Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1888-03-09
IN TOWN AND OUT.

| New dress goods ut Eisenberg's.
Peter Hansen has returned from Valley
City.
Window curtains and fixtures at Eisen-
berg's.
The Careful farmer will soon dig
his plow out of the snow-bank.
+ There is talk of establishing twlnc
factory at the Bismarck penitentiary.
Y If our spring" items are little pre-.
mature, it's springs fault. She ought to
be here. S
Who lost the Jack. knfc7 Apply to the
RECORD devil and describe property. No
charges.
Hi, there, Jim p Wake up | What's
the matter with the Camp Shields CORE.
spondence.
Mr.. and Mrs E. F. Savage, of Roop,
| were callers at Mr.. and Mrs. Waldroff $
Wednesday.
n Born~-On Monday, Feb. 27. to Mr.. and
4 Mrs. Aekinson Moore of Southwestern
\ Emmons. son.
Y Mr. A. W. Ogle, of Buchanan, was @
visitor to the Williamsport country fol
several days last week.
7 Tuesday one of Mr.. Connor's horses
| slipped and hurt himself so badly that he
had to be left down at John Shcrmer's.
There IS in Dakota Catholic popula
tion Of $4,000, with 1870 churches, "a
schools, 1000 pupils, and 10 industrla
schools.
r 1t will soon be time for the constitu-
tlonally tired settler TO light his pipe, lie
down in the shade, and "cuss" the coun.
try "'cause it's so hard for feller to glt
along"
Crops were very heavy in Brown county
last season, and as result 80 marriage
licenses have been filed with the probate
Judge of that county during the pas
six months.
There we're only lives lost in Nertl
Dakota by the January blizzard (; IL
South Dakota, 100. Eastern newspapers
reported the death of over 1000 people in
the territory.
Joel Mason, brother of Mrs. Wiley
Wilson, of Buchanan, will be out from
Tennessee in short time, to make his
home in Emmons County. He isa young
man about % years of age.
Sioux Falls Press If anything like the
indications are realized, this season vii
see such a tide of immigration flowing
into Dakota as must tend very material,
toward filing up the vacant spots.
Another thing IN favor of Dakota
There is no alternate freezlng and thaw
ing here, and a dignified citizen is no.
liable to lose his footing and chip piece
oil his backbone q half-dozen times each
winter.
John Boutillier returned from Bismarck
one day last week with his nose a fiery
rod In color. Mr.. B. says 1t was done by
the frost, and as John Is temperate, ano
as his statement is verified, 1t must be &C.
cepted as fact.
The minister of Sweden and Norway
has written from Washington to an EN-
mons County official inquiring whethe,
! Gustavus Swanson and wife live'in thi.
county. The Swansons reside east Of
Roop. A legacY, perhaps.
| In another column will be found the
advertisement of L. l.. May s. Co., tho
well-known st. Paul nurscrymen, seeds
men and florists. Their seeds are al
northern grown. Send them your ad.
dress and they will mail you catalogue
1t is an old and true story, though w
did not hear of 1t until day or two ago
that Wiley last summer wrote the pest
office department asking for loan Of
$500 to buy team. A nice chap, truly
to be entrusted with the custody ot
United States mail.
Leola Blade Right Of Way Agen
Conklln (of the A., 3. & N. W. came ur
Friday from Aberdeen and returned Sat
urday. He was looking after the com.
pany's real.estate affairs here. He say
there is no doubt as to the compapy's in
tcntion to put dewn the iron this season.
Plant your garden truck IN crooked
rows, for "Curvesa are more beautiful thar
straight lines" That's the way the REC
ORD garden was planted last year. L
saves your shovelplow and benefits YOU
horse, if not your temper, Besides, han
ding hoe about six hundred hours il
splendid exercise.
There is money on hand to pay Will
iamsport school order No. 104, issued il
name of Miss Bertha A. Packer, and in
terest will cease thereon March 16. Wht
has order No. 04, which was called Feb
8 Of this year, interest ceasing Feb. 10
The next order "en deck for payment il
No. los, ($70,, and there will deub,les,
soon be funds to pay it.
Although the weather since last Friday
has been bright and pleasant, the temper
ature has not been high enough to thaw
the surface of the snow that fell last weel
and thus form a crust. Only gentl,
movement of the atmosphere has pre-
vailed but enough to sift the dry snow
into the trails and make slow work o
Shedding. The mails have been some
what demoralized by the bad roads, tht
river line particularly. The Steele car