The Washburn leader. [volume], April 12, 1902, Image 8

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Wasburn,
C. B. LITTLE,
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"THE OLD RELIABLE STAND-BY
Axel Nelson
THE CHEAP CASH STORE
Hu just received a new and complete stock of ?-M
Groceries, Gents' Furnishings, Hats,
Caps, Boots and Shoes, etc.
A FDLIi LINE OF HARDWARE ALWAYS ON HAND.
Also Agent for the Deering Farming Implements, ••*.
Numerous Makes of Wagoas and Bob- '-sV'-'
sleds, Aermoter Windmills.
Your Inspection and Patronage Respectfully Solicited.
AXEL NELSON.
SPRING \TOCH
Building Hardware. Barb Wire* Ma
jestic Ranges, Tinware, Enameled
Ware, if .. yf
Get our price* before buying your Barb Wire and Nails/' Ex
& Milligan Paints. A full line
elusive agent for Heath
spring. Also Oils and Varnishes. Dealers in.
Heavy and Shelf Hardware, Cutlery,
Firearms, Ammunition, Stoves and
Ranges.
THOS. THOMPSON SONS
D. KENDRICK,
EXCELLENT
VALUES IN
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S. M. RYE,
Vice President.
Banking Business Transacted.
Foreign and Domestic Exchange.
County and School Warrants Bought.
Interest Paid on Time Deposits.'
YOUR ACCOUNT AND OTHER BUSINESS SOLICITED.
INSURANCE WRITTEN UNION BOARD COMPANIES ONLY.
Agent for Foreign Steamship Lines.
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Washburn Mills
ABSOLUTE CUABAHTEC COES WITH QUE FLOUR.
Seal, Fancy and Bakers' Flour,, Graham and Wheat Grits,
Bran and Shorts and Feed. Feed Grinding done at all
times. Our Wheat Grits are an excellent substitute for oat
meal. We have recently put in a Corn Sheller bring in
your corn and get it shelled and ground. We want your
trade.
N. D.
ROVIB,
Cashier, Assil
McLean County Stats Bank
A GENERAL
Cashier.
CLOTHING
E.E. SEMLING ft CO.
BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA.
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS.
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DRUGS
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NORTH DAKOTA
STATE
V NEWS.
Hamilton wants an opera house.
Jamestown reports some burglars.
A veterinarian is wanted at Hannah.
Hunter has a new investment compa
ny.
Kenmare seems to have some merg
ers.
Peddlers are numerous. around Buf
falo.
Bowbells wants, sidewalks and cross
ings.
One man owns'four townaites in Ward
county.
Velpa people want the town incor
porated.
Lakota is to have a local telephone
exchange. gfc!
Milnor wants a building and loan'as
sociation.
Kenmare is proud of her postofflce
fixtures.
Langdon expects a new Methodise
minister.
Wahpeton people are proud of their
orchestra.
Harvey Larson of Monango had
smallpox.
Lewis Grant of Casselton'will remove
to the coast.
A number of wild geese were captured
since the dtorm.
Lldgerwood, will vote on the water
works question.
Milnor blind pigs have been closed by
the authorities/
An Aneta man was arrested on a
hold-up charge.
Dr. W. A. Reque of Hankinson has lo
cated atr Kindred.
Banker Grandin is mentioned for
mayor of Mayville.
A few mild winters make the ranch
er a trifle careless.
Bad roads were the cause of many
schools being closed.
The artesian lake at Mrytle.isto be
jvell stocked with flsh.
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The mall carrier out of Finley will
purchase an automobile.
Comrade Mumford died at Grafton,
aged seventy-two years.
Many improvements will Ije made at
Devils Lake this summer.
Two former residents of Cando are
members of Dowie's Zion.
Granville has grown so rapidly that
the depot is to be enlarged.
The farmers are being warned not
to patronize traveling fakirs.
Osuabrofk is becoming more intevest
ed in the creamery proposition.
A. L. Larson of Oakes has disposed of
his farm and removed to Fargo.
The repository for wheels at James
town is said to be crowded again.
Carl Buttke, near Buffalo, captured
100 wild geese in the recent storm. •.
It is said Velva will incorporate and
elect Attorney John Burk mayor.
Frank D. Horton, a Mapleton elevat
or agent, died in a Fargo hospital.
There are many real estate dealers
whose only offices are in their hats.
Jamestown has purchased a site from
Lawyer Rose for the new standplpe.
Peter Lounjer was arrested at Dun
selth on a charge of stealing horses.
The,blizzard couldn't freeze out the
base ball enthusiasm at Lidgerwood.
Wahpeton is getting an object lesson
on the necessity of paving the streets.
Some Valley City basements were
flooded by back water from the river.
New ties are being dumped along the
Southwestern by' the Northern Pacific.
McHenry, on the Cooperstown Une,
was without trains for an entire wieek.
The piano contest at Jamestown re
sulted in a victory for the high school.
Hon. J. M.'Cochrane of Grand Forks
will be the Decoration Day orator at
Lakota.
A young Canadian on the farm of
Joe Warmington of Absaraka, has the
.smallpox.
A Grand Forks man fell into the riv
er while attempting to cross on the rot
ten ice.
The agent at Manvel had smallpox,
and the depot was quarantined-and no
tickets sold.
The farmers feel that a good crop is
assured, because of.the great amount
of moisture.
Mandan hotel people and. saloons
profited by the recent sno .v and flood
blockade.
There is a protest at Sheyenne be-"
gause young boys are permitted to visit
billiard halls.
Dr. Hewettson of Valley City, has re
covered from an injury, in. $Khich his hip
was dislocated.
Shows and dances are poorly-patron
ized at LaMoure, since, the revival
meetings began.
An experienced Iandlcrd can find an
opening for a. hotel. at ?Barlow. The
building is ready. ',
The dedication of thV'C^thoHc cliurch
at Joliette has been postponed until the
roads are, better.
Goodrich already \vants.to be a coun
ty Beat, of a part of Foster, "Wells and
McLean counties.
The papers at 'jGrand Forks seem tp
be bearing, tlie voters' burden in the
mayoralty contest.
The storhi ls^Said to ha^e kflled*i£-lot
of prairie chickens, andltwas during
the closed season, tpo.
A moving picture show poralysed the
Grafton electrlo light system by using
too gf^at a voltage,
Dickey county is- s£ld to have Wff
100 land agentji. No guilty man should
escape those felloes
The floods at Minot are discouraging
to-the new settlers, w"
get on to their cUUms
At Jamestown flit
ready convi«5tirig hoVx« or. s
rides on freight
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Cooperstown people are making great
preparations for a Fourth of July cele
bration,
The skating 'rink at Grand Forks has
been torn down, and spring may be said
to be here.
A Grafton boy has been raising ,a lot
of hades, and will be sent to the re
form school.
Mail directed to Buford frequently
winds up at Blnford, on the Coopers
town branch.
Lieut. McLean of Company C, at
Grafton, has resigned, because of ab
sence from the state.
The' people of the flatter regions of
the stute. are beginning to get out their
canocB
and diving: suits.
Some of the settlers in Ward county
•are beginning to lose' patience over the
1-erisitence of claim jumpers.
The Minot papers are doing all they
can to build up the country, and both
editors seem to be prospering.
It is said that the name of LaMoure
county may be changed to Iowa, as so
many Iowans are locating there,
A porter at Grand Forks was reported
to have attempted suicide, but claims
only to have eaten some pickles.
Two of the sweetest girls in Casseltor.
are to be married in April and go to the
Pacific coast, according to the Report
er.
The people of the state have quit dis
cussing the storm, and are now endeav
oring to figure out the depth of the
mud.
Lewis Pond of Churchs Ferry has
purchased a flne Shorthorn, from Con
tractor Kennedy's Ransom County
farm.
Mrs. Wallace Small of Rolette county
died suddenly, and an investigation re
vealed that death was caused by'heart
disease.
Grand F^rkers have thrown so mucl.
mud in the campaign that they now
complain that Fargo has more on the
streets.
The number of new settlers is a sur
prise to every one. Even the most en
thusiastic boomers underestimated the
number.
The suggestion that the farmers keep
barometers and be governed by the in
dications, seems to be a point worthy of
attention.
•Attorney Sure is the new chief of the
Davenport lire department. If things
don't go right he'll read law to the
flremean.
Fred Williams was arrested at Grand
Forks, charged with a revolting crime.
A five-year-old girl is said to have been
the victim.
Grand Forks business men insist thav
!ie city must put up signs on the
street corners, designating the names
of the streets.
Grafton people will get into the chick-'
en show earlier next season, and are
already preparing for a bigger exhibi
tion than ever.
Many of the farmer boys, who took
advantage of the winter course at the
agricultural college, are returning for
the spring's work.
Bob Gardner was arrested at Ellen
dale on a charge of violating the pro
hibition law. He was held in $500 bail,
which he furnished.
lffkr Jacpbson of Harvey, for s^veraV
years a resident of Cooperstown, died
recently. He was once a prominent res
ident of Griggs county
The postmaster at Westege, Barnes
county, ha3 smallpox, and some of
boys are having to wait a long time to
hear from their best girls.
At Grand Forks the campaign Is be
coming so warm that the "Taxpayers''
and "Voters" who are rushing into
print are being numbered.
Soil that was', plowed and harrowed
last fall caught little snow, and was
ready for seeding earlier than adjoin
ing' fields not so ^ultivated.
A. Stutsman county farmer had an
auction Bale, at which his stock was bid
ill by parties who refuged to take tl*im.
He sued and secured damages.
School teaching at Dickinson is said
to be a job that requires a lot of nerve.
The Forman telephone service is to
be improved and the lines rewired.
.. It is said that a German farmer, re
cently over, will plant a- few kegs of
beer- in Stutsman county, to see how
the'crop will yield in this country.
A lot of the mall for Esmond is senv
to Goa,
and
Angeline M. Oldham of Grand Forkt
gets.a pension of $8 W. H. H. Musser,
dead,"tainted Woods,1 $8 Dennis Han
nifin, Bismarck, *30 Mary J. Musser,
Painted Woods, $8.
Banker Edwards of Mayville, who re
cently returned from a trip to ,Cuba,
predicts that the United States will
eventually have trouble with the resi
dents of that island.
Business men at Langdon chipped in
and paid a year's rent for a 'phone at
the Great Northern depot—for their
convenience, as the railroad company
would not go to the expense..
Roecoe WJllson, the son of the Bath:
gate editor, is now at Salina Criis, the
terminus of the.Tehauntfepec railway.
He receives $300 per month, buf has to
pay
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.'remains there until some­
one £oes after it. The postoffice officials
seem unable to straighten- out the tan«
gle.
Richland'county people are sorry that
County Superintendent of Schools Ha
gen will case his educational work—as
he has been a popular and successful
superintendent.1
for board, room and trashing.
.Several exchanges are teUlup. a .^gotoo
one" on the teachers. They claitp the
schoolmarm caught the janitor, in ,«•
falsehood, wheroupou shfr asked him
r~Vhere
lqe supposed he'd go to if he tald
#ucH stories. The Janitor replied that,
wherever he went, he expected hfc'd he,
'making fires for school teachers.
Forman in said to have a boose dia.
'pensary according to the latefrt, up-to-:
morning
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He *as three
claim.
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p- aljrtof snow, His bWJds
g^w^enhe^»#ctted
Yards at Bismarck, Wilton, Washburn.
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tions. Gents' and Ladies'
Furni shing's. Gloves,. Mit
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lats and Caps, DucK
Goats and Heavy WorK
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We are out for business
share, of your patronage
H. HOLTAN
Washburn, Nortli Dakota.
NEW STORE
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Our Fall and Wiater Stock Is Now ia, Consisting of
Duck Coats and Sheep-lined Coats,
Fur Coats and Dress Overcoats.
Oar Stock of Uaderwear Is tha Best, as Is Oar Stock of
WINTER SUITS, GLOVES, MITTENS, BtO.
Giro Us a Csli Whea l* Bismarck. n
Waif red Hoover ,,
Main Street, Opposite New Depot, Bismarck, Nortli Dakota.
HEW GOODS
New Railroad! New Prices!
Oa Arrival of First Traia Ws Will Hays,
Twenty-five Carloada of
Lumber and Building Material
AU Fresh and Now. Prices Will Be Xowered According
to New Freight Traffic.
No Trouble to Show Goods. Call and See Us.
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Groceries and Hardware
DRY GOODS.
Boots, Shoes. Hats and Caps.
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