The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-03-05
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Lisbon wants an artesian we'll.
Westhope is to have a new hotel.

Aue fdlermO pOStOHCe mas Deeu en-.
Earged.
The boost in the price Of wheat is
carrying flour up, too.
A farmers telephone company is
ranted out of Omemee.
The First National bank of Gran.
lille has been organized.
Williston is to have a sale of thor
%pughbred cattle March Is.
A two-round prize fight was pulled
off at a Granville livery barn.
An effort will be made at Bottineau
10 organize a farmers elevator.
. Edmore people called a meeting to
organize a business mems club.
There are rumors of a new time
card on the jamestown Northern.
The Standing Rock Indians seem to
he getting along nicely this winter.
The Dickinson postoflce is too
amall for that rapidly growing town.
A Reynolds man wants to evict a
tenant who permitted a dance in the
house.
Whisky cases formed the greater
part Of the court proceedings at the
80ttineau term.
The state medical board is after
aome pill peddlers who are practicing
without licenses.
jamestown n Dickinson are still
hoping the Great Northern will give
them new depots.
The wal between the Wimbledon
business men and the band seems to
grow more bitter.
The ownership of the State bank at
Bowbells has recently been transferred
10 Eastern parties.
Dickinson banks made their usual
food showing, Notwithstanding the
financial stringency.
The severe weather does not seen
20 have prevented large audiences at
The farmers Institutes.
Sheriff WEIGH of Burleigh county
reports three pairs of twin calves have
been born on his place.
There are said to be many viola
lions of the law against fishing in the
Turtle Mountain country.
Steele people held an enthusiastic
creamery meeting and will endeavor
10 get the necessary bonus.
The promoters of incorporation at
Rugby are %undaunted by the adverse
action at the mass meeting.
The optimistic people Of the state
insist that cold weather and deep now
is a sure Indication of a big crop.
Local pride causes people in most
towns that have a mill to use the
home-ground flour, which helps some.
]. o. Baughman, the erstwhile boni-
face at Devils Lake, announced his
candidacy for treasurer of Ramsey
county.
A lot of people are saving their
coin to be ready to pay real estate
taxes March 1, before they become de.
linquent.
The friends of Martin Walsh of
Grand Forks fear he will not COY
from the stroke of paralysis he suffer
Cd last month.
w. H. Carr, the man who had a ter
rible fall from a scaffold at Mohall,
has been removed to Minot to have a
foot amputated.
Kidder county has more snow than
for six or seven years, and the farm
ers and ranchmen are certain of good
crops this summer.
A suspected bootlegger was recently
arrested in Lakota. He had his nerve
after the recent roundup of booze dis
pensers in that town.
Washburn had a we'll attended
creamery meeting and q committee
was appointed to push the project of
establishing a creamery there.
The Devils Lake bank purchased the
bon..s sold for the Pelican Point
bridge and will be the, heaviest los
ers by the supreme court decision.
The grains and grasses from Town
er county have been shipped to Fargo
for placing with the rest of the state
exhibit for the ST. Louis exposition. :.
a Cheyenne preacher has thirteen
children and q letter from the pres
ident commenting him on the large
but unlucky number of his progeny.
By the burning of a barn at Rose
bud, Morton county, Paul Reuther's
barn was burned, togethe rwith two
horses, COW and calf, harness and 9th
er stuff.
Noonan township in Ramsey county
lost in a suit with a road grading con-
cern. The farmers of the township
voted down a proposition to buy a
grader but the supervisors purchased
one anyway. The court holds they
had authority, to act and the township
must pay.
Some farmers who have stock that
are liable to be short of hay before
the new grass comes have contrived
homemade snow plows, with two
planks put together wedge shape and
properly braced. They hitch enough
horses to this continuance and run it
over the ground where they know
there is plenty of grass. 1t displaces