The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-20
STATE GRAB BAG
Bootleggers invaded Leal,


Potatoes are bringing more money
this year.
James Inman of Brinsmade lost his
granary by fire.
Benson county is planning a num-
Der Of political rallies.
Matthew Henderson of Rolla lost
his threshing machine by fire.
The railroad men OF the state are
being worked overtime this fall.
Several small theatrical attractions
are reported to have gone bump this
fall.
The Valley City Times Record is the
best democratic paper in that part of
the state.
The mail order houses are working
the state hard now while the farmers
have plenty of cash.
At Minnewaukon a threshing en-
gineer threatened to shoot the lady he
loved and was Jailed.
Druggist Lockett and Miss Clara
Swenson of Binford were recently
married in Valley City.
There was a five-round prize fight
at Brinsmade in which w. E. Kelly
licked George Russell.
A gang of counterfeiters seems to
have worked some of the towns in the
northern part of the state.
A lot of people refuse to trade with
firms who do not advertise as they
want new and up-to-date goods.
A Wahpeton boy was sentenced to
ten days in Jail for stealing a pipe, but
was later given suspended SEN
tence.
The democratic candidate for sherih
in Ramsey county got an endorsement
from an Illinois paper-which helps
some.
John and George Rischard fell from
a scafOld twenty feet to the ground
at Wahpeton. Both were considerably
shaken.
The Mimic band has been reorganiz-
ed with Editor Mitchell of the Journal
as manager. Nobody ever thought the
Journal man was windy"
Nearly all the democratic papers of
the state are using the inserts in be-
half of the state democratic ticket
gotten out by the Herald.
Joseph Desjarlais and Peter Lam
ger were arrested at Rolla on charge
of stealing team of horses from
Chas. Poitra. Both were held. The
crime was committed about a year
ago.
The Glendale Record is still car
rying Mrs. Davis name as the candi.
date for state superintendent. Next
thing the Record and the Wahpeton
Times will be hosting Jackson's name
at their mastheads.
The democratic Devils Lake Jour-
nal says the republican party is COM
posed of federal appointeees, graft
ing politicians, office holders and Of
flee seekers, railway lobbyists, and the
newspapers Of the state who value
state and county patronage Of more
consequence than the interests of the
people"
The N. P. company is building a
large dam across a coulie mile
south of Sterling. The dam will be
600 feet wide and 10 feet high and the
water will be backed up for use at the
station. There will be about 10000
yards of earth to be moved and work
will be continued until the dam is
completed.
Miss Francis Cotter. who has been
teaching a term Of school at Hes
nault, in Ward county. had the misfor-
tune to lose most of her clothing and
be severely burned in prairie fire
which consumed the house in which
she was living. While fighting the fire
which was supposed to have been
caused by some one throwing a light
ed cigarette in the dry grass, her
hands and eyebrows were badly
scorched. She will resume teaching
as soon as another residence is built.
The Wahpeton Globe hands Pack
ard the following: The muckraker of
the Valley City Times-Record is the
chap who has been sending out the
lying reports to the daily newspapers
concerning Gov. Sarles and the pro-
ceedings Of the Methodist conference.
He is the dunghill Journalist" that
Travelled over the state for Grand
Forks paper. sending in lying corre-
spondence from every town he visited.
He is the reporter who visited Gov.
Sarles to get an interview. and the
interview he secured Offset all the
lies he could write in months trip.
He is fine specimen of newspaper
mamie is a vicious liar and malign"
err. He thinks no more of character
assassination than he does of eating
a good dinner.
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172s-City of Copenhagen, Denmark,
nearly destroyed by fire.
1315-Island of Jamaica devasted by