Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1907-09-06

butter and eight head OF cattle
which they sold to Moore g.
Dodd.
Mrs. Jennie Higbee is build
ing a house on the east end of
Fifth setreet. 1t will be two
stories high and eighteen by
twenty-four on the ground.
Miss Clara M. Wilkes of
Brantford, Can, arrived here
Saturday evening to pay a visit
to her cousin, Mrs. A. B. Ben
nett of this city.
A wagon crossing has been
put in at the intersection of Ar
mold avenue with the railroad
track. The only crossing with
in the city limits.
DR.. Rookie returned from
Towner county on Tuesday
morning. He has just finished
harvesting and has 200 acres of
wheat ready to thresh.
Morris Thomas finished har-
vesting 557 acres of wheat We'd
nesday. He went down to Mid
way Thursday to look after his
interests at that point.
John Geary, formerly proprie-
tor of hotel in this city, but
now of Minnewaukan, drove in
to the metropolis Thursday and
returned home the same day.
B. F. Stanley went down to
Larimore Friday to meet his
wife and family, who are on
their way here from Jericho,
VT, to make this place their fu-
ture home.
! DR.. Mote of Lafayette, Ind,
has been up here for some time
harvesting his wheat, of which
he has 100 acres on his farm at
Midway. He returned home on
Tuesday morning.
John Cummings horse took
fright on Saturday evening bet
Ween Third and Fourth streets
at threshing engine, and upset
the wagon. The milk was deliv-
cred a little more hastily than
usual.
| H. J. Mckee met with a seri-
GUS accident on Thursday. He
was taking out a traction engine
and separator to Poplar Grove
and about one mile and a half
west of this city the steam chest
joint blew out and the escaping
steam struck him in the fact and
| eyes. He will be laid up for a
} few days, as one eye is pretty
badly hurt.
Messrs. Ferry, Bebeau and
Greenough returned Thursday
from their western trip. They
went $50 miles west of Moose
river through a fine country for
stock raising where there was
scarcely a settler. Game is very
abundant. They shot few deer
and a great quantity of grouse.
One of the settlers had shot a
buffalo a few days before they
got there.
Chief C. w. Kelley is very an
xious to hear from the fire de-
partment committee on bylaws,
that was appointed a year ago.
He says he cannot get the fire
department out to try the ell
CINE; that he calls meetings at
times and he himself is the only
person that attends, and if he
had those bylaws maybe he
could compel the members to at
tend or pay a fine for non-at-
tendance.
Joseph Graham has finished
threshing SO acres of wheat. He
calculated upon twenty-five and
a half bushels to the acre, and
would have been satisfied. He
got 1900 bushels from the 60
acres-30 bushels to the acre.
Mr.. Graham's oats went 80 BUSH
els to the acre.
: Fred Ayerst threshed the
thinnest portion of his crop. He
expected eighteen bushels to the
, acre, and got twenty-seven. He
, is now confident the rest of the
field will thresh out thirty bush
els. ALI this wheat will over
weigh nearly ten per cent.
i Register Lords wheat grown
! just north of this city threshed
| thirty-one bushels to the acre.
3 The outlook for Crazy is get