Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1889-07-26
IN TOWN AND OUT.

Robert Yeater has been engaged to
teach Emmonsburg school,
Merchant Archambault, of Emmons- ]
burg was visitor to the county seat this
week.
According to Sir John Lubbock, fly
flaps Its wings 1886 times in second. And j
we'll bet 1t flaps its "bite" 1886. 900 times. Z.
Mr.. VIM. Southwick, of Beaver creek,
passed through Wllllamsport day before
yesterday on his way home from Bis
marck.
Little Earl Kurtz, while running one
day last week. fell down. and it is be-
lleved that one of the bones of his leg il, .
fractured.
Mr.. Lindsay brought in fair sample
of the wheat on the claim he bought
from Mortimer Lewis. 1t is nearly four
| feet high.
Born-Sunday, July 81. to Mr.. and
Mrs. l.. A. Couch, of Logan township, q
son. Mother and boy getting along
nicely. Father, ditto. Grandpa and
SChuuIIld llkeWlSc.
MI. M. Lewis and family left yesterday
for the Pacific coast. Mr.. Josesph Lind
say bought the claim and has moved
thereon with his family. 4
At the expiration of his term here MI. -
Andrus goes to Winona, where he will
teach for three months. w. B. is good
boy, and we trust that the Horrible Ex-
ample of the two Bad Editors will not
spoil him.
The RECORD ls requested to state that
there will he social entertainment at
Williamsport schoolheuse on Intervening
of Friday, Aug, 2. A program Of literary
exercises will also be given. The ladies
are requested to bring baskets.
There will be a business meeting Of the
Grand Army post at Winchester on Satu.
day afternoon next. A comrade writes .
1--WE expect to have good time. There
will be an entertainment in the evening""
Why can't some OF the old soldiers of the
Williamsport neighborhood attend?
Young Roy Ycater brought IN some
tall wheat and barley the other day, the
heads of which were we'll filled out with
plump grain 1t was rs high up in the
world as the young man himself, and he
raised 1t, too-plowed the ground, seeded
and narrowed it. This is pretty good for
IL hoy not vet 13. -
Mr.. and Mrs. Linderman went to Steele
Wednesday,. taking May with them. A
house has been rented and Mrs. L. will re.
main there with her sick daughter, who
will now be near her physician. Every
one hercabouts sincerely hopes that poor,
patient, long suffering little May may be
restored to health.
Mr.. John Dwycr aud sister, of Sterling,
were the guests of Capt. and Mrs. Cotton
and other friends in Emmons county this
week, Miss Dwyer is the young lady
whose death was announced in this paper
ayear ago-'cause Bismarck paper, in
1 stating that she had dncd at hotel in
that city, left the "n' out of ''dined." .,.~'e
Mr.. Wesley Baker was in Bismarck this
week TO take home one of his boys who
has sheen receiving medical attendance
there. The little fellow had one of his
legs poisoned by ivy or some other plant
while in tho woods and erYsipelas sat in.
The limb was in very bad condition for
time. but the worst is thought to be over
Our neighborIng county on the south
, lCampbel) isto have an agricultural fair
this fall. The LaGrace cornet band will
furpicl Tho mn md r., 81:
rope walking, speaking, and band of
Indians. Six heyds of FLOODED cattle are
already promised. and large numbers of
fine horses. Some good trotting and run
nipg may be expected.
Notwithstanding the dull times, the
well-known grocery house of George
Jennings, Main and Fifth streets, con.
tinues to do good trade and 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 fresh,
and are sold at tair and reasonable prices
A letter Just repeiyed:by Secretary Cell,
t of the Wlllamsport alliance. from the
president of the Dakota Farmers Alliance
s company, states that by Aug. 1 ar
! rangements will be completed to loan
. money at reasonable interest ON real
, estate security to all alliance members
who may need it. AS soon as arrange
, ments are completed the president of, the
/ Alliance company writes that he will send
> word to the county organizer, Mr.. Cell. =
One of the best gardens we have seen
IN Dakota is that of Mr.. F. D. Smith, in
the Burleigh County part Of tho Glencoe
ne1ghborhood. Everything Is far ad-
vanced but tomatoes-plenty of them
big ones, almost full size and ready to
ripen-are feature of the garden. Mr..
7 8. also has a fine field of corn, and in
? that field a weed stands poor show. In
fact, 1t is said that this honest granger
has a lot of small steel. traps set (inverted)
| In the cornfleld, and that when the
, growing weed pushes against the spring,
snap goes the trap, grabs the weed in its