Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1889-08-02
IN TOWN and OUT.
O the red-hot, naughty ants,
How thew c1amher IN vour nante

At the picnic in the cool and shady glen
How they seem to take delight in ,
The unfeeling sport of bitin'
Giddy girls and modest gentlemen. >--Ex.
L/Frank Hart is down in South Dakota.
. Will Albright came home from Brown
county last week.
; Mr. Andruss school closes Friday and
<he leaves for W,nona Sunday.
Young Ben Corb'n was a visi,ogto the,
>Wiliamsport country Tuesday.
The potato, bugs seem to have great
liking for tomato vines this year.
e%Bllly Margachsis again at home, having
returned from Cass county last Monday.
Mr.. A. D. Cordner, of Sterling, was
visitor to the Williamsport neighborhood
this week
Wash. Hawkes. found his stray mare
recently advertised, down at Commits
sloner Gayton's.
! >sMr. Andrus gave dinner party to
Fseveral of his young friends last Sunday
at the Emmons House.
Fred Whittier was in town Wednesday
looking up men to work at the Badger
hay camp, over at the river.
lt<'Mrs. Carmichael and Miss Alice came
Yup from Omlo Tuesday on q visit to
friends in the Wllllamsport country.
The Republican State Convention will
be held at Fargo on Aug. 81 the Demo
cratic State Convention, in the same city,
an Aug. 30.
I<Messrs. Del Potter and F. NJ Burge
were in the Wllliamsport country day be
fore yesterday buying farm produce to be
sold at Fort Yates.
ION Thursday of last week there was q
| heavy hail.storm in the Exeter neighbor.
hood. The crops of Messrs. Allen. Brad
dock and other settlers were damaged.
Mrs. I, G. Bentley has received lette,
from Montana bringing the news that hel
son Murray was injured recently by q
horse that lie was riding falling backward
! on him.
The Forman Sargent county, Item
says that in its neighborhood "bundle
carriers for sclfrblnders are being covered
to catch the short grain. A good scheme
for this year"
| Napoleon Homestead: Mr.. l. L. Young
of Emmons county, was IN town yester
day and called at this office. Mr.. Y. re
ports that the crops in his nelghborhoot
are very fine--much better than here
tfThe many friends of Mr.. and Mrs
I Wesley Baker in Emmons and Burleigl
counties will extend to the bereaved pa
rents their deepest sympathy over thci
I great aftiiction in the death of little Mag
| gle.
Jackrabbits are very plentiful in Da
kota this year, and in some counties it il
claimed that they are assisting the 20
pliers to destroy grain. Master Clayton
Worst has killed sixteen jackrabbits thi
season.
There will be social entertainment n
the schoolhouse this evening. There will
be short literary entertainment, afte
which games, supper, and general goot
time. Everybody invited. The ladies
are requested to bring baskets-no
empty.
Joe Walker informs us that he is abou
to start for South Dakota, and will brin.
with him on his return an English Shir'
stallion, a Cleveland Bay stallion, ant
a Spanish jack. The three animals; to
gcther with Pioneer and Eclipse, will b,
for sale.
In the Glencoe neighborhood. Monday
u prairie fire started near the schoolhous,
and ran over toward Tommy Sanders
and Frank Smiths The settlers Tough
the fire from the middle of the forenoon
until 8 p. m. before they could extingulsl
IT. Mr.. Sanders lost twenty tons of hay
E~Capt. and Mrs. Flick, who live on tn
other side-not of Jordan--but of Beave
Creek, have garden that would be har'
to beat. Corn that is ready for the table
tomatoes nearly ripe and melons ap
preaching the stage when they will be fl
to steal are leading features of the Flicl
garden.
Dakota farmers, says the Steele Repub
lican, will be interested to know that tn
United States will control the wheat mar
ket this year. The crop of India will b
no factor, while Russia and Austro
Hungary, great exporting countries, viii
need all they raise. The wheat raised ii
Dakota this year will command a BIZ
price.
VOne of Emmons County's brightes
4 young ladies is soon to be married to
tyeung minister and will remove from tn
county. Another bright girl has as
guest young gentleman from tina
drought and blizzard stricken regiol
known as South Dakota. The younl
men of North Emmons talk of organizing
a company of White Caps.
EJudge Philbrick and County Superin
tendent Winchester, Of Burleigh county
came down from Bismarck yesterday, an
will visit Southern Emmons before the
return. Mr.. Winchester is a candidat
for the Republican nomination for judg
in the new Sixth District, and, being ex
tremely popular, should he receive 1t hi
democratic competitor--even Judge Car
land--will find on the eve of election da
that Winchester is twenty miles away