The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-06-25

bond issue.
M. E. Sperry is the new proprietor
Of the Aneta Panorama.
The Northern Pacific will locate q
pumping station at Medina
A Medina man has an offer to do q
high-wire stunt at the st. Louis fair
daily.
Lilac hedges are said to have been
grown with great success at James
town.
The K. P. band Of Minnewaukan will
furnish music at Fessenden on the
Fourth.
McHenry has a newly organized gun
club which starts out with q favorable
showing.
The Ringing circus will strike some
Of the bigger towns in the state again
this year.
The Benson County Telephone com.
pany Is putting In poles for an Esmond
exchange.
Carl Nelson. residing lear Courte-
nay, was drowned while fishing In
Jim" lake.
Cooperstown is contemplating the
establishment of a first-class city light
ing system.
A Foster county candidate for sher.
III has q boom that laps clear over into
Stutsman county.
A couple of Churchs Ferry young
men have a gasoline launch Of their
own manufacture.
MRS. Wigs Of the Cabbage Patch"
is said to have struck the state in an
Evolutionary form.
An Illinois real estate nan has per-
suaded a colony Of fifty families to To-
cate near Edgeley.
A camera club has been organized
at Fargo with membership open to all
residents Of the state.
North Dakota's expenses IN dipping
cattle to destroy the scab disease will
approximate 100000.
Edgeley will have a series of re-
ligious meetings conducted by Evan
gelist Robert L. Jones.
Buffalo people are receiving liberal
praise for the good entertainment pro-
vided at the racing meet.
Buford is not too far out on the from
tier to have a lawn tennis club. and
may also possess a few dudes. 81
A double wedding Of popular young
people afforded a pleasant social sem
sation at WheatTgnd last week. N
Williston has a new orchestra or
ganized by a former theatrical man
who has recently located there.
Some of the farmers. Institutes are
reported is being unusually we'll at
tended for this time Of the year.. -.
Mohall people want to regulate some
of their apparently unbeatable institu-
lions of a questionable character.
., Cando people are planning an espeA;
.cially good time for visitors at their:
city during the races June % to 30.
Havana's physician, DR.. Steele, took
advantage of the June matrimonial &C.
tivity and secured himself a popular
bride. ... ,
A Wilton boy named Brodie died OF
a gunshot wound, the circumstances OF
which are being investigated by the
authorities.
The annual meeting of the State
Sportsmen's association was held at
Minot with favorable weather" and g
good attendance. e.. -:
The third trial of William Barry Of
Milton on the charge Of numbering his
hired man resulted in a renewal of tho
verdict of guilty. -
The little seven-year-old o OF Mr..
and Mrs. Sever Halvorson of Valley
City was drowned while playing i'm 9
boat on the river.
A malady known as "blind measles"
resulted in the+death of two little chill.
dren at Sawyer within a short time
after being taken sick.
HOBBS will be asked to vacate the
park at Valley City so some Of the
citizens and their wives, daughters and
best girls have a chance.
The Junior partner of the firm Of
Bennett & Montgomery was happily
welded last week to a Grand Forks
girl, Miss Anna Walker.
A w%est-bound 500 flyer was wrecked
near Cathay while going at the rate
of thirty-fve miles an hour. No sert-
GUS personal injuries are reported.
A New Rockford couple, who eloped
| from the woman's husband and three
children, were caught, at velva and
| taken back to answer for their folly.