Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1884-07-11
IN TOWN and OUT.

Register Williams is suffering from a
severely sprained ankle.
A boot and shoe maker, who is also an
adept in the cobblers art, is needed in
Williamsport.
Attention is called to the advertisement,
of Messrs. Van Houten Bros g. Little, Bis
marck, in another column
There is nothing like avoirdupois Miss
Bessie McNicl says that when she is ut
home she has no fear of wind even Jar
| ring her house.
Mrs. F. D. Walker left at the RECORD
office last week a sample of wheat from
Mark It. Bussey's farm, near town. Tie
grain measured nearly four feet
The crops in the vicinity of Williams
port are still looking as finely as at the
time of our last weeks report and there
| has been a further abundance of rain.
MIR. Thomas Heron, with Mellon Bros,
Bismarck, accompanied by Miss Lambert,
OF the city named, came down to Will
Transport last Saturday. They returned
Tuesday.
Albert B. Peterson, in the Goose LAX.
neighborhood, is farming quite cxtcn
svcly. Mr.. F. D. Walker informs the
RECORD that Mr.. Peterson has 200 acres
of breaking. -,.,--,-----
In order to receive the latest news, and
Thursday being the day on which the
stage arrives from Bismarck, from and
including this issue the RECORD will be-
published on Friday. ~
The names and numbers of the various
school townships in Emmons county are
as follows: 1, Buroak 2, Clayton 3, Wi
mona; 4, Glanavon; 5, Winchester; 6,
| Williamsport; Z, Cherry Grove; 8, Lo-
gan.
By the hail the RECORD building was
made to look like a pugilist with pair of
black eyes. Boards have taken the place
of glass in the front windows but every
thing will he Strengthened out in day or
two.
During rain storm Wednesday before
last Mr.. J. L. Kennedy lost valuable
mare, killed by lightning. When found
the animal had tuft of grass in her
mouth. Not wound or mark of any
kind could be discovered on the body.
The election of officers of the Williams
port Sabbath school took place last Sun
day. The following ladies and gentlemen
were chosen: Superintendent, J. H.
Worst; assistant superintendent, H. A.
Armstrong; secretary, Miss Bessie Nc
Mel; treasurer, E. G. Packer librarian,
w. B. Halstead; organist Miss Libbic
Kurtz; chorister, Prof. D. r. Rupert.
Miss McNiel, principal of the Bismarck
public schools, came down to her claim
near town last Saturday. Monday morn
ing about o'clock she was made the rc-
cipient of a grand serenade by a full Or
chestra of-hailstones, the western edge
of the storm just reaching her house.
Her friend, Miss Lambert, a young lady
teacher from the Capital, was her guest
on the night Of the iceshower.
The county commissioners were in scs-
sion Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
The first day the town was full of people
with blood in their eyes, looking for
bridges. Whenever commissioner could
be run down he was cornercd by some
enthusiastic gentleman who, with bitter
memories of past mudhole mishaps, was
determined to have a decent crossing.
The bodybuilding taken under advise
ment by the board is greatly needed.
The RECORD is pleased to learn that
John A. Rea has been reappointed regis.
ter of the Bismarck land Office. He has
proven an efficient officer, alike careful
of the interests of Uncle Samuel and ur-
bane and gentlemanly to settlers and
land-seekers. The position Of register is
not always "a happy one" as the settler
who has just come in to file on a claim
which some one else has gobbled the day
before frequently expounds some queer
land law. While at the land Office re
Gently the REcoRD man saw two lawyers
and one client "before the window" all
of whom were "dead certain they were
right and the register was wrong. But,
as Mr.. Rea is an old newspaper man, he
of course possesses sufficient Christian
grace to wrestle with any ordinary diff
ticulty.