The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-01-23
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good shape.
Minot has more than 200 telephone
subscribers.
The artcsian we'll at Jamestown will
not be resurrected.
Hannah's holiness Movement" peo-
pie have a church.
Steele's telephone service is giving
general satisfaction.
Some one swiped notes and accounts
of Simon Ehr of Minot.
Grand Forks BARRIERS have organized
and will close at 8 p. m.
Erick Lee of Crystal lost a leg be-
cause of dead bone at the knee.
1t is claimed there is no cattle scab.
on the east side of the Missouri river.
The report of the Medina bank had
oeen robbed is said to have been a mis-
take.
Ward county expects 10 miles Of
railroad to be built in that county this
year.
Early closing is the vogue in nearly
ever ytown in the state since the holt
days.
The dedication of the new school
building at Ve1va was a big affair in
that town.
DR.. T.. c. Smith of Dickinson has re-
signed as the captain of Company X,
N. D. N. G.
Around Goodrich the farmers want
the county to offer a bounty for gopher
destruction.
G. Fl. Weed of Minot claims to own
the pistol with which Aaron Burr kill
ed Hamilton.
The establishment of SO many rural
routes is killing OF star routes and
small postofaces.
Courtenay stockmen have been pur-
chasing some finely bred cattle to i'm
prove their herds.
An effort Is being made to remove
c. L. King, recently appointed post
master at Dehhon.
1t is said Greene, formerly of Bis
marck, has made $4,000 since he has
been in Darlington.
The last report is that the Great
Northern will take the shops back to
! Williston from Minot.
The people of Ayr were considerably
wrought up over the breach of prom
Use and SANDER cases.
Blind Pigger Rice of CouTtenay got
a six months sentence and a $500 fine
on a second conviction.
The sewer system is the chief topic
| for discussion at Bismarck during the
temporary political lull.
At Church's Ferry a young man is
said to have received a proposal q
minute after 1904 began.
There is still some talk about a base
ball league to include Sargent, Rich
land and Ransome counties.
The GraEd Forks County Fair asso-
\ citation rejected the old officers.
1 Mayor Dinnie heads the list.
La Moure is said to be one of the
most enthusiastic towns In the state
! in the interests of the A. o. u. w.
Representatives of the government
| are in the state gathering financial sta
| tistics for q financial publication.
Notwithstanding the fact that Ed
more has q railroad, the mail service
| is to be improved by a star route.
It is now claimed that the Great
| Northern will be extended sixteen
| miles beyond Westhope in the spring.
The next meeting of the medical as
| scc:ation of the Sixth judicial district
| will be held at Dickinson in February.
A large bunch of laps who have been
Employed by the Great Northern in
:i.e wc-tcrn part of the state will take
up claims.
C~rca.aeries have caused a revolution
+, awairs on the Missouri slope, and
I've %rancher~ is no longer the entire
>rt.cession.
The Richland county commissioners
appropriated $40 to assist in, paying
lie of the farmers institute
Wahpeton.
A compromise was, reached a: Lid
.rwood in the row between the town
ID tie 500 for q crossing, and ono
III be b,llt.
The state university buildings were
'.c:ough!y fnmigated during the holt.
AVS and there is no fear Of scarlet
/: G epidemic.
Slcaburn claims to have the best
urnly of water Of any of the towns
long the new Great Northern extern
sion from Granville.
Mckinney complains that there are
me u men in that section whose
.hief ambition seems to be to get
runk at public dances.
Miss Laura Diesem Of La Moure,
,ut recently q teacher in the school
{ Benton, Mont, has been selected to
aye charge Of the Montana educa-
ional exhibit at st. Louis.
Joseph Phillibeck of Glenullin was
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