Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1888-12-28
not attend during the summer months.
Brother Frost, there are not six months
in an Emmons County winter

Brother Frost, there are not six months
in an Emmons County winter
!, Merchant Connor was one of the most
pleased people about the postof1ice the
other evening when the mail arrived, and
the cause of his smile was Christmas
present in the form of q fine gold watch
from "the old folks at home.'
Robert Dickson had narrow escape
last week. He was stoning Frank Hart's
we'll when the rope broke and away went
tub and stones to the bottom. Miracu-
lously the falling stones missed Robert,
or he wad na hae lived to cat his Christ
mas dinner.
1t is cheering news to North Dakotans
says the jamestown Alert that Alexander
Mckenzie, who has been sick in the East,
IS reported better, and will be able soon
to come home, where matters of import
ance demand his appearance. North Da-
kota needs Mckenzie now, if ever.
Grafton News and Times Ole Lee
sells out and quits farming because he is
afflicted with rheumatism aud cannot
work. He pulls out with about $4,000
clear. He has been here about nine
years, coming with nothing but his
hands. Can you beat this farming any,
WhereP
H.C. Tucker thinks he has huge joke
on Mrs. Tucker says the Brown County
Sentinel. She went to New England
several weeks ago to escape the rigors of
Dakota winter. Last week she was in
a blizzard and snow blockade in Maine.
and on the same day Mr.. Tucker, in Da-
kota, was in the field plowlng.
A Towner Farmer, says the Cando
Tribune, tried the experiment of sowing
winter wheat, under the impression that
the seed would lie dormant during the
winter and get the desired carly start in
the spring. 1t did; it started too early,
and the alternate freezing and thawing
while the snow was going killed 1t.
Farmer Bottomley went to Bismarck
the other day, When he got there he
hunted up Quinn and asked, as usual,
"How's Grover7" Instead of the Gus.
tomary CHEEKY call right came the
counter query, "Who's Grover? Never
heard of him." The farmer came back
by way of the river and Robert O Brien
came over with him.
There is no line of goods sold IN which
the public is SO little posted regarding
values as that of Drugs. For this reason
the buyer should always deal where be
knows he will get the worth of his money.
And we have never heard citizen of
Emmons County complain of his treat
ment by DUN & Co.. Bismarck.
George Jennings, the Bismarck grocer,
whose store is on the corner OF Main and
Fifth Streets is building up splendid
reputation for fair dealing among the
people of the Missouri Slope. And one
reason therefor is that he keeps a fresh
and pure stock at all times and his prices
are reasonable. The well.known firm of
McCrory s. Co., butchers and general
meat dealers, are in the same building.
y Albert Robinson sold a two.year- ole
|Fcolt the other day for an even hundred
He has another the same age, and at the
time they were weaned he was offered S25
apiece for them. A friend advised him
to sell them, but he refused Probably
the two haven't been five dollars expense
since that time, vet Mr. r. has sold one
for a hundred and has its mate left
There is no country-not even the famous
blue. grass region of Kentucky-supcriol
to the Missouri Slope for raising goot
horses cheaply.
|, A dinner to party of friends was giver
Christmas day 10 a party of friends by
those unhappy and forlorn "baches'
Messrs. Llnderman and D. II. Ycater
Those present were Treasurer Brindlt
and wife, Superintendent Worst and wife
Commissioner Yeater and wife, Miss
Maud Shields, Miss Ollie Worst, and tho
RECORD man. Everything was Of bach.
elor preparation and was flrst-class. Mrs
Linderman and May, away off in Penn.
sylvania, should have been present to SCI
how gracefully Mr.. L. filled the position
of "pretty waiter girl" As between Da
vid.and Fred, it was hard to tell whicl
was the "chief cook and which the
"bottlewasher. At the close of business
the turkey couldn't have been recognized
by his nearest relatives, especially tina
part of him nearest the commissioner.