The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1906-08-10
BRIEF LOCAL MENTION.


On Tuesday last C. B. Hofius refuset
an offer of $4,000 for his quarter section
farm. situate four miles south of town
Herman Smith has resigned his posi-
tion with the Minot Implement Co. ant
has accepted job with the Acme Har
vester Co. as an assistant expert.
Frank Hungerford is authority fol
the statement that while on a recent
trip to the Mouse river he ran up against
mosquitoes big enough to use for bait.
Link Richardson will begin the thresh.
ing season with brand new Advance
rig, which is now en- route here. He
traded the old rig as part payment on
the new one, and the former has been
brought in for shipment.
Norwegian Lutheran services in the
Presbyterian church at Bowbells on
Sunday next, Aug. IL. at 8 p. M, Mr..
M. Buckenberg, from the Lutheran
seminary, officiating. All Scandinavians
cordially invited.
A Afourteen-year-old son of Matt Casey,
who is known to many of our people,
while riding team drawing a breaking
plow on the Casey farm near Mohall
recently, fell off the horse and had his
skull fractured and an ear cut off. The
physician who was called said the lad
would recover.
If reports be true, Marshall Mcclure
has been promised good job in Wash
ington and will soon leave Minot for the
national capital to enter upon his du-
ties. The Tribune is pleased to learn
of our old friends good luck-and sin
cerely hopes that the change of water
may have no serious effects upon his
erstwhile robust frame.
Prof. T. H. Burke was here on Mon
day from Valley City renewing ac-
quaintance and in the course of pleas
ant talk with The Tribune the professor
informed us, that in obedience to advice
from his physician, he has concluded not
to teach school the coming year, but will
attend the University instead. He has
not fully recovered from the effects
of the attack of pneumonia which
he suffered while here, his lungs
still being in a weak condition, and he
hopes that by taking life easy for a
year or so he may become fully restosc6
to his old-time health and strength.
Geo. Limbert, young man we'll
known in this city and who left here
about the first of April last, account of
whose arrest little later on for steal
ing horse at Crosby we published,
was tried in district court at Williston
last week and the case dismissed by
Judge Goss. The evidence showed that
the young man was drunk when he took
the horse and that he was retracing his
steps intent on returning the animal to
it's owner when arrested. The fact
that he was an orphan, only 16 years of
age, also had considerable weight with
the court. The Tribune hopes that this
experience may prove of value to
George in shaping his future course in
life.
The Tribune gets it on reliable au-
thority that a tramp painter who was
here couple of weeks ago and painted
some window signs for several of our
business men, is wanted in the state of
Alabama on a murder charge. He is
an expert sign painter, and it is said
that officers from the state traced him
as far north as Kenmare, their only
clue being based on the signs he had
painted at various places at which he
had stopped along his line of travel.
From Kenmare he came here, making
a very short stay, and on leaving Bow
bells it is supposed he went over into
Canada, through which country it is
presumed he is still being followed by
the Alabama officers.
Mike Powers and w. A. Lannon, two
former Graceville, Minn., boys, but
now located at Saskatoon, Sask., were
here Saturday hobnobbing with their
old-time Graceville friends, now pros
porous business men and farmers in
Bowbells and tributary country. The
gentlemen have ought but good to say
for Canada, and predict that Saskatoon
is destined to be the greatest town in
the entire Canadian northwest. 1t is
already railroad center of note, and
tributary to the city is an almost limit
less expanse of the finest farming land
imaginable. Mr.. Lannon is agrain.
buyer there, and thinks from the mag.
nitude of the country round about that
more grain will the coming season bt
shipped from Saskatoon than from any
other one point in the Canadian north.
west.
The Tribune is in receipt of lettel
from Geo. Mayne, dated at Culbertson
Mont, on the End inst, in which tn,
writer makes inquiry about land here
if there is any offered and at wha'
prices. He says he has for many