Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1888-01-06
IN TOWN AND OUT.
Bargains in dry goods at Elsenberg'

s8, 8,099.
Elsenberg's n the best place fer dry
goods.
Grand clearance sale of dry goods at
Eisenberg's.
|TThe Board of County Commissioners
will meet next Monday.
Miss Bertha Packer has been the guest
1ef Miss Lizzie Taipe, at the Conner resi-.
dence, during the past week.
| The railroad company has abandoned
their townstc Of Lowry, In Logan county,
and accepted Napoleon as their stopping
place.
One and a half million acres of Dakota
public lands have passed into tho hands
OF actual settlers during the year just
closed.
II. L.. Durant & Co., wholesale and re-
tail booksellers and stationers, wall paper
and music dealers, Bismarck, Oak, solicit
mail orders.
Matt Locktsn went out buggy riding
Sunday. But the deep snow was too
much for him, and the vehlcls was hauled
homo in parts.
Minnesota's and Dakota's wheat crep
combined, for the past year, makes to-
tai Of 95, 600, 900 bushels, and Dakota fur :
nishes nearly two-thirds.
I>The weather during the past week has
been quite stormy, though not excessively
cold. Snow has fallen to considerable
depth, and tho roads are badly blocked.
r The RECORD is glad to learn that Mr..
Reynolds had his house insured fer eight
or nine hundred dollars. The larger sum,
however, ID less than third Of the loss.
| 1--WE understand that school will open at
Williamsport next Monday, with Miss
Cash Petrie. of Winchester, as teacher.
There is promise Of quite = good attend.
ance.
p'Thc Misses Taipe. Edick and Packer
kept open house on New Year, at the
Connor farm house. The day WAS pleas.
ant, and the young ladies received a
large number of callers.
PThe Williamsport-Livona mail is max
ing regular trips and good time this win
ter. 1t has delayed neither for snow nor
blizzard This is state of affairs thor
oughly appreciated by every one.
The Boston Journal calls attention to
the fact that in 1883, the year preceding
the last presidential election. the states
which voted gave a net democratic ma
jority of 5,261. This year the same states
gave net republican gain of los, ,074.
Dickinson Press -Four times the area
of Rhode Island has been settled in Da-
kota this year. At this rate" five years
will see all the free government land Ia
ken, and Too late p will be the cry Of
Thousands of homeless psspls.-Dlckin.
son Press.
The officers of the leading railway com
panies of the territory estimate the num-
Der of European immigrants to come to
Dakota and Minnesota this year at fully
| 10000 They will come from England,
Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Sweden.
Norway and Denmark.
A Chicago dispatch of Dec. 80 says
John F. Fullsn, = mechanic, attempted
to walk cut from the city to his home in
Lakeview last night, during the blizzard.
He was frozen stiff. Tonight, owing to
the huge snow drifts and cold, all trains
| into the city were behind time. some as
| much as four hours.
Ex.: "Who is that hard-looking wretch
in cell 573'' inquired one of the csmmittse
| of visiting philantbroplsts at the peniten-
tiary. THAT is the man who always
| writes 'Christmas Xmas" replied the
warden. The visitors passed on pity
ingly, yet shudderingly. They felt they
could>de nothing for hip.
tI"fhere was goodsized company pres
ent at the party, Monday evening, at the
! schoolhouse. Frank Smith did not re-
ceive the letter of notification in time
and therefore the violin was absent
But Charlie Kilborn, Joe Kalberer. and
Johnny Baker made music for the dane
ers, and everything passed of pleasantly.
Everybody living ON the Missouri
Slope knows DR.. Dunn, the old timer
In purchasing drugs the public has TO de-
pend largely on the dealers statements
as to quality and prices. Nobody ever
had reason to complain of his dealings
with the firm of Dunn & Co. Therefers.
when in Bismarck, be sure to call on them.
"The Howler has now been established
six weeks" wrote the young editor as he
sat at the desk Of the struggling country
Newspaper, "and we point with pride
to-" "Its time to call halt" said the
sheriff, in dry, frosty tones, as he came
in the door and tsok possession, and ex-
amined the type and put it back in the
wrong boxes and locked at the galleys
and wondered what they were. and smiled
at the creditors who got around late and
couldn't find anything to attach.-Ex.
k,<Ons Of the brightest children in this
part Of the country il little 'five-year-old
Maudis Bolton, q niece of Mr.. and Mrs.
Waldreff, who, with her mother and two
little brothers Russell and Guy, recently
came out from Indiana. The other night
the editor. being weather.bound, took
refuge at tho Jail. Next morning, before
he had currlsd himself, Maudie noticed
his erect locks and asked, "What makes
you do up you hair 'pompedo' style?"
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