Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1889-01-18
IN TOWN AND OUT.
There was man who had q clock,
His name was Matthew Mears;
He wound it nioaly every day,
For many, many years.

AAS WoNttd u ulODytVcFy uhyS
For many, many years.
At last hiI precious timepicce proved
An eightIday olooNto be;
And madder mail ttsaa Mr. Mears
You wauldnossW Zee. -Ex.-.
TREASURER ssCampbeifal s visitor to
the county seat "Wednesday.
y>Water was secupdsa the we'll being
dug on the Tiurbexf farm at depth of
sixty-five feet
4 HermsA Hunderdpssa Has been very
sick during the past week with something
like pneumonia.
y John Roop and Ed,Savage are stopping
at the river for d few days getting out
their winters fue-
M,ss Edfa f.. Gonnor leaves Saturday
to resume her duties as teacher in the
Bismarck public schools.
lWash Hawks ran across herd OF some
twenty antelope yesterday in the valley
south of Thomas Tlgle's.
Good goods at lowest living prices" is
the motto of George Jennings, the popu.
lar Bismarck grocer. Give him a call.
George Jennings, corner Main and Fifth
streets. has the best stock of groceries
and provisions to be found in Bismarck.
y II the weather should be pleasant this
evening the dancing party at the school
house will undoubtedly be largely at
tended.
y Messrs. Gerrlt Haak and @. Rowerdink,
from the Holland Settlement, were visit.
ors to the county seat Friday, remaining
over night. %-
r. l.. Durant e Co.. wholesale and
retail booksellers and stutioners, wall
paper and music dealers. Bismarck,
OAK, solicit mail orders.
The Cherry Groveites who visited the
county seat this week were Dick This
tlethwaite. Thomas and John Twedt, Lo-
rem Wollenhaupt and A. N. Bill.
If the people of Emmons county want
to obtain groceries and provisions at bed
rock prices they should call on George
Jennings when they visit Bismarck.
Mr.. S. e. Kurtz lost valuable pony
the other day. Congestion of the lungs
was supposed to be the cause, and an
autopsy the ground of the supposition.
= We were compelled to give up our last
silver dollar for the Fighting Editor to
cut his teeth on. The attention of our
delinquent subscribers is respectfully
called to this sorrewful fact.
Frank Hart and Biiiy Campbell are re
"baching" together at present. Frank
is compelled to hide the sweet milk so
that le can have milk toast and oatmeal
porridge. Will likes milk himself.
Taxes are coming in quite slowly at
present. Two weeks from next Monday
the penalty attaches on taxes of 1888, un.
less the legislature passes bill which has
been introduced extending the time.
y Jacob Van Putteu, who was candi.
date for the Office of county treasurer at
the late election, is dead. He started on
visit to his old home in Michigan, was
attacked with measles on the way, and
died the day after his arrival.
Y We have Lad no very cold weather yet.
but more snow has fallen, and there is
now three or four inches on u level
where 1t is on level, which it generally
isn't in Dakota. Wednesday, too, the
weather was somewhat bllzzardy, but the
'bliz" was of the feeble kind.
There is no line of goods sold IN wh,cl,
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 s. Co.. Bismarck.
The sheriff of Logan county, with a
posse, called on Sheriff Connor Wednes
day to secure his Endorsement on war.
rant of arrest for the Good brothers and
Barney Henry, who were short time
ago before Squire Southwick on a charge
of stealing heifer. Judge Conuor in.
dorsed the warrant--hIs first official act
we believe--and the sheriff and posse
started in pursuit of the alleged law
breakers.
vOne of the saddest cases where the
death angel has entered happy house.
hold is that of the two children of Mr.
and Mrs. Rowerdink, of the Holland Set
tlement. The young couple were parents
of two bright bables-a boy and a girl
aged respectively thirty and ten months.
But the little ones were attacked by thai
dread disease scarlet fever. The children
were taken away, and the pratte Of child
ish tongues is no longer heard IN the
home of the Jbereaved parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Rowerdink in their great affliction
have the sympathy not only of theil
neighbors and near friends, but of the
people of the whole county, regardless of
race' or creed.
y Well. now, who would have though,
that Tommy Sanders. one of our rustling
and wide-awake farmers, would ever make
up his mind to shake the sacred soil OF
Emmons county from his feet and "gi,
up an gitf" Everybody thought that he
was satisfied with his Dakota home, and
will be astonished to learn that he in.
tends to depart. But they won't be SO
much astOnished when we tell them that
he is ouly going to move across the
road" into Burleigh county. Mr.. s.