The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-01-10

New Salem had stabbing ARRAY.
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Rolette is after telephone ex
change. !
Hillsboro is to have an armory foil
Company L.
Cogswell is to have a new school
building in the spring.
The young PEOPLE of Willow City areI
to have skating rink.
The directors decided to continue
the Tower creamery all winter.
Oscar Mork was badly frozen while
on his way home from White Earth.
The oil famine was so pronounced
at Sherwood that candles were used.
Prisoners in nearly all the county,
jails had turkey dinners Christmas.
Gov. Burke will continue as a mem
Der of the law firm at Devils Lake.
The farm house of E. Greenfield, l3l
miles from Flaxton, was destroyed ty
fire.
The food supply was short on the !
new extension Of the 500 from Flax |
ton.
A Kensal blind pIgger is reported to '
have been SO badly frightened that he
fled.
Cando pledged $4,000 for the DIN
kard college and seems to have the
inside track.
Sherbrooke-off the railroad line
was one of the points threatened With
a coal famine.
Another batch of Stark county PEG
pie were fined for failure to send their
children to school.
A travelling man was twenty.six
hours getting from Rugby to Devils
Lake-sixty miles. |
There are said to be six applicants
in Ramsey county for one of the state
game wardenships. |
Kenmare wants the normal schooi
which will probably be established by
the coming legislature. /,
Mohall has organized commercial
club and is getting ready to do some
booming for that splendid town. 1
Cogswell was visited by star
theatrical attraction, the members OF
which were recently hashers at hotel
in Aberdeen.
The North Dakota soil before the
freeze-up is said to have been drier
than for years, and the heavy snowfall
will not come entirely amiss.
The fact that when Cass county'A
new court house was dedicated there
was no Indebtedness against it, causes
a lot of favorable comment by state
papers.
The hotel men got special legislar
ton to be able to collect bill from
dead beats-but they object to further
legislation favorins hotel inspection
as insisted on by the travelling men.
If the coal shortage in the state this
winter can but get the Ignite coal
mining on business basis and result
in the more general use of that fuel.
it will be a blessing for North Dakota.
500 claim agents have been busy in
their efforts to adjust matters arising
out of the Enderlin wreck. The total
sum that will be paid in damages will
be large. 4
A company Of Eastern capitalists 10
being formed for the purpose of de-
veloping the immense coal fields at
White Earth. The capital will be $780,
900, and the best business enterprise
in the coal mining world vii lbe be.
hind the concern. 4,
On last Friday evening as C. ].
Thorkildson was driving into Colum-
bus with COW in the sled the burned
thing upset and in the general mix-up
Mr.. Thorkildson received broken
shoulder. The horses went on up the
street, but were stopped in a short
distance.
Corporations are some times crate.
full. Last fall there was an elevator
fire at Edmore. ]. w. Wheeler hitched
his horses to some Great Northern
box cars and drew them out of danger.
The company has given him a round.
trip ticket to Seattle-and he spent tho :,
holidays out on the coast.