The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1906-08-24
Brief LOCAL MENTION.

R. F. Hadwen has purchased the DR..
Lenfest residence property on north
Main street, for which he paid 81, 100.
Miss Fora Abbott has accepted a po-
sition as stenographer in the State
Bank, where the young lady entered
upon her duties last Monday.
T. A. Thorkelson, of Fingal, this
state, special agent for the Germania
Life ms. Co., was looking up business
in his line in Bowbells the first of the
week.
Rev. J. r. Landsborough, wife and
child left for Park River on Tuesday
morning, where they will visit friends
and relatives before starting on their
return trip for their home on the coast.
Geo. S. White unloaded his threshing
rig, consisting of separator, engine and
cook car, which arrived via the 500
Line from Irwin, S. D., on Monday, and
took it out to his farm, three miles
northeast of town, Tuesday. The sepa-
rator is known as the Farmers Friend,
and is much used through Iowa and
South Dakota.
Uncle Denis Donovan tells us that
when he read in The Tribune of last
week the experience of the Martin
family in the early days in the back
woods of Wisconsin, he could not keep
his mind from reverting to the early
settlement of Minnesota, round about
some thirty years ago, when
money was the exception and hard
knocks and short rations the rule.
"Times have changed since then," said
the old gentleman, "and the man who
had the stamina to live it through and
stay by his land is now, if in the land
Of the living, enjoying the fruits of his
staying qualities.
T. M. Hadwen, a brother of our
townsman, R. F., and prominent
stockman from the range south of Sen
tinel Butte, stopped here for few
days. visit with Fleet while en- route to
the Canadian northwest, where he goes
to look over some territory in Alberta
with view of transferring his ranch
business to that country, the encroach-
ments of settlers rendering profitable
ranching in North Dakota out of the
question from now on. Mr.. H. has on
his Sentinel Butte ranch about 800 head
Of cattle and some 200 head of horses,
which he will ship to such location az be
may decide upon in Alberta. Accompa-
nying him here was his foreman, Dick
Smith.
The price of wheat is low, and may
go lower; but if you think it will go
higher, I will store your wheat so long
as have room and loan you 45 cents
per bushel on the storage tickets, at z
per cent interest, and will cash those
tickets at Is cents off the cash price at
Minneapolis or Duluth any day you wish
to sell out. will only issue storage
tickets for Nos. l and 2 wheat and No.
flax. That you may know my charge
is not too big margin off Minneapolis
and Duluth quotations, / will say that
the freight, commission at Minneapolis
Or Duluth, incidental at terminal and
cost of handling and insurance here fig
1res up just IA cents per bushel, leav-
ing me a modest profit of l cent for
risk and advances. R. E. Knowlton. AZ
The wind storm Saturday night raised
havoc with some of the claim shacks
and hay stacks over in the hills country.
David Switzer returned from his farm
IN Tuesday and reports the property of
some of his neighbors strewn over the
prairie as if struck by cyclone. The
shack of a Mr.. Mellin, about half a
mile from the Switzer homestead, was
torn in two, one part being carried by
the wind into the middle of a slough
and the other half landed on the bank
Of the same slough, while his stove and
furniture were broken to smithereens
and the bedding carried-no one knows
where. The Mellin haystacks, too, were
badly torn up and the stuff scattered
broadcast over the prairie. This is only
one Of many such instances. Bill Sew
ard, who lives just over the hills, about
l6 miles south of town, had much the
same experience. His haystacks were
blown to pieces and while his house was
not blown down, it was SO badly ''shuck
up" that the pictures fell from the
walls where they were hung.
A. l.. Harden, who was here last
week from Redfeld, Iowa. on a visit to
his brother Eldy and family, informed
The Tribune that our former townsman
and friend, Uncle Tom Wyckoff, had q
close call last spring from being crema-
ted while visiting at the home of his
in Illinois. It appears that
the latter is an inveterate smoker and
while enjoying a pull from her old pipe
one day fire from the dhudheen fell on
and ignited her skirt, which blazed up
and enshrouded her with flame before
she was aware of her danger. Uncle
Tom was in the yard and entered the
house just as the old lady was about to
give up the fight, and as matter of
course he at once set to work to save
her, but in doing so his own clothes
caught fire and, while fighting the
flames, his hands and arms were horri-