Trail
county have consolidated.
Children at Devils Lake gave a
flower carnival May s and z.
Park River will issue $4,000 for an
addition to the school house.
Additional drainage is being planned
tor Walsh county this season.
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ices at Litchville this summer.
Several local bands have reorgan.
lied for the summers campaign. .
Gov. Whites proclamation calls for
Arbor day celebration On May 49,.
Senator McCumber will deliver the
Decoration day address at Lakota.
A four-horse runaway created con
sternation in the streets of Fargo.
Jewish people at Grand Forks will
build a large new school this year.
William ,McMaster, a well-known res.
ident Of Mckinney, was drowned last
week.
A number of local gun clubs are
getting ready for a good summers
sport.
An electro-plating plant is one OF
the new industries being installed ut
-Hillsboro.
At York two ladies narrowly es-
capped serious injuries in a runaway:
accident. q
A pal. of Japs nea Espga tackled a
bob cat and laid him out q la wal in
the Orient.
Crazy people look for better things
as a result Of the recent Incorporation
of their village.
Work on the state capitol extension
will be pushed without Interruption
until completed.
Rev. J. G. B. Peck, a clergyman Of
Wilton, was recently welded at EN-
erson, Manitoba.
Democrats are said to be considering
M. F. Hegge of Hatton as a guberna-
torial possibility. :
"A Glenburn lumber man was stuck
for payment on a bond which he
signed ten years ago. &
George H. Stevens Of Towner has
placed 4,5003 head Of cattle on Will
liarns county ranges.
D. K. Brightbill of Towner county
is being groomed for a place on the
Republican state ticket.
A school book a 8 from Norwich
has been occupying the attention Of
the state supreme court.
Editor Crary of Edmore announces
himself as a candidate for represen-
tative from Ramsey county.
Legal business is so quiet in Sargent.
county that the May term Of court will
be convened without a jury.
Ex-Fire Chief Runge of Minneapolis
will be made acting chief Of the fire
department at Grand Forks:
The flooded districts are said to
have. had one advantage. The high
water drowned out the gophers.
Rev. Thomas Dougan. a popular
Langdon divine, has been called to
the pastorate of a church in Chicago.
Lincoln township in Ward county
has had an increase Of 200 per cent
in taxable property since one year
ago.
The Beaver ranch. valued at SIS,
600, near Montpelier, is the subject
Of somA late litigation in stutsman
county. -. ~ r;
Senator Hansbrough was named to
head the Ramsey county delegation to
the Republican state convention at
Fargo. II: ss~s q ~
Some Williams county stockmen are
said to have run their stock into Mon.
tana till the North Dakota assessors
got through.
Two deaths resulted from. scarlet
fever at WilNston last week. and the
disease is reported prevalent In sew
eral other localities.
The candidacy Of H. T. Hegelson Of
Milton for governor: is said to have
precipitated an unlooked-for factor into
the politics of the state.
A Norwich party forged q check on
the local bank, but when the money
was not forthcoming he failed to
wait to be apprehended.
1t is expected that the Devils Lake
reservation will be thrown open to set
Element some time in. August. The
lands will be, soldsat $3.50 per acre.
A number Of peripatetic vendors.
about the state seem to be coming in
conflict with the peddlers' license law,
to the disadvantage Of the vendors. J.
A section. foreman at Sawyer step
ned OF the railroad bridge to let q
pile driver pass andiwas nearly drown
ed before he could be, rescued from the