The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-01
STATE / /. GRAB BAG
Prairie chickens are reported plen-
uful IN McHenry county,

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Prairie chickens are reported plen-
tifnl In McHenry county.
Two rural delivery routes out of
Granville ARE In need Of carriers.
The Granville race track is being
put IN shape and will be one of the
best IN the state.
A Leeds butcher attempted to make
sausage out of hts hand and nearly
succeeded.
The men and boys of Michigan City
are utilizing the Great Northern reser-
voir as swimming hole.
The Lisbon hand became all swelled
up over the compliments 1t got while
attending The Fargo fair.
MeHenTJ business men have raised
q purse to be used In prosecuting vio-
lators Of the game laws.
Patrick Lavelle tried to break the
record on Leeds striking machine
and broke his hand instead.
A Leeds attorney is said to have con-
siderable pressing business in the
town where his best girl lives.
Norwich has some lightning rod ag-
ents and the Item has warned its read
ers against dealing with them.
Red rust has appeared in some of
the wheat fields and it's appearance is
causing some anxity among the farm
ers about McCumber.
If the Herald has a fit for every
state paper which has omitted Stock
wells name from the ticket, the mall
ady will become chronic.
j. A. Evans, a prominent vocal mu-
stefan of jamestown. has been offered
position with the American Grand
Opera company of New York.
A Walcott party refused to pay his
poll tax until he had consulted an at
torney who charged his SO for the
advice and told him he would have to
pay the tax.
Henry Murphy who was employed
on the Great Northern improvements
at Leeds stole a fellow-workman'
check and after forging an endorse
ment, got the money and in Jail.
Hot weather is said to have blighted
the grain about jamestown, the dam
age in some instances amounting to
twenty-five per cent of the crop.
The business men of Lisbon are ag-
itating the question of having coun-
fv ofYs
county is getting In good condition for
such an occasion.
The crop of wheat north of Crazy
will not be as large a yield as was ex-
pected month ago. The fields are
thin and spotted in many places, an
average yield of Is bushels to the
acre is as much II not more than can
be hoped for.
At the deaf institute they do quite
a little gardening, they having in
about thirty-five acres of oats and mil
let. The garden of eight acres is fine.
1t is expected that the garden will full
ly supply vegetables for the table at
the institute.
Mrs. Dodge, full blooded Indian
lady mas Deen at the Walhalla motel
for the past ten days where she has
. been soliciting children of Indian
blood to take to school in Oklahoma
with which she is connected. She has
found about twenty-five who will ac-
company her.
The case of the state vs.. o. o. Ad-
ans who is charged with obtaining
money under false pretenses by hav-
ing swindled the school board into
buying furniture has been changed
from Minot to Devils Lake. The
change was made on the ground that
Adams would not get fair trial in
Ward county.
The Sheldon Progress comes to the
defense of Hon. c. H. Shells of La
Moure county against the sobriquet
of Half Pint Shells" The inference
from this title is that Mr.. Shells lin
tied the purchase of liquor at drug
stores to half pint day. This, the
Progress claims, is a mistake. Shells
was willing to let purchasers have a
pint day in the open season but 1t
was the wicked McGahan who limited
the quantity to half a pint.