The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1906-08-31
BRIEF LOCAL MENTION.

Mrs. James Uglum remembered The
Tribune with a very liberal feed of
green corn, for which-thanks.
John P. McCusker and family return
ed on Tuesday from pleasant visit and
outing with friends and relatives in
Ransom county.
Marshall Mcclure, Jr., was caller
at The Tribune Office Tuesday, en- route
to Portal and points west of there on
the 500 extension.
Ed Hughes and Charlie Gillstrom got
home Saturday from Wisconsin, where
they visited at the o:d homes after TAX
ing in the G. A. r. encampment at
Minneapolis.
S. Messenger has moved his aathouse
from the location it has long held down
on 500 street to his property east of
there, attaching it to the smaller grain
house already there.
E. M. Harden, brother of our friend
E. E. Harden, stopped off here last
Friday en- route home to Iowa after
quite a trip through the Canadian
northwest, and expressed himself to
The Tribune as much pleased with what
he saw of that country. He left here
Tuesday for his home at Linden, Iowa.
At an early hour last Friday morning
special west bound train ran into four
freight cars standing on the main track
near Flaxton, badly wrecking the
freights and toppling them into the
ditch, while the engine of the special
was rendered an almost total wreck.
The accident delayed trains from the
west several hours. Fortunately no
one was seriously hurt.
The 500 Line flyer east bound Satur-
day morning was detained some two
hours at Burlington pending track re-
pairs, the west bound passenger hav-
ing left the track between there and
Minot, occasioned by spreading of the
rails. These little pleasantries on the
part of the 500 are not calculated to in
spire passengers with any good notions
as to the desirability of travel over that
line if they can help it.
A. E. Stutzman never lets slip a
chance to emphasize his growing faith
in the great Bowbells country, his lat
est elucidatlon in this regard being his
purchase few pays ago of the north
west quarter of 24-162-89 from Ernest
J. Harms, for which he paid $3.50 in
cash. This farm is only few miles
from town, has 12O acres under cultiva-
ton, and is one of the best quarters to
be found-good value, in fact, at s., 500.
L. D. Smith received letter from
his sister-in-law, Mrs. Jennie Reed,
dated at Ruthven, Iowa, on the 10th,
in which the writer stated that on the
evening or afternoon of the day previ-
Gus N. D. Anthony, postmaster at
Ruthven and known to many Iowans
now residents in this part of the coun-
try, had committed suicide by hanging
himself in the postoffice, where he was
found dangling from the end of rope,
quite dead, by townspeople calling for
their mail. No cause is assigned for
the suicide.
The first four loads of new wheat
marketed here was brought in Monday
and purchased by Thorval Stromset.
The berry is very uniform and perfect
in color, so that there will be very little
of the new crop that will grade lower
than No. l Northern, while much of it
if graded as it should be, will 60 as No.
Hard. Mr.. Knutson's wheat yielded
about 20 bushels to the acre, and it is
believed that the average of the Bow
bells country will not be much below
that figure. Harry Johnston also began
threshing wheat on Monday, his yield
being about the same as that reported
by Mr.. X. and little if any difference in
the sample.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Blenkner rounded
up their Canadian trip Saturday morn
ing by arrival home on the delayed
train. Both express themselves as hav-
ing had a most enjoyable outing during
their weeks absence, and say that the
business being done in the Canadian
towns at which they stopped is almost
beyond belief. Prices, too, for every
commodity are exorbitant, and Charlie
experimental with payment of 25-cent
pieces for a purchase of 10 cents, sew
eral times repeating the experiment,
but never once did the bar-tend so fal
forget himself as to give back any
change. He adds that they could 'give
Americans cards and spades in the mat.
ter of making change and win out
hands down."
In some sections Of the country moi
far remote from Bowbells glanders ha.
been raising the deuce with horses dur
ing the past three months, though il
this immediate vicinity we have beer
exempt from the disease. The John
sons, well-known ranchers over on tn,
Mouse river, and living at Pleasant, in
formed The Tribune during a recen
trip to that vicinity that they had with
in a comparatively short time lost l.
, head of good horses by the disease
while to the east Of them, in the neigh
borhood Of Sherwood, several erstwhilt