The Wahpeton times., 1905-10-05
RUSSELL wants ! town hall.
The Cando mill has been sold.

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Booze vendors seem thick over the
state.
| North Dakota has over 100 national
banks.
Prairie fire stories will soon be in
circulation.
Some fine samples Of apples are
found at Walcott.
There are thousands of acres of fine
flax around Velva.
Mayville is still discussing the or.
ganiZation of a. band
Cooperstown is building lot of res.
idences this summer.
A hobo headquarters near Coopers.
town is to be broken up.
The Great Northern is to erect q
brick depot at Glendale.
Hillsboro merchants report an ex-
ceptionally good business.
Box car merchants have been work
ing northern Ward county.
Successful nurseries are in operation
at many points in the state.
Whooping cough is epidemic in
| some parts of Walsh county.
A switch engine service has been in
augurated at Harvey by the 500.
The season has certainlyb cen long
one-even If it was trifle moist.
A field of wheat near st. Thomas
| went twenty-one bushels per acre.
The farmers of Bottineau county are
getting the largest yield since 1895.
| The people of Mcleod are still han
! kering after that 500 depot and agent.
| There was some disappointment
| around Pingree over the wheat yields.
The tale of the thresher on the Mis-.
souri, slope is not disappointing one.
considerable amount of durum
wheat was raised in Pembina county.
A farmers elevator is being COM
pleted at Russell, ahead of the rail-
road.
A 3O.000-acre trac. of land in McIn-
tosh county recently changed owner.
ship.
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and destroyed without the order Of the
court.
| Leeds Is long on tin horn gamblers
who arrived there to fleece the farm Ia
bOrers.
A school house in Dickey county was
| struck by lightning and burned to tho
| ground.
A he coon, mulatto and two white
| girls were chased from a camp near
Cooperstown.
| The report that drunken man kick.
ed his way out of the Stutsman county
Jail is denied.
This is good year for retrievers, az
the duck shooting Is much better than
chicken killing.
Two brothers beat a Wells county
deputy sheriff till his face was like q
slaughter house.
A Dickey county man was examined
by the insanity board and given GER
! tificate Of insanity.
The North Dakota university has
added two crack football players from
Michigan to its team.
A board jumper from ST. Thomas
was overtaken on the way to Grand
Forks and made to dig up.
There are said to be several cases Of
scarlet fever near Harvey that have
not been officially reported.
A Traill county man was arrested
on the charge of handling girl so
roughly that he broke her arm.
The crops in the Antelope valley,
near Oberon. are going from nineteen
| TO twenty-five bushels per acre.
| Darlington captured pair of enthu-
siastic baseball fans when DR.. and Mrs.
Harmon of Fargo located in that city.
There is no denying that the central
and western parts of the state have the
laugh ON the Red river valley this
year.
| The efforts of Congressman Marshall
in getting rural free delivery estab-
| lished in the state is generally appre-
ciated.
As result of trespassing cattle it
is charged that Frank Kethman as
! saulted Rev. and Mrs. Bascom, near
| BOwdon.
| The 500 Is said to have sidetracked
300 cars at Washburn early in the
shipping season to carry grain from
| that section.
The citizens of Tioga took pains to
keep the telegrapher protected during
the strike, and new depot is promised
as reward.
| The Morton county fair is said to
have been better than the state fairs
formerly held at Mandan, and didn't
cost half SO much. =
Some Of the citizens of Lisbon pro
tested against the violation of the Sab.
bath in working. keeping stores open.
hunting, fishing, etc.
The thousands of acres Of uncut
wheat in the Red river valley isathe
strongest argument that can be made