The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1906-03-30
SOME LOCAL HAPPENINGS
That Will be Found of General Interest Seeking to Get
Line on Life in the Busy BowbeIs Country.

; Dr. Lentest reports the birth of a fir
baby girl to Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Bu
rows on the 25th inst.
: Jim Miller informs US that the wolyf
in the vicinity of Fern have become S
bold that they are nightly invading tn
toWn-site.
M: H. Cotton took his we'll machin
to Kenmare the first of the week
where he has taken the Job of sinkin
an air shaft for the Electric mine.
M. N. johnson and family are NOV
ing. to the east side of the lake for tn
spring and summer seasons, the hea
OF the family having secured lucra
tive job in that locality.
Jim Beck has of late been suffering
with bad cold, which causes him tt
blow his nose so vigorously that il
sounds like an auto honk. The Tribune
has suggested to James that he apply
to George Bickford for job as chat.
feur.
Jim Hoban was in town from Hal.
brite for few hours on Monday and
dropped in on The Tribune to say that
the folks are enjoying that greatest of
blessings, good health, and that he is
enjoying good run of business in the
big hotel that he erected in that place
shortly after leaving here. All were
pleased to see Jim and be privileged
again to shake his horny right duke.
Jonathan Southwark became so ex-
cited over the audacity of man recent
ly offering him $500 for his quarter
section farm as to recall the act of Tim
Goggin when he opened meat market
here some five years ago, our old friend
having become SO excited when making
his first sale of meat that it was said he
threw his money in the cuspidor and
spit in the money drawer. Our Uncle
Jonathan says $4,000 goes, or nothing.
John Graft, who arrived here on
Thursday of last week from Eagle
Bend, Minn., with thirty head of horses,
sold the entire bunch on Saturday to
Johnnie Cochrane of Minot, receiving
$l23 a head right through. Cochrane
followed Graft up from Minot, and after
much dickering the deal was closed.
The horses were trailed to Minot on the
same day, where the purchaser is SELL
ing them readily at a big advance on
what he paid.
The family of Julius Peterson, out in
the hills, have been terribly afflicted
with sickness for some time, the wife
being an invalid, and now, as if to add
to their Affections, Mr.. P. has recently
sustained a bad fracture of one of his
ankles, which will serve to lay him up
for some time. The family, however,
is luckily surrounded by good neighbors,
and the first of the week a very ac-
ceptable sum was taken up to tide over
their immediate needs.
Nels Uglum came up from Taopi,
Minn., last Saturday with a car laden
with nine head of good horses and var
lous other appurtenances necessary to
the proper conduct of good farm. He
was accompanied by John Ellingson,
young farmer friend, who comes for
the purpose of remaining with US and
claiming share in the good things that
The Bowbells country holds out to all
thrifty, wide-awake tillers of the soil
than which there is no better to be
found.
The people over in the Geo. Walker
especially those who have
oeen compelled to cross the big slough
n coming to town, are feeling good
over the fact that they are now to have
4 bridge across the bog, thus making
;ravel a pleasure instead of dread, as
t has been heretofore. The North
western Bridge Co. placed their pile
lriver on the ground last week prepar-
ltory to beginning work on the bridge,
md active operations will begin as soon
IS the frost is out of the ground suffi-
iently to admit of the driving of piles.
Flaxton Times: An exchange accuses
'om Hurry, of the Bowbells Tribune.
f being the sponsor of the "purity
olitics" movement in Ward county.
ON is sure enough in favor of pure
olitics, but the man who charges him
nth conspiring with the disturbers
tho pulled off the recent fzzle at Bow
ellis had better have care. That is
lore than even Tom would be expected
} endure. Correct you are, Bro.
Vare. Ward county has already had
1rfeit of this self-styled purity" out
t.-ED.
w. E. Shultz, the Paynesville, Minn.,
anker who has been here for several
ays on visit to relatives and old-time
:iends, left for home Tuesday after
oon, but before taking his departure
lade a pleasant call on The Tribune,
ccompanied by his friend G. J. Hansch.
[r. S. is by no means a stranger to the
owbells country, having made an ex-
ended visit here five years ago, when
e became thoroughly satisfied of the
reat future in store for those who
ere lucky enough to get in on the
round floor, and it was upon his ad-
se and then findings that many of our
est farmers, and in fact best and fore
lost citizens, came on from Paynes-
lille and vicinity to cast their lot in
lis favored land. He dilated enthusi-
'tically on the great improvement and
langes wrought in the town and coun-
y since his last visit here, and ex-
ressed his great pleasure at noting the
<treme contentment that was evident
mong all classes of our people.
w. j. Jones, manager of the 500
ignite Co. s mine, writes The Tribune
lat we may confidently look forward
}. the opening of one or more coal
lines almost within the corporate lin
8 of the village of Bowbells before the
awning of 1907, and we certainly hope
lat our friends threat may be carried
1t to the letter. It has been demon
rated to a certainty that there are
eins of coal twenty feet thick UNDER
ing the village of Bowbells at various ,
'ints, and in places the fuel is less
ian thirty feet from the surface. 80
lat the question of ''striking paw dirt" 1
ls long since been settled. At no
lint in the Ignite coal fields can this
el be mined as easily and cheaply as 1
Zht here in the village of Bowbells. b
ID when the mines are once opened the
limited supply thus made accessible ?
III serve to hrinne Bosuholla to fhol