Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1889-01-04
IN TOWN AND OUT.
Weather still pleasant.


I've learn from resident of Cherry
Grove that John Anderson is still very
low.
Billy Beard bought fine mare from S.
B. Lawrence, of Burleigh county, the
other day.
f. Miss Annie Farrell has been sick with
diphtheria at the Bismarck Hospital for
over a week.
Timber Dealer Hcptonstall was in town
Monday. He reports that the river is
still open in places.
y Mr.. and Mrs. Boutillier's baby girl,
Hetty, who has been seriously i'll with
Group, is recovering.
R. l.. Durant g. Co., wholesale and
retail booksellers and stationers, wall
paper and music dealers, Bismarck,
Oak, solicit mail orders.
We would suggest the following local
question for discussion by the Winona
debating society: Resolved, that James,
and not John, is boss at the hote.''
Y An editor of al Iowa paper, being
asked, "Do hogs payg" says that good
many do not, and some leave the country
owing two or three years subscription.
Teacher Eyes man comes highest in
the scale of animals, What comes next
to man?' Small boy: RI know, ma am"
Teacher "Well, what is it?" Small boy:
"His shirt Y'-Ex.
" Billy Cochran, who years ago drove the
mail stage between Roop and Ellcndalc,
was in the Wllliamsport country and
other parts of the county last week hunt.
ing stock that strayed from below.
} In his last letter to Lis son, S. e., Mr..
John Kurtz, who is visiting at Cleveland,
Ohio, states that the ground is covered
with mud and slush in that country, and
that Mrs. Kurtz says that she wishes she
was back in Dakota.
Mr.. W. E. Low, prominent resident
of Mclean county, and who has an ex.
tensive stock ranch across the Sheridan
county line. was in town Monday. This
is Mr. Lows second trip to Emmons
county to look up stray stock.
1t has been found. says the Chicago
Herald, that q goose can stand the
weather until the thermometer goes to 64
degrees below zero. Then her feathers
won't save her. Wild ducks can ), 20
twelve degrees lower and come out on top,
D Tom Kelly went down in his well the
other day, caught cold, and is on the sick
list. Wishing to see a doctor OCCASION
ally, and believing he could get better
view of the eclipse from the Capital City,
he has been tarrying there for several
days.
An exchange says that country editor
received the following cheering note
from delinquent subscriber II want to
pay for my subscription but Pm little
short, so send you half dozen eggs.
If you will put them under sitting hen
they will hatch out enough chickens to
pay for years subscription
There is no line of goods sold IN 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 citizen of
Emmons County complain Of his treat.
ment by Dunn s. Co., Bismarck.
! Several people from the Williamsport
neighborhood attended the dance at Win.
chester New Year Eve. Among those
who intended to go, and who probably
went were Mr.Aand Mrs. Cotton, Mr.. and
Mrs Brock, MI. H. D. Connor and Miss
Eva Campbell, Mr.. Ed Campbell aud
Miss Stella Edick, and Mr.. William
Campbell.
And now, says the Burlington Re-
porter, the question presents itself TO the
people whether the Dakota Legislature
will provide for the publication of the
laws in the newspapers, or allow the pee.
pie TO blunder along without them until
half the year is gone, and then discover
that great deal of legal business must
be gone over again?
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 he keeps fresh
and pure stock at all times and his prices
are reasonable. The well-known firm of
McCrory 81 Co., butchers and general
meat dealers, are in the same building T.
Hugging societies have been introduced
in Missouri to raise money for local char
tiles, and paper published III that state
gives the following scale of prices : Girls
under 16, 2 cents for each hug of one
minute from 1G to 20, SO cents 30 to 25,
IS cents; schoolma' ans, 40 cents; wild.
ows according to good ]ooks) from 10
cents to So; old maids, 3 ceuts apiece or
two for Il nickel. and no limit of time.
Ministers are not charged Newspaper
men pay 10 advertising, but are not al.
lowed to participate until every one else
gets through.
The RECORD has fat dog that it would
like to dispose of, or would exchange for
lean beast with more varied accom-.
plishments. Said dog was given to u.s.
when shcwas quite youthful, as a valu-
able animal, but she is now nine months
old ana her fine points are still securely
hidden Sbma tbot ha will iynn,,>,,,,