The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-09-27

Julla Bagley, q daughter OF Ole Bag
ley of Fl. Clark, died last week at the
Bismarck hospital.
Several inches of snow fell Monday
night near Grand Forks and Devil:
Lake. 1t is the earlist snow fall re
corded.
The farmers at New Rockford will
build a 40, 600 bushel potato warehouse
The structure will be of brick and com
pleted in 80 days.
The Holtan flax crop on the reserva
ton will be harvested this week. The,
put in over 500 acres and from reports
it will bring big returns.
Attorney H. E. johnson who was
hurt in an auto accident a couple OF
weeks ago, was able to leave Minot ano
go to his home at Ryder Saturday.
Out of a class Of 100 which graduated
in 1912 from the Valley City Normal,
less than a dozen have positions, these
few are planning to take advanced
work this year.
Grand Forks will have a policewoman
after the first of the month. The woman
who has accepted the position has had
experience in Minneapolis in the work
she has to do,
The reduced rates on the Northern
Pacific and 500 lines will enable many
to attend the exposition. One can save
thirty cents by going to Bismarck be-
tween September Both and October IL.
Mrs. F. A. Douglas, who livedin Wash
burn four years ago, is now in Fessen-
den where she is taking an active inter-
est in The Fessenden Musical club of
which she vas recently chosen presi-
dent.
It's almost worth $25 to kill a deer.
A banker at Anamoose thought it was
too, so did so and then called up a
district game warden and gave him
that amount. His friends all lived on
venison last week.
A farmer living near Fort Rice raised
$50 bushels of onions on one acre of
land. He sold 80 bushels of them in
Mandan and received $2.25 per bushel.
Pretty good returns from one acre.
Max Enterprise-Mr. Kennedy, the
new agent, has informed us that the
depot will have five men working here.
There will be two night men and three
day men. This is saying something for
the business done in Max.
Yesterday afternoon a baby girl ar
rived at the Bismarck hospital, claiming
her home with Mr.. and Mrs. A. G.
Nordquist of Underwood, over which
there is much joy in the Nordquist
home. Friday Bismarck Tribune.
Stanton is the town that is getting
the freight this year. During the
month of August the receipts were over
$50, 600 and up to the 18th of this month
the receipts We're $17, 900. The station
agent in that town is no doubt earning
his salary.
There will be many questions to be
settled by the government before the
five hundred claims on the Berthold
Indian reservation are all taken by
settlers. The ''squatter's rights may
be used freely, and again, people may
not be any more anxious to get the
land than they have been before.
The weather man kept the second an
nual Fl. Berthold Stock and Industrial
Fair from being a success. The rain
and cloudy weather kept many from at
tending and the program as. planned
could not be carried out. The exhibits
were good and arrangements showed
that the fair would have been a big
improvement over that of last year.
A number of boys and girl have just
returned to their home at Norfolk, Va,
after spending three days sightseeing
in Washington, D. C. The entire ex-
penses of the trip were paid for from
their earnings in working land at an
agricultural school. The money used
was only a comparatively small
part of their total earnings for the
year. Each student makes regularly a
profit of from $25 to 500 on the indi-
vidual garden patch he or she cultivates.
Many earn their W living attending
school. This school is Of the kind adj
vocated as a help in retaining children
on the farm in preference to going to
the city to live when they reach matur-
ity.