The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-08
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Michigan averages new telegraph
operator every month.
A large hall for public purposes is
being erected at Overly.
An effort to establish Y. M. c. A.
at Valley City. is said to be on foot.
Nearly every town in the state is
waging a war on the festive. hobo.
Nels sostrom ID building a concrete
house on his farm In Pierce county.
The railroad shops at Devils Lake
are being rapidly pushed to compile
ton.
The Stanley Sun announces that
God and the republican party still
reign.
Maxbass has passed an ordinance
prohibiting the art Of gambling being
practicei there.
The 500 line expects to help fix up
the roads into Russell in order to get
more wheat.
The doors of the temple Of the edi-
torial Janus have not been closed at
Rugby for many moons.
The Mimic Journal advertises one
thousand dollars reward for the re-
turn of tan cOlored girls jacket.
The good people of Kramer continue
to boiler for law enforcement. They
are having to contend with drunks and
fights galore.
DR.. Haldorson has ordered the peo-
pie of Russell who own sloughs on
& their lots to fill them up or move the
lots out of town.
CHI. Peck, who until few months
ago was editor of the Granville Her
aid, died in California. where he had
gone for his health.
:, The. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. company
is having trouble to get right Of way
of some Of the farmers near Russell.
They don't want to pay the price.
Several of the farmers around Dun
seth are talking Of trying winter bar
ley and winter wheat. There is a
diversity of opinion as to the time to
sow.
Gordon Muir, a LaMoure lad, tried
to get on friendly terms with some
cows and the caress of one of the AMI
mails left him in an unconscious con-
dition for ten hours.
A man working on the farm of Fred
Bresch near Garske accidentally shot
himself while carrying shot gun on
hay rack and died almost instantly.
His home was in Wisconsin.
The Adams Budget editor is MEM
Der of the local ball team and warns
his readers that any deficiencies. in the
paper will be due to his absence after
fame on the diamond.
While working on the streets in
.Minot. Fred Jackson, sentenced for
thirty days, slipped of the iron chain
and ball which had not been properly
fastened, made a break for liberty
which he is now enjoying.
Ambrose, the terminal town on the
new 500 in Williams county, received
$500 in premium money at the lot sale,
being the only town to get more than
the stipulated price set by the COM
7pany. 1t will be invested for we'll.
/. Orc of the buildings of Stanley
which has just been removed to give
place to one Of the Suns sky scrap
ers, has served as blind pig, meat
market, a church, school house, a
dwelling, granary and a storage
room.
A letter from the management of
the 500 railway has been received by
Chief Burt of Valley City, enclosing
draft for 5000 for Ohicer Fleming and
of the work done by the Valley City
officers in maintaining order on the
compAny's line at that point.
Geo. Harkins, living about IS miles
south of Dickinson, has struck it rich
in we'll water. He recently had two
foot we'll bored down seventy-five feet
and after putting down the curling
has been obliged to chain it down to
prevent the water from throwing it
out. The we'll is not a "gusher," but
is steady flow.
A peculiar accident happened at Mo-
hall a day or two since in which the
12-year-old son of Mat Casey, who has
farm six miles west of Mohall, while
riding team drawing breaking
plow, fell and had his ear cut of and
his skull fractured. At last accounts
the victim was alive and had a fair
chance to recover.
A LaMourite was carrying double
barrel shot gun on his mower, and it
was, discharged by falling. and both
loads lodged in his side, making
wound about two inches deep and six
inches long. Madden proved his grit
by clinging to the mower and driving
to the house. and his wife proved hers
by bandaging the gaping wound and
taking her husband to LaMoure in
hurry-up order.
Walking On Hot Stones.
In Tahiti men still believe in magic.
At certain celebrations thew make a