The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-07-19

below the mouth Of Painted Wood
creek. This marked the limits o
the settlement as then made and ez
tended twelve or fifteen mills aioni
the Missouri river. But when Taylo
Williams and Mercer first came tt
the country, the nearest neighbor wa!
on Sibley Island to the south ant
Fort Stevenson on the north.
In 1879 Eric Danielson, ole Hanson
and G. A. Danstrom came into thu
settlement. Dec. 2, 1873, S. A. Peter
son put in a stock of merchandise
and has kept his store supplying thu
people ever since, and as the countr.
became more settled he was appoint
ed postmaster and the postofice O.
Painted Woods was established Ma,
4, 1879. Mr.. Peterson has served as
postmaster continuously ever since
making him n of the Oldest post
masters, as to service, in the state.
At this time, starting north from
the present site Of Bismarck, the set
tiers were Oscar Ward, with possibly
a few settlers nea by, with Howard
and Konrad's woodward at Dry Point,
Two Danes about nine miles below
Painted Woods, then the settlers
named above and the horse ranch Of
Bonneau ear the present line be-
tween Burleigh and Mclean counties,
and about two miles north of L. Mer-
rvs was the home of Rock and Jack
: . Golfer AMI farther north on Tur-
tie creek was Rhude's horse ranch.
Joseph e. Brown came to the place
where he now lives in 1881, C. X.
Iverson in 1882, and Anton E. Same
in 1884, since which time the country
has become we'll settled with a good
class of farmers who are prospering,
Making a Summer Resort.
In addition to the other general in
terests in the country, James G.
Every is preparing to make a sum-
mer resort along Painted Woods
lake. This is one of the largest lakes
in the western part of the state, be-
ing several miles long and very deep.
The lake is the result of the beaver
dams along Painted Woods and Turtle
creeks.
Everything around the lake is
pleasant and no reason why it should
not become one of the most desir-
able places for an outing to be found
and as a place for camp meetings
and like gatherings it is especially
desirable on account of it's location
and ease of access. The lake IS
about half way between Painted
Woods postofice and Washburn.
Old Settlers Meeting the 18th.
On the 18th of this month there
is to be an old settlers picnic about
a mile and a half south of the store
and postofice at which time all the
friends and neighbors are to meet
and have a good time and many per-
sons of note from a distance are ex-
pected to attend. Speeches by old
timers, social interchanges and the
customary exercises upon such &C.
casions will be the order of the day.
Upon. such occasions it is COMMON
ask: did men like Joe Taylor,
Dan Williams and Bill Mercer te-'
alize the purport, of the work they
doing for the state in general
and the local section in particular,
when they settled in the Painted
Woods country and by their efforts
made possible the development of so
vast a domain as these people did,"
1t may be said by some that these
men did not foresee the great devel-
opment that was to follow and that
they put up a wager in a game of
chance, of which they knew but little
and cared less and for which they de-
but little credit, as others
would have gone into the wilderness
and have made the settlement for the
there is in it the same as
the dog chases the wolf or the rabbit
FOR the mere love of the chase and
nothing about, nor realizing,
re results to follow. Such argument,
belittles the man offering it far more
Than it discredits the genius and abil-
tty Of the men it was intended. an
consciously perhaps, to vilify.
1t is sometimes said that Washing
ION and Jefferson did not realize the
,ull import of the meaning or final
of their efforts, in which one
abored so %zealously for the freedom
his country and the other for per-
;onal liberty, under the constitution,
his fellow man.
The same in%sinuations have been
towards others and the
statements also made that Provi-
lence used men, as the mechanic
lses a tool, in order to accomplish a
liked purpose.
1t is possibly true that no man can
Or1Sao the fOo1 ,oc,1ltc ne b;e oo4o