Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1888-08-17
IN TOWN AND OUT.

is completed.
Remember the picnic 10 morrow ad
iBrowns Grove.
( The Thurber boys departed yesterday
for the bonanza harvest fields of eastern
Dakota.
Judge Dougherty is again on his native
heath, having arrived from Bismarck last
Sunday.
NM. and Mrs. Bumstead visited Win
iamsport Sunday. bringing Mrs. Garry
up. They returned the same 'evcniug.
r. l.. Durant g. Co.. wholesale and re.
tail booksellers and stationcrs, wall paper
and music dealers. Bismarck, Oak, solicit
mail orders.
There is considerable sickness in Uncle
Dudley Walkers family, at Armstrong
,postotfice. Mr.. and Mrs. Thurtle have
'alo been quite Ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Higbce, of the Omio
neighborhood, entertained party of
neighbors and friends, Sunday, 1t being
Mrs. HIS birthday.
Mr. A. D. Cordner, the well-known
farm implement dealer of the Sterling
ncighborhood, was visitor to Williams
port Saturday and Sunday.
The weather has been cool and cloudy
during the past week. Most everybody
would be satisfied to get along without
more rain until next spring.
The Ladies' SOCIAL Union will meet
with Miss Connor on the evening of Sat-
urday, August 25, at o'clock Each
lady IS expected to invite a gentleman
/ Messrs. Dlckev, Reed and Herrick left
Tuesday for Mr.. Parkln's Cannonball
ranch to attend the annual celebration in
honor of the birthday of young Chaska
\ Parkln. -
The RECORD is authorized to state that
the funds raised by the Ladies' Social
Union at their entertainments will first be
devoted to purchasing singing books for
the church.
If you want to buy the best sewing
machine manufactured--and at a low
price, too-call at Brady's, III Bismarck,
and see the Latest Improved Singer. 1t
can't be beaten.
Sheriff Wade and Walker Robinson
were in town Saturday, representing Gay.
ton township. Walker appears TO be get.
ting younger instead of older. What is
the cause therefor?
Go to the New York Art Store C. II.
Phelps, proprietor), Third street, Bis
marck, for watches, jewelry, silverware,
wall paper, etc. Watch repairing spe.
cialty Goods at bottom prices.
Messrs. John McCrory and Ed Wescott,
of Wlnona, delegates to the convention,
were in town Saturday. Jack" wore
the first party hat yet seen here -Harrif {
son and Morton, of course--andl 1t is quite
becoming.
Superintendent Worst's new well is
only 81 feet deep, aud there is five feet of
water in it. The house we'll, so yards or
so distant, is 81 feet deep. The water in
Ahe old well is soft, while that IN the new
one is hard.
Master Eddie Whitford, of Bismarck,
son of the courteous and popular cashier
of the Capital National Bank, Is visiting
the Williamsport country. He is the
guest of Mr. and Miss Connor ut Sand.
| stone Ranch.
II There will be big demand throughout
Emmons county for lumber from now un.
til winter Many new granaries will
have to be built, and many improvements
in the way of house and barn building
Mare contemplated.
! Pretty nearly everybody is IN the hay
| and harvest fields, and the town has few
| visitors, all of which causes local items
to be few and far between. The busy
season also has Il disastrous effect on our
county correspondence.
We want to print church and Sunday.
school directory weekly in the RECORD,
and would be pleased to have some one
in each neighborhood where there is a
Sunday.school or regular preaching send
j US the hours, minister's name, etc.
There is no line of goods sold III 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 a citizen of
Emmons County complain of his treat
ment by Dunn & 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 be keeps fresh
and pure stock at all times and his prices
are reasonable. The wcli-known firm OF
McCrory & Co., butchers ana general
mca.-dealers, are in the same building.
Very few of the lady settlers of the
Enewrr portions Of Dakota have yet bad
lsutficiunt time to devote much attention
Ito the cultivation of flower garden
But there is no northern country where
tame flowers grow to greater perfection
than here. We have never seen IA prettiel
4 bouquet than little Willie Boutlllicr pre-
senled to the editor the other day. The
flowers came from his mothers garden
! Several settlers in the Williamsport