The Wahpeton times., 1905-11-16
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Minot has q negro. horse thief.
This is the pneumonia season.
New Rockford had a fire alarm.
A forger got in his work at Minot.
A bank has been organized at Col
fax.
An ice rink is being agitated for in
Linton.
The youngsters are enjoying the
skating.
Pingree people are providing for bet.
ter schools.
The town of Lehr is enjoying a
building boom.
The farmers mill at Devils Lake is
nearly completed.
Larinlore people are sore over the
Halloween pranks.
There has been lot. of grain steal
ing in Ramsey county.
There is a rush for marriage H.
censes in some counties.
Durum wheat has revolutionized
things in Ransom county.
Some Of the new battleships should
be named after North Dakota.
Rolla people had an exciting man
hunt after an escaped prisoner.
The brand of booze sold at Mandan
must make the citizens pugilistic.
City lots in the business section of
Minot are selling at a high price.
There was not a dissenting vote cast
on the Incorporation Of Sykeston.
The people of Spring Brook want
the .postofice made a money order Of
flee.
At Devils Lake man was stricken
with heart failure and was injured in
q fall.
It's up to the people Of the state to
reform-the penitentiary is over
crowded.
There is said to be some lively cam
paigning in Trail! county for offices
next year.
Mandan is making an effort to Sc.
cure militia company. Meetings are
being held.
A lot Of fellows who have knocked
durum wheat are clambering onto the
band wagon.
Turkey raffles are being held so the
''birds" can be fattened in time for
Thanksgiving.
At Minot three men held up a Rus
sian. They secured six eggs and a
bushel of oats.
At Napoleon there were sixty-six
wagon loads of grain lined up awaiting
a turn to unload.
H. A. Knudson of Burleigh county
raised oats that went eighty-one BUSH
els per acre.
The senatorship from the Hillsboro
district in Trail county seems to be
a coveted plum.
The Great Northern extension from
Mohall to Crosby may pass through
Flaxton on the 500.
There are reported to be some more
changes in sight among North Dakota
land Office officials.
A Milton blind pigger was arrested.
Warrants were out for others, but they
were not rounded up.
The delinquent subscribers in some
sections Of the state have contracted
the habit Of paying up.
There is lot of gas in the artesian
well at Mandan and It may be utilized
Tor commercial purposes.
Mandan and Bismarck are exchang-
ing few short-arm jolts on trade ad-
vantages and disadvantages.
Mandan expects great advantages
from Northern Pacific railway exten-
sions through Morton county.
s. s. Small, "a years of age, died
near DeLamere. He was soldier in
the Mexican and in the Civil wars.
Extra police force in many towns in
the state prevented the usual depreda-
tions by the Halloween youngsters.
There is row at Christine over the
condition in which the contractor left
the road after the completion of
drain.
A farmer sold a wagon load OF
pumpkins in Langdon and everybody
had pumpkin pie like mother used to
make.
There are said to be thousands of
acres Of unthreshed grain north of
Edgeley. Lack of help is said to be
the cause.
Seven suits of clothing were stolen
from store at Devils Lake. The
thief evidently wanted suit for every
day in the week.
Deputy Commissioner of Agriculture
Kaufman will attend the national
meeting of. the farmers institute d.
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