The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1909-02-11
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Land contests are numerous.
There ar eseveral cases of smallpox
in the vicinity of Gackle.
Mandan is to, be made a dispatch,
ing point for N. P. trains.
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At Belfield man was arrested on
the charge of killing too much booze.
With two good roads bills in the
legislature something is likely to re-
suit.
The osteopaths- want a. board! of: ex-
aminers to regulatethe practice in this
state.
The stock yards at Belf1eld are to
be removed further from: the business
center.
Some of the. seed establishments Of
the state report they are. doing. a. fine
business.
An effort is being made, at Bismarck
to, stop the practice Of giving away
liquor in. public.
The county seat row in Mckenzie
county is like Tennyson's little brook
1T goes on forever.
The f1remen at, Jamestown are
making an effort to have their hail
furnished up In better style.
The Commercial club just organized
at Lankin promises great things for
the town within the near future.
The county division schemes and
county seat removal propositions in
Williams county are still numerous.
Valley City Is to have a strong base.
ball team, and might be induced to
break into the proposed state league.
The time for holding court at
jamestown may be changed from
January and July to June and Decem.
Der.
The merchants in many towns OF
the state are taking kindly to the
plan to establish rest rooms for the
out-of-town shoppers.
If the supreme court decides that
the Stevenson county division plan
Z, did carry there will be more compli'
cations in old Mclean.
! Druggist Hanson of Mayville Is on
the war path because some one swiped
his big thermometer. This Is the sec
ond offense this winter.
Out at Valley City the flremen
would not permit Shorty" DuVall to
resig nfrom the department, claiming
he had enlisted for life.
Miss Harriet Fleming, formerly oil
Fargo and Larimore, is now chief op
orator for the N. d. Independent Tele
phone company at Valley City.
Some people are already making
: astronomical observations through
the bottoms of glasses, so they won't
miss any Of the eclipses this year.
The discovery of high grade sof,
coal around Williston has not only pu,
the briquetting business to the bad
but there is no demand for Eastern
coal.
There have been an unusually large
number Of insanity 0ses reported
! over the state. Some of them devel
ored into merely a matter of toe
much booze.
The farmers from over the state
who attended the Tri-State conven
ton have returned to their homes
very enthusiastic over the success OF
VIC DlS rdISO meet InlS year.
Statistics prepared by the depart
mcnt of agriculture at Washington
shows the farmers of Iowa and the
rakotas are the most prosperous in
the entire country. North Dakota
leads in the annual income of each
farm worker with total of s755.G2
South Dakota sG05.G9 The average
number Of acres worked by one man
in North Dakota is 1874, in South Do
kota 1876. South Dakota farms have
iii average of six mich cows each.
Ecrth Dakota four. The average
value Of buildings en- South Dakota
farms is 412.03 on each, North Dakota
s5c5. Value Of implements and MA
cir cry on each fam in South Dako
IA average s203.14, and in North Da
Eota $233.S4 These statistics demon.
stratne the success CT the middle
western farmers are being cited to the
farmers Of the south by the farmers
cooperative demonstration workers