The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-10-07
NEWS Of WORLD BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Happenings Throughout the
State Terse|y Told.

irogress Of the Congregational
church of North Dakota is shown in
the reports submitted to the confer.
ence at Valley City by Rev. E. II.
Stlckncy, general superintendent OF
the Sunday school and missionary
work. In the missionary work, thirty
five new pastors have been secured
Fifteen new churches were organized,
while seven were dedicated, with
otner new one in sight. In the Sun.
day school department there have
been twenty-four new schools or.
gained, with twelve reorganized.
The total membership of the Sunday
schools is approximately l. 1000, while
there are over 800 different schools.
The First Baptist society of Lidger.
wood laid the cornerstone for its new
church home, which, when completed,
will be n Of the most attractive
buildings OF it's size in the state. DR..
Heman, state Baptist missionary, de-
livered an interesting sermon to a
large audience of citizens. The stone.
which is of highly polished marble.
with the inscription in old English
lettering, was presented to the churcA
by John Fl. Movins of Lidgerwood.
When the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st, Paul railroad completes it's ex.
tension to New England, Stark county.
people OF Dickinson believe that the
company will continue the line into
Dickinson. Superintendent ]. 2.
Davis of the Yarmouth obridge di-
vision mace a trip between Dickinson
and New England. Steel is. being
laid on the Cannon Ball-New England
extension at the rate of two and a
half niles a day.
Miss Eva Flora Berry, aged three
years, the daughter of MI. and Mrs.
John Berry of Berthold, was crushed
to death under a wagon loaded with
filled water barrels. She was playing
about the wagon, which had been
stopped on a small knoll, and in some
manner it gained a start down hill.
The child fell under one of the wheels
and the wagon stopped just soon
enough to pin her down.
Superintendent l.. r. Waldron of
the Dickinson experiment station and
A. D. Heaton have been selected by
the Dickinson Commercial club tc
represent Western North Dakota at
the dry farming congress at Spokane,
Wash, this week. The Northern Pa.
cific railway notified the president OF
the club that free transportation
would be furnished for the two dele.
gates selected.
George w. Colburn, aged %fifty-four,
a pioneer educator of North Dakota
and who had for the past six years
resided in Grand Forks as head of the
ueorge w. Colburn School Supplies
company, dropped dead at his home
from heart failure. He was for many
years superintendent of schools at
Park River, and vas later a membe:
OF the high school faculty at Grafton.
Fifty cars of immigrants goods
have arrived in Bowman during the
immigrants are homesteaders who
flied on land southwest OF Bowman
last spring and are now arriving to
establish permanent homes. There
has been an exceptionally heavy in
crease in lumber sales, denoting un
usual building activity.
The famous Auld-Dana will case,
involving the legality of the will in
which Laura NJ. Dana and Gertrude G.
Dana of Bottineau were made bene-
ficiaries of their foster mother, was
decided by the supreme court of the
state in favor of the defendants, Rob-
ert Auld and Bertha Mccartney, legal
heirs, failing to carry their point.
Thrifty Stark county farmers resid-
ing twenty mics south of Dickinson
have just completed preliminary work
on the construction OF a 10000
church. The parish is known as that
of ST. Plus, and is composed entirely
of farmers. The building will be 10
feet long and will be n of the best
! church structures in the county.
North Dakota and Minnesota librar.
ians held a joint meeting in Fargo
and Moorhead. 1t was the date of the
annua! session of the Minnesota or
ganization and the fifth of this state.
The Minnesota organization has Clara
r Baldwin of st. Paul at its head and
Dr.. Max Bait of Fargo is president
! Of the association in this state.
By shooting a coon, Charles Wagner
of Rolla gains the unique distinction
| of killing the first of that species OF
| arima! ever killed in that section. Old
| timers and Indians who have lived in
| that section a great many years, con-
tend that there has never before
heen a coon in that district.
Attorney General Miller of Bismarck
is in Devils Lake for the purpose of
making an investigation into several
| arrests that were made following the
raid on alleged blind piggers of that
| city. Another arrest was made, that
| of Miss o. r. Lander, operating in the
Opera cafe. "