Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1889-12-20
IN TOWN AND OUT.

Mr. A. Croghan has departed for Wash
ington (state)
The Rev. A. J. Knkade will hereafter
occupy the e. Z. Se.nlings place
There will be au oyster supper and
dance at tho schoolhouse New Year Eve.
DR.. Hsrcourt came down FROM Steele
again last evening, and remained all
night.
Mr. Bdck. of Burleigh county. was
visitor to the Willamsport neighborheod
this week
Sell your Butter and Eggs to George
Jennings. Bismarck. He will pay nll they
arc worth.
Last Sunday night We had slight rain
an unusual thing for North Dakota in
December.
Mr.. Frank Sherwood, of Exeter. q man
such a. this county dislikes to lose, has
sold out and gone cast
Mr. Herrick will receive and recent for
money due the RECORD. during its winter
sejourn on the homestead.
December is rolling rapidly away, and
yet we have had no winter weather, and
none last year. Has the North Pole emf.
grated?
An iron bridge is being constructed
over Apple Greek near S. b. Lawreucc's,
to take the place OF the old wooden
structure.
The extreme destitution IN this part Of
Dakota is shown by the fact that three
wind mills have been put up in Williams
port township this fall.
Lotion load of wood, between Ja-
cob Heptonstahls and the river, about Il
month age, Q feather pillow. Finder will
please ssud game TO this office.
Take your buttsr and eggs 20 A. Logan.
Bismarck, N. d. All butter must be in
prints He is selling Flour, Groceries,
etc. cheaper than the cheapest.
George Jennings sells all kinds Of Gro-
ceries as cheap as the cheapest, for cash
Enmons County psoplc nearly all krow
it, and most of them trade with him
There is considerable sickness this mild
weather. Mrs. Carpenter and Mrs. II. G.
Rhud are under DR.. TIarcourt's care and
Mrs. Long has severe attack Of sore
throat.
Capt. Cotton now has a windmill in Oh.
Grafton. Now that water is to be the
beverage of the commonwealth, he in.
tends 10 have a plenty. 1t is rumored
that he tasted it the other day.
Judge Brookings, Of South Dakota, is
authority for the statement that the sea.
son Of 1854 was the driest in the hlstoy,
OF Dakota, and that the crops of the fol.
loving summer were the largest eve.
known, wheat yielding from 40 to st
bushels per acre.
To show the swiftncss of the fast maj
| service DR.. Harcourt reached Williams.
port little after noon Tuesday. He had
| just returned from st. Paul, and brought
with him copy Of Monday morning 8
Chicago Inter Ocean. From Chicago t.
Williamsport in thirty-six hours
| Mrs. W. A. Hicks and hcc little sor
came down from Steele with Or. IIar
court. The doctor took the little fellow
with him on his recent trip to st. Paul,
but the surgeons there thonght hest no.
to perform the operation until the boy IL
older DR.. Harcourt says the operation
can and will be successfully performed.
The "Lcne star Flag Still Floats, and
George Jennings is still selling five
pounds of good Tea for ono dollar also
four pounds Of fine Coffee or five gallons
Of extra Coal Oil for the Same money and
everything else equally cheap. DON,
fail to stop at the sign of the Red, White
and Blue with q single star, corner Main
aad Fifth Streets Bismarck, N. D.
! Country Editor: Il would like very
much to see some Of your long. tailed
coats" Clothing Dealer: Something
fashionable. I suppose?" Editor: 81
don't care cent about that. Ny wife
has put dark. blue skylight in my ligh,
dove colored Sunday pants, and want q
coat long enough to conceal the evidancei
that am an editor and have to feed my
self to a cane bottom chair seven days in
the week. Texas Siftlngs
The petition for irrigation is receiving
the signature of every settler whose at.
tsntion is called to it. There is also .
petition fer the change of the herd law g
as to allow stock to live on the rich prai
ric grass of the unoccupied lands durin.
the mild weather Of the late fall and til.
winter from November to May1. A geoc
many are signing, and. a number are op'
posed. Some Of the latter would prefe1
free range from November to April 1, a.
during the remainder Of the e'seasou stock
Is cheaply hsrded in public herds.
A lstter from, Mr. c. e. Lehman, of Eu
reka, is to the following effect, and l
shows that the writer intends to do wha
is right II notice in your last issue tha
some twelve Germans went to Bismarck
to prove up or Dec. B. and, finding M
funds to provide fer same, returned ST,
OF these proofs were mine, as had agree,
with Bumstead to pay the same Pa-ni
me to cay that | sent word by specia
messenger in season to prevent them go
ing 10 Bismarck, unless my mcsscngc
failed me ; and, as said messenger vas
German who lived In that Leig h5orhood
AN unable TO account tor t,ls not iOin,
so. All who went on tl;S uiss;rn ant