Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1890-12-26
IN TOWN AND OUT.

capt. Flick was visitor to Williams
port last Monday.
Merchant Archambault, of Emmons.
burg. was visitor to the county seat last
Friday|
%ranz Wolf and Ferdinand Miller, of
selz school district, visited the county
seat Tuesday.
fyage Winchester has decided tho case
df Briggs s. Shelly vs.. W, L. Ye.ter in
favor of plaintiffs.
Three loads of bran from Dawson mill
for H. F. Douglas ranch passed through
Williamsport Wednesday.
MO. A. Hickle has sold the Winona
pmes to W. 4. Patterson, Mr.. Hickle
has gone to Missouri to live.
On Monday last Felix Schneider, of
Selz district, passed through town on his
way to Bismarck with a Russian family.
A petition is being signed for daily
gfsH service between Livona and Wills
<amsport instead of tri-weeky, as at
present.
The Christmas Eve entertainment at
the Williamsport schoolkouse was sue.
/ cess in every way. Over eighty people
! we're present.
Charlie Swanson left Monday for Red
Wing, Mimi, to spend the winter. There
is rumor that Charlie will not return
alone next spring.
The weather is somewhat colder than
| last week, and there is little snow on
the ground, but not enough to make hay.
feeding necessary.
George Jennings, Bismarck, will buy
good butter put up In jars, tubs or rolls,
and will sell you groceries in exchange at
the lowest cash prices.
Dr. A. @. John was in town Friday to
attend meeting of the county board of
health; but the other members failing to
attend no business was done.
Take your Butter and Eggs to the
"Lone Star" Grocery, corner Main and
Fifth streets, Bismarck. George ,Jen-
nings will buy them and pay all they are
worth. =
StevesHawkes will. when spring comes,
lobd s6is household goods into couple
o1#agons and, with his family, start for
the Great Northern railway. Hs will
then follow the line west.
''This is . great country" said Auditor
Herrick last Friday--as he opened an
outside door of the county building and
pulled down the curtain of window
near him-"where the sun is uncomfort-
ably warm on the 10th of December"
The writey/ this winter is using coal
freshly miped at the Brind]e mine. 1t is
even bltter than that dug last winter. and
is the equal in every way of the best llg.
mite sold at Bismarck. Many of the
chunks taken out weigh = hundred
pounds.
At meeting of .;Williamsport schoo
board held saNEday evening Mr.. H. W.
Allen was enbloyed to teach four
months term Of Williamsport school.
and said term began Monday. Mr.. Allen
is competent and experienced teacher,
and will give satisfaction.
Sheep Inspector Campbell reports scab
in flock of sheep near Willlamsport--
the first cases of the disease in this
county. The sheep are not yet badly
affected, and the inspector says that prop
er measures will soon cure them. They
were recently purchased from E. Ashley
Mears, of Fargo.
James Barbour, IN a letter to Mr.. Arm
strong, says: II have got to Kansas al
last and am having good time with re
lations and old acquaintances. Kansas il
not so much of paradise as 1t might be-
Crops are poor, hogs are low, and time'
are hard. Emmons county is not th'
worst place in the world yet"
| Recently the publisher of the REcoR1
has sent out large number of bills fo
money dYF for subscription, advertising
etc. we trust that those owing us viii
maks>an effort to pay at least part Of
the amount due. The RECORD has seldom
sent out bills, but the time has come whel
we MUST make some collections.