The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-15

Rev. E T. Valiant Of Belfour has
received a: call to Cambridge. ILL.,. to
accept the pastorate Of the Baptist
church there.
The editor of the Wimbledon News
was through the laundry plant at that
place and knows more than before
about how to wash dirty linen
Ed. Ellis returned to Casselton with
jag and two sample cases full OF
bottled booze. He got indigant and
smashed the stuff on the sidewalk. :.
There are said to be more division
branch of the Great Northern than
any other road In the United States.
r. NJ. futile has severed his con-
nection with the Mandan Pioneer after
connection with. that splendid
journal of more than twenty-three
years.
While so much is being said about
the recent political land slide it is
Well to remember that they never
occur In democratic states to any
alarming ertent. =.
Valley City has a maniac who per-
sisted in chewing hay in one of the
local livery barns. That city has a
number Of gentleman who are not
daffy but who persist in chewing the
rag.
A number of North Dakota young
men are going around offering we'll
TODD old men an umbrella-since the
report that one aged man In the east
loaned him bumbershoot during
rainstorm.
Joseph Williamson and his wife.
who own farm thirteen miles south
of Minot, cropped 300 acres this year
without employing any hired help
They raised 1000 bushels Of fax,
1900 acres of wheat and 800 bushels
OF oats
Mclean county has crazy man at
large who carries revolver and has
threatened to kill several people for
fancied wrongs they have done him.
Recently he terrorized women who
has been an invalid for years. He
found her at home alone and said he
would make one more visit and then
she would pay with her life the penalty
for the wrongs she had done him.
While the insurgents are bowling
In their glee over the defeat of stall
wart candidates in some sections of
the state, they are having a tough
time in explaining the defeat of C.
H. Shells of La Moure county, can
didate for the house. Shells was one
of the leading insurgents. good fell
low and popularity supposed to have a
cinch On the election. ..
Mrs. Frank White Of Valley City in
receipt Of letter from ]. H. McFar-
land. president Of the American Civic
association. asking for personal
appeal to Secretary Taft of Washing
ton. asking for the preservation OF
Niagara. The matter will come up the
18th OF the month and there is pend
Ing an effort to divert enough water
from the Canadian side to make a
river mile wide and quite deep. and
against which the protest Is made.
Several farmers In the vicinity of
Brumbaugh stored large quantities of
wheat in the elevators at that place
during the first two weeks Of October.
Toward the end Of the month the ele-
vators at Brumbaugh we're advised
from headquarters to raise the price
two cents above the going market
price, in order to buck the tradk buy
ers at Rock Lake. who were cutting
into their business. The farmers who
had wheat stored at Brumbaugh de-
cided to sell. but the elevators would
not allow them the two-cent raise, and
the farmers consider that they have
been stability treated
Few men are able to keep within
hailing distance of their good inten-
tons.