Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-08-13

Dickinson has reached the dignit.
of having it's alleys paved.
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Editor Conrad Of The News at Man
dan has joined the noble army o
Benedicts. .
{ The Odd Fellows at Cando hav'
| greatly improved the interior of thei
! lodge room.
With the recently organized banl
at Halliday, there will be seven bank
in Dunn county.
Twenty-eight years ago The EN-
mons County Record was printed II
a shack on a presumption claim
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w. A. Curren of Valley City will
build the new ward building for ths
asylum for the insance at jamestown
as a cost of $99,480.
L dlIlclO Ill olAtCI SOuASy ! 81
ing to assist in securing the right-of
way and establishing the proposed
new railway line. Mandan to Man
ming.
The yield of oats on the Leonber
ger farm, near Dickinson was thirty
five bushels to the acre and reports
say there is some fine wheat on the
same farm.
The Dickinson Press embellished its
report of the dedication of the Elks
building in that city with %splendidly
executed pictures of seven of the Of
ficers of the local lodge.
The boys of the state reform school
at Mandan are being given instruc'
ton in house-building craft by being
used as assistants in the construc'
ton of the new dormitory building,
The band of thes state reform school
serenaded John Henry Mears, when
the record-breaking globe-trotter
passed through Mandan. The band Is
one made up of bows 10 years old.
R. X. Mckenzie, a prominent far
mer of Cavalier, died from injuries
sustained while fixing his hay fork ap.
p%aratus. He owned the old Douglas
farm which is part of the townsite
of Cavalier. 's
The Times at Hastings says, the
merchants there report this is the
best year they have ever experienced
and farmers alike. say that they have
not had as nice a stand of grain in
many years. a
The fish which were recently plant.
ed in Sweet Briar creek, Morton coun.
ty, are attaining a rapid growth. Game
Warden Reko was in that vicinity re-.
Gently and declared that some OF
those he was able to see were nearly
three and a half inches in length.
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A company has been organized at
Flasher to establish a $4,000 eleva'
tor. 1t is a local company and the
elevator is to be completed ready for
occupancy by Sept. 20. The excellence
of the crops in that part Of the state
is responsible for the increased mum.
Der of grain houses. WIZ. +si
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Geo. A. Holiday of Ardoch carried
off a few prizes with his hogs at the
state fair. Mr.. Holiday just had three
enteries and captured first prize for
grade Berkshire SOW and litter; sec
ond prize for Duroc boar and fourth
prize for Duroc SOW. j. ]. Heffern.
also of Ardoch won the eight firsts
for entries of Duroc swine.
s. G. Baxter, northwest Of Ryder.
thinks that alfalfa is one of the most
profitable crops that the farmer can
raise in this country. He has a fine
field that he intends to raise for seed,
and will plant a larger acreage next
year: He finds that 1t pays to feed al.
falfa to his stock, as he gets we'll paid
for the extra cost and labor when he
disposes Of his beef cattle.
Citizens Of New Leipzig, on the
south line out of Mandan, are hur-
raining because the we'll diggers have
struck a vein of very good water at
a depth of u feet, the we'll producing
Is gallons per hour. Experts say
that the we'll demonstrates the exist.
ence of an artesian basin to furnish
a permanent supply.
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Rev. G. L. Wilson formerly pastor
of the Presbyterian church of Man
dan, where he made a close study of
Indians and Indian lore, was there
the latter part of last week, calling
on old friends. He was enroute to
the Fort Berthold reservation, where
he will study the agricultural methods
of the old eros Ventres tribe of In
dams in the interest of the museum
of natural history Of New York city.
One of the reasons why the annual
sessions Of the Northwestern Sum
mer school are welcomed by the Vel
va citizens is the fact that a number
of very excellent lectures are given
each year under the direction of the
school, admission being free in most
cases. The list for this year was
even nor interesting than that Of
the two previous years. A rural
school expert from the department
at Wochinpfon vicitod tho cohoo1 .