Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1889-07-19
IN TOWN AND OUT.
The room was dark, the maiden rose
TO fetch q match, she SAID;
But he persuaded her to stay,
And make match instead. EX.

The fly crop is bountiful.
Tommy Sanders says he will have 500
bushels Of wheat.
Williamsport school will close two
weeks from to-day.
1t is remarkable how the soil in this
part Of Dakota stands drought.
Robert Barr post, G. A. r., will meet
at Winchester on Saturday, July e.
The Thurber boys have broken 11e
acres of sod on their land this season.
Mr.. Eugene Varney has taken claim
few miles southeast of Williamsport.
Z. G. Packer went to Steele this week
and purchased binder from Lyons g.
| Woodmanse.
The contract for building the new
briuge across Long Lake creek was let to
IL. W. Allen for $119.
Ben Corbn, the lone fisherman of the
bounding Beaver, was visitor to Will
iamsporL last Monday.
Harvey Al!ensworth and Alfred Farr,
/
tors to Williamsport Tuesday.
j. The RECORD is requested to state that
there will be a dancing party at Will
transport schoolhouse this evening.
The estimated yield of wheat in Da-
kota this year is twenty millions of bush
els, against fifty millions last year.
Johu Waldron, the pleasant and portly
landlord Of the Merchants, Winona, was
a visitor to Williamsport last Friday.
T. Mr. Edward Braddock, of Exeter, was
visitor to the county seat Saturday.
Mr.. b. is building a new house and big
barn on his farm.
Mr.. Charles H. Edlck, an old veteran,
walked through the trap-door at the post
office and fell into the cellar, Saturday,
bruising himself severely.
Mcssrs. George s. and Herbert T. Rob-
erls Charles B. Wells and Louis j. Dea-
con, Of Dawson, were guests of the EN-
mons House Saturday night. .,.s
Mr.. A. u. Cordner, of Sterling, has
been visiting the Wiliamsport country
: lulo "CCh. AO lCl'OlLS NILS. SOIuuCI duu
t that baby boy getting along nicely.
u / The mcanest man IN the county, who
> over he may he, is the one who stole sew
e cral bushels of corn from the residence Of
& Mrs. Cronk within week after her hus.
: bands death.
: 4 ~ The absolute certainty of a twelve
G bushel-average crop Of grain, and the
= line appearance of corn, potatoes, millet
and garden truck has caused our farmers
to look much more cheerful than they
have for several weeks. A.
:, Is it strange that the Missouri Slope is
;;s rapidly acquiring an enviable reputation
:, as place for successful sheep. .raising7
- Dlt of the nearly 5000 head in the
4 county in 'S9. as reported by the assessor,
. there were EIGHT deaths' There were
70 j35 swine and only five deaths.
" An uncle of Que of the boys passed
|, through town the other day, returning
|. home with the two boys who ran away
d from the Hampton ncighberhood few
It weeks ago. The little chaps went to
st Wheatland, Cass county, to visit the
ID uncle referred to (Mr. Hammond), who re-
s, turned with them.
70 Notwithstanding the dull times, the
y well-known grocery house of George
Jennings, Main and Fifth streets, con
linucs to do a good trade, aud still keeps
growing in favor with the people who do
~ business in Bismarck. And the reason
~ therefor is not hard to find. 1t is because
~ people dealing with him know that his
large stock of goods Is pure and fre sh
and are sold at tair and reasonable prices.
The Bismarck Tribune has the correct
idea in its advocacy of a one-house legis-
lature but what in the name of common
sense moves it to figure out such shoe
- string district as Emmons, Kldder and
~ Wells would make? The north line of
Is Wells is 1872 miles distant from the south
~ line of Emmons. What's the matter
with making Emmons, Mcintosh, Logan
and Kidder into senatorial district and,
if necessary, taking slice off Of eastern
BurIeigh?
u The Hon. Ira S. Lampman, of Barnes
Is county, lectured Saturday nigh: at Will
iamsport schooIhouse to q crowded
ng house. Among other things he gave .
ot very clear and interesting exposition Of
&c the manner IN which the best No. hare
ne wheat is kept at Minneapolis. that Of ,
" poorer quality sent on to Europe, ant
IT. prices here based on what such inferior
&c grain will sell for on the other side of tn,
On Atlantic. Mr.. Lampmann went to Win
ne chester Sunday with Sheriff MCGEE
'rs He was to delivers lecture there, and aIst
ch at Westtield and Winona.
-. Ig That The maxim to the effect that g,
" prophet is not without honor save in hi
~ own country" Is not always true Is showl
y, by the following Not long ago clas
= Of little people in Wllliamsport scheo
had the venerable but respectable conun
drum flung at them by their teacher, "Wh,
he is president of the United Statess' Tha
ID, was "an easy one, and the desired in
lie formation was at once correctly given
lr- WHO is vice president2" continued til
he teacher This was a poser for a momen,
nd when Adrian Hills said, II know Jane
wn 3. Clayton" No wonder that the frs
on representative the county has been al